A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 266

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 266

 

“Test subject…?”

 

When Tie asked back, the child across from her hesitated.

 

Soon, weak confusion and curiosity appeared in the child’s eyes.

 

“Aren’t you a test subject?”

 

After pondering, Tie took a step forward.

 

Then she turned her body to the left and showed the mercenary badge under the cloak she was wearing.

 

“Yeah! We’re mercenaries.”

 

The child’s lips parted.

 

The grimy eyebrows furrowed and then straightened again.

 

“Mercenaries?”

 

“Yeah! Agavert!”

 

“Then that means you came from outside? From completely outside this Sercanoss Cathedral?”

 

“Uh-huh.”

 

Tie, who had lowered her guard, walked cheerfully toward the child.

 

This time the child backed away, wary of Tie.

 

However, Tie had already begun explaining the situation.

 

“We came on a ship this big from the sea for 3 weeks!”

 

“The sea…”

 

The child’s eyes trembled.

 

“Do you know Talochium? We came here to attack the Mastone here, but actually that’s the superficial reason.”

 

“…Superficial reason.”

 

Lucalion corrected her.

 

Tie nodded roughly.

 

“Anyway, anyway. So that’s why…”

 

Tie grabbed the child’s hand firmly.

 

“Let’s get out of here together. Tie knows the way out, and I know places to hide once we’re out.”

 

Tie’s gaze was directed at the iron bars outside the pit.

 

Just moments ago, Tie had clearly seen the child and the Order of the Assassins conversing with those iron bars between them.

 

“You dug this hole too, right? To escape.”

 

“Escape…”

 

The child, who had been blankly looking down at the hand Tie was holding, let out a hollow laugh.

 

“Escape is impossible.”

 

Tie hesitated.

 

The child’s expression darkened.

 

“You wouldn’t know since you came from outside. I dug this hole purely because I didn’t want to starve to death.”

 

The child gently pulled on Tie’s hand that he was holding.

 

“Just follow me. I’ll show you.”

 

“Huh…?”

 

Tie unconsciously moved her steps as the child led her.

 

The place the child took Tie to was the exit on the opposite side of the pit.

 

Then Tie gulped at the strange sight that unfolded before her eyes.

 

The iron cage that came into view was enormous.

 

The child was trapped alone inside it, in a space that was neither narrow nor wide.

 

All that was there was a low wooden bed, a musty blanket, and an iron water bucket.

 

“This is it.”

 

The child gestured under the wooden bed.

 

Under the bed, which was hard to see clearly because it was hidden, another pit was dug narrow and deep.

 

“If you go in here, you’ll reach the passage you guys came through earlier.”

 

The child crawled in first.

 

“What are you doing? I told you to follow. Patrol time is over.”

 

Tie, who had been hesitating, followed the child and pushed her body into the pit.

 

Unlike what she saw from outside, the inside was larger and bigger than expected.

 

Walking in a low posture, the child said,

 

“By the way, I didn’t dig this. I discovered what was already here and just worked on it a little.”

 

“…How?”

 

“Well, being trapped here for a long time, it ended up like that. There are more than ten of these here. If you know them well, you can even access the food storage.”

 

While talking, they had already entered a three-way fork.

 

The child first moved toward the leftmost path.

 

“Who would have known there was another underground beneath the underground. The Order of the Assassins didn’t know either, so that’s probably why I’m still fine.”

 

Only the child’s voice echoed quietly in the dark passage.

 

That’s when it happened.

 

“…What’s that?”

 

Lucalion, who was following behind, asked.

 

Tie and the child turned around.

 

The place Lucalion was pointing to was a corner in the upper part of the passage.

 

Weak light was streaming in through a small hole there.

 

Beyond it, another iron cage was visible.

 

And on this side of that iron cage,

 

“There’s another kid…”

 

Another child wearing equally grimy clothes and crouched against the wall was visible.

 

Tie asked with a confused face.

 

“You weren’t alone here?”

 

“How could I be alone.”

 

The child added,

 

“Of course, I’m the only one whose head is still intact.”

 

Tie blankly stared at the back of the child who started walking again.

 

Then she hurriedly began following behind.

 

How long had they walked?

 

The three had already entered a gentle slope leading upward.

 

After passing through the increasingly narrow path and coming outside, this time they saw giant sacks piled up like mountains in a corner of the wall.

 

“It’s the food storage.”

 

Unlike the places they had passed, this place had torches installed on every wall.

 

Tables with traces of food preparation and kitchen utensils were also visible.

 

The child approached a sack on the wall and took something out from inside it.

 

“Bread…?”

 

It was a lump of bread that looked soggy at first glance.

 

“There are things like this too.”

 

In the wooden box next to it, there were also some vegetables that weren’t fresh.

 

“I worked on the pit to steal food from here. The Order of the Assassins will never know I go through there.”

 

The child took a big bite of the bread in his hand.

 

Tie watched this scene, at a loss for words.

 

Meanwhile, Lucalion, who had been checking various parts of the warehouse, stopped in one spot.

 

“Then what’s this? It has a strange smell.”

 

Lucalion was looking at a small bottle on the table.

 

The child immediately stuffed the remaining bread into his mouth.

 

“You’d better not touch that.”

 

Then he quickly walked over to Lucalion.

 

“If possible, don’t even smell it. It makes your mind go crazy.”

 

“…What do you mean by going insane?”

 

The child let out a sigh.

 

“Remember the kid we saw on the way here?”

 

The image of another child they had seen while passing through the passage flashed through Tie’s mind.

 

The figure huddled against the wall, completely motionless.

 

The dimly visible eyes had no focus.

 

“That’s what happens.”

 

Her heart pounded thump-thump.

 

Now she was beginning to vaguely understand the situation.

 

“If you eat the meals they give you, your head goes crazy. I figured that out a while ago.”

 

“…”

 

“So at first I tried starving myself as long as I could endure it. But then I thought I’d die if I kept doing that.”

 

While speaking, the child transferred the bread from the sack one by one into his shirt front.

 

“This food is fine. It’s okay as long as it doesn’t have that medicine from the bottle smeared on it. Let’s go now.”

 

The child who had gathered plenty of bread turned around.

 

Then he went back into the pit they had just come out of.

 

Tie and Lucalion quietly exchanged glances and then followed the child back into the pit.

 

As soon as the passage widened a bit, the child turned around.

 

“You asked earlier if I was trying to escape, right?”

 

Tie couldn’t answer and kept her mouth shut.

 

“You wouldn’t know, but for me as a test subject, it’s better to stay underground. Even if I go outside, it’s still inside Serkanos Cathedral anyway, and the priests’ surveillance is everywhere.”

 

“…”

 

“Looking at your route, it seems like you came in through the fountain side. Good job. That side has less security from the start.”

 

The child shrugged his shoulders and started walking again.

 

“The Order of the Assassins patrols the passages once at midnight, then every two hours after that. It’s been about an hour since the last patrol, I think.”

 

The three stood at the crossroads they had passed through on their way here.

 

“I’m going back where I came from. You guys can go out through the middle passage.”

 

Tie’s eyes widened.

 

“But…”

 

“Try not to come back. I’m busy enough taking care of myself without having to look after outsiders who came in from outside.”

 

The child turned his body around.

 

Tie looked back and forth restlessly between Lucalion and the child walking away.

 

Then, as if deciding something, she ran after the child.

 

“Hey, I’m Tie!”

 

The child hesitated.

 

In the darkness, she could see the child turning his body.

 

“I’ll come tomorrow when the Order of the Assassins isn’t around. Would that be okay?”

 

Silence followed.

 

Just as Tie’s face was gradually becoming dejected.

 

“I’m Eloa.”

 

The child answered.

 

Then he added in a hesitant voice.

 

“…Just in case, always be careful with food here.”

 

Tie watched the child’s retreating figure for a long time, unable to move.

 

That night.

 

Tie and Lucalion safely escaped from the underground passage.

 

As soon as they entered the Pilgrimage Hall, the bone friends brought them new information.

 

It was news that several priests had moved to the back of the main palace.

 

The next patrol Eloa had mentioned must have started.

 

‘I can’t sleep…’

 

Tie tossed and turned in her spot for a while.

 

And the next day.

 

Two priests came to Tie’s room, her eyes crusty with sleep.

 

“His Holiness has invited you and your subordinates to breakfast. Get properly dressed and come out.”

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