A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 21

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 21

Finally, the bright day of departure.

As the round sun rose, Tie firmly strapped on her kindergarten bag.

Veil poked his head out between the second-floor railings.

“Child! Are you sure you packed everything?”

Tie nodded maturely and checked one more time for the last time.

Inside the large bag that Uncle Basto would carry for her.

She could see her belongings neatly packed inside.

“Tie’s preschool uniform, Tie’s hat bought at the market, Tie’s pajamas, Tie’s tissue and Tie’s water for when she needs to poop in the forest, Tie’s snacks…”

Indeed, everything was there without missing anything!

“Ah!”

But at that moment, remembering exactly one thing she forgot, Tie quickly turned her head to check behind her.

“Kamang!”

Fortunately, Lucalion was sitting quietly in his place.

He was inside the Hanbit Kindergarten bag, with only his head sticking out with an indifferent expression.

Only then did Tie smile and wave her hand high at Veil.

“Tie packed everything!”

Veil nodded his head.

Then he picked up his luggage and came down to the first floor of the inn.

Basto, who had been sitting in a chair by the window, stood up.

“What about the weapon you said you left for repair?”

“I picked it up ages ago, you’re so behind.”

Though it was a sharp tone, Basto just accepted it.

Though they hadn’t lived together for long, he had already figured out Veil’s personality.

“Are you all finished, old man?”

Nordics, who had been talking with the elderly inn couple in the kitchen, turned around.

He didn’t have much luggage.

Just one old backpack, a staff, and a telescope hanging at his waist.

“I finished long ago. I’m ready to depart whenever you want.”

Basto got up from his seat.

He slung the huge bag containing Tie’s luggage and his own over one shoulder.

“Then shall we go?”

Tie quickly nodded her head.

Her face was full of excitement, half nervous and half thrilled.

The Innkeeper Grandmother who came out of the kitchen hugged Tie tightly.

“See you again, child. If you ever have business at the gateway, you must come see grandma anytime, understand?”

“Yes, thank you for everything…”

Tie hugged the grandmother tightly and took a deep breath.

Then she also bowed deeply to the innkeeper grandfather.

Soon Basto opened the door and a cool breeze blew in under the blazing sunlight.

‘Serious!’

Tie stepped forward energetically.

From the moment she left the inn, Tie had to become the ‘Commander King’ again.

‘I can do well. I prepared my heart tremendously.’

…However, Tie had to realize once again this time too.

That life is not easy.

“Huh? The Commander King is sleeping.”

A few hours later.

Tie opened her eyes wide, which had been nodding off.

The same scenery was still continuing around her.

Veil teased her from the side.

“The Commander King is dozing off? Even though you’re the Commander King? Taking a nap in broad daylight?”

“Tie wasn’t sleeping!”

“Not sleeping, sure. Then what’s that on Basto’s shoulder~”

Tie was startled.

Basto’s shoulder that she had been leaning on was soaked with drool.

“Th, this is…!”

“It’s okay Tie. Sleep more. We still have to walk for half a day to reach Pearl City.”

Tie closed her mouth hesitantly.

And after wiping the drool that had wet Basto’s shoulder with her sleeve, she thought for a moment then raised her hand high.

“Uncle, now Tie will walk!”

Everyone else was walking hard, so only Tie couldn’t be sleeping.

She was supposed to be the Commander King after all.

When she got down from Basto’s back, she felt the rough texture of sand under her feet.

‘I thought big buildings like in Jongno-gu would appear right after passing through the Jedo Gate.’

Even after passing the gateway, the surroundings were desolate.

The sparsely visible buildings made her doubt whether people actually lived there, and the constantly blowing sand wind stung her eyes.

If it weren’t for the hood Veil had wrapped around her nose, she would definitely have been coughing.

“Uncle, does Perlcity look like this too?”

Tie couldn’t contain her curiosity and asked.

Basto shook his head.

“It’s not this desolate. Pearl City is a port town.”

A port town…?

The TV program 【National Territory Journey】 that she often watched with 203 Aunt flashed through her mind.

Quaint houses, blue sea.

The fish that rippled silver when nets were pulled up and the sailor uncles who pulled ropes wearing shining aprons…

Tie’s eyes sparkled.

‘It must be really wonderful.’

The seaside town Tie had seen was fantasy itself.

“Uncle, how many nights do we sleep in Pearl City?”

“Well. Since it’s just a place we’re stopping by before going to Popurosa Weapon District, we don’t plan to stay more than two days.”

Until this morning, the place where Tie and the Agavert unit members had been was Realm Gate 1.

When they first passed through the gateway and entered inside the realm, it was interesting.

Because inside the gateway there was a promenade that only people authorized to enter the realm and paladins could use.

But Tie and her party didn’t have the time to look around the promenade.

‘We have to get to Pearl City today. After staying in Pearl City for about two days, we’ll go straight to Popurosa Weapon District.’

The realm was much larger than expected.

This meant that just passing through the gateway didn’t immediately lead to the core where the Imperial Palace and Paladin Headquarters were located.

‘Ha, that’s why I said to just leave it to the gateway blacksmith. When are we going to stop by Popurosa Weapon District and then go to the Realm Core? Really, just because of one hammer…’

‘This war hammer is a specially crafted weapon, Veil. Without going through the hands of a proper weaponsmith, its durability can’t be recovered. You haven’t forgotten, have you? If it weren’t for this in the last siege, you would have died long ago.’

While Basto and Veil were bickering, Tie drew a map in her head.

‘Go to Pearl City port town, then to Popurosa Weapon District again!’

After that, they would go to the Realm Core where Father was.

The problem was that the path from the gateway to Pearl City port town was quite rough for now.

Tie only learned the reason after passing through the promenade inside the 1st Gate.

Inside the Promenade, a vast Wasteland stretched out.

According to what they heard from Basto, Veil, and Nordics, this Wasteland had only formed a few years ago.

‘They said it’s because there are several large Mastones there.’

Usually, large Mastones that form within Jedo are immediately removed, so it was puzzling why this Wasteland had been left alone.

In any case, Tie and her group decided to take a detour around the Wasteland.

‘Hey, Basto. Why are you acting like this when you know? Since the Wasteland formed, it takes at least a day and a half to get from here to Pearl City. How about we just rent a carriage?’

In front of the Wasteland, there was a place that sold or rented carriages to people in a hurry.

However.

‘Th-this can’t be…! Tie has no money left now! We gave too much bribe to the bad Paladin, mmph.’

Though she couldn’t finish her words because Veil covered her mouth, Tie’s group really had no more money left.

It was because Tie had used up all her jewels to restore Basto’s identification number.

The money the other three had was also all spent on getting uniforms and buying various things.

Basto seemed to feel great guilt about this, but Tie didn’t mind at all.

‘I can just collect jewels again later, right?’

The Bone Friends had said so.

There are tons of jewels like that in tombs.

‘Tombs?’

‘Yes! There are no tombs here so we can’t give you any, but if we go to a place with lots of tombs, we’ll find more for you!’

Still, there was exactly one thing that made Tie feel uncomfortable.

‘Things you pick up on the street should originally be taken to the police station to find their owners.’

She was worried whether it was okay to freely use jewels from other people’s tombs.

But then.

Something 107 Grandmother had said long ago suddenly flashed through her mind.

‘Why bury gold in the dirt? Over there in Africa, no, we don’t even need to go to other countries. Even in this neighborhood alone, there are so many kids wandering around struggling without parents. They should rather donate it for those kids to use…’

Tie tilted her head.

Come to think of it…

‘Wandering around struggling without parents… that’s Tie, isn’t it?’

Right now, Tie was exactly the ‘poor child’ that 107 Grandmother had talked about.

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