A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 191
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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 191
Tie tightly grasped Father’s hand.
‘I see, the owner has changed.’
The child tensed both eyes as tears seemed about to fall.
She had expected this.
From the moment she first opened her eyes in the park, she had thought the weather seemed a bit cold.
‘It was summer when Tie went to the other world.’
The fact that the weather was cold when she first returned probably meant that time had passed since Tie left.
“…Is this home?”
Father asked.
Only then did Tie suddenly come to her senses.
Then she fell into deep thought.
‘The outside is dangerous, so Tie’s plan was to go home first and think about what to do!’
If the house was locked, there was no way to get in.
Of course…
The child’s gaze turned to Apartment 107 next to 106, which was similarly dark.
The child pondered and made an uncertain expression.
‘But why isn’t Grandmother home…?’
107 Grandmother always came home by five in the afternoon no matter how late.
Her work ended then, and she had to look after Tie from that time.
Once again, her heart felt strangely queasy.
‘Is it because Tie disappeared, so now she doesn’t need to look after Tie anymore?’
But there was no time to be depressed.
Tie shivered once.
As night fell, the temperature had dropped sharply in just a moment.
Tie let go of Father’s hand.
And said with a determined face.
“Wait just a moment!”
The child approached the door of Apartment 107.
Then she grabbed the flower pot placed on the right with both hands.
As she lifted the pot with effort,
“It’s here!”
Sure enough, a small key appeared from under the flower pot.
Tie blew on her hands to warm them, then pushed the key into the stiff keyhole and turned it.
‘Grandmother told me to do it this way.’
Though it was an old story, 107 Grandmother always left a second key under the flower pot for Tie.
If she felt lonely being alone in Apartment 106, she could come to 107 and at least watch TV.
The door opened with a creaking sound.
Tie took the key and gestured to Father standing outside.
“Regent, come in.”
Tesetan, who had been surveying the surroundings, reluctantly moved his steps.
As he entered Apartment 107, he immediately furrowed his brow.
“…You call this a house?”
This small space was far too cramped to be called a house.
Anyone else aside, Basto definitely wouldn’t be able to lie down with both legs fully extended.
“Let’s wait here!”
Tie sat down and patted the floor.
Tesetan also sat on the floor for now.
And began examining the belongings neatly arranged on each shelf along the wall.
“This is the house of a grandmother who’s really close with Tie.”
Tie said.
When he turned his head, the child was making a somewhat strange expression.
“Grandmother said Tie is family.”
Tesetan nodded, unable to find other words to respond.
Astie stared intently at him.
Silence continued for a while.
Just as Tesetan was about to get up to check outside due to the prolonged quiet.
“What’s this. Why is the light on?”
Suddenly, someone’s quiet muttering could be heard from outside the door.
Tie quickly got up from her spot, and Tesetan reflexively took a defensive stance.
Rustling sounds continued, followed by the sound of lifting and setting down the flower pot.
“…No way.”
With those brief words, the door handle turned.
What appeared through the opened door gap was an elderly woman.
“You…!”
The elderly woman wearing a tight-fitting hat pulled deep over her head stopped at the doorway.
Her gaze was directed entirely toward Tie, next to Tesetan.
Tesetan looked at Tie himself and was at a loss for words.
The child’s face, which had been fine just moments before, was completely contorted.
Sorrowful tears dripped down beside her protruding lips.
“G-Grandmother.”
“Oh my, oh my goodness…!”
The elderly woman threw down what she was carrying and rushed inside.
Tesetan stepped back and watched as Tie and the elderly woman embraced each other.
“What is this! What is this really!”
The elderly woman cried and struck Tie’s back repeatedly.
The child only clung to the elderly woman, crying even more sorrowfully.
“Where did you go and only come back now! When you just disappeared like that while sleeping, without saying anything to Grandmother…!”
The elderly woman’s body trembled.
She was now endlessly stroking the back of the child’s head.
Muffled sobbing sounds quietly filled the room.
“Even reporting to the police, they just say they can’t find you. Even searching the neighborhood down to the sewer bottoms, you didn’t appear… I, I all this time…!”
“Huuung!”
The child began hiccupping.
The elderly woman quickly separated herself from the child.
She took a deep breath as if trying to steady her rough breathing.
Then, while wiping the child’s tears with her hand, she turned her gaze to look at Tesetan.
“…Mr. Kim.”
The elderly woman’s eyes trembled finely.
“What are you?”
The elderly woman’s gaze swept over Tesetan’s appearance as if she couldn’t believe it.
She lowered her voice while watching Tie’s reaction.
“I definitely… the clothes you were wearing when you had the accident, and after the joint funeral, even the urn… I personally received it with these two hands…”
The elderly woman swallowed her saliva.
“Am I going crazy and seeing a ghost right now?”
Tesetan froze in place, at a loss for words.
Then, only after a long while, he frowned and asked back.
“You know me?”
The elderly woman’s face became blank.
She stared at Tesetan silently for a long while, then creakily turned her head toward Tie.
The child, who had stopped crying at some point, was occasionally sniffling with her reddened nose.
“Child.”
Tie hiccupped and looked up.
Grandmother continued speaking.
“Why is your father like that?”
Tie was startled by the follow-up question and looked at Tesetan.
And for good reason,
‘Father being Father was supposed to be a secret!’
But it was useless now anyway.
In Talochium, no one knew that Father was Tie’s father.
‘But in Jongno-gu…’
Everyone knew about Tie and Father’s relationship.
Among them, 107 Grandmother was a neighbor who had lived like family with the father and daughter.
“Why aren’t you answering? Hurry up and answer me! Why is your father like that? Do you recognize me, child!”
Tie hesitantly glanced at Father.
Then she spoke in a small voice and tightly grasped 107 Grandmother’s hand.
“Grandmother.”
“Yes. I’m listening.”
“Father is…”
The child glanced at Tesetan again.
“Father is very sick.”
At those words, 107 Grandmother Chaeboksu’s eyes widened.
Tesetan was equally frozen in place.
In the silence, Tie added in a sad voice.
“Father is so sick that he doesn’t recognize Tie anymore…”
“That’s ridiculous.”
Veil muttered in a deflated voice.
His complexion had turned pale.
“Then all this time when the child was talking about Jongno-gu and such…”
While Veil was denying reality, Basto said nothing at all.
Leonardo had also been frozen in place like a statue for quite some time.
Livia and Aleric exchanged glances with dazed faces.
‘Is this even possible?’
It was unbelievable.
No, it was incredibly hard to believe.
But with the memories that suddenly surfaced, they had no choice but to believe all of this.
Because the situation that never quite fit together was now perfectly connected.
“Then those two people were really father and daughter?”
Ardiana asked.
Due to the magidoc poisoning, she was sweating profusely.
Lucalion answered weakly.
“…Yes. Astie searching for Father, wanting to merge with Trevaga, it was all because of that.”
Lucalion’s expression remained dark.
“But for some reason, the time magic I just cast developed a crack…”
Lucalion looked up and added helplessly.
“So it seems those two were sucked back into their previous world.”
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