A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 394

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 394

In the middle of the noisy square.

“Bring Heinz Norvelt! Make him kneel before His Majesty!”

The Imperial Guard Captain’s fierce voice echoed throughout.

Heinz blinked his blurry eyes as he felt hands binding him.

He could hear soldiers muttering in the distance.

“Did that man not know this would happen to him? He’s insane.”

“If he had known, he wouldn’t have committed such an enormous act in the first place.”

“Right, things got too big. The Logging District and other nearby domains suffered the most damage.”

“Didn’t they say there were no deaths? Seeing how they were ultimately purified by Princess’s hands, it seems those things tried to maintain their true nature until the end…”

Drip- Drip-

With each step Heinz took, drops of blood fell from his forehead.

It seemed to be from getting hit by falling rocks on his head while underground.

That wasn’t all.

“Walk straight.”

The Imperial Guard helped him up as he kept staggering.

Heinz looked down at his two legs that wouldn’t support him with a dazed expression.

Sharp pain was being felt again in his right knee that had been nearly healed.

“Your Majesty. This is Heinz Norvelt, lord of the Marquis Domain.”

At that moment, the Imperial Guard pushed his back hard.

Heinz swallowed a scream as he fell face-first to the ground.

When he slowly raised his head, someone emanating an indescribable aura was looking down at him.

A wildness that couldn’t be hidden even covered in dust.

Below disheveled black hair, sharp eyes piercing through Heinz were visible.

Tesetan Luminien, the Empire’s founding father, was not angry at him.

He didn’t shout or frown.

“Founding Father Your Majesty…”

Yet Heinz felt suffocated.

It felt like facing a wild beast bare-bodied in the middle of a field.

To him who now realized he could no longer escape, Tesetan spoke.

“A large number of Imperial citizens appeared who suffered damage from rampaging spirits in nearby domains.”

It was a very dry voice.

“The farmers lost a year’s harvest, and in the Logging District they lost livestock they had stored as winter food.”

Silence fell.

The gazes of people around turned toward Heinz one by one.

“His Imperial Majesty organized an inspection team and sent Princess here to check the reconstruction situation of the Marquis Domain.”

One step.

Tesetan’s shadow covered Heinz’s toes.

“And as a result. Princess nearly died because of the monster you created.”

Behind Tesetan, the setting sun was descending.

Tesetan hardened his expression even more coldly with the sunset light behind him.

“So now tell me.”

Then he narrowed his brow that had been without a single wrinkle.

“Why did you do it?”

Wind blew through the quieted square.

Heinz raised his eyes without being able to say anything.

Through the dust, he could see the manor residents surrounding the square in a circle.

Heinz’s lips trembled.

The manor residents all looked shabby.

It was probably because they had lived in the temporary barracks for a long time.

The reason for that would be because he had squandered the support funds that should have been used for rebuilding homes…

“I am.”

Finally, hot tears burst from Heinz’s eyes.

His hands gripped the innocent ground.

“I am…”

He gripped desperately and sorrowfully.

But the sand kept slipping through his fingers.

Heinz now knew too.

There was nothing more he could do.

Everything had originated from his greed from the beginning.

Something he knew he shouldn’t do, yet couldn’t give up and committed anyway.

“Please kill me!”

The next moment, Heinz struck his head on the ground with a thud.

Then he shouted with a hoarse voice.

“It’s all my fault! The soldiers and mages are innocent! I used my title to drive them! Everyone tried to stop me but I acted unilaterally…!”

His whole body trembled.

It wasn’t from fear that the Imperial Guard’s blade would strike his neck soon after.

“All, hic, all because of my foolishness!”

It was because of deep, very deep guilt.

“Please kill me! But please, I know it’s a shameless request but please…”

He wasn’t afraid of dying.

He just,

“No…! No, Father!”

That was when it happened.

Heinz’s body stiffened at the voice heard from behind.

His face turned pale as he slowly turned his head.

“Cain…?”

In the distance, Lil, the old butler of the Marquis Castle, was approaching while holding someone.

“Cain! Why are you here!”

Heinz collapsed seeing the child who couldn’t even hold up his neck.

Then the child, his only son Cain, looked at him while gasping for breath.

“Father, huff, it’s not Father’s fault…! Founding Father Your Majesty!”

The child looked at Tesetan while moving his cracked and split lips.

Tesetan’s eyebrows moved slightly at those lifeless eyes.

“I, I did something wrong…!”

He knew that Heinz had an only son.

But he didn’t know that son was so young, and-

He didn’t know he would be in such a precarious state.

“Cain! Go back-! What are you doing instead of returning to the castle immediately! Huff!”

For a moment, Baron Norvelt, who was trying to get up hurriedly, was subdued again by the Imperial Guards.

“Father…!”

Cain’s complexion grew pale, but the Imperial Guards didn’t even move.

They were only waiting for Tesetan’s command.

Understanding the situation, Heinz glared with wide eyes while pinned to the ground.

“Lil! What on earth are you doing!”

This time his gaze was directed not at his son, but at the old butler holding his son.

“Why did you bring Cain here! Go back! Quickly!”

Butler Lil’s eyes wavered.

“Master. I am…”

She was the very person who had told Tesetan and Tie about the origin of the statue.

So the battle began, and she had been mixed among the manor residents until the Imperial Army confronted the demons.

However, the moment she saw the light blooming from the Princess’s fingertips.

She had no choice but to run to the Marquis Castle.

Her gaze turned toward Astie.

The manor residents, and Baron Norbert seemed unaware, but she was different.

She knew.

What ability the Princess had shown in the final moment of battle.

“Lil-!!”

In the end, Lil squeezed her eyes shut with the Baron’s high castle behind her.

Then she began approaching in front of Tesetan instead.

“Lil, let me see Father….”

Cain in her arms also looked up at her and made that request.

Lil forced a smile and showed it to the pale-faced child.

Cain’s lips had no color at all.

His small belly was already swollen to the limit, and every breath was mixed with boiling groans as he endured pain.

Lil approached right in front of Tesetan while holding Cain protectively from the Imperial Army.

Then she knelt on the ground.

Cain, who had been held in her arms, gasped for breath and first stared at Heinz.

Heinz could no longer say anything and was only shedding tears.

Soon Cain slowly raised his eyes and looked up at Tesetan.

“Your Majesty the Uncle….”

Tesetan unconsciously clenched his fists tight.

Cain was Tie’s age.

Being held by Lil, and with his body so emaciated it was hard to guess his exact age, but at most he seemed about one or two years older than Tie.

“It’s really not Father’s fault.”

Cain’s face contorted.

“Father committed sins all because of me….”

With each word the child uttered, his faint breath was cut off several times.

“I said I wanted to live. I shouldn’t have done that.”

Cain slowly closed and opened his eyes.

Tears flowed down his gaunt cheeks.

“I told Father… that I didn’t want to die….”

The child’s words trailed off.

Cain’s thin hand weakly grasped the hem of Heinz’s clothes as he lay prostrate nearby.

“So I begged him to please save me… I did.”

Heinz’s back trembled as he heard his son’s voice.

Soon a beast-like broken cry tore through his throat and flowed out.

“So please don’t punish Father… please….”

Cain pleaded through that sound.

And the next moment.

After finishing his words and coughing softly, bright red blood appeared between the child’s lips.

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