A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 271

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 271

 

Tie’s tightly clenched fist trembled.

 

‘Those who awakened both holy power and magic simultaneously? They are rare. Even among those I know, there are only Tie and Tesetan.’

 

‘The child inherited the World Tree’s power, so she’s an exception. The Regent is quite lucky. Is it something he was born with?’

 

‘Well. I don’t know if there are others like me. Even if there were, they wouldn’t reveal it. Having awakened both powers simultaneously is considered ominous.’

 

Voices from their past journey echoed like memories in her head.

 

‘Aunt Livia, why can’t Tie heal people? Now that Tie has holy power, she can heal them!’

 

‘Um, that’s… Ah, Miss. There are such things. Facts that wouldn’t do any good to reveal to the outside world?’

 

‘What’s that?’

 

‘Well, Miss, you’re already known to the world as a mage, aren’t you? One who awakened dark attribute magic. So… Ugh, how do I explain this. Aleric! Come here for a moment. Miss has something to ask you!’

 

At that time, Livia ultimately avoided answering.

 

Aleric, who was called over afterward, only scratched his head with a troubled expression and couldn’t provide a clear answer.

 

However, watching their reactions, Tie vaguely caught on.

 

‘People… hate it.’

 

Children born with both opposing powers of magic and holy power.

 

And that suspicion became clearer the more she reflected on their journey.

 

‘I came from the North Continent. It was worse there.’

 

During the height of the siege, when they slept at the campsite every other day.

 

‘I was passing through an alley when I saw a child crying in the middle of the street. White holy marks and dark blue magic symbols were floating on their wrist simultaneously.’

 

When the sun set, the members would sit around the campfire.

 

Then they would spend time sharing stories they knew and had heard.

 

Tie liked those times.

 

Listening to words drifting between the flames, she would quickly fall asleep.

 

‘The problem was probably that they awakened at such a young age?’

 

‘Well. Awakening magic and holy power simultaneously is also a problem. Did the parents abandon them?’

 

‘Whether they abandoned or sold them… In the North Continent, such children are handed over to the temples. The reason, as you all know, ends with one word: ‘ominous.”

 

That night, Tie had a bad dream.

 

In the dream appeared a child crouched beside an old wall, crying.

 

Clutching their wrist where holy marks and magic symbols shone simultaneously, they looked around in all directions with frightened eyes.

 

The next day, Tie thought throughout breakfast.

 

‘Strange.’

 

Why would it be considered ominous?

 

Awakening power means being chosen.

 

‘Yes, yes. Even children can awaken.’

 

Also, if they have both holy power and magic, they can become twice as strong, so wouldn’t that be better?

 

But even after thinking for days, her doubts weren’t resolved.

 

The world was flowing in the complete opposite direction of Tie’s thoughts.

 

‘Just look at the Empire – mages born into Paladin families are branded as ominous beings!’

 

What Veil had said.

 

‘They said it was unlucky. That the child was born with both powers. They said the child would surely devour those close to them one by one.’

 

‘It is unsettling when someone awakens power at a young age. The people around might not be able to handle it.’

 

‘When is the average awakening age? Around ten years old?’

 

‘That’s right. If it’s earlier than that, they say it’s dangerous. There are many who view it as preventing proper growth.’

 

Even words she picked up from members in passing.

 

Children born with magic in Paladin families.

 

Children born with holy power under mages.

 

All children born with both powers and those like Tie who awakened power at an early age.

 

The world branded all of them as ‘ominous.’

 

They hated them strangely and ostracized them strangely.

 

“…The Order.”

 

And Tie finally felt she understood the reason.

 

“The Order made it that way.”

 

The last piece clicked into place in her head.

 

“The Order corrupted everything!”

 

Tie raised her head.

 

“That awakening young is dangerous, that it can’t be handled. Such things…!”

 

Lucalion’s lips parted.

 

“That they need purification, that their power needs to be stabilized at temples!”

 

Children the world considered ‘ominous.’

 

Looking at it now, they were all beings the Order needed more than anyone.

 

Because Luciano was conducting experiments on exactly such children.

 

The types of experiments would have been varied.

 

Sometimes corrupting the power of children with holy power.

 

Sometimes mixing magic into it to break the balance.

 

Lucalion furrowed his brow.

 

“…Then, driving children who awakened at young ages into being bad omens too.”

 

“…”

 

“Was it because procurement became easier the more they did that?”

 

Thinking about it, it wasn’t strange at all.

 

The temples were massive organizations.

 

Especially after the Mastone emerged, they wielded even more tremendous power.

 

People believed the Order had the power to resolve this situation.

 

That Luciano, considered the strongest Pope in history, would someday purify the World Tree.

 

Then the Mastone would disappear, and this dark age would finally come to an end.

 

In such circumstances, a single word from the Pope would have felt like an unbreakable law.

 

‘Children who awaken power at young ages are impious, so send them to temples.’

 

‘Children born with power without context need purification, so send them to temples.’

 

Children of low status were easily abandoned by their parents.

 

Now when everyone was struggling due to the Mastone’s appearance.

 

Sending a child who would become a burden when grown to a temple would have been an efficient way to reduce mouths to feed.

 

The nobles’ circumstances wouldn’t have been different.

 

Those of high status would have sent their children without any suspicion.

 

They didn’t know what was being perpetrated in the Central Continent.

 

If something went wrong with the child, the temple announced that an accident had occurred during the purification ritual.

 

“Then the families left behind… can’t do anything.”

 

Tie choked up as she thought of Valentis and her uncles.

 

“They can’t even tell anyone outside…”

 

From the beginning, all of that was a secret that couldn’t be told to others.

 

Slowly, everything began to make sense.

 

Why children born with both powers simultaneously were rare in the world.

 

Why there were hardly any children who awakened their powers at a young age.

 

“They were all captured…”

 

Tie clenched both fists tightly.

 

“Without anyone knowing, they were all sent to the Central Continent all this time.”

 

Pilgrimage Hall.

 

Creak-

 

The wooden door opened with a quiet sound.

 

Tie stepped into the dark room where the lights were off.

 

Outside the window.

 

Gray smoke was still billowing up from the Parish direction.

 

It was because the fire Valentis had started still hadn’t been extinguished.

 

That’s when it happened.

 

“…Tie.”

 

A single candle was lit in one corner of the room.

 

Tie’s eyes welled up with tears as she turned her gaze.

 

“Father…”

 

Tie threw down the bag she was carrying and ran to Tesetan, embracing him tightly.

 

Tesetan patted the child’s back with surprised eyes.

 

“My daughter, what’s wrong? Are you okay? Hmm?”

 

The child who had shed tears on Tesetan’s chest looked up.

 

Then she carefully took something out from her uniform’s inner pocket.

 

It was white powder contained in a transparent bottle.

 

Tesetan’s eyes widened.

 

“You did it. You brought that antidote.”

 

Tie nodded her head.

 

At the same time, other members appeared from outside the door.

 

“Child! Why did it take so long? We were worried.”

 

“It’s good that you returned safely. Nothing happened, right?”

 

“Miss, why are you crying? Kamang, what on earth happened, huh?”

 

“Livia. Lower your voice.”

 

Veil and Basto, Livia and Aleric too.

 

Looking at the members, Tie wiped away the tears gathered in her eyes.

 

Then she tried to say something but closed her mouth.

 

‘How should I tell them…?’

 

She wanted to confess everything she had learned underground, but her lips wouldn’t easily part.

 

‘It’s all about Father.’

 

Tesetan was deeply involved in the newly discovered truth.

 

‘Father being sick all this time, and the rampage that happened, all of it…’

 

It was when Tie’s eyes welled up with tears once again.

 

“First.”

 

Lucalion, who had read Tie’s expression, stepped forward.

 

“Let’s analyze that antidote. We don’t have time.”

 

The members hesitantly nodded their heads.

 

Even Marbas, who had been disguised as Tie on the bed until that moment, returned to his original form with a poof sound.

 

“Just leave it to me! I will…”

 

But at that instant.

 

Creak-

 

A strange sound cut through between them.

 

The members with keen senses immediately turned their gaze backward.

 

Creak- Creak-

 

Veil’s complexion hardened.

 

“Wait a minute.”

 

Someone was walking down the 2nd floor corridor of the Pilgrimage Hall toward them.

 

They hadn’t heard the sound of a door opening or footsteps coming from outside.

 

“Livia. Draw your sword.”

 

Tesetan, who had set Tie down on a chair, hardened his expression.

 

Creeeak-

 

The footsteps that had approached the door stopped in place.

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