A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 345
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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 345
Ardiana barely managed to swallow her breath.
If she didn’t constantly remind herself that she needed to breathe, she couldn’t even continue breathing.
When they reached the half-collapsed altar, Lucalion spoke.
“I kept looking for you. She said she wanted to see you.”
Ardiana blankly raised her gaze.
In the distance.
A single point of green light was slowly descending from the sky.
“The Barrier of the World Tree….”
It was the barrier surrounding Tie.
A curtain of light woven from leaves descended toward the ground like a setting sun.
At the crown of the barrier, five golden rivers were tangled and swirling.
“…Go to Astie.”
Lucalion muttered in a voice that seemed about to fade away.
“Show that child your face.”
Ardiana clenched her fists tightly.
As she took a step, green leaves sprouting from the purified ground wrapped around her ankles and opened a path.
Soon the barrier split, and cold, quiet air rushed in.
In the center of it all.
Astie was there.
“…Tie?”
Ardiana let out a breath mixed with tears.
Tie was curled up on her side, hugging her knees.
Sweat glistened on her forehead, and her eyelashes were wet and stuck together.
“Tie….”
Tears came pouring out.
Ardiana ran over and embraced the child.
Immediately, the coldly cooled body temperature was transmitted through her fingertips.
The back of her hands, nape of her neck, below her collarbone.
There wasn’t a single healthy spot on the child’s body.
Every visible place was covered with small black dots.
Ardiana could instinctively tell.
Those were remnants of contamination.
Probably dregs that had been pushed out from the purified holy power, with nowhere to return to.
“No… No, baby….”
Tears dripped from Ardiana’s eyes as she muttered.
Then, a faint breathing sound was heard.
“…Mother?”
Tie’s eyes slowly opened.
Her unfocused green eyes wavered, then turned toward Ardiana’s face.
“Did Mother… come?”
Ardiana quickly raised her head.
She hurriedly placed her trembling hand on the child’s cheek.
“Yes, baby. Mother is here. Mother came.”
Tie’s eyelids blinked slowly.
The child took a small breath and opened her lips.
“…win?”
Then she asked with earnest eyes.
“Did we win…?”
Tie was breathing heavily.
Ardiana froze for a moment, then barely managed to nod.
She gestured toward Luciano’s altar where everything was coming to an end.
“Yes. There, do you see?”
Tie turned her eyes with difficulty.
The altar was on the verge of collapse.
Luciano’s wounds touched by the holy oil of return no longer healed.
He was on the defensive, unable to do anything anymore.
The Croah all turned away from him, flowing only toward one vessel, Tie.
“We won. Father, your unit members won….”
Tie’s eyelashes trembled.
A faint smile appeared on the child’s lips.
“Then is it peaceful now?”
Ardiana nodded, feeling tears welling up once again.
“Yes. It’s peaceful now. You don’t have to worry about anything anymore. So….”
The child made a small laughing sound.
But soon she coughed and made a pained expression.
Ardiana restlessly supported Tie.
Tie was like glass about to shatter.
It was so scary and frightening that Ardiana couldn’t do anything.
“Mother….”
At that moment, Tie called Ardiana again.
Then she whispered in a barely audible voice.
“Don’t hate Father.”
Her labored breathing gradually became fainter.
The child continued speaking to Ardiana, who had lost her voice.
“Even if Tie disappears, don’t hate Father. Okay?”
Ardiana’s eyes trembled deeply.
“Tie was being stubborn. Because I didn’t want everyone to get hurt, I went behind Father’s back… So it’s not that Father couldn’t protect Tie.”
The child stirred in her arms.
Small fingertips with spots reached toward Ardiana.
As if asking for a promise, Tie held out her pinky finger to Ardiana.
Ardiana looked at that sight and then collapsed into Tie’s embrace.
“Don’t do this, baby. Please don’t do this….”
She could hear the sound of a small, weak heartbeat near her ear.
Until they left Talochium.
When she held the child like this, she could feel warm warmth, soft texture, and tender skin.
“Don’t cry, Mother.”
Tie patted Ardiana’s back with clumsy hands.
“It doesn’t hurt anymore. It hurt before, but strangely now….”
At the fading voice, Ardiana raised her head.
Then Tie’s hand that had been patting her back also dropped with a thud.
Tie took a small breath.
“…Mother. Tie is so sleepy.”
The child’s shoulders, which had been rising and falling weakly, gradually stopped.
“I want to take a little nap….”
Tie’s voice was like an ordinary daily complaint.
Her constantly closing eyes also seemed like drowsiness from a warm spring day.
But Ardiana knew.
That it wasn’t that.
“Mother….”
Tie, who had called Ardiana once more, fell quiet.
The child’s words were so small that Ardiana held her breath.
She couldn’t even tell if the child had really spoken, or if it was just the wind whispering.
However, after calling for her, Tie didn’t continue speaking for a long while.
Her sweat-dampened eyelids had half-lowered and seemed to barely lift again.
“…Baby?”
Silence descended.
A silence where breathing, heartbeat, and even the wind seemed to have stopped.
“Baby? Tie…?”
Ardiana’s voice trembled.
“Answer me. Please answer, baby….”
In Ardiana’s arms, Tie’s head slowly tilted to the side.
Ardiana took a deep breath and bit her lips until they bled.
All the sounds of the world sank underwater.
“Baby… Tie… Tie-!!”
‘Mmhm!’
‘You called Tie, right? Mother, you called Tie, right?’
‘Yes!’
The child’s responses, who always turned around when called, echoed in her ears like hallucinations.
The sparkling eyes, and the lips that always jutted out when concentrating.
The pretty cheeks that looked especially plump and white when seen from the side….
“No! No baby, no-!”
But the small chest before her eyes no longer rose and fell.
“Please wake up, please, sob, no…!”
Tears flowed endlessly.
Ardiana hugged Tie tightly.
And she continued to call the child’s name.
As if doing so would bring the child back.
As if she would open her eyes as though nothing had happened.
“…Why, why are you just watching?”
The Barrier of the World Tree that had surrounded the mother and daughter slowly crumbled away.
Lucalion spoke with a trembling voice.
“You can save her! Why are you just watching! Why! Why-!”
He prostrated himself at the foot of the World Tree.
At the sudden commotion, everyone gathered near the altar turned their heads.
“Bring Astie back to life! Return that child! That child, that child…!”
Hot tears wet the feet of the World Tree.
“That child did nothing wrong… The world you failed to protect, that child only tried to defend it! That child-!”
“What, what is all this about.”
Veil, who had rushed over, gasped for breath.
He looked around and let out a hollow laugh.
“Bring who back to life? Return who. Huh?”
Basto, Livia.
Even the Paladins including the princes of Valentis and Luminen.
Among the gathering crowd, Veil asked again.
“…I, heard wrong, right?”
He forced a smile as he looked around.
“Answer me. I heard wrong, didn’t I. Right?”
At that moment, someone passed in front of Veil.
It was Basto.
“…No.”
He muttered and slowly stepped forward.
He passed the World Tree, and passed Lucalion who was prostrated and sobbing before it.
Finally, before his eyes appeared Ardiana kneeling on the ground.
“…That can’t be.”
He saw two feet sticking out from Ardiana’s embrace.
Long ago.
Two legs wearing the shoes he had bought in a small village at the edge of the continent.
Thud, Basto fell to his knees on the ground.
Veil silently kept his gaze fixed on Tie’s feet.
Then.
The Paladins surrounding the unit members parted to the left and right.
Soon Tesetan appeared from among them.
A short metallic sound rang through the silence.
It was the sound of Tesetan’s sword rolling across the dry earth.
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