A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 360

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 360

‘Please save Father!’

[You’ll have to abandon all the time you lived here.]

Familiar scenes flashed past her eyes in fragments.

Tie’s lips parted.

[If you want, I’ll give it back to you.]

The contact with the boy was only for an instant.

But it was a voice she knew.

Certainly, definitely….

“Lu….”

Tie’s lips moved slightly.

The child staggered in place for a moment, then grabbed her throbbing forehead.

Her tongue trembled, and a name that had been hardened in her mouth for so long finally found its shape.

“Lucalion…?”

After that, tears began falling drop by drop from the corners of her eyes.

They were strange tears whose reason even Tie herself couldn’t understand.

In her field of vision, Lucalion slowly turned around.

His red eyes, filled with confusion, trembled.

Beyond that, other derived scenes overlapped and overlapped again.

“…Tie?”

At the name calling her, Tie briefly caught her breath.

The lost pieces were returning to her life that had been broken and fragmented.

‘Her Highness the Princess isn’t sick. It’s something like magic….’

‘Then why! Why did Tie get caught by that magic?’

‘That’s, well….’

The doubts that had been troubling one corner of her heart all this time.

The loneliness that would suddenly visit despite a life lacking nothing.

As if she had lost something very important, something Tie was experiencing for the first time….

A sense of loss.

“Lucalion….”

Tie’s chest swelled greatly as she repeated the same name.

Soon the child kicked off the ground and ran out to embrace Lucalion tightly.

“Uh, uuh, Lucalion, Kamang….”

Tie’s body trembled violently.

Lucalion froze in place, unable to say anything.

His two arms, unable to embrace Tie back, remained stiffly frozen in mid-air.

Tie gasped for breath.

Even in this moment, memories were becoming clear one by one.

Tie slowly pulled her body away from Lucalion.

The child’s face was already completely covered in tears.

Tie grabbed both of Lucalion’s cheeks with trembling hands.

“You….”

The tears hanging from the tips of her eyelashes fell with a plop.

“Where did you go! You idiot!”

Thwack-

Tie struck down on Lucalion’s shoulder.

“Waaah, you said you’d stay by my side forever! No matter what happened, you wouldn’t leave, waaah! You said that…!”

Lucalion slowly closed his mouth.

Before long, tears slowly began to well up in his eyes too.

“Tie, I….”

“I’m sorry, huuu….”

But before his words could finish, Tie collapsed to the ground with a thud.

Lucalion instinctively supported her injured knee from below.

Tie gripped Lucalion’s collar very tightly.

“Tie is sorry…! For saying mean things, for hurting you, all this time, all this time…!”

Lucalion couldn’t easily part his lips.

It seemed as if all sounds around him except Tie’s voice became muffled.

Soon Tie raised her head and her gaze met Lucalion’s.

It was when the two children were just looking at each other without saying anything.

“Tie-!”

Someone appeared on top of the hill.

The one who had run through the thicket haphazardly was Tesetan.

Clang- Clang-

Amidst the ringing of the glory bells.

Tesetan looked down at Tie as if he couldn’t believe it.

Tears sparkled in the corners of Tie’s eyes as she raised her head.

“Huu, Father….”

Tesetan drew in a short breath.

Then after confirming the face of the person Tie was embracing, he ran down the hill in one bound.

“Everyone… keep in mind what His Majesty said.”

The banquet hall.

A comfortable atmosphere pervaded the hall where the mercenaries were seated.

But within it, Basto alone had a serious expression.

“You saw it earlier, right? That was the reaction from just briefly meeting. So even if Tie, no, Her Highness the Princess keeps her distance from us, we shouldn’t feel hurt. We should refrain from unnecessary contact, and also….”

“Just leave it alone. They’ll figure it out themselves.”

At that moment someone cut off Basto’s words.

It was Veil with his short-cropped hair and cynical expression as always.

He gulped down the champagne in his hand and glared at Basto.

“Are you the only one upset? We’re upset too. Hah… Maybe we shouldn’t have come.”

Silence fell.

Veil, who had let out a sigh, raised his gaze.

In front sat Raul and Enzo, Livia and Victor, and Aleric.

“Right. That reaction earlier said it all.”

Livia agreed weakly and cast her eyes downward.

She muttered in a cracked voice.

“I didn’t expect much from the start anyway. I was just… afraid I might cry again seeing Miss….”

That was the moment.

“Her Highness the Princess enters!”

The entrance to the banquet hall became noisy.

When they turned their heads, they could see a procession of people parting to the left and right.

In the center.

“…It’s the child.”

They could see a small child entering inside.

When they had encountered each other briefly earlier, he hadn’t been able to look closely.

But Tie’s face was exactly the same as it had been 12 years ago.

Her height, her smile, even her characteristically bright and lively eyes.

“Looking at her again, really… how is it that she hasn’t grown at all.”

Veil spoke with a bitter, mocking laugh.

Basto kept his gaze fixed on Tie’s profile as she walked silently.

Livia’s eyes were already glistening with tears, and Aleric let out a small sigh.

“Your Highness. This way.”

Meanwhile, Tie continued walking briskly, following the guard’s guidance.

Across the red carpet that was laid out, toward Ardiana who sat at the head table.

Raul asked cautiously.

“…You said she’s still on distant terms with His Imperial Majesty, right?”

Basto nodded his head.

However, Enzo gestured toward Ardiana with a puzzled expression.

“But the Princess’s expression looks better than I expected?”

Following his words, they looked up to see Tie smiling brightly in the distance.

In contrast, Ardiana had a surprised expression.

She hesitantly leaned her ear toward Tie’s gesturing, then soon set down the cup she was holding with a dazed look.

For a moment, they could see the mother and daughter exchanging whispers that others couldn’t hear.

“Doesn’t it look like she’s crying?”

Raul tilted his head as he looked at Ardiana.

Then, Veil stepped forward.

“Enough. Stop staring over there.”

He continued with a serious expression.

“What if we accidentally make eye contact and the child gets scared again? Everyone turn your heads. Quickly.”

Raul lowered his gaze with an ‘oh right’ expression.

The other members also turned their heads away from Tie’s direction one by one.

Looking down at the ground, Livia muttered quietly.

“…Veil is right. Nothing good will come from making eye contact.”

She sadly rubbed under her nose.

“This is her first time attending the Youngwhi Festival. What if she can’t enjoy the banquet because of us.”

The atmosphere instantly became gloomy.

Veil silently clenched his fist under the table.

Basto’s expression was equally dark.

‘I thought we had gotten better over time…’

Seeing Tie, he could tell.

They still weren’t okay at all.

Tie’s cold appearance hurt their hearts, but they loved that child so much they couldn’t approach her.

A miserable and awkward silence continued.

“…Damn it. We shouldn’t have come.”

Veil hung his head low.

“The child’s first Youngwhi Festival and all. The year her memories might return and all, we just shouldn’t have come…”

His voice had become wet in that short time, and no one could lift their heads first, when.

“…Huh?”

Something entered Basto and Veil’s field of vision.

“What the…”

It was a pair of extremely eye-catching shoes.

More precisely, the small feet wearing those shoes.

“…Hello.”

At the voice that followed, the members quickly lifted their heads.

Then, without exception, they all opened their eyes wide.

At some point, Tie was standing right in front of their table.

The child had positioned herself between Veil and Basto and was staring intently at everyone.

“Uh, that…”

Veil stammered incoherently.

Basto was frozen stiff and couldn’t even blink.

As the silence lengthened, Raul was the first to come to his senses.

“We, we greet Your Imperial Highness!”

He stood up from his seat so forcefully that the tableware on the table shook precariously.

Following him,

“Ah, hello, Your Imperial Highness!”

“We gr, greet Your Imperial Highness…”

Everyone hurriedly stood up and greeted Tie.

However, Tie said nothing.

She just stood quietly in place.

“Um…”

Finally, Aleric stepped forward while maintaining the most composed expression possible.

“Your Highness. Is there perhaps some problem…”

No one expected a sweet answer.

Rather, they hunched their shoulders, afraid of what Tie might say next.

Tie had no reason to welcome them.

Since 12 years ago, the child had feared and avoided them.

Sure enough.

A low, trembling voice flowed from Tie’s lips.

“…That’s not right.”

Veil startled and lifted his head.

He saw green eyes staring intently at him.

“Your Highness, that’s not right…”

Basto’s lips parted.

What was Tie trying to say.

He couldn’t predict at all what she would say next.

Would she tell them to leave now?

Not to call her Your Highness, and that she was scared and didn’t want to see their faces.

Would she tell them to disappear from her sight, was that what she was going to say?

Among the tensely nervous members, as the silence continued for a while.

“…Tie.”

A barely audible small voice brushed between them.

Basto’s eyes shook greatly as he momentarily doubted his ears.

Tie was now lifting her head to look up at him.

Tears were welling up in the child’s eyes.

Tie took a breath and suddenly embraced Basto around his waist.

“Tie, you should do it like this…”

Basto’s lips trembled.

Seeing him unable to move or respond, Tie looked at Veil with teary eyes.

“Child, you should call me like this…”

Veil held his breath.

“Now, let us begin the banquet.”

Ardiana’s voice could be heard from afar, drawing everyone’s attention.

The Imperial Guard naturally surrounded them, blocking the gazes from the surroundings.

Tie wiped the tears from her eyes.

And she turned her gaze beyond Veil and Basto.

“Raul, Enzo oppa.”

“….”

“Uncle Victor and Uncle Aleric, Aunt Livia….”

Sire slowly spread both arms wide.

“You waited a long time, didn’t you?”

Thud, Veil dropped to his knees and pulled Tie into his embrace.

Basto shed hot tears as he slumped into a chair.

“Miss, haa, Miss…!”

Livia, having regained her senses, pushed past Aleric and Victor and rushed forward.

Raul and Enzo looked at each other and let out incredulous laughter.

Tie barely managed to lift her head from Veil’s embrace, looking up at the ceiling with tears welling in her eyes.

Cheerful music had begun flowing through the banquet hall at some point.

The sound of drums and flutes.

And the gentle melody of a lute was covering the sobs of Veil and Basto.

Tie, who had been about to say something, paused for a moment.

In this moment.

She knew there was one thing she needed to say before any other long words.

The child first lifted her dress sleeve to wipe her messy eyes and nose tip.

Then she took a deep breath and spoke with a bright smile.

“Tie is back…!”

【The End】

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