A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 243

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 243

 

Their gazes met.

 

Tie, who was slightly frightened, and the gaze of that doppelganger.

 

Tie, who had been fidgeting with her fingers, muttered quietly.

 

“This is a doppelganger…”

 

Doppelganger.

 

A being that appeared in the ghost story comic books that the older kids at preschool secretly read.

 

A doppelganger meant an existence that looked exactly like oneself.

 

The problem was that meeting a doppelganger was a very ominous sign.

 

‘They said you die if you encounter one!’

 

Tie covered her mouth with both hands, recalling what she had seen in the ghost stories.

 

However, the doppelganger said nothing.

 

It just stood quietly in place, just like when they first met.

 

It was when Tie was restlessly rolling only her eyes without making a sound.

 

“Are you afraid?”

 

Suddenly, the doppelganger spoke.

 

Tie was startled and opened her eyes wide.

 

The doppelganger was speaking.

 

“Are you afraid of me inside you, child?”

 

The doppelganger was still expressionless.

 

Its tone was calm while also carrying a hint of boredom.

 

Tie swallowed her saliva and thought.

 

‘Is Tie’s doppelganger a hundred-year-old grandfather…?’

 

There was no other reason for it to call Tie ‘child.’

 

There was no reason for it to speak in such a manner either.

 

But then.

 

“How interesting that you consider me a mortal. However, I am not the kind of existence you think I am, child.”

 

As if reading Tie’s thoughts, the doppelganger answered and took a step closer to Tie.

 

“Mortal. That is a being that must inevitably disappear. Those who cannot escape death as time passes. Like you, your companions, and your family.”

 

Tie’s lips parted.

 

“Originally, mortals cannot be chosen. But you are different because you are my seed.”

 

At the cold feeling touching her hand, Tie flinched and looked down.

 

The doppelganger was already holding Tie’s hand.

 

“That we have met means you are finally ready to completely accept me.”

 

A strange feeling flowed in through their joined hands.

 

“Become me in this place. Then you will not die. You can become part of me and enjoy eternity together.”

 

Tie’s eyes widened.

 

But Tie immediately shook off the doppelganger’s hand.

 

“I don’t want to!”

 

Tie stared at the doppelganger with frightened eyes.

 

“Why do you keep telling me to become something? Tie is Tie! I won’t become anything! I want to go home!”

 

The doppelganger gave no answer.

 

It was just staring at Tie blankly, just like when they first met.

 

“Ah, Father.”

 

Tie hurriedly turned around.

 

“Motherrrr…!”

 

The face of Mother, Ardiana, whom she had finally met, also came to mind.

 

Tie began running toward the opposite side of the doppelganger while sniffling.

 

She didn’t know what that doppelganger was, but it was clear that it wanted something bad from Tie.

 

But only for a moment.

 

“Your home is here, child.”

 

The doppelganger appeared right in front of her again.

 

Tie was so surprised that she froze in place.

 

However, she turned around again.

 

It was to escape to a place where the doppelganger wasn’t.

 

“You may be frightened for now. But we have been together for a very long time. You just didn’t know.”

 

But beyond the back and front, there was now a doppelganger beside her as well.

 

“It is not by chance that I chose you.”

 

“G-go away!”

 

“You were the only vessel capable of containing me from the beginning. I recognized you even before you were conceived in your mother’s womb.”

 

The surroundings flashed and dozens of doppelgangers surrounded Tie.

 

“And now. You are finally ready to see me. We have won.”

 

The doppelgangers closed the distance.

 

Tie hastily gathered mana in her trembling hands.

 

Now that Father, Mother, and the unit members were not by her side.

 

To safely escape this place, she had no choice but to fight the doppelganger.

 

However.

 

“Why, why…”

 

The manipulation of mana, which had never failed before, was cut off abruptly.

 

The power gathering at her fingertips also crumbled into powder and fell.

 

One of the doppelgangers spoke.

 

“How pitiful. You didn’t know, it seems. The fact that the source of all your power lies with me.”

 

When she raised her head, one of the doppelgangers was approaching Tie again.

 

The doppelganger took the frozen Tie’s hand.

 

“Remember. When you saved Basto Paerix and Veil Theodor in Briowood.”

 

“…”

 

“I was there as well.”

 

When the doppelganger snapped its fingers with a snap- sound, her vision turned white.

 

Before her eyes unfolded the battlefield that had occurred not long after coming to Talochium.

 

“Ugh-!”

 

Veil, whose thigh was pierced by the monster’s claws, let out a groan.

 

“Run away-!!”

 

Basto had fallen to the ground, and the sight of the monster pouncing on him was seen in slow motion.

 

“Tenebrium Dungeon…”

 

When they decided to form a mercenary group and went to Tenebrium Dungeon to conduct a test.

 

There were small mastones there, as well as two unexpected medium mastones.

 

Large monsters burst out randomly, and the mountain was engulfed in flames.

 

“Hammer is…!”

 

Tears welled up in Tie’s eyes as she watched the scene of Basto falling.

 

Basto was in mortal danger.

 

If no one helped him, he would inevitably be devoured by the monster.

 

But at that moment.

 

[…Friend. Help…]

 

[Of the Underworld…]

 

A cold energy stirred in her chest and voices from underground began to be heard.

 

Bone friends emerged through the soil.

 

The power that flowed from Tie’s body breathed life into her friends and made them move alive.

 

Snap-

 

With the sound of fingers snapping, the scene changed again.

 

“Death Hounds are attacking Agabert!”

 

Pearl City.

 

Those led by the evil mercenary Cal Worven leaped one by one onto the ship carrying Agabert.

 

With monsters rampaging in the sky and sea, they were attacking people instead of the monsters.

 

“M-monsters!”

 

The pier became chaos.

 

Regent Marianne’s face turned pale at the situation of Raul and Enzo, whose fate was unknown.

 

“That was also me.”

 

The doppelganger’s voice was heard.

 

Her gaze turned to the rippling sea.

 

[…Master.]

 

From beneath the water, an unfamiliar voice was calling Tie.

 

[I have been waiting.]

 

[Only for you, Master.]

 

It was that power again.

 

The power that had summoned her bone friends.

 

That power swelled as if it would burst within her heart, and Tie summoned the shipwreck that had been sleeping underwater.

 

Snap-

 

The scene changed.

 

Moments when Tie had used her power, regardless of whether it was magic or divine power, continued to unfold.

 

Snap-

 

In the Weapon District.

 

Snap-

 

At Caldenbain Ridge.

 

Snap-

 

When she had recklessly attacked Mastone to gather unit members,

 

Snap-

 

The Clock Tower mission, the moment she had saved the dying Livia, everything.

 

“Do you understand now?”

 

Focus returned to her eyes.

 

The doppelganger who looked exactly like her smiled.

 

“That power was never yours to begin with. You cannot oppose me with your will.”

 

In the dark space.

 

The doppelganger’s voice, seeming more excited than before, echoed.

 

“I am the World Tree. The absolute being who can embrace everything in this land.”

 

The doppelganger spread both arms.

 

“Now it is time to become one with me, my seed.”

 

“…tan.”

 

In the darkness.

 

“Tesetan!”

 

Tesetan’s eyes snapped open.

 

In the room where dawn light was dimly streaming in, Astie’s profile came into view.

 

“Tie is…!”

 

Beyond Sire, he could see Ardiana fidgeting anxiously.

 

“Tie has a fever, such a high fever…!”

 

Tesetan bolted upright and took Sire into his arms.

 

As Ardiana said, the skin he touched was burning hot like fire.

 

From near the child’s heart, the faint light he had seen before in Jongno-gu was seeping out once again.

 

“She kept making pained sounds in her sleep, it was strange…!”

 

Ardiana sobbed.

 

Tesetan hurriedly got down from the bed.

 

Today was the first time he resented falling into such deep sleep beside Tie.

 

“What’s wrong, is Child sick?!”

 

In the corridor, Veil and Basto, who had already woken up from the commotion, were standing there.

 

Seeing the child’s flushed face, Basto said.

 

“The fever seems severe. A physician, we need to call a physician…”

 

“No. Not a physician.”

 

But Tesetan knew who could explain the situation.

 

“Where is Lucalion?”

 

The source of the light seeping from the child’s heart was the World Tree.

 

As if proving this, unfamiliar vines were already growing along the corridor railings and ceiling.

 

“Regent! This way!”

 

Quick-footed Livia threw open Lucalion’s door.

 

However, Tesetan who entered there had no choice but to freeze in place.

 

“…Hey, Ka-Kamang. Why are you like this, huh?!”

 

Livia stammered.

 

“What! The elephant too…!”

 

The room was already covered with lush branches and leaves.

 

In the center of it all, Lucalion and Ppupppu in human form lay collapsed with pale faces.

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