A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 331
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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 331
“Alright! On the count of three, we pull together, pull!”
“Ugh, why is this so heavy?!”
The square was still thick with dust.
Tie crouched at the edge of the square, watching the people moving busily about.
They were rolling stone blocks and carrying broken timber, completely absorbed in their work.
“Were you very scared?”
At the voice that suddenly reached her, Tie turned her head.
Tesetan was approaching with a blanket in hand.
“Are you okay, my daughter?”
Tie nodded her head.
Then she bounced up onto Tesetan’s lap and snuggled into his embrace.
“Tie is fine. The Pompoms blocked the scary scenes!”
“They blocked them?”
“Uh-huh. They told me not to look at scary things, and made clouds in front like this!”
A faint smile formed on Tesetan’s lips.
“Those little ones are clever. Who do they take after to be so smart?”
“Father, you don’t even know that?”
Tie made a serious expression and stretched both arms wide.
“When the upper stream is clear, the lower stream is clear too. Since Tie is smart, the Pompoms are like that too!”
Tesetan laughed and gently poked the child’s cheek.
“Then who does our daughter take after to be so smart? Is it Father after all?”
“Mother!”
“Huh? Mother?”
“Yes! Mother is a queen!”
Just thinking of Ardiana seemed to make her happy as the child giggled.
Watching this, Tesetan wrapped the blanket around the child’s shoulders and grumbled playfully.
“Father has been feeling left out lately. Ever since meeting Mother, our daughter seems to only like Mother.”
“Huh?”
“Even before coming to the Central Continent, you only wanted to sleep with Mother and only wanted to play with Mother.”
“That’s because…”
Tie drooped her eyebrows and looked up at Tesetan.
“Father and I played together a lot when we were in Jongno-gu, so that’s why.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes! I just met Mother, so I need to play with her a lot from now on.”
Laughter finally burst from Tesetan’s mouth.
“Our daughter is so logical that Father has no room to argue back.”
Just as Tie was giggling and puffing out her chest at those words.
“Tie! Regent!”
Someone’s voice came from behind them.
When they turned their heads, Ophilie, who had run over almost stumbling, stopped in front of them.
Tie jumped down from Tesetan’s lap with a happy face.
“Sister Ophilie! Did you meet Rene…?”
“Thank you! Really, thank you so much…!”
But Tie didn’t have a chance to continue speaking.
Hot tears poured from Ophilie’s eyes as she knelt in front of Tie.
“I met Rene. She’s not hurt anywhere and she’s safe!”
Ophilie hastily wiped her eyes and looked up.
“You don’t know how worried I’ve been all this time. What if Daren’s remnants took Rene, what if the child got hurt…”
She looked directly at Tie.
“But there was no need to worry at all. As expected, Lexie was protecting Rene. She also helped deal with Daren’s remaining forces.”
“Remaining forces?”
Tesetan, who had been listening, stood up from his seat.
“Come to think of it, what happened to Daren’s remnants who were outside the fortress wall? I thought they’d cause trouble when we imprisoned Daren.”
Ophilie smiled brightly.
“Lexie is quick-witted. She thought something was strange when she saw that Livia and Aleric had come and gone.”
She pointed toward the path she had come from, at a small tavern bustling with people.
“So she spread word to the guests and villagers in advance. Thanks to that, when the battle at the fortress wall started, the villagers were able to attack Daren’s subordinates first.”
Tie’s eyes widened.
“It was fortunate. Thanks to that, everything was settled without major conflict. All the women who were confined in Daren’s house were also freed.”
Ophilie gazed at Tie with a face full of emotion.
“It’s not certain yet, but now we’ve decided to abolish the elder system and gather the council members to hold joint meetings.”
“Joint meetings?”
“Yes. To rebuild the ruined village, we need to put all our heads together.”
A light of hope appeared in her eyes.
“It’ll be really good when the village is rebuilt. When Tie finishes what she’s doing now, she can come to our village and…”
“Sorry to interrupt the celebration. However.”
But at that moment, Valentis walked over from the direction of the collapsed fortress wall.
He looked at Ophilie with a calm face.
“You’ll have to postpone rebuilding the village for a while.”
Ophilie’s eyes widened.
“What? Postpone? What do you mean…”
“It would be better to evacuate to somewhere else for the time being. If you don’t want to take unnecessary risks.”
Ophilie closed her mouth.
A charred flag was fluttering atop the debris of the fortress wall.
As the dawn sunlight seeped over the pile of stones.
Ophilie, with both fists clenched tight, raised her head.
“Then Luciano is… really the Pope?”
“Not anymore.”
Tesetan answered.
“That man abandoned God. He abandoned the Grand Cathedral too, and now he’s gone into the forest with power he unjustly stole.”
Ophilie swallowed her breath.
She muttered as if she couldn’t believe it.
“Then, everything we believed in all this time was…”
“A deception.”
Valentis looked down at Tie, who was cradled in his arms.
The child had been fiddling with the sacred emblem of the Grand Commander attached to his chest for a while now.
“He deceived people in God’s name and made them offer sacrifices to a false place. The recently surging monsters are the result of that.”
Ophilie raised her head.
“…Now I understand. That’s why such rumors were spreading among travelers too.”
“Travelers?”
Tesetan asked.
Ophilie nodded with a serious face.
“It hasn’t been long. Merchants often visit our village. There are also travelers who come claiming they want to make pilgrimages to holy sites.”
“And?”
“They said strange rumors that spread from Talochium are circulating throughout the entire continent. That the Pope violated God’s commandments and performed forbidden rituals.”
Valentis and Tesetan exchanged glances.
“How do they know those rumors started from Talochium?”
Ophilie let out a groan.
“I don’t remember it well since I just listened halfheartedly and let it pass at the time…”
She raised her head and opened her mouth.
“I’m sure the rumor started from a large trading guild based in Talochium. It spread as mercenaries from various countries began confirming it one by one.”
Tie’s head shot up.
“A trading guild means Selina’s parents! The ones who gave Tie the communication device…”
Tesetan’s eyes narrowed.
Now that he heard it, something came to mind.
The mansion located across from Agavert’s stronghold with the Rosewerbel family in between.
They said they were often away from the manor because they ran a trading guild…
“The Belmore family?”
“Yes!”
Tie clenched both fists tightly.
“Selina knows. When Tie was in the Central Continent, Tie told her through the communication device! That Tie might fight bad priests!”
However, the child soon tilted her head.
“But how did they know the priests captured children and did bad things? Tie never communicated once after coming to the Central Continent…”
“Ardiana, no, Her Majesty the new Emperor must have made her move.”
Valentis said.
Tesetan and Tie both looked up simultaneously.
“You couldn’t use the communication device, but just once. Didn’t you meet Her Majesty the Emperor using Idongchin?”
Tie’s lips parted.
Valentis was right.
Tie had used Idongchin in the forest to briefly meet Mother and return.
Though it was a very short time, Tie had handed over two things to Ardiana then.
The first was the children who had been injured from Luciano’s experiments.
And,
‘The note that Tie had written diligently, recording the entire situation here.’
Valentis’s eyes gleamed.
“Her Majesty wouldn’t have just been blocking Croize’s attacks. Rather, she would have taken advantage of that gap to strike back.”
“Are you saying that’s the rumor that spread from Talochium?”
“Yes.”
Valentis gave a brief nod.
“Her Majesty probably moved based on the records Tie left behind. She would have first called the Belmore family to weave a network of trust, then directed the flow of information through their trading guild and connections.”
Tie blinked.
“The rumor that started that way would have shaken Luciano’s authority. By now, the internal division within the Order must be serious too. Especially now that they’ve lost three cardinals.”
“…”
“Regaining the hearts of the believers would be realistically impossible.”
Valentis’s cold gaze alternately swept over Tie and Tesetan.
“Think about it carefully. In the end, Her Majesty’s purpose is one thing.”
His voice sank low.
“To drag Luciano’s authority down to the ground. And thereby completely tie his hands and feet.”
Silence flowed.
Beyond the square, the debris of the burned fortress wall swayed bleakly in the wind.
“When we face that villain, it must be to ensure he has nowhere left to hide.”
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