A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 126

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 126

 

Alexander carefully laid Tie down on the bed.

 

As he covered her with a blanket, the child immediately curled up her body.

 

Beneath her tightly closed eyelids.

 

The child’s dark eyelashes could be seen trembling slightly.

 

‘…She must be tired.’

 

In fact, he recalled last night when Valentis had confessed the Commander King’s identity to the three princes.

 

The first emotion he had felt then was concern.

 

‘You want to keep it from the Order? In other words, the moment we’re caught, trouble will break out, won’t it?’

 

‘That’s right, Father. Why are you planning such a thing? Unnecessary friendship with a mercenary – isn’t the risk burden too great?’

 

The Imperial Court was demanding and strict.

 

With an emperor who always caused trouble in fits of anger, and an empress who only whispered sweet words in that emperor’s ear as the main axis.

 

Of course, even such an Imperial Family had opponents they found difficult.

 

The Order based in the Central Continent.

 

But helping the Commander King could turn even this Order into an enemy.

 

Just before the subspace incident erupted in the Weapon District, the Order already had a history of contacting Luminen using the Commander King as a pretext.

 

[Take this opportunity to look into that Commander King fellow for me. Whether there are any other strange points, whether his power’s energy is peculiar, and also…]

 

‘…’

 

[Whether there’s any justification we can fabricate to summon him to the Central Continent.]

 

The Order.

 

Among them, the cardinals originally never took direct action in any matter.

 

But for some reason, recently they had given Valentis orders to monitor the Commander King.

 

As if they wanted to create any justification to observe the Commander King up close.

 

Valentis had initially seemed to obediently follow the Order’s commands.

 

But after returning from the Weapon District, he suddenly showed strange behavior.

 

‘He was carrying an unauthorized holy relic. He didn’t seem to know the relic’s activation conditions, judging by how he tried to manipulate my memory.’

 

‘Doesn’t matter. My memory is fine in the end.’

 

The holy relic the Commander King possessed without authorization.

 

The Chalice of Oblivion that would serve as good ‘justification’ for the Order – he would pretend not to have seen it.

 

And that wasn’t even all.

 

‘Does the Order know this fact?’

 

‘No. They don’t know. And I intend to keep them from knowing in the future.’

 

He was now looking for ways to help the Commander King, even breaking sacred law.

 

Not alone, but mobilizing the entire family.

 

‘I’ll say it again. This is madness.’

 

Given the situation, Leonardo’s strong opposition was a natural result.

 

Edmund and Alexander felt the same.

 

‘Please think of the family’s duty! Luminen is a family that serves the Imperial Court and the Order, not one that takes action in such personal matters!’

 

‘Personal matters? What are you in this family to judge the importance of affairs?’

 

‘…Father.’

 

‘I am the master of Luminen. And I have already decided to help the Commander King. Is there anything more needed beyond that?’

 

But Valentis was stubborn until the very end.

 

His appearance seemed, at a glance, like he was blindly pushing his thoughts onto his sons.

 

But as the conversation deepened, the three princes could notice.

 

Who Valentis was seeing in the Commander King, no, in Astie who had been left alone.

 

‘…You’re thinking of Theseus.’

 

‘Yes.’

 

That day, inside the banquet hall after Valentis had left.

 

The princes only sighed in silence.

 

Theseus Luminen.

 

Their young brother who was dragged away by the Order at age four and had his magic sealed.

 

Astie, for some reason, had many similarities to Theseus from that time.

 

The fact that he manifested magic and was under the Order’s surveillance.

 

The fact that he was left alone, separated from his parents.

 

And lastly,

 

‘That child doesn’t know how to show his pain. He only knows how to endure and persevere. He bears it and bears it again until it tears apart the hearts of those watching.’

 

Before leaving the banquet hall, Valentis’s eyes were bloodshot.

 

‘Do you think it’s normal for a young child to suppress his own pain?’

 

‘…’

 

‘He’s a pitiful and pathetic child. If Luminen is truly a family that protects the Empire, we must help him. We shouldn’t worsen the situation and corner a young child.’

 

Valentis’s eyes were filled with deep regret throughout his words.

 

The three princes knew what he was recalling.

 

Valentis was reminiscing about the not-so-distant yet distant past, four years ago.

 

The day Theseus had just turned sixteen.

 

The day when several large mastones erupted in the wasteland on the outskirts of the Dominion, and the Imperial Court was thrown into chaos.

 

The day when even young paladins who had just finished their basic training were mobilized en masse to the battlefield.

 

In the wasteland that resembled a mountain hell, Theseus’s magic, suppressed for 12 years, went berserk.

 

The princes still remembered the scene from that day.

 

The flames of magic that seemed to devour the entire land.

 

The screaming people and the terrible scars carved where the waves had grazed.

 

It was a disaster.

 

A great disaster that devastated the entire radius and nearly blew away the First Gate of the Fortress that was nearby.

 

But when everything ended, there were no casualties.

 

Because in the explosion, Eleonora had embraced the rampaging Theseus without a moment’s hesitation.

 

She neutralized Theseus’s magic with her entire body.

 

And in the end, she crumbled into powder.

 

It was a futile death where even her corpse couldn’t be found.

 

Under the Emperor’s leadership, damage control soon began.

 

Theseus’s rampage was classified.

 

His name was erased from the Paladins, and the explosion was fabricated to be caused by large mastones.

 

The fact that such a ‘defect’ like Theseus had emerged from Luminen must not be revealed to the outside.

 

Time flowed cruelly onward.

 

The reports were forged to show that Theseus had never participated in that siege.

 

Instead, rumors began circulating that his whereabouts had become mysterious.

 

Everyone in the remaining Luminen family could understand.

 

That following the Imperial Court, even the Order had decided to erase Theseus from the Luminen family.

 

Theseus left the family silently at some point.

 

Valentis launched a search, but he could never find his son in the end.

 

And so several more years passed, and when the three princes and Valentis finally discovered Theseus again.

 

Theseus was no longer Theseus.

 

He had become a mercenary, taking the nickname ‘Tesetan’ that Eleonora had called him during her lifetime as his new name.

 

The words Theseus left before his brothers and father after meeting them for the first time in so long were just a few sentences.

 

‘Please announce that I am dead.’

 

‘…Theseus!’

 

‘Please say that the fourth prince of Luminen is dead. This is my final request.’

 

The three princes could never see Theseus again after that.

 

Because Theseus intentionally avoided the Luminen Duchy.

 

In the end, they could only meet and see Theseus through rumors.

 

Of course, his changed appearance, his frivolous way of speaking, his sun-darkened skin, and the savage killer’s aura that emanated from him even when he was still.

 

The Theseus in the rumors was no longer the fourth prince of Luminen, just as he had said.

 

Meanwhile, Valentis collapsed.

 

‘I have regrets.’

 

‘Father…’

 

‘Back then. When Tesetan was captured by their hands in the manor’s courtyard. Would something have been different if I had stopped them?’

 

‘…’

 

‘If I had abandoned everything then and embraced that child, if I had properly fulfilled my role… If I had been honorable as a father and become a shield for my young son…’

 

But by his side, there was no longer even Eleonora to hold his hand.

 

Valentis tried to forget Theseus in order to survive.

 

Because otherwise, regret and remorse tormented him every day.

 

And around that time.

 

Valentis’s ‘Sacred Awakening’ advanced one stage.

 

It evolved to not only read sacred power and magic power, but also to feel and gauge others’ emotions and pain.

 

So Valentis thought on the day he met Astie.

 

That his power might have been enhanced for that very moment.

 

The Valentis of the past had always blamed himself.

 

For not knowing about Theseus’s instability.

 

For not recognizing his pain.

 

But this time was different.

 

Because in the moment Astie wiped away tears with a handkerchief, he saw the sadness and longing that rippled overflowingly in that young heart.

 

‘I don’t want to turn away anymore. I don’t want to repeat such bone-deep regret… twice.’

 

In the end, the three princes had no choice but to follow Valentis’s will.

 

Because ultimately they were the same as Valentis.

 

In that they kept buried emotions folded away like a fan deep in their hearts.

 

The next day.

 

Tie opened her eyes in a drowsy state.

 

Morning sunlight streamed in through the open curtains.

 

“You’re awake.”

 

A gentle voice came from in front of her.

 

Soon she could see someone sitting in an armchair.

 

Alexander smiled warmly as he set down the book he was holding on the side table.

 

As if he had watched over the sleeping Tie all night long.

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