A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 131

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 131

 

The next day.

 

“Wow! I slept well!”

 

Basto’s eyes snapped open at the cheerful sound that reached his ears.

 

Then he spotted her beyond the bright morning sunlight streaming through the window crack.

 

“Raul oppa, Enzo oppa. Why are you sleeping here?”

 

Tie, shaking Raul and Enzo awake with a bright face.

 

Basto held his groggy head and looked to the side.

 

Next to him, Veil was holding his forehead with a similar expression.

 

‘It feels like I slept strangely somehow…’

 

“Basto ajeossi!”

 

Just then, Tie, who had gotten down from the bed, came running over quickly.

 

The child hugged Basto tightly and rubbed her cheek against his hand.

 

“Ajeossi, let’s go greet the Commander King now and go home.”

 

“Home…?”

 

“Yeah! Aunt Marshal is waiting. Tie wants to go home now too…”

 

Basto and Nordics exchanged glances at her appearance as if nothing had happened.

 

“Veil oppa, hm? Let’s go home, hm?”

 

Meanwhile, Tie began shaking Veil’s knee.

 

Veil hesitated, then picked up Tie and asked.

 

“…Child. Are you okay?”

 

Tie’s eyes widened.

 

Then she made a slightly dejected expression before smiling sadly.

 

“I’m fine. Now I know Father isn’t a Paladin…”

 

Veil was so surprised his lips trembled before he quickly agreed.

 

“That’s right, Child! You should think that way. Now that we’re certain your father isn’t a Paladin, let’s slowly look for him in other places too. I’ll help you.”

 

“Yeah! Thank you!”

 

The child giggled and hugged Veil’s neck.

 

Feeling a sting in his nose, Veil patted Tie’s back gently.

 

“First, Tie will go get her bag from the Grand Council Chamber!”

 

Tie jumped down from Veil’s arms and bounced out of the room.

 

The members were staring blankly at the open door when it happened.

 

“Astie says she wants to advance into the North Continent too.”

 

From the left side of the bed, which had been silent all along, came a voice that had been rarely heard recently.

 

When they turned their heads, there stood Lucalion with Ppupppu on his head, wearing a serious expression.

 

“She says seeing the Rank 1 Mercenary Group inspired her desire for power, and she wants to develop Agabert as a rival and worthy opponent.”

 

Veil furrowed his brow.

 

“What?”

 

But Lucalion just continued speaking calmly.

 

“Also, it seems the psychological burden of searching for her father has been intense. She says she wants to take a break from looking for her father for a while.”

 

Now even Basto looked surprised.

 

But Lucalion’s words weren’t finished there.

 

“I think Astie has finally realized the essence of humanity. It’s natural for any mercenary to want to pursue their own power. Humans are inherently deficient beings who can’t help but yearn for self-completion.”

 

“What, what are you saying? The child said such difficult words?”

 

“Yeah. She said the act of expanding one’s potential and leaving traces in the world is the manifestation of noble will.”

 

Silence fell over the room.

 

Veil was about to speak with a furrowed brow when Tie entered the room again carrying her preschool bag.

 

“Tie’s back!”

 

“Child. Did you really say this to Kamang?”

 

Tie, who had frozen in place, blinked for a few seconds before answering.

 

“Yeah, I did!”

 

“You talked about advancing into the North Continent and becoming a person of power?”

 

“Yeah, because Tie is the Commander King!”

 

Veil closed his mouth as if dumbfounded.

 

Basto stepped forward with a suspicious expression.

 

“Tie, are you really okay? Even so, the North Continent…”

 

“Tie doesn’t want to be sad every day just because I don’t have a father.”

 

At that moment, Tie dejectedly cut off Basto’s words.

 

Then she looked around at the members with a dejected face.

 

“If I work hard at mercenary group duties bravely, maybe I’ll naturally meet Father later…”

 

“I think the unit leader’s words make sense.”

 

Enzo, who had been listening, also stepped forward.

 

He approached Basto and whispered quietly so Tie couldn’t hear.

 

“When times are tough, it’s good to have something to hold onto. It’s also good for temporarily forgetting reality…”

 

In desperate situations, not moving only brings greater despair.

 

Still, Basto couldn’t easily shake off his worry.

 

“I know too. But for a child to have such thoughts…”

 

But at that moment, the image of Tie from last night flashed before Basto’s eyes.

 

The image of Tie crying sadly with tears hanging from her eyes.

 

“I…”

 

Basto, who had trailed off, finally sighed.

 

He approached Tie as if he had given up.

 

“…Alright, let’s do that. Tie.”

 

Tie stared at Basto intently.

 

“Really?”

 

“Really. But don’t completely stop looking for your father, and in the future gradually…”

 

“The North Continent is not allowed, Astie.”

 

But then a rigid voice came from a corner of the room.

 

When they turned their gaze, Nordics was standing there with an unusually stern expression.

 

Tie’s eyes widened.

 

Nordics walked over with big steps and knelt on one knee in front of Astie.

 

“You must absolutely never go to the North Continent!”

 

It was Nordics’ frightening voice that they had never heard before.

 

Tie, who had frozen stiff, would soon learn.

 

What the reason was for Nordics saying such things.

 

“That’s right. But how did you know?”

 

In the Grand Council Chamber where everyone had gathered, Valentis agreed.

 

The members each looked at Nordics with surprised expressions.

 

Nordics answered.

 

“…Rather than knowing, I just guessed.”

 

It had been 5 minutes since the members and the Luminen family gathered in the Grand Council Chamber.

 

As soon as the door closed, Nordics threw a polite yet bold question at Valentis.

 

‘I know this may be rude, but I must ask you one thing. By any chance, weren’t there orders from the Central Continent to monitor Astie?’

 

The Central Continent.

 

The place where the Holy Kingdom, the Pope, and the cardinals who serve him exist.

 

To think such a place had given orders to monitor Tie.

 

All unit members including Veil thought it was an absurd matter.

 

But Valentis had answered.

 

‘That’s right.’

 

“What. So it was really real?”

 

Veil tightly embraced Tie who was sitting on his lap for no particular reason.

 

Then he looked at Nordics with a serious face.

 

“So some cardinal or whatever really ordered to monitor the child?”

 

Nordics nodded his head.

 

“Yes. Surprisingly, the group with great interest in mages is precisely the Order.”

 

Leonardo also agreed.

 

“That’s correct. To be precise, their interest is greater toward mages who have manifested unprecedented power.”

 

Veil gulped down his saliva.

 

Everyone in Agabert already knew that the power Astie possessed was not ordinary.

 

So they had been deceiving the public about Astie’s real age all this time.

 

But even so, still.

 

How long had he been a mercenary that already even the Order was stepping forward to be curious about Tie.

 

And doing so gloomily, even having the Commander King conduct background investigations.

 

“The North Continent that Tie wants to go to is a place that priests visit several times a year for training. It’s a place bustling with priests all year round. But if by any chance she goes to such a place and gets wrongly entangled with priests.”

 

“….”

 

“They might say verification of personal power is necessary and such, and call Tie to the Central Continent.”

 

“That cannot happen.”

 

Basto immediately answered.

 

“Tie’s identity will be exposed. And the Order is….”

 

Basto reflexively stared at the Luminen family sitting in front.

 

He hesitated because it seemed like speaking ill of the Order in front of the main axis of the Paladins.

 

However,

 

“Please continue. Didn’t I tell you? From the moment we handed over the organizational chart, Luminen is no different from being in the same boat as you all.”

 

As Edmund said, Luminen’s intentions had already been somewhat grasped.

 

Basto hesitantly continued his words.

 

“As far as I know, I’ve heard that the Order does anything in the name of following God’s will.”

 

“….”

 

“Literally, anything.”

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