A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 42

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 42

“Hey, Child! Absolutely not!”

Tie was startled by Veil’s voice.

Then she blinked her eyes while tightly gripping the bracelet and asked.

“Why can’t I…?”

“Even if mercenaries are a profession that does anything without discrimination, what’s a four-year-old doing!”

When Veil jumped up, Tie became dejected and closed her mouth.

But no matter how much she thought about it, she couldn’t understand why she shouldn’t erase the twins’ memories.

“But Tie has to test her newly gained power!”

When she made up her mind and shouted, Veil’s eyes widened even more.

“To see if (memories) get erased well or not, it’s best to do it on the Prefect’s Sons! Then Tie’s troubles will disappear too, so it’s killing two birds with one stone!”

Basto quietly pressed his forehead.

Bad thoughts arose in his mind.

‘…As expected. Did I let her witness too much violence?’

He had been worried since the fight on the ship.

Astie had witnessed far too many scenes she shouldn’t have seen at such a young age.

Cutting down monsters was one thing, but Cal’s final moments must have had a bad influence on the child.

‘That bastard is unhelpful whether alive or dead.’

Of course, Basto had no way of knowing that Tie actually had no such thoughts.

“Tie is going to do it! Since they know Tie’s identity, there’s no choice but to eliminate them!”

Then Tie started walking toward the reception room door, huffing angrily.

Veil rushed over and picked up Tie.

“Ch, Child, what’s wrong with you? You were a good kid even if a bit foolish, so why have you become like this?!”

“Let go!”

“I won’t let go! I absolutely won’t let go! I can’t watch you kill people when you’re only four years old!”

A silence fell over the room at his heroic cry.

Soon the child’s mouth slowly opened with her eyes wide.

“Wh, who’s killing people…?”

Tie’s face was already filled with fear.

Veil froze for a moment, then became dazed.

Then he asked back in a half-believing voice.

“Child, what… did you say you were going to eliminate just now?”

Tie hurriedly pointed to the bracelet on her wrist.

“I said I’d erase the Prefect’s Sons’ memories. This is a relic of oblivion, and Tie found it in the Mastone…”

“What kind of relic?”

At that moment, Nordics squeezed between the two.

Nordics approached Tie closely and asked again as if he couldn’t believe it.

“You found what kind of relic in the Mastone, Astie?”

At Nordics’ rare expression, Tie hesitantly held out her wrist.

“This, the relic of oblivion…”

Nordics’ eyes grew large.

He fumbled with his lips for a few seconds, then turned his head to look at Basto.

After a brief silence.

“Basto.”

He spoke in a whisper, then added seriously.

“It, it seems like Astie… has discovered an artifact.”

Tie sat obediently on the sofa and concentrated on Nordics’ explanation.

“There are two main types of rewards that conquerors can obtain after conquering a Mastone, Astie. Reward money and spoils of war.”

“Tie knows! Mercenaries conquer Mastones and receive reward money!”

After coming to this other world, Tie had also diligently collected information in her own way.

She had earnestly picked up what people around her said, and sometimes pretended not to while searching for various things on her own.

“If you go to the Compensation Office and say you conquered a Mastone, you can receive reward money!”

The Compensation Office was a state institution located throughout the Empire.

Specifically, one that paid mercenaries rewards for the Mastones they conquered.

Basto patted Tie’s head as if she was admirable.

“That’s right. There was one at the Gateway too.”

Tie nodded her head.

‘Right, those people who don’t work hard.’

The Compensation Office at the Gateway was a mess with their work processing.

They registered the Mastone that Basto conquered as conquered by Cal, and even gave the reward money to Cal.

‘What strange people, not even checking properly.’

If 107 Grandmother had seen it, she would have been furious saying taxes were being wasted.

Still, the fortunate thing was that Basto got back the reward money that had been taken from him last night.

Since Cal was devoured by monsters, Recar became the leader of Death Hound.

For some reason, Recar was very afraid of Basto and paid even the overdue commission fees perfectly.

Adding the several treasure chests brought from the shipwreck, Agabert’s financial situation recovered instantly.

‘Tie is rich now.’

Anyway.

“Then what are spoils of war?”

Since she knew what reward money was, now it was time to hear an explanation about spoils of war.

Nordics placed a bag on the table.

“This is exactly it.”

Tie’s eyes widened as she looked inside the bag.

Inside were monster cores that Agabert had collected over time.

“Cores are very basic resources you can obtain by disposing of monsters. You know this too, right? The more powerful the monster, the higher the value of the core.”

“Yes. You can sell them at the Compensation Office!”

Cores were usually traded at the Compensation Office.

They were also used as evidence when mercenaries proved their conquest achievements.

“Similar energy flows between Mastones and the monsters summoned from those Mastones. So when you present a monster’s core, the office can know which Mastone the person conquered.”

When Tie nodded her head dignifiedly, Nordics added.

“By the way, the reason we collect cores is because we plan to go to the Realm Core and process them all at once.”

“To draw people’s attention?”

“That’s right.”

Hmm, certainly.

Trading a bunch of cores all at once rather than trading them bit by bit would probably look more impressive.

“Thanks to your abilities, Astie, Agabert’s status is rising day by day. If we trade an enormous amount of Mastones all at once in this situation, it will draw attention.”

Tie gulped.

She felt like she was getting one step closer to the name of powerful Commander King.

“However, very occasionally.”

But at that moment, Nordics lowered his voice.

“There are cases where conquerors obtain spoils of war other than monster cores.”

His gaze was directed at the bracelet on Tie’s wrist.

“Something like that bracelet you’re wearing. In other words, an artifact.”

“Artifact…?”

“That’s right, artifact.”

Veil, who had been leaning against the wall, approached.

Veil sat next to Tie and asked.

“Child. Where did you get that? Did you name the artifact? How did you know its effects?”

Tie looked at Veil with a slightly dejected expression, then hesitantly opened her mouth.

“So, well, that is…”

It seemed like now was the time to confess about the spirit she had met this morning.

“A spirit?”

Basto had an unusually surprised expression.

Veil also had the same bewildered look on his face.

“So you’re saying a spirit came to find you while you were sleeping?”

“Yeah! She had really long hair like this, and her eyes sparkled so brightly – a princess spirit!”

Basto, Veil, and Nordics exchanged glances with each other before muttering.

“Is she talking about a death spirit?”

“That’s what it sounds like for now.”

Tie was a dark attribute mage.

Therefore, she could see death spirits that ordinary people couldn’t see.

Basto and Veil thought the ‘spirit’ Tie claimed to have seen was also a death spirit, but,

“No, it’s not! A princess spi-rit! Not a subordinate, but a spirit!”

Tie puffed out her cheeks and shook her head vigorously.

“Tie, she was different from the subordinates on the Mast Ship! The subordinates have black energy swirling around their bodies like this, but the princess sparkled!”

“She was glowing?”

“Yeah! She had a name too – Seraldin!”

Seraldin…

Nordics, who had been pondering, looked up in surprise.

He immediately looked at Basto and Veil and said.

“Seraldin would be a local deity passed down in the Pearl City region.”

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