A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 63

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 63

Teacher asked back in a voice that wasn’t surprised at all.

[Why do you think that?]

Father, who had been looking down, raised his head. Then he stared directly at the camera and said.

[Because I think I could have lived more comfortably if only Tie wasn’t here.]

…More comfortably?

Her body wouldn’t move as if it had been paralyzed.

Tie couldn’t take her eyes off the screen.

Father began to continue speaking again.

[Money too. Honestly, if it wasn’t for Tie, I wonder if I would have needed to work this hard.]

Tie took a short breath and then exhaled quickly.

Her throat stung as if she had accidentally breathed in bathroom air doused with disinfectant.

[That child did make 106 Youth suffer needlessly.]

Then, something turned on with a pop- sound from behind her.

When she turned her head, another video was playing on the monitor on the desk.

‘Grandmother…?’

The person who appeared in the second screen was 107 Grandmother.

Someone who was practically like a mother to Tie.

[From when she was little, she never listened, that clever little one.]

[Tie?]

[Don’t even mention it. Because of that child, 106 Youth never had a peaceful day, his body even broke down from taking care of the child.]

“…That’s a lie.”

Tie moved her lips and staggered away from the tablet and monitor.

Grandmother and Father would never say such things.

However, the video continued.

[It always annoyed me when Tie asked me to buy her things. Given the situation, why does she make a fuss about toys and snacks being important right now.]

[Tie really is immature.]

[Well, she’s a child. But I realized then. It would be difficult for me to love Tie completely.]

“It’s fake!”

Tie shouted without realizing it.

She knew she should hold her breath.

She also knew that all of this was fake inside the subspace.

But as the words from Father and Grandmother continued, her breathing rose to her chin and her face grew hot.

“It’s fake! My dad doesn’t say things like that! My dad would never…!”

[Come to think of it, being isolated here in the first place was also because of Tie.]

However, at the next words she heard, she had no choice but to close her mouth.

[If only Tie hadn’t been there that day, it wouldn’t have gotten this bad.]

Along with Father’s voice, something flashed through her mind.

The dream she had on the day she lost Father at Pulsicity Port.

That dream that was so vivid it still remained intensely in her memory.

‘Are you planning to hurt the young lady!’

‘Young lady, always stay healthy. Smile a lot with Danzu.’

People dying in the endlessly surging monsters.

People who still tried to protect Tie, who was just a baby, even while doing so.

Those scenes that were so vivid even though they were dreams, that she couldn’t easily forget.

‘It’s okay, Tie. It’s okay.’

Remembering Father from the last moment in that dream, Tie pressed her lips tightly together.

She had suspected that it might have been something Tie and Father had actually experienced before coming to South Korea.

[…That day, really if only Tie hadn’t been there.]

And at this moment.

Father in the screen was telling her that suspicion was true.

A chill spread up her arms to her chest, neck, and face.

[If they had ordered to ‘abandon’ her instead of ordering to ‘protect’ Tie.]

Father’s gaze turned diagonally to the side.

Toward the direction where Tie was standing.

[I think I could have lived comfortably without falling into a place like this and suffering terribly, without being stuck with everything alone.]

Tie moved her frozen lips.

A faint voice leaked out between her throat.

“It’s fake… fake.”

She should have expected it.

From when the subspace was taking the form of Jongno-gu.

“It’s all fake…”

She should have expected it from when Krazaru showed her hometown and preschool.

Then she wouldn’t have been shaken by such a stupid fake video message.

[Come to think of it, I guess it’s because of this.]

Listening to the continuing voice, Tie stepped back one step, then another step.

Berukon had said so.

Krazaru shows the target the fear they are most afraid of.

Because overcoming that is difficult, countless people lost their lives.

When she first heard that story, she was puzzled.

She understood that Krazaru was strong, but even so, did it make sense that only one person had overcome it?

What exactly is this illusion that Krazaru is showing?

But now I felt like I knew the answer.

[The reason why the child’s mother didn’t raise him and dumped him on me.]

My legs gave out.

Those were painful words.

Words that didn’t just tear at my heart but seemed to cut it into jagged pieces with scissors.

[She knew Astie would hold her back. That he’d just be a burden in everything. She knew he’d be a tumor that would ruin his parents’ lives.]

The moment Tie staggered and had to lean against the wall.

The sound of the front door opening came from behind.

“Sorcerer King…”

Berukon had entered the preschool after hearing Tie’s voice.

Reason whispered in my head.

‘Run away.’

But my body wouldn’t move as if it were frozen solid.

Is this what it means to be consumed by fear?

Then something began creeping through the gap in the faculty office door.

Red mist.

Behind it, even Berukon stumbling as he walked.

Like a rabbit before a predator, Tie was frozen with only his eyes wide open.

“Astie! What are you doing!”

Astie suddenly snapped to his senses.

When he turned his head, he saw Lucalion who had somehow emerged from the preschool bag.

Lucalion was flapping his wings in mid-air.

“Snap out of it!”

Lucalion knocked the monitor where 107 Grandmother had been appearing off the desk.

Then he even grabbed the tablet and threw it toward the wall.

As the screen cracked and the video went out, a sobbing sound involuntarily burst from Tie’s mouth.

“Ka, Kamang…”

The tears he’d been holding back fell drop by drop, but Lucalion was firm.

“Not now! If you’re going to cry, cry later! We don’t have time!”

Tie quickly shut his mouth.

And hastily wiped around his eyes.

“I’ll try to block the mist, so you steal the core from that guy first! I can feel the condensed magic power from the core!”

Tie nodded and hurriedly turned his head toward Berukon.

Then he immediately opened his mouth in surprise.

‘…Really a zombie?’

He hadn’t looked like this even when the chase began.

From wandering the streets looking for Tie, Berukon’s ankles were tangled with garbage bags, discarded rope, and badminton nets.

“Hurry! If you can’t steal the mastone, at least run away!”

Lucalion shouted again.

He was already shooting bright white light wildly at the red mist.

“O, okay…!”

Tie gulped and first stepped back.

Then he knocked over the stool where the tablet had been placed, and pushed over the pile of boxes stacked by the wall with all his might.

After running behind the large office desk, Berukon’s face contorted as he saw Tie moving away.

“Sorcerer King! Come here right now!”

But Tie continued piling everything he could grab next to the fallen box pile.

From the teacher’s office chair to a mini bookshelf, vacuum cleaner, and even the drying rack next to it.

After bringing all sorts of objects, a small barricade was completed between Berukon and Tie.

‘What next?’

His mind raced to solve the urgent situation.

Berukon seemed even less sane than before and was staggering more and more.

‘But he’s still an adult.’

Half-hearted methods wouldn’t be enough to steal the core from Berukon.

Unless he tied him up somewhere tight.

‘Tie him up tight…?’

Suddenly Tie’s gaze turned to Berukon’s ankles.

More precisely, to the garbage bags, rope, and badminton net wrapped around his ankles.

The child’s eyes sparkled.

‘That’s it!’

Berukon’s ankles weren’t free.

So what if he could completely restrain those feet?

Just then, the vacuum cleaner he had knocked over earlier came into view.

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