A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 192
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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 192
Ardiana mulled over Lucalion’s words.
A crack.
The great magic that twisted the timeline was by no means an easy thing.
At least in the history she knew, not a single human had ever managed to implement such magic.
Ardiana stared intently at Lucalion.
‘It was you that day too, wasn’t it?! At the Elderin Plains, the one who annihilated us…!’
Livia had said.
That Lucalion was the very perpetrator who had annihilated the future Trevaga.
And that he was the monster who had tried to harm both Tesetan and Astie.
‘But the pieces don’t fit together.’
The current Lucalion didn’t seem to harbor hostility toward Trevaga.
Rather, given the circumstances, it would be right to say he had been protecting Astie all this time.
“I have something I’m curious about.”
As she spoke, everyone’s gaze focused on her.
“About you, not Astie.”
To summarize, that was it.
Everything Lucalion had told them so far was only about Astie.
How Astie had lived in the other world.
What situation the child had been placed in after Tesetan died and was left alone.
Even the reason why he ultimately had no choice but to return to Talochium.
‘But that’s not what’s important.’
What needed to be resolved at this moment was bringing back Astie and Tesetan who had been sucked into the other world.
For that, first and foremost, the intentions of Lucalion, the caster of the magic, were most important.
“Are you our enemy? As Livia said.”
Lucalion hesitated.
His head slowly dropped downward.
“I…”
A barely audible voice flowed from Lucalion’s mouth.
“I can’t live without Astie.”
Deep confusion lingered in Lucalion’s eyes.
“That’s all I can answer.”
But for Ardiana, that alone was enough.
“I understand.”
Having answered, she turned her head to look at the other companions.
“Lucalion helped me when dealing with the Heart of the Mana Stone.”
Silence descended upon the square.
“If this person really intended to harm Tesetan and Astie, I don’t think he would have helped me in that situation.”
Livia, who had been listening with furrowed brows, let out a sigh.
“Livia.”
Just then, Aleric cautiously called out to her.
Livia pressed her lips together tightly, then nodded very slightly.
“…Fine. Let’s put it aside for now.”
As if having no choice, she stood up from her seat.
“Then what should we do from now on?”
She looked around at the people nearby.
“We need to get the young lady and Danzu back!”
That was the moment.
A small rustling sound came from behind.
Livia turned her head and frowned.
Something was crawling out from between the stones with difficulty.
“Kyut! Kyuut…!”
It was Ppupppu with a scowling expression.
Ppupppu was dragging Tie’s preschool bag behind him.
And,
[Oh my! Everyone was here! I’ve been looking for quite a while!]
As if he had been waiting, Marbas came rolling out of the bag.
“Look, look! Ma!”
Tie stared at Grandmother with sparkling eyes.
Grandmother was tapping a photo stuck to the refrigerator with a back scratcher.
“Can’t you see this? This is all Mr. Kim! Tie is sitting on the stairs in front with him!”
The photo Grandmother was pointing at was taken when Tie was very young.
A photo taken when he had just started walking, sitting side by side with Father on the house entrance steps.
“Who else could this be if it’s not you!”
Grandmother beat her chest in frustration.
But Father just kept his mouth tightly shut.
Of course, Tie could understand such a Father.
‘Father must be really, really frustrated too.’
Strictly speaking, the Father before his eyes was truly someone who had never once come to South Korea.
The one who had lived here with Tie was the future Father, not the current young Father.
“Gah, I’m going crazy!”
However, from Grandmother’s perspective, who didn’t know the situation, all of this had to be frustrating.
Grandmother rummaged through her bag and pulled out an old cell phone.
Her wrinkled hands opened the worn leather case and pressed the screen.
“Look, look!”
A video from the album app was thrust in front of Father.
‘Buba, baa! Apuu!’
‘Oh my, well done! How is our Tie so smart! Mr. Kim, did you hear!’
‘Yes.’
Tesetan quietly closed his mouth while watching the playing video.
A baby wrapped in cloth was babbling.
Curly platinum hair, green eyes resembling spring buds.
The baby was definitely Tie.
And the man across from him who couldn’t hide his tear-moistened eyes was…
“…Ha.”
Tesetan frowned at the throbbing feeling in his head.
‘It is me.’
That’s actually why it was more bewildering.
He swore to heaven that he had never been to this place.
Of course, he had felt something strange while walking to this house.
How should he put it.
Each and every scene felt strangely familiar.
‘Have I really gone crazy because of the hallucinations.’
“Here, look at this one too!”
At that moment, the elder thrust the flickering screen toward them once more.
A different video was playing inside.
‘Eat well, my daughter.’
Tesetan was feeding a baby bottle to young Tie.
The milk must have been delicious, as the child tightly grasped Tesetan’s pinky finger.
The sound of suckling came through the screen.
The video switched again.
‘Kim Tie. Did Father say you could run in the entrance, or that you couldn’t?’
‘Can’t wun…’
Again.
‘Wock paper scizzows!’
‘What, Father lost? I’ll have to win the next round for sure. Come on, again!’
‘Paper wock scizzows!’
‘Oh! Tie finally lost! Come here, time for tickles.’
‘Uhehe, eehehe!’
The videos continued changing several times over.
But the only thing that changed within them was the child’s appearance.
In the next video too, and in the one after that.
Tie was always together with Tesetan.
Tesetan lying in the room in comfortable clothes.
Tesetan playing with the child in the alley.
Tesetan hugging the child and kissing her cheek.
“Mr. Kim, how did you end up like this!”
The elder snapped the case shut with a click and stared at Tesetan in dismay.
Seeing the grandmother’s exasperated expression, Tie also became dejected.
The grandmother turned toward Tie.
“Does this make any sense right now? Where in this world is there a father who forgets his own daughter…!”
Suddenly, the grandmother stopped speaking.
Her expression grew serious as she sat down next to Tie with a sinking feeling.
“Child, then.”
“…”
“All this time, you couldn’t even call your father ‘Father’?”
Tie pressed her lips tightly together.
The child’s eyelids trembled, and soon tears welled up on her eyelashes.
“…What kind of situation is this.”
107 Grandmother, Chaeboksu, hurriedly pulled Tie into her arms.
When she turned her head, she could see the young man from next door still sitting stiffly frozen.
She felt suffocated inside.
‘What should I do about this?’
What on earth was happening right now.
Her old, set-in-stone mind couldn’t keep up.
And that wasn’t all?
‘Mr. Kim definitely died…!’
Something occurred to her, and she stood up abruptly while holding Tie.
Then she hurriedly opened the drawer of the old TV stand.
After Tie had disappeared, she had kept the urn there all this time.
But inside was completely empty.
As if there had never been anything there from the beginning.
“Wh-what, this doesn’t make any sense…!”
Chaeboksu swallowed hard and turned around.
The day she first saw him suddenly overlapped with Tesetan’s face.
‘Young man! What are you doing right now?!’
It was during the time when she ran a small street stall in the neighborhood alley.
The day was cold, but she had to do that work anyway, and that’s actually why she had stopped Tesetan that day.
‘What era is this to be stealing! I’m calling the police right now!’
However, when Tesetan turned around, he wasn’t alone.
He was holding a newborn baby not even 100 days old in his arms.
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