A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 76

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 76

“Veil oppa. How many blankets did you lay down?”

“Not many. Four.”

“And how many covers are you using?”

“Two.”

Tie nodded and stroked the pleasantly textured blanket with her palm.

As soon as she lay down, Basto turned off the brightly glowing magic lamp on the wall.

Tie stared intently at the ceiling while listening to the rustling sounds of the unit members settling into their spots.

Her vision gradually adjusted to the darkness, and the structure of the ceiling made of planks and nails began to become visible.

The wood grain was glistening in the seeping moonlight.

Veil muttered from beside her.

“Child. I thought you were going to die.”

“Veil.”

Basto scolded from the other side, but Veil only let out a small sigh.

When she turned her head, Veil was staring at the ceiling with a gloomy expression.

“I guess I gave you false hope for no reason.”

His voice that followed was so quiet it was barely audible.

But Tie knew.

She knew that every unit member in the room was focused on his voice.

“Honestly, at first I felt a bit sorry for you… and your awakened ability was so outstanding for your age.”

“…”

“I thought it would be fun to form a mercenary group together. And I only thought that joining would at least not be bad for me.”

Veil’s eyes began wandering around various parts of the ceiling.

Like someone who had lost their way and was searching for a destination.

“Being a mercenary isn’t safe work. Especially not for a child like you.”

Veil’s voice gradually began to crack.

“If something happened to you, I would…”

Silence fell over the room.

The sound of Basto letting out a small sigh could be heard.

Tie somehow felt like she could guess everything that had happened while she was gone.

‘Everyone was really worried about Tie.’

Veil must have repeatedly gotten angry, then sulked, then gotten angry again.

Basto probably told Veil not to show it in front of Tie.

Nordics, Enzo, and Raul would have agreed with that and tried their best to restrain their feelings.

That’s why they didn’t ask Tie anything when she returned from the meeting.

They only offered her the snacks and bedding they had each prepared.

Tie, who had been quietly looking down, finally opened her lips.

“You know, Veil oppa. Tie… almost got into big trouble.”

At those words, Veil’s head turned slightly toward her.

The gaze they met in the darkness seemed like it still hadn’t completely shaken off its worry.

Tie pulled one arm out from under the blanket and gently patted Veil’s stomach.

“But at the important moment, I worked really hard and survived. Aren’t you super curious about how Tie worked hard?”

A faint smile finally flowed from Veil’s lips.

Soon he brushed Tie’s hair behind her ear and said

“Yeah. I’m curious.”

“…Tie kept thinking and thinking by herself that she had to keep the promises she made with the unit members.”

‘Tie will definitely take good care of Raul oppa and Enzo oppa!’

Tie had promised Marianne,

‘When Tie gets stronger, I’ll protect Veil oppa from now on!’

‘I have to become a more reliable leader as the Commander King!’

She had promised Veil and Nordics,

[Please take care of Basto.]

She had also promised Eve’s soul, who had been Basto’s wife.

That she would stay by everyone’s side.

“So mercenary work isn’t scary. No, I can’t be scared.”

For Tie, promises were responsibility.

And responsibility was something important that had to be fulfilled no matter what, even if it meant risking everything.

“…Tie left everything in Jongno-gu and came here.”

“…”

“Since I can never see everyone there again…”

She had resolved that she must become happy here.

Before she knew it, Veil had completely turned his body and was looking at Tie.

Raul and Enzo, who had been lying down, also sat up, and Nordics clicked his tongue inaudibly.

Tie opened her lips again.

“Tie still wishes all the mastones in Talochium, no, in this world would disappear.”

All the sadness in this world comes from mastones.

“The Factory Manager was sad because of mastones too. Because of the civil war caused by mastones, bad villains were born.”

The unit members who knew about the Heodeodel tragedy closed their mouths.

Tie blinked her eyes that had been looking at the ceiling.

“After Tie finds Father, next I’m going to make all the mastones disappear.”

“Tie.”

Basto called out in a surprised voice, but Tie continued speaking.

“If I do it one by one, later they can all disappear. Like putting together a puzzle.”

“Puzzle?”

“In Jongno-gu, Father and Tie did a thousand-piece puzzle. Doing one piece a day, two pieces, three pieces, and it became a flower field.”

Suddenly the image of the completed puzzle came to mind.

A green forest with sunlight streaming through.

Dew-moistened leaves and fresh daisies full of crisp moisture.

In that puzzle, there were thousands, tens of thousands of such daisies blooming.

“If you do it one by one, someday you can complete such a pretty flower field.”

“…”

“So even though Tie almost got into big trouble today… later it will all become a flower field.”

“…”

“All of our family together.”

The child who finished speaking in a whisper closed both eyes tightly.

Veil and Basto looked at each other and then quietly lay back down.

The surroundings became quiet for a while.

No sound rang out except for Tie’s steady breathing.

Everyone in the room was each mulling over what Tie had said.

This was already the second time the child had called them ‘family.’

After confirming that Basto had started snoring, Tie carefully got up from under the blanket.

And she quietly walked on tiptoes and grabbed the door handle.

As she opened the door and stepped out, a corridor bathed in bright moonlight spread before her.

Tie walked through the corridor toward the stairs where a massive window was located.

Gripping the railing as she stood, the entire view of the Weapon District came into sight.

Endlessly sprawling smelting districts.

The massive Armory, light seeping from the Primordial Furnace, and finally the stars that brilliantly adorned the sky above it all.

‘Stars…’

When she lived in Jongno-gu, she didn’t know there were so many stars in the sky.

Tie was occasionally able to see stars thanks to the Go-playing grandfather who lived at the end of the alley.

The Go grandfather would sometimes call Tie out and lend her his old telescope.

When the two of them sat on convenience store chairs in front of the house, they could sometimes find real big stars too.

‘That’s a star!’

‘Hey now, that’s a satellite.’

‘Then what about that one?’

‘That one’s a real star. Here, look through this.’

The telescope, mixed with the smell of cigarette smoke and some unknown musty odor, was a treasure to Tie.

‘I never even lent this to my own son, this old man’s family treasure.’

‘What’s a family treasure?’

‘A family’s treasure.’

‘…Then why do you lend it to Tie? Tie isn’t Grandfather’s family.’

When she asked out of curiosity, Grandfather would roughly stroke Tie’s forehead with his coarse hands.

‘You little rascal, I’ve been watching you since you barely had any hair, saw you crawling and walking and everything – if you’re not family, then what are you?’

Her heart felt heavy once again.

It was always like this when she thought of Jongno-gu that she had left behind.

A sudden farewell was far too cruel for a four-year-old.

Tie unconsciously crouched down in front of the railing.

Perhaps because there had been so many different things happening all day today, sleep wouldn’t come easily.

It was when she was pressing her lips together and clenching her fists tightly.

Thud-

Along with a small cracking sound, a very faint vibration was felt through the railing she was holding.

Tie’s eyes widened as she quietly poked her head out beyond the railing.

The floor below.

She saw the silhouette of someone standing in front of the railing just like Tie, looking out the window.

Tie’s eyes widened at the familiar hair color and the build she could glimpse.

‘It’s the Luminen General Commander.’

Valentis Luminen, who looked so much like Father that she couldn’t even speak to him properly.

He was on the floor below, unable to sleep just like Tie, looking out the window.

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