A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 359

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 359

“Wow!”

Tie spun around once in front of the mirror.

The adorable dress hem puffed up, and the pink shoes she had pestered Marshal to let her wear caught her eye.

“It’s the best! Tie loves it so much!”

Watching the excited Tie, Marshal quietly pressed her forehead.

‘A light green dress with fluorescent pink shoes.’

However, Tie’s stubbornness about wearing the shoes she had chosen could not be broken in the end.

‘What’s so special about those princess colors…’

“Let’s go now!”

Just as she was thinking, Tie raised one hand high.

Marshal had no choice but to follow behind Tie.

“Hello, Uncle Geun-i!”

“Good day, Princess! You look beautiful today as well!”

“Hello to you too, Head Chef!”

“Oh my, Princess! Your shoes are very pretty!”

Every time Tie took a step, the members of the Princess’s Palace passing through the corridor greeted her warmly.

They were all trustworthy loyal servants who had kept Tie’s secret for over ten years.

How long had they walked like that?

“Daughter!”

Someone leaning against the courtyard wall waved happily upon seeing Tie.

“Father!”

Marshal watched with a pleased expression as Tie ran toward Tesetan.

“Oh, how pretty, you’re wearing pretty shoes? Did our daughter choose them?”

“Yes! Tie’s sense is amazing, right?”

“Yes, it’s incredibly amazing! So dazzling and cute.”

He was always expressionless, a duke known for being stiff and frighteningly cold in personality.

Marshal couldn’t help but smile, thinking who would believe such a duke had this side to him.

Just then, Tesetan looked at Marshal.

“You’ve worked hard. I’ll take her from here.”

Marshal quickly bowed at the waist.

Tie promptly climbed down from Tesetan’s embrace and carefully smoothed out her wrinkled dress hem.

Then she waved to Marshal and began walking energetically, following her father.

“Father. Tie wants to eat strawberry cake after the Glory Festival ends.”

“Really? Then you can eat it. Should we eat it together with Father?”

“Yes!”

“…We’re eating it without Mother, right? Like last time?”

Tie, who had been walking well, stopped hesitantly.

The child looked up and hesitated, wavering in her answer.

Seeing that, Tesetan quickly smiled.

“Never mind. Mother will probably be too busy to come. Let’s eat it together, just the two of us. Understood?”

“Yes!”

Tie’s face immediately brightened.

Tesetan swallowed a bitter smile.

‘…It wasn’t like this before she lost her memory.’

Tie still kept her distance from Ardiana.

The wall in her heart toward Ardiana didn’t seem to crumble easily.

‘She probably needs more time.’

In the end, Tesetan could only hope for that.

That things would get better as more time passed.

That someday, Tie would open her heart to Ardiana again.

“Father, are many mercenaries coming to today’s Glory Festival?”

Just then, Tie asked.

Tesetan hid his momentarily darkened expression and answered casually.

“Probably? The banquet hall is divided into indoor and outdoor sections, with over a hundred tables set up.”

“Wow.”

“We called retired mercenaries, mercenaries who joined the Imperial Army, and even mercenaries who were resting in distant countries.”

Tie nodded.

Tesetan looked down at her and asked.

“Our daughter is okay, right?”

Tie’s eyes widened.

“Huh? Of course I’m okay!”

“Father was just worried. You were scared of mercenaries.”

“I’m scared, but…”

Tie, who had drooped her eyebrows, quickly smiled.

“Thanks to the mercenaries, we defeated the bad old Pope!”

Tesetan smiled softly.

“…Right. Let’s go.”

Just as he patted the child’s head and was about to start walking again.

“Tesetan?”

At the path connecting the Princess’s Palace to the Main Palace.

Someone standing by a tree called out to Tesetan.

Soon, Tie’s eyes widened.

“Wow! Grandfather! Uncles!”

They were Valentis and the Three Princes of Luminen.

However, beside the family members they hadn’t seen in a long time, there were also other faces that were both unfamiliar and familiar.

“Those people from back then…”

Tie’s complexion turned pale.

Mercenaries.

Was it Agavert?

Those mercenaries who had come looking for Tie for a while, who made her feel scared when she looked at their faces.

“Tie!”

The next moment, Tie turned around and started running.

She could hear Tesetan calling, but the child instinctively ran into the thicket by the roadside.

Bush branches brushed against her face, making her cheeks sting.

But Tie went deeper, even deeper inside.

‘I have to hide, I have to hide!’

Even though a very long time had passed, the fear she felt when seeing them once again gripped her heart terrifyingly.

That’s when it happened.

“Huh…?!”

One foot she hurriedly stepped forward suddenly sank somewhere.

What happened next occurred in the blink of an eye.

Tie was bounced out of the thicket by the momentum of her running.

Then she rolled down the gentle slope.

A small groan flowed from Tie’s mouth as she flopped face-down on the soft lawn.

“Ow, ow, ow…”

Tie lifted her head with difficulty.

In the distance.

One of the shoes she had carefully chosen had come off and rolled away.

“Hng, it hurts….”

Tie carefully tried to stand her leg up.

However, her knee was already scraped and wounded.

“…Sniff.”

Tie sniffled and staggered as she got up from her spot.

Then, worried about getting scolded by Marshal, she took a step forward to pick up her shoe that had rolled away.

But.

“Ah!”

Soon a sharp pain shot through her left ankle and her body tilted forward once again.

‘I’m going to fall again…!’

Tie curled up her body and squeezed her eyes shut.

But that was the moment.

Thud.

Something firmly supported Tie’s body.

A warm touch.

And a familiar scent.

When she opened her eyes, something came into view.

A pale face.

Wide-open red eyes.

Long, jet-black hair that tickled Tie’s cheek.

“…Huh?”

A small voice leaked from Tie’s mouth as her eyes widened.

There was no mistake.

The child in front of her was,

“That child with the tail from back then…!”

Dong-

In an instant, the sound of bells announcing the start of the Youngwhi Festival rang out from afar.

At that moment, for some reason, a corner of Tie’s mind felt a sharp, tingling sensation.

“Huh…?”

Tie blinked silently.

This had never happened before.

Suddenly her vision became dizzy and her heart began to pound thump, thump.

And.

[Princess. Do you know the secret contained within the ‘Bell of Glory’ that the Holy Empire gifted to Talochium 5 years ago?]

A passage from a letter she had received a few days ago came to mind.

[The Bell of Glory was made by gathering the broken shells of the World Tree that were scattered throughout Roxe Forest after the Mastone disappeared.]

That letter had come from Nordics, who called himself the Pope of the Holy Kingdom.

He wrote letters to Tie every day, even though he had never met her, and for some reason, Tie didn’t dislike those letters.

[During the 100 years when Mastone erupted, we lost many things. And some of those things still haven’t been recovered.]

Tie’s pupils trembled slightly.

The boy’s red eyes were still right in front of her.

[Eura and I placed prayers of hope in the Bell of Glory. A wish for the lost things to return. Earnestness.]

A breeze blew from somewhere.

It was a warm spring wind mixed with the fragrant scent of flowers.

[To be honest, I don’t know if those prayers will work. But we can hope, can’t we? There’s no cost to hoping for something.]

“…Sorry.”

At that moment, the boy hurriedly pulled away from Tie.

Supporting Tie seemed to have been a reflexive action, as his pale face showed clear bewilderment.

The boy took one step, then two steps backward.

“I was afraid you might get hurt again….”

The boy stopped mid-sentence and closed his mouth.

Then he clenched his fists tightly and turned his body around.

But then.

A certain scene flashed before Tie’s eyes.

[Why are you crying?]

A room where streetlamp light gently descended.

A day when the moon hung bright in the sky after the rain had stopped, and tears flowed endlessly in the damp air.

Above the boy’s downcast red eyes.

Another pair of eyes from an unknown memory overlapped.

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