A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 234
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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 234
“Gasp! There are so many people!”
Tie, who had entered the garden, was startled and opened her eyes wide in surprise.
The Imperial Palace’s grand garden was already filled with countless people.
Beside her, Veil grumbled.
“They’re amazing people in many ways. Can they really keep laughing non-stop for hours? Seriously.”
Seeing his somewhat tired face, Tie stood on her tiptoes and patted Veil’s waist gently.
“It’s okay, Veil oppa. It’ll be over soon, so just bear with it a little longer~?”
Then she quickly stepped forward.
Veil looked at Tie as if bewildered, then followed behind her.
However, the two couldn’t go far before they had to stop in place.
People had swarmed toward Tie.
“Commander King!”
“Commander King! You must be incredibly close to Her Highness the Princess! Do you know how long you’ve been away?”
“What did you talk about? Did Her Highness give you any hints about what title you’ll receive?”
“It’s viscount, right? Right?”
“Come on, it’s marquis!”
Tie’s eyes began spinning round and round again.
She had already struggled with these people for quite a while at the banquet hall.
‘If this happens again, Tie’s ears will really bleed this time…!’
It was the moment the tearful child brought her hands to her ears.
“Lord Veil!”
Someone appeared, pushing through the crowd.
‘Raul oppa?’
Tie tilted her head.
Perhaps because he was from the Waverill Marquis family.
Raul and Enzo, who had looked busy throughout the banquet, had somehow darkened expressions in such a short time.
Raul approached Veil and reported in a trembling voice.
“A carriage just arrived from Ashpol.”
Tie hesitated.
‘Ashpol…?’
Ashpol was a place Tie knew.
It was Veil’s hometown, after all.
She recalled hiring a coachman with Veil a few days ago.
‘Bring them safely. From Ashpol to Jedo, there shouldn’t be any problems as long as you follow the checkpoint road anyway.’
‘Of course, leave it to me! How could I dare slack off when dealing with such a big client like Agavert?’
They had hired the coachman because of Veil’s siblings.
From Ashpol to Jedo took at least four days, and there was no other way to bring his siblings.
Veil had earnestly requested just one thing from the coachman departing for Ashpol.
‘Just take the checkpoint road.’
The checkpoint road.
As far as Tie knew, the checkpoint road was like South Korea’s highways.
Among the roads outside Jedo, it was the largest, cleanest, and had checkpoints and guard posts along the way.
‘They said the Mastones that appear around there are quickly cleared away, so it’s safe…’
Tie looked up.
‘But why does Raul oppa have that expression?’
As if something had gone wrong with the carriage on the way.
“Why. What’s the problem now.”
Veil’s complexion had also turned pale.
Raul hesitantly opened his mouth.
“Well…”
“Huff, huff…!”
Veil, who had arrived at the main gate of the Imperial Palace, was breathing heavily.
He could see people gathered in the distance.
“O-oppa… are you okay?”
Tie, held in Raul’s arms, asked tearfully.
Veil didn’t answer and stepped forward.
His expression was so menacing that the nobles who had gathered to watch automatically moved aside.
As his view cleared, everything became more clearly visible.
The axle of the carriage left alone in front of the main gate was broken in two.
The iron decoration on the front, which the coachman had proudly shown off before departure, was also stained with blood.
“…Ha.”
A hollow laugh escaped from Veil’s mouth as he saw the arrows stuck thickly all over the carriage body.
It couldn’t be.
Surely such a thing couldn’t have happened.
“Lord Veil!”
Raul supported him as he unconsciously staggered.
Tie, who had gotten down from Raul’s arms, was holding back tears.
“Are you the owner?!”
At that moment, a man who had been examining the carriage body near the carriage saw Veil and waved his hand.
Walking over with big strides, he clicked his tongue.
“This must be quite heartbreaking.”
Where the man gestured, there was something covered with white cloth.
“Ah, I’m a merchant who brings chicken from the south to supply the high-ranking gentlemen of Jedo.”
He looked around the carriage.
“The gods are heartless. Well, it was in this state not far from the checkpoint. Already dead…”
Veil’s expression became blank.
His gaze wouldn’t leave the something beside the carriage covered with white cloth.
“I thought about just leaving it, but it didn’t feel right to ignore it.”
The man walked toward the carriage as if telling them to follow.
Veil forced himself to move.
Every time he staggered, Raul supported him.
Finally, the man placed his hand on the cloth.
“There were many children. How frightened they must have been.”
He grabbed the edge of the cloth and lifted it up.
Something soaked in blood was revealed underneath.
Veil stared wide-eyed, forgetting even to breathe.
His whole body was trembling from clenching his fists so hard.
A pale face was about to be revealed from under the cloth.
“Oppa-!”
Veil suddenly looked up at the voice he heard.
“Hyung! Waaaah-!”
“Veil oppa!”
Where he turned his head, five children were running toward them.
Ison, Rosack, Janne, Ed, and even Noi.
Veil’s lips twitched.
“You guys….”
The youngest, Noi, ran over and hugged Veil first.
“Brother, hic! The coachman, sniff! The coachman uncle…!”
Veil turned his head.
Under the cloth the man had lifted, a corpse was visible.
“Ha. Haah…!”
Veil collapsed to the ground with a thud.
What lay there cold wasn’t his siblings.
It was none other than the coachman he had hired.
Central Branch of the Compensation Office.
“Well then, I’ll ask for your favor, Director.”
Tie bowed politely to Director Ornel.
Ornel answered restlessly.
“A favor? Please make yourself comfortable! It’s an empty space anyway…!”
Instead of answering, Tie looked around.
A conference room with drawn curtains.
A neatly arranged circular table and chairs.
“I’ll be going now! Call me if you need anything!”
Ornel closed the large door and went outside.
Only then did Tie let out the breath she had been holding.
“Still, it’s fortunate. That there’s a Compensation Office nearby….”
Still not having relaxed from the tension, Veil nodded with a still rigid expression.
They had currently moved to a nearby Compensation Office.
They needed to sort out the situation, and it would be disrespectful to leave the dead coachman’s body in front of the Imperial Palace.
Basto, who had been looking out the window, spoke.
“Duke Valentis seems to be coming this way too. Since checkpoint jurisdiction is handled by the Paladins, we should be able to find out something if we investigate.”
Tie turned her dejected eyes.
She could see Veil’s siblings gathered in one corner of the conference room, sniffling.
‘They’re not all children like Tie.’
Veil’s siblings were of various ages.
Among them, the tallest and most mature-looking was Ison.
Ison opened her mouth.
“The coachman… was trying to sell us out.”
Tie’s eyes widened in surprise.
Veil also looked up with a start.
Ison looked at Veil with a serious expression.
“When you last communicated, brother, you said so. That you ordered the coachman to only travel on main roads.”
“…Why. Did the coachman leave Checkpoint Road?”
One of the siblings around Tie’s age who had been sniffling raised her head.
“Sniff, he did! He suddenly said he needed to pee and went down some weird winding path!”
Veil’s brow furrowed.
Ison picked up the crying sibling.
“Noi’s right. Actually, I thought it was strange from then. It didn’t make sense to go so deep just to relieve himself, and he kept stopping the carriage to check how many of us there were.”
Ison’s eyes darkened.
“It’s only because we escaped when the coachman briefly stopped the carriage. Otherwise….”
She placed something she had been clutching tightly onto the table.
It was a silver button with a complex pattern engraved in the center.
“Huh…?”
Tie’s eyes widened upon seeing the object.
Tie knew what that pattern was.
[Now, next! This is a pattern mainly used by the Papal Assassin Monks.]
‘Assassin special…?’
[That’s right! They do have a name called the Order of the Assassins, but they’re essentially just the Pope’s long-standing lackeys.]
Right after the expedition to the Central Continent was decided.
Marbas had sat Tie down and constantly taught her about the Order.
He said she needed to know patterns and history in advance to be able to respond immediately to dangerous situations.
Perhaps that’s why.
Looking at the button’s pattern that she had memorized from seeing it so much, Tie gulped.
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