A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 347

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 347

Tie crossed the threshold in one swift motion.

“Father…!”

Tesetan, whom she embraced tightly, carried the exact same scent Tie remembered.

‘The smell of Korea. The smell of Gold Apartment Complex…!’

But Tie urgently lifted her head.

Then she asked with drooping eyebrows.

“F-Father, why are you in Heaven?”

It was good to meet Father in this strange place.

But if that meant Tesetan had also died like Tie…

“Why are you in Heaven! Tie defeated Luciano! So everyone became safe, that’s what the World Tree said…!”

At that moment, Tesetan quietly knelt down.

He wiped the corners of Tie’s teary eyes and smiled.

“Don’t cry. Our daughter is right. No one got hurt.”

Tie’s eyes grew wide.

“But Father! Tie and Father are both in Heaven…!”

“Listen carefully? The Father here is like a fake.”

Tesetan whispered.

Then he continued as if comforting a child.

“You know about doppelgangers, right? The Father here is a doppelganger, the Father down there is real.”

“Father is a doppelganger…?”

“That’s right! I came quickly because our daughter might be scared alone.”

Tie closed her mouth.

“How is that even…”

“It was really hard, wasn’t it?”

Tesetan hugged Tie tightly.

“Our daughter who wouldn’t hurt even if put in my eye. You’re already timid, so how scary and difficult it must have been.”

Tie blinked her big eyes while being held by Tesetan.

Tesetan’s voice trembled.

“Father was watching everything from here. How hard our daughter tried, how much she suffered.”

One side of her heart resonated with a tingling sensation.

Tie, who had held her breath for a moment, asked in a sorrowful voice.

“Even though you’re a doppelganger Father, you can see all that?”

Tesetan, who had pulled away, smiled with reddened eyes.

“Of course. I saw you complaining about not liking carrots at Talochium, and secretly stealing chocolate from Hammer at the Stronghold.”

“…Gasp. You saw that?”

“Yes, I saw everything. From beginning to end, I couldn’t take my eyes off our daughter at all.”

The child couldn’t say anything for a while.

Then she carefully asked before long.

“Then Father… have you been here for a long time? Alone?”

Tesetan closed his mouth.

After a moment, Tesetan, who had pulled away from Tie, smiled.

“It’s okay. Here, even a very long time is just a moment.”

Tie opened her eyes wide.

Meanwhile, Tesetan, who had gotten up from his seat, extended his hand to Tie.

“Come. From here on, let’s go together with Father.”

Tie hesitated before taking that hand.

Then she unconsciously turned around.

She was curious whether the two women who had brought her here were still outside the door.

But the door had already disappeared.

“Gasp, the door is gone!”

Tesetan answered with a smiling face.

“It’s always like that here.”

Tie had no choice but to start walking.

Father walked very slowly to match Tie’s pace.

How far had they walked?

A smile appeared on Tie’s lips as she looked down at the white, fluffy floor.

“Father, the floor here looks like snow.”

“Right? It’s like last winter. So much snow fell then that we made snowmen with our Tie.”

“Yes! But the grandfather from the next building came out with a broom saying bad things? He said he wished the snow would stop, that his back hurt from shoveling.”

“Really? Father didn’t know that.”

“Mm-hmm, but did Father’s back hurt from shoveling snow too?”

“No? Father didn’t hurt at all because our daughter made it all into snowmen?”

Tie unconsciously burst into giggles.

The snow that fell white in the Alley.

The night when she worked hard making snowmen under the Streetlamp light felt like a nostalgic memory.

The child who had been giggling alone soon straightened her back and closed her eyes.

“Time really flies fast. Right, Father?”

Tesetan looked down at Tie.

Tie imitated 107 Grandmother’s expression and shook her head.

“Having lived for half a decade, I think I understand the meaning of life’s ups and downs. If I had known I would come to Heaven so emptily like this…”

Tie’s eyebrows drooped.

“I should have eaten more junk food!”

Tesetan stopped walking.

Tie looked up at Tesetan as if feeling wronged.

“You said cavity bugs would grow in my teeth, so Tie only ate two candies every day…!”

Tesetan, who finally burst into laughter, patted the child’s head.

“Haha, it’s okay. You can eat a lot when you go back.”

“Huh?”

Tie’s eyes grew round.

“Go back where?”

But Tesetan didn’t answer.

Instead, he turned his gaze somewhere.

Tie unconsciously followed that gaze and opened her mouth in a daze.

A little distance away.

In the middle of the endless Horizon, someone who hadn’t been there just moments before was standing.

“Father. Who is that person?”

Tie unconsciously hid behind Tesetan.

She felt some inexplicable sense of intimidation from the distant person.

But at that moment.

Ding-

A faint bell sound came from somewhere.

Then the one who had been far away instantly came close to Tie’s nose.

[You’ve come, chosen child.]

Tie opened her mouth.

Around her, no, around her, a faint light was rippling.

[I am the master of the Pact and Absolute Being of the Underworld, Raha.]

The woman raised her slender hand and interlocked her fingers.

[I have been waiting for you here. For a very long time.]

Tie stiffened as she looked up at Raha.

As she met those clear eyes, she could almost smell incense from somewhere.

Her gaze slowly fell downward.

Hair so long and white it dragged on the floor.

The wrinkles carved into Raha’s face and her dry hands.

Tie gulped.

Then she muttered in a trembling voice.

“F-Father. The King of Hell was a grandmother…?”

Raha’s pupils grew large.

Soon she burst into great laughter.

[Just as I heard from Prana. Truly a pure and clean soul.]

Tie closed her mouth with a bewildered expression.

Meanwhile, Raha extended her pale, thin arm toward Tie.

Then Tie’s vision instantly flashed white.

[You must be curious who Prana is.]

Soon a vast darkness fell before her eyes.

Raha’s voice quietly echoed.

[…In the beginning, there was no ‘breath.’ Everything was still. A silence without light, sound, or memory. That was me, Raha.]

But soon a single ray of light was born in the center of the darkness.

[Then one breath arose from that silence. That breath became Prana, the beginning of life.]

The light spread between the darkness.

Flowers bloomed, rivers flowed, and birds began to sing.

[The living called him the World Tree. When life was born from his roots, death was conceived in my shadow. I came to guard the ‘end,’ and Prana came to guard the ‘beginning.’]

Raha’s voice became distant.

[But that balance did not last long. Prana tried to breathe life into everything, and I sought to see the end of that breath. When our wills clashed, the world collapsed.]

Cracks appeared in the world like lightning.

From those gaps, black mist and verdant growth intertwined as if devouring each other.

[Thus we made a pact. So that life and death would not cross each other.]

Tie’s vision returned to normal.

Raha lowered her head.

[Then I sealed my own name. I closed the Underworld so that death could not covet life. Prana did the same. Instead…]

Raha stepped back.

Hundreds of thousands of thin threads floating around her vibrated.

[We created an existence called the ‘Sorcerer King’ between us.]

Tie unconsciously held her breath.

[The Sorcerer King was my representative and Prana’s friend. An existence that had to maintain the balance between life and death. But this generation’s Sorcerer King, Lucalion…]

Raha’s eyelids, which had been closed for a moment, lifted as her deep gaze turned toward Tie.

[Carelessly carved a mark upon you. To save you, he arbitrarily granted the power that Prana and I had bestowed.]

Tie’s eyes grew wide.

Tie somehow felt she knew what Raha was trying to say at this moment.

“Could it be…?”

Tie’s small shoulders shrank.

“Did Tie do something wrong by using the Sorcerer King’s power carelessly? Is that why the King of Hell is angry too…?”

But Raha shook her head.

[No, no.]

Her eyes shone calmly.

[Rather, you have done nothing wrong. It was Lucalion who broke the balance.]

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