A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 51

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 51

Olek stammered with his lips trembling in confusion.

‘Why should I leave when I haven’t done anything wrong…?’

He had expected anger and curses to fly first.

He never anticipated that the Commander King would ask for reasons in such a manner.

Looking back, the other blacksmiths had similar expressions on their faces.

However, Olek quickly composed himself.

Berukon’s decision was unfair – he and the other blacksmiths already knew this well.

But the problem was that as a disciple, he couldn’t object.

‘Who could possibly change the elder’s mind these days?’

Nowadays, Berukon’s stubbornness was at a level that could even defeat the Emperor.

Olek looked directly at the Commander King again.

“It’s no use asking politely.”

Then he deliberately twisted his expression into a menacing scowl.

“What does the reason matter? In this place, Factory Manager Berukon’s word is law and truth itself. Since he has issued an order to expel you, we have no choice but to comply. I hope you understand that.”

The Commander King’s lips parted slightly.

“Eh? But…”

The muttering voice was quite shocked, so Olek gulped nervously.

He watched the troubled Commander King with tense vigilance.

‘Don’t let your guard down, Olek. The Commander King is a man three times the size of a normal person, covered in fur all over. You never know when he might suddenly turn violent and cause a rampage.’

His goal was to minimize damage and drive the Commander King and Agavert out of the Weapon District.

And to do that, he needed to handle things quickly without wasting time.

“By the way, leave everything in the cart behind too. The Factory Manager has instructed us not to sell anything to you people.”

The Commander King looked back at the cart behind him with a shocked expression.

His face seemed to say, ‘Not only are you kicking us out, but you won’t sell us anything either?’

After a moment of silence, just as the Commander King’s lips were about to open.

“Danzu. What’s going on?”

Unit members from Agavert who had been in other areas joined them.

Each of them had brought a cart filled with items they wanted to buy.

The unit member who had been with the Commander King shrugged his shoulders.

“I don’t know. I was picking out weapons when suddenly…”

“B-bring those carts here right now!”

That’s when Olek stepped forward.

He hurriedly snatched away Raul’s cart, which was closest to him, and hid it behind himself.

This was a kind of technique he had learned from countless experiences of driving out mercenary groups.

‘Whenever I let situations drag on, things always got complicated.’

So the best timing to drive out rebellious and combative mercenaries.

That was at the very beginning, when the mercenaries were still confused by the sudden expulsion order.

“Come on, come on! Get out quickly! Hurry up and get out of here!”

“That’s right, that’s right! You can look at weapons later when the Factory Manager’s anger subsides.”

The blacksmiths rushed forward and snatched away the remaining unit members’ carts.

“Hand over this bag too.”

Finally, Olek snatched away even the small sword bag that Veil had been carrying and turned his gaze to the Commander King.

“If you head toward Jedo, there are plenty of good weapon shops. You can look at weapons there instead of here…”

“That’s unfair!”

But at that moment.

The Commander King, who had been quietly watching the situation all along, suddenly grabbed the end of the bag Olek had taken.

“This is discrimination! Child hatred!”

Olek’s eyes widened at the words that followed.

Tie faced Olek, who was several times her size, while fuming with anger.

A few months before coming to this other world.

Just once, she had encountered a situation similar to this one.

At the gelato shop next to Haowon Playground, which she had entered with an excited heart.

‘Hey, get out, will you? Didn’t you see the sign outside? Didn’t you see it says kids can’t come in?’

The gelato shop next to Hanbit Kindergarten had opened a month before that.

The shop had been running a grand opening event for a while.

One day, Hyeonwoo’s parents from the same class bought Tie the smallest size gelato cup.

The taste of gelato, which she had tried for the first time in her life, was truly… sweet enough to think about at any time.

From that day on, Tie began saving 500 won every day to buy gelato.

It was money she could earn by giving Father a 10-minute massage every night.

But when she had barely saved 4,000 won and visited the shop with an excited heart.

‘Can’t you hear me telling you to get out?’

The shop owner, who had been on a phone call, became irritated and snapped at Tie as soon as he saw her.

‘Oh, bro, I’ll call you back later. No, the kindergarten kids from the alley came again. That’s right. I told you last time they touched the showcase with their dirty hands and left handprints, right? Yeah! Exactly! They spill everything on the floor while eating! Once kids come by, you have no idea how sticky the tables and chairs get…’

Tie stood frozen in front of the shop door, clutching eight 500-won coins tightly.

The woman sitting on the high chair continued her phone call without even glancing at Tie.

‘That’s what I’m saying! Business is already bad and I’m annoyed to death! Oh, I put up that no-kids zone sign. But it seems useless, seeing that one came today too… Hey, you still haven’t left?’

The woman looked Tie up and down with an irritated gaze.

Tie unconsciously hunched her shoulders.

‘We’re closed for today. I’m not selling anymore.’

Tie hesitantly turned her gaze.

Though she said business was over, the wall clearly read ‘9:00 open, 8:00pm close.’

‘But the wall says…’

‘What?’

‘It says you close at eight o’clock…’

‘This is so annoying, really!’

The woman opened the counter door and came out.

Tie looked up at the woman with a frightened, frozen face.

The woman, holding a phone in one hand, glared and threw the door wide open.

‘Our shop is a no-kids zone. I won’t sell to you. Don’t you understand?’

‘Why…?’

‘Because I’m the owner and I don’t want to sell to you. If you keep interfering with business, should I call your parents? Hey! What’s your mom’s number!’

Her heart pounded with fear.

Moreover, Tie didn’t have a mother whose phone number she could give.

Feeling dejected, Tie was about to leave the shop when she unconsciously turned her gaze toward the showcase.

Among the various gelatos, the distinctly sweet brown color caught Tie’s attention and wouldn’t let go.

It was the chocolate gelato she had eaten before.

‘Um, Tie just wants one small chocolate one… I have money too!’

‘Get out.’

However, before she could even finish her words, the owner chased Tie away.

From the rough hands pushing her back, the 500-won coin she was holding rolled across the floor with a clatter.

Tie couldn’t leave the front of the gelato shop for a while, wearing a dejected expression.

‘I wasn’t being loud. I didn’t touch anything or make noise or run around…?’

No matter how much she thought about it, she couldn’t understand why she was kicked out.

That night.

Tie told Father about what had happened during the day.

After hearing the story, Father said seriously.

‘Our princess did nothing wrong.’

‘It’s not Tie’s fault? Then why did they kick Tie out?’

‘Sometimes mean adults are like that. They get angry about other things and take it out on easy targets.’

‘…That’s really bad.’

‘Right. So our princess shouldn’t accept that kind of anger as natural from now on.’

‘Don’t accept it as natural?’

‘Yeah. If you stay silent in the face of injustice, that silence becomes the truth.’

‘…’

‘It’s okay to resist injustice, Tie. To some extent.’

That’s what came to mind.

“Unfair!”

Shouting that, Tie grabbed the end of her sword bag with all her might and pulled.

“This is child discrimination!”

Since entering the Weapon District, Agavert had done nothing wrong whatsoever.

She hadn’t caused any trouble that would warrant being kicked out of a shop – not at all, not even a little bit.

Yet being kicked out meant.

“It’s child hatred!”

The Popurosa Weapon District was the no-kids zone that Tie hated most.

That was the only way it could be explained.

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