A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 167

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 167

 

Alexander was gripping Father’s hand, whose face had turned pale and rigid.

 

For some reason, thick tears were streaming down Alexander’s eyes.

 

“Let go already…!”

 

“Don’t do this, please. Just this once, let’s talk. Father is waiting…”

 

Father?

 

It wasn’t just Tie who gaped at this incomprehensible conversation.

 

Aleric, Victor, Livia, and even Veil poked Basto with wide eyes.

 

“What is it? What’s this situation about, huh?”

 

However, Basto was just as clueless as everyone else.

 

Just then.

 

The gate of Luminen Estate burst open and Leonardo appeared.

 

With a stern face, he approached Tesetan and Alexander and spoke.

 

“Theseus.”

 

Everyone was momentarily flustered by this unfamiliar yet familiar name.

 

“Sorry in advance.”

 

Leonardo removed the sword gloves he was wearing.

 

Then he struck the back of Tesetan’s neck with his hand blade, firmly condensed with holy power.

 

Tesetan, who hadn’t fully recovered from his injuries from the sword match with Tie, staggered greatly.

 

“Huh?!”

 

Shocked, Tie immediately tried to run over there.

 

But Edmund, who had approached, embraced the child.

 

Tie struggled and stared at Edmund.

 

“U-Uncle! Uncle Leonardo hit Tie’s f- no, the Vice Commander!!”

 

Tesetan was unconscious from whatever Leonardo had done.

 

Edmund nodded apologetically.

 

“That’s right. He acted violently toward your Vice Commander.”

 

Tie nodded with pitiful eyes.

 

Edmund continued speaking.

 

“But if we didn’t do this, there seemed to be no way to bring him into the house.”

 

Tie’s lips closed slightly.

 

Edmund smiled somewhat sadly.

 

“Could Tie overlook this just for today? He’s a younger brother who unilaterally cut ties and disappeared… I can’t let him run away before my eyes again this time.”

 

‘Younger brother…?’

 

Tie stared at Leonardo’s back as he creaked while carrying Father into the estate.

 

Younger brother, younger brother…?

 

Edmund’s words from earlier kept echoing in his ears.

 

Tie blankly stared at Edmund’s face.

 

“Hah…”

 

In the spacious reception room, Aleric ruffled his hair.

 

Victor clicked his tongue while watching such Aleric.

 

Aleric raised his head and glared at Victor.

 

“Did you know?”

 

Victor slowly crossed his legs and asked back.

 

“Know what?”

 

“That the Commander is, this, I mean, Luminen…!”

 

Even while speaking, he was at a loss for words.

 

After struggling with the sentence for a while, Aleric finally managed to shout after wasting several seconds.

 

“Did you know the Commander was Luminen’s fourth son!”

 

Victor shrugged his shoulders.

 

“No? I didn’t know. But this situation I’ve learned about isn’t exactly shocking.”

 

Aleric made a “huh” sound.

 

Victor continued speaking.

 

“Wasn’t suspecting that the Commander might be a nobleman something we all did at least once?”

 

Aleric lowered his gaze with mixed feelings.

 

As Victor said, Tesetan’s swordsmanship was aristocratic from the start.

 

Using only restrained movements without unnecessary motion.

 

All his refined sword strikes being uniformly precise and meticulous.

 

His thrusting movements being exactly similar to those of paladins.

 

This meant his foundation was different from commoner swordsmen who learned swordsmanship haphazardly while wandering here and there.

 

“I already suspected it. The appearance of Luminen’s fourth son and the Commander overlapped considerably. Starting with the black hair and brown-tinged green eyes.”

 

“If you had such thoughts, you should have told me… never mind.”

 

Aleric closed his mouth.

 

Next to him, Livia also sat with her mouth tightly shut, looking deep in thought.

 

Veil, who had been watching them with interested eyes, spoke.

 

“So. That bastard Tesetan is this house’s fourth son now, right?”

 

His face was filled with an amused expression.

 

“I should have known this when I was an information broker. People were somewhat curious about where the fourth son who disappeared was and what he was doing.”

 

Veil bent down toward Tie, who had been silent beside him.

 

“By the way, child, as expected! Respect!”

 

Tie hesitantly raised his head.

 

Veil giggled and continued speaking.

 

“You had some kind of feeling, didn’t you? That’s why you had the sword match and swallowed Trevaga whole. From what I can see, that bastard Tesetan seemed to be unilaterally avoiding the Commander King.”

 

“…”

 

“I really can’t believe it. That guy’s father is the Commander King and his brothers are Luminen’s three sons. Well, that kind of arrogance couldn’t just come from nowhere. He must have had something to rely on… Huh? Child!”

 

At that moment, Tie suddenly stood up from his chair.

 

Then he hurriedly left the reception room, shouting.

 

“Tie bathroom!”

 

At the word bathroom, Veil, who was about to get up, sat back down.

 

Tie, who had closed the reception room door and come out, looked around the spacious estate while feeling his racing heart.

 

Luminen Mansion was empty without servants today as well.

 

The Commander King always emptied the house like this on days when Tie came, to minimize watching eyes.

 

‘Father…’

 

Tie began walking up the stairs with drooping eyebrows.

 

If Father was really the Commander King’s son.

 

If he was really the uncles’ younger brother, there was a place he could guess where he might be now.

 

‘The room I accidentally entered when looking through the organizational chart.’

 

The child’s steps became increasingly urgent.

 

Tie panted and finally stood in front of Luminen’s fourth son’s room.

 

Then he quietly put his ear to the door.

 

Sure enough, voices could be heard from inside.

 

“…I have no intention of interfering in your life. I have no intention of prying into what you do day by day either. However.”

 

“…”

 

“I judged it would be good to maintain contact. That’s not such a difficult thing, is it?”

 

“Hah…”

 

There was no mistake.

 

The Commander King speaking in a subdued voice.

 

And Father letting out a sigh.

 

“…It’s my fault.”

 

Valentis’s choked voice continued.

 

“After you left like that, I thought long and hard. Why did you make such a choice? Why do you always turn your blade toward yourself?”

 

Tie kept his mouth shut.

 

Though he didn’t know the full circumstances, Valentis’s voice was deeply sorrowful.

 

So sorrowful that he felt like he might cry too.

 

“Tesetan. Let me say this clearly here today. It wasn’t your fault. It was my mistake, born from my own foolishness.”

 

“….”

 

“I was such a pathetic father that I didn’t know your heart was festering. I didn’t realize you were in such pain. I was… I was a fool.”

 

“Please stop.”

 

Father cut off Valentis’s words with a choked voice.

 

Tie swallowed hard and leaned slightly closer toward the door.

 

Silence followed, then Valentis’s voice was heard again.

 

“…I know today’s events must be confusing. Actually, I have a personal connection with Agavert. I’ll explain in more detail later, but the Order was targeting the Sorcerer King.”

 

“The Order? Why the Sorcerer King?”

 

“Didn’t you see his power too? It’s an unprecedented ability. It’s only natural the Order would be interested.”

 

“Ha, those bastards are the same now as they were then….”

 

“Are you concerned about him?”

 

Tie, who had been listening, froze stiff.

 

From beyond the door, Valentis let out a faint laugh.

 

“He’s hard to hate. I thought you would take a liking to him.”

 

Tie unconsciously took a step back from where he stood.

 

“I….”

 

Father began to answer from inside.

 

Tie got scared and hurriedly ran back across the corridor he had come from.

 

‘I….’

 

That kid is annoying and I hate him.

 

There’s no chance I’ll ever like him.

 

He was afraid he might hear Father’s voice saying something like that.

 

Running frantically, Tie reached the end of the corridor and stood before a large display cabinet.

 

Between the display cabinet and the corridor wall.

 

There was a small space just big enough to squeeze into.

 

Tie struggled to get inside and crouched down, hugging his knees.

 

Dust flew everywhere, but there was only one thought in his head.

 

‘The Commander was… Father’s father.’

 

Not only that.

 

Father even had three older brothers.

 

Suddenly, an old memory came to mind.

 

‘You know, Tie doesn’t have any family except his dad. Isn’t that weird?’

 

‘Huh, how can he not have any family? No mom either?’

 

‘I don’t know either. But he only drew himself and his dad in the family picture?’

 

His small hands gripping his clothes trembled violently.

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