A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 121

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 121

‘…I ended up coming in without thinking.’

Sitting at the reception room table, Selina crossed her arms.

In front of her, the little girl who had opened the door earlier was making a fuss with people who might be her family or something.

“Look, Veil. Tie said she needs to greet the front mansion and neighboring house.”

“What greeting? This whole alley is full of nothing but nobles, you know?”

“Even if they’re nobles, we should still greet them. That’s why a friend came to visit here.”

“But what if they don’t like us? The people here are the type who get disgusted when people like us visit their homes and even dust off their front steps with a thud, thud.”

“…Why would they dust the front steps? Because there’s a lot of dust?”

“Ha, what I mean is.”

Selina sighed at the conversation that had no context, meaning, or value.

Immediately, six pairs of eyes turned toward her.

Selina shook her head and then raised her gaze.

“What kind of rudeness is this, bringing a guest into the reception room and then doing this?”

Everyone looked flustered at those words.

But soon the slender, pretty-faced one asked the chubby man.

“Uh, what, Basto. Do you know anything about noble etiquette? Like, receiving guests and stuff.”

“I don’t know.”

“What about you, Raul and Enzo?”

“In situations like this, it’s proper for only the representative to remain while everyone else leaves.”

“Representative? What’s that?”

“Well, I suppose you’d call it the actual owner of this house. Usually it’s a role the head of the family plays….”

“But we don’t have a head of the family.”

“Still, we do have a unit leader…?”

All the focused gazes shifted to Tie at once.

When Tie looked bewildered, Veil spoke.

“Child. Can you handle receiving the guest?”

“Huh? Tie all alone…?”

Veil glanced at Selina briefly and then whispered in Tie’s ear.

“Yeah. She’s just a child like you. Just have some casual conversation. We can’t just chase her away anyway.”

“But….”

“The fact that she came from the front mansion, and looking at how she talks, she’s not ordinary, right? She’s a noble. We need to keep up appearances properly before sending her away.”

Tie gulped and then stared at Selina again.

Pretty and neat clothing.

Hair tied neatly without a single strand sticking out.

Finally, even her calm expression and straight posture.

“Then we’re going? Come out when you’re done talking, okay?”

Meanwhile, the unit members all rushed out of the reception room.

Tie looked blankly at Raul, who was waving his hand as if to say ‘do well’ in his panic.

And so, inside the reception room with only Tie and Selina remaining.

After a brief silence, Selina was the first to speak.

“…I’m called Selina Belmore. I live in the front mansion under my mother’s name.”

Tie hurriedly nodded her head.

“Uh-huh!”

“What’s Yeongae’s name?”

However, she soon had to look confused again.

It was because she had no idea who this ‘Yeongae’ that Selina kept calling was.

But if there’s something you don’t know, asking is the best policy!

Tie energetically raised one hand.

“But Tie has a question! What’s Yeongae?”

Selina’s brow furrowed.

However, Tie just energetically continued her questions.

“Tie isn’t Yeongae, but Kim Astie. Why do you keep calling Tie Yeongae?”

Selina opened her lips blankly.

But the child soon came to her senses and answered with a sour expression.

“Yeongae is an honorific that was used in the past to respectfully address only daughters of noble or high-ranking families.”

“Gasp, an honorific….”

“But nowadays it’s used for all noble women who possess dignity and manners. Like how I called you Yeongae ‘out of courtesy.'”

Tie furrowed her brow.

‘So….’

Yeongae was an honorific like ‘nim’ used in South Korea.

It was like what kids like Hyeonwoo would attach after opponent nicknames when playing Spirit Raising Stars or Marblecraft on tablets.

Thinking of it that way, Selina’s difficult words were translated like game chat.

‘Are you nim? This mansion, owner. Are you nim?’

‘Receiving guests is what the owner does. Since nim came out, are you the owner?’

‘Such intense Marblecraft speech patterns…!’

Of course, that wasn’t the important part.

‘Here they attach Yeongae instead of nim, politely!’

Tie straightened her posture.

And said energetically.

“So Selina Yeongae was asking for Tie’s name.”

Selina frowned.

But Tie continued speaking with a bright smile.

“Tie’s name is Tie! Originally it’s Kim Astie but everyone calls me Tie. How old is Selina Yeongae?”

Selina unconsciously pulled her body back slightly.

‘What is this, really….’

She had already figured out that the child in front of her wasn’t a noble.

But it wasn’t like she had lived alone in a different world.

Could someone really be this ignorant of etiquette and manners?

This child called Tie was even using the word Yeongae too strangely.

It was strangely irritating, to the point where it would be better not to use it at all.

Of course, Astie had no way of knowing Selina’s thoughts.

“You know, Tie is four years old. Selina Yeongae, do you happen to like fairies?”

Selina stiffened in surprise at Tie suddenly getting up from her seat.

Tie didn’t mind and ran to the door to get her unit uniform from the coat hanger.

Returning to the sofa, Tie proudly showed Selina the Tanifang embroidery.

“Look!”

Selina’s lips, which had been frowning, soon opened wide.

‘…Wow.’

The fairy in the embroidery was something she had never seen among the toys available in stores.

An intense pink color that caught the eye immediately.

Even the sparkling eyes and round face.

Selina asked hesitantly.

“…This is a fairy?”

“Yeah!”

Tie went even further and handed the uniform to Selina.

“You know, in just a few nights an artist will come and draw thirty or forty more Tanifangs in Tie’s room.”

“…In the bedroom, these fairies?”

“Yeah! And Marshal auntie said she’ll put lots of them on Tie’s clothes too.”

Selina gulped.

Then she looked more closely at the fairy embedded in the uniform.

“Th, then perhaps….”

But Selina, who was about to say something, quickly shut her mouth.

‘I almost got carried away.’

She had almost asked if they could put these fairies on her cherished indoor clothes too.

But that would be absolutely disgraceful behavior to show.

Especially for a fully grown five-year-old noble lady.

Selina, who had pulled herself together, quickly put down Astie’s uniform.

“I, I didn’t come here to look at fairies or anything.”

“Huh? Then?”

“I was curious about the thoughtless neighbor who moved in but never even greeted me once.”

Selina quickly got up from her seat.

“B, but now that I’ve heard your name, that’s enough. I have a schedule at the Imperial Academy, so I’ll be going now.”

Tie stared blankly at Selina hurriedly leaving the reception room.

‘Wow… Imperial Academy!’

Selina definitely seemed to be a noble child.

From her proper gait to her clear pronunciation.

But there was something strange about it.

“But why is she going around alone…?”

Actually, the gate outside the garden had been locked all night since yesterday.

However, Selina had knocked on the front door.

She had climbed over the fence alone and knocked on the entrance.

“Doing that without adults is really dangerous though….”

That’s when it happened.

“Child! That girl left! We didn’t even pretend to see her and just went out?”

The unit members came rushing in.

“Danzu. What did that young lady say? Her expression looked serious.”

However, Tie couldn’t answer the flood of questions.

‘Did Selina perhaps see Tie yesterday?’

Did she climb over the fence today because she wanted to play with Tie?

‘But if she also goes to the preparatory school, does Selina not have any friends?’

While she was thinking.

Ding-

The bell hanging on one wall of the reception room rang.

It was a device that made sound when a guest visiting the manor pulled it from the gate.

Tie jumped up.

“Selina must have come back!”

However, when she crossed the garden with a happy heart and arrived at the gate.

It wasn’t Selina standing in front.

“Excuse me. I’m Leonardo Luminen. I’ve come from the Valentis Family to escort….”

“Eh? Bird poop mister?”

Tie’s mouth fell open after confirming who it was.

The man who had been hit by bird droppings in front of the Compensation Office.

The man to whom Tie had lent her handkerchief,

was standing there with a luxurious carriage and numerous people behind him.

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