A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 264

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 264

 

“Air… what?”

 

Lucalion made a puzzled expression.

 

Tie quickly dragged Lucalion to the corner beside the bed.

 

“It sucks in bad holy power! And then purifies it back into good holy power! Air purifier!”

 

Tie recalled Hanbit Kindergarten.

 

In spring, the kindergarten teachers would always turn on the air purifiers.

 

‘Quail Class friends~ Today, bad dust called yellow dust came riding the wind~ There are many things harmful to your body in that dust, so you must wear masks. Understood?’

 

‘Teacher! Tie has a question!’

 

‘Yes, what is our Tie curious about?’

 

‘We don’t wear masks inside the kindergarten?’

 

‘Ah, there are air purifiers inside the kindergarten, so you can take them off.’

 

‘Air purifiers…?’

 

‘This friend sucks up all the dust inside the kindergarten and releases clean air again, you see? So it’s okay.’

 

Tie came to see that machine, which she had thought was just noisy and bulky, in a new light that day.

 

To think something similar existed in Serkanos Cathedral too.

 

And it was to purify the Pope’s contaminated holy power…!

 

“Let’s go now!”

 

At her words, Lucalion blinked his eyes.

 

“We’ll find the air purifier and turn it off!”

 

Luciano wondered why he hadn’t experienced a rampage until now.

 

The World Tree’s power that he had forcibly stolen couldn’t have just stayed quietly in his body.

 

“Where is that? Where did you feel the strange flow?”

 

When Tie asked again, Lucalion hesitantly opened his mouth.

 

“…It’s not far. It’s near the confessional, a little away from here.”

 

“Confessional?”

 

“It’s a space where believers confess their sins and repent, but from the outside, it looked half-collapsed.”

 

“Why?”

 

“I don’t know. It seemed like they were tearing down an old building and rebuilding it…”

 

Tie gulped.

 

‘Oh my, even a reconstruction site…!’

 

Back when she lived in Jongno-gu.

 

She also remembered the movies they showed on television during holidays and festivals.

 

Among those movies, there were occasionally ones where many men appeared and fought among themselves,

 

‘When they fought, they always fought at reconstruction construction sites.’

 

Tie gulped.

 

The Clock Tower of the Old Palace was like that, and now Serkanos Cathedral too.

 

There was always something hidden in crumbling places.

 

“Let’s go tonight.”

 

When she whispered again, Lucalion’s red eyes showed a worried light.

 

However, Tie continued with a confident voice.

 

“We can go without being caught!”

 

Then she turned her head.

 

“Ppupppu!”

 

At that voice, Ppupppu poked his face out from the bag placed in a corner of the wall.

 

“Ppupppu, come here.”

 

Ppupppu tilted his head and hesitantly came out of the bag.

 

As soon as the distance closed, Tie lifted Ppupppu high into the air.

 

“You know, actually Tie knows everything. You’re transformed right now, aren’t you?”

 

Ppupppu made a startled expression.

 

“Kyuut…”

 

Several times.

 

Ppupppu had shown Tie his true form.

 

However, Tie had never directly mentioned that incident even once.

 

When Ppupppu returned to elephant form, she treated him the same as before, as if nothing had happened.

 

“I was confused at first, but I figured it out properly last time! Your original form is a really tall and scary grandfather, right?”

 

Ppupppu avoided Tie’s gaze.

 

Being treated as an old man just because his hair was white felt a bit unfair.

 

However, there was nothing wrong with Tie’s words.

 

“…It’s sad that Ppupppu isn’t a cute baby elephant, but now Tie is ready to accept the truth too.”

 

Tie put Ppupppu down on the floor.

 

And she sat cross-legged in front of him and said.

 

“From now on, you don’t have to force yourself to pretend to be an elephant in front of Tie!”

 

From behind, Marbas coughed awkwardly.

 

Ppupppu rolled his eyes here and there, unable to meet Tie’s gaze.

 

Then what was he supposed to do?

 

Just return to his original form while being shy and scared.

 

At that moment, Tie continued speaking.

 

“Actually, that’s why I’m asking.”

 

“…”

 

“Could you possibly transform into Tie instead of an elephant?”

 

Krazaru’s eyes widened.

 

Right in front of him, green eyes full of anticipation were sparkling.

 

“You can, right? Huh? You can, right?”

 

That night.

 

“…Shh, this way.”

 

Two children holding hands tightly crossed under the wall behind the Pilgrimage Hall.

 

The one in front was Lucalion, the one following behind was Astie.

 

“The bone friends say there are three of Luciano’s subordinates over there…!”

 

Lucalion nodded.

 

He could feel it too.

 

The presence of three people coming out from the main building of the cathedral.

 

“On the right too… Huh, behind us too!”

 

But at that moment, Tie, who noticed something, froze in place.

 

Lucalion quickly pulled Tie down and crouched under the wall.

 

Cold sweat ran down his temples.

 

‘Should we have waited a bit longer.’

 

For some reason, more and more priests who had been staying inside the building were coming outside.

 

‘Did they notice something?’

 

Even knowing it couldn’t be, anxiety washed over his entire body.

 

Thud- Thud-

 

Human footsteps began to be heard from the darkness in the distance.

 

Along with the sound of conversation echoing faintly.

 

“I’m tired. It’s troublesome that the upper gate is closed because of the expedition.”

 

“You’re telling me. We have to be careful since the offerings will only come and go through one path for a while.”

 

“When is the expedition leaving? I hope it doesn’t drag on too long.”

 

The priests continued approaching Tie and Lucalion.

 

If the distance closed like this, they would surely be discovered.

 

It was the moment when Tie, who had been pondering, was about to risk exposing her magic power and deploy a barrier.

 

“Hey there.”

 

In the distance.

 

A bright light turned on from the opposite side of Tie and Lucalion.

 

The priests who had been heading toward the two children turned their bodies in that direction.

 

Tie held her breath and hid her body in the direction where shadows fell.

 

A calm voice could be heard speaking.

 

“I came out for a night walk and got lost. I don’t know how to get back.”

 

Tie gulped.

 

There was no mistake.

 

The owner of that voice was,

 

‘Father!’

 

It was Tesetan who had called out to the priests from the opposite side.

 

The priests could be seen hurriedly heading toward Tesetan.

 

“What…! You must not come outside the Pilgrimage Hall.”

 

“Please return. Don’t you know that after midnight, Serkanos Cathedral enters sacred silence?”

 

Tesetan lightly waved the torch in his hand.

 

“I know well. Those who don’t belong to the cathedral can’t even come outside the buildings, right? You’re as strict now as you were before.”

 

“If you know that…”

 

“I came out before midnight. I told you I got lost.”

 

“We, we will guide you.”

 

The priests who replied irritably stood on either side of Tesetan as if they had made a promise.

 

Tie watched her father’s departing figure while feeling her heart pounding.

 

Before leaving the Pilgrimage Hall, Tie had briefly informed only her father about the situation.

 

Father, who heard the story, initially opposed this plan.

 

And he also wanted to move together with Tie.

 

However, having many people away from the dormitory at this moment was too dangerous.

 

While Tie’s absence could be covered by Ppupppu through transformation, Tesetan’s absence couldn’t be resolved.

 

“Let’s go again.”

 

Lucalion, confirming the situation was resolved, grabbed Tie’s hand and pulled her along again.

 

Tie began walking behind him with a tense face.

 

[Two to the north. Toward the main hall of the cathedral…]

 

[Priests around the Pilgrimage Hall…]

 

The whispers of her bone friends still echoed in her ears.

 

How long had they walked like that?

 

“Here it is.”

 

Finally, a building came into view.

 

The confessional was waiting for reconstruction work with its walls half collapsed.

 

Next to it, something glittered beneath a fountain overgrown with weeds.

 

Tie carefully walked in that direction.

 

The fountain seemed to have been dry for a long time.

 

The stone pedestal placed in the center was covered with moss and cracked here and there.

 

Then, one particularly clean stone at the bottom of the pedestal caught her eye.

 

“Lucalion. Look at this.”

 

Tie approached and lay flat in front of the stone.

 

“Only this stone here is incredibly clean…”

 

However, the moment she brought her hand to that stone.

 

With a rumbling sound, the central pedestal began turning half a rotation.

 

Tie froze solid at what appeared next.

 

What spread before her eyes was a spiral staircase leading downward.

 

From the distant depths below, the smell of moisture and mold, along with a faint oil smell, wafted up.

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