A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 349

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 349

Ardiana stared at Tie, forgetting even to breathe.

Tie’s trembling eyelids lifted, and the child’s green eyes she had longed for so much met hers.

“Baby…?”

She could feel Tie’s stopped heart beating again.

Warmth gradually returned to the body that had been growing cold.

“Baby…”

Tears of joy flowed down Ardiana’s cheeks.

She reached out with trembling hands.

But fearing the child might break, she pulled her fingertips back again.

Her lips moved slightly.

“How on earth is this…?”

The unit members who had been watching approached her side one by one.

Everyone was looking at Tie as if they couldn’t believe it.

However, Tie did not answer.

The child just slowly raised their head and looked at each face around them one by one.

Livia, Veil, Ripper.

And the battlefield covered in blood and ash.

“Tie?”

Ardiana softly called the child’s name, noticing something strange about Tie’s expression.

But the next moment.

“…Ah!”

Tie immediately pushed away from Ardiana’s embrace and ran away.

“F-Father-!”

The place the child headed was beside Tesetan, who was standing a little distance from Ardiana.

“Huuung, wh-who are those people…?”

Tears dripped from Tie’s eyes.

The frightened pupils just wandered around in all directions, having lost their way.

The blood on the unit members’ weapons.

The debris of the broken altar and the corpses of monsters scattered everywhere.

Tie desperately burrowed into Tesetan’s embrace as if demanding to be held right away.

“Huu, Tie wants to go home…! I-I’m scared…!”

Ardiana’s pupils grew large.

Livia covered her mouth with one hand.

Veil barely managed to turn his head away.

Then he looked at Lucalion standing alone where the World Tree had disappeared.

“Hey… Kamang.”

He let out a hollow laugh with a tense face.

“Why is the child acting like that? Why doesn’t he recognize us? You should know, right?”

But Lucalion did not answer.

He just stared at the sniffling Tie with a blank face.

“You go try. Maybe he’ll remember if it’s you! The child always listened to what you said…!”

Veil pushed Lucalion’s back.

Lucalion, who staggered for a moment, slowly moved his steps.

Finally standing in front of Tie, his lips opened slightly.

“Astie… you.”

Tie’s eyes grew wide upon discovering Lucalion.

And after a moment.

“…It’s a monster.”

The first words from Tie’s mouth were something no one had expected.

The child’s face turned pale as he looked at Lucalion’s red eyes.

“Father, huu, it’s a monster…!”

Clinging to Tesetan, Tie squeezed his eyes shut.

Then the child’s tears hanging on the tips of his eyelashes fell with a patter.

“It’s a red-eyed monster! I want to go home, huu…!”

The small feet kept kicking at the snow-covered ground.

As if wanting to escape from this place immediately.

As if everyone here was truly creepily hateful and frightening.

Lucalion remained frozen in place for a long time, unable to move.

Because there was nothing he could do except stare blankly at Tie.

Talochium, Jedo.

“Your Majesty!”

Ardiana, who had passed through Idongchin, took her first precarious step in the square.

Cadia, who had gone from the Princess’s maid to the Emperor’s aide, hurriedly ran to her.

“Your Majesty! You were searching the northern walls and suddenly went to the Central Continent, I was so worried…!”

However, Cadia soon closed her mouth.

Because she forgot what she was going to say the moment she saw Ardiana’s pale face.

“…Your Majesty?”

Cadia called Ardiana with a trembling voice.

“Is-is there some problem? I heard reports that the Mastone throughout the Empire had disappeared, so I thought things had been resolved well…”

That’s when it happened.

“Move the wounded!”

Behind Ardiana, stretchers carrying the wounded began arriving one by one.

“Medics over here!”

“Paladin, imperial army, mercenary, it doesn’t matter! Anyone injured gets in the carriage!”

Cadia supported Ardiana and stepped aside.

The guard knights including Ripper formed ranks and surveyed the surroundings.

Cadia, who had scanned the area near Idongchin, furrowed her brow.

“Come to think of it, where are Prince Luminen and Lord Astie…?”

Just then, Tesetan holding Astie in his arms stepped down into the square.

Cadia’s eyes grew wide.

She looked back and forth between Astie and Ardiana and moved her lips.

“Your Majesty. Why is the young master…?”

Astie was sleeping in Tesetan’s arms.

However, his eyes were swollen, and undried tears glistened on his cheeks and eyelashes.

“Let’s go.”

Ardiana spoke in a voice heavy with worry.

Cadia had no choice but to follow behind while repeatedly looking back at Astie.

The small hand tightly gripping Tesetan’s clothes.

The face still full of frightened expression even now while sleeping, as if something had been so terrifying.

Cadia’s expression darkened.

At this point, she too could vaguely guess.

‘Something went wrong.’

And the next day.

The reality of that ominous premonition became even clearer.

“…Damn it.”

Veil quietly gripped his forehead.

The Empire’s first morning after the disaster ended was strangely quiet.

From the corridor of the Princess’s Palace that Ardiana used to occupy, crying sounds had been leaking out since early dawn.

“Huuu, I want to go home! I want to go to Grandmother Tie…!”

Small feet stomped wildly on the floor.

Tesetan bit his lips and scolded the child with a trembling voice.

“Tie. This is our home now. It might feel unfamiliar right now, but if you stay here a little while, you’ll feel better soon…”

“I don’t want to! I won’t feel better! Tie doesn’t feel okay at all!”

The child’s crying grew louder again.

“Grandmother Chaeboksu isn’t here, and Aunt Jeongmyeongja isn’t here either…! Teacher Isolje and my preschool friends aren’t here, huuung, nobody’s here!”

She cried so pitifully that Tie’s small shoulders heaved greatly with each exhale.

“I want to, hic! I want to go back… I hate it here…!”

A moment of silence fell.

Soon Tesetan opened his lips as if pleading.

“Tie, please… Those people are in Jongno-gu. That place is too far for Tie to go to now. Okay?”

“I don’t want to! Even if it’s far, I’ll walk there. Huu, I can just hold Father’s hand and go. That would work…!”

Outside the corridor.

Livia, who had been biting her nails with a troubled expression, approached the door closely.

When she quietly opened the door, she could see Tesetan’s back holding Tie through the gap.

He was barely managing to contain the child who was stamping her feet and wailing in his arms.

Tie’s forehead was already drenched with sweat.

Her eyes were also red and swollen from arguing with Tesetan since early morning.

“…She’s scared.”

Basto muttered in a devastated voice.

“For the past few months, she’s never acted up like this in any situation.”

His clenched fist trembled.

“The fact that she’s crying and acting up this much now… means the current situation is that frightening and difficult for Tie.”

Silence fell.

Raul, who had been frozen, spoke.

“Is Lucalion still not back?”

He looked around at the members with serious eyes.

“Didn’t he stay in Roxe Forest with the Paladins? Saying he would find out exactly what happened to Danzu.”

Aleric answered with a troubled voice.

“He said it would take at least two days. Until then…”

“Wait. Be quiet for a moment.”

Livia, who had been peering inside the door, raised her index finger.

Everyone held their breath again and turned their gaze toward the door.

“Hello, young lady?”

Inside the bedroom.

Cadia was carefully approaching Tie.

In her hands was a pretty vase filled with an armful of daisies.

“Pretty, isn’t it? I heard you like daisies.”

Tie blinked eyes full of wariness.

But Cadia casually approached Tesetan’s side and showed the vase to Tie.

“Mother, no, His Imperial Majesty prepared this personally. He’s been waiting only for you every day. He said he had to decorate the Princess’s Palace before you arrived…”

Tie looked down at the fresh flowers with a tense expression.

Cadia smiled.

“Would you like to smell the fragrance once? You might feel a little better…”

But at that moment.

“I don’t want to!”

Crash-!

With Tie’s shout, the vase plummeted to the floor.

In front of the child, the vase that Ardiana had prepared lay scattered in pieces.

Water flowed between the broken glass shards and scattered petals.

A hint of confusion flashed in Tie’s eyes.

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