A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 356

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 356

“You saw a person in the bushes?”

Selina asked back in surprise.

Tie nodded her head vigorously.

“Yeah! Tie definitely saw it! In the bushes, hiding like this.”

“Ah….”

A look of realization crossed Selina’s face.

‘A child around Tie’s age staying in the Imperial Palace. And if they were hiding….’

Selina stared at Tie as she vaguely grasped the situation.

“Do you know that kid? Normally, just anyone can’t enter the Imperial Palace.”

Sure enough, Tie’s expression became complicated.

After struggling for a while, Tie raised her head.

“Well….”

Then she answered in a somewhat deflated voice.

“It’s a kid I know, but also a kid I don’t know….”

Selina tilted her head.

Then Tie pondered for a moment before sitting close to Selina like someone confessing a secret.

“Actually, I’ve only seen that kid once before. On the day I moved to Talochium…!”

Meanwhile.

“Hup.”

Veil, who was pressed against the reception room door, took a short breath.

He turned around with a serious expression.

“She’s talking about that day…?”

“Th-that’s right.”

The unit members who were eavesdropping on Tie and Selina’s conversation all had surprised expressions.

That was understandable, since Tie had been reluctant to talk about the day of the final battle.

But now.

The child was freely spilling stories about that day with her own mouth.

“I’m only telling you this, Selina….”

Tie hesitated as she looked up at Selina.

“That day, that kid came close to Tie. But there was so much blood on their body that I was startled.”

Tie’s face became gloomy after speaking.

“Also, their eyes were red and scary….”

Selina closed her mouth.

The day of the final battle.

She already knew from Marbas how Tie, who had lost her memory, had treated everyone.

However, this was the first time hearing the story of that day from Tie’s perspective.

“So? What happened?”

At Selina’s question, Tie raised her head.

Then she continued in an uncertain voice.

“I told them to go away, called them a monster.”

The child scratched her head.

“I was scared then, and like the other dead monsters around, I thought that kid was also a monster….”

Tie let out a deep sigh and continued speaking.

“Anyway. That’s how the kid left, but when I came to the Imperial Palace, that kid was there again!”

Tie jumped up and went under the reception room table.

Then she grabbed the table leg and peeked her head out.

“Like this, in this position, hiding in the bushes!”

“Ah….”

Selina finally let out a short sigh.

She recalled Marbas’s words about Lucalion hovering around Tie.

A small sigh flowed from Selina’s mouth.

‘Really, if you’re going to hide, at least hide properly.’

If he was caught every time he hid, Tie’s wariness must have grown more than before.

But.

‘…Now that I think about it again, something’s strange?’

The opponent was Lucalion.

None other than the spirit Lucalion.

It was strange that such a Lucalion couldn’t erase even a trace of his presence and was discovered by Tie.

Selina secretly narrowed her eyes.

‘There seems to be something….’

Something that Selina had overlooked.

At that moment.

“Actually, that kid smells like Jongno-gu?”

“Jongno-gu smell… huh?”

Selina was startled by Tie’s words.

Tie, who had come out from under the table, was already crouching in front of Selina.

“Jongno-gu is where Tie lived before moving here. But that kid smells like that place.”

Tie fiddled with a colored pencil rolling on the floor.

Then she sighed and continued speaking.

“So Tie can tell where that kid is hiding by the smell.”

“Smell…?”

“Yeah! It’s not a smell I smell with my nose, but, hmm, how should I put it?”

Tie grabbed her forehead and struggled.

“It’s like a smell I smell with my heart! When smoke goes out from Tie’s heart, I can smell the Jongno-gu scent from that kid!”

“Smoke comes out from your heart?”

“Yeah! I asked Shabet Grandfather, and he said that’s Croa.”

Selina’s eyes widened.

‘I see!’

Now she could understand.

What Selina had been missing was precisely Tie’s Croa.

The divine power and magic power that Tie had manifested early.

Even after the World Tree’s revival, some of it must still remain in Tie’s body.

“But Tie doesn’t even know what that is.”

At that moment, Tie grumbled.

“They say it’s an incredibly strong power if used well, but Tie can’t do anything. Except smell that red-eyed kid….”

Tie flopped down on the floor.

Then she rolled once and got up again.

“But about that kid, when Tie looked into it, they’re not a kid who works at the Imperial Palace! Not the butler grandfather’s son, and not royalty either!”

“I-is that so?”

“Yeah! Completely unidentified!”

Tie shook her head back and forth.

Then she spoke in an even more serious voice.

“But recently, Tie found out that kid’s identity.”

A strange tension settled in the room.

Selina unconsciously held her breath.

Meanwhile, Tie sat close in front of Selina.

“…That kid has a tail.”

Selina was left speechless and closed her mouth.

Tie continued speaking.

“And there are ears between the hair too. Two of them…!”

Tie proudly held up two fingers.

“But you know what’s even more terrifying? When Tie points at that kid and asks if they can see them, everyone turns their heads and says they can’t see anything!”

“…”

“Father also goes ahem! and coughs while saying he can’t see anything. Shabet Grandfather also says there’s no such thing! So when we go look together, they’re there, but really no one else is there!”

Tie shivered as if the mere thought was terrifying.

The child stared at Selina.

“So Selina, now you understand, right?”

“Wh-what…?”

Tie let out a sigh.

“Selina, you’re really such an innocent child, aren’t you?”

Then she whispered with sparkling eyes.

“That kid is a ghost. A ghost that follows Tie around!”

“A ghost…?”

“Yeah!”

Tie nodded her head vigorously.

“Otherwise, there’s no way Tie would feel scared just looking at them.”

Selina, who had been blinking for a moment, hesitated.

Selina quickly looked at Tie.

“Wait a minute, Tie. You feel scared?”

At the sudden question, Tie’s eyes widened.

Soon Tie hesitated for a moment, then carefully pointed at her chest with her finger.

“Well, when I look at them, this place becomes scary.”

Tie’s hand placed on her chest clenched tightly.

“My heart gets all tight, I can’t breathe, and it feels like tears might come out…”

“Tears?”

“Yeah.”

Tie’s expression darkened.

“Actually, it’s the same when I see the Mercenary Uncles who come here every day.”

Selina closed her mouth.

Tie’s voice sank a little lower.

“When I see those people, strange scenes keep coming to mind. I don’t know where it is, and I don’t know who’s who… but I smell blood. And someone keeps lying collapsed.”

Tie’s hands trembled.

“So I’m scared… really, really scared.”

Finally, Tie sniffled.

Selina quickly grabbed Tie’s hands.

The corners of Tie’s eyes drooped downward.

“But those people keep coming to find Tie. I really hate it. I hate it because I’m scared…”

A small crying sound finally leaked from Tie’s mouth.

Selina’s complexion darkened.

‘What should I do…’

Selina knew.

How much the Members longed for Tie.

What kind of feelings they had when visiting the memory-lost child every day for half a year.

But now she seemed to understand.

“Selina. Actually… Tie isn’t doing well with anything here.”

Tie wasn’t in a state where she could handle everyone’s longing.

“Shabet Grandfather said I’ve adapted a lot, but Tie hasn’t.”

Tie sniffled.

Perhaps overwhelmed with sorrow, the child’s voice had already broken down.

Tie began crying loudly in Selina’s arms.

“Actually, I still want to go back to where I used to live. But Father keeps telling me to get close to Mother. And the Mercenaries come every day…!”

Selina turned her head restlessly.

Through the slightly open door crack, she could see several pairs of eyes watching this place.

Basto, Veil, other Members, and even Ardiana.

“Everyone…”

Tie’s shoulders shook as they heaved.

“I wish everyone would just leave Tie alone now, waaah!”

The child’s voice echoed throughout the Reception Room.

At those words, the faces of everyone outside the door turned pale with their own different emotions.

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