A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 380

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 380

As the soldiers’ footsteps faded away, Tie finally removed her palm from her mouth.

Her heart was pounding.

“Just now, they said ‘those things came out of the Marquis Castle,’ right?”

Livia muttered.

Aleric’s expression became serious.

“Yes.”

Veil let out a hollow laugh as if incredulous.

“Ha, now I’m starting to get it! The marquis must be hiring mages and plotting something in the castle.”

He looked around at the members.

“Those ‘things’ they mentioned seem to be referring to those strange creatures we saw in the Deforestation District.”

Silence fell.

Basto silently surveyed the surroundings.

The people who had gathered in front of the barracks had already gone back into their tents after receiving their rations.

“First, we should take a look inside the Marquis Castle.”

He said.

“That’s the only way we’ll know what’s happening inside.”

Tie nodded her head vigorously in agreement.

“But will those villains let us in?”

Then Veil spoke up with a doubtful voice.

“Right? If they’re plotting something, they’re obviously going to strictly control who enters.”

“Eh, Veil oppa. Look!”

Tie quickly stepped forward.

Then she pointed to Aleric standing beside her.

“Earlier, those soldier uncles said that the Norbert Marquis is looking for mages.”

And coincidentally, the group had a very capable mage with them.

“So we can use Uncle Aleric as bait!”

“Cough!”

Livia burst into a coughing fit.

But Tie, regardless, shouted in a serious voice.

“If we say we have a mage, they’ll let us in. I’m sure of it!”

Basto, who had widened his eyes, nodded his head.

“That makes sense.”

Then he stared at the faintly visible top of the Marquis Castle in the direction the soldiers had gone.

“From what we heard, they seemed quite desperate for mages.”

“The atmosphere is quite ominous, don’t you think, Krazaru?”

Inside the bag on Livia’s back.

Marbas whispered.

Ppupppu, who was squeezed in beside him, roughly nodded his head.

Marbas had just emerged from Tie’s embrace and hidden himself in Livia’s bag.

In that state, he was looking out at the situation through a very small hole in the bag.

“Those strange creatures we saw in the Deforestation District. Do you think they’re really monsters, Krazaru?”

“…Pfft.”

Krazaru snorted as if to say how would I know.

However, Marbas nodded without being discouraged.

‘Well, if we could have confirmed that, things wouldn’t have gotten this complicated.’

Marbas and Ppupppu were once spirits, but now they were beings bound to Tie.

Perhaps because of this, as Tie’s magic and divine power disappeared, they too lost all the special senses they had used before.

All that remained for Marbas was knowledge.

All that remained for Krazaru was mist and transformation magic sufficient to protect himself.

“Krazaru. If those villains really are monsters, what do you think will happen?”

Marbas poked at Krazaru.

“Will the Imperial Court send people? Actually, from what we saw in the Deforestation District, those villains didn’t seem that threatening…”

That’s when it happened.

Ppupppu blocked Marbas’s mouth with his trunk.

Startled, he looked out through the hole and saw they had already reached the front of the Marquis Castle.

“Who are you?”

Beyond Basto’s forearm that half-blocked his view, Marbas could see soldiers standing guard in front of the Marquis Castle.

They were glaring at the group with fierce expressions while gripping their spears.

As Marbas held his breath.

Aleric stepped forward as they had agreed beforehand.

“I heard that Norbert Marquis Castle is looking for mages, so I came.”

The soldiers hesitated.

They looked at each other with surprised eyes, then lowered their spears and stepped forward.

“A mage? Are you saying you’re a mage?”

Aleric removed his hood.

Then he lightly gathered magic at his fingertips.

The air immediately became cool.

The magic that first rose like faint breath soon condensed into transparent crystals.

Frost scattered within the bluish sphere of magic.

“Yes. Since word was going around that Marquis Norbert was looking for mages, I thought I might be able to help in some small way.”

The soldiers exchanged glances.

Marbas secretly sneered.

Because the soldiers’ intentions seemed readable to him.

‘Foolish soldiers. They probably think we came for money.’

Rumors had already spread in the area that Marquis Norbert had received massive support funds from the Imperial Court.

So they would think that Aleric too had come to the Marquis Castle seeking compensation.

Sure enough, the soldiers completely lowered their spears that had been aimed at them.

The soldiers looked at the other members behind them with wary faces and said.

“It’s true that the marquis is looking for mages. However, only mages can enter the Marquis Castle.”

Aleric hesitated.

Veil frowned, and Basto and Livia quietly exchanged glances.

Aleric didn’t back down.

“Hmm… I roughly observed the fiefdom’s situation on the way here. But there didn’t seem to be any suitable place for my family to stay.”

“Even so, it can’t be helped. Right now, just anyone cannot enter the Marquis Castle.”

A firm answer fell.

Marbas held his breath for a moment.

“Honey. We’re fine, so just go in. There must be somewhere nearby to spend the night.”

Livia grabbed Aleric’s arm with a strangely awkward voice.

Fortunately, her tone seemed quite natural to strangers listening.

Sure enough, the soldiers’ attention focused on Livia.

However, Aleric, who had coordinated beforehand, went one step further.

“How can you say that. There were only temporary barracks everywhere. I don’t know about my brothers-in-law, but I can’t let you and our daughter sleep in such places.”

The soldiers exchanged glances.

Aleric drove the point home to those soldiers.

“I’m sorry to hear that my family cannot enter. Since I cannot sleep apart from my family, please pretend you didn’t hear what I just said.”

The bag shook and his view spun greatly.

It was because Aleric and the members had turned around in front of the soldiers without hesitation.

Then things became busy behind them.

“What are you doing! Don’t just catch him!”

“Huh?! Ugh!”

Marbas rolled around inside the sack while wearing a crooked smile on his lips.

‘Catch me? How laughable! Who dares to catch whom?’

Just then his vision straightened and he could see the situation outside the hole again.

Basto was restraining two soldiers who had stepped forward to catch Aleric with one hand.

The two soldiers who couldn’t pull out their spear shafts caught by Basto had already stiffened like wooden statues.

Basto spoke with a menacing face.

“We came to help Baron Norbert. Naturally we intended to show proper respect to the Baron as well.”

“You, you are…!”

“However, we cannot tolerate your rudeness. We’re not even from here, so we have no obligation to do so in the first place.”

Bewilderment crossed the soldiers’ faces.

After a few seconds of tense standoff.

“…There’s no choice.”

A paladin who appeared to be of high rank, standing behind the soldiers, stepped forward.

“Everyone stand down.”

Immediately voices of protest erupted from here and there.

“C-Captain! You mustn’t. His Excellency clearly ordered us to strictly control outsiders…!”

“Enough.”

However, the paladin was firm.

“There are plenty of empty rooms in the Baron’s residence anyway. Didn’t a large number of servants quit just a few days ago?”

The soldiers hesitantly stepped back.

“Moreover, right now we need a mage’s help more than ever.”

At the paladin’s gesture, the gate of the Marquis Castle opened.

Looking at the group, he said.

“Everyone come in.”

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