A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 348

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 348

Tie stared blankly at Raha, at a loss for words.

Raha spoke.

[Child. Are you not afraid of death?]

Her voice was low and calm, as if echoing from the depths of a deep well.

[Don’t you feel wronged for being caught up in Prana’s fight? If not for that, you might have met a different end than now.]

Tie quietly blinked her eyes.

The child fidgeted with her fingers for a moment, then hesitantly shook her head.

“Tie doesn’t feel wronged at all.”

Then she continued speaking.

“Rather, it was fortunate that the World Tree chose Tie…?”

Raha’s expression became peculiar.

Tie looked up at Raha cautiously.

“King of Hell Grandmother, Tie used the power she received from the World Tree to defeat the bad Luciano.”

[…]

“With that power, Tie also saved the friends who were captured by Luciano, and healed people who were hurt fighting monsters.”

A faint smile spread across Tie’s lips as she spoke.

“So you know what? All the people Tie loves are happy now! Mother and Father, other family members and unit members too…”

The child smiled brightly at Raha.

“So Tie doesn’t feel wronged at all. Rather, it’s good fortune. Because Tie accomplished this much without losing anyone.”

Raha gave no response.

After a moment, she opened her mouth.

[What a pure and noble heart indeed.]

Raha’s serious gaze turned toward Tie.

[In contrast, how full of mistakes I am, how full of mistakes Prana is.]

A thin strand of light leaked from Raha’s fingertips.

[…Astie. We are indebted to you. Due to Prana’s carelessness, we nearly completely destroyed the world you live in.]

Tie’s eyes widened.

[But I could not intervene in such a world. Because the ancient pact became shackles binding my feet.]

Raha’s light trembled quietly.

[Perhaps the threads of life and death became so tangled because of that. Because I and Prana were imperfect. Because we made mistakes.]

Raha’s eyes darkened.

[Of course, even without you, we could have punished Luciano eventually. But it would have taken a very long time. That much more would have been destroyed.]

Raha raised her head.

[Child. Do you know this? You have the right to wish for much more than now.]

Tie’s lips parted.

[You should feel indignant. You should be angry and resentful that only you cannot enjoy the peace you gained by sacrificing your life.]

Raha’s light drew closer to Tie.

[…Living for eons, there are such times. Moments when what is not right becomes right, when disorder becomes order itself. Perhaps that’s why.]

Tie stared blankly at the light surrounding her body.

[Originally, no one who enters the Underworld can leave. However.]

“…”

[Today I feel that sending you back is the right thing for me and Prana to do.]

The light brightened and Tie’s fingertips became hazy and blurred.

Warm warmth seeped into her skin, bringing a comfortable and cozy sensation.

“…Father?”

Tie reflexively turned her head.

A few steps away.

Tesetan, who had brought Tie before Raha, stood there blankly.

“Father…!”

Tie hurriedly reached out toward Tesetan.

She knew Raha’s light would not harm her.

Even so, she suddenly became frightened.

“Father, King of Hell Grandmother is going to…!”

“Yes. I know.”

Tesetan approached and firmly grasped Tie’s hand.

“Now you’re going to return.”

Tie’s eyes grew large.

She could really go back.

With Luciano gone, Tie could exist in that happy future too.

But somehow she couldn’t smile.

Because she was worried about Tesetan before her eyes, the father who said he was only a doppelganger.

“But what about Father? Isn’t Father coming with me?”

“Astie. Listen carefully.”

Instead of answering, Tesetan caressed Tie’s cheek.

“When you return, your life will flow again. But for a while, your time within it might flow a little differently.”

Tie’s eyes grew large.

“Flow differently…?”

“Do you remember? How the thread of time was cut once when we came to Jongno-gu.”

Tie closed her mouth.

Tears welled up in the child’s eyes.

“Huu, Tie knows too. The Mother and Father in Talochium are young Mother and Father! Tie hasn’t been born yet…!”

“Yes, that’s why. After you return, your time will flow slowly. You’ll have to wait until other people’s time catches up to your time that flowed ahead.”

Raha’s light began to envelop even Tie’s hands.

Tesetan looked down at that light and carefully let go of Tie’s hand.

Tie’s lips parted.

“Father-!”

“Don’t be afraid.”

Tesetan stepped back one pace.

Before long, tears had gathered in his eyes too.

“When you return, you can rest comfortably. You’ve been carrying too much all this time, right? You’re still young. Enduring things that even adults couldn’t handle…”

Tie looked at Tesetan with a bewildered face.

She felt strength gradually leaving her body.

She had to grab Father’s hand.

She had to hold on and leave together, but drowsiness was overwhelming and she couldn’t bear it.

“From now on, you have to run more and laugh more.”

Tesetan continued speaking while breathing heavily with emotion.

“You have to forget everything and live like children your age. Throw tantrums and cry to your heart’s content…”

Her eyes slowly closed.

“Tie, my one and only daughter.”

In the darkening vision, Tesetan’s voice was buried in sobs.

“I love you… forever.”

Tie took a deep breath.

Raha’s light painted everything before her eyes pure white.

It was another end of consciousness that had come.

Under the sky of the Underworld.

Tesetan stood in place for a long while.

[Now that child’s life will flow again.]

Raha’s voice was heard.

Suddenly, a certain moment came to mind in Tesetan’s head.

The moment his heart stopped.

The cold memory of death.

He unconsciously clutched near his heart.

In truth, after that incident, he remembered everything only hazily.

Perhaps it was because the body that had sustained him had disappeared.

But even so.

There were a few things he could recall vividly.

‘Grandmother, when is Father coming?’

‘Aunt… Father isn’t coming today either?’

The child who would ask the neighbors again and again, shoulders hunched small.

Tie, who would nod weakly at words that he’d be a little later, then go into her room alone and sniffle.

He wanted to embrace the child but couldn’t reach her.

He could only watch everything without being able to offer a single word of comfort.

Because that was death.

[A soul split in two, with half in the Underworld and half in the Living Realm. Death encountered across dimensions is dangerous for this reason.]

Raha muttered.

Tesetan could only stare at the place where Tie had disappeared, unable to give any response.

Compared to the time he had waited, their meeting was far too brief.

Of course, he had never once wanted Tie to remain in this place.

Even so, a suffocating sense of loss washed over him.

He couldn’t bear the jealousy toward the other half of himself that was still alive and breathing.

That was when.

[…I shall send you back to the Living Realm as well.]

Tesetan paused at the words that suddenly reached him.

When he turned his head, Raha was quietly looking down at him.

[What good would it do to keep a half-soul trapped in the cracks of the Underworld? Only longing and pain would grow.]

Tesetan’s eyes widened.

The light surrounding Raha flickered for a moment.

The sky of the Underworld rippled quietly.

[So with this.]

A short chime rang out.

[The debt I owed to you father and daughter is fully repaid.]

Raha’s final words dissolved and scattered in the wind.

When the light faded, Raha was gone.

In the remaining silence, Tesetan let out a short breath.

In the distance.

Something appeared in the middle of the endlessly spread Vast Sky.

Surrounded by faint light and rippling,

“…Tie.”

It was unmistakably another door.

A cold wind blew across the battlefield.

White snow scattered over the earth that was beginning to freeze.

Ardiana was still holding Tie tightly in her arms.

“…Your Majesty.”

Ripper approached.

His fingertips trembled slightly.

“You must let Her Highness the Princess go now.”

But Ardiana shook her head.

“No.”

Her voice trembled.

“Tie, our baby… hasn’t left yet.”

At those words, Ripper’s face darkened.

Meanwhile, Tesetan was kneeling a little distance away.

He stared at Tie and Ardiana without moving at all.

“Your Majesty.”

Ripper swallowed a groan and knelt on one knee beside Ardiana.

“You know that Her Highness the Princess…”

Ardiana’s shoulders shook pitifully.

Tears flowed from her eyes again.

“No, that’s not right. Sob, Tie is, my daughter is…!”

That was when.

Ardiana, who had been moving her lips, paused.

She slowly looked down into her arms.

Ardiana’s eyelashes trembled as she looked down at Tie’s face.

“Baby…?”

A single snowflake had settled on Tie’s cheek.

And before long,

“…Astie?”

The child’s eyelids moved very slightly.

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