A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 24

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 24

Underground Dining Hall of the Red Glove Inn.

“Basto! Don’t you have any tact? You show up after so long and the first thing you ask about is those damn Paladins?!”

A large mercenary slammed down his orc mug with a loud thud!

Basto raised one eyebrow.

But before he could open his mouth, Veil stepped forward.

“This guy’s hilarious. So we need your permission to ask questions about anything? Should we raise our hands before asking?”

“You, what are you?! I’ve never seen your face before.”

“Of course it’s a face you’ve never seen, what else would it be, a face you’ve seen twice? Crazy bastard, does he think he knows everyone in the world? So arrogant and annoying.”

“Ah, no, I…!”

“Shut up. If you know anything about the Luminen Family, hurry up and spill it. Didn’t you hear I said my time is precious?”

The large mercenary hesitantly picked up his orc mug again and opened his mouth while avoiding Veil’s eyes.

“The, the Luminen Family, that Paladin family is…”

The mercenary’s expression became complicated.

The Luminen Family.

A place crawling with those who could be called the Empire’s strongest Paladins.

The family head, Valentis Luminen, had four sons.

And they all held significant positions within the Paladins.

“What was it, the eldest Edmund Luminen is a tactical advisor. The second son is a unit commander? The third is the head of the medical department.”

“That’s all? You acted like you knew some great information, but you’re completely useless.”

“No! There’s more!”

The flustered mercenary hurriedly added.

“The fourth son! Lately, the whereabouts of the Luminen Family’s fourth son are mysterious. Maybe he’s doing some secluded training somewhere.”

Basto and Veil’s eyes met.

After exchanging glances, they asked in turn.

“Why. Does the fourth son have a child?”

“Does he have a woman? Did they have a baby together. A child about four years old?”

The mercenary’s eyes widened as he asked incredulously.

“What kind of nonsense is this? What child would that young brat have?”

He folded his fingers as if to show Veil and Basto.

“The Luminen youngest only came of age last year or so. For such a guy to have a four-year-old child, the math would be…”

“Then it’s not the youngest.”

“Right, it’s not the youngest.”

Basto and Veil’s eyes lit up again.

“Then what about the other young masters of that house?”

“Other young masters, you mean the first, second, and third?”

“…This really dense bastard. If you exclude the youngest, of course it’s those three, who else would it be? Do you even have a brain in your head? Huh?”

“I, I was just asking just in case!”

The embarrassed mercenary began groaning again.

“They’re certainly of marriageable age. But I haven’t heard any talk of them starting families or having children.”

The Luminen Family was a great noble house.

They had always maintained friendly relations with the imperial family, and above all, they were the main force leading the Paladins called ‘Guardians of Light.’

“If the Luminen had such good news, we couldn’t have missed it. They obviously would have held a grand wedding in Jedo.”

“…Yeah, well. If it were those Paladin bastards, they would have invited the Emperor and Empress and been disgustingly extravagant.”

Then there was only one remaining possibility.

Veil approached the large mercenary and leaned in.

“What’s the probability that the Luminen head, Valentis Luminen, had a late child with another woman?”

“Valentis Luminen?!”

The mercenary was startled and opened his eyes wide.

Then he immediately shook his head.

“That man is not the type to do such a thing! Everyone in the Empire knows he devoted his whole life to loving the Saint of Richard, so what…”

The Saint of Richard.

That was what they called Eleonora, Valentis Luminen’s wife and mother of the four Luminen young masters.

Eleonora was the woman who wielded the most powerful holy power in history.

The love story between her and Valentis Luminen was also famous enough that everyone in the Empire knew it.

In fact, the couple had four children together, so it was obvious how good their marital harmony was.

However, Veil’s thoughts were a bit different.

“How ridiculous. Why do you think there’s a saying that no one knows what goes on between a married couple? You dense fool.”

The mercenary was flustered, but Veil continued sharply.

“Even if they put on a show outside about good harmony and love of the century, only they would know their real situation, right?”

Everything was what Veil had naturally learned while working as an assassin.

Requests from noble ladies to poison their cheating husbands came about once a month.

Of course, the reverse cases were also quite common.

The funny thing was that none of them showed any signs of it publicly.

Outside they would link arms and laugh heartily, while behind the scenes they were looking for ways to kill each other.

“If Valentis Luminen had an illegitimate child, then what happened to Saint Eleonora might also be…”

“Basto! Veil!”

At that moment, someone came running down the stairs in a hurry.

It was none other than Nordics, his white hair flying as he ran.

With everyone’s attention focused on him, Nordics shouted.

“Da, Danzu has disappeared!”

“Damn it, where did that child go?”

Veil wiped the flowing sweat as he turned the alley corner.

Because his running speed was so fast, he had to grab the installed pipes and almost spin through the air.

“Astie! Astie-!”

Basto’s desperate voice could be heard from far away.

Perhaps because he had lost a young child before, Basto’s eyes went half-crazy as soon as he heard that Tie had disappeared.

He got up from his seat and almost completely destroyed a table.

Nordics immediately went to the square to check if there were any passersby who had seen Tie.

“Ha…”

Veil, who had been rubbing his temples, suddenly hesitated.

His gaze was fixed on the pipe he was holding.

The next moment, he began climbing up it without hesitation.

‘If I go up, I should be able to see something.’

It had been a long time since he moved by holding onto something like this, so cold sweat ran down his temples, but that wasn’t important right now.

How far had he climbed?

Veil grabbed the roof and stood on top of it.

As expected, the street scene came into view at a glance.

In his widened field of vision, he could see Nordics in the nearby square.

He was talking with a passerby and then suddenly running toward the pier.

Veil’s brow furrowed.

“Don’t tell me.”

His eyes turned toward the pitch-black rolling sea.

He began running toward the pier, jumping over building rooftops.

“Stupid bastard.”

Curses burst out at himself.

Although he teased her every day because her reactions were cute, Veil knew that Astie was a special child.

So he thought she would be fine.

Leaving him alone in a room for a couple of hours should be fine.

“He’s only four years old after all, this foolish…”

Veil gritted his teeth and put more strength into his legs.

Reaching the last building, he jumped onto the grain sacks piled on the ground.

Nordics and Basto had already arrived at the pier.

“Someone saw Astie heading toward the pier!”

Sure enough, Nordics panicked upon spotting Veil.

“N-no, it can’t be. Surely not the sea, I told him, to stay in his room, but I…”

Basto’s complexion had now turned from pale to blue.

But at that moment, something caught Veil’s eye.

“…What is that?”

At the end of the pier.

Where abandoned cargo was piled up.

He could see something like a small dot crouched there.

“Tie!!”

“…Child!”

“Astie!”

Realizing it was Astie, the three of them began running toward him without hesitation.

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