A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 62

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 62

The preschool was just as Tie remembered it.

Except for the eerie emptiness with all the lights turned off.

Tie reflexively headed straight for the ‘Quail Class’ first. That was the space most familiar to her.

As proof of this, Tie’s name was written on the praise sticker chart attached to the wall.

But what good did that do now?

“Sigh…”

Tie’s eyebrows drooped sadly.

Whether from the rain, her whole body felt ice cold and she had no energy.

Suddenly, wooden block toys placed on one side of the floor caught her eye.

Familiar children’s storybook series and kitchen play sets too.

Everything felt so familiar, as if she had been playing with them just yesterday.

But how did things end up like this?

Tears welled up in Tie’s eyes as she bit her lip.

Regardless, Berukon’s voice continued to be heard through the window cracks.

“Show yourself, Commander King…”

From threats that he wouldn’t let her go if he found her, to telling her to prepare to give up her life.

Tie got up from her spot, completely dejected.

Then she carefully opened the door and left the Quail Class.

In the common play area shrouded in darkness, she could see a clock hanging on the wall above the shelves.

The second hand in the clock remained motionless, just as it had been when she first entered the building.

“…I can’t just keep running away.”

Tie spoke to herself while firmly shouldering her preschool bag.

Actually, Tie had wanted to steal Krazaar’s core that Berukon possessed for a while now.

But the problem was she had no idea how to do it.

A frontal assault would likely result in getting caught by Berukon.

But just running away meant she’d never be able to steal the core.

That suspicious Mastone was the key to breaking through this situation.

‘Come up with a good idea, a good idea…’

Tie positioned herself near the entrance so she could escape at any time.

Then she fell into deep thought.

Should she try to persuade the Factory Manager?

Tell him that he’s being controlled by the red mist and needs to wake up quickly.

Then maybe he’d realize his mistake and come to his senses…

“No, no.”

She shook her head vigorously.

The method she just thought of had a high probability of failure and was dangerous since it would reveal Tie’s location to the enemy.

Then what about digging a trap?

She had seen it in YouTube fairy tale series.

Hunters digging deep traps in the ground to catch tigers.

But Tie soon had to shake her head at this idea too.

This place wasn’t the Talochium Empire. In other words, there was nowhere here suitable for digging traps.

Asphalt roads where cars sped by.

Even the sidewalks paved with concrete blocks.

Where exactly could she dig up the ground to set a trap?

Far from digging a trap, she’d get caught by Berukon and the red mist while trying to remove the concrete blocks.

Tie looked at the stopped clock with gloomy eyes.

‘If only I had my bone friends at a time like this…’

Even if she had the soul subordinates she had summoned in Pearl City, the situation would have been much better.

‘But I can’t use magic or anything like that in here.’

Tie crouched down on the floor. Just as she was hanging her head in despair,

“…Huh?”

Across from her.

Through an open door, she suddenly saw something glinting.

Confirming that the source of light was the Faculty Office, Tie quickly looked toward the window. She was worried that Berukon might have seen it.

However, at this moment, Berukon’s voice was moving away in the opposite direction from the preschool.

Then the light glinted once more.

Tie hurriedly walked in that direction.

Upon entering the Faculty Office, she saw something placed on a stool in the corner.

“…It’s a tablet!”

It was the tablet that the Quail Class teacher used.

Tie hurried over to the tablet.

And the moment she reached out to touch the screen,

Bzzt-

Suddenly the tablet began playing a blurry video.

[Tie… Father, now… answer that first… I’ll read the letter I prepared.]

The video gradually became clearer and soon revealed someone’s figure on the screen.

[Ah, are there questions too?]

Tie’s eyes widened.

Father was appearing on the screen.

Tie quickly operated the tablet to lower the brightness to minimum.

Then after using the buttons to reduce the sound as well, she crouched in front of the stool and watched the video.

[Yes, it won’t take long, and Tie will be playing with her friends during that time, so don’t worry.]

Father in the screen nodded his head.

Behind Father, she could see a placard made from cut colored paper on the wall.

【A Video Letter of Love to My Child】

She suddenly remembered.

Before coming to Talochium, around the time when Father had gone missing.

On a strange day in May when the daytime temperature exceeded 31.5 degrees, Father disappeared.

Because of that, Tie missed preschool for three days.

But on the fourth day, Grandmother said it would be better for Tie to go back to preschool.

Father would come back anyway, and they couldn’t keep living like this forever.

When she returned to school, her friends who hadn’t seen her in a while chattered nonstop, happy to see Tie.

And that day she heard about it.

About the Family Month commemorative parent observation class that had been held while Tie was absent.

‘We ate banana chocolate bread that day and all watched video letters together, remember?’

‘Video letters?’

‘Yeah! With colorful paper stuck on the back like this, and Mom and Dad’s faces projected on the wall with a beam projector like this, reading letters.’

It was a special gift that the Quail Class homeroom teacher had prepared for the students.

Love video letters that he had filmed bit by bit, targeting the parents who came to pick up their children from preschool.

‘It’s too bad only Tie couldn’t see it. You know what, should I ask Teacher to show Tie’s too?’

‘Yeah! I saw Teacher turn on the beam projector! Tie’s father is there too!’

Her friends were busy looking after Tie, who had missed the video letter.

Some even ran to the faculty office to make strong appeals.

‘Teacher! Let’s not make castanets and watch Tie’s father’s video letter instead!’

‘Let’s watch it because Tie’s father is cool!’

Teacher looked troubled but soon asked.

‘Should we? Well, Tie was the only one who didn’t see it that day. Tie. Would you like to watch the video letter your father left?’

Tie still remembered exactly the emotions she felt that day.

Teacher, and her preschool friends too.

None of them would have known that Tie’s father was on his 4th day missing.

So they would have brought up the topic of father that she was trying hard not to think about, and asked if she wanted to watch the video letter.

But still, Tie really hated Teacher and her friends.

‘…I don’t want to watch.’

‘Huh?’

‘Tie doesn’t want to watch that! I won’t watch! I won’t watch it, so why do you keep telling me to watch, waaah-!’

Her friends looked surprised.

Teacher also had an expression like she didn’t understand what was happening.

That’s how it became the video letter that only Tie didn’t watch.

But why is that video letter playing right in front of her eyes now?

[What kind of existence is our Tie to you, Father?]

At Teacher’s question, Father in the screen slightly furrowed his brow.

That was a habit that came out when he was listening carefully to someone.

He was generally expressionless, but only when talking about Tie would he smile faintly… It was definitely Father.

[Tie is… honestly a burden. To me.]

Something was strange.

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