A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 38

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 38

Marianne opened her eyes in dismay.

“What on earth is going on…”

“After Father passed away, at that time…”

Silence fell between the three of them.

When Raul couldn’t continue speaking even after a long time, Enzo stepped forward.

“Mother cried every night, and whenever she had a chance, she tried to walk into the lakeside…”

Marianne was not in her right mind.

She began to worry beyond imagination that even Raul and Enzo might leave this world like her husband.

On days when the stress was too severe, she would sometimes have seizures and faint.

“We didn’t quit the Knight Order because Father died.”

It was to calm Marianne down even a little.

But the twins didn’t bother to tell Marianne such things.

It was because of a request from Viscount Waverill, their maternal grandmother.

‘…Raul, Enzo. This old woman asks of you.’

‘…’

‘There’s only one way to save your mother who’s withering away. That’s you two.’

Only Raul and Enzo were the thread connecting Marianne to life.

‘I must somehow save my daughter Marianne. Even if I have to use you children whom she cherishes terribly.’

Raul pretended to hang around with bad friends according to Viscount Waverill’s words.

Enzo also pretended to stop eating and secluded himself in his room.

After that, everything went as the Viscount had expected.

When Marianne saw the twins showing signs of falling apart, she gradually came to her senses.

When the twins left the Knight Order, she seemed secretly pleased and accepted the position of Pearl City administrator.

“…I was scared too. Like Grandmother.”

Enzo bit his lips and muttered.

“That’s why we left the Knight Order. We wanted to make Mother feel even a little better.”

Marianne’s expression became increasingly blank.

She had never dreamed that the twins were thinking such things.

“Enzo is right. Mother seemed to feel at ease only when we were falling apart without doing anything. Of course, we know rationally that’s not it. We know it’s because she’s worried about us, but…”

Raul ran his hands through his hair as if it was complicated.

Marianne still couldn’t give any answer.

Because she too had been vaguely feeling it.

‘…Yes.’

The children were right.

She had taken the sword away from the twins and tried to keep them by her side forever.

Because she was afraid that if she didn’t, she might lose the children too, just like her husband.

Tears slowly welled up in Marianne’s eyes.

“The administrator position too… Grandmother looked into it herself.”

She collapsed in her seat.

No wonder she had thought it strange that she received an offer when her only administrative experience was miscellaneous work within the family.

The same went for the twins quitting the Knight Order.

Raul and Enzo resembled their husband, always upright and strict.

So while it was natural for them to grieve over losing their father, she had thought it was excessive behavior to lay down their swords as if they had lost all will.

But she couldn’t stop them.

She couldn’t encourage them to continue their training.

As a parent, she had left her wavering sons alone as if she had been waiting for it.

Her throat burned.

“Mother…”

Enzo approached and met her eyes.

“We don’t resent Mother.”

Raul also approached and placed a hand on her shoulder.

“We don’t mean that we left the Knight Order because of Mother, or laid down our swords because of Mother.”

A tear rolled down Marianne’s cheek.

She knows too.

She knows better than anyone.

No one knows better than she does what kind of children Raul and Enzo are.

“Raul, Enzo…”

She felt ashamed and at the same time came to her senses.

She had been watching the Commander King use the souls of the dead to face enemies all along.

When she saw the black forms that were human souls, only one thought entered her mind.

‘Maybe my husband too…’

Until now, she had thought that death was the end.

She had only thought that her husband too would return to dust, never to be seen or met again.

But the Commander King had shown her.

A way for humans to exist even after death.

“If your father had been watching me, he would have been disappointed.”

Marianne’s fists clenched tight.

Her husband had wanted to raise Raul and Enzo into fine men.

Raul and Enzo joining the Paladins following their husband was also to carry on that will.

“Instead of being a support for you two, I…”

“That’s not true.”

Enzo hugged Marianne.

Raul tightly grasped Marianne’s hands.

“Mother’s very existence is our support.”

“…”

“That’s why we want to take up the sword. At first we thought Mother would be okay if we just laid down our swords, but it doesn’t seem to be the case.”

Marianne nodded with a complicated expression after being frozen.

When she first learned that Raul and Enzo were isolated at sea, everything went white before her eyes.

If they hadn’t had this conversation right now, she might have prevented Raul and Enzo from leaving Dominion Hall in the future.

Marianne’s lips, which had been keeping silent, opened.

“…What are you planning to do?”

Did taking up the sword again mean returning to the Paladins?

Since Raul and Enzo were also born with holy power like their husband, if they resumed training even now, they could become proper Paladins.

If not that, there was also the path of receiving appointment within the family and becoming knights.

However, what came from the twins’ mouths was completely unexpected.

“We’re going to follow those people.”

Marianne’s eyes widened at Raul’s words.

Enzo lowered his voice beside them.

“We’ve never told you exactly. Why Father… ended up that way.”

To Marianne who was at a loss for words, Enzo spoke calmly.

“It was at the Jedo border. It was a battlefield where four units were jointly besieging a large Mastone.”

“…”

“At the end of the siege, one small Mastone spawned, and it happened to be in a civilian residence. The problem was that it was outside Jedo territory, not inside.”

Marianne’s lips parted slightly.

The siege of Mastones that appear outside the realm is mostly handled by mercenaries.

There were cases where Paladins stepped in, but it was very rare.

Paladins were literally the military force of the Imperial Court and the Order.

Since they only moved according to orders from the Imperial Court and the Order, permission for sieging Mastones outside the realm was not easily granted in the first place.

“Father kept saying we should siege that Mastone. Even the higher-ups seemed to think we should step in to siege it to protect the people…”

The problem was that the Imperial Court refused that request, saying they couldn’t afford to lose precious military forces.

In a situation where they couldn’t bring the entire force, a small squad was unofficially decided within the unit.

Raul and Enzo’s father died fighting at the front like that.

Thanks to the Commander’s consideration, he was processed as having died in battle within the realm.

Otherwise, he would have become a dishonorably discharged soldier who deserted his post and died in an accident.

“…If only the permission had come down quickly, Father wouldn’t have ended up like that.”

That Mastone that had sprouted in the civilian residence was a small Mastone.

If there had been just a little more military force, casualties like that wouldn’t have occurred.

“Pearl City is the same.”

Marianne raised her head.

“The way the realm uses Paladin forces is too inefficient to begin with. Pearl City is practically part of the realm too, but we didn’t receive any help today.”

“…”

“It’s fair to say that what the Paladins actually protect are the Imperial Court, the Order, and the nobles concentrated in the Realm Core.”

Raul was right.

Marianne recalled the mercenaries who had all refused the siege during the day.

If it hadn’t been for Agavert, she couldn’t even dare to imagine how much the town would have been destroyed tonight.

“If saving people and exterminating monsters is a sacred mission, then mercenaries seem more sacred than Paladins.”

Enzo nodded as well.

He was staring at the Commander King who was picking up and collecting the monster cores that had fallen on the deck.

Black forms were still floating around the Commander King.

If the high-ranking members of the Order saw it, they would be horrified and call it a disturbing power,

“…I think so too. To my eyes, that looks more like holy power.”

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