A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 70

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 70

The imperial borders where large mastones were besieged.

Aleric picked up his orb while reflecting on Danzu Tesetan’s words.

‘I changed my mind. I’m going.’

‘…That’s strange.’

No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t understand.

When he listed more than ten rational reasons why they should respond to the summons, Tesetan wouldn’t budge an inch.

‘It’s not just Berukon trapped in the subspace?’

‘Pardon?’

‘I’m asking if the leader of that new mercenary group is also trapped there.’

As soon as he heard that the Commander King was trapped, the Danzu immediately changed his plans.

‘Prepare.’

‘…Pardon?’

‘We have to go, don’t we? Get ready. We’re leaving right now.’

The change in stance was so sudden that even Aleric, who rarely got flustered, was greatly bewildered.

Of course, Livia was disappointed.

She followed behind Tesetan, pestering him.

‘Danzu, wouldn’t it be better to just let the Commander King die? I think that Basto Paerix looks pretty good as a fighter.’

‘…’

‘The Commander King has to die and Agavert has to disband for us to bring Basto over, right? Right?’

However, Tesetan didn’t respond.

He just packed his weapons with a serious expression, thinking about something.

Even until now.

“Come on, come on! Prepare the formation!”

“Just in case, pack all the weapons that need maintenance!”

Aleric looked around at the busy unit members and put on his cloak as well.

‘Should I be happy that we avoided getting in trouble with the Imperial Court or the Order?’

However, whenever Tesetan acted so inscrutably like this, something always happened.

Meanwhile, Tesetan was leaning against a rock split in half.

He unconsciously stroked his sword hilt while recalling recent memories.

‘Father, Father-!!’

He was thinking about a certain voice.

A voice that still wouldn’t fade even after several days had passed.

‘Father-!’

It was something he experienced while leaving Pearl City.

At first, he wondered why some child was standing alone at the port, crying sadly.

The voice was loud enough to pierce through the ship’s horn and the sound of waves, so he thought the child had quite good vocal cords.

‘I was curious what they were doing to get separated from their parents.’

But something was strange.

The little one shouting until their throat was raw seemed to be looking at him, not someone else.

The way they pursed their lips and trembled when their eyes met was still vivid in his memory.

‘…Who were they calling.’

Who exactly were they calling father?

The emotion he first felt was discomfort close to displeasure.

However, that quickly transformed into bewilderment, which made him flustered.

Generally, Tesetan didn’t feel any agitation when dealing with people.

He found himself strange for being caught up in such odd feelings because of one crying child.

So he turned his head away and never looked back toward the port again.

Though he would soon regret that choice.

Long after the ship had departed, Tesetan was still thinking about that child and eventually asked Aleric.

‘…Do you have any hidden children?’

‘What are you suddenly talking about?’

‘Well, it’s not me, so I thought it might be you.’

‘Pardon?’

Naturally, Aleric reacted as if asking what on earth he was talking about.

Tesetan fell into deep thought while feeling the wind at the stern.

So did that kid mistake him for someone else?

Maybe the lost parent looked somewhat like him or something.

Then that would mean the child was an orphan anyway.

Come to think of it, their face did seem a bit dirty.

But even if they were an orphan, wasn’t it a bit dangerous to be alone at the port like that?

What if they slipped and fell into the sea?

It was uncharacteristic worry, and uncharacteristic anxiety.

Eventually, after agonizing about it ten thousand times, Tesetan reluctantly headed to the captain’s quarters.

The only communication device on the ship was in the captain’s quarters.

He planned to contact the Imperial Court and ask them to send an urgent message to the Pulsity Governor.

To tell them to take care of some child loitering around the port.

Of course, contacting the Imperial Court, with whom he wasn’t even close, over such a matter seemed a bit excessive…

‘But I can’t just leave it alone.’

The child might fall into the sea.

When he arrived at the captain’s quarters, the captain readily offered him the communication device.

Then he chattered away, seeming pleased to meet him.

‘I never thought I’d get to see the Trevaga Danzu this close in my lifetime. By the way, Danzu, did you also see that Commander King?’

‘Commander King?’

‘Yes. I heard Agavert and the Commander King visited Pearl City. The necromancer, I mean. I only heard about it just before departure.’

Tesetan slowly put down the communication device he was holding.

The captain continued with a chuckle.

‘Our youngest crew member who I sent on an errand saw the Commander King, and he said they really looked exactly like a child. It was hard to believe it was a disguise technique.’

‘…Is that so?’

‘Yes! About this tall, with pale yellow hair. Wearing Agavert uniform and running up a tab at the inn.’

Suddenly, something flashed through Tesetan’s mind.

A group of strangers they had encountered at the inn.

And what they were wearing….

The robe that little one was wearing.

He let out a small hollow laugh.

‘…What a ridiculous villain?’

Leaving the captain’s quarters and returning to the stern, he felt his head throbbing as if he had been struck by something.

At the same time, a strange curiosity arose.

‘Seems like a formidable lunatic.’

Those were his own words.

At the pub in Pearl City, just a few days ago.

‘But why didn’t I anticipate it?’

He already knew that the Sorcerer King traveled in the form of a four-year-old girl, and that he was an incredible eccentric.

‘Father!’

But even so.

‘Could he really be that flawlessly deceptive?’

The tears streaming down those cheeks.

Even that voice, so pitiful it made the listener feel strange.

Tesetan chuckled softly as he gazed at the vast sea.

A sorcerer of the Sorcerer King’s caliber couldn’t have been unaware of who he was.

So he must have done it knowingly.

Knowing that Tesetan was the Commander of Trevaga, he did it on purpose.

‘…What a unique way to engage in a battle of wills.’

He recalled the precarious swaying figure at the pier.

The wailing, the pitiful calls for father.

“…I was had.”

Tesetan sneered and unconsciously gripped the stern railing tightly.

And several days later.

News of Agabert reached his ears once again.

It was news that they had besieged the first Mastone that emerged from the sea and departed for the Populosa Weapon District.

Simultaneously, new information began to be posted at Compensation Offices throughout the Empire.

Among hundreds of mercenary groups, information that Agabert had risen to rank 39.

It meant their Mastone sieges were beginning to be tallied, albeit unofficially.

“Commander! Preparations are complete.”

Tesetan was roused from his thoughts by a unit member’s report.

‘I was curious when I’d see them again.’

He hadn’t expected that time to come so soon.

“Let’s go.”

As he rose from his seat, a massive formation appeared before him.

Aleric approached and spoke.

“Much time has been delayed. We’ll need to materialize the subspace as soon as we arrive.”

There are countless types of monsters that exist in the world.

And among them, the most difficult type to deal with was undoubtedly ‘stealth-type monsters.’

Stealth-type monsters like Krazaar literally launched attacks from invisible locations.

Therefore, when facing stealth-type monsters, materializing their true form was of utmost importance.

In fact, that was precisely why the Association had requested support from Tesetan.

“Can you activate ‘Mind’s Eye’ immediately?”

“It’s possible.”

As Tesetan answered, magical power and sacred power began to surge wildly from his sword as if they had been waiting.

He possessed one of the very few, extremely powerful and rare abilities in the world.

Its name was Mind’s Eye.

A third eye that could be drawn forth through the waves of two opposing energies, and the first sword technique Tesetan had cultivated since deciding to become a mercenary.

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