A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 236

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 236

 

Clatter-

 

The carriage shook violently.

 

Ison and Rosack were the first to land on the bumpy road.

 

“Sister, are you okay?”

 

“What about you, Rosack?”

 

“I’m fine.”

 

The siblings quickly dusted themselves off and got up.

 

Then they began chasing after the carriage that was still moving forward quietly.

 

Ison gestured to Noi, who was still standing inside the open door.

 

“Noi, jump to sister!”

 

But Noi only trembled and looked down at the ground outside the carriage.

 

“Hic…!”

 

Seeing Noi start hiccupping, Janne’s expression behind her became meaningful.

 

“Sister, catch her!”

 

Janne lifted Noi up from behind.

 

With Ed’s help, the child held Noi out, and Ison quickly caught her.

 

“It’s okay. It’s okay now, Noi!”

 

Ison patted the frozen Noi’s back.

 

Meanwhile, Janne and Ed jumped down.

 

The carriage moved away from the five children.

 

“Hmm, hmm~”

 

Through the clattering noise, they could hear the coachman humming.

 

Ison checked everyone’s faces.

 

“Rosack, Janne, Ed, Noi… everyone’s here?”

 

She held Noi with one arm and firmly grasped Ed’s hand with the other.

 

“Then let’s move for now.”

 

Where Ison pointed was a slope covered with thick bushes.

 

“Well, we’ve arrived!”

 

The coachman, Merkon, got down from his horse.

 

This place, where even the sky was hidden by dense giant trees, was a side path quite far from the checkpoint road.

 

He walked briskly to the front of the carriage window.

 

“You must be tired from the journey? Just wait here for a moment…”

 

However, he soon froze in place.

 

“What the.”

 

The inside of the carriage, which had been packed just moments ago, was completely empty.

 

All that remained were a few blankets he had given the children to cover themselves when it got cold.

 

“How did this…!”

 

Panicked, he hurriedly circled around the carriage to examine it.

 

Opening the door and going inside, he saw empty seats.

 

“Where did they go. Where did everyone…!”

 

The children were nowhere to be found.

 

Not in the cargo hold under the seats, nor in the supply boxes stacked in the corner.

 

Not even in the hay pile in the cart compartment that he checked just in case.

 

“No, no. If this happens…”

 

Merkon was blinking in front of the empty carriage when.

 

“Merkon.”

 

Suddenly a low voice came from behind him.

 

Merkon was startled and turned his head.

 

A man wearing a pitch-black hooded robe stood before him.

 

“A-Arbiter.”

 

At Merkon’s trembling voice, the man approached.

 

A white mask that doubly concealed his face under the pulled-down hood was revealed.

 

“Where are the promised sacrifices?”

 

At those words, others in identical attire appeared from behind the man.

 

At least twenty, no, more than thirty in number, Merkon was terrified.

 

“T-that is, they were definitely here just moments ago…!”

 

“Spare me the excuses. Did you lose the souls to offer to the Absolute Being?”

 

Merkon closed his mouth.

 

His cold hands were trembling.

 

“N-no! If we search the area, they’ll turn up! They must be somewhere nearby… Gack!”

 

However, he who was shouting urgently could not finish his words.

 

Golden energy from the masked man’s hand was strangling Merkon’s neck.

 

“Merkon. The sacrifices to offer the Absolute Being must be pure.”

 

“Gack! Gaack…! Sp-spare me…!”

 

“But feet that have fled are already stained with sin. You have corrupted no less than five souls.”

 

The man raised his hand to the sky.

 

Then Merkon’s body also floated up into the air.

 

“Huk, gaack! Please spare me! Please, please…!”

 

“Execute judgment.”

 

With the command, arrows poured down like rain from behind.

 

The sharply honed arrowheads embedded in the carriage and exploded with a bang!

 

Dusty clouds rose around the area.

 

When the man withdrew his hand, Merkon’s body fell with a thud.

 

“Hey, Sixth Darkness.”

 

Someone approached the man.

 

It was another person in identical attire.

 

The eyes visible between the mask wavered.

 

“We need to search the area. We must find and eliminate the corrupted souls.”

 

However, the man who killed Merkon, the Sixth Darkness, shook his head.

 

“We cannot find them. They have already disappeared.”

 

When he raised his right hand, condensed energy shot up to the sky from his fingertips.

 

It soon spread wide and greatly enveloped the nearby forest.

 

“No presence is detected. They have completely escaped.”

 

Silence fell.

 

The one who had been frozen muttered with dissatisfied eyes.

 

“Is pursuit impossible? The Absolute Being will be furious. For sacrifices to escape. Five of them at that.”

 

The Sixth Darkness answered in a monotone voice.

 

“There are more than enough souls. We will find other sacrifices.”

 

When he snapped his fingers, white smoke spread around the area.

 

The man who made a tsk sound also turned around.

 

The next moment, thick fog settled where they had all been.

 

All that remained in the place where their forms had vanished was an echo-like resonance.

 

And when the thick fog began to thin.

 

“Haah…”

 

Ison emerged from the nearby thick grass.

 

Still holding Noi in her arms, Ison took in the horrific scene.

 

The dead coachman, the half-destroyed carriage.

 

The only things that survived at the scene were the two horses that had been pulling the carriage.

 

“What do we do, sister? Is Hammer dead?”

 

Janne shook Ison’s sleeve.

 

“More importantly, what if those people from earlier come back! Don’t we have to hide again, huh?”

 

Ison shook her head.

 

“…They won’t know.”

 

The five children had been hiding in the thicket just a few steps away from here the entire time.

 

It was because they had jumped off the carriage just as the incident occurred, leaving no time to flee far away.

 

‘That’s why I thought we were all going to die at first.’

 

But the robed figures never noticed the existence of Ison and her siblings at all.

 

Ison’s eyes became serious.

 

“Wait just a moment.”

 

Ison handed Noi to Rosack and approached the fallen Merkon.

 

Ison gulped and lifted Merkon’s blood-stained outer garment.

 

Then she began checking his inner pockets one by one.

 

Eventually, what appeared to be a bundle of papers combining transport contracts and commission logs emerged from an inner pocket.

 

“Today’s date, today’s date is…”

 

Ison’s hands quickly flipped through the papers.

 

In the midst of this, a small note fluttered out from between the bundle of papers.

 

Ison’s eyes widened as she read the note.

 

[Merkon, you stupid bastard.

 

I found an amazing job.

 

All we have to do is sell off a few kids.

 

With that money, we can completely leave this damn Taranta behind.]

 

The scrawled handwriting revealed exactly what had happened today.

 

[We both just accidentally killed some people, but running around for years is too much.

 

Let’s turn our luck around this time.

 

Once we get paid, we’ll get a ship and head to the North Continent.

 

I gave them your contact information, so someone will come soon.

 

Seeing as they call themselves ‘Arbiters,’ they seem like high-ranking people from the Order.

 

Let’s have a drink soon once this is finished.

 

-Jiheira]

 

Ison gulped.

 

Then she quickly put the note in her own pocket.

 

Next, she began examining the scene that had been turned into chaos by arrows in detail.

 

“Sister. What exactly are you doing?”

 

Ed approached and asked, but Ison didn’t answer.

 

She just continued searching the ground thoroughly, then,

 

“Found it!”

 

She picked up a very small button that had fallen on the ground.

 

As soon as she did, a voice came from behind.

 

“What’s over there? Wait, you kids! What on earth happened here!”

 

Having just entered the side path at the right moment, two large carriages were stopped behind them.

 

A merchant who had jumped down from his horse came running over in a hurry.

 

“Are you alright? What happened here!”

 

Perhaps because the tension was released, Noi burst into tears.

 

“Mister! People wearing hats, they did something to the coachman mister… *sob*”

 

“They stole all the supplies! It seemed like a bandit gang!”

 

However, Ison quickly covered Noi’s mouth and drooped her eyebrows.

 

“We survived by running away before they spotted us…”

 

Ison pretended to wipe the corners of her eyes while looking at the dead Merkon.

 

“Mister. *sob*, could you please take us to Jedo? My brother is waiting in Jedo, but my siblings keep crying…”

 

Janne, who had been watching Ison, also quietly covered the corners of her eyes with both hands.

 

Quick-witted Ed and Rosack also began pretending to cry.

 

Having survived life-and-death situations together since childhood meant they could tell what each other needed to do just by looking at each other’s eyes.

 

“…Oh my.”

 

The merchant’s eyes immediately changed to look pitying.

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