A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 117

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 117

Basto looked at Tie’s back and fell into deep thought.

‘Is this fortunate?’

Since she had put on the cloak at the last moment, Tie was in a state where only her face peeked out above the black cloak.

Naturally, none of the pretty clothes she had dressed up in could be seen.

Of course, since information dealers would follow them wherever they went, it would be better to attract less attention…

“Wow. The Clock Tower!”

Tie, who was sitting in the front of the cart, exclaimed softly.

The child had been looking around the streets with curious eyes for a while now.

At this moment, there was a reason why the child had obediently gotten on the cart.

Last evening.

Basto had prepared a space in the front of the cart carrying the core where Tie could sit.

When Tie saw it this morning, she immediately asked with a worried face.

‘But, if the Sorcerer King rides in a cart, wouldn’t that look childish?’

But Basto quickly shook his head.

‘No, you won’t look like a child but like a king.’

‘A king…?’

‘Yes. Even where I used to live, kings used to ride around in things like this in the old days. It’s fine.’

At those words, Tie immediately let down her guard and showed an excited expression.

‘Tie gets to ride in a palanquin… Then Your Majesty the Sorcerer King?’

He didn’t know what a palanquin was, but anyway, it was fortunate that the child had changed her mind.

If Tie had insisted on walking again, it would have been worrisome in many ways.

On the other hand.

Basto thought that Tie no longer needed to try so hard to pretend to be an adult.

Because,

‘The rumors about Tie have now spread as far as they can and gained momentum.’

These days, the rumors surrounding Tie were creating new rumors by themselves.

Even if the relaxed Tie showed childlike behavior outside, most people would think like this.

‘The Sorcerer King is really creepy, isn’t he?’

‘Of course! Would a normal human act like that?! What grown man pretends to be a child!’

‘But you know, what if he’s actually a real child?’

‘Hahaha, would a child siege a large Mastone? Would a child handle the monster that even gave Valentis Luminen trouble for five days? Don’t talk nonsense.’

‘You’re right, aren’t you?’

‘Yes. And there are tons of people who say they’ve seen the Sorcerer King’s true form, right? His height is supposedly five times that of a normal person.’

Basto made a complicated face as he pushed the cart.

‘I wonder if this is going well or going badly.’

People firmly believed in the fabricated image of Tie as the Sorcerer King.

For some reason, testimonies of people claiming to have seen Tie’s true form kept appearing.

‘That can’t be possible.’

From having blue skin to being abnormally tall.

Having three arms, or changing appearance every time so no one knows the real identity.

‘Tie’s true form is just Tie… Maybe it’s because the Waveril Marquis Family has been steadily working behind the scenes.’

If nothing else, it was certain that the situation was taking a strange turn.

That’s when it happened.

“Hammer! Look, there’s the Compensation Office over there!”

Tie shouted from the front.

At the child’s face full of bright smiles, Basto finally couldn’t help but chuckle.

Tie looked the brightest and happiest he had seen recently.

Though she didn’t say it, she seemed secretly happy to have arrived at Jedo and found a place to stay.

“Yes.”

Since they had come out early in the morning, there weren’t many people on the streets.

It seemed like all the crowds who had enjoyed the festival until late last night had returned home.

It was when Tie and Basto had just stopped their cart in front of the Central Branch of the Compensation Office.

“What’s that?”

The child tilted her head.

In the distance, a group of Paladins could be seen coming around from the right side of the office.

“Sir!”

Just then, someone who ran out from inside the office rushed toward the man at the front of the Paladin group.

When the man turned his head, the Empire’s insignia on his chest could be seen.

From all the decorations attached, he was undoubtedly a knight of quite high rank.

“Has the core been dealt with?”

Cold green eyes were revealed beneath his slicked-back blonde hair.

“Yes! They say the tally was a bit delayed because it’s festival season, but there shouldn’t be any problems!”

“Good.”

The blonde man let out a short sigh as if relieved.

He stared at the Compensation Office for a moment, then brushed the dirt off his cloak.

“Then let’s stop by Paladin Headquarters before disbanding.”

And he looked at the dozens of Paladins gathered before him.

“You must have been confused by the sudden mobilization during the festival, but you all worked hard. As of this moment, the assembly is dismissed…”

But that’s when it happened.

Splat-

With a small but clear sound, something whitish fell onto the man’s right cheek.

The Paladins who confirmed what it was barely had time to close their mouths.

“Hammer! That man got hit by bird droppings!”

Tie’s voice echoed softly in the quiet courtyard in front of the office.

Tie was pointing at the Paladin who got hit by bird droppings as if feeling sorry for him.

“Tie saw it, a magpie pooped on that man’s head, bad magpie.”

Of course, Tie was doing her best to lower her voice in her own way.

But the child’s voice was fundamentally high-pitched, and the silence that had settled around made it even more audible.

“S-Sir.”

Meanwhile, the faces of the Paladins who saw their superior get hit by bird droppings turned pale.

Their superior was even being reminded of that fact by a small child at this very moment.

“…Isn’t there something to wipe with.”

The Paladin Commander spoke in a stiffly hardened voice.

His subordinates frantically searched their pockets.

“Commander! Perhaps this at least…!”

Soon, one knight pulled out a handkerchief from inside his tunic and offered it.

However,

“Gasp. It’s bloody…”

As Tie said, the handkerchief was completely stained with blood.

From the dark red color with blackened, glistening edges, it was undoubtedly monster blood.

“Tie, shh.”

Unable to watch any longer, Basto finally cautioned Tie.

Then he turned his gaze away from the frozen Paladin Commander.

“Let’s go inside now… Tie?”

But Tie was already gone from that spot.

When he turned his head, he could see the back of the child’s head already some distance away.

Her elaborately braided twin pigtails swayed back and forth in front of the mysterious Paladin Commander.

“Mister, use Tie’s!”

The Paladin Commander hesitantly turned around.

His gaze looking down at the child who wasn’t even half his height held a hint of bewilderment.

“Who are you…”

“Here, use Tie’s handkerchief!”

But Tie didn’t back down and held out her handkerchief to the Paladin Commander.

‘The handkerchief I lent to the Commander King too!’

That handkerchief with a deer drawn on it was a precious item Tie had brought from South Korea.

“It’s clean! Tie blew her nose and washed it yesterday!”

The Paladin’s eyes wavered slightly.

If you’re going to say it’s clean, why mention that you blew your nose with it?

How unsettling.

But then the child opened her eyes wide and said.

“Oh oh? The bird poop is dripping!”

In the end, he hurriedly took the handkerchief.

And slowly wiped his cheek where something was indeed flowing.

“Mmm…”

Watching this, the child furrowed her brow deeply.

Her small mouth was pursed and protruding.

It seemed she was also a bit disgusted by the bird poop getting on her lent handkerchief.

The Paladin Commander, Leonardo, finally let out a sigh.

And after folding the handkerchief in half and wiping his cheek once more, he opened his mouth.

“…Thank you. As for compensation…”

Then, as he tried to put the handkerchief into the pouch on his belt,

“Gasp! That’s Tie’s!”

The child approached and quickly grabbed Leonardo’s wrist.

Tie looked back and forth between Leonardo and the handkerchief with drooping eyebrows.

“Mister, give it back. Tie didn’t give it, she lent it.”

Leonardo froze for a moment.

He furrowed his brow and asked slowly.

“But it got dirty? You’re still going to take it?”

The child nodded earnestly.

“Yes.”

Then she quickly snatched the handkerchief from Leonardo’s hand.

“It’s okay. It’ll be clean if I wash it when I get home!”

Dumbfounded, Leonardo was staring blankly at the child when,

Having put the handkerchief in her bag, the child bowed as if her business was finished.

“Then goodbye!”

Leonardo stared intently at the back of her head as she walked away without any hesitation.

“Sir, are you alright?”

His adjutant asked in a flustered voice.

Leonardo closed his mouth, then opened it again, then belatedly nodded.

“…Yeah. I’m fine.”

He watched the child entering the office, then turned around.

“Have the carriage ready. I’m going to the manor.”

A small dog tag dangled from his waist.

On it, the name of Luminen’s second son was clearly engraved.

‘Leonardo Luminen’ was written in clear letters.

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