A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 301

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 301

 

Peeking out just her face from behind Tesetan, Tie blinked her eyes.

 

‘This is strange…’

 

The Elder Priest was still threatening the unit members at this very moment, holding his torch high.

 

However, to Tie’s eyes, that seemed even stranger.

 

‘He says he’s on Luciano’s side. But why does he only make scary words?’

 

The current expedition was in a state weakened to the extreme.

 

There were many injured who had lost consciousness, and in fact, they didn’t even have the strength left to flee.

 

So if these people were truly Luciano’s subordinates,

 

‘Instead of yelling at us to leave, they would have already started a fight.’

 

The moment the child tilted her head, the Elder Priest shouted once again.

 

“Can’t you hear me telling you to get lost!”

 

The priests behind the Elder Priest began drawing their bowstrings one by one.

 

“If you don’t disappear from before our eyes immediately, we will attack!”

 

Fire was lit at the tips of the loaded arrows, and flames blazed up fiercely.

 

“…Haah.”

 

A short sigh flowed through Tesetan’s teeth.

 

At this moment, the expedition was losing the only means to recover from their wounds right before their eyes.

 

Even if they went to find another temple now.

 

He wasn’t confident that the injured could endure that journey.

 

‘What should I do.’

 

Unable to do this or that.

 

It was when he was looking at the Elder Priest before him with an anxious heart.

 

“Grandfather, please help us!”

 

Tie brushed past his fingertips and ran forward.

 

“Tie-!”

 

Tesetan, startled, tried to catch the child but it was already too late.

 

The child was already kneeling hastily before the Elder Priest.

 

“Everyone is in so much pain…! The uncles said that if we leave the wounds alone, they might die from infection, hic, they saaaid…”

 

The Elder Priest hesitated at the sight of Tie crying loudly with both hands pressed to her eyes.

 

However, Tesetan, being her father, could see it.

 

Tie wasn’t really crying.

 

She was pretending to cry.

 

“Can’t you just give us medicine? Can’t you let us sleep for just one night? Please? Waaah…!”

 

In the silence that covered all directions, only Tie’s voice echoed.

 

The unit members couldn’t move rashly, fearing that the Elder Priest might harm Tie.

 

That’s when it happened.

 

“…I was foolish to think I could reason with heretics.”

 

A shadow fell across the Elder Priest’s face.

 

He hesitated for a moment, then threw the torch in his hand to the ground.

 

“There’s no need to waste more words with these people! Lock the heretics in the annex! Right now!”

 

At those words, the priests swarmed toward Tie as if they had been waiting.

 

“Astie!”

 

Panicked Basto quickly grabbed Tesetan’s shoulder.

 

“Regent!”

 

But Tesetan only stood still in place with his eyes narrowed.

 

From a distance, Tie, whose arms were held by two priests, shouted.

 

“No! Bad people are putting Tie in prison! Father, Tie is being dragged away…!”

 

At the sight of her dangling legs swinging, the strength left Tesetan’s hand that was gripping his weapon.

 

‘As expected, she’s not scared at all.’

 

At this moment, Tie wasn’t afraid of the priests dragging her away in the slightest.

 

‘…Rather, she seems to be enjoying it.’

 

In that instant, priests approached Tesetan as well.

 

Basto looked around with his face pale as a sheet.

 

The expedition was already completely surrounded.

 

“What the hell is this…!”

 

At that moment, Tesetan, who had kept his mouth shut the whole time, spoke.

 

“I’ll follow obediently.”

 

The priests hesitated.

 

“The one who was dragged away earlier is my daughter. I can’t run away leaving my child behind. Lead the way.”

 

Tesetan threw the weapon he had been holding defiantly to the ground.

 

Then Valentis and Alexander, who were standing behind, also put down their weapons.

 

Silence fell around them.

 

Looking at the expedition, the priests quietly exchanged glances.

 

Click-

 

Heavy silence descended along with the sound of the lock closing.

 

Basto stared blankly at the door that had closed right in front of him.

 

After his eyes adjusted to the darkness, the interior view of the annex came into sight.

 

Inside was wider than expected.

 

Even though the entire expedition was locked up, there was still space left in the center.

 

Faint moonlight seeped through a small window above the roof, and the smell of old wood came from the surroundings.

 

That’s when it happened.

 

“Father! Uncle Basto!”

 

Tie, who had popped out from somewhere, came running toward Basto with pattering steps.

 

“Tie!”

 

Basto quickly knelt on one knee on the floor.

 

A groan escaped due to the pain from his wounds, but he checked on Tie first.

 

“You’re not hurt anywhere, are you?”

 

The child opened her eyes wide and smiled brightly.

 

“Yes! The priest uncles carried me super gently and put me down super gently!”

 

Basto’s lips parted.

 

“…I see.”

 

Now he too realized that something was strange.

 

“They only locked us up, but their treatment wasn’t rough or violent.”

 

But it was true.

 

The touch of the priests pushing them into the annex was careful to the point of being kind.

 

“Right. If they had wanted to drive us away, they would have shot arrows long ago.”

 

Tesetan, who had been examining various parts of the annex from a corner, also chimed in.

 

“But they didn’t do that. They didn’t do anything else besides pouring oil.”

 

“Right! That’s why Tie ran to Grandfather!”

 

Excited Tie raised one hand high and shouted.

 

Basto closed his mouth and let out a small sigh.

 

“Tie. Still, that man was holding a torch…”

 

However, he eventually closed his mouth.

 

It seemed better for Tie not to know what happens when oil and fire meet.

 

He plopped down in one corner of the annex.

 

“It doesn’t seem like they’ll give us medicine. Still, being here is probably better than spending the night outside.”

 

The unit members nodded with tired faces.

 

Meanwhile, Alexander was checking the personnel to see if anyone was missing.

 

Seeing this, Tie also got up from her seat.

 

The child brought her preschool bag with a determined expression.

 

“Tie should check if everyone’s okay too!”

 

However, when the zipper opened with a zipping sound.

 

“Huh?”

 

The bag was completely empty inside.

 

“Gasp! What?”

 

Tie looked around with a flustered face.

 

“Lucalion is hiding outside the annex…”

 

Ppupppu, Marul, and the Pompoms were definitely in this bag though?

 

“Father, Ppupppu and Marul disappeared! The Pompoms too…!”

 

At those words, Tesetan, who had been wiping the oil off Tie’s body, paused.

 

“That can’t be. They must be inside, they couldn’t just suddenly disappear.”

 

But the child jumped up and ran to the opposite side of the annex.

 

“No, they’re really gone! Where did they go…? They were definitely there?”

 

Watching the child run around soaking wet, Basto let out a long breath.

 

Even opening his eyes was difficult due to the pain, but he couldn’t help feeling relieved.

 

‘As long as Tie wasn’t hurt, that’s what matters.’

 

If Tie had to feel this kind of pain.

 

That would have certainly been greater pain for everyone.

 

That’s when it happened.

 

“Gasp! I found them!”

 

Tie, who had been looking into a corner of the annex where large wooden barrels were piled up, shouted.

 

At those words, Tesetan struggled to get up and headed toward Tie.

 

“See? Father said they would be there.”

 

“Yeah! But Father, take a look at these guys.”

 

Tesetan’s eyes fell on Marbas, Ppupppu, and the Pompoms among the wooden barrels.

 

“Strange, right?”

 

But really, as Tie said, they were somehow strange.

 

Mouths hanging wide open.

 

Eyelids that wouldn’t open even when poked.

 

Bodies drooping limply.

 

Tie tilted her head.

 

“Strange? Why are they all acting like they stole and ate cold medicine?”

 

Tesetan’s brow furrowed.

 

Looking closely, something that had leaked from the wooden barrels was thoroughly soaking the floor where the spirits lay sprawled.

 

A slippery, sticky liquid.

 

Exactly like that oil the Elder Priest had poured on Tie…

 

“Wait a moment.”

 

Tesetan’s gaze suddenly dropped to his own right hand.

 

A little while ago.

 

While wiping Tie’s head and shoulders, that oil had gotten on the back of his hand too.

 

The stinging sensation from it rubbing against a wound that happened to be there was still vivid.

 

But,

 

“…It’s gone.”

 

Looking again, the wound that had been there was completely gone.

 

The skin was smooth as if new flesh had grown, and the pain had subsided long ago.

 

Tesetan hesitated for a moment, then pressed the cloth he’d been using to wipe Tie against his forearm.

 

His pupils gradually dilated.

 

Sure enough, there was no mistake.

 

The burning pain was slowly subsiding.

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