A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 219

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 219

 

“So that’s why I flew back to Talochium again…!”

 

Agabert stronghold, 1st floor.

 

Having finished her long speech in front of five men, Tie panted heavily.

 

Alexander, who had been watching her, finally couldn’t hold back and wiped the tears from his eyes.

 

“Huh? Youngest Uncle is crying!”

 

Tie hurriedly ran over and climbed onto Alexander’s lap.

 

“Youngest Uncle, is Tie’s Jongno-gu story that sad?”

 

“Yeah, it’s so touching that I’m tearing up. You’re so admirable too.”

 

He gently caressed the child’s cheek.

 

“Still, Tie must have been happy. Being able to see the people you missed.”

 

“Yeah!”

 

Tie looked around at the other family members sitting in a circle around her.

 

“It was good to say goodbye to Aunt and Grandmother. Farewells are sad, but if you can say goodbye, it’s a little less sad.”

 

Listening to the child’s words, Edmund quietly gazed at Tie.

 

Tie chattered away to Alexander about what had happened in Jongno-gu.

 

‘At first, it was hard to believe.’

 

Aleric and Livia, was it?

 

The stories told by Tesetan’s subordinates who had returned from the clock tower mission were all equally absurd.

 

‘It’s real, I tell you! The unit leader is really the regent’s daughter! I saw it with my own two eyes!’

 

That Astie was Tesetan’s biological child.

 

That meant Tesetan had gotten into trouble when he was at most fifteen years old.

 

However.

 

‘Until he left the manor, our youngest never had any women.’

 

Brothers who had lived crossing swords in the same manor couldn’t be unaware of each other’s daily routines.

 

The Tesetan of that time was as consistent as Leonardo, as methodical as Alexander, and valued efficiency as much as Edmund.

 

In other words.

 

‘He rarely left the manor.’

 

Whenever Tesetan went outside, it was always straight to the training grounds.

 

Mixing words with women or exchanging glances was even more nonexistent.

 

So much so that among the taciturn brothers, there had been talk about Tesetan’s preferences.

 

‘Brothers. Why doesn’t Theseus dance?’

 

‘He probably doesn’t want to.’

 

‘But he just turned down Lady Bedelaine.’

 

‘Really?’

 

‘I’m telling you. Look, now he’s rejecting Lady Roana.’

 

‘…Could it be that women aren’t his preference?’

 

Of course, what Tesetan had been doing after leaving the family was beyond Edmund’s knowledge.

 

‘Still.’

 

If it was the Tesetan he knew, he probably wouldn’t have easily opened his heart to anyone for several years after leaving home.

 

The Tesetan of that time seemed to feel tremendous guilt about their mother.

 

However, the longer the conversation with the Agabert members went on, the more strange points kept piling up.

 

‘Look! They look alike! I didn’t notice at first either, but looking like this, they do look alike!’

 

Especially when a member named Livia brought out a childhood portrait of Eleonora from somewhere and placed it before them.

 

‘Eyes! Nose! Mouth! Even this is exactly the same!’

 

‘Livia. This is a bit…’

 

‘Just look! I’m really right!’

 

Valentis and the three princes were all left speechless.

 

Though he didn’t know where it came from, young Eleonora in the portrait really did resemble Astie to an astonishing degree.

 

‘Where on earth did you get this…’

 

‘Who in the Empire doesn’t know Eleonora Richard? She was the woman who wielded the most powerful holy power in history.’

 

‘…’

 

‘I got the portrait by contacting Princess Selina, who is the unit leader’s closest friend. Her mother is the head of the Belora Trading Company.’

 

The princes couldn’t take their eyes off the portrait for a while.

 

Valentis was equally silent.

 

Then, the door opened and the boy who was supposedly Astie’s summoned creature entered.

 

‘Hey, monster Kamang! You tell us quickly. What did you and the unit leader do in Jongno-gu or whatever that place was! How did the regent and unit leader live there!’

 

Lucalion’s story contained all the information Edmund had needed.

 

The story of Astie and Tesetan.

 

And all the evidence that could support the fact that those two were family.

 

And two days later from that day.

 

Tesetan and Astie safely returned to Talochium.

 

And at this moment, Valentis and the princes were witnessing with their own eyes.

 

“Father!”

 

“Daughter.”

 

When Tesetan, who had disappeared toward the dining hall, returned, Tie jumped up.

 

The child ran over quickly and was embraced in Tesetan’s arms.

 

Tesetan smiled and rubbed his nose tip against Tie’s nose tip.

 

Then he brought the folding wooden chair he had brought to in front of Valentis.

 

“Please sit here.”

 

Valentis hesitated and looked up.

 

The other brothers wore equally puzzled expressions.

 

And for good reason, since Valentis was already sitting on a plush sofa.

 

But suddenly asking him to move to a wooden chair.

 

Edmund’s eyebrows furrowed.

 

‘I thought he had improved.’

 

It seemed the habit of treating their father coldly due to his self-defensive tendencies still remained.

 

But just before he could part his lips to say something.

 

“…Thank you.”

 

Valentis rose from his seat and readily moved to the wooden chair Tesetan had brought.

 

He even had a faint smile on his lips.

 

Soon, Tesetan, who had taken a seat next to him with Tie, spoke.

 

“Belset poison can last up to 10 years in some cases.”

 

The three princes’ expressions became even more puzzled.

 

Meanwhile, Valentis, who had been stiff for some reason, opened his mouth.

 

“…I didn’t think you would remember.”

 

Tesetan’s gaze turned to his father, who had placed one hand on his left knee.

 

“How could I forget? Didn’t you cut down dozens of Belsets by yourself that day?”

 

Valentis’s eyes trembled faintly.

 

The day he lost Eleonora.

 

In the chaotic battle of the Wasteland, it wasn’t only Tesetan who struggled with his rampage.

 

While Tesetan went berserk, and Eleonora desperately tried to save him.

 

Valentis was also fighting to protect his wife and child.

 

“I learned this during my mercenary days. The blue phosphorus that sprays from Belset fangs…”

 

“…”

 

“When it penetrates human joints, it destroys the nerves.”

 

That day.

 

The protective gear covering Valentis’s left leg was damaged at the start of battle.

 

That was actually the real culprit.

 

The moment Valentis tried to cover Tesetan and Eleonora, a Belset he failed to notice bit into his knee.

 

The monster’s fangs pierced straight through his unprotected skin.

 

The pain in his left knee had started from that day.

 

“…I’ve never told anyone about this.”

 

As Valentis let out a hollow laugh, Edmund rose from his seat.

 

“Father. Is that true?”

 

He looked back and forth between Valentis and his knee with an expression mixing shock and worry.

 

“Why didn’t you tell us about something so serious…!”

 

“It’s something that can’t be resolved anyway.”

 

Belsets were curse-type monsters.

 

Not only was there no antidote for their poison, but attempting to purify it with holy power caused severe physical pain.

 

In the end, this meant it was pain Valentis would have to carry until the day he died.

 

“It’s fine. This much is nothing.”

 

Valentis answered while looking at Tesetan with strange eyes.

 

Something hot welled up in his chest.

 

‘You’ve changed, Tesetan.’

 

His youngest son who had silently left the manor after Eleonora’s death.

 

Tesetan who had been hostile to his family and refused any conversation.

 

‘If you’ve changed like this…’

 

“Grandfather, does your knee hurt?”

 

Tie approached with drooping eyebrows and leaned her face against Valentis’s knee.

 

The conversation he’d had with Tesetan on the way here came to mind.

 

‘Astie has manifested both holy power and magic. The Order will definitely target the child.’

 

“Tie can make a special hard chair just for Grandfather at the stronghold!”

 

‘…I’m prepared to fight if necessary.’

 

Valentis’s eyes grew heavy.

 

There was nothing in the world a parent wouldn’t do for their child.

 

As proof, Tesetan’s eyes as he spoke resembled Eleonora’s so closely.

 

The eyes of his wife who had rushed toward the rampaging Tesetan and looked back at him in her final moment.

 

“I don’t need a chair, little one.”

 

When he answered, Tie’s eyes widened.

 

Valentis stroked Tie’s head with a quiet expression.

 

“I’ll be the one to make you a chair.”

 

“Huh?”

 

“A place where no wind or blade in this world can reach you.”

 

“…”

 

“I will definitely make you that chair.”

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