A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 265

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 265

 

“Ah, cold.”

 

Tie, who had been walking while holding her breath, shrugged her shoulders.

 

When she looked up, cold water was dripping drop by drop through a crack in the ceiling.

 

Tie made a tearful face.

 

“Kamang, we’re lost, aren’t we?”

 

Lucalion, who was walking ahead, slowly nodded.

 

“…It seems so.”

 

Tie’s eyebrows drooped downward.

 

Right after discovering the stairs at the fountain’s base.

 

Tie had come down all the way following them together with Lucalion.

 

There hadn’t been any signs of people around, and the bone friends who had been constantly warning about what was where and to be careful had also been quiet.

 

However, the problem arose after they reached the very bottom of the stairs.

 

“How is it? Still quiet?”

 

Tie nodded glumly.

 

As it turned out, the bone friends hadn’t become quiet.

 

When they came down to the basement, Tie had become unable to hear the bone friends’ voices.

 

“I think it’s because of this after all.”

 

Lucalion, who had been seriously pondering, muttered.

 

He soon took Tie’s hand and led her to the edge of the narrow passage.

 

“Here, do you see the purple sparkling thing?”

 

Tie’s lips parted.

 

Purple ore-like objects were sparsely embedded in the walls of the passage.

 

Each time the ore sparkled faintly, thin crack patterns spread out around it.

 

“This wasn’t just light…?”

 

Tie, who had thought the gems were simply lighting until now, asked.

 

Lucalion shook his head.

 

“No. Looking again, it’s a Sealing Stone.”

 

Lucalion had also initially thought these ores were lighting installed by the temple instead of torches.

 

However, the deeper they went inside.

 

The deeper they went, the more he couldn’t shake the feeling that something was strange.

 

“At some point, I also can’t detect the situation outside.”

 

Unlike Tie receiving help from the bone friends, Lucalion spread his own mana to explore the surroundings.

 

However, since coming down to the basement, he couldn’t sense any signs of people coming and going above ground or Luciano’s holy power.

 

“A Sealing Stone is that kind of artifact. When a Sealing Stone is embedded, that area is cut off from all external energy.”

 

Tie made a surprised expression.

 

“The outside can’t detect the inside, and the inside can’t feel the outside either. Even those inside can’t tell if others are there. So I know it as a method used to isolate traitors… what exactly is this place for?”

 

Tie gulped and looked around.

 

The air inside the passage was damp and stuffy.

 

Everything inside seemed stagnant, and every breath brought a moldy smell that stung her nose.

 

Suddenly, she remembered Lucalion’s words about the Pope’s unstable holy power being sucked somewhere into this place.

 

‘I see. Now I understand.’

 

The power that had been wandering outside seeped into this place and couldn’t be detected.

 

From the outside, it would naturally appear as if it had been absorbed inward.

 

Tie, who had been pondering, clenched her fist tightly.

 

“…No, Kamang. It might actually be good.”

 

The child looked at Lucalion.

 

“If people inside can’t detect each other, we can hide better, right?”

 

Lucalion closed his mouth.

 

“Let’s keep going. We must see what’s inside.”

 

Tie started walking again.

 

Lucalion reluctantly followed behind Tie, who was taking the lead.

 

Tie’s judgment was correct.

 

The two children had already come this far taking great risks.

 

They couldn’t return without any results.

 

‘…It seems more convenient because of the Sealing Stone.’

 

Being unable to use mana to detect the surroundings meant, in other words, that they had to guard their surroundings using only sight and hearing.

 

Lucalion sharpened his already sensitive senses even more.

 

It was when they had gone a little further inside.

 

“Wait.”

 

Lucalion, sensing something, stopped Tie.

 

One second later, murmuring voices began to be heard from beyond an invisible corner in the distance.

 

“Which number is this?”

 

“The fifth sacrifice that came in today.”

 

Tie covered her mouth.

 

The two children quickly turned back and hid behind a recessed wall.

 

“What about the previous four?”

 

“The first was damaged. The next two are silent. The fourth… no response.”

 

“Hmm, I hope this one lasts a bit longer.”

 

“Well, judging by the look in its eyes, it might be more suitable for experimental use.”

 

Two priests walked right past Lucalion and Tie.

 

Since they were carrying torches, their long shadows brushed against Tie’s feet.

 

Only after the footsteps completely disappeared did Tie exhale the breath she had been holding.

 

The child’s eyes were filled with fear.

 

‘Scary.’

 

Sacrifices, damage.

 

Recalling the words the priests had exchanged sent chills down her neck.

 

It was when the child was sticking her head out to carefully check the direction where the priests had gone.

 

Thunk-

 

A small pebble flew to Tie’s feet and rolled across the floor.

 

Startled, Tie jumped back.

 

However, there was nothing in the dark area across from them.

 

Thunk-

 

Then another pebble flew toward her ankle.

 

Tie froze in place.

 

This time she had confirmed where the stone had come from.

 

“Ka, Kamang.”

 

Tie tugged at Lucalion’s clothes.

 

“Th, there…”

 

Tie’s finger pointed somewhere.

 

It was a corner of the passage where the wall met the floor.

 

But looking closely, there was a small hole there big enough for a person to enter.

 

It had a structure similar to the roadside drainage that she had seen every day when living in Jongno-gu.

 

Thunk-

 

Another pebble flew.

 

Tie gulped and stepped forward.

 

Lucalion watched the surroundings with full tension.

 

Tie slowly got down on the floor.

 

When she carefully stuck her neck out to look inside the hole,

 

“…Huh.”

 

Inside, he met eyes with a pair of pupils that were likewise looking out at him.

 

“Wh, wha…”

 

Tie’s lips trembled.

 

At that moment, a small, quick voice flowed out from inside the hole.

 

“Listen carefully to what I say. Unless you want to be captured by the Order of the Assassins again.”

 

Order of the Assassins.

 

At the name of those who had tried to kidnap Veil’s siblings, Tie closed his mouth.

 

“The ones who passed by here a moment ago will circle around and come back. To where you’re standing now.”

 

At the same time, Lucalion approached from behind Tie.

 

“Tie. I sense people. From the opposite side.”

 

As Tie froze in place, the voice from the pit continued.

 

“When I count one, two, three, run to the right corner. Right after you pass it, there’s a hole slightly bigger than this one under the left wall.”

 

A grimy hand popped out from the darkness and gestured to the right.

 

“Go now. Quickly!”

 

There was no time to think.

 

Because torchlight was gradually approaching from the opposite passage.

 

Tie and Lucalion exchanged glances.

 

Without hesitation, both children ran to the right.

 

Turning the corner, there really was a moderately-sized hole gaping open under the left wall.

 

Tie hesitated in front of the pitch-black hole whose depth was impossible to gauge.

 

Right then, Lucalion grabbed Tie and threw himself inside.

 

“Who’s there!”

 

As soon as they hit the ground rolling, a chilling shout came from above their heads.

 

Tie sat down on the bottom of the pit while holding onto Lucalion.

 

His bottom stung a little, but there were no serious injuries.

 

The problem was that the Order of the Assassins was running this way.

 

However.

 

“Damn it, is that you again?”

 

With a sharp sound of scraping metal, the Order of the Assassins stopped somewhere above Tie and Lucalion’s heads.

 

Looking up, the two children could see something near the entrance of the pit they had entered.

 

The assassin’s legs and the sword at his waist were reflecting the dim light.

 

But the surprise was brief.

 

“…I’m sorry. I fell from the bed.”

 

This time, a calm voice came from the opposite side of the pit, straight ahead.

 

Looking closely, there was also a small gap in the opposite wall of the pit.

 

In front of it, someone was crouching with their back turned.

 

“I won’t make any noise.”

 

“Tch. I told you so many times to stay quiet today. Know that if you make another loud noise, things will get troublesome.”

 

The assassin growled threateningly at that someone.

 

Then he turned around right above Tie’s head.

 

The assassin’s rough footsteps seemed to fade away and then disappeared completely.

 

And at that moment.

 

The person who had been showing their back slowly turned around.

 

He quietly approached the pit, then without hesitation lowered his body and pushed his upper body inside.

 

“Come out now. They won’t come for a while.”

 

Shaggy, overgrown hair covered his forehead.

 

However, through the gaps, amber eyes that stood out even in the darkness sparkled.

 

“Did you also come in as Luciano’s test subjects? Your reactions must have been good, seeing that you’re fine.”

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