A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 247

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 247

 

Tesetan recalled the memories of that day.

 

Dark clouds filled the sky like nothing he had ever seen before.

 

Only when cold raindrops began falling one by one onto his face did he realize.

 

“My arm….”

 

The fact that his severed arm was perfectly attached to his shoulder.

 

That wasn’t all.

 

The wound on his leg, his side grazed by magic, the internal injuries that had made him cough up blood continuously.

 

The dragon seemed to have activated something, and everything was healed as if washed clean.

 

He looked down with confused eyes.

 

In his arms was Astie.

 

The child who had been giggling pursed her lips at the raindrops falling on her cheek.

 

“Tie….”

 

Hot tears welled up in his eyes.

 

The child was safe.

 

Tesetan collapsed to the ground with a thud.

 

Shielding from the falling rain, he looked down at the child’s face.

 

It was fortunate.

 

At least the child survived, that was fortunate.

 

Despite losing all his unit members, it was a disgusting and selfish sense of relief.

 

But there was no time to be sentimental.

 

Tesetan took a deep breath of the air tinged with unfamiliar scents.

 

Mourning for those he had lost would have to be postponed.

 

“Hey there, sir?”

 

In the distance, two men wearing strange clothes were walking toward him and Tie.

 

“You can’t come in here! Didn’t you see the barrier in front?!”

 

The foreign language pierced his ears like his native tongue.

 

They waved red stick-like objects as they drew closer.

 

“You’ll have an accident at this rate! This is a flooded road, if something goes wrong we won’t even find your body! With the rain coming down like this… huh?”

 

About five steps away, the man frowned.

 

He looked back at his colleague and stammered.

 

“Hey, Changhun. That… isn’t that blood?”

 

Wariness filled the man’s eyes.

 

What happened next occurred in the blink of an eye.

 

“Hey, hey?! Stop right there! Won’t you stop?!”

 

“Sergeant! That person is also holding a child!”

 

As soon as Tesetan saw the man reach behind his waist, he began running in the opposite direction.

 

Only one thought filled his mind.

 

He had to escape.

 

He couldn’t engage in combat against strangers in an unfamiliar place.

 

Tie burst into tears in his arms.

 

“Changhun, what are you doing! Quickly request support from the station-!”

 

“C-currently controlling the north entrance of the submerged bridge! Confirmed 1 suspicious person! Behavior is abnormal! Requesting backup!”

 

Urgent voices could be heard from behind.

 

“What the hell! Why is he, gasp! Why is he so fast!”

 

“Please come quickly! Pursuit on foot is impossible! Can’t see well because of the heavy rain!”

 

His heart beat rapidly.

 

The rain intensified, making his vision hazy and blurred.

 

Tesetan suddenly noticed that water had risen to his knees.

 

When he turned his head, the two men who had been chasing him had disappeared somewhere.

 

In the distance, something like an alarm wailed.

 

Tesetan checked on Tie.

 

The cloth wrapping the child was getting soaked.

 

He muttered incoherently.

 

“It’s okay, it’s okay. Tie.”

 

He continued walking.

 

Walking toward where the water was shallower, a strange hill appeared.

 

At the end of the hill was a massive stone structure.

 

As soon as he took shelter under the structure, an ear-splitting noise covered overhead.

 

Tie burst into tears again.

 

Tesetan looked around nervously.

 

Something was passing over the structure that sheltered them overhead.

 

Judging by how the noise continued for a while, it was certainly something very large.

 

“It’s okay, it’s okay….”

 

Tesetan muttered while patting Tie.

 

“Let’s go out when the rain stops. When the rain stops.”

 

But the heavy rain showed no signs of stopping.

 

He squeezed his body into a moss-covered crevice between rocks.

 

Worried the child might be cold, he rubbed his hands together and pressed them against her small forehead again and again.

 

In the midst of this.

 

Something entered his field of vision.

 

“…A mastone?”

 

A black, glossy stone was clutched in Tie’s hand.

 

Though no energy flowed from it, he could tell.

 

“…Dragon.”

 

The monster that had swept away Trevaga with a single gesture.

 

The being that had transported the father and daughter here at the last moment.

 

That being had become a mastone.

 

Tesetan looked down at the mastone with anxious eyes for a moment.

 

Then he took it from Tie’s hand and pushed it into the inner pocket of his clothes.

 

It was their first day in South Korea.

 

“I spent the first few days like that.”

 

The unit members held their breath at Tesetan’s words.

 

Should it be called fortunate?

 

Still, Tesetan was quick-witted.

 

As he wandered the unfamiliar city, he quickly figured out who to be careful of and how not to become a target of suspicion.

 

After realizing his clothing stood out, he even changed into clothes people had thrown away.

 

The problem was that he didn’t have a single penny.

 

“It was only thanks to the jewelry I had on me.”

 

Tesetan sold his jewelry to get money.

 

But even that quickly ran out.

 

He could only realize later.

 

The fact that those who bought his jewelry had deceived him.

 

However, he soon discovered a place nearby similar to Talochium’s market.

 

A place where merchants set up stalls and sold goods.

 

Mingling among the bustling crowds, he could scavenge enough for a meal.

 

Then one day, while thinking he couldn’t live like this forever.

 

“Young man! What are you doing right now?”

 

He met Chaeboksu.

 

Chaeboksu was a frustratingly good person.

 

She brought Tesetan and Tie to her home and first fed them until they were full, then put them to sleep.

 

Tesetan slept for two days as if he had fainted.

 

When he finally came to his senses, he hurriedly looked for Tie and found her being held by an unfamiliar woman, smiling brightly.

 

“Oh how pretty, what’s our baby’s name?”

 

“Ma! Muu… Bu!”

 

“Oh my, she babbles so well. Was the baby food that Aunt made for you that delicious?”

 

“She’s not ready for baby food yet! Just give her formula, really…”

 

“Oh dear. Grandmother is making a fuss again. Grandmother~ I can hold my head up and eat well from a spoon, you know. I’m all grown up~ you know.”

 

Apartment 107.

 

That cramped room didn’t feel stuffy at all.

 

Tesetan only then realized that he had been exhausted.

 

Until he recovered, the two women became their family.

 

“Tie’s Father, I heard Apartment 106 is moving out. I think it would be good if you could get that room.”

 

“Right. I’ll figure out the deposit somehow…”

 

They were also the ones who helped Tesetan get settled.

 

“Is the work hard?”

 

But the jobs Tesetan could do were limited.

 

Because of his status, or because of his conspicuous appearance.

 

He had to constantly move from one job to another.

 

It was frequent that he would work all day only to have his wages stolen.

 

Since there was no way to get the money back, the days of swallowing his frustration grew longer.

 

Meanwhile, Tie began to walk, talk, and run.

 

“Daddy!”

 

When he returned from work.

 

Seeing Tie running out barefoot to greet him, a strange guilt tormented him.

 

“Did you play with Grandmother again today?”

 

“Yes! With Aunt and Grandmother.”

 

He had to return quickly.

 

Tie wasn’t a child who should spend her days in such a cramped and dark place.

 

In the brightest and most cheerful place.

 

She was a child who should grow up running around the lakeside in summer and snowy fields in winter.

 

“Later, before Tie turns five, we’ll definitely return to our hometown. Okay?”

 

“Hometown?”

 

“Yes. Daddy’s hometown, Talochium is a beautiful country. It was even prettier before the Mastone emerged…”

 

“…”

 

“It’s incomparably vast compared to here, and the air is good too…”

 

However, that promise was never kept in the end.

 

“There’s nothing to be scared of, right? I saw you doing high-altitude work last time and you’re strong! Just think of it as a seafood processing factory. A seafood processing factory.”

 

It was an illegal workshop.

 

“First, the daily wage is high. Plus you get meals regularly, and the cold storage is cool in midsummer. How great is that?”

 

It was an unregistered seafood processing factory, so most of the workers were people with unstable status.

 

“Kim should make money while he can, come on. How long are you going to handle small change? I heard you even brought your young daughter.”

 

Click.

 

“Everyone’s out, right? Lights off. Inner cooling door locked. Thanks for working late today. That’s it.”

 

The cold storage built without following building codes had a broken internal opening mechanism.

 

Inside the warehouse where oxygen was gradually being depleted, Tesetan was powerless.

 

Just like the day he lost his unit members on the Elderin Plains, there was nothing he could do.

 

He had to go.

 

Tie would be waiting at home.

 

As his consciousness grew hazy, words wouldn’t come out of his mouth.

 

Only the humming sound from the lighting filled the space.

 

His shadow cast on the cold wall didn’t move throughout that night.

 

No, it couldn’t.

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