A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 14

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 14

Veil frowned as he watched Tie whining while fitting the skull jaw together.

Why would the saying “blood is thicker than water” come up here?

But he soon understood the reason.

“Actually, you see, Tie’s father is…”

The child whispered and added.

“Really strong.”

As if it were some tremendous secret, the child kept looking around warily.

“He’s supposedly the strongest between worlds. A really strong paladin!”

Basto’s face hardened.

He recalled Tie’s words from when they first met, saying her father was in the realm.

At first, he thought the child had been separated from her family near the gateway.

But somehow,

“Since Tie inherited her father’s blood, she has amazing abilities! Like father, like daughter!”

After hearing the story, the thought crossed his mind that this might not be such a simple situation.

Meanwhile, Veil’s expression also darkened just the same.

‘If the child’s father really is the strongest paladin…’

There was something that didn’t add up.

There are broadly two types of abilities that can be awakened in the world.

Holy power and magical power.

Among these, paladins awaken holy power and use that strength to wield swords.

But Tie had just awakened magical power.

‘Of course, I know that such things happen occasionally.’

Cases where a mage is born from parents who awakened holy power, or a child who awakens holy power is born in a mage family.

But that was rare enough to appear in legends or folklore, and above all, it was poorly regarded.

There was even a superstition that children born with powers opposite to their parents would ruin and destroy their surroundings.

‘Moreover…’

The part about the “strongest paladin” that Tie mentioned also bothered him.

If there was a family in the empire with people who could be called the “strongest paladins,” there was only one place.

The Luminen Duchy.

Those who had produced knights with high-purity holy power for generations, with pride so high it seemed to pierce the sky.

They were literally a noble group that had never once experienced rock bottom.

As if thinking the same thing, Veil and Basto’s gazes met.

Basto nodded and quickly got down to Tie’s eye level.

“The story about your father being a paladin, are you sure about that?”

“Yes! A really strong paladin! The strongest between worlds!”

The two men’s expressions grew even darker.

If the child’s words were true, there was only one conclusion they could draw.

The Luminen Duchy, which had produced paladins for generations.

That Astie was born there with magical power strong enough to activate necromancy.

“Actually, I wasn’t going to tell you this, but…”

Just then, Astie opened her lips with a dejected expression.

“Tie actually lived with just her father until recently, in a small but cozy house, but…”

“The house was small?”

Tie nodded to Veil who interrupted.

“Yeah! It was about this big~”

What Tie was pointing to was a space barely big enough for two adult men to lie down.

“There was a bathroom at the end over there, but ugh.”

Tie suddenly shrank back.

When they looked at her questioningly, the child hesitantly answered.

“It was really cold in winter. Warm water didn’t come out well…”

Veil’s eyebrows twitched, but Tie continued speaking.

“But Tie was really happy. Even with just father and me, it felt like we had a hundred family members, really really happy.”

However, a faint moisture soon appeared in the child’s eyes that had only been bright.

“…But father left.”

Basto and Veil froze.

“So Tie was alone. In the forest, with Kamang…”

“Kamang?”

Tie opened her bag to show them.

They could see the black stone inside.

“He stays quiet in here, but Kamang is really strong, you know? So together we can find father.”

Veil and Basto’s gazes met once again.

The being that Tie, who activated necromancy, called ‘Kamang.’

And the black stone where that being was supposedly sleeping.

‘That’s clearly a permanent summon.’

It seemed that Tie had unknowingly summoned a familiar in the past, but didn’t know what it was.

“Once Kamang wakes up, Tie can find father! If Basto mister takes Tie to the realm. Of course, father won’t remember Tie, but…”

“He won’t remember you? What do you mean by that?”

Veil interrupted again.

Tie rolled her eyes around.

“That’s hard to explain…”

Then after thinking for a moment, she hesitantly continued.

“There are circumstances for that…”

“What are you talking about, that doesn’t make sense. Where is there a father who wouldn’t remember his own daughter?”

Tie’s expression became dejected again.

This time she even looked much more pitiful than before.

Soon a dispirited voice flowed from her small mouth.

“…Father doesn’t want to do that either.”

“…”

“Father must want to see Tie too. But because of magic, Tie was erased from father’s head…”

Veil stiffened in shock.

Basto and Nordics did the same.

Tie was talking about Kamang’s time magic.

Since she had returned to the past before she was born, her father wouldn’t recognize her either.

But ridiculously, those words sounded completely different to Basto and Veil.

‘She’s saying they used magic to erase the child from her father’s mind, right?’

‘Such a cruel thing to do…’

In the three men’s minds, this situation became more and more certain.

The noble, virtuous, and great paladin family Luminien.

A young child born within it with abundant magical power.

‘Tie actually lived with just her father until recently, in a small but cozy house.’

The child’s father had probably escaped the family with young Tie.

Seeing how they hid in a small house fit for livestock, he was probably trying to raise the child in secret.

But,

‘Because of magic, Tie was erased from father’s head…’

Someone had erased Tie from that child’s father’s mind.

And four-year-old Astie was left alone in the forest.

Silence continued inside the cave.

Soon, a low curse flowed from Veil’s mouth.

“Have I ever seen such bastards worse than beasts…?”

“Is it possible? To erase someone’s existence from their mind?”

Veil’s whisper echoed among the three men.

Basto was silently clenching his fists, while the fortune teller Nordics maintained silence with a solemn expression.

“It’s obvious! They must have tried to get rid of the child because she was an eyesore!”

He thought he had seen all the scum of the world during his time as an assassin.

But to steal a child from their father?

And even erase the child’s existence from his mind?

“Those crazy Luminen bastards. Does having money and power make everything okay? Does it make it okay to do such filthy things that even beasts wouldn’t do?”

“Calm down, Veil.”

Basto cut off Veil’s words.

He continued speaking calmly to the fuming Veil.

“Nothing is certain yet. We can’t judge the situation based on just what we heard. There could be misunderstandings, and above all, Tie is still young.”

“What judgment! Just look at the Empire’s legends – mages born into paladin families are branded as ominous beings! The situation fits perfectly!”

“Veil. Nordics is right. Let’s calm down first.”

When even Nordics stepped in, Veil closed his mouth, though he still fumed with indignation.

Seeing the child in the distance made his anger surge even more.

The child looked somehow even more pitiful and miserable than before!

“For now, we need to meet a member of the Luminen Family.”

Then Basto summarized the situation.

“In case the Luminen Family really did commit such acts, we should keep Tie’s identity hidden for the time being.”

“What’s with stating the obvious? Those bastards must have tried to kill the child before. She was alone in the forest when we first met her!”

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