A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 3

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 3

Tie sat with her back against the wall, wrapping her knees tightly with both hands.

And she stared back at the pebble that had been looking at her for a while now, without backing down.

At first she was scared, but the more she looked, the more certain she became.

‘…It’s Tanifang.’

It transformed and cast magic too.

Though its appearance was a little different, it was definitely Tanifang.

Gaining courage, Tie moved her bottom and scooted forward a little.

And with sparkling eyes, she began to observe the pebble closely.

‘From head to toe, it’s all black.’

Her heart was pounding.

Maybe Father’s words about coming from another world were really true.

What if Father really was a holy knight and had a fairy with him?

What if that fairy was the pebble before her eyes, and it had come to save Father?

“Kamangpang…”

At the dreamy voice that flowed from her mouth, the pebble tilted its head.

It was then that Tie suddenly made her request.

“Please save him!”

The child approached on her knees and earnestly clasped her hands together.

“Kamangpang sir! Please save Father!”

[Should I save him?]

At first, she didn’t believe it.

Even Tie knew that much – that dead people couldn’t be brought back to life.

But that was for ordinary people, what about fairies?

‘It can save Father.’

Doubt turned to certainty, certainty turned to hope.

It felt like wings had sprouted on her sad and sorrowful heart, making it fly away.

But just as she was waiting for an answer with earnest anticipation.

[To save your father…]

The fairy that had risen gracefully looked straight at Tie and asked.

[You’d have to abandon this place and leave, would that be okay?]

Tie’s expression became blank.

She was puzzled about what exactly ‘this place’ meant.

Did it mean the room where she and Father lived together?

Or this alley?

Oh, did it mean she couldn’t go back to preschool?

[Everything. You’d have to abandon all the time you lived here.]

As if reading her thoughts, the fairy answered.

Tie’s expression darkened.

Everything meant both the good things and the bad things combined.

It meant she’d have to abandon 107 Grandmother, 203 Aunt, and all the happy memories she’d built with Father in this place.

While she couldn’t easily continue speaking, the fairy took a step closer.

[But if you want it, I’ll return him to you.]

“…”

[The place where you were born. The place where you should have been originally. The place where that man is alive.]

Tie took a small breath.

It was difficult, but one thing was certain.

Father had always been the most precious thing to Tie.

That fact had never changed even once until now.

“…I want to go.”

The moment she nodded her head.

As if it had been waiting, all the streetlight illuminating the alley went out.

The window of Apartment 106 rattled in the wind that blew.

The neatly folded blankets, the crayon drawings stuck on the wall.

The two toothbrushes of different sizes stuck in the toothbrush cup vibrated finely.

When the streetlight came back on, Apartment 106 was completely empty.

As if no one had ever been there from the beginning.

“Mmm…”

Tie opened her eyes on something fluffy and soft like cotton candy.

And as soon as she came to her senses, she was startled.

‘This isn’t cotton candy?’

The place Tie was lying on was a soft and fluffy blanket.

Only then did she fully come to her senses.

“…Father.”

Her heart pounded as she remembered what had happened before she fell asleep.

Just then, an unfamiliar voice came from right beside her.

“You’re awake.”

Startled, Tie jumped up from her spot.

A boy she’d never seen before was standing next to the bed.

However, Tie, who had been about to pull the blanket over herself to hide, found something familiar about the child and tilted her head.

“Kamangpang…?”

Hair as black as the night sky.

Eyes that sparkled like jewels and ears that stuck out slightly above his head.

When the boy shook his head, the ears disappeared, but Tie was certain.

“Kamangpang! You can transform into a person!”

The boy’s expression immediately became displeased.

The child soon spoke in a dry voice.

“Me?”

“Huh?”

“Are you saying that Kamangpang you’ve been calling is supposed to be me?”

Tie tilted her head.

She thought he was smart since he cast magic and even said he’d save Father.

But Kamangpang seemed to be surprisingly similar to the kids at preschool who got their own names wrong every day.

“Yeah! Since you’re a fairy…”

“No.”

“Huh?”

“I’m not Kamangpang.”

Tie made a “hup” sound and closed her mouth.

No wonder he kept making uncomfortable expressions – it seemed Tie had misunderstood something.

Come to think of it.

She’d never seen a Tanifang that could transform into a human and even bring dead people back to life.

‘Kamangpang, no, Kamang must be an even greater fairy. Like the legendary ones that appear in stories…’

Gasp, then could it be not Tanifang but Puppetmon?

In the case of Puppetmon, from legendary grade onwards, there were incredibly strong ones that could even time travel.

‘That’s it.’

Tie began to look around her surroundings with a wary expression.

She had definitely been at home before falling asleep, but when she opened her eyes, the environment had changed.

That meant Tie had teleported.

This place looked like an ordinary room at first glance with its large bed and fluffy bedding, but…

‘It’s inside a tent.’

Looking at the canvas fluttering above, she could tell this was inside a tent.

“Kamang. What kind of tent is this?”

“Kamang… never mind.”

For some reason, Kamang let out a deep sigh.

Then he crossed his arms and answered.

“Your father’s hometown. You said you wanted to come.”

“…Father’s hometown?”

“That’s right.”

Tie’s eyes gradually grew wide.

‘Father’s hometown, Talochium is a beautiful country. It was even prettier before the magic stones sprouted… Anyway, it’s incomparably vast compared to here, and the air is good too…’

When talking about his hometown, stars would twinkle in Father’s eyes.

Tie knew many things about Talochium because Father had told her so much about it.

“The problem is that even I couldn’t bring your father back to life.”

However, Kamang’s words that followed scattered Tie’s reminiscence like clouds.

Tie looked at Kamang with a rather tense expression.

‘He couldn’t revive Father?’

Then does that mean he failed to save Father?

Does that mean I came to Father’s hometown alone, without Father?

She was startled by this unexpected fact and her body tensed up, but

“So we came to the past.”

The strength drained from her body again at the words that followed.

Tie asked back in a daze.

“We came to the past…?”

“That’s right. If we just turn back time, everything will be solved.”

Tie furrowed her brow with all her might.

And she began to rack her brain as much as possible.

Time had gone back to the past.

Tie from the original world, that is, from the future, had moved to the past!

That means,

“Then there are two Ties?”

Kamang burst into laughter.

Then he went to the entrance of the tent and opened the door.

“Good attempt, but you’re off. Right now is long before you were born.”

Tie opened her mouth in a daze at the scene that unfolded.

Forest.

What lay outside the tent was a forest she was seeing for the first time in her life.

As she took steps as if enchanted, the scene of the forest at dawn became more detailed.

Coniferous trees that grew straight as if to pierce the sky.

Small trees and vines with leaves spread between them, moss wet with dew…

“You’ll be born in this world 7 years from now.”

Birds began to chirp.

“Even if you meet your father, that man won’t know who you are.”

Tears gradually welled up in Tie’s eyes.

“There’s no guarantee you’ll even meet him in the first place. This place is bigger than you think.”

“I can find him!”

Tie spun around.

A bright smile hung on her face that was brimming with tears.

“If Father is alive, I can find him!”

It didn’t matter if he didn’t recognize Tie.

It didn’t matter if he treated her coldly, saying she was a child he’d never seen before.

As long as she could meet him again, as long as she could see Father healthy again!

Tie took a spirited breath and rolled her eyes around.

‘Father definitely said so. That he was the strongest, most powerful holy knight.’

And dutiful daughter Tie, who had earnestly listened to the stories Father told every night, knew.

“Let’s go! Kamang!”

That the headquarters of the Imperial Knights was in Jedo.

But Tie had no choice but to realize before long.

That life wasn’t as easy as she thought.

“Huff, huff… What the…”

She felt like she had definitely walked for a long time.

When she turned her head, she could still see the tent they had left behind in the distance.

“Why have I only come this far…?”

For some reason, Kamang let out a deep sigh beside her.

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