A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 25

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 25

Tie thought she felt like a stuffed doll that had been soaked in water.

Her curled-up body was too heavy to move easily, and she couldn’t tell how much time had passed.

Above her head, a crimson twilight was already beginning to paint the sky.

‘Even if you meet your father, that man won’t know who you are.’

At first, she didn’t exactly understand what Kamang’s words meant.

So she thought it was just intimidation.

But now she thought she understood.

What those words meant.

Herself, calling out desperately for Father.

Father, who had looked back at Tie briefly upon hearing that voice.

And then, thinking of Father who soon turned his head away indifferently…

With all strength drained from her body, she buried her head between her legs.

It was when tears were dripping onto the ground, drop by drop.

“Astie!”

“Hey, Child-!!”

“Tie?”

Familiar voices could be heard right in front of her.

Only then did Tie lift her head.

She saw three people standing under the twilight.

Basto with a pale complexion.

Veil whose entire body was drenched in sweat.

Even Nordics with an anxious expression.

The members of Agabelt that Tie had created… Tie’s companions.

Tie took a shuddering breath.

Looking at the three people’s appearance, she could naturally tell.

That they had all been searching for Tie until now.

She wanted to say she was sorry for making them worry, but,

“…Uh, hic.”

Contrary to her will, as soon as she opened her mouth, hiccups leaked out.

“Hic, sniff… hic.”

Sorrow welled up and the emotions she had been holding back burst forth.

“U-Uncle… Brother and Grandfather…”

“…”

“Tie’s Father, Father…”

‘Tie, you know Father loves you most in the world, right?’

He was a father who always held Tie in his arms and kissed her cheek.

‘Our daughter is Father’s treasure. With just you, Father can do anything… really, anything.’

On difficult days, he was a father who would silently pull Tie into his arms and bury his face in her small shoulders for a long time.

But that same father had just walked away after seeing Tie.

As if she were a stranger.

Sorrowful tears streamed down her cheeks.

“Tie’s Father… hic. I want to see Father, waaah…”

She missed Father.

Not the father who turned away even after seeing Tie, but the father who used to hold Tie tightly like before.

“I thought, sniff, I thought it would be fine just to get to Jedo…”

Tie’s goal all this time had been to go to Jedo.

She had only thought that if she went to Paladin Headquarters, she would be able to meet Father.

But when Father turned away from her just now, the parts she had forgotten came back to her.

After meeting Father, what then?

What should she do after that?

Hadn’t she just confirmed it?

That to Father in this world now, Tie was just someone else’s business.

The thought that it would be okay even if Father didn’t recognize Tie was a big mistake.

Because she could naturally realize it.

‘That Father has forgotten Tie.’

It meant he no longer loved Tie like before.

It meant he might find Tie bothersome, or think she was unnecessary.

Strength gradually drained from her arms.

It had been the same when living in South Korea.

Not all adults liked Tie.

107 Grandmother and 203 Aunt took good care of Tie, but Another Aunt who lived in a different apartment disliked Tie.

On days when that aunt happened to be left in charge of Tie, Tie had to listen to grumbling sounds all day long.

‘Good grief, really. If it weren’t for fixing the bathroom, I would have refused to watch the child. It’s not even my niece, and there’s no connection at all, so bothersome really…’

The blunt rice bowl placed on the table.

The cold gazes that made it impossible to approach.

To some adults, children are just troublemakers.

Because they require a lot of attention and care.

But if, to Father in this world now, Tie had become that kind of existence…

‘…Tie can’t do it. She won’t be able to.’

She didn’t have the confidence to speak.

The confidence to say that Tie was actually Father’s daughter.

Sad tears rolled down her cheeks, drop by drop.

‘Even if I meet Father again, I can’t do it like before anymore.’

Tie might have wanted to believe.

That if she just met Father, they could return to how things were before.

However, that wasn’t such a simple matter.

In the end, everything Kamang said was right.

‘With Father from Jongno-gu…’

It had ended the moment Father returned as a keepsake box.

Because when leaving Jongno-gu, Tie had abandoned everything from that place.

Tie hated herself for realizing all of this too late.

That’s why tears kept coming.

They kept coming, never stopping at all.

“This is driving me crazy, really.”

In front of sleeping Tie, Veil clutched his forehead.

“What are we going to do? The kid’s not in her right mind!”

“Lower your voice, Veil.”

At Basto’s words, Veil frowned.

However, he obediently closed his mouth and followed Basto and Nordics out to the corridor.

As soon as the door closed, Nordics spoke.

“Did you look into the Luminen Family?”

Basto and Veil’s gazes grew heavy.

The family most suspected of being where Tie’s father might be was Luminen.

They had already investigated the members of Luminen this morning, but…

“There weren’t any particular results. All four young masters don’t quite fit as Tie’s father.”

“What about Duke Luminen, the head of the family?”

“Actually, he’s the most plausible one.”

Duke Luminen was an old veteran who suited the word grandfather more than father.

But he wasn’t so old that he couldn’t have children.

“If it were him, he would have had enough power to send Tie outside the family.”

“But there’s something troubling about that theory.”

Basto interjected.

“Tie clearly said so. That she lived alone with her father until recently.”

Veil and Nordics fell silent.

They remembered that too.

At least that Tie had said such things.

“If that’s true, then Tie continuously lived alone with Duke Luminen, but hasn’t the Duke never been absent from official occasions?”

Valentis Luminen still often participated in Mastone sieges.

He constantly traveled busily between battlefields, and when sieges dragged on, he frequently camped for months in front of Mastone.

Yet such a person lived alone with Tie?

“Right, that doesn’t make sense.”

“Also, the child said her father wouldn’t remember her. Because he’s under a forgetting spell.”

But who would dare tamper with Valentis Luminen’s memory?

Him, the head of the Luminen Family and a great Paladin?

Either way, Duke Valentis seemed far from the ‘father’ Tie spoke of.

“Perhaps, if the place where Tie’s father is isn’t the Luminen Duchy…”

“But Luminen is the only place with someone who could be called the strongest Paladin.”

The three men fell silent, feeling lost.

Amid the silence, Veil slightly opened the door.

Through the crack, he could see Tie, exhausted from crying and now asleep.

“Foolish child. What does she mean, Sorcerer King.”

Veil’s face was full of worry.

“Just whining about missing her father…”

Since it was the first time they’d seen Tie cry so heartbreakingly, Nordics and Basto also became solemn and couldn’t say much.

“Tomorrow I’ll go to Jester.”

Then Basto spoke.

“Veil, you take care of Tie. Jester is always crowded with mercenaries, so there might be more information about the Paladins circulating.”

If they were lucky, they might find another Paladin suspected of being a candidate for Tie’s father.

While thinking such thoughts, Nordics, who had been quiet, muttered.

“You two. How about we just ask the child directly?”

Veil and Basto’s gazes turned to him.

“What exactly is her father’s name. What does he look like, where did they live.”

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