A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 180
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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 180
The arched tunnel leading to the Royal Palace square.
“Aleric.”
At the voice calling his name, Aleric, who had been examining blueprints at the very back of the formation, looked up.
“…Regent?”
In front of him stood Tesetan, looking tired.
“What’s the matter? I thought you were going ahead with Danzu at the front.”
Tesetan sighed and ran his hand through his disheveled hair.
“We decided to rest for a bit. There are many collapsed areas ahead. Basto decided to cut some wood to temporarily create footholds.”
Aleric nodded.
As Tesetan said, most of the Royal Palace was crumbling.
The floor was filled with broken stone fragments, covered with brown and green moss.
Moreover, in this arched corridor they were passing through, there were many places where the roof had collapsed.
Because of this, Agabert was spending more time than expected just approaching the Clock Tower.
Aleric, putting the blueprints in his bag, asked.
“But where are you feeling unwell?”
Tesetan, who had been quietly watching Tie playing with the unit members in the distance, turned his head.
Then he answered in a serious voice with furrowed brows.
“Yeah.”
“Where?”
“I have a headache. For several days now.”
“A headache?”
Aleric frowned.
“Then you haven’t been able to sleep?”
Tesetan nodded.
“Couldn’t sleep. I keep having shitty dreams.”
“Wait a moment.”
Aleric rummaged through his bag.
He pulled out a small bottle and poured some green powder from inside onto Tesetan’s palm.
“It’s headache medicine, so take this first.”
Tesetan poured the powder into his mouth. Then he frowned as if his tongue was bitter.
Leaning against the remains of a pillar, he muttered.
“Why is this happening? Is it some kind of illness?”
Aleric settled beside him.
“An illness? I don’t think so.”
“Then. Am I really going crazy?”
Aleric stared at Tesetan reproachfully.
“Stop saying ominous things.”
Tesetan ruffled his hair as if frustrated.
“Then why do I keep seeing strange hallucinations? The dreams are so bizarre too…”
He looked again at the unit members gathered in the distance.
In the middle of them, Tie was humming a strange song.
It was a strange song about monster hordes coming out of the forest.
‘…She’s a child, so it’s worth listening to.’
The Commander King was definitely tone-deaf.
“But what kind of hallucinations are you seeing that’s making you like this?”
Aleric asked.
Tesetan answered with a troubled expression.
“…A baby.”
“Pardon?”
“I see hallucinations of a baby looking at me and smiling brightly. I have similar dreams too.”
“…Hmm.”
“That’s not all. I coddle and soothe that child, and even change dirty diapers. In last night’s dream, it even vomited on me.”
“Ugh.”
“Do babies normally just spew without any nausea? You have a nephew, right?”
Aleric grimaced.
“I don’t know. I only saw him when he was a tiny thing. But why is it so specific?”
Tesetan stared intently at Aleric.
“Right? You think it’s strange too, don’t you? But the funny thing is, when I wake up, I can’t remember that child’s face well.”
Silence fell.
Aleric slowly looked Tesetan up and down before answering after a long while.
“When we return, I’ll look into whether there are any competent doctors in psychiatry.”
Tesetan’s eyebrow twitched slightly.
“What’s with that strangely unpleasant tone?”
“You’re mistaken.”
Aleric replied shamelessly and got up from his seat.
As he watched that retreating figure, Basto’s voice came from ahead.
“Alright, let’s set off again.”
Then the Commander King appeared with quick footsteps.
Astie spread both arms wide in front of Tesetan with a bright face.
“Regent! They say we’re setting off again!”
Tesetan, whose expression had been dark, finally chuckled at those sparkling green eyes.
He lifted Tie more naturally than before.
The child’s question immediately flew at him.
“But, will you really carry me tomorrow too?”
“Yeah.”
“Then the day after tomorrow too?”
“Yeah.”
“Then! Every single day during the investigation?”
“Yeah.”
“Ehehe!”
The laughing child rubbed her face against Tesetan’s shoulder.
Tesetan jumped over a large puddle more gently than usual, unaware that a smile had formed on his lips.
He still held Astie tightly in both arms.
Meanwhile, around the Royal Palace.
“Sir!”
Three Paladins ran up to Leonardo, who had been sitting on a tree stump examining blueprints.
“There’s something you need to check!”
As Leonardo got up from his seat, the Paladin captain of the crack search team immediately began guiding the way.
“About the Association’s preliminary investigation results. The Mastone wrapping around the Clock Tower. Is that certain?”
“Yes.”
The captain’s complexion darkened.
“Then something’s strange. Upon investigation, we’ve found plants suspected to be Mastone appearing in clusters around the Royal Palace, not just the Clock Tower…”
Leonardo’s brow furrowed.
He came to his senses and quickly followed behind the captain.
At the outer edge they reached.
Below the collapsed wall, five Paladins could be seen gathered with shovels in their hands.
“We thought you should check this out.”
Leonardo’s expression darkened as he approached the pit the Paladins had dug.
In the middle of the dirt pile.
A crack with a diameter as tall as an adult man was rippling.
Black smoke rose from the soil surrounding the crack, and the core was covered in untouchable darkness.
Leonardo muttered as he felt the ominous heat.
“A crack opening means…”
“Yes. It means there’s Mastone in the vicinity.”
Leonardo looked around with cold eyes.
Not far from the crack.
Indeed, he could see dark green plants densely covering the cracked wall.
The plants had a different shape from ordinary vines.
The weeds that had been growing nearby had already withered and were crumbling away.
The Knight Commander reported in a tense voice.
“Your Excellency. The fact that the Mastone is in plant form means… perhaps its range might not be limited to just the Clock Tower…”
Leonardo turned around.
He took out his communication device and spoke to the Knight Commander following behind.
“How many derived cracks are there in total?”
“We’re still investigating, but there seem to be at least twenty. Some of them are medium-grade.”
“First, examine every single one carefully. What we can’t finish today, we’ll continue tomorrow.”
“Yes!”
As the sun set, the shadows on Leonardo’s face deepened even more.
“Finally, they’re here!”
The Alliance Base.
Veil stood up from his seat upon spotting the search party returning just before sunset.
The horses that had covered the 50-diona distance in just three hours stopped in place, breathing heavily.
“Child! Are you okay?”
Veil immediately ran to Basto’s horse and helped Tie down first.
“Yeah! Tie went and saw the Clock Tower! There weren’t many skeleton friends!”
Veil tilted his head.
“Really? But why are you in such a good mood?”
If there were few skeletons she could summon, shouldn’t she be dejected?
But Tie just giggled and shouted “Secret!”
As Aleric and Livia, the last riders, entered the stronghold, Leonardo closed the barrier entrance.
At the same time, the sun completely disappeared beyond the ridge.
“So. Was there any harvest?”
Veil asked Basto.
“Leonardo. You don’t look well.”
Alexander and Edmund, who had arrived as the second group, also approached the Paladins.
But Leonardo replied in a sunken voice.
“It’s not good. We discovered a variable.”
He moved toward the meeting tent as if telling them to follow.
Only after confirming everyone had entered the tent did Leonardo speak.
“…First. It seems we need to reorganize the siege team. We plan to begin the siege immediately tomorrow.”
“What? Start the siege right away?”
Veil stepped forward as if bewildered.
“Why so sudden? We agreed to do preliminary investigations first. If we rush and something goes wrong…”
“Now we have no choice. We can’t waste any more time.”
But at that moment, Ardiana interrupted Veil’s words.
Ardiana’s face darkened.
“The Mastone has proliferated. To a degree incomparable to what the Association investigated two months ago.”
“What?”
“If we leave it alone, it will soon cover this entire area. When that happens, things will become much more complicated. We don’t have time for preliminary investigations. We must start the siege immediately.”
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