A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 103

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 103

“Catch the intruders!”

As Reginald shouted, a well-sharpened blade fell toward his head.

Raul barely dodged the blade and drew his own sword from his waist.

“Enzo! Watch my back!”

From a distance, Enzo pushed away the soldier he had been fighting.

He rolled low across the ground and positioned himself behind Raul.

“We need to buy time.”

At his urgent words, Raul nodded.

Turning his head, he could see Astie still rummaging through the hay pile in the stables.

Beyond the knights, Reginald shouted in a furious voice.

“What are you doing! Catch those villains right now!”

The knights seemed to hesitate.

But Reginald looked around at such soldiers as if they were pathetic and began to rage.

“Don’t just stand there gaping, spread out! Capture the one who made me like this first!”

“Yes, yes!”

The knights hurriedly divided into several groups.

One of them rushed at Raul and Enzo, while the rest ran past them toward the stables.

Seeing the soldier brush past him, Raul urgently shouted.

“Lord Basto!”

Basto, who was in front of the stables, nodded.

He took out a small dagger from his pocket and threw it to Veil.

“Veil-!”

Veil caught the dagger with his relatively less injured hand.

With a tense expression, he lightly spun the sword once in his hand and lowered his stance.

Then he immediately began facing the soldiers rushing toward him.

“S-surrender quietly, ugh-!”

Veil first tripped the knight charging at the front, making him fall.

And before he could even fall completely, he immediately struck the back of the second soldier’s neck with the flat of his blade.

But while dodging the spear swung by the third soldier, he finally let out a groan.

“I can’t hold out long! I’m injured!”

At those words, Basto, who had just started fighting, looked back at Veil.

“There’s no choice! Hold out as long as you can!”

Basto was likewise surrounded by soldiers.

Moreover, he was facing the soldiers with bare fists without any proper weapon.

Basto gritted his teeth and threw punches at the charging soldiers one by one.

‘I should have brought my war hammer if I knew this would happen.’

Actually, what they had intended to do was secretly extract Veil.

Not engage in a full-scale battle with Reginald’s forces like now.

Basto recalled the situation from a few minutes ago.

‘It’s a will!’

When he first heard those words, he was flustered.

A will?

That made sense, because in this situation there was only one thing that could be called a will.

The missing testament left by Adelin’s father, the former lord.

But there was a problem.

‘This isn’t the time to leisurely examine a will.’

Of course, that will did specify Adelin’s legitimacy as lord.

But even if they found the will now, wasn’t there nothing they could immediately do with it?

Reginald and his soldiers were already coming toward the stables with swords drawn.

So for a brief moment, Basto had pondered.

‘Should I just carry Tie and run.’

Even if he got blamed later, doing so would keep everyone safe for now.

But then.

‘Ahem! Something… I feel like I should say this now.’

Veil, who had been glancing at the approaching soldiers, turned his head toward Basto.

Then he whispered while somehow watching his reaction.

‘My mercenary registration was taken. They… searched me more thoroughly than I thought.’

Veil then showed his empty inner pocket.

That was where Veil usually kept his mercenary registration.

It was currently empty, taken by the soldiers.

A short sigh finally escaped from Basto’s mouth.

He eventually pressed his throbbing forehead.

Then he opened his eyes wide and commanded Raul and Enzo.

‘Block them! We need to buy time until Tie finds the item!’

The fact that Veil’s mercenary registration had been taken.

That meant Agavert had already encountered a difficult situation.

Reginald had most likely finished preparing to file an objection with the Imperial Court.

Then it was only a matter of time before an expulsion order from The Order was issued to Agavert.

It meant that escaping safely from here wouldn’t solve the problem.

‘Then there’s only one answer left.’

The only way to turn the situation around, and the way to safely enter the central region of The Order as planned.

That was to prove that Reginald had unjustly usurped the lord’s position.

If Reginald’s treason was proven, Veil’s assault would also be justified.

‘Adelin! Go and search for the will with Tie!’

At Basto’s words, Adelin, who was frozen near the fence, stiffened with confused eyes for a moment.

But soon she hurriedly ran into the stables.

“Huff, gasp! Basto! I, I can’t anymore…”

At that moment, Veil’s groan from the front scattered Basto’s thoughts.

Veil was visibly swaying, as if his legs had given out.

“Hold out just a little longer!”

Basto shouted.

He quickly looked around and picked up a broken spear lying nearby.

He pushed back the gathered soldiers all at once with it and tried to go to Veil, but,

“Where do you think you’re going.”

Suddenly, a large soldier of similar build blocked his path.

“Catch that villain!”

At the knight’s command, the surrounding soldiers began to gradually close the encirclement.

It was when some liquid, whether blood or something else, trickled down the flustered Basto’s forehead.

[Ugh, this is why humans are…]

With a ringing sound, something like a clear glass barrier formed around them.

Looking up, they could see Lucalion floating in the air, shrouded in black smoke.

Having returned to his young dragon form, he still obediently wore the device that Berukon had made for him.

His vivid red eyes stared at Basto and Veil.

[Let me be clear – I’m not helping because I like you. I’m helping because of Tie.]

Veil and Basto’s eyes widened.

Just then, Reginald’s voice could be heard from not far away.

“My lady! Break that barrier immediately!”

He was pointing at Lucalion’s barrier in a rage.

“Hurry! You said barrier breaking was your specialty!”

The slender woman standing beside Reginald hardened her expression.

It was Letia, Reginald’s wife and the mage.

She glared at Lucalion and began gathering her magical power in the air.

But it was useless.

“What, what? Why isn’t anything happening?”

Letia’s concentrated magical power couldn’t even make the slightest scratch on Lucalion’s barrier.

As if he had expected this, Lucalion lifted one corner of his mouth in a smirk.

Letia’s brow furrowed.

Meanwhile, inside the stables.

“Are you really sure this is the right place?”

Adelin asked while keeping watch on the situation outside.

Tie nodded while wiping the sweat beading on her forehead.

“Yes!”

But even after clearing away all the piled hay, the will was nowhere to be seen.

All that remained was hard dirt floor packed with stones.

“This won’t work. Come here, Tie.”

Finally, Adelin stepped forward as if she had made up her mind about something.

She rolled up her sleeves and began digging into the dirt with her bare hands.

It was when Tie was looking at Adelin with a surprised face.

Thud-

“Wahhh!”

Someone who had approached silently roughly grabbed Tie by the back of the neck.

The child’s face turned pale as she looked back.

“Damn invader brat!”

The one who had grabbed Tie by the collar was one of the soldiers who had been unconscious in the stables.

“Astie!”

Adelin, who belatedly grasped the situation, got to her feet.

But it was already too late.

“You’re next!”

When the paladin pushed with his gauntleted arm, Adelin lost her balance and fell into the corner.

“Kill them! Capture and kill at least one of them quickly!”

At Reginald’s shouting from outside, the soldier was casting a cold gaze toward Astie when—

[…How dare you.]

Suddenly humid air swept in, and a massive shadow fell over the soldier.

The soldier hesitated and looked up.

[Just whose body do you think you’re laying hands on?]

Ppupppu, who had somehow grown enormous, was looking down at the soldier while spewing bright red smoke around him.

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