A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 220
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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 220
Dark dawn.
The 1st floor of the stronghold where Tie, the unit members, and everyone else was asleep.
The remaining charcoal in the fireplace exhaled red breath.
Then the closed window on the 1st floor swung wide open.
Following that, something black and swift flew inside.
The thing that had the form of a small black dragon naturally changed its appearance to that of a young boy.
As soon as Lucalion’s feet touched the floor, someone’s voice came from the armchair across the room that had been hidden in the darkness.
“You look busy.”
Lucalion flinched in surprise and raised his gaze.
Whether he had woken up early, or hadn’t slept at all the previous night.
Tesetan was sitting quietly in the chair.
Lucalion closed his mouth then answered.
“…I couldn’t sense your presence.”
“Really? I wasn’t thinking of hiding it that much.”
Lucalion let out a short hollow laugh.
Tesetan’s answer was impressive yet also sent chills down his spine.
Lucalion could usually detect everyone’s presence.
That included Tesetan as well.
However, over the past few weeks.
Tesetan had been perfectly controlling his physical presence like heartbeat and breathing.
He had even minimized the fluctuations of mana and divine power, making it impossible for even Lucalion to notice his existence.
“Is that even possible?”
“It was possible for me.”
“…How?”
“Would it be an answer if I said I did it because it was something I had to do?”
Silence descended.
In the quiet, a somehow tense and rigid atmosphere flowed.
Since returning from Jongno-gu, Tesetan had been constantly busy.
He first reduced his sleep time.
Next, he doubled his training time and even practiced new sword techniques he had never attempted before.
This was to prepare as much as possible for any unforeseen events that might occur on the Central Continent.
“How is it going, finding out your identity?”
Tesetan asked.
As his concealment was released, a faint smell of blood somehow came from him.
Lucalion wrinkled his nose bridge for a moment then answered.
“…There hasn’t been much progress so far.”
“You’re being quite honest.”
Lucalion, who didn’t respond, headed toward the fireplace.
As he extended his hand over the logs, flames immediately blazed up in the fireplace again.
Lucalion threw a few more logs into it and said.
“My memories still haven’t returned. I don’t remember anything about annihilating Trevaga either.”
“Oh my.”
“But today I did find something like a clue about the reason.”
As Tesetan narrowed his brow, Lucalion spread a magic circle around them.
The light that began from its center soon started forming pages of dozens of ancient books.
“Time magic is literally a spell that creates a new world. It’s no different from splitting one world that was originally whole into two.”
“That’s right.”
“Because of that, it seems a harsh price is imposed not only on those involved in the magic, but also on the caster.”
As Lucalion waved his hand, one of the many ancient book pages was enlarged.
“Annihilation.”
“Annihilation?”
“Yes. But I wasn’t annihilated. Instead, I lost something else.”
Tesetan stroked his chin.
“You avoided annihilation but everything in your head was completely erased. As the price for casting time magic.”
“For now, that seems like the most reasonable explanation.”
Lucalion sat on the sofa.
The two silently stared at the side tables in front of each of them for a while.
Tesetan was lost in thought, reflecting on Lucalion’s answer.
‘The eyes I saw in Jongno-gu.’
Unit 203.
The vines covering the walls and the golden eyes floating in the air were vivid.
What those eyes showed him that night was his very life itself.
Everything experienced by another version of himself from the split world, just as Lucalion had said.
Everything was shocking, but the most vivid was undoubtedly the final scene.
The moment when all of Trevaga’s members died in battle on the Elderin Plains.
Tesetan stared at Lucalion’s profile.
Whatever he was thinking, his red eyes were staring intently through the blazing log fire.
In the shared memory.
The black dragon’s eyes covered in blood had been that same color.
‘If that black dragon was Lucalion.’
There were a few mysteries that would be solved.
The black dragon that had tried to attack Tie changed its attitude at the last moment.
Looking at the child as if he couldn’t believe it, he changed to human form and then bowed his head to Tie.
Calling the child his ‘lord.’
“…It’s complicated.”
Tesetan rubbed his forehead.
Nevertheless, whatever the case, there was no change in the conclusion he had reached.
“When we go to the Central Continent, I’m thinking of investigating the World Tree.”
Lucalion flinched and raised his head.
“The World Tree?”
“Yes. From what I’ve seen…”
Tesetan, who had been speaking, shook his head.
“I’ll tell you about this once I’ve organized my thoughts. But more than that.”
He unconsciously clenched and unclenched his fist.
“Since we’re talking about time magic… about Astie.”
As Astie’s name came up, Lucalion’s pupils dilated.
“If I decide not to have any more children in this world.”
Tesetan continued.
“…Then Astie won’t disappear, right?”
His gaze had already sunk very deeply.
“If another Astie isn’t born in this world. Then the current Astie wouldn’t have any reason to disappear either.”
Lucalion fell silent.
He only answered after a long while.
“No, it’s the opposite.”
“The opposite?”
“Even if you don’t have children, Astie will disappear. Fate is fixed. A being that was never born cannot exist.”
A short breath burst from Tesetan’s mouth.
His gaze stared at Lucalion as if he couldn’t believe it.
“…It doesn’t make sense. Even if that person and I decide to have another child at a predetermined time, at a predetermined moment. How can you guarantee that child will be born as Astie?”
Lucalion’s expression darkened.
“That’s…”
Lucalion had also scoured every corner of the continent night after night searching for that answer.
There wasn’t a single ancient text, document, or inscription he hadn’t examined.
However, the answer he finally found was sadly not hopeful at all.
“You’re not the one who guarantees it. The world does.”
“What?”
“This world exists on a timeline where Astie must be born. There must exist an Astie of this place, here.”
“…”
“According to theory, that’s precisely when the world’s interference occurs.”
Lucalion looked at Tesetan with eyes filled with anguish.
“Even if you don’t try, Astie will be born. Because it’s already designed that way.”
“…”
“The world will intervene through magical coincidence, or through irresistible inevitability. To recreate ‘the Astie who already exists in the future.'”
A short breath escaped from Tesetan’s lips.
“What does that even…”
These were words that made no sense from beginning to end.
It was his child, yet he couldn’t control it.
Just by living as things flow, Astie would inevitably be born,
and his daughter currently sleeping on the 2nd floor would disappear.
“That’s nonsense…!”
However, contrary to his words, both hands began to tremble.
Seven years later was still a distant future.
Nevertheless, intense fear filled his mind completely.
At that moment, a certain thought suddenly crossed his mind.
Tesetan, who had stiffened his entire body for a moment, raised his head.
Looking back and forth between Lucalion’s eyes, he very slowly parted his lips.
“You.”
He continued speaking.
“At the clock tower… I heard you said you couldn’t live without Tie.”
Lucalion’s pupils dilated.
The clock tower.
The moment when Tie and Tesetan were sucked into Jongno-gu, and Livia pointed her sword at him.
‘Are you our enemy?’
He had answered the Princess’s question.
‘I can’t live without Astie.’
Like that.
Tesetan exhaled a short breath.
He stared intently at Lucalion and continued speaking.
“Be honest. An otherworldly being of uncertain identity saying he likes my daughter and hovering around like a puppy. It doesn’t exactly put my mind at ease. But.”
“…”
“At least I can tell your words aren’t lies.”
Lucalion’s gaze that Tesetan observed was always directed toward Tie, wherever and whenever.
As if Tie was the center of the universe.
In fact, it was because of that he could make this proposal.
No, Lucalion was the only one who could make such a proposal.
“Make a promise with me, no, an oath.”
Lucalion furrowed his brow.
“If seven years from now. If we still haven’t found a solution by then and Tie faces the crisis of disappearing…”
Tesetan spoke his next words.
Lucalion’s eyes widened greatly.
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