A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 293

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 293

 

Two hours later.

 

“Oh? Strawberries!”

 

At Tie’s words, the unit members stopped in their tracks.

 

“Look over there, strawberries! Roseberries!”

 

Tie waved her hands enthusiastically while sitting on Tesetan’s shoulders.

 

Indeed, where the child’s gaze was directed, there was a truly red and plump berry hanging.

 

“Tie wants to try it!”

 

Before anyone could stop her, Tie reached out to pick the berry.

 

At that moment,

 

“No. That berry is poisonous.”

 

Valentis approached and gently pushed the child’s hand away.

 

Tie’s eyes widened in surprise.

 

“Gasp. Poison…?”

 

“That’s right. It’s not deadly poison, but if you eat it carelessly, you might get a stomachache.”

 

Tie quickly pulled her hand back.

 

The child looked at the berry and smacked her lips a few more times before asking Valentis.

 

“But how does Grandfather know that roseberries are poisonous?”

 

Tesetan coughed softly.

 

As if he had been waiting, Edmund interjected.

 

“That’s right, why would that be?”

 

Tie tilted her head.

 

“Does he have a history of a disobedient youngest son secretly eating them and getting sick when he was young? Mmph.”

 

But soon Tesetan covered Edmund’s mouth.

 

Edmund burst into laughter.

 

“Ah, I get it, I get it. I just said it because father and daughter are exactly alike, sheesh.”

 

Watching Edmund move away again, Tesetan let out a sigh.

 

“He’s really no help at all.”

 

However, a faint smile was already forming on his lips.

 

“Come here. Let me carry you for a while.”

 

At that moment, Valentis approached.

 

Valentis naturally spread his arms toward Tie, who was on Tesetan’s shoulders.

 

Tie obediently settled into her grandfather’s embrace.

 

“Father, rest a little now.”

 

At the child’s words, Tesetan smiled softly.

 

Then he began walking again, following behind Valentis who was walking ahead.

 

The morning in Roxe Forest was peaceful.

 

Birds crossed between the dense trees, and butterflies danced around the flower beds.

 

“We’re almost at the plain.”

 

Something landed softly in front of them.

 

It was Lucalion.

 

“When we reach the plain, we’ll change direction and head north.”

 

The unit members gathered around one by one.

 

“Why north? What’s there?”

 

“That path looks the most level. We need to conserve our strength as much as possible while moving.”

 

Veil nodded.

 

“Yeah, well. If we’re going anyway, an easier path is better.”

 

He said while looking around as if to refresh himself.

 

“Anyway, let’s go again. Let’s try to move as quickly as possible.”

 

Everyone seemed to agree and began walking again.

 

Now that the World Tree’s barrier had disappeared.

 

Monsters were still invading settlements and harming people.

 

“It’ll be fine, Veil.”

 

Knowing he was thinking about the siblings left in Jedo, Basto said to Veil.

 

Veil felt awkward and replied gruffly.

 

“Never mind. Jedo has the capable Princess, so what’s there to worry about.”

 

Then he looked back at Livia, who was following the group from the very back.

 

“Livia. Are you keeping up okay? We’re going to go a bit further and change direction…”

 

However, he soon closed his mouth.

 

At the very back.

 

Livia, who had been following from the rear, was nowhere to be seen.

 

“Aleric. Where’s Livia?”

 

When he asked urgently, Aleric, who had been talking with Victor, looked at him.

 

Aleric, who had been dazed for a moment, turned around and looked around the area.

 

“She was here just a moment ago…”

 

Silence fell.

 

Victor, sensing the seriousness of the situation, shouted loudly toward the advance team.

 

“Wait a moment! Livia has disappeared!”

 

The Paladins, Tie, and Tesetan who had been walking ahead stopped in their tracks.

 

Confirming their position, Aleric hurriedly began retracing their steps.

 

“Livia! Livia?!”

 

How long had he walked?

 

Among the thick thicket.

 

Livia’s characteristic reddish hair could be glimpsed.

 

“Livia!”

 

Aleric, who let out a sigh of relief, approached Livia and grabbed her shoulder.

 

“What are you doing here? Everyone is way over…”

 

But something was wrong.

 

As soon as his hand touched her, corrupted magic power surged from Livia’s body.

 

“…Livia.”

 

Aleric turned Livia’s body around.

 

As expected.

 

“Livia!”

 

Unfocused eyes came into view.

 

With doll-like stiff movements, Livia slowly collapsed to the ground.

 

“Livia-!”

 

Supporting her, Aleric shouted.

 

Veil, who arrived late, asked with a trembling voice.

 

“What’s wrong? Why, why is Livia like this?”

 

Aleric examined Livia’s complexion while pushing aside his wildly beating heart.

 

“Her pulse is alive. But for some reason, she seems to be in an eroded state…!”

 

“Erosion? What do you mean erosion.”

 

Erosion referred to a state where the mind and body were paralyzed due to contamination or curses.

 

“That doesn’t make sense. No sorcery was detected! This can’t happen suddenly…”

 

At that moment.

 

“Aleric.”

 

Victor muttered quietly.

 

Everyone looked at Victor due to the subtle trembling felt in his voice.

 

“Perhaps.”

 

Victor raised one hand and pointed at something.

 

“Could it possibly be because of that thing over there?”

 

Aleric slowly lifted his gaze.

 

The place where Livia had been standing.

 

No, more precisely, the spot directly across from it.

 

Something grotesque was writhing in the place she had been looking at.

 

A sclera covered in bright red blood vessels.

 

Even a black pupil that moved alive, emitting purple magic.

 

“What the hell is that….”

 

A single naked eyeball without even eyelids was looking down at Livia.

 

Every time the pupil twitched, wet, viscous sounds echoed around them.

 

“…Victor.”

 

Aleric, who instinctively sensed danger, opened his mouth.

 

He steadied his breathing and turned to look at Victor.

 

“Something feels ominous. For now, we need to get out of here….”

 

“What! Victor!”

 

But it was already too late.

 

Sizzle-

 

With a bizarre sound like something being torn, a new eye opened right in front of Victor’s nose.

 

Victor collapsed to his knees with a thud.

 

“Damn it, damn it!”

 

Veil frantically covered Victor’s eyes.

 

He had instinctively realized that they must not look directly at the eyeball floating in the air.

 

“Basto! Help me out here!”

 

Veil shouted while supporting Victor, who was beginning to go limp.

 

“This bastard is so damn tall I can’t lift him…!”

 

However, no response came back.

 

“Basto!”

 

Despair filled Veil’s face as he looked toward where Basto had been.

 

“When the hell did…!”

 

Now even Basto was frozen in place with a blank expression, staring at an eyeball.

 

“Crazy, this is crazy!”

 

Having no choice but to set Victor down, Veil looked around.

 

Aleric’s eyes, which had been supporting Livia, had lost focus at some point.

 

“Whew… Stay calm, Veil Theodor. Stay calm.”

 

Veil slapped his own cheek with a sharp sound.

 

Then he looked toward the rest of the group in the distance and muttered.

 

“Forward. Then left, then right again….”

 

“Veil! Are you okay? What’s happening over there?”

 

Tie shouted from far away.

 

Veil took a breath before answering.

 

“Child! Don’t come over! No matter what happens, don’t come this way and wait there!”

 

Then he squeezed his eyes tightly shut.

 

And began running forward along the path he had memorized in his head.

 

His vision went dark.

 

Behind him, he felt vibrations going woom- woom-.

 

There was no doubt that eyeballs targeting him were appearing one by one.

 

“Ugh!”

 

Veil tripped over a tree root and tumbled across the ground.

 

Something hot flowed down his face as his forehead was cut, but Veil didn’t open his eyes until the end.

 

Instead, he crawled forward on his hands and knees with both arms pressed against the ground.

 

However.

 

Wooooom-

 

Something finally grabbed the back of his neck as if snatching him.

 

It was a hot and nauseating energy that made his mind hazy.

 

He could feel his fingertips gradually stiffening.

 

“Damn it… So it only slowed down the erosion speed!”

 

One thing was certain.

 

Even without looking directly at those grotesque eyeballs, just being near them would cause erosion.

 

Veil opened his eyes as if grasping at a last straw.

 

It was with the single thought that he had to warn the rest of the group about this situation.

 

However.

 

“Brother!”

 

When he opened his eyes, Astie was already right in front of him.

 

Veil’s face contorted as his heart sank.

 

“Gasp, you stupid child! Why did you come! I told you to wait there! This place is dangerous….”

 

But his tongue root gradually stiffened and no more words would come out.

 

Watching Veil like this, Tie’s eyebrows drooped.

 

“Tie is okay! But there’s strange magic power from your body…!”

 

Looking flustered, the child’s hand fumbled over Veil’s stiffening cheek.

 

“Run away, just run away….”

 

Just as Veil was trying to squeeze out his last words through his unmoving lips.

 

High-purity holy power flowed from Tie’s small hand and enveloped his body.

 

The next moment.

 

“…Gasp!”

 

With a pop- sound, the eyeball that had formed behind Veil’s back burst.

 

The erosive energy drained away beneath his feet.

 

The remnants that spewed out as the eyeball burst were soaking Veil’s back wetly.

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