A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 249
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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 249
A single tear rolled down Tie’s cheek and dropped.
‘You must watch the ground carefully when walking, Astie.’
Nordics was a very kind person.
He cherished Tie as much as the Go grandfathers in Jongno-gu, no, even more than that.
‘Astie. The stars say something very good will happen tomorrow.’
‘Grandfather, how do the stars talk?’
‘The stars speak through their twinkling and the positions they hold. Do you see those four large stars over there?’
‘Yes!’
‘It’s called the Kanepra constellation. When another small star called Pelune moves backward above it, it’s a sign that misfortune is lifting and good things are beginning.’
Nordics was skilled in healing arts and also good at reading the movements of stars.
Perhaps that’s why his profession seemed different every time he mentioned it.
‘What exactly does that old man do for a living, huh?’
‘I told you. He’s a fortune teller.’
‘Yesterday he told the child he was an astrologer. Sometimes he works as a healer too.’
‘Hehe, then I suppose he’s all three.’
‘Basto! Are you sure it’s okay to just leave this old man alone?! Huh?!’
He had many secrets.
Even his age wasn’t certain.
‘Veil brother, Basto uncle! Nordics Grandfather says he’s seventy-eight! Tie asked!’
‘What are you talking about? A few days ago he mentioned an event from over 90 years ago as happening in ‘his youth.”
‘R-really…?’
‘Yeah. And look at that face, child. You think that’s only around eighty? Believe what makes sense. He looks much older than that at face value.’
‘Hehehe… Veil, you’re really too much.’
‘That’s right, Veil. He’s still an elder after all.’
‘Right! Veil brother has no manners at all!’
Still, everyone liked Nordics because he had a very special ability.
Even wounds buried deep in one’s heart seemed like nothing when they came from his mouth.
‘Basto, have you thought about remarrying?’
‘…Remarrying, you say?’
‘Yes. You can’t live your whole life with an empty space in your heart. Someday you need to let some sunlight in there too.’
‘…’
‘Don’t stand in the shadows too long. Your late wife and daughter wouldn’t want that either.’
The pain of losing family too.
‘Veil, you’re really trying hard too.’
‘What are you suddenly talking about? Out of nowhere.’
‘Do you really need to handle everything yourself? Living with burdens on your back isn’t something just anyone can do.’
‘Come on. What am I…’
‘If your back is too straight, it’ll break. Live a little more relaxed. You have money now, and your siblings are all grown up, so what are you worried about?’
‘…Ahem! Enough of that, just eat this! You like jerky, don’t you old man? Your hair is white but your teeth seem fine?’
‘Hehe, I’ll dissolve it to eat.’
‘That works out even better. The child sucked on that a few times before giving it to you. It’ll probably dissolve quickly.’
‘Heh, hehehe…’
All the overwhelming sense of responsibility too.
It was the same for Tie.
In front of Nordics, she could forget about bad things.
That’s why she liked it, but to think that Nordics was the Pope’s person.
Their first meeting too.
His sudden disappearance not long ago was all part of a plan set by the Pope.
Strength drained from her body.
“Tie…”
She could see Father and Mother’s faces.
Beside her, a boy with an unfamiliar face was making a big fuss loudly.
“Master! I’m so glad you’re safe! This Marbas believed! That you would not submit to that coercive and authoritarian Absolute Being…!”
Seeing the lion ears sprouting from his head, Tie closed her mouth.
The child remained silent for a while, then spoke much later in a tearful voice.
“I’m not your master…”
Marbas’s eyes widened.
Tie’s body trembled.
“Tie isn’t your master. Tie isn’t Ppupppu’s mother either, and becoming friends with Kamang too, ugh, sniff.”
Tears fell from her eyes.
“It was all fake. Tie isn’t powerful. I was using other people’s power while bragging that Tie was the strongest…!”
Ardiana gripped the blanket.
Tesetan froze in place with a hardened face.
He could tell instinctively.
‘She met the World Tree.’
The high fever that had made the child’s body burn intensely.
The vines that had briefly covered the inside of the room.
Everything was similar to what had happened when he met the World Tree in Jongno-gu.
“Marul, ugh, you remembered too, didn’t you?”
Tie lifted her face covered in tears and snot.
Her watery green eyes stared at Marbas.
“You know everything because you remembered, right?”
Confusion crossed Marbas’s face.
“W-well, I did remember…”
“Ugh, huu, sniff.”
Tie began crying even more sorrowfully.
“Then Kamang too, and Ppupppu too…”
The child curled up her body.
If her guess was right, Lucalion and Ppupppu would have remembered everything too.
That they were actually the World Tree’s spirits.
That what they should originally follow and like wasn’t Tie but the World Tree.
“…Ugh.”
At that moment, a small groan was heard.
When she turned her head, across the room.
Lucalion, who had been collapsed, was staggering as he raised his body.
“Damn. Feels like my head’s going to split.”
Ppupppu in human form also muttered in an unfamiliar tone as he straightened his back.
“Lu, Lord Lucalion.”
Marbas rolled his eyes.
He looked at Tie once, then at Lucalion and Ppupppu once, fidgeting restlessly.
Lucalion, who had risen from his seat, knelt down.
He looked around the room as if searching for something, then looked at Tie and opened his mouth.
“…Astie.”
But before he could approach the bed.
“Tie!”
“Master!”
Tie jumped up from his spot and began running toward the door.
The door slammed shut with a bang.
The sound of running footsteps faded away beyond the closed door.
Tesetan was about to hurriedly chase after him.
“Wait.”
Ardiana grabbed his wrist.
She shook her head at Tesetan.
Before they knew it, Lucalion was following Tie out of the room.
“…Things have gotten complicated.”
Ppupppu, no, Krazaru who was left alone furrowed his brow.
He brushed off the hem of his long flowing white robe once, then he too took large steps toward the door.
Meanwhile.
Tie ran through the garden, gasping for breath.
The grass was crushed under his bare feet without shoes.
After passing where the fence had been, the old outpost building that Father and Trevaga had used before the merger appeared.
Tie headed toward the warehouse behind the building.
And he went into the dense thicket beside the warehouse and hid.
‘By now, those children must have regained their memories too.’
The World Tree’s voice rang loudly in his ears.
His hands trembled, and his heart beat fiercely.
Tie sobbed at the feeling that his chest might burst open.
“Hic, ugh…”
He couldn’t bear the fear.
What if Kamang, what if Ppupppu.
‘That power was never yours to begin with.’
‘Now it’s time to become one with me, little seed.’
What if they said the same thing as the World Tree to Tie.
Ominous thoughts kept growing in his head.
‘I remember everything, Astie. Now return the power you stole from my master.’
‘…Kyut! Kyuit!’
He buried his face between his knees that he hugged.
“Why…”
Why do only bad things happen to Tie?
‘I worked hard and came this far so bravely.’
Tears soaked his knees wetly, and the wind shook the thicket as it passed by.
“Astie!”
Something grabbed Tie’s wrist and pulled.
The lifted Tie was dragged out of the thicket before he could even be surprised.
Two strong hands caught and supported the stumbling Tie.
“What are you doing here!”
Lucalion was right in front of him.
Though his face was expressionless, Tie knew.
“…Hic, ugh.”
Lucalion was firmly angry.
The reason was obvious.
It must be because Tie wouldn’t return the power to the World Tree.
“You!”
Lucalion furrowed his brow.
“I’m sorry!”
Tie squeezed his eyes shut and shouted first.
Just then the wind stopped and the surroundings became quiet.
Lucalion was speechless and frozen in place.
“I’m not sorry to the World Tree. But, sniff. Tie is sorry to you, Kamang…”
“…”
“I know you don’t want to be friends anymore. You can call Tie selfish. But…”
“Who says that? That you’re selfish?”
At that moment Lucalion cut off Tie’s words.
When he hesitantly raised his gaze, he saw Lucalion tightly clasping his own hands.
“…You don’t know anything.”
Lucalion whispered.
“No matter how much I tell you, you won’t believe it.”
At the same time, something flowed into Tie’s body.
It was a very familiar and comfortable energy.
Then a certain scene unfolded before Tie’s eyes.
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