A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 168

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 168

 

She had asked Father about it just once.

 

Tie had asked why she didn’t have a mother.

 

That day, Father didn’t answer her.

 

Instead, he changed the subject by saying something completely unrelated.

 

But Tie had clearly seen Father’s expression at that moment.

 

That face that smiled as if everything was fine, yet was filled with loneliness somewhere.

 

After that, Tie never asked Father about it again.

 

That’s why she hadn’t known.

 

That Tie had other family members too.

 

Tie was clutching and releasing the hem of her cloak with a complicated expression.

 

“…Tie?”

 

Three pairs of eyes appeared through the gap between the display case and the wall.

 

Tie looked up in surprise.

 

Edmund, Leonardo, and Alexander were looking at Tie, though she didn’t know when they had arrived.

 

“Unc…”

 

Tie, who was about to call them ‘Uncle’ as she always did, closed her mouth.

 

She had been calling them that just fine until now.

 

But now that she knew they were really Tie’s uncles, the words didn’t come out easily.

 

“What were you doing here? Hm?”

 

Alexander extended his hand.

 

Tie hesitated, then took his hand and came out.

 

Leonardo immediately brushed the dust off Tie’s clothes.

 

Tie looked at the three people hesitantly and mumbled.

 

“Well, Tie was trying to find where everyone went…”

 

“We were in that room at the end the whole time. But didn’t you come by earlier…”

 

Leonardo nudged Edmund.

 

Edmund closed his mouth and stared intently at Tie.

 

“Why do you look so sad? Were you that upset that we knocked out the Vice Commander? We just knocked him out, we didn’t hurt him.”

 

Tie shook her head.

 

Of course, when she didn’t know the four were brothers, she thought that action was very wrong.

 

But as it turned out, the three princes were Father’s older brothers.

 

And if they were older brothers, they could hit their younger brother at least once.

 

The older siblings who had younger siblings at Hanbit Kindergarten always claimed that.

 

“Then what’s wrong? Are you hungry?”

 

Tie shook her head again this time.

 

And answered weakly.

 

“I don’t know…”

 

Actually, Tie didn’t know either.

 

Why her body felt as heavy as cotton soaked with water.

 

Her heart was beating fast from discovering family she didn’t know about.

 

But on the other hand, she felt strangely sad too.

 

As Tie kept her lips tightly closed, Leonardo took out a chocolate wrapped in paper from his pocket and handed it to her.

 

“Eat this.”

 

Tie slowly blinked while looking at the chocolate placed in her hand.

 

But the next moment.

 

Without realizing it, thick teardrops rolled down her cheeks.

 

“…Tie!”

 

Alexander, who had turned pale, picked up Tie.

 

Tie sniffled and buried her face in Alexander’s chest.

 

Alexander placed his palm on Tie’s forehead to check for fever.

 

After checking the child’s complexion as well, he said to the other two.

 

“She doesn’t have a fever…!”

 

Even more tears flowed at the sight of them worrying about her.

 

Tie finally began crying with a “wahhh” sound.

 

Even though snot was getting all over his chest, Alexander was busy patting Tie.

 

“Tie, could you tell Uncle why you’re crying?”

 

Edmund, who had been restless, approached and asked.

 

“Hic… *hiccup*!”

 

Tie even hiccupped as she hugged Alexander’s neck.

 

Edmund brushed away the stray hair on Tie’s forehead while scolding Leonardo.

 

“See, I told you not to knock him out. The child was watching.”

 

Leonardo restlessly wiped Tie’s tears with a handkerchief.

 

Tie buried her face deeper into Alexander’s shoulder and thought.

 

‘Really, truly Tie’s uncles.’

 

Tie wasn’t someone who had no family except Father.

 

Though she hadn’t known until now, she had three wonderful and kind big fathers.

 

Actually, she was so happy about that fact that tears kept coming.

 

Of course, right now Tie couldn’t say she was the uncles’ niece, but,

 

‘If we do 【Draw Our Family!】 again at the preparatory school here, then Tie will draw everyone.’

 

She wouldn’t just draw two people alone on the paper anymore.

 

Father, and the big fathers, and also…

 

“What are you all doing?”

 

A familiar face appeared from the other end of the corridor.

 

“Father.”

 

Valentis, who had walked over with big strides, took Tie from Alexander and held her.

 

“The child cries when you hold her so uncomfortably.”

 

Valentis, who wrapped around Tie’s back and stably supported even her bottom, quietly looked down at Tie.

 

“I’m sorry. I called for you but made you wait.”

 

Tie looked up at Valentis with reddened eyes.

 

Valentis was smiling calmly as if to comfort Tie.

 

Tie knew now too.

 

Valentis was a scary person.

 

He rarely smiled, and often all his words in an hour combined wouldn’t exceed five sentences.

 

But not with Tie.

 

“You’re wearing pretty clothes today too. Did Marshal pick them out?”

 

Tie looked at the yellow sleeve poking out from under her cloak and shook her head.

 

“Today Tie picked them out…”

 

“I see, it’s chick-colored. Very cute.”

 

Tie’s cheeks turned pink.

 

That was exactly why Tie had chosen these clothes.

 

Because the color was cute like a baby chick.

 

“Are you hungry?”

 

At Valentis’s question, Tie, whose mood had improved, nodded.

 

Valentis chuckled softly and patted Tie’s back.

 

“Let’s go, this Commander has prepared lots of snacks you like.”

 

Tie looked up at Valentis’s face as he began walking.

 

Then without realizing it, she said.

 

“Grandfather…!”

 

Valentis froze solid in place.

 

His eyes looking down at Tie were unusually wide with surprise.

 

Scenes from preschool that Tie saw every day flashed through her mind.

 

‘Oh my, our little puppy! Today Grandpa came to pick you up!’

 

‘Grandpa!’

 

The grandfathers who came to preschool to pick up their friends.

 

Then the friends would run over excitedly and hug those grandfathers tightly,

 

Smooch.

 

“…Heh, hehe.”

 

And they would give kisses like this.

 

As Tie giggled, Valentis’s mouth slowly fell open.

 

Unable to control the corners of his mouth rising upward, he turned to look at his sons behind him as if asking if they had just seen that.

 

“Wow.”

 

“…I’m envious.”

 

“Hahaha, Father!”

 

The three princes were looking at Tie and Valentis with different expressions on their faces.

 

Tie giggled and gently shook Valentis’s shoulder.

 

“Grandfather, but Tie is hungry.”

 

“Yes… yes, yes.”

 

Valentis hurriedly started walking again.

 

“Ha, hahaha.”

 

Incredulous laughter kept spilling from his mouth.

 

That’s when it happened.

 

“…”

 

Valentis and the three princes froze in front of the stairs.

 

They had come face to face with Tesetan who was coming out of his room from the opposite corridor.

 

Tesetan frowned when he saw them.

 

“…What kind of picture is this?”

 

He didn’t know that having a friendship meant carrying the Commander King around in his arms and receiving kisses all the time.

 

Normally, Valentis would have stiffened his expression completely and avoided the situation by pretending not to hear.

 

However,

 

“Can’t you tell by looking? Let’s go down. I know you want to leave this place as soon as possible, but since it’s been a while, we should eat together.”

 

Valentis simply passed by Tesetan and went downstairs without erasing the smile from his lips.

 

Edmund patted Tesetan’s shoulder a couple of times.

 

“Sorry about earlier.”

 

Leonardo also tapped Tesetan’s arm and passed by him.

 

“Come on, Theseus, no, Tesetan. Are you hungry?”

 

Alexander smiled warmly as always and pulled Tesetan’s hand.

 

Tesetan reluctantly let himself be dragged along while staring at the Commander King in Valentis’s arms.

 

For some reason, the Commander King was hugging Valentis’s neck tightly with the happiest expression in the world.

 

‘…I get it. I understand that you’re pretending to be a child.’

 

A hollow laugh escaped his lips.

 

‘You kissed our father’s cheek? And Father just stays still?’

 

He fell deep into thought.

 

His father was none other than the Commander of the Paladins, Valentis Luminen.

 

‘That’ Valentis Luminen, who was said to be difficult to see smile even once during two months of traveling battlefields together.

 

Yet that same father was delighted to receive kisses from a necromancer disguised as a child.

 

‘This is strange.’

 

Tesetan unconsciously stopped on the staircase.

 

And he stared for a long time at the five people disappearing below.

 

Suddenly, he recalled the image of the Commander King whose transformation hadn’t been undone until the end of the sparring match.

 

“…This is quite strange.”

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