A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 77

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 77

‘Please just kill me now.’

Meanwhile, Luminen’s Commander, Valentis, stood in front of the railing, lost in thought.

‘How much more do you intend to make me ruin? Do you want me to lose everything that remains?’

He should have realized when he heard that the Association had summoned Trevaga for this incident.

That he might encounter Tesetan in this place.

‘But I thought that child wouldn’t come.’

After their long conversation, recalling Tesetan turning his back on him once again made his head throb.

But even when he closed his eyes, the vision before him wouldn’t disappear.

‘Please, just let me go.’

Eyes that were once filled with vitality.

‘There’s nothing left to regret, lament, or feel devastated about now.’

But now only dried obsession and regret remained.

‘Theseus Luminen has already disappeared.’

The hand placed on the railing began to tremble.

‘But how.’

How could he kill his own child?

When he was alive.

When he was living and breathing perfectly fine in this world.

Valentis slowly lowered his head.

One thought filled his mind that felt ready to burst.

Would things have been different if Eleonora had been by his side?

Well, she would have surely known the answer.

Unlike his clumsy and ignorant self, Eleonora was an excessive and overflowing woman.

It was when Valentis was clenching his fist tightly.

Suddenly, he felt an unfamiliar presence from above to the right.

When he gathered his holy power and looked up, he saw a pair of eyes shining as they reflected the moonlight.

The green eyes filled with moonlight suddenly overlapped with Eleonora’s eyes.

But Valentis Luminen soon came to his senses.

“…Agabert Prince.”

It wasn’t Eleonora.

What was before his eyes was the Prince of Agabert he had first seen at today’s meeting, the Commander King.

The Commander King, who had likewise made eye contact with Valentis, flinched.

However, the Commander King hesitantly bowed his waist and began carefully descending the stairs.

The way he gripped the railing with one hand looked more like a real child than someone disguised as one.

It was when Valentis narrowed his eyes.

“Luminen Commander, sir.”

The Commander King who had toddled over looked up at him with an unreadable expression and spoke.

Then, carefully pointing around his eyes with his index finger, he asked.

“Are you sad? Why…?”

Luminen only then realized that tears were dripping down his cheeks.

When he turned his head, he could clearly see several drops of tears that had fallen on the railing and floor.

Valentis remained silent before turning his head toward the window.

“There are personal circumstances.”

“Personal circumstances…?”

In Tie’s mind, a seafood she had seen exactly once before flashed by.

Soon the child’s face became serious.

She didn’t know what it was, but it was certain that Luminen Commander’s circumstances were extremely disgusting and pink.

Tie swallowed her saliva and nodded as if it didn’t matter.

Then she took something out of her pajama pocket.

It was a handkerchief with a baby bear embroidered in light brown on white cloth.

“Wipe with this.”

Valentis looked down at the Commander King, speechless.

Then, discovering something, he slowly crouched down below the railing.

“Thank you.”

Taking the handkerchief, he gently wiped his wet cheeks.

His face after wiping away the tears showed no trace of having cried.

When he returned the handkerchief, the Commander King took it and hesitated for a moment.

Then,

“Here too…”

She dabbed the handkerchief on the right side of Valentis Luminen’s jaw that he had failed to wipe.

Valentis quietly watched as the Commander King folded the handkerchief twice and put it in her pocket.

His gaze turned again to something hanging from the Commander King’s wrist.

‘Is it an artifact?’

A uniquely shaped bracelet.

He could feel refined holy power emanating from it.

He had sensed a similar energy from the maritime Mastone fragments of Pearl City that he had been reported about recently.

Looking intently at the Commander King, he said.

“Then why are you sad?”

The Commander King’s eyes were also red around the edges.

Throughout the meeting, she had just sat there blankly, but for some reason, she had clearly shed tears as well.

The Commander King was noticeably flustered and waved her hands.

“Tie didn’t cry. I almost cried though.”

“Is your real name Tie?”

The Commander King shut her mouth tight, then after a long while, slightly nodded her head.

“…Yes. Commander King is a nickname.”

“Is it okay to reveal your real name so casually?”

Tie silently rolled her eyes.

Actually, it wasn’t particularly necessary to hide her real name.

But until now, she had tried to keep her real name hidden as much as possible.

It was because she thought there was no reason to reveal her real name, both to maintain mystique and otherwise.

However,

‘How does this person look so exactly like Father…’

The problem was that Valentis was giving off an atmosphere confusingly similar to Father.

Her head told her to be wary of the Paladin before her, but her body was gradually approaching Valentis on its own.

Her mouth was the same, and from a little while ago, Tie had been rambling to Valentis about things she didn’t need to say.

Suddenly worried, Tie looked at Valentis timidly.

“You won’t tell anyone else, right?”

“Your real name?”

“…Yes. Now that I think about it, it seems like it should be a secret…”

Valentis nodded with an expressionless face.

“I understand. But if you want to hide your real name, it seems you should be more careful than me.”

Tie nodded awkwardly.

Then, like Valentis, she also crouched down on the floor and leaned against the railing.

Valentis reflexively reached his hand toward the railing where the child was leaning.

As he gripped the railing firmly, Tie, who had been looking at the ground, casually asked.

“What makes really, really strong people like you sad?”

It was a question about Valentis’s tears that she had happened to see again after going around in circles.

Valentis still held onto the railing where Tie was leaning and lowered his eyes.

“Are you curious about why I cried?”

“Not that, but why you were sad?”

“To my ears, they sound the same.”

“Do they?”

“….”

A short chuckle finally escaped from Valentis’s stiff lips.

After briefly looking toward the window where stars were twinkling, he spoke.

“The reason I was sad is, well.”

Then he whispered softly.

“I met someone I had missed after a long time, but he was no longer the person I had been longing for.”

Tie opened her lips in a daze.

Soon the child’s eyes grew wide.

“Tie knows that too!”

“What do you know.”

“Meeting someone you missed with difficulty, but that person isn’t that person anymore.”

Like how Father, whom she met at the pier, wasn’t the same Father that Tie had known before.

Remembering that time made her heart feel gloomy again.

“Why do people have to die…?”

Father who returned as a box of belongings in Korea.

The time that had to be turned back because of that.

Tie’s home that she had to leave because of that came to mind.

And even sleepless nights like today.

“Happy times always, always have an end. You always, always have to say goodbye to people you liked.”

Valentis quietly listened to Tie’s words.

“Every time Tie has a hard day, her heart feels like this, like it’s being torn apart.”

Actually, everything that happened during today was too much.

It felt like trying to force all the seawater into a small cup.

“…You know, mister, you look really similar to the person Tie likes most in the world.”

Tie muttered.

Valentis, who had been silently staring at her reddened nose tip, spoke as if it was no big deal.

“If you’re talking about someone you like, do you mean the Paladin you’ve been secretly inquiring about for the past few weeks?”

Tie’s eyes widened.

Regardless, Valentis slightly narrowed one eye and added.

“It’s been quite a while since I received the report, so my memory is hazy. I think the name was rather exotic.”

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