A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 222

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 222

 

‘Huuung, brother! Don’t go! Let’s just live here together!’

 

‘Big brother, do you really have to go?’

 

The voices of his siblings who had clung to him as he left his hometown came to mind.

 

‘…As if I wanted to leave in the first place.’

 

The damn persistent poverty.

 

Sold to his parents at age two, Veil had worked in the coal mine since childhood, too young to even remember.

 

He had met his siblings there.

 

The manager was the worst of the worst.

 

For the slightest disobedience, he would shove Veil into narrow and dangerous mine shafts.

 

‘If it weren’t for the kids, I would have run away long ago.’

 

Veil’s eyes darkened.

 

The manager quickly noticed that Veil cherished the other children in the dormitory like brothers.

 

So he began using his siblings like a leash to strangle him.

 

‘What? Why are you only giving me this much?! What are we supposed to eat for the next week!’

 

‘Blame yourself for not meeting your quota, brat.’

 

‘I didn’t meet my quota?! Yesterday my cart was the fullest! More than the other guys, I…’

 

‘What are you saying? Those guys only need to do their own share, but you’re different.’

 

‘What?’

 

‘Do you think there’s anyone else who treats slaves as well as I do?! Ison too, Rosack too. Who’s the one taking care of kids who’ll grow up to work in the mine anyway.’

 

‘…’

 

‘Listen carefully, Veil. Either you do their share too. Or don’t bother taking care of those brats in the first place.’

 

‘…’

 

‘Got it? Huh? I said do you understand.’

 

The hand that tapped his cheek annoyingly as he spoke.

 

But that was actually more bearable.

 

Rather than watching his siblings waste away from malnutrition.

 

Rather than seeing those kids cough up blood near the coal mine.

 

Veil worked like a dog.

 

He used his body until there was nothing left, then used it again.

 

He crawled through low mine shafts all day, deliberately seeking out more dangerous places.

 

There were several times he nearly died when escape routes were blocked.

 

Then the big workers would target the high-quality rare gems that Veil brought back.

 

At first, he gave them up.

 

After coming out of the mine shafts, he had no strength left to fight.

 

But it happened once, then twice.

 

When he reached the point where he couldn’t afford to lose any more.

 

Fighting was the only option left for Veil.

 

It wasn’t easy.

 

Unlike the others who were all big and fierce, Veil was the smallest and youngest.

 

Every time he was beaten nearly to death and went to the mine shaft the next day with an aching body, he studied.

 

How could he attack those guys more efficiently.

 

What should he give up and which vital points should he target.

 

As those days accumulated, the situation changed.

 

From being beaten nearly to death, to being able to kill those guys if he wanted to.

 

‘Wh-what the hell is this bastard. Who are you!’

 

When he pressed a sharp stone fragment under the chin of the worst worker.

 

The atmosphere in the mining site changed.

 

‘Crazy bastard…! His eyes have completely lost it!’

 

‘You’re just realizing that now? You know it and you’re still running your mouth?’

 

Veil grinned wickedly with one swollen eyelid.

 

‘Don’t mess with me. If you do, I’ll really kill you.’

 

After that, the guys who touched his cart disappeared.

 

Then new people began to approach him.

 

‘I heard the rumors, kid. You nearly cut off Dilton’s windpipe.’

 

‘Get lost. Can’t you see I’m busy?’

 

‘If you listen to what I have to say, you won’t be able to say that. You’re responsible for the young slaves in the coal mine, right? You even pulled some sick ones out of the mine shafts.’

 

‘…Who are you?’

 

‘But you know. Those little ones. Have you actually checked on them properly?’

 

It felt like being hit in the head with a hammer.

 

Whether his siblings were okay, whether they were doing well, whether the sick ones were getting better.

 

He actually hadn’t been able to check.

 

There were more days when work ended late and he couldn’t return to the dormitory.

 

That’s why.

 

When he secretly left the mine shaft and headed to the dormitory.

 

When he realized the manager had been intercepting all the food and money.

 

The youngest, who had always been physically weak, who would still run to him with a bright smile saying ‘Brother Veil!’ whenever she saw him.

 

‘Brother, hic, ugh. Why are you only coming now. I asked them to tell you, ugh. I went to the mine shaft entrance asking to see you just once…’

 

When he belatedly learned that she had unknowingly become a star in the sky.

 

‘Isha was looking for you, brother. When she was sick, that day too, she missed you so much. Ugh, sob…’

 

The world seemed to be spinning.

 

His vision was so red that Veil thought he was standing in burning flames.

 

‘Think seriously about my proposal.’

 

It was definitely a poisoned apple.

 

‘You have talent. With this work, you can handle much bigger money than scraping by in the coal mine, and your siblings can live comfortably in a good environment…’

 

But it was so red and tempting.

 

‘The world is full of shitty work. But we’re on the less rotten side.’

 

“…”

 

“Among dirty jobs, being able to do the less dirty ones, isn’t that great? And you even get to handle money.”

 

At first, he didn’t want to do it.

 

But seeing Isha’s grave changed his mind.

 

It was a grave so small and low that one arm could embrace it entirely.

 

On the barren dirt grave without a single blade of grass, only a few wildflowers were clumsily placed.

 

‘What kind of grave is this. Why is the grave… why is Isha’s grave…’

 

Veil knelt before it, repeating the words over and over.

 

It wasn’t like his dead youngest sibling would come back to life, how foolish.

 

‘I’ll do it.’

 

The unbearable loss pushed him into the shadows.

 

The heart that wanted to protect ultimately learned how to destroy first.

 

‘Come to think of it, the name suits you well. You were born with the nature to do this work, weren’t you?’

 

Veil became an assassin.

 

Starting with his revenge on the coal mine manager, getting blood on his hands gradually became familiar.

 

‘Veil! Why do you look like that? It’s not like we kill innocent civilians. There’s such a thing as necessary evil in this world. If you think about it, we’re just dirtying our hands on behalf of others.’

 

‘…Who said anything?’

 

He pretended it didn’t matter.

 

He deceived himself that he was fine.

 

Yet somehow, he couldn’t tell his siblings.

 

‘Brother Veil! Come here and check the seasoning.’

 

‘…Ison, you cook? You never used to.’

 

‘What are you talking about, I love cooking! I just couldn’t do it before because we didn’t have proper ingredients.’

 

‘…’

 

‘You know, I’m so happy we have some breathing room since you got a new job. I’ll grow up quickly and contribute too. Did you see Rosack’s face? He’s been eating well lately and his cheeks have gotten chubby.’

 

‘Waaah, hyung! Janne hit me!’

 

‘When did I! Brother, no! I didn’t do that!’

 

Right, so what if his hands got a little dirtier.

 

As long as the kids could smile under the sunlight.

 

But the world never flowed according to his wishes.

 

‘…Tell me. Is it true?’

 

The tomato stew Ison made spread long across the floor.

 

It looked just like red blood flowing from a person’s carotid artery, making his throat sting.

 

‘Did you really do that?! Because of us, did you really do that, brother!’

 

The cramped house was filled only with the sound of children sobbing.

 

For the first time since joining the assassin’s guild, he felt terrified.

 

‘I.’

 

He wanted to run away.

 

But at the same time, he wasn’t sure if it would be okay to run.

 

Somehow it seemed like his siblings would run away first.

 

However, none of what he expected happened.

 

‘…It’s okay. We can make it right.’

 

Time seemed to stop.

 

Ison didn’t scream at Veil calling him a monster.

 

She didn’t take the siblings and run away screaming either.

 

Instead, she quietly approached and hugged him tightly.

 

‘Nothing changes about our family.’

 

‘…’

 

‘So you were hurt every day. That’s why, ugh, sob…’

 

He couldn’t see it, but he could tell.

 

Ison was patting Veil’s back while sobbing herself.

 

After that, the other siblings approached too.

 

‘Hyung, we didn’t spend all the money you gave us. Sister Ison saved a lot!’

 

‘Brother, it must have hurt a lot, right?’

 

‘Making you do dangerous work every day, sob. I’m sorry, hyung…’

 

He couldn’t breathe.

 

It was an emotion he’d never felt before in his life.

 

Later, he felt the same emotion exactly once more.

 

Caldenbain Ridge.

 

‘It must have hurt a lot, right? I’m sorry, Tie came to rescue you late even though I’m the leader…’

 

When Tie cried looking at his bandaged hands.

 

When he saw Astie, who took care of Veil first with his small body, resembling the departed Isha.

 

“Brother Veil. So are you going to call your siblings? Hm?”

 

Veil awakened from his reverie.

 

Tie, held in his arms, was blinking with a smiling face.

 

Veil released the gold coins in the pouch he held in his other hand.

 

“…Yeah.”

 

He smiled while ruffling Tie’s hair.

 

“Since I can’t go for a while.”

 

Inside the pouch.

 

Among the gold coins was a letter, wrinkled from being read so many times.

 

The letter began with a very familiar and warm greeting.

 

[Brother, we’re doing very well. You’re doing well too, right?]

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