A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 124

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 124

“…Wait a moment.”

As soon as Valentis finished speaking, Veil rose from his seat.

Raul and Enzo also pushed their chairs back.

As if they were ready to bolt at any moment should something happen.

Veil looked around at the Luminen family with a calm expression.

“We have no idea what you’re talking about. The Sacred Relic of Oblivion?”

But Valentis gave no answer.

He simply drank the wine that was about half-full in his glass.

Tie instinctively grasped the situation.

‘The Commander King knows!’

She quickly lowered her hand under the table.

And pushed the Sacred Relic of Oblivion that was hanging on her wrist into her sleeve.

‘He knows that Tie has the sacred relic…!’

But even more than that,

‘The Sacred Relic of Oblivion doesn’t work on me.’

He seemed to remember everything, including the fact that Tie had tried to erase his memory.

‘Wh… what should I do?’

Her heart began to beat violently.

Tie stared at Basto with frightened eyes.

Now that he’d discovered she had the sacred relic, would the Commander King try to retrieve it from Tie?

They said the Order always confiscated sacred relics when they were found.

‘Then maybe his promise to show the organizational chart was also a lie…?’

What if he actually thought Tie was a thief and called her here to arrest her…!

Just as her worries were growing in her head,

“All byproducts obtained from conquering Mastones must be reported to the Order as a rule.”

Valentis spoke in a low, hard voice.

He was staring directly at Veil, who had somehow risen to his feet.

“Especially special forms of spoils like sacred relics are controlled more strictly. If you obtain one, you must report it to the Order and voluntarily return it. Otherwise, you’ll be punished for blasphemy.”

“What? We don’t know anything about that…!”

“Even if you didn’t know, that is the sacred law.”

Valentis cut off Veil’s words.

Then he continued in a monotone voice.

“Talochium is a country ruled under God’s name. Sacred law exists above national law, and those who violate it are punished. Those who conspired with them, those who turned a blind eye to them, are no exception either.”

Finally, silence descended upon the banquet hall.

Tie looked around in the silence where even breathing couldn’t be heard.

Raul and Enzo had somehow risen from their seats.

Kamang, sitting at the far end, had been staring only at Tie for a while now.

Before long, Veil muttered silent curses and looked at the three princes across from him with sharp eyes.

Seeing that gaze, Tie immediately understood.

‘This is bad.’

That look in Veil’s eyes only appeared when he was trying to overcome a critical situation.

So Veil was now figuring out how to somehow deal with the three Luminen princes and the duke and get out of the manor.

Just like when he had punched Reginald in the jaw!

“However, I have.”

But then, Valentis opened his mouth again.

As he slowly turned his head, his inscrutable blue eyes stared directly at Tie.

“Decided to become an accomplice in this matter instead of reporting you all to the Order.”

In the momentarily frozen atmosphere.

Tie’s lips parted as she stared with wide eyes.

“Bear hat…? What does bear hat mean, mmph.”

Basto quickly placed his hand over Tie’s mouth.

“What does that mean?”

At this moment, Basto’s heart was beating violently.

And for good reason, as he was prepared to grab Tie and jump out the window if Veil gave the signal.

Blasphemy was truly a crime they must never get involved with under any circumstances.

So when that word came from the Commander King’s mouth, the unit members each quickly exchanged glances.

They had concluded to escape the manor even if it meant bloodshed.

Of course, making the Luminen family an enemy was almost tantamount to suicide.

But.

‘We have to get out first before we can figure out how to get Tie away separately.’

But what did the Commander King just say?

Not ‘I’ll report to the Order’ or.

Not ‘I’ll handle this internally.’

But ‘I’ll become an accomplice’?

When Valentis gestured, a butler came carrying several thick bundles of documents.

“You all know this too. The complete organizational chart of the Paladins is a classified document of the Order. It’s material that must never be shown to outsiders.”

The butler set the materials down next to Tie with a thud.

“However, I have no intention of breaking my promise. I trust this serves as an adequate answer.”

But even so, the silence that had settled in the banquet hall showed no signs of lifting.

Meanwhile, Valentis’s gaze calmly turned toward Tie.

“It probably won’t be finished quickly. So.”

“…”

“Have a hearty meal first, then slowly search for your father. It’s fine if it takes several days.”

Basto’s hand that had been covering Tie’s mouth slowly fell away.

Tie looked at Valentis with bewildered eyes.

The Commander King’s eyes that shone like the sea didn’t seem like those of someone telling lies.

The child asked cautiously.

“Th, then is it okay for Tie to keep the bracelet…?”

He would really turn a blind eye to the fact that Tie possessed the Sacred Relic of Oblivion?

Valentis nodded.

“Yes. I promise that fact won’t be leaked from my side.”

“Even though Tie deceived the Commander King, you’ll still show the organizational chart?”

“…Deception. You could see it that way, but ultimately it doesn’t matter, does it? As I said earlier, the Sacred Relic of Oblivion didn’t work on me.”

Tie closed her mouth.

Then after hesitating for a long while, she added one last question.

“Is it because you feel sorry for Tie?”

Valentis froze for a moment.

A slightly surprised expression also appeared on the faces of the three princes across from him.

Tie hesitantly looked around at the unit members, then asked again.

“Are you helping because you feel sorry that Tie has neither father nor mother?”

Valentis didn’t answer.

He just looked at Tie with a strange expression, then answered after a long while.

“No.”

And as if nothing had happened, he picked up his wine glass again and added.

“It’s to ease my own personal guilt. It’s not because of you.”

After the meal ended.

The bundle of documents seen at the banquet hall was placed before Agavert, who had moved to the Grand Council Chamber.

“This is the complete organizational chart of the Paladins.”

Tie took a short breath with Basto seated on her right and Veil on her left.

“It’s bound in a total of 8 volumes, and the first, second, and third volumes are the knights belonging to Talochium.”

Tie listened intently to Grandfather butler’s explanation.

Grandfather placed blank paper and charcoal on her right side so Tie could take notes at any time, then stepped back.

“Well then.”

The Grand Council Chamber door closed with a thud.

A few seconds later, Raul let out the breath he had been holding.

“Wh-what is happening right now…!”

The other unit members also found the situation hard to believe.

As if representing this, only Tie had properly enjoyed her meal at the banquet earlier.

Everyone else couldn’t eat properly due to the tension.

“Was not returning the holy relic something serious enough to warrant charges of blasphemy?”

Sure enough, Basto asked.

Enzo shook his head as if he knew nothing about it.

“No! I mean, thinking about it… I’m not sure.”

The number of times holy relics had appeared in Mastones so far could be counted on one hand.

Most of them were discovered by Paladins, and only once by mercenaries.

“When Trevaga discovered one, they voluntarily returned the holy relic to the Order right away…”

So no one had expected that secretly possessing a holy relic would be such a serious ‘crime’.

“Damn it, how were we supposed to know about holy laws or whatever!”

Veil shouted irritably.

As he said, it was logically difficult for ordinary people who weren’t Paladins or believers to understand holy laws.

“Why did the Commander have to terrifyingly bring up blasphemy charges against the child…”

Blasphemy, a charge given only to those who insult or defy God.

Prisoners with this charge were supposed to be escorted to the Central Continent as a rule.

And none of them had ever returned.

Only rumors spread that they suffered terrible punishments and died in agony.

“Anyway, Commander Luminen said he would turn a blind eye.”

At Raul’s words, Enzo nodded.

“That’s right. I don’t know exactly what becoming an accomplice means, but…”

Eventually, everyone fell silent.

After the silence, Basto sighed and stared at Tie.

“Tie. Are you alri…”

But by then, Tie was already turning to the third page of the documents.

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