A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 214

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 214

 

The streetlamp light settled down on Tie’s head.

 

Wearing Father’s slippers, Tie looked at Marbas placed on her hand.

 

Marbas spoke.

 

[Didn’t you even shed tears last time? Saying you didn’t want to go back.]

 

Tie showed a momentarily flustered expression, then wiggled her toes under the slippers.

 

“Marul, you were listening to everything.”

 

[Yes. The atmosphere seemed serious, so I didn’t step forward.]

 

“Mm-hmm, but…”

 

Tie awkwardly scratched her head.

 

“Tie decided to go back. The place where Tie should be is Talochium. That’s Tie’s hometown.”

 

[Hmm.]

 

Marbas’s expression became serious.

 

He raised his head.

 

[I understand what you mean. However, strictly speaking, isn’t that world’s timeline twisted?]

 

“Timeline?”

 

[Yes. That place is a world that’s 7 years behind the original timeline. In other words, unless there’s a major change, the original Master will be born roughly 7 years from now.]

 

Tie’s mouth fell open.

 

[Did Lucalion or Ppupppu not say anything about this?]

 

“About what?”

 

Marbas began groaning and spinning around in circles.

 

[They didn’t mention this. Then should I keep my mouth shut too?]

 

Tie waited quietly.

 

After a few minutes, Marbas, whose face had become haggard, stared at Tie.

 

[…Master. Listen carefully. In the basic theory of time magic, these terms appear: Orta, and Rundle.]

 

Tie’s eyes grew large.

 

“I know! Lucalion told me before. Rundle is someone who time traveled, and Orta is someone who was originally in that world, right?”

 

Marbas nodded his head.

 

[That’s right. So Mother was a Rundle from the moment she first came to Talochium.]

 

“Yeah!”

 

[However…]

 

“However?”

 

[According to theory, it’s impossible for Orta and Rundle to coexist in one world.]

 

Tie’s eyes widened.

 

“What does it mean that coexisting is impossible?”

 

[It literally means they cannot exist together. Simply put, it means one side must disappear.]

 

Her heart sank with a thud.

 

Tie hesitantly asked.

 

“Which side disappears?”

 

For some reason, Marbas fell silent.

 

This was Marbas who was always excited and busy answering whenever asked a question.

 

Only after a long while did he open his mouth with a voice full of complicated feelings.

 

[I won’t lie. Master, who is a Rundle, will be the one to disappear.]

 

Marbas let out a sigh.

 

[Of course, that’s what the theory says, but I can’t be certain what results will emerge yet. Isn’t the current situation quite tangled?]

 

“…”

 

[Like how Master’s Father’s memories were assimilated. And how your time travel companion is Lucalion.]

 

“…”

 

[Above all, time magic is originally an incredibly high-level magic. There are extremely few records of it being activated in history or remaining documents. As a scientist, I can only give you the irresponsible answer that we’ll only know the exact results when we face them. However.]

 

Marbas bounced gently on her palm as if comforting Tie.

 

[If Master decides to stay here. All the problems I mentioned will be solved.]

 

Tie closed her lips.

 

[If you stay here. Even Mother, who is a Rundle, becomes an Orta in this place!]

 

“…”

 

[On the other hand, what happens if you go to that world? Mother will have to live constantly worrying about when the Orta will be born. After the Orta is born, she’ll either vanish according to the Rundle’s fate, or have to live in hiding, avoiding everyone’s gaze.]

 

Marbas lowered his voice.

 

[But here, there are those two humans who raised Mother, and this Marul is here too!]

 

Marbas stared at Tie.

 

[From observing these past few days, I judged that life here isn’t bad either. There are several things needed to live as a citizen in this country. They’re all things I can easily forge.]

 

“…”

 

[Also, didn’t we bring some gold from Talochium? I found that there are quite a few ways to launder gold into money here…]

 

“Tie is going back.”

 

Astie said quietly.

 

[Pardon?]

 

“I don’t want to be separated from Father again. Tie and Father are one from now on, so I’ll never let that happen.”

 

[But still…]

 

“And Father always wanted to go to his hometown.”

 

On days when work was hard.

 

On days when he came home late, Father especially missed his hometown more.

 

“Father’s family and friends are all in that world too.”

 

[…]

 

“Now Tie’s family and friends are in that world too.”

 

Tie turned her head to stare at the 107 Iron Gate.

 

“Of course, 107 Grandmother and 203 Aunt are Tie’s family too.”

 

Tie looked at Marbas again.

 

“But this isn’t Tie’s home. This is like a bus stop where the preschool bus rests for a moment before going. And also…”

 

Small moisture appeared in the child’s eyes.

 

“I miss Kamang.”

 

[…]

 

“Later, even if I disappear after 7 years.”

 

[…]

 

“I want to be with Lucalion and Hammer and other people.”

 

Tie finally wiped her eyes with one hand.

 

“Everyone, I couldn’t even say goodbye, *hic*. before coming!”

 

Only then did Marbas restlessly bounce up from his spot.

 

Seeing Tie cry made him realize the seriousness of the situation.

 

[Ma, Master. I misspoke!]

 

“Hueeeng…”

 

[I seem to have overstepped my bounds! I was just thinking very rationally that staying here might be safer and more innovative!]

 

Marbas jumped down from Tie’s palm and banged his head against the cement wall.

 

[Please punish me severely! If Ppupppu finds out about this anyway, it’ll be hard to preserve my life…!]

 

But just before Marbas collapsed on the ground, Tie quickly picked him up.

 

The child said while pouting her lips.

 

“…It’s fine. Tie just shed a few tears because I miss everyone.”

 

[Master…]

 

“Marul. Later, you said we’ll only know when Orta Tie is born, right?”

 

Marbas’s eyes widened.

 

He quickly nodded his head.

 

[That’s right! Currently, we can’t definitively say that Mother, who is a Rundle, will unconditionally vanish…]

 

“Then it’s okay.”

 

[Huh?]

 

“It was the same when I left Jongno-gu for Talochium. I was so worried I wouldn’t be able to find Father, and I thought I wouldn’t be able to say goodbye to Grandmother and Aunt properly.”

 

[….]

 

“But I did everything now, didn’t I? I found Father, got my memories back! And I was even able to say proper goodbyes to Grandmother and Aunt.”

 

As if she had never cried, Tie smiled very brightly.

 

“Tie is okay, because I’m not a coward. I’ll worry later, but first I need to go back and see if Aunt Livia and the Association Leader are alright.”

 

When they left, the Association Leader was in a severely injured state.

 

Though Tie had healed him, Livia had also nearly died and needed to be checked on.

 

“So Marul, let’s go quickly.”

 

When the child looked up, the harmonium floating in the air came down.

 

Marbas looked back and forth between Tie and the harmonium with eyes full of awe.

 

“Go and open the portal again. Got it?”

 

Marbas finally nodded his head.

 

A very small cluster of light appeared behind Marbas.

 

[I’ll be right back! It won’t take more than a few minutes!]

 

Marbas leaped into that cluster of light.

 

The harmonium also followed him and disappeared into the portal.

 

Tie, left alone under the streetlight, quietly stared into the air.

 

Then she carefully took off her shoes and entered the room.

 

The child went as quietly as possible to Tesetan’s side and shook Father awake.

 

“Father, Father.”

 

Tesetan quietly opened his eyes.

 

Tie smiled and said.

 

“Marul just went across! He says he’ll open the portal soon.”

 

Tesetan got up from his spot.

 

Tie spoke in a deliberately excited voice.

 

“That’s good, right? I thought we wouldn’t be able to go back for a long time. But now we can go back home, soon….”

 

But it was strange.

 

Her mouth was smiling, but tears kept flowing down her cheeks.

 

Tie consciously tried not to look at 107 Grandmother and 203 Aunt.

 

Pulling the child into his arms, Tesetan said.

 

“Are you sure you don’t want to say goodbye?”

 

Tie shook her head back and forth.

 

She had already finished saying goodbye last night.

 

Seeing that the harmonium was almost full, Tie had sensed the approaching farewell.

 

Then the tick-tock sound of the clock magically stopped.

 

Tie raised her gaze.

 

It was the same as before.

 

Under the fluorescent light, the subspace that had looked like a dot was gradually opening wider.

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