A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 357

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 357

Princess Palace Rear Gate.

“…Ha, you damn fool!”

As soon as he closed the door and came out, Veil struck his own cheek hard.

With a thud, his cheek swelled up instantly.

However, he didn’t care and raised his hand again.

“Why are you so stupid…! Why do you always know one thing but not two…!”

“Veil! What’s wrong with you, are you crazy?!”

Livia hurriedly grabbed his arm.

However, Veil roughly shook off her hand with bloodshot eyes.

“Let go!”

After catching his breath for a moment, he spoke.

“Didn’t you hear what the child said? She asked us to… leave her alone.”

Veil’s vision blurred.

Not because of his throbbing cheek, but because of the guilt boiling in his chest.

“How fed up must that little one have been. How scared and difficult it must have been… to confide such things to Selina, whom she met for the first time today.”

Veil slowly slumped to the ground.

Tie’s voice continued to echo in his ears as he held his head.

‘When I see those people, I feel scared.’

‘I don’t know why I’m scared, but I’m really, really scared.’

Veil squeezed his eyes shut.

A low groan escaped his lips.

“Ha… Of course. Of course she was scared.”

At first, he thought the problem was making a bad first impression.

Since he appeared before the memory-lost Tie covered in blood and filth, it was natural for the child to be frightened.

But that wasn’t it.

“…Think about it. What we did with the child during our activities as Agabelt.”

The surroundings became quiet at Veil’s words.

“Killing monsters was routine, and people died several times too. Is that all? Seeing bleeding injured people was routine.”

Veil smiled bitterly.

“To us, it was natural. Because that was our job. But….”

Veil swept his face with trembling hands.

“The child? The child wasn’t like that.”

His voice had become deeply subdued.

“Even though we covered her eyes, blocked her ears, and did everything we could, in the end the child must have known. What kind of situation she was caught up in, what was happening before her eyes.”

Basto lowered his gaze.

Livia closed her mouth, and even Aleric couldn’t say anything.

Because everyone knew Veil’s words were right.

“Every time we asked if she was okay, the child always said ‘yes’. That she was fine, that it didn’t matter. But….”

“….”

“It was all lies.”

Veil’s voice finally became choked up.

“Well, of course she couldn’t be okay. She’s just a child. A four-year-old kid.”

He raised his head.

“How scared and confused must she have been inside? But if she told the truth, she was afraid we’d worry, afraid everyone would be concerned about her, that stupid little….”

Finally, Livia let out a sigh.

Aleric quickly supported her as she staggered.

Veil muttered.

“In the end, even though she lost her memories, her body remembers.”

He slowly clenched his fist.

“All that anxiety and fear she experienced while being with us… the child still remembers it all.”

Veil slowly stood up.

Then he spat out a short phrase.

“…I’m going to stop now.”

Basto hesitated.

The other unit members also looked at Veil with surprised faces.

But Veil was calm.

“…Even if the child’s memories don’t return after 11 years, it doesn’t matter.”

Basto’s lips parted.

But Veil looked around at the unit members with a face that seemed to have made some decision.

“The child, no, Tie. She deserves to be happy.”

He quickly wiped away the tears that had formed in his eyes.

“Thinking about it again, what can I do about the World Tree being right. Of course, for me, the moments I spent with the child were like the most wonderful dream days….”

“….”

“Haha, but maybe not for the child. They might have been frightening, sudden, and anxious days. Quite possibly.”

Veil forced a smile as he stared at Basto.

“Basto. You think carefully too.”

“….”

“Because of our greed. Because of our damn selfishness, do you think it’s right for the child to suffer? Even now when everything is over?”

Basto’s face hardened pale.

He couldn’t say anything and just stared down at the ground.

“…I don’t think so.”

Veil muttered and panted.

“The child suffering so much because of us… I really don’t think that’s right.”

Silence fell.

After a while, Veil turned his head toward Ardiana.

“…Thank you for everything, Your Majesty.”

Then he added one more thing.

“For the time being, no, I won’t have any reason to visit the Imperial Palace in the future.”

Veil turned around.

Then he began walking across the garden without hesitation.

Basto’s eyes trembled finely as he watched that retreating figure.

Soon, a short sigh escaped from Basto’s mouth as if he had made some decision.

Basto turned his head and gave a brief bow to Ardiana.

Then he quietly followed Veil’s steps.

“…Your Majesty. I’ll be heading back now too.”

The other unit members including Livia were the same.

Ardiana stood there dazed, watching them leave one by one.

Victor, Livia and Aleric, Raul and Enzo.

And….

“Lucalion.”

With Ardiana’s voice, a wind from somewhere swept through the garden.

A little later.

Someone quietly emerged from behind a nearby tree.

“I know.”

Lucalion’s voice was precarious like an ember about to go out.

“I’m leaving too.”

Ardiana instinctively took a step toward Lucalion.

Lucalion had been an unknowable existence from the beginning.

He was an enigma with incomprehensible power, a shadow-like being that was difficult to approach.

However, at some point.

Ardiana discovered herself trusting Lucalion absolutely.

‘…I have no choice.’

Lucalion was like a guardian deity protecting her only daughter.

A being whose gaze alone gave her certainty that he loved the child.

“Where are you planning to go?”

When she asked this, Lucalion slowly looked up at the sky.

A few pieces of cloud that Tie had called cotton candy were floating across the blue sky.

“I don’t know either.”

Lucalion answered weakly.

At some point, it had become difficult for him to imagine himself anywhere other than by Tie’s side.

“Where I should go, I don’t know either.”

But he had to leave.

There was nothing more he could do for Tie.

That’s when it happened.

“Then in 11 years. You must come back then.”

Ardiana’s quiet voice reached him.

When he lowered his gaze, she was looking at Lucalion with deeply sunken eyes.

“When the scattered timelines become one. You said that Tie’s memories might return then.”

Lucalion drew in a small breath.

Ardiana was right.

Roughly 11 years from now.

Tie’s memories might return, or they might not.

But he was certain.

“…They won’t return.”

Today, after hearing Tie’s inner thoughts, everything had become clear.

In Tie’s heart, everyone had already taken root as ‘fear.’

Given that, it was certain that Tie would try to push away her past memories until the very end.

Even if it were 11 years later when the timeline became complete.

Finally, when Lucalion, who had kept his mouth firmly shut, turned around.

“…Still, come back!”

Ardiana cried out urgently.

She continued speaking toward the departing Lucalion with a trembling voice.

“You have the right, Lucalion!”

Lucalion’s footsteps faltered.

“Aren’t you curious about how Tie looks as she starts growing again? You, if not others, you should see it…!”

Ardiana’s voice was both pitiful and desperate.

“That child’s time flowing again!”

Having finished speaking, she gasped for rough breaths.

The garden was quiet.

Lucalion never answered, keeping his back turned to Ardiana.

He just stood in the middle of the garden, quietly looking down at the ground.

“Lucalion…!”

Finally, when Ardiana called out to Lucalion again.

From somewhere, a wind carrying the full scent of flowers blew over.

In the swirling hair, Ardiana briefly closed her eyes.

And when she opened her eyes again, Lucalion had disappeared.

“…Lucalion?”

Ardiana slowly walked to where he had been standing.

However, soon after.

Just as she was about to step from the tree’s shadow into the sunlight, she briefly stopped breathing.

“…Ah.”

In that short time.

The garden was completely submerged in white light.

The flower that Tie particularly loved.

Hundreds, thousands of daisies swayed like waves in the gentle breeze.

Ardiana was so speechless that she sank down to the ground.

And for a very long time, she couldn’t lift her lowered head.

.

.

And so time passed.

Silently, as one day pushed away another.

And one day.

“Come on, come on, Princess! You must get up now! Today is a very busy day from morning~”

“Mmm, I don’t want tooo…!”

Another spring came to Tie.

Her twelfth spring, still at four years old.

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