A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 171

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 171

‘Actually… Child.’

‘You weren’t disguised at all. Just a child. Four years old.’

The Commander King’s voice echoes loudly in his head.

As Tesetan tried to bang his head against the wall again, Livia rushed over and grabbed his arm, urgently looking back.

“Aleric! Hold the commander! He’s going to put a hole in the wall!”

Tesetan was pulled away from the wall by his subordinates.

He staggered for a moment before slumping down in a chair next to the entrance.

‘If you have too much power, the Order will take you away.’

‘People will just use Tie…’

Tesetan blinked with a dazed expression.

‘Then…’

Was that the reason for that too?

The reason why Father, that is, Valentis, had sheltered the Commander King even while deceiving the Order and the Imperial Court.

The Commander King’s situation resembled the tragedy that Tesetan had experienced in his youth.

As a father who had lost his young son to the Order’s hands, Father couldn’t have just passed by the Commander King.

That wasn’t all.

‘I came to tell you that. Agabert just needs one more person to become a Large Mercenary Guild.’

‘From now on, only people holding this doll can talk!’

‘Because I like Hammer…’

That speech pattern that always evoked a strange sense of déjà vu.

‘Even though it’s supposed to be an adult mimicking a child’s speech.’

The Commander King often truly felt like a child who knew nothing at all.

Deep confusion clouded Tesetan’s face.

“Ha, then, the damn disguise not coming off at the end of the sword fight too…”

“Ah, Aleric. Is this guy sick or something?! Hurry up and check!”

Livia shook him, but Tesetan didn’t turn his gaze fixed on empty air.

No, he couldn’t.

‘Child!’

‘Tie.’

The Agavert Members’ way of addressing him was unnecessarily friendly for calling a commander.

‘No!’

‘Lucalion! Stop it!’

The Commander King who didn’t take the opportunity to defeat him even when he had the chance.

‘…Ah!’

The Commander King who was sent flying through the air and crashed to the ground from his slash.

Even after being treated like that…

‘Tie did wrong…’

‘Don’t leave just Tie behind, please!’

The Commander King who threw his own body without hesitating for even a second to save him when Tesetan was in mortal danger.

No, four-year-old Astie.

“…Ha!”

Tesetan squeezed his eyes shut and hung his head low.

‘Were you born without any manners?’

Countless words he had thrown at the Commander King came to mind.

‘Even if my wrist gets cut off, I have no intention of crawling under you.’

‘Did you think I’d be grateful if you offered a merger?’

Right, he had thought something was strange.

A normal person would have distanced themselves from Tesetan after he had gone that far.

But the Commander King didn’t do that.

‘…Now that I think about it, of course.’

The Commander King wasn’t a ‘normal person.’

He was just a four-year-old child!

“I’ve been all this time…”

Tesetan’s complexion turned pale.

‘I naturally thought he’d be an adult.’

He thought he’d be an old, cunning elder who had been around for at least 30 years.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for an inexperienced young mage to handle that much power!

Also, rumors that the Commander King traveled around in disguise had spread throughout the Empire as if they were fact.

‘But it wasn’t true.’

He was only four years old?

Tesetan let out a rough breath and suddenly stood up from his seat.

“Commander! Ah, what the hell is going on!”

Livia shouted, but Tesetan didn’t answer.

Instead, he staggered up the stairs, leaving his subordinates behind.

As soon as he opened the door and entered, he sat on the sofa placed against one wall.

However, he got up within a few seconds and began pacing around the room.

‘If you have too much power, the Order will take you away.’

As the shock faded, the questions he had harbored began to be resolved one by one.

‘…The Commander King’s power was indeed tremendous.’

Astie possessed an enormous amount of magical power.

Not only that, but he could even absorb others’ magical power.

Tesetan suddenly recalled the day Astie had calmed his rampage.

That day, the Commander King had accepted his overflowing, explosive magical power without batting an eye.

That power that even his mother, who was a saint, couldn’t overcome, a four-year-old child had absorbed all by himself.

‘Suddenly I got power…’

‘People say they’ll use Tie.’

Right, if a child had suddenly awakened such power one day.

The people around would naturally have felt the need to protect the child.

That’s why they must have hidden the Commander King’s real age.

A crazy sorcerer who’s stronger than a small child would feel much more unapproachable.

“….”

Tesetan, who had been pacing around the room, walked to the window and drew back the curtains.

Beyond the garden, he could see Agavert’s stronghold, which happened to be brightly lit.

He quickly located the Commander King’s window.

He had discovered it today while infiltrating by climbing the walls.

Through the lit interior, the woman who managed the manor was coming in holding the Commander King’s hand.

The woman picked up something from the nightstand, wiped the Commander King’s face, then laid him down on the bed.

And she carefully covered the fidgeting Commander King with a blanket.

“…Damn it.”

Tesetan muttered with a trembling voice.

The woman’s actions were definitely not those of someone serving a lord.

They were the actions of someone caring for a child.

Tesetan turned around.

And leaning his back against the window wall, he slowly slumped down.

‘Tie came here looking for her father….’

The Commander King’s words that he had heard in passing filled his mind completely.

There was another memory that came to mind.

‘Father! Father-!!’

The blue rippling sea.

The sound of the ship’s horn blowing – boooo.

The Commander King standing precariously at Pearl City’s pier, looking at him and shouting.

At the time, he had thought the Commander King was just mocking him.

Since rumors about him being a lunatic who enjoyed tormenting others were so widespread.

But now he thought he understood.

‘Because I like Hammer….’

That day.

The Commander King really thought he was his father.

He had mistaken him for his own father.

Tesetan ran one hand over his hardened face.

And muttered.

“Do I… resemble the father the Commander King lost?”

Of course, he wasn’t the Commander King’s father.

Let alone a daughter, he had never even properly slept with a woman.

“Haaa….”

A sigh that he had already let out dozens of times escaped again.

“Then the reason he just likes me too.”

The reason he kept hovering around him.

The reason he stared intently at his cheek throughout the entire meeting.

‘Because I resemble the Commander King’s biological father…?’

Tesetan clenched his fist tightly and buried his face between his knees.

That night, the light in his bedroom didn’t go out until dawn.

The next morning.

Along with the sound of the front door opening, a familiar greeting was heard.

“Good morning-!”

Tesetan, who hadn’t slept a wink the night before, opened his bloodshot eyes wide.

With his head leaning against the sofa backrest, he focused his attention on the sounds coming from downstairs.

“The lord is here? What brings you here so early in the morning? I was about to come over.”

Livia greeting the Commander King playfully as usual.

“Well….”

The Commander King’s hesitant voice.

“Ah, it’s nothing at all….”

At the dejected tone, Tesetan let out a sigh.

Nothing at all, my foot.

The Commander King had definitely come to check on him.

Since he had revealed the secret he’d been hiding just yesterday, he must be curious about how he was doing right now.

It was natural for a four-year-old child to be unable to contain their curiosity.

So as soon as dawn broke, he must have passed through the fence gaps to come to his house.

“Tie will go now….”

“Huh? You just got here and you’re leaving already? Want to eat something… no wait, thinking about it, there’s nothing to eat here. Can I come over for lunch?”

“Yes.”

After the bland conversation ended, the sound of the door opening and closing was heard again.

Tesetan, who had been rubbing his forehead with a troubled expression, finally got up from his seat.

And quickly went to the window to look down below.

Sure enough.

He could see the top of the Commander King’s head as he crossed the garden with his short legs.

But for some reason, the Commander King went to the fence he always climbed over and stopped.

“…What is he doing?”

Unaware that Tesetan was watching, the Commander King hesitated in place for a while, then started heading back toward the garden gate.

As the angle changed, he could finally see the Commander King’s unusual gait in detail.

“Why is he limping?”

Astie was noticeably limping on his right leg.

As soon as the child disappeared into the building, Tesetan opened his door and went outside.

“Lord! Where are you going again?”

Leaving Livia’s call behind, he quickly walked to the fence where the Commander King had stopped earlier.

“…Ha.”

Then a sigh flowed from his mouth as he checked the fence’s condition.

The iron fence that had been fine until yesterday was now collapsed, tilted to one side.

The place where the Commander King always passed through was also much narrower than usual.

Tesetan unconsciously scowled.

“So why did he go through such a place…!”

Barely managing to collect himself, he took a deep breath.

He glared at the fence as if he wanted to kill it, then sharply turned toward the warehouse.

A few minutes later. Agavert’s stronghold.

“What the hell is that crazy bastard doing now?”

Veil, who had been leaning against the kitchen wall biting into an apple, frowned.

“Why?”

Tie immediately ran over and stood on her tiptoes.

Veil picked up Tie and let her look out the window.

“Oh!”

Tie’s eyes widened in surprise.

Beyond the kitchen window.

Father was pulling out the iron fence bars one by one with his bare hands, the fence that blocked the space between his house and Tie’s house.

For some reason, his face was filled with anger.

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