A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 26

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 26

Basto rubbed his brow as if he had a headache.

“It’s not that I hadn’t thought about it. But…”

“What if the child just gets hurt for no reason?”

That’s when Veil stepped forward.

Veil was frowning deeply.

Basto closed his mouth.

In fact, there was nothing wrong with what Veil said.

Actually, Basto had been thinking similarly all along.

Everyone has something they don’t want others to ask about.

For Basto, it was his family’s story, which is why he hadn’t asked Tie about her family history either.

“Besides, we’ve been confident among ourselves that she’s probably one of the Luminien princes and left it alone until now. Let’s at least try to confirm…”

“But what if the child’s father isn’t in Luminien?”

At Nordics’ words, this time Veil closed his mouth.

“Tie is a child. As I said before, we don’t know which parts of the child’s testimony are real and which are fake.”

“…”

“It’s true that Tie is clever. However, we can’t set our goal based solely on the child’s indirect testimony. To help find the child’s father, we need to know exactly what happened first.”

Veil lost his words and lowered his gaze.

Because Nordics was right from beginning to end.

“The child’s father’s name. Where the two of them lived. Just knowing that much would make finding clues much easier.”

“…What if the child doesn’t want to talk?”

“We can’t interrogate her. But let’s ask when Tie wakes up.”

Eventually Veil nodded.

Basto also seemed to agree with Nordics’ opinion.

The three men looked at the closed door and crouched down in a row in front of it.

“But… I’m just asking this just in case.”

Soon Veil spoke again.

“If the child finds her father, what happens then?”

Basto and Nordics stared at Veil.

“I mean, you know. If the child finds her father, does Agabelt fall through?”

Veil had a somehow uncomfortable expression.

As if he didn’t like the idea of the mercenary group disbanding.

Basto, who had been thinking, answered.

“That would probably be likely.”

“Then what are you going to do after that?”

Basto’s gaze darkened.

He remembered the time when he wandered alone like a madman, working as a wandering mercenary.

It had only been a few weeks ago, but somehow it felt distant.

The memories with Tie seemed to be more intense for him than he thought.

If all of that came to an end…

“…I’d probably go back to being a wandering mercenary.”

“What about you, Nordics?”

“Well. I didn’t know I’d become a mercenary. I just ended up going with you all.”

As he said, Nordics hadn’t put his name on Agabelt because he wanted to become a mercenary.

It was more like he ended up putting his name on Agabelt while trying to help find Tie’s father.

In any case, he was now Agabelt’s oldest mercenary.

“I’m with you all now, but if the mercenary group falls through, I think I’ll go back to the Gateway.”

“…I can’t accept that.”

Veil muttered.

“Finding her father and the child being the leader are separate things, aren’t they? If we agreed to take on Agabelt, we should take responsibility to the end. What happens to the members if the leader runs away?”

He glared at the closed door.

“Even if the child says she’s quitting, I’ll stop her. I’ll say she needs to keep working as a mercenary. We need the child’s abilities to siege Mastone and make money too.”

“…”

“If she says she absolutely doesn’t want to be separated from her father, then we can just have the child’s father join Agabelt too. We can appoint him to some position like leader’s guardian or something.”

“That’s not so easy…”

“I don’t know, anyway I’m not just going to let the child go. Do you know how much I suffered to make her into a Commander King?”

How many times he had to hold back laughter that was about to burst out in front of people.

Veil cleared his throat and added.

“For the record, it’s absolutely not because I like the child. Even if the little one is kind of stupid, she has good abilities, right? Dark attribute mages aren’t common either.”

“…”

“If we advertise well with the child, Agabelt could grow in size in an instant. Maybe we could even aim for ranking first place. Then everyone sitting on piles of money would just be a matter of time.”

Basto didn’t answer and kept his gaze fixed on the door.

Nordics also sighed.

When even Veil, lost in his own thoughts, closed his mouth, silence fell over the corridor again.

The three men waited quietly.

Until Tie, who had fallen asleep exhausted from crying, would wake up.

Meanwhile, Tie was wandering in a dream.

Her hazy, shaking vision brightened and something became visible.

A dark space.

Thick smoke everywhere.

Through the gaps, she could see the lower face of some woman whose complexion had turned pale white.

The woman was holding Tie preciously tight in her arms.

“Livia! Protect Tie!”

Then, from far away, someone spoke to the woman.

A familiar voice.

It was Father’s voice.

Tie reflexively tried to look in that direction but couldn’t move at all.

Her whole body was wrapped tightly in soft cloth.

“Woo, baaa-“

She tried opening her mouth just in case, but a completely unexpected sound flowed from her throat.

“Baaa, wooong…”

She could quickly realize that it was a baby’s sound.

‘Did Tie become a baby?’

She knew baby crying sounds well from secretly peeking into the room with her tadpole half-siblings.

Tie rolled her big eyes around, trying to understand the situation.

“Ahhh! Aleric! No-!”

At that moment, the woman holding Tie let out a scream-like sound.

As the woman adjusted her hold on Tie, her view naturally changed slightly.

A horrific scene unfolded before her eyes.

Monster corpses scattered everywhere.

And just as many… casualties.

“Livia! Don’t come and run away with the young miss!”

In the distance, some man shouted while facing a giant monster.

He was holding two large spheres in both hands, shooting blue light at the monster.

“But you!”

“Are you planning to let the young miss get hurt!”

The woman hesitated.

The woman eventually turned her body hesitantly and began running in the opposite direction.

Something hot fell drop by drop onto Tie’s cheeks.

The woman called Livia was crying while holding Tie in her arms.

“Hic, Miss. Don’t worry. Don’t worry about anything….”

The woman muttered while tightly holding the whimpering Tie in her embrace.

How much time had passed like that?

“Urgh-“

The running woman suddenly collapsed onto the ground with a thud.

Looking up at the woman’s face, she could see it gradually turning purple.

“Damn it, the poison….”

The woman placed Tie on her lap with trembling hands, then pulled out a medicine bottle from her bosom.

And she tried to take it, but,

“Ha, urgh.”

Perhaps because her grip had weakened, she dropped the entire bottle to the floor.

The woman frantically fumbled around the floor soaked with monster blood and filth.

Then she slowly collapsed forward.

“Ah, Miss, huff. This won’t do.”

A few strands of sweat-soaked red hair stuck to Tie’s face.

“Uh, uung- byaaa…!”

Tie wriggled and barely managed to pull one arm out of the cloth.

And when she touched the woman’s cheek, she was startled.

Because the woman’s cheek was very cold.

“The rift, we need to get out, we need to get out….”

The woman’s voice grew fainter and fainter.

It was when she could only helplessly watch the strength drain from those brown pupils.

“Livia!”

Someone grabbed the shoulders of the crouching woman and lifted her up.

Tie’s eyes widened as she saw the face that filled her vision.

“When did you get poisoned!”

The person who quickly took Tie from the woman’s lap and held her was Father.

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