A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 15

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 15

Basto remained silent.

Veil’s words were correct.

When he first met Astie, the child had been exposed to all kinds of dangers.

Briowood Forest, where three mastones were located.

That place was definitely not somewhere a child should be alone.

“For now, let’s not be certain of anything…”

“What a great neutral party you are!”

Veil spoke sarcastically, but Basto remained unshaken.

Instead, he turned around and walked toward Tie.

“Tie.”

Astie, still holding the skull, had a somewhat dejected expression.

“First of all, thanks to your help, everyone survived. I owe you a debt I can never repay.”

“N-no, Tie just…”

“But I think it would be best to keep your power a complete secret for the time being.”

Tie closed her mouth.

Soon her green eyes widened.

“Why?”

Basto pondered for a moment, then gave a serious answer.

“You said you want to find your father.”

The child’s small lips parted.

“If your power is exposed, there will definitely be people who target it. Then you’ll only have more obstacles in your journey to find your father. Do you understand what I mean?”

Tie’s head spun rapidly.

She remembered something she had seen in a Puppet Monster movie once.

With great power comes great responsibility.

And Tie had tremendous abilities because she resembled her father.

But she still didn’t know how to use those abilities properly, and above all, she was four years old.

She was shorter than Uncle Basto,

She couldn’t wield two weapons like Brother Veil,

‘And she couldn’t even set up a cool tent like the fortune teller grandfather…’

Tie’s expression grew increasingly serious.

If Basto and Veil were scary tigers and lions, Tie was a pitiful rabbit.

No? She wasn’t even a rabbit.

She was a frog, a caterpillar, a baby octopus.

Tie muttered with a frightened face.

“U-Uncle. Tie can’t die before finding Father.”

Today, for the first time in her life, she learned what it meant to almost die.

Remembering the tyrannosaurus-like monster chasing her made her scared, as if someone was poking her spine.

“Y-yes, Tie should hide her identity, right?”

Hadn’t Kamang said this on the first day she came here?

That using too strong magic would get her tracked.

Then she might get kicked out of here, and above all, her identity might be discovered!

Then what would happen…!

“I-I have to hide my identity, absolutely have to hide it!”

She made up her mind on her own.

But no matter how much she thought about it with pursed lips, she couldn’t think of how to do it.

‘How do I hide my identity?’

When rabbits are in danger, they run away hard and hide in their burrows.

Tie could do that too, but the problem was that she couldn’t find her father that way.

Fear bloomed like clouds in her heart.

‘How nice it would be if Tie could look scary like Uncle Basto.’

Even if she was a bit small, how nice it would be if she could look like a skilled person hiding her strength like Brother Veil!

“…Huh?”

At that moment, something flashed through her mind.

‘A skilled person hiding her strength?’

Come to think of it, there was that method.

Even without hiding her appearance, what if she acted like she was incredibly impressive in that state?

In other words, what if she pretended to be strong?

Tie stared blankly down at her own hands.

They were small and short hands, but there was a way to make people not look down on Tie.

‘I’ll say I’m not actually four years old. I’ll say I transformed into being four years old.’

She would lie and say that if she undid the transformation, she’d be a huge, burly, hairy person like Uncle Basto.

‘…Gasp. Then I’d be super strong.’

Among her animal friends, octopuses and owls did that.

They were incredibly strong while pretending to be seaweed and pretending to be trees.

“Astie?”

Basto called Tie.

Tie raised her head with a somewhat excited expression.

“Uncle Basto!”

“Yes.”

“Tie is Uncle Basto’s lifesaver, right? You really want to repay the debt, right?”

Basto hesitated.

He didn’t know what “repay the debt” meant exactly, but from context it seemed to mean repaying a debt, so he nodded.

“Yes. I will definitely repay the debt I owe you someday.”

“Then please make Tie a secret power behind the mercenary group!”

“Secret power?”

“Make me the shadow boss!”

Tie began explaining to Basto, who was frozen in confusion.

She put down the jaw-dropped skull and waved her arms around as usual.

“What Tie is thinking is, if Tie becomes the power behind the mercenary group, like this, like this…”

At the plausible words that followed, Veil’s eyes widened.

So did Nordics and Basto.

A few days later.

Jedo Gateway, Entry Office No. 1.

“Three? This isn’t conquering a mastone. You just caught a couple of monsters wandering around at night.”

At the paladin’s words who managed the registration office, aspiring mercenaries Yeon and Tim showed disappointed expressions.

“Go back. If you want to receive identification numbers, come back with a proper conquest.”

So they really couldn’t become mercenaries with just three measly mastones.

The two turned their steps away weakly.

It was disappointing, but there was nothing particularly wrong with the paladin’s words.

To become an official mercenary, one had to completely conquer one mastone.

Like this strange combination that was waiting their turn behind them.

“Now. Let’s slowly count how many there are.”

At the confident voice of the team behind them, Yeon and Tim stopped just as they were about to leave the registration office.

And with curious eyes, they watched them put down a fairly large sack on the counter.

One large, bearded man.

One pretty-faced young woman who seemed to have just come of age.

One hunched elder whose ability to walk properly was questionable,

“…What?”

Lastly, the Stern Child standing with arms crossed and one leg propped up in a solemn expression.

The Paladin wore a dubious expression at such an odd combination.

However, he soon opened the sack and froze in shock.

“What is this? Could this be a Rickelops mastone?”

The Young Woman standing at the front of the four lifted her chin slightly and spoke.

“That’s right. Three Rickelops. Eighteen Belios. Two Inferno Winds worth of mastones.”

Yeon doubted his ears.

Inferno Wind – wasn’t that the crazy monster that flies around shooting fireballs?

His gaze turned back to the Elder, Girl, and Child.

The Chubby Man was one thing, but he couldn’t understand how those three had caught an Inferno Wind.

The Paladin must have had the same thought as he lowered his voice and asked.

“What exactly are you people?”

Naturally, he was asking the Chubby Man who appeared to be the leader.

“Hey hey! ‘You people’?!”

But the answer came from far below.

The Paladin’s gaze dropped downward.

Bright green eyes.

Hair carelessly braided with strands sticking out everywhere.

A Child dressed sloppily glared at the Paladin with a deeply furrowed brow.

“How rude! Show proper respect to this great archmage and necromancer!”

At the same time, something never seen before revealed itself on the dirt floor of the registration office.

Paladin Caut’s eyes widened as he froze, then drew his sword with a pale face.

“You, what are you-!”

A skeleton resembling a human.

A skull with gaping eye sockets and sharp, distinct teeth.

Cobwebs caught between the exposed ribs fluttered in the wind, and fragments of broken armor dangled from its shoulders.

“S, Skeleton?!”

People gathered around and the surroundings began to buzz.

“A, a being of darkness. Wh, who could have summoned such a creature…”

As it moved grotesquely, dirt clinging to its surface crumbled off.

Screams and murmurs erupted from among the spectators.

Caut gripped his sword tighter with a tense expression, but,

“Come behind me, my creation.”

At the command that rang out, the bones immediately stepped back.

Then it walked like a living person to stand behind the one who had called it.

Behind the Child who had just scolded the Paladin.

“…This is impossible.”

Caut froze looking at the Skeleton standing upright as if protecting the child.

His lips went dry and his gaze dropped.

No longer did his face show any mocking expression or curiosity.

“You are, who exactly are you…?”

The Chubby Man standing beside the child made a menacing expression.

“How dare you ask my lord’s name, how impudent.”

He stepped between the child and Caut, blocking them with his massive war hammer raised.

Even greater bewilderment spread across Caut’s face.

Who exactly was this Child?

Who could they be to have even such a giant mercenary as a subordinate?

And what about that summoned creature of darkness!

“…Sigh.”

At that moment, a small sigh was heard.

The child who had summoned the Skeleton was shaking their head while standing on one leg.

The child lifted their chin slightly and spoke as if doing a favor.

“Enough, Basto. Just let it go.”

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