A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 202
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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 202
“Push more! More, all the way in!”
Tie swung her legs back and forth.
Tesetan sighed and pushed Tie, who was tucked under his arm, a little further into the subspace.
Then Tie flailed her arms and finally caught something inside the subspace.
“Got it!”
What came out was a heavy pouch made of stiff leather.
Tesetan quickly caught it.
“Vice leader, super strong!”
Receiving Tie’s cheers, Tesetan lowered both the child and the pouch to the floor.
Tie immediately dragged the pouch over to Chaeboksu and Jeongmyeongja, waddling as she went.
“Grandmother, Aunt, this is here too! Tie is rich now!”
Jeongmyeongja looked bewildered.
Chaeboksu also furrowed her brow and stared at Tie, who was untying the pouch’s strings.
“Tie got super strong! Did lots and lots of Mastone sieges! Bought a house with the reward money too!”
Tie skillfully untied the knots with her small hands.
Then she spread open the mouth of the pouch wide and stuck her hand deep inside.
“So there’s tons of this! What this is, is right, right…”
What came out in the child’s hand was a thin, flat-shaped gold ingot.
“Pure gold!”
Chaeboksu’s mouth fell wide open.
Tesetan, sitting behind them, corrected her.
“Probably not pure gold. Though it’s likely high gold content.”
“Yeah, high gold content!”
When Tie set the gold coin down on the floor, it made a clinking sound.
The child stuck her hand into the pouch again and pulled out another handful of gold coins.
Several gold coins slipped through her short fingers and began rolling around on the uneven floor.
Chaeboksu instinctively reached out and caught a gold coin that was about to go under the refrigerator.
“Grandmother is the best!”
Chaeboksu looked once at Tie, who was clapping and rejoicing, and once at the gold coin in her hand.
Then she muttered in disbelief.
“…Gold? Real gold?”
“High gold content!”
“Sister, it looks like it’s really real.”
Jeongmyeongja said in a tense voice from beside her.
Chaeboksu blinked with a confused expression.
Then she turned the gold coin this way and that under the light.
Soon she lightly bit the edge of the coin, then quickly dropped it from her hand.
“…It’s real. It’s really real!”
Tie began quietly dividing the pile of gold coins she had set on the floor into two.
“Yes. So this one, and this one.”
The child pulled out another handful of gold coins from the pouch.
“And this too…”
Two small mountains of gold coins were created on the floor.
“Tie has lots, so if Aunt and Grandmother each take one…”
“Enough!”
At that moment Chaeboksu shouted loudly.
Tie was startled and opened her eyes wide.
Jeongmyeongja also stared at Chaeboksu with a flustered expression.
An angry expression had appeared on Chaeboksu’s face.
“No matter how desperately poor I am, still. Would I take your money? I won’t take it, I can’t take it!”
“G-Grandmother…”
Surprised Tie’s eyes grew large.
Jeongmyeongja grabbed Chaeboksu’s arm.
“Sister, why are you doing this, you’re scaring the child!”
“If you earned a lot of money, you should live well with your father.”
Chaeboksu’s eyelids trembled.
“Why did you come back again. This time too, seeing all sorts of terrible things…!”
Veins bulged over her wrinkled hands.
Chaeboksu suddenly grabbed Tie’s shoulders and said.
“You go now! Go to your home!”
“G-Grandmother?”
Finally tears welled up in the child’s eyes.
But Chaeboksu only opened her eyes more fiercely.
“You said you have everything over there! A house, party members, lots of money! Everyone recognizes you and Kim over there!”
“Huh, hueeeng…”
Tie began to sob pitifully.
But Chaeboksu continued speaking.
“Go live there! Don’t you ever, not even in your dreams, think about wanting to stay in this neighborhood! Do you understand?!”
Chaeboksu tensed her lips.
“This is all pointless too!”
She coldly pushed away the gold coins Tie had arranged.
The stacked pile collapsed and gold coins scattered in all directions.
“You’re still young so you don’t know anything, but what exactly are we? What are we that you’re giving us things like this? We’re strangers, strangers!”
The crying sound coming from the child’s mouth suddenly stopped.
Tie looked up at Chaeboksu with shocked eyes.
“We are, huh?”
Her voice choking, Chaeboksu took a long breath and said.
“It would be good if you lived well on your own. We could wash our hands of this too, how nice that would be.”
“Sister!”
Jeongmyeongja covered the child’s ears.
Chaeboksu, who had been frozen with a dark expression, suddenly stood up from her seat.
Then she began pushing Tesetan’s back as he sat there.
“Go! Take the child to the 2nd floor and sleep there tonight.”
“…”
“Can’t you hear me! I said go quickly!”
Tesetan finally stood up from his seat.
“Let’s go.”
Then he carefully picked up Tie, who was sitting there in a daze.
Marbas, who had been watching from the corner, quietly crawled out and said.
[What should we do with that scoundrel? Should we put him in subspace for now?]
The unconscious 2nd Floor Man was still lying there unconscious.
When Tesetan nodded, Marbas used his magic power to put the man into subspace.
And crawling into Tie’s hand, he said.
[Master. You need to close it…]
Focus finally returned to the child’s eyes.
“…”
When Tie sent her magic power with a listless expression, the opened entrance to subspace began to close.
[We’re just closing it for now. We’re not planning to kill the scoundrel or imprison him forever, so don’t worry.]
Marbas even took the time to personally reassure Jeongmyeongja.
“Go! Go!”
Meanwhile, Chaeboksu, who had put the gold coins back, placed the bag in Tesetan’s hands.
As soon as Tesetan came out the door with Tie.
The iron door slammed shut behind them with a thud.
“….”
A cool wind whistled through the night alley where the rain had stopped.
Tesetan checked Tie’s complexion and turned left.
Next to Apartment 107.
As they began climbing the old, narrow stairs leading to the 2nd floor, Unit 203 soon appeared.
Tie remained silent even after arriving at Unit 203.
Tesetan set down the bag of gold coins in a corner, laid Tie on the bedding that was already spread out, then spoke quietly.
“I’m going to say something definitive.”
The child kept her mouth tightly shut and raised her large eyes.
Tesetan found himself unconsciously stroking Tie’s forehead.
“Were you worried about those people? Is that why you wanted to stay here?”
The child took a small breath.
How much time passed?
Finally, small sobs of ‘uh, heu’ began to leak from her tightly closed lips.
Tie burst into tears and threw herself into Tesetan’s arms.
“Tie wants to stay here…! I want to keep living with Grandmother and Aunt, waaah!”
“….”
“But I want to see Uncle Basto and Brother Veil too. Nordics Grandfather and Raul and Brother Enzo and Kamang and the General and the uncles and Princess Association Leader, uh, heu!”
“…I see.”
Tesetan felt a strange emotion and closed his mouth.
He quietly looked down at the child’s sorrowful crying face.
‘Something… feels like it’s twisting inside.’
Astie had cried in front of him several times before.
But it had never felt as heavy and uncomfortable as this moment.
A feeling of unbearable stuffiness in his chest.
A strong desire to make the child stop crying.
Wanting to carry all the burdens that Astie bore on his own shoulders instead…
‘A familiar feeling.’
Tesetan pulled the child into a tighter embrace as if entranced.
Then suddenly something became crystal clear to him.
At this moment, what Astie was clinging to was himself.
So he had to protect her.
Astie was someone he absolutely had to protect.
Pain struck his head again.
Once more, a heap of memories crashed in, making his expression increasingly complex.
Meanwhile, at Apartment 107.
“Sister, why are you really acting like this! You’re scaring the child!”
Chaeboksu roughly shook off Jeongmyeongja’s hand.
“Didn’t you see that child’s eyes?”
“What?”
“Don’t I know Tie? Those eyes! When she wants to do something, she’ll do it no matter what!”
Chaeboksu roughly wiped away the tears that had somehow moistened her eyes.
“If we mess this up, she’ll leave her own home and stay here! We’re about to become the ones holding that child back!”
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