A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 23

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 23

Tesetan?

Veil stared at the man with surprised eyes.

Hair disheveled as if not fully awake, a languid expression and slow gait.

But his broad shoulders and strong physique exuded a sharp atmosphere, and his cool eyes held a strange intensity.

Veil unconsciously tensed his body.

‘A monster is a monster, is that it?’

The aura emanating from Tesetan was truly tremendous.

His presence seemed to press down on the surroundings alone, or even the entire inn for that matter.

“I overslept, what can I say.”

Tesetan muttered while yawning.

He leisurely surveyed the first floor before stopping his gaze at one spot.

In front of the counter.

Where Nordics, Veil, and Basto were standing.

Tesetan narrowed his eyes and muttered.

“What’s this, Rudy. You raised the lodging fees saying you had no guests. Business seems to be doing quite well though?”

The innkeeper immediately waved his hands dismissively and stepped forward.

“Business doing well, my foot! It’s just a brief peak season lately. More importantly, can I deduct the payment from what you prepaid before?”

Tesetan, who had been silent, nodded indifferently.

His expression suggested anything was fine with him.

However, as he slowly turned his body, his eyes suddenly stopped at one place.

On Basto’s shoulder.

Where Tie’s head covered with black cloth was located.

Tesetan slightly furrowed his brow as he looked at the bulging cloth.

“That is…”

Just then.

“Commander! The ship’s here! Hey, I said the ship’s here now!”

Suddenly, some red-haired woman burst into the inn.

The curiosity that had appeared on Tesetan’s face disappeared.

He made a groaning sound as if troubled, then turned his body around.

Then with leisurely steps, he passed by Basto’s group and went out, closing the door with a thud.

After a few seconds of silence, Veil muttered.

“Right? The Commander of Trevaga.”

Basto and Nordics nodded.

“That’s right.”

The commander of the great mercenary group Trevaga, Tesetan.

The blood-calling demon, monster slayer, ghost, destroyer…

There was no one in the Empire who didn’t know those tremendous epithets.

“Indeed, his presence is remarkable.”

“You can say that again. I heard he uses strange swordsmanship?”

“Ah, I heard that too. What was it, noble yet vulgar swordsmanship? What the hell is that? That bastard, maybe he just spouted random nonsense to look impressive?”

Rudy the innkeeper, who had been listening to the three men’s conversation, burst into laughter.

“Hahaha! Such rumors are going around about the Commander of Trevaga?”

Everyone’s attention focused on Rudy.

“It’s not entirely wrong though. If it’s Tesetan, such words might well apply to him.”

Basto furrowed his brow.

“Do you know something else about that man?”

But Rudy only waved his hand dismissively.

“Oh my, even if I knew, I couldn’t answer. Can’t afford to lose a regular customer.”

He looked around the group, making a “well” sound as if trying to change the atmosphere.

“More importantly, first we need to decide what to do about rooms…”

It was then that Tie, just awakened, poked her head out from under the cloth.

The innkeeper’s eyes widened.

Tie’s pupils also dilated slightly, but

“Wh-what, Basto! You should have woken me up when we arrived!”

The child, quickly reading the situation, made a cheeky expression and patted Basto’s shoulder.

And as soon as she came down to the floor, she held her head up straight and looked directly at Rudy.

“Ahem! Two nights. On credit.”

Rudy’s expression became dazed at the bold demand.

Tie showed him her warm mercenary badge.

“Me, the Commander King of Agavert will pay back three times later.”

She was completely unaware that there was a straight line imprinted on her forehead.

Rudy listened to the whole story from Basto and then gave Agavert a room.

He was clearly surprised to hear that Tie had summoned skeletons at the gateway.

“Hmm hmm~”

Tie hummed while recalling Rudy’s mouth that had gaped wide open.

The room they entered was clean and spacious.

There were two beds placed against the walls on both sides, and the bedspreads were white and smooth.

“You’ll be able to roll around and sleep comfortably, Tie.”

Tie nodded excitedly.

“Yes!”

The bed Basto gave to Tie was near the window.

Tie climbed up on it and looked out the window.

Beyond the people busily crossing the square, she could see the endlessly spread sea.

“Pearl City…”

After walking the sandy road for so long, to have the dazzling sea spread out before her.

Father’s hometown surprised Tie every day, every moment.

Tie recalled the dream she had while being carried on Basto’s back.

‘Tie, business seems to be doing quite well?’

For some reason, in the dream Father was playing pretend with Tie.

Father was the customer, and Tie was some kind of innkeeper?

She felt like she had vaguely seen Father’s face too.

“Tie, wait here for a moment. Veil and I have some business to attend to on the inn’s first floor.”

Then Basto, who had put down the luggage, spoke.

They planned to go down to the inn’s basement restaurant to briefly investigate Tie’s parents.

Tie moved her backpack from her back to the front and answered spiritedly.

“Yes! Tie will stay quietly in the room!”

Basto smiled and patted Tie’s head a couple of times.

After he left the room, Tie checked that the door was properly closed and then climbed back onto the bed.

Since the bed was against the wall, she could easily sit by the window.

“Men are ships! Women are harbors~”

She was unconsciously humming a song that 203 Aunt used to sing often, when

“Huh?”

Her lips stopped mid-hum.

On Inn Street where countless people were coming and going.

Among some crowd heading toward the harbor, a familiar someone’s back caught her attention.

“Uh, uhh…?!”

Tie abruptly grabbed the window and stood up.

There was no mistake.

People crowding together wearing ash-colored robes.

That man standing at the very front among them.

Tie rolled off the bed and rushed to the door.

She frantically grabbed and turned the doorknob, then ran to the nearest staircase she could see.

It was the staircase leading to the inn’s back door that she had noticed while coming up.

Coming outside, Tie felt her head spinning as she wandered around looking for the way.

‘Blue roof, blue roof…!’

This way.

The place where that man walked is this way.

Avoiding passersby and turning the corner, a fork in the road appeared.

Just as Tie’s panicked eyes wavered, lost about where to go.

At the far end of the right path, she saw a man climbing the pier stairs.

“Father!”

Tie shouted without realizing it.

Even just seeing his back, the man greatly resembled Father.

Not even noticing her hands trembling, Tie kept running.

But because of the crowd lined up at the pier, she could hardly move forward.

“Excuse me, excuse me…!”

Avoiding Chubby Grandfather.

Avoiding Young Aunt carrying lots of groceries.

She ran hard, but whenever she thought she had caught up even a little, the man moved further away.

Eventually, while going around to avoid the crowded masses, the man boarded a large ship.

“Father! Father-!!!”

Growing desperate, Tie forgot about pretending to be the Commander King and called out loudly.

However, the ship’s horn sound swallowed up Tie’s voice with a loud boooo-,

“What’s this now?”

The child collided head-on with someone’s bag and tumbled backward.

Though her nose stung, Tie got up like a roly-poly toy.

And staggering, she barely managed to reach the very end of the pier.

However, the ship the man had boarded was already leaving the harbor without hesitation.

“Fatherrr…!”

Tears burst out without her realizing it.

Even stamping her feet and looking down, there was only the dark sea rippling below.

The wall covered with barnacles, dead seaweed floating around…

Tie clenched her fists tightly and shouted until her throat was raw.

“Father, Father-!!”

At that moment.

Had her desperate cry reached him?

For an instant, she saw the man turn his head toward Tie.

The eyes of Tie, frozen in surprise, and the man met.

Soon Tie could tell.

‘…It’s Father.’

That person isn’t just someone who looks like Father.

It really is Father.

But Father, whom Tie had searched for so desperately,

Father, whom she had missed more than anyone.

“…”

After looking at Tie briefly, he simply withdrew his gaze as if uninterested.

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