A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 198

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 198

 

Jeongmyeongja pressed her throbbing forehead.

 

Her wrist was starting to ache, but her husband only pulled her more forcefully.

 

“You don’t listen to a word your husband says, and this is what happens. How many times did I tell you to stay quietly at home, huh?”

 

Jeongmyeongja stared blankly at her husband’s face.

 

“Look properly at your husband who’s like heaven! Won’t you lower your eyes?!”

 

Her husband immediately raised his other hand and made a motion as if to punch her.

 

Behind them, Chaeboksu stamped her feet while holding her phone.

 

“Oh my, this is Hyeolimro 6! A drunk is beating someone! Beating someone!”

 

“Old lady! Hang up that phone!”

 

Jeongmyeongja’s husband, who was gripping her wrist, kicked the flower pot in front of Apartment 107.

 

The ceramic shattered and dirt scattered in all directions.

 

“So why are you sending me divorce papers when I was minding my own business? Who are you, what right do you have!”

 

It was awkward to even call him her husband.

 

He was someone who wandered outside the house all the time, and when he came by every few months, it was usually about money.

 

There was a time when her husband’s violence had reached an extreme.

 

Back then, she couldn’t even work kitchen jobs at the nearby restaurants.

 

Since there wasn’t a day without bruises on her face, she naturally ended up shut away at home.

 

It was a time when her heart would race just hearing someone climbing the stairs.

 

But then.

 

‘I didn’t say much.’

 

After Tie’s father Kim came by once, her husband became quiet.

 

The frequency of his visits, which used to be every few weeks, drastically decreased, and even on the rare days he came, he would just grab money while being mindful of the downstairs neighbors before disappearing.

 

‘Tie’s Father. I…’

 

‘I heard you watched Tie this afternoon.’

 

‘Oh yes, I fed Tie dinner and put her down for a nap. But what did you say to my husband…’

 

‘Thank you always.’

 

She could never find out what method he used to handle her husband in the end.

 

However, he was truly a sincere and decent youth.

 

Though he was somewhat taciturn, he was that much more careful, and he was a good father whose words and actions always showed solid responsibility.

 

With such a father, how adorable must Tie be.

 

‘Aunt. Tie can write this! The character for Jeongmyeongja’s Jeong! Myeong!’

 

‘Oh my, how does our baby write so well with those tiny hands?’

 

When she looked at the child, her depression would recede like low tide.

 

Even when her whole body felt chilly, it felt like warmth was filling every part of her body.

 

‘Aunt. Now Hammer doesn’t bother you anymore?’

 

‘…Hammer?’

 

‘Tie told Father that Hammer keeps hurting Aunt, so Tie hurts too.’

 

‘…’

 

‘And then she asked if all husbands hit their wives when they fight.’

 

Around that time, she could understand.

 

‘That crazy bastard. He glares at me first whenever we run into each other downstairs, what the hell!’

 

Every time he came home, her husband would only curse about Tie’s father.

 

‘What does that wet-behind-the-ears brat think he is? Telling me not to beat my wife where his daughter can see? Is his daughter that great?’

 

‘…’

 

‘How amazing does he think he’s raising her! That young punk is just making her live in Slum Village! Damn, ptui!’

 

Ironically, Jeongmyeongja had one thought first.

 

‘If only my father had been like Tie’s Father.’

 

Even if they were poor, even if they lived in a cramped room.

 

If he had been a father who tried to show his daughter only good things.

 

‘…Let’s divorce.’

 

She might not have wasted her life being held captive by such a beast-like man.

 

‘What? What did you just say?’

 

‘I said let’s get divorced. I’m not asking you to do anything. Just let’s separate. You have other places to live besides here anyway. You don’t need to come here anymore!’

 

For the first time, she cried and screamed.

 

Her husband standing with clenched fists wasn’t scary for the first time in her life.

 

‘Why do you torment me! Why can’t you just leave me alone! Just please let me go! Let me live too-!’

 

Screaming loud enough to make the poorly soundproofed building ring, Jeongmyeongja realized for the first time what liberation felt like.

 

Though her body might still be captured, it felt like her heart was soaring freely.

 

‘I’m going to send divorce papers to your address. I definitely will, definitely.’

 

After saying that, she walked out of Unit 203 with dignity.

 

Her husband couldn’t chase her down to Apartment 107.

 

Jeongmyeongja was certain it was because of the father and daughter sleeping in Apartment 106, separated by just one wall.

 

Life afterward flowed neither smoothly nor roughly.

 

Her husband didn’t sign the papers.

 

However, he didn’t come looking for her anymore either.

 

It was typical of someone who would avoid the situation when it was unfavorable.

 

‘Sister, I think I might be able to get divorced.’

 

The longer she spent apart from her husband, the greater hope sprouted in Jeongmyeongja’s heart.

 

Hope that she might finally be able to end all of this.

 

Hope that she too might become happy now.

 

‘When I get divorced, I want to take Tie to an amusement park. These days the baby keeps singing about amusement parks, amusement parks, right? I think all her friends from preschool are going.’

 

‘That child doesn’t like crowded places.’

 

‘But if it’s with our Tie, I’d go! With Tie, I feel like I could go beyond the stars in space. My lucky charm. I’ll ask Tie’s Father too, so you should come with us, sister.’

 

She didn’t know then.

 

When a person harbors hopes beyond their station, they are inevitably bound to be crushed.

 

‘…What, what is this.’

 

Tesetan went missing.

 

‘What do I do, the child is gone! The child is gone!’

 

The next day, Tie vanished without a trace.

 

‘Your face has gotten quite smooth. Life’s been good, hasn’t it? Huh?’

 

During those few days when her husband returned to Unit 203.

 

“…”

 

Jeongmyeongja was dragged back into the swamp she had barely escaped from.

 

Only this time, deeper and faster.

 

“I will, *hic*, definitely! Absolutely make you come to your senses. That strange brat is gone too, I will, huh?!”

 

Her husband shoved Jeongmyeongja.

 

Staggering, she collapsed onto the floor littered with dirt and broken flower pots.

 

A shard of pottery pierced her hand sharply.

 

“Blood, blood!”

 

Chaeboksu rushed between them with a pale face.

 

However, her husband glared at Chaeboksu instead and strode toward them.

 

“Move aside.”

 

“I, I won’t move!”

 

“This old woman, really!”

 

Jeongmyeongja’s Husband raised his hand, and a fierce wind swept through the alley.

 

It was the moment when thunder flashed as if it would rain.

 

“Ugh…!”

 

Suddenly, with a whooshing sound, high pressure surrounded them.

 

Chaeboksu, who had reflexively cowered, suddenly felt an unknown energy and turned around, startled.

 

“Ch, child!”

 

Tie stood barefoot in front of the open door of Apartment 107.

 

“Don’t hit Grandmother!”

 

The child clenched her fists and shouted.

 

“You bad demon person!”

 

Simultaneously, dozens of glowing teal rings spread around Tie.

 

Chaeboksu gasped at the sight she was seeing for the first time and leaned against the shoe cabinet.

 

Jeongmyeongja also stared wide-eyed at the scene before her.

 

“You, you from Apartment 106…!”

 

Chains instantly wrapped around Jeongmyeongja’s Husband.

 

Soon, blue-black smoke rose from them and lifted her husband’s body into the air.

 

“Ugh, aaaaah!”

 

“This is…!”

 

Chaeboksu stared at Tie with trembling hands.

 

Meanwhile, Tie turned her head.

 

The child’s eyes, meeting Chaeboksu’s gaze, instantly became teary.

 

“Grandmother…”

 

Tie then looked at Jeongmyeongja.

 

“Aunt!”

 

Pearl-like tears fell drop by drop from her large eyes.

 

“Now don’t worry about anything at all. Tie has, *sniff*, grown up and come back from Talochium!”

 

The two women fell silent.

 

“Tie has become really, really strong, so now Tie will take care of Grandmother and Aunt!”

 

The child tightly embraced Jeongmyeongja who had fallen to the floor.

 

Jeongmyeongja opened her lips, frozen like ice.

 

As soon as she touched the child, the wound on her hand began to slowly heal.

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