A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 146

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 146

 

Basto didn’t have time to stop her.

 

Tie naturally squeezed between the Elders and settled herself in the middle of the street stall.

 

People immediately flocked around the Sire who had come from outside.

 

“How small she is. You said four years old? Just looking at her size, she seems like three?”

 

At the words of a Woman who appeared to be around sixty, Tie immediately puffed out her cheeks.

 

“No! Tie is four years old, and will be five soon too!”

 

“Oh ho ho, something as small as rabbit droppings speaks well. How did you end up coming from outside, hmm?”

 

Tie first politely raised one hand.

 

“Well, you see…”

 

“Tie. Get up now.”

 

But then Basto, who had been standing at a distance, approached.

 

Basto was looking around with a wary expression.

 

He extended his hand to Tie.

 

“Let’s go. We don’t have time to linger here.”

 

But Tie couldn’t readily get up.

 

Instead, she looked around restlessly.

 

“But the adults asked why Tie came here…?”

 

Going to Preparatory School was important.

 

Of course, it was also something Tie had been looking forward to ever since coming to this world.

 

But.

 

‘Whether it’s Preparatory School or school, home education is a hundred times more important than such things.’

 

Seeing the adults here somehow reminded her of the Grandfathers who used to play Go in the Alley whenever she waited for the Preschool bus.

 

‘Tie, you can see it too, right? Because you received proper home education at home, you greet these old men every morning without fail. Now, try playing a game until the Preschool bus comes.’

 

She had only greeted them properly as the adults taught her.

 

The Grandfathers adored Tie very much.

 

Sometimes they gave Tie devil candy (that tasted like red ginseng), and sometimes they handed over Go stones, telling her to make a move for them.

 

Tie mainly placed stones wherever she wanted to put them.

 

Like placing them at the end of stones lined up in a row, or in corners, or completing a face shape.

 

‘Ha ha ha ha! That’s a brilliant move, truly brilliant!’

 

‘Really! Mr. Choi will find a way out thanks to Tie. Ha ha!’

 

Of course, the Grandfathers were happy wherever Tie placed the stones.

 

‘Yes. Greet adults properly and answer politely!’

 

Tie looked at Basto and said maturely.

 

“Hammer, it’s not right to leave when adults are talking. Polite home education is more important than Preschool!”

 

Several people around burst into laughter.

 

While Basto was troubled, Tie gave the answer she couldn’t finish earlier to the people.

 

“The reason Tie came is because she’s going to Preparatory School!”

 

“Preparatory School? Here in Flint Cove?”

 

“Yes!”

 

The crowd stirred.

 

Two Elders who looked quite aged stepped forward and asked with interest.

 

“Where is your home?”

 

Basto squeezed back into the crowd.

 

“Tie. Don’t answer anymore…”

 

“I live in Roseovel Alley!”

 

“Roseovel… Rosewerbel?”

 

A Man who had been leaning against the corner wall immediately straightened up.

 

He looked around at the people and said.

 

“Isn’t that the street where the Aristocracy gathers to live? They’re all rotting with money…”

 

People’s gazes swept over Tie again.

 

But Tie looked far removed from nobility by anyone’s standards.

 

First, her speech pattern with all flowery language stripped away, and the pitch-black cloak wrapped around her was too crude to be Nobleman’s clothing.

 

‘Most of all.’

 

People muttered as if finding it strange.

 

“A Nobleman’s Child wouldn’t come to a place like this and mingle with us…”

 

“Right, right. Wasn’t it that outsiders can’t enter the Underground Passage in the first place?”

 

“Child, you’re not lying, you really live in Rosewerbel Street?”

 

“Seeing that she got in, the district chief must have given approval.”

 

Listening to the pouring questions, Tie once again raised her hand firmly.

 

“That’s because Tie has very complicated circumstances.”

 

“Complicated circumstances? How complicated can a four-year-old’s circumstances be.”

 

Tie sighed as if telling them not to even mention it.

 

“Grandmother and Grandfather don’t know anything. Tie can’t go to Preparatory Schools outside. There are too many watching eyes.”

 

This time people’s gazes turned to Basto.

 

Instead of answering, Basto was holding his forehead.

 

‘Ha, this is troublesome.’

 

It was good that they entered this place with the district chief’s permission.

 

But it hadn’t been confirmed yet whether it was okay to tell the Flint Cove people about Tie’s identity.

 

No matter how cut off this place was from the outside, there was no guarantee that Tie’s secret would be kept safe…

 

Then.

 

Tie added with an even more dejected expression.

 

“If Tie gets caught attending Preparatory School in Flint Cove, she’ll probably be kicked out of The Order…”

 

At the mention of being kicked out, an Elder couldn’t contain his curiosity and stepped forward.

 

“What’s all this talk from earlier? Why aren’t there Preparatory Schools outside for you to attend. If you live in Rosewerbel Street, you should have been able to enter Imperial Academy too.”

 

“Tie can’t go. Because she has to hide her identity.”

 

“Hide your identity?”

 

“Could it be that?”

 

Just as the crowd was stirring.

 

The Youth who had lit up at the mention of ‘Rosewerbel Street’ earlier slapped his knee.

 

“It’s an illegitimate child! She’s an illegitimate child raised by those Rosewarbel Nobility Villains!”

 

“Illegitimate…?”

 

Tie tilted her head.

 

But people were already excitedly agreeing with each other.

 

“No wonder, hiding her identity!”

 

“Damn Villains! If you’re going to hide and raise her, don’t have her in the first place! Why take out their shameful deeds on the Child!”

 

Everyone sighed and looked at Tie pitifully.

 

They clicked their tongues and continued speaking.

 

“Even if they hate her, she’s still their own child, but sending her to such a remote place to raise her in hiding, how heartbroken must that little one be…”

 

A Grandmother stroked Tie’s head.

 

Tie opened her eyes wide with a bewildered expression.

 

She didn’t know what illegitimate meant, but now all the Underground Passage people were looking at Tie as if she were pitiful.

 

“They won’t send you to Preparatory School outside? They’ll kick you out if your identity is discovered?”

 

Tie hesitantly nodded her head.

 

“Um, yes.”

 

Valentis had told her.

 

That Tie couldn’t carelessly go to the Preparatory School when outside.

 

The reason was that if Tie’s identity was exposed while attending the Preparatory School, it would be a disaster.

 

If such a thing happened, Tie wouldn’t just be expelled from Jedo.

 

“They’ll take Tie far away and hurt her really badly!”

 

She was talking about being dragged to the Order for interrogation, but for some reason everyone’s faces turned pale.

 

“Good, good, good heavens! This young child!”

 

Tie looked at them with a still bewildered face, then carefully raised one hand and asked.

 

“But, Grandmother. What’s an illegitimate child? Tie isn’t illegitimate…”

 

“That’s right. Illegitimate child.”

 

But then.

 

Basto intervened.

 

Basto let out a sigh with a sorrowful face, then looked around at the people.

 

“The child wants to learn, but we couldn’t find a Preparatory School outside, so we came here.”

 

Several people clicked their tongues.

 

The elderly people muttered “Poor thing…” as if they had expected this.

 

Basto continued speaking.

 

“This is an opportunity we obtained with difficulty after consulting with the district chief. We’ll probably be coming through this road every morning from now on to attend school, so please cooperate with us.”

 

“Yes, yes!”

 

People readily approached and patted Basto’s shoulders and back.

 

“Don’t worry. You’re very responsible, young man. Those terrible people still managed to put at least one proper person next to the child, right? Looking at your build, do you chop firewood or something?”

 

“I chop firewood, do cleaning. Take care of children. I do various things.”

 

“Oh my… How heartbreaking it must be to watch a child neglected by her parents.”

 

People lowered their voices in case Tie might hear.

 

Then they began whispering among themselves.

 

Tie blinked and looked back and forth between them and Basto.

 

She was curious about what conversation they were all having, but originally children weren’t supposed to carelessly interrupt adult conversations.

 

Tie sat quietly and waited.

 

A few days later.

 

Strange rumors began circulating in Jedo.

 

“Did you hear the news that there’s a problem with the Commander King?”

 

“Ah, the rumor that he has alcohol dependency? That he goes to the tavern every single day without fail?”

 

“That’s right! I heard he drinks heavily until evening? Apparently more terrible incantation arts activate when he’s somewhat drunk.”

 

Agavert’s ranking rose again.

 

Of course, the more this happened, the faster the rumors spread like wildfire.

 

Of course, Tie was,

 

“So what Tie did at the Preparatory School today was…!”

 

Completely unaware of this fact and enjoying an incredibly exciting Preparatory School life.

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