A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 227

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 227

 

A pale yellow liquid swirled before Tie’s eyes.

 

At the strong smell of alcohol, Tie almost wrinkled her nose without realizing it but held back firmly.

 

“I’m saying, that, huh?”

 

The nobleman who had offered the drink, David, glanced back toward the Emperor.

 

Only after confirming that the Emperor was engaged in conversation with other nobles did he speak with more ease.

 

“I respect mercenaries!”

 

Others who were watching them flinched.

 

David offered the glass to Tie again as if he didn’t care.

 

“No, achievements worthy of respect should be respected, shouldn’t they? Viscount Waverill said so earlier too. That this fellow made great contributions at Clocktower Mastone, hahaha!”

 

“Well, that’s… true.”

 

“How much must you have flown around the battlefield for even the strict Duke Valentis to look at you with such eyes?”

 

Tie rolled her eyes around.

 

‘That’s not it though…?’

 

Getting close to Valentis had happened long ago.

 

They first met in the Weapon District, and since coming to Jedo, they had consistently kept in touch.

 

And recently, knowing they were grandfather and granddaughter, they had to be close.

 

However, David, unaware of this fact, sent another look of admiration.

 

“I’m envious! So envious! Actually, I also trained to become a paladin, but I gave up because I kept dropping my sword hilt every day!”

 

He patted Tie’s shoulder as if treating a close peer.

 

But small-bodied Tie almost rolled off her chair.

 

“Oh my!”

 

As David panicked, Tie quickly regained her balance.

 

She was about to tell him it was okay, that it didn’t hurt at all.

 

“Hey, why do you keep hitting someone else’s kid, no, someone else’s leader?!”

 

“Listen here. The leader has weak shoulders. I’d appreciate it if you’d refrain from hitting them repeatedly.”

 

Veil and Basto jumped up from their seats in anger.

 

Veil openly glared, and while Basto seemed to be trying to use respectful language, his tone was quite strange.

 

But more serious than them was Tesetan.

 

Tie thoughtlessly turned to look at Father and was startled, her eyes widening.

 

Father was glaring at David as if looking at some battlefield monster.

 

“Re, Regent, calm down! Calm down!”

 

When Tie shouted, Tesetan’s gaze finally turned to Tie.

 

Having kept his mouth tightly shut, he spoke to David in a low voice.

 

“Keep your hands still when you talk.”

 

David quickly withdrew his hands.

 

“So, sorry. This is really… I know it’s a bad habit, but it’s not easy to fix…”

 

Soleiyo Marquis intervened as if trying to lighten the mood.

 

“Come now, aren’t you treating someone who’s supposedly taken hundreds, thousands of monster heads on the battlefield too preciously?”

 

The unit members’ gazes turned toward Solleio Marquis.

 

The marquis continued skillfully.

 

“I thought someone called the Commander King would be very manly and rough.”

 

He took the strong liquor glass David was holding and placed it in Tie’s hands, saying ‘here, here.’

 

Then he raised his own glass high toward the sky first.

 

“How long will you keep declining?! Let’s toast once, wishing for safe return from our Central Continent!”

 

Tie swallowed hard while holding the glass.

 

The strong liquor gave off another intense alcohol smell.

 

Her instincts told her from the barbaric and adult-like scent.

 

‘If Tie drinks this, she’ll become a terrible drunkard…!’

 

But on the other hand, curiosity began to bloom in her chest.

 

‘Father. Tie wants to try alcohol too!’

 

‘…Our daughter is doing this again? Alcohol is something you drink when you grow up later.’

 

‘Just want to taste it! Grandmother drinks it and Aunt drinks it too, so why only Tie can’t! Hueeeng!’

 

‘No.’

 

Father was like that, and other adults were too.

 

‘Uncle Basto, is wine delicious?’

 

‘Yes. It tastes like all the fatigue from the siege just melts away.’

 

‘Does wine taste like grape juice?’

 

‘The sweet varieties are similar.’

 

‘Then you know, Tie also just one sip…’

 

‘No.’

 

For some reason, everyone refused to compromise at all when it came to alcohol.

 

‘Is alcohol that amazing?!’

 

Tie had to swallow her frustrated and resentful feelings alone each time.

 

‘But what about now?’

 

Tie glanced around her surroundings.

 

It seemed like now she could put her long-cherished wish into action.

 

Tie stealthily brought the glass to her mouth.

 

That was the moment.

 

“Oh my, that won’t do.”

 

Someone gently took the glass from Tie’s hand.

 

Tie’s eyes widened as she looked up to identify the person.

 

David and Solleio Marquis across from her were equally surprised.

 

“Isn’t that Princess Your Highness!”

 

“We greet Princess Your Highness!”

 

Next to her, beautifully dressed Ardiana was looking down at Tie.

 

“Prin, no, Assoc…!”

 

Tie, who was about to shout, closed her mouth.

 

Princess.

 

Or Association Leader?

 

She was at a loss for words about what term to use for Ardiana.

 

Also, was her body okay, and how did she return from the clock tower.

 

She heard she was very sick from magic poisoning, but was all that healed.

 

Unable to ask these questions, they accumulated inside as the child moved her lips.

 

Meanwhile, Ardiana looked at the two nobles and smiled.

 

“My friend, the Commander King is abstaining from alcohol.”

 

She drank the glass she had taken from Tie without batting an eye.

 

“No way! That strong stuff!”

 

“All at once…?”

 

David and Solleio Marquis exchanged glances.

 

They hesitantly raised their glasses following Ardiana.

 

However, liquor that was supposedly 52 proof couldn’t be okay.

 

David, who was drinking while making all sorts of faces, coughed as if he might choke.

 

Solleio Marquis hid his half-remaining glass behind his back with a pained expression.

 

Ardiana looked at Tie.

 

“Didn’t I write that in my letter? That one drink becomes two, and two drinks become ten on many days, so I decided to quit drinking.”

 

Tie blinked with a bewildered expression.

 

However, she soon understood Ardiana’s true meaning.

 

‘The Princess is protecting Tie.’

 

As the Commander King, Tie was notorious for being a heavy drinker.

 

It all happened because she always frequented Flint Cove through taverns.

 

‘But if I get caught not being able to drink now, I’m in big trouble!’

 

Tie nodded awkwardly.

 

“Yes, Tie wrote in the letter…”

 

However, the child soon closed her mouth.

 

Suddenly, she felt a strange gaze from somewhere.

 

When she turned her head in that direction, she saw someone glaring at them with a terrifying expression.

 

Tie tilted her head.

 

‘Pidas?’

 

As if he was looking at something that shouldn’t be here.

 

That person fiercely glaring at Ardiana was a prince of the Empire.

 

More precisely, someone people called a Prince.

 

Then Ardiana shifted her gaze to Tesetan, who was behind Tie.

 

“Young master, you’ve taken your seat as well. Thank you for tending to my injuries last time.”

 

David and Marquis Soleio looked bewildered.

 

“Injuries?”

 

“Last time?”

 

Publicly, Ardiana was famous as a royal who rarely left the palace.

 

This was because the fact that she also served as the Association Leader of the Frost Association was kept top secret.

 

“Ah, you wouldn’t know.”

 

Ardiana turned around.

 

Tie couldn’t take her eyes off Ardiana’s dress that brushed against her fingertips.

 

Her back view with long hair elegantly pinned up seemed to sparkle with light.

 

“I’ve kept silent until now. But actually, I also participated in the recent siege.”

 

The banquet hall became quiet.

 

David, who had been blinking, opened his mouth.

 

“Excuse me? Siege? What siege…”

 

“I am the Association Leader of the Frost Association.”

 

“Ardiana!”

 

Someone pushed through the crowd and approached urgently.

 

Pides glared at Ardiana as if he wanted to kill her and roughly grabbed her wrist.

 

“You right now! What are you-!”

 

From afar, the sound of the Emperor clicking his tongue could be clearly heard.

 

To Ardiana, who maintained a calm expression, Pides spoke with an enraged voice.

 

“What are you saying right now! What are you…!”

 

“Now these people should know too, brother.”

 

“What?”

 

“Everyone is curious. Why I, an Imperial Princess, was included in this expedition.”

 

“You-!”

 

“Some say it’s because we need at least one royal to accompany such an important expedition, others say it’s because more exchange between the Imperial Court and the Order is needed. But that’s not it, is it?”

 

When Ardiana shook off Pides’ hand, Tesetan naturally stepped forward in front of her.

 

Ardiana’s blue eyes blazed with light.

 

“Because no one else can do it if not me, isn’t that right?”

 

Her gaze was quiet like a frozen lake, yet as firm and honest as the dignity that had been trampled upon.

 

“I’m the one who has overseen all national missions within the Empire until now. I’m the one who assigned appropriate mercenary groups to each.”

 

“…”

 

“What you cannot do, brother. I can do it, so isn’t that why?”

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