A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 46

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 46

Meanwhile, inside the carriage.

“Kim Youngsu? Are you saying there’s a Paladin with that name within Jedo?”

Tie nodded her head earnestly.

However, Raul and Enzo frowned.

“I’ve never heard of such a name.”

“That’s right. It’s a completely unfamiliar name.”

Basto, Veil, and Nordics quietly watched Tie’s reaction.

They were worried that Tie might be disappointed.

However, Tie remained calm.

“Hmm.”

Instead, she pursed her lips as if she had some idea and muttered.

“Tie has been thinking about it.”

“…Thinking?”

“I think Father didn’t tell Tie his real name.”

Everyone’s eyes widened.

However, Tie continued speaking calmly.

“Tie’s Father’s name is really Kim, Young, Su. But since there’s no such name in the Paladins, the probability is that Father’s name is fake!”

Though it wasn’t a perfectly structured sentence, everyone understood.

“Honestly, it is quite an unusual name.”

Veil nodded.

When she first heard it, wasn’t she confused about which was the real name between ‘Kim Youngsu’ and ‘Kim Youngja Su’?

Still, a few days ago, Veil learned that ‘Kim Youngsu’ was the real one between the two.

It was after listening to Tie’s long, long explanation about ‘politely addressing adult names.’

“Are you sure your father said that? That his name was Kim Youngsu?”

Even to Basto’s question, Tie nodded.

When was that day again.

Thinking about how cold it was, it must have been winter…

“Ah.”

A short sound escaped from Tie’s mouth.

The child soon looked around at the members and drooped her eyebrows.

“At Tie’s Preschool, it was drawing contest day.”

“Now, Quail Class friends, everyone has their colored pencils ready, right?”

“Yes!”

“And you all received your paper?”

“Yes!”

Tie gripped her colored pencils tightly like the other children and answered.

The Teacher standing in front smiled brightly.

On the blackboard was written ‘Draw Our Family.’

Tie looked down at her drawing paper with an excited heart.

Father and Tie were drawn as stick figures holding hands tightly and playing in the park.

“Tie’s looks like worms.”

Then a classmate sitting next to her began making fun of Tie’s drawing.

Tie’s face turned red as she shouted.

“No it’s not! This is Father and me!”

“Tie’s Father is a worm! Minjun! Yeoleum! Look at this! Tie’s Father is a worm! Wahahahaha!”

“Now, now, everyone stop! You can’t tease Friend’s drawings.”

At that moment, Teacher appeared like a savior, looked at Tie’s drawing, and said.

“Our Tie drew so well! How did you draw such a pretty picture? Amazing!”

The Friend next to her finally quieted down.

Tie snorted and focused on Teacher again.

However, Teacher’s next words made Tie confused.

“Now, shall we try writing names? You all showed your parents what Teacher wrote in your communication notebooks yesterday, right?”

“Yes!”

Among the children answering, only Tie was quiet.

After leaving preschool yesterday, Tie had been in Apartment 107 the whole time.

Father came home very late, and according to Grandmother, it was because he had a lot of overtime work.

“Tie, did you show the communication notebook to Father too?”

Teacher approached and asked.

Tie fidgeted restlessly and looked down.

“Tie is…”

Originally, she should have asked Father to check the communication notebook.

But Father’s face looked so tired that she forgot to ask in the morning…

“Oh my, it’s okay, it’s okay. Tie, just wait a little bit?”

Teacher gently patted Tie’s head and went to the other children.

“All the Quail Class friends’ parents wrote names in the communication notebooks. Right?”

“Yes!”

“Then from now on, we’ll write each family member’s name on the drawing paper. Can you do it well?”

“Yeeees!”

Tie watched with a somewhat dazed expression as the Friend next to her wrote letters on the drawing paper.

The handwriting wasn’t very pretty, and there were many wrong letters too.

‘…There are so many.’

The Friend next to her had lots of names to write.

Really lots.

“Hey! Don’t look at mine!”

Friend glared at Tie and said that, so Tie quickly turned her head away.

“I wasn’t looking!”

But her eyes naturally drifted that way again.

Mother, Father, older brother, older sister…

As she watched the Friend next to her write four different names, Teacher approached.

“Tie. Do you know Father’s name?”

Tie couldn’t answer.

“I don’t know…”

All this time, she had only called him Father.

The people at Gold Coalition called Father the bachelor from Apartment 106.

“I should have asked…”

When Tie muttered that and her eyes welled up with tears, Teacher looked surprised.

Teacher immediately came closer to Tie’s desk.

“It’s okay, it’s okay. Let’s go look together with Teacher.”

Tie looked at Teacher in surprise.

“Is Father’s name written at Preschool?”

“Of course~ There’s a paper where Father wrote his name when Tie registered for preschool before.”

Her sad feelings became as light as if they would fly away.

Tie gripped her colored pencils and drawing paper tightly and followed behind Teacher.

The place they arrived at was the Faculty Office, which was usually off-limits to children.

Teacher confirmed that the friends were concentrating on writing names, then stood with Tie in front of the lockers.

And opened the drawer labeled 【Quail Class】.

After rummaging inside for a while, Teacher soon pulled out a piece of paper.

“Let’s see. Tie can read, right? Here’s Father’s name.”

Tie’s lips parted slightly as she concentrated.

Tie slowly read the letters written in the small box.

“Kim… Youngsu?”

“That’s right.”

Kim Youngsu, Kim Youngsu.

Tie felt her heart pounding as she repeated that name.

“So Tie’s father’s name is Kim Young-ja, Su-ja? Shall we go back to the classroom and write it down?”

“Yes!”

Her steps returning to the classroom were lighter than ever before.

Tie wrote Father’s name and her own name side by side on the paper.

That day, Father came home early, unlike the previous day.

Tie excitedly spoke to Father, who showered her with kisses as soon as he saw her.

“Father! Tie learned Father’s name today!”

“Huh? What did you learn?”

“At kindergarten, I wrote and drew, look!”

Father looked at the paper Tie held out and closed his mouth.

“Teacher told me Father’s name. Father’s name is Kim, Young-ja, Su-ja!”

“…”

“Tie knows Father’s name now! Our Father is Kim, Young-ja, Su-ja!”

For a while, Father said nothing.

He just chuckled softly and tucked Tie’s hair behind her ear.

“That’s right, our princess. Father’s name is Kim Youngsu.”

“Yes!”

“If anyone asks you what Father’s name is, you can tell them that. Got it?”

“Yes! But is Tie’s name Kim Astie too? Today when Tie just wrote Tie, teacher said I should write Kim Astie…”

“Ah, that.”

Father thought briefly, then said.

“Let’s write it that way for now.”

“Huh?”

“Kim Astie is Tie’s name for use in South Korea, understand?”

“Does Tie have other names too?”

“Not other names, but when we return to your hometown, there’s a different surname.”

Tie blinked without realizing it.

To think she had a different surname.

“Is Tie maybe not Kim but Park…?”

Father burst into laughter.

“Not like that.”

Tie was puzzled but couldn’t ask more questions.

Because Father pulled her into another embrace and showered her with kisses again.

The child giggled and hugged Father back.

“…I should have asked then.”

Tie’s shoulders drooped as she recalled her time in South Korea.

“I should have asked what Tie’s hometown surname was…”

The child clenched her fists and blinked.

Soon the inside of the carriage became quiet.

Because everyone knew.

That Tie was barely holding back her tears right now.

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