A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 404

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 404

“Come, come! New magic books published by the Magic Headquarters! Stop by and take a look!”

“Buy some fruit~ We have fresh vegetables too!”

Livia ran frantically through the square.

The familiar scenery of the marketplace quickly passed by her.

‘By now his head must be as complicated as if a bomb had hit it.’

‘So, even after returning to Jedo.’

Chewing over Aleric’s words that lingered in her ears, Livia gritted her teeth.

“Right. You’re correct, you stupid bastard.”

Aleric knew her too well, even in moments like this.

“But then why did you run away!”

She had tried to talk with him as soon as they arrived at Jedo.

After talking with Astie, she had many thoughts,

‘…I have things to say to you too!’

But whatever was so urgent, Aleric hardly gave her any time.

As soon as he arrived at the Imperial Palace, he got off the carriage and went somewhere.

Of course, his destination was obvious.

‘He must have gone to pack his things.’

Former Headquarters of Trevaga.

All the magical tools that Aleric usually treasured were stored there.

“Whoa?! Oh my!”

At that moment, a passerby who almost collided with Livia hurriedly stepped aside to the roadside.

“Watch where you’re going!”

To the man who immediately pointed at her, Livia waved her hand with an awkward expression.

“Sorry, sorry!”

Then she continued running when.

“…Found you.”

In the distance.

She saw the back of one person walking through the crowd.

A very quiet gait that contrasted with the surrounding bustle.

The cloak he always wore, several orbs attached to his body.

“Aleric!”

Livia shouted without hesitation.

“Stop right there! Stop for a moment!”

Aleric hesitated.

Soon he slowly turned around.

“Livia?”

He made a strange expression.

As if he had no idea why she had chased after him.

“Ha! That bastard really…”

Livia roughly swept her hair up and walked with big strides.

Finally, at the shortened distance, Aleric’s face was clearly visible.

“You…!”

Facing Aleric, she closed her mouth and trembled her lips.

“Don’t go!”

“What?”

“Don’t go to the Magic Tower!”

Silence fell between the two.

Only the voices of merchants calling out and passersby filled the surroundings noisily.

“What are you suddenly talking about?”

Aleric asked with a displeased face.

“I already decided to go to the Magic Tower. I even wrote a reply to Elanes.”

“Still, don’t go!”

Aleric frowned.

Then he sighed and spoke in a voice mixed with resignation.

“Why are you suddenly acting like this?”

Livia’s eyebrows furrowed as she clenched her fists tightly.

“Do you really need me to tell you the reason to understand?”

“Yeah. That’s the only way I can comprehend the current situation.”

“Haa, you really…!”

Livia, who had been biting her lips, suddenly raised her head.

Then she glared at Aleric.

“You said it in the North, didn’t you? That if you stayed in Jedo, our relationship would eventually fall apart.”

“…Yeah.”

“Don’t be ridiculous. Even if you go to the Magic Tower, it’ll fall apart just the same.”

Aleric’s eyes narrowed.

But Livia didn’t stop.

“I know best what kind of people mages are. I’ve been watching you up close all this time, how could I not know!”

Perhaps from running for so long, her breathing was still rough.

“When you get obsessed with one research, you don’t eat, don’t sleep, don’t meet people. You just cling to it like a crazy person until the problem is simply solved!”

“…”

“Besides, this is the age of magical revival. How many difficult problems are there to solve?”

She seemed frustrated as tears welled up in her eyes.

“You, even if you grab onto just one of those, 10 years will easily pass.”

“…”

“So no matter how much you say you’re just leaving temporarily, that it’s no big deal…”

Livia’s voice grew smaller.

“The moment you leave Jedo, it’s only a matter of time before everything completely changes.”

Aleric’s expression hardened.

“Hey, Aleric.”

Livia said.

“If it weren’t for you… I wouldn’t have become a mercenary either.”

Aleric’s pupils shook.

Livia looked down at the ground with her mouth tightly shut.

Soon a thin membrane surrounding the two of them became visible.

It was a barrier that only Livia, who had been exposed to Aleric’s magic power for a long time, could see.

In the quieted space, Livia’s voice echoed.

“You know, don’t you. That my mother was a nobleman’s mistress.”

“…”

“I told you. My mother died at the hands of the legal wife. Probably had her throat cut or something? At least I survived because I was a daughter. They must have judged that I wouldn’t be a threat to their succession. Instead, I was sold to a place that slaughtered animals.”

Aleric’s hand flinched slightly.

“Cleaning up dead animals, burying them, handling rotten ones…”

Livia looked down at her own palms.

“…From childhood, having blood on my hands and smelling was daily life.”

A short sneer flowed from her mouth.

“No matter how much, no matter how much I washed, it wouldn’t go away.”

But that laughter wasn’t bright at all.

“People, you know, when they saw me, they’d cover their noses and pass by. Saying I was dirty. Dirty blood.”

Her pupils became hazy.

“…A dirty child born from a pleasure district woman. But.”

Suddenly, an old memory flashed through her mind.

Was she fourteen, or perhaps even younger than that?

That day too, she was on her way home to her shabby house after finishing work as usual.

Blood was flowing freely from her palm, cut while slicing meat.

Her unwashed body reeked, and so she couldn’t say anything to someone who had picked a fight with her by chance.

‘Ugh, what is this smell!’

‘Lord Chambre, let’s just go! If that bastard Tesetan catches us here, we’re done for!’

‘No, this bastard bumped into me and won’t even apologize! Damn it, the smell is going to stick to my clothes!’

Her head ached, and blood kept flowing from her hand.

The man had bumped into her first, but she couldn’t say anything back.

Only the murmuring of people surrounding them pierced her like daggers.

‘Ugh, disgusting. Why does she look like that?’

‘That’s the kid who works at the slaughterhouse. What was it? I heard she was sold from the red-light district…’

‘My goodness. But how can she walk around with her head held high?’

‘Just looking at her walking around like that says it all.’

Not a single person in the world.

She already knew well that no one was on her side.

So if she was lucky, the man would just go on his way.

If she was unlucky, she thought she’d get slapped a few times.

But then.

‘Chambre Tibon.’

At that moment, someone stood in front of her for the first time.

‘You need to come with me. Our Danzu is looking for you.’

He seemed to be not much older than her.

Yet he was a boy who stood confidently even before a man much larger than himself.

‘It’s troublesome if you keep running away. Our Danzu isn’t very patient.’

He stood in front of Livia with an indifferent expression.

He didn’t frown or cover his nose.

As if he couldn’t smell the stench emanating from her at all.

He just spoke his piece with a face full of annoyance.

‘Rather than running away for the rest of your life, wouldn’t it be better to pay your overdue debt and become a beggar?’

The man had been shouting arrogantly in front of Livia.

But that same man couldn’t say a word in front of the boy.

He consulted seriously with his companions, then turned around obediently as if defeated.

Soon the boy also moved away.

But for some reason, Livia couldn’t take her eyes off the boy’s back.

So she stared endlessly, and at that moment, like magic.

“…You washed me clean.”

It really was like magic.

No, for her, that was the first magic she had ever seen with her own eyes.

“With water that wasn’t cold and didn’t make me wet.”

The scene of mana flowing from Aleric’s hands was vivid.

‘You’re going to get infected doing that.’

Even that indifferent voice, no different from now.

Livia pressed her lips tightly together.

“You idiot, that was the first time I…”

That day was as chaotic as now.

There were many people, and the noise was dizzying enough to make her head ring.

And yet.

“I felt like I wasn’t dirty.”

That moment in her memory remained strangely quiet.

Just like now.

As if only Aleric and herself were left in the world, just the two of them.

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