A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 270
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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 270
“So.”
Eloa finally opened her mouth after eating five pieces of the jerky Tie had given her.
“The reason you came back here is to take that strange powder from the warehouse?”
“Mm-hmm!”
Tie nodded her head.
The dim light from the sealing stone embedded in the wall illuminated Eloa’s eyes.
“…That’s a foolish thing to do.”
But that light in her eyes quickly faded.
“I don’t know what you’re trying to do, but the Pope and the Order of the Assassins aren’t such easy opponents.”
Tie quietly watched Eloa, who was muttering without realizing it.
‘I didn’t look closely last time, so I didn’t notice.’
Looking now, Eloa’s face was pale.
It was proof that she hadn’t seen sunlight for a very long time.
Was that all?
Her fingernails had grown long and were dirty.
Even her skin was cracked and split in places from not being able to wash properly.
“Let’s say you safely get that stuff to the surface. What will you do after that?”
Eloa continued speaking.
Tie gulped and exchanged glances with Lucalion.
“After that, I’ll make an antidote.”
“An antidote?”
“Yeah! If there’s an antidote, the Members and I will be safe, and the kids here might regain their senses too!”
“…Regain their senses?”
Eloa’s eyes wavered for a moment.
However, the child soon shook her head.
“That’s ridiculous. There’s no guarantee that’s even possible. What kind of drug is that anyway.”
Tie silently let her eyebrows droop.
Eloa took a dry breath.
“The kids who were here, they were all fine at first. They laughed well, talked… even played pranks on each other.”
“…”
“But as time passed, they all became strange. They became dazed, talked less, and at some point couldn’t even recognize each other’s faces.”
Eloa’s eyes sank sadly.
“They were dragged away by those demons. I’ve seen countless kids like that here. Someone comes, becomes strange, disappears. Then someone else comes again.”
Eloa raised her head.
“Do you know how long I’ve been here? I only recently managed to give up the thought of getting out. But you…”
Eloa bit her lip.
“You weren’t here all this time. That’s why you can easily talk about escape and antidotes.”
Tie wiggled her fingers with a dejected face.
Then she carefully approached and sat in front of Eloa.
“You’re right. Actually, Tie doesn’t know much. Originally, an outsider can’t speak about someone else’s household matters.”
It was something 107 Grandmother used to say often.
You can’t know another family’s circumstances just by looking from the outside.
“But you know.”
“…”
“If you don’t do anything, nothing changes. If nothing changes, it stays the same forever and ever.”
Eloa closed her mouth.
“You can only eat candy after unwrapping it. Doors only open when you push them. You can only see the sunrise if you climb to the mountain peak.”
Tie squeezed Eloa’s hand that she was holding.
“So wouldn’t it be better to try something? If Eloa does it, Tie will do it together too. Later when we get out of here, we’ll go see the sunrise too. Okay?”
At the mention of the sun, Eloa’s face became heavy.
The child who had been biting her lip swallowed a small groan.
How many seconds passed?
Eloa, who let out a sigh, spoke.
“…The kids brought here are divided into two groups.”
Tie’s eyes widened.
“This prison is split into two areas.”
Eloa got up from her spot.
Then she approached the iron bars and pointed to the left.
“The path is complicated. I’ve only been there once. The Order of the Assassins calls that side Area 1. This is Area 2.”
Tie gulped.
“What’s strange is that there are way, way more kids in Area 1 than here.”
“Way more?”
“Yeah. As you can see, here there’s one person locked in each cell, right?”
“Yeah!”
“But it’s not like that over there. I only looked around briefly, but in cells smaller than these, at least ten, no, twenty people were locked up.”
Tie’s heart pounded.
In an instant, Lucalion, who had been quiet, stepped forward.
“The classification criteria? Do you know?”
Eloa turned her gaze toward Lucalion.
“I have a guess.”
Eloa turned around and dragged Tie and Lucalion to the pit under the bed.
“The Order of the Assassins calls the kids locked up in Area 2 ‘test subjects.'”
“Test subjects?”
“Yeah. As for what kind of experiment…”
Eloa made a disgusted expression as if just remembering it was unpleasant.
“Here. They put something disgusting in here and observe the progress.”
Where Eloa was pointing was near her heart area.
“Not long ago, I heard the Order of the Assassins call it ‘Croa.'”
“Croa?”
Tie tilted her head.
Lucalion opened his mouth.
“Croa… It’s an ancient word that referred to both holy power and magic power together.”
Tie’s lips parted.
“In the past, those two weren’t separated. They were seen as energy of the same nature that existed from the beginning.”
“Wait. Then you’re saying what the Order of the Assassins has been putting into my body all this time was holy power or magic power?”
Eloa asked in a confused voice.
“That doesn’t make sense. After being experimented on, my body hurt for a while? I thought it was poison or something.”
Lucalion approached Eloa.
“Are you perhaps a mage?”
Eloa’s eyes widened.
After a moment, the child waved her hand.
“What are you talking about, a mage. There’s no way I could be such an amazing person. But…”
“But?”
“At the place I lived before coming to the Central Continent, they did call me a troublemaker. Saying I was born with an ominous power.”
Tie asked carefully.
“Where was the place you lived?”
“…An orphanage run by a monastery. In a tiny building, there were only kids like me without parents and priests.”
Tie’s lips parted.
‘Monastery? Priest?’
If it was a monastery, it was definitely affiliated with the Temple.
Among Temple affiliates, the only ability that could be called an ‘ominous power’ was undoubtedly magic.
“Eloa! Then you really do have magic!”
Eloa made a flustered expression.
“Me? I was born with magic? I’m just…”
“Gasp!”
But Tie had already grabbed Eloa’s hand firmly.
Tie’s lips parted wide.
“As expected, it was because of the Sealing Stone.”
If it hadn’t been for the Sealing Stone, she would have noticed this energy long ago.
Magic was truly flowing within Eloa’s body.
Due to the Sealing Stone, it felt very faint and weak, but when she concentrated, she could grasp its condition.
Was that why?
“…Um, Eloa.”
Tie looked up with a worried expression.
“Doesn’t it hurt…?”
The magic flowing within Eloa’s body was extremely sharp and unstable.
The flow of magic seemed ready to explode at any moment, making even Tie’s spine tingle.
Eloa hesitated and asked back.
“…How did you know I was in pain?”
Then she added.
“Actually, it does hurt quite a lot. The last experiment was about three days ago.”
Tie’s expression darkened.
‘They deliberately tangled up the magic.’
“Kamang.”
When she turned her head with an anxious expression, Lucalion nodded.
“I’m thinking the same thing.”
Lucalion stared at Eloa.
“We think those villains injected holy power into your body to deliberately make the two forces mix together.”
Eloa’s eyes widened.
“…They mixed holy power with my magic? Why on earth?”
Lucalion’s expression became serious.
“They’re probably trying to see if you can handle two clashing forces.”
Eloa hesitated.
“What happens if I can’t handle it?”
“Well. Don’t you know that better than us?”
Eloa closed her mouth.
The child who had been silent for a moment muttered.
“…I heard screaming.”
Eloa knew too.
That children who failed to pass the experiments had disappeared.
“I am, only I…”
However, Eloa was one of the children who consistently produced good results in those ‘experiments.’
Of course, after each experiment ended, she had to suffer for days on end.
Even so, she eventually recovered and was able to participate safely in the next experiment.
Eloa’s eyes trembled with anger.
“What on earth is it that they gain from conducting such experiments…”
“They’re looking for a vessel that can contain both twisted magic and holy power together.”
Lucalion said.
“The power that’s currently troubling Luciano has a similar form.”
The World Tree’s power that Luciano had stolen was an ancient energy symbolizing life and harmony.
However, the problem was that he had no qualification to possess that power.
Within Luciano’s body, the World Tree’s power was constantly becoming unstable.
His body was collapsing, his magic was going berserk.
“He must have needed to find a way.”
Lucalion muttered.
“A way to confine the rampaging World Tree’s power within his body and stabilize it.”
Tie blinked with a dazed expression.
“The first step would be to find a child born with both powers simultaneously… or create one artificially.”
“…”
“And then deliberately break that balance. To confirm whether the subject can restore it on their own.”
“…”
“Whether they succeed or self-destruct. All of it would be meaningful information for Luciano.”
Why was it?
Father’s face, whom she had said goodbye to before leaving, appeared before Tie’s eyes.
Father, who had suffered his entire life from the imbalance of two powers.
Father, who had lost Grandmother due to that rampage and still struggled with guilt.
‘It was a purification ritual.’
Father had called his experience of being dragged to the Order at age four a ‘purification.’
But now she seemed to know the truth.
“…”
That wasn’t purification.
Tears welled up in Tie’s eyes as she took a short breath.
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