A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 208

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 208

 

Time began to breathe again.

 

Like morning mist rising from a dawn pond.

 

‘Father! Tie did this at kindergarten!’

 

He remembered the child’s face running toward him with a sketchbook.

 

‘I hate Father! I hate you the most in the world!’

 

The angry expression with puffed cheeks came back to life too.

 

‘Don’t go. Just for today, play with Tie, wahhh…!’

 

Even the small tantrums that made it impossible to take a step,

 

‘Father will live with Tie for a long, long time.’

 

And the promise he ultimately couldn’t keep—all of it.

 

“…Father?”

 

A small voice echoed through the room again.

 

Under the dim light, Tesetan’s Adam’s apple bobbed slowly as he looked down at Tie.

 

“Father…?”

 

The word called out again was no longer something like ‘Regent’ or ‘you there.’

 

It was the word Astie had learned before Tesetan’s name.

 

The very first word he had ever spoken after being born.

 

In this strange world, it was the pillar he had clung to his entire life.

 

“…Ha.”

 

Finally, a sob burst from Tesetan’s lips.

 

It was none other than himself who had taken that word away from the child.

 

‘Duel with me.’

 

Because he was so foolish.

 

‘Are you feeling some kind of pity for me?’

 

Because he was unbearably dull and stupid.

 

‘Even if my wrist gets cut off, I have no intention of crawling under you.’

 

He had driven nails again and again into that tender heart that must have been wounded and scarred countless times.

 

And yet,

 

‘Father is in so much pain that he doesn’t recognize Tie anymore…’

 

He hadn’t even realized what he was doing to himself.

 

“F-Father…”

 

At that moment, he felt warm warmth on the back of his hand.

 

When he looked down, he saw Tie anxiously stroking his pale, protruding knuckles.

 

“Don’t do that. I-It hurts, doesn’t it?”

 

The child’s eyes were brimming with tears.

 

Frightened green eyes busily examined Tesetan’s face.

 

As if trying to somehow read his thoughts, the emotions he was feeling right now.

 

Tesetan held his breath.

 

As he placed his hand over the child’s hand.

 

He barely managed to open his mouth in a voice that was barely audible.

 

“I said I would… make you smile.”

 

Tie closed his mouth.

 

“When we returned home…”

 

“…”

 

“I promised I would make you smile.”

 

‘Someday we’ll definitely go back home.’

 

‘And I’ll make our Tie smile.’

 

A conversation he’d had with Father long ago flashed through the child’s mind.

 

Those words were right.

 

They had lain together in Apartment 106 and had that conversation.

 

In truth, it was impossible to forget even if he tried.

 

How could he forget?

 

Tie had thought about that promise over and over again.

 

Even on the day Father disappeared.

 

Even on the day Father’s death notice arrived.

 

Even on the day he returned to Talochium and faced the Father of the past again.

 

“…Ugh.”

 

How much he had longed for and ached over those words alone.

 

“Huuu…!”

 

But.

 

Just now, that promise came from Father’s lips again.

 

Father remembers that promise.

 

That means,

 

“You dummy! Father is a poop-head!”

 

Small shoulders trembled.

 

With his lips pressed tight, Tie struck Tesetan’s chest.

 

“You forgot about Tie! You said you loved Tie the most in the world but you forgot about Tie!”

 

Through his blurred vision, he could see Father’s face.

 

A sad expression.

 

Father had a very, very sad expression.

 

Like Tie, thick teardrops flowed endlessly down Father’s cheeks too.

 

“Tie was in so much pain…! In Pearl City, huhu, Father! Left Tie behind!”

 

Father who wouldn’t look back no matter how much he called.

 

“Tie was, Tie was so…!”

 

Enough to make the expectations that had soared to the heavens meaningless.

 

Father who had turned away his gaze coldly and icily.

 

“My heart was broken…!”

 

After that incident, even hearing ship horns made him break out in cold sweat.

 

His heart would pound so hard that he just wanted to hide in the darkness.

 

“Why, why…?”

 

Tie lowered her head.

 

Hot tears fell drop by drop between the stray hairs sticking out.

 

“Why did you forget Tie….”

 

She felt a hand touch her back.

 

Breathing heavily, Tesetan hurriedly pulled the child into his arms.

 

“I’m sorry.”

 

His voice was filled with pain.

 

“Father was wrong, I’m sorry….”

 

Tie’s crying grew even louder.

 

“I won’t do it again. Father will never, never again….”

 

Like her.

 

No, his voice was sobbing even more than hers.

 

Finally, the strength left the child’s arms.

 

“Huu, waaah…!”

 

The child cried as she burrowed into Tesetan’s embrace.

 

‘I thought we’d be laughing happily together.’

 

When the day came that Father remembered Tie, she thought they’d both be so excited they’d hold hands and jump around together.

 

At this moment, for some reason, she couldn’t do anything but cry.

 

It felt like her thoughts had stopped completely and wouldn’t move anymore.

 

“Don’t forget….”

 

Tie pleaded,

 

“Don’t forget Tie now, huu, don’t forget meee…!”

 

She was so happy yet so heartbroken that she hiccupped.

 

As she wiped away the flowing tears again and again, she heard a response.

 

“I won’t forget. Until the day I die, no, even if the world collapses, I won’t forget.”

 

Suppressing his emotions, Tesetan stroked Tie’s back again and again.

 

“Don’t go….”

 

Still anxious, the child continued to sob with a hoarse voice.

 

Eventually, Tesetan carefully grasped the child’s shoulders.

 

“…I won’t go. I won’t go anywhere. I promise.”

 

He repeated it like making a vow to himself.

 

“I’ll stay here.”

 

Only then did Tie close her mouth.

 

The child sniffled once or twice and nodded her head.

 

Tesetan’s eyes caught sight of the small hands tightly gripping his clothes.

 

Fearing she might fall away again, Tesetan held the child in his arms and looked up.

 

Night was passing beyond the unfamiliar—no, landscape that could no longer be called merely unfamiliar.

 

“Father, then do you remember that too?”

 

“What?”

 

“When Tie fell on the stairs and got blood on her knee.”

 

“I remember. Father scolded Tie. I said you have to be careful because it hurts when you jump down the stairs.”

 

“Then what about that?”

 

“What?”

 

“When Tie! fought with Huiyeon at preschool!”

 

“I remember. Huiyeon was the one who was wrong.”

 

“…!”

 

Tie’s eyes widened.

 

The corners of her mouth couldn’t help but twitch upward.

 

‘It really is Father…!’

 

The father before her eyes was her real father.

 

Though younger than her original father, he was her real father who remembered all four years they spent together in South Korea.

 

“…Good.”

 

Tears of emotion welled up in Tie’s eyes once again.

 

Watching the child who didn’t know what to do with her joy, Tesetan let out a laugh-mixed sigh.

 

Outside the window, dawn was already breaking.

 

“That’s good and all, but wouldn’t it be better for our daughter to sleep a little more?”

 

He had only spoken soothingly, but the child puffed out her cheeks.

 

“No! What can I do when I’m not sleepy at all!”

 

Tesetan closed his mouth.

 

Tie’s words did have some merit.

 

Last night, the child had kept waking up and falling asleep repeatedly.

 

Of course, Tesetan hadn’t gotten a wink of sleep either.

 

Actually, that was natural.

 

His head had been complicated all night, trying to come to terms with his recovered memories and the current situation.

 

‘But can this really be called “recovering memories”?’

 

According to his judgment, all of this was closer to memory ‘synchronization.’

 

To be precise, should he say he had shared the experiences of himself from a different timeline?

 

Tesetan quietly fell into thought.

 

‘Either way. In the end, the first thing I need to resolve is Lucalion.’

 

His gaze returned to Tie.

 

The child was still chattering about old stories, asking “Do you remember this?” and “Do you remember that?”

 

Every time the child made clumsy gestures, the Tanifang printed in the middle of her underwear twitched.

 

Tanifang happened to be holding a yellow gem in its hands.

 

His thoughts led to something similar.

 

‘…World Tree.’

 

The being that had suddenly emerged from the child’s chest and shown him everything.

 

Whether that was coincidence or intention, he didn’t know, but he needed to investigate that fragment first.

 

‘After all, that’s what led us to South Korea in the first place.’

 

Through the synchronized memories, he recalled the moment he was dying in the ravine.

 

The dimensional magic activated by Lucalion had transported Tie and Tesetan, who were there, to South Korea.

 

The power used then was strong enough to completely heal the injuries Tesetan had sustained at the time.

 

However.

 

At the same time, it had erased the memories just before the magic was activated from his mind.

 

‘Still, I suppose it’s fortunate that I know the situation now.’

 

“Father, Father. Do you remember that?”

 

At that moment, Tie grabbed and shook Tesetan’s arm once again.

 

Just as Tesetan smiled and focused on the child.

 

[Cold! It’s cooold-!]

 

Suddenly, Marbas popped out from under the blanket.

 

[Master! Master’s father! Look at that! The harmonium is filling up at an incredible speed!]

 

At Marbas’s words, Tie’s eyes widened as she looked at the ceiling.

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