A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 172

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 172

“Regent!”

Tie opened the entrance and ran breathlessly toward Father.

Father, who had been pulling up the remaining fence posts, slowly raised his head.

Tie’s gaze turned to Father and the dozens of fence posts scattered behind him.

Tie looked at Tesetan with bewildered eyes.

“Wh-what are you doing?”

Tesetan pressed his lips together tightly and answered with a stern expression.

“Can’t you see? I’m pulling up the fence.”

“The fence? Why…?”

Tesetan’s eyebrows twitched slightly.

He let out a short sigh and looked at Tie’s right ankle.

Someone had already discovered and treated it, as a large piece of gauze was attached there.

Tesetan managed his expression with effort and suppressed his rising anger.

‘…Right. As long as it’s been treated.’

He raised his gaze and answered stiffly.

“It’s an eyesore.”

Astie’s eyes immediately widened.

But the child soon nodded timidly.

“Mm-hmm.”

Then for some reason, while glancing at Tesetan’s mood, she crept closer,

“Nngh… Hup! Oh, it’s really heavy!”

She tried to lift one fence post and quickly stepped back.

Tesetan held his forehead and looked down at Tie.

“Go away. Unless you want to get hurt.”

Tie nodded awkwardly with an embarrassed expression.

“Okay! Tie was going to help, but I guess that won’t work…”

Tesetan watched Astie retreat by herself and sit on the lawn.

Then he sighed and began pulling up the remaining fence posts.

That’s when it happened.

“You bastard, what are you doing?!”

Veil appeared from behind Astie.

He was chewing on a half-eaten apple and glared at Tesetan as if dumbfounded.

“Why are you pulling up perfectly good fence posts and making a fuss? This is even ours!”

Tie grabbed Veil’s sleeve and shook it.

“Don’t do that, Brother Veil. He’s just pulling them up because they’re an eyesore.”

“What?! That makes even less sense! Who pulls up someone else’s fence just because it’s an eyesore?! You want to just leave this kind of thug alone? Huh?!”

Tesetan hurled the fence post he was holding toward the open field behind him.

The fence post hit a landscaping stone and scattered on the dirt ground with a clang!

Tesetan’s eyes gleamed menacingly.

“…Don’t you see your leader’s ankle?”

Veil hesitated.

Only then did Veil lower his gaze to Tie.

And after examining the child’s ankle, his eyes widened.

“What’s this, Child? When did you get hurt!”

Astie scratched the back of her head while watching Veil and Tesetan’s reactions.

“Well, this morning it got caught in the fence…”

“What?! Then you should have said something!”

“It’s okay! Hammer treated it for me!”

After moving his lips several times, Veil raised his head.

He stared intently at Tesetan, then picked up Tie.

“Don’t leave a single one and pull them all up. Got it?”

Tesetan gritted his teeth as he watched Veil turn away.

Over Veil’s shoulder, Astie looked back at him several times.

Then, from a distance, the child’s innocent voice could be heard asking.

“But why is Brother Veil so rude?”

“What?”

“Brother Veil is an executive, and Tesetan is the Regent. Aunt Livia said it’s rude when an executive talks back to the Regent.”

“Why does that gut-head keep teaching you weird things? Listen carefully, Child. Every group has a hidden power holder. In words you’d know, the real power.”

“Gasp! Shadow power?!”

“Right. Agabert’s shadow power is me. So I can say whatever I want to the Regent. Because I’m the invisible power holder.”

“…I don’t think that’s right.”

“What are you saying? If the real power says it’s right, then it’s right.”

The front door slammed shut.

Tesetan glared at the closed door for a while before turning around.

After a long moment, he muttered.

“…As if gauze would be enough.”

If her ankle was injured from getting caught in the fence, shouldn’t it be wrapped thickly with bandages!

At least the entire lower body, no, up to above the navel!

“It’s not like I can do it myself…!”

Tesetan suppressed his boiling insides and began pulling up the remaining fence posts.

Even though he was just pulling up fence posts, his body felt heavy as if he had been conducting a siege for days without sleep.

A little later, inside Tie’s room.

“So, I think Father is pulling up the fence because Tie got hurt!”

“Kyuut!”

At the new news Tie shared, Ppupppu spread his ears wide as if surprised.

Tie placed Ppupppu on her palm and lowered her voice even more.

“And you know what else? Father keeps glaring at Tie, but…!”

“Kyuu?”

“He doesn’t say mean things!”

At Tie’s bright smile, Ppupppu gave an awkward smile.

‘Poor and pitiful mother…’

To think she was happy that her biological father was no longer spewing curses.

Ppupppu was secretly wiping away tears when.

“But why hasn’t Lucalion been around lately?”

Ppupppu raised his head.

He pointed outside the window with his trunk.

“Kyu, kyurung…!”

Tie’s eyes widened.

“Really? Lucarion can go to the Imperial Palace Library too?”

Ppupppu nodded and fell into thought.

‘That curious lizard.’

Recently, Lucarion had been completely absorbed in searching through all the books in Talochium.

Recently he had been infiltrating the Imperial Palace Library, and for the past few days he often left at dawn and returned late at night.

Lucarion always came to see Tie late at night and would wake up Ppupppu.

[Beast. How was Astie today.]

[…Damn lizard. Must you wake me from my deep sleep at this late hour? If you’re so curious, why don’t you serve her directly yourself!]

[Unlike you who has nothing to do, I have a mountain of things to take care of.]

[Y-you…!]

Though he was angry, Ppupppu actually had a vague understanding of why Lucalion was away so often.

[Did you find out anything about your lost memories?]

[…Well. It’s hard to say whether there’s been any progress or not.]

Lucalion was gathering fragments of his lost memories.

He was also investigating the side effects of bringing Astie across dimensions.

[I heard the humans talking. They said Astie’s height doesn’t seem to be growing.]

[…You mean Mother’s growth has stopped?]

[Yes. More precisely, it gradually came to a halt.]

According to Lucalion, after coming to this world, Tie’s growth had rapidly slowed down and recently stopped completely.

Lucalion suspected all of this was due to side effects from crossing dimensions and traveling back in time.

Ppupppu scolded Lucalion with a look of disdain.

[Foolish creature. Don’t you even know the true nature of the magic you initiated? When you disrupted the timeline, shouldn’t you have anticipated what would happen?]

[…I couldn’t anticipate it even then. I simply had no choice but to grant Astie’s desperate wish. My own memories are hazy, so how could my memories of magic be intact?]

[Why are you trying to recover your memories?]

Ppupppu found Lucalion puzzling.

Actually, his own memories were just as hazy.

But Ppupppu didn’t particularly want to recover his lost memories.

He was happy enough staying by Astie’s side as things were.

However, Lucalion gave an answer that caught Ppupppu off guard.

[Because if I recover my memories, I’ll be able to protect Astie more safely.]

Ppupppu spun his trunk around in annoyance.

‘Ridiculous. Acting all high and mighty when you’re just a tiny little lizard.’

But then he noticed Tie staring at him and quickly put on a bright, innocent smile.

“…Ppyu!”

At that harmless expression, Tie gave Ppupppu little kisses on his forehead.

“Our Ppupppu is so cute!”

“Ppyuu!”

Ppupppu was melting away with heart-shaped eyes when it happened.

Black smoke gathered outside the window and transformed into human form inside the room.

Ppupppu scowled deeply.

‘There’s a saying in Mother’s homeland that speak of a lizard and it shall appear.’

Lucalion, who had just arrived, said,

“I’m back, Tie.”

Tie tossed Ppupppu onto the bed and rushed over to Lucalion.

“Kamang!”

Tie wrapped her arms around Lucalion and bounced up and down several times.

“Where did you go? Tie looked everywhere for you! I have something I want to ask!”

Lucalion smiled softly and smoothed down Tie’s disheveled hair.

“What do you want to ask?”

Tie turned to check the door, then lowered her voice.

“You know, about Father here remembering Tie on his own…”

“…”

“Is it really impossible after all…?”

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