A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 100

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 100

She wanted to cry.

But she couldn’t cry.

Because her mother’s words kept becoming clearer in her head.

‘Don’t cry. Smile. If you can’t do that, then just stay silent.’

Smile, smile.

But she couldn’t smile either. So Adelin remained silent.

Reginald appeared belatedly.

He stared at Adelin’s expressionless face, then said he wanted to see her for a moment and called her into his reception room.

‘Adelin. My one and only niece. Are you fearless, or are you stupid?’

Adelin raised her wandering gaze to stare at Reginald’s face.

Seeing his face flickering in the candlelight made her stomach twist.

‘Are you resentful that you’re a step too late? Should I have kept her alive a little longer by any means necessary after all… Ah, I mean, should I have tried life-prolonging treatment?’

She wanted to strangle Reginald’s shamelessly smiling neck.

He no longer had any intention of hiding anything in front of Adelin.

The fact that he had harmed her mother.

‘Good. Let’s stop the useless small talk. You’ll be coming of age soon too. Did you come back because of that?’

But something was strange.

The deeper her anger grew, the more peaceful her heart became.

Adelin felt her head cooling down.

Smile. If you can’t do that, then just stay silent.

Right now Adelin was floating on a vast ocean.

Clinging to the plank her mother had left behind.

Adelin couldn’t bring herself to throw away that plank and sink.

She couldn’t do that, if only for Mother’s sake.

She gave Reginald an awkward smile.

‘It’s not like that, Uncle.’

As if flustered, with restless eyes, anxiously biting her nails.

‘How could I become a lord? I can’t do it. Someone like me who was humiliated at the Imperial Palace and fired from my position as a maid, what could I possibly…’

The words her mother left behind were real.

As soon as Adelin smiled, a faint curiosity appeared in Reginald’s eyes.

‘You were fired from your position as a maid?’

‘E-everyone said I was tactless and stupid…’

Adelin deliberately rubbed her bleeding fingernails against the hem of her dress.

‘This is why I didn’t want to go. But Mother kept insisting that I had to become Her Highness the Princess’s maid…’

‘Your sister-in-law said that? It wasn’t your opinion?’

‘I didn’t want to go, Uncle. I kept saying I wanted to stay here. Every day I spent in Jedo was a nightmare. When I think of Mother who sent me to such a place, I get so upset, sob…’

To perfectly deceive Reginald, she needed to cry.

But as if her body was broken, no tears came out.

Adelin sneered inwardly.

She couldn’t cry when she should cry, and couldn’t smile when she should smile either.

No wait, when was she supposed to smile and when was she supposed to cry?

Unable to find an answer, she just hung her head and hunched her shoulders.

‘I only resented Mother while in Jedo… I think it’s because of me. Why am I like this?’

‘Ha, haha.’

‘Someone like me doesn’t even deserve to stay in my hometown. Father believed in me. But I, I’m still so pathetically…’

‘Hahahaha!’

That day, Reginald’s laughter echoed endlessly.

Of course Adelin knew.

That even while laughing, he was pondering inside.

Whether to kill her, or just leave her alone.

“I lied about being reminded of my deceased parents.”

Eventually, after staying at the lord’s castle for several days, Adelin made that excuse.

“I also said that Mother appeared in my dreams every night, tormenting me.”

When she said she didn’t think she could stay in the castle any longer.

Reginald seemed wary.

She deliberately told him she would prepare a new house not far from him, where the villagers lived together.

“I could have run away completely… but my feet wouldn’t move.”

Was it because she had only been victimized?

Or was it because she had only had things taken from her?

Even in a situation where she didn’t know when Reginald might try to harm her, Adelin couldn’t completely leave the fiefdom.

Mother had said she could give up everything to protect her.

But she herself couldn’t do that.

But not long after that, another incident occurred.

“Uncle made an announcement. He said the lord’s will that he had been keeping had disappeared.”

Raul and Enzo burst into hollow laughter.

“Lies. The will didn’t disappear, he must have gotten rid of it himself!”

Adelin thought so too.

The will clearly contained the words her father had left behind.

‘Until Adelin Kaldenbain reaches the age of majority.’

That he would delegate the lord’s authority to Reginald only until exactly that time.

“The will suddenly disappears just as the Lady approaches adulthood? Bullshit. When you acted like you had no interest in the lord’s position, that villain must have felt somewhat relieved.”

“That’s right. When you said you would leave the castle, he probably thought it was strange that things were going too smoothly.”

Adelin agreed.

“Yes. I was actually being watched around that time.”

While staying in the castle, there was always a strange presence following behind Adelin.

Instinctively, Adelin thought it must be an assassin.

Enzo said with a hardened face.

“There’s only one possibility. At that time, Reginald decided to keep the Lady alive for some reason.”

And he continued with a serious voice.

“But he was still anxious. So he got rid of the will to solidify the situation for certain.”

To completely eliminate the evidence that Adelin was the legitimate heir.

“…That must have been it.”

After that, she was able to safely leave the domain.

When she actually opened a pub in the promenade where the fiefdom’s people gathered to live, Reginald let his guard down even more.

Even the occasional sending of people to check on her condition had now completely stopped.

Fortunately, she had the excessive money she had received from the Princess.

With that money, she had been able to cover the villagers’ tribute amounts until now.

Reginald seemed pleased that she was squandering her wealth on buying back coal and such things.

But that was all. That was all Adelin could do.

Anything beyond that had become impossible for her to do, even if she wanted to.

Adelin smiled again.

“This is why I didn’t want to do it, telling old stories.”

Her eyes were now filled with deep fatigue.

“Because they’re just desperate and frustrating stories.”

Silence fell over the room.

Adelin let out a sigh.

“Anyway, the reason I know the domain’s structure is because of that…”

“Then originally, Sister Adelin was supposed to be the Lord?”

At that moment, a cautious voice came from beside her.

When she turned her head, Tie was already shining with curious eyes.

Adelin answered with a faint smile.

“Originally, that’s how it should have been, right? But not now.”

“Because the will disappeared?”

“Right.”

However, even if the will had existed, the result wouldn’t have been much different.

Reginald was a clever man.

He had taken a capable mage as his wife, making her a reliable ally.

He always invested part of the collected taxes in the military.

So that no one would dare think of taking his position.

So even if Adelin had tried to reclaim her position, she would have had to face Reginald and his army anyway.

The chances of winning were naturally slim.

“But when you were in the domain, was the person who followed you around really a spy?”

Then Tie asked another question.

Adelin was too exhausted to hide her dark expression and let out a sigh.

But it was perfectly natural for children of that age to be full of curiosity.

She nodded calmly.

“I felt their presence every day, so probably.”

“Hmm…”

“When eating, when resting, when sleeping. I always felt someone following me around. Uncle must have been watching me.”

For some reason, Tie avoided Adelin’s gaze.

“But…”

The child looked somewhat troubled.

Soon the child hesitantly looked behind Adelin and opened her lips.

“Sister, actually.”

Adelin, sensing something strange, narrowed her eyebrows.

“What’s wrong?”

Tie, who had been keeping her mouth tightly shut, answered quietly.

“Actually, since earlier, behind you…”

“Behind me?”

“There’s someone standing like this, and I think that person has been following you continuously…”

Adelin’s expression became blank.

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