A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 78

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 78

“How did you find that out?”

Tie’s head began spinning.

Who were the people she had told Father’s name to?

Only the unit members including Basto and Veil, and Pearl City’s Councilor, right?

“We have a system.”

Valentis said as he relaxed his posture.

One hand still firmly gripped the railing that Tie was leaning against.

“Within an organized structure, information movement and reporting become swift. Efficiency is the most important thing in handling affairs.”

“….”

“And the place where all information ultimately arrives is me, the head of the organization. In a way, it’s nothing surprising.”

But even so.

Tie’s heart was pounding like never before.

‘This is like!’

It was like the feeling of the president somehow knowing a secret you told only your closest friend with a ‘don’t tell anyone else, okay?’

“So I thought you’d ask about him first.”

“Huh?”

“Rather than worthless questions like why you cried or why you were sad, I thought finding that paladin would be more urgent.”

Actually, the Commander of Luminien was right.

Right after hearing that Valentis Luminen would come here, Tie’s first thought was exactly that.

‘I should ask this person about Father.’

No one would know better than the Commander leading the Knight Order whether Father was inside or not.

Tie looked at Valentis hesitantly.

Platinum hair similar in color to her own.

Slightly darker eyebrows, and blue eyes beneath them.

Pajama buttons fastened all the way up, bold physique, and an indifferent expression.

‘He feels a little scary but… he doesn’t seem like a bad person.’

Actually, when she saw him in the conference room, she thought he was too intimidating to approach and gave up.

But seeing him standing by the railing crying somehow gave her a strange feeling.

Maybe her guard kept dropping because he looked so much like Father?

“Then can I really ask?”

When she spoke hesitantly, Valentis answered.

“Of course. The freedom to ask belongs to the one asking.”

“Is there really no one named Kim Youngja in the Paladins?”

“He doesn’t exist.”

Tie’s eyes drooped slightly.

“Didn’t you already know? That no paladin with such a name exists in the Knight Order.”

“That’s….”

Right, she actually knew.

Starting with Raul and Enzo.

If there had been a paladin with such an unusual name, those who had been at Jedo headquarters would have known first.

“I know. That’s why Tie was also thinking there might be a chance the name is fake.”

If the father she met at the pier was really here, Father would be living under a different name than Kim Youngsu.

And that name would probably be Father’s real name.

“So ultimately, you don’t even know the real name of the person you’re looking for.”

“….”

She didn’t want to admit it, but it was true.

Tie was a pathetic child who didn’t even know her own father’s real name.

“Then do you know his face?”

At the question that came then, Tie’s gaze shot up.

And she nodded with an brightened face.

“I know his face!”

She could draw it even with her eyes closed.

Father’s face, which she had seen and smiled at tens, hundreds, thousands of times.

Valentis answered.

“Then, at Jedo headquarters there’s something called the Knight Order’s complete organizational chart.”

“Organizational chart…?”

“It’s a document recording the faces, names, ages, and personal information of paladins distributed throughout Talochium, no, even the entire world.”

She swallowed hard.

With such an organizational chart, she might finally be able to find Father who was hiding so well.

“Of course, it’s not a document just anyone can view.”

But at Valentis’s following words, her eyebrows drooped.

It was the moment when Tie was silently clenching her fists.

“However, if you clarify just a few things, I could permit your viewing as Commander. Making capable mercenary groups friendly to us is also part of my duties.”

Her lips parted wide.

He’d show her the organizational chart if she clarified just a few things?

Tie unconsciously grabbed Valentis’s sleeve.

“I’ll do it!”

“….”

“Tie will clarify those things!”

The child’s eyes filled with desperation.

“Please show me the organizational chart, okay? Tie absolutely has to find that person and meet him again….”

Valentis, who had been quietly looking into Tie’s eyes, nodded.

“Then what’s your relationship with him?”

Tie blinked with a flustered face.

It was a simple question, one that could be answered in a word.

But….

‘If I say Father.’

Wouldn’t it be revealed that Tie is actually four years old?

Then Tie’s power would be suspected, and wouldn’t the entire mercenary group be in danger?

But Valentis remained calm.

“What’s your reason for looking for him? Just what are you hiding to have become the Commander King?”

Tie’s gaze met Valentis’s gaze.

Unlike Tie’s trembling eyes from panic, Valentis’s blue eyes were just calm.

“Only those who open their own doors can open others’ doors as well.”

Tie took a short breath.

Then she bit her lips and fell deep in thought.

After a long while, Tie opened her lips.

“That person is….”

Then she firmly grasped the Holy Relic of Oblivion with one hand and answered clearly.

“Tie’s father.”

The Holy Relic of Oblivion.

A bracelet that fit perfectly on Tie’s wrist and a relic left by the sea god Seraldin.

The name Tie gave it herself was ‘Super Amazing Strong Memory Eraser Princess Bracelet’.

“He’s Tie’s father, and Tie is four years old. I lived with Father in Daehanminguk Jongno-gu. So….”

Valentis quietly looked down at Tie as she spilled all her secrets.

The information poured out was scattered, but when put together, what it meant was clear.

Valentis first drew a long timeline in his head.

And he began organizing the events by putting together Astie’s words.

“I had a dream, and Father was besieging a really big Mastone.”

When the Commander King before his eyes was just a newborn baby.

His father Kim Youngsu was besieging a Mastone in Talochium.

“Then we lived in Jongno-gu for 4 years.”

But due to a series of events that occurred afterward, the father and daughter moved to another world called South Korea, where they lived for 4 years.

“Father, on a rainy day… the death certificate…”

However, during that time, the Commander King’s father died.

And the Commander King awakened his mana and returned to Talochium.

Valentis finished speaking and looked down calmly at the dejected Commander King.

‘Is such a thing possible?’

If everything were true, then the child before his eyes wasn’t a great mage pretending to be a child.

He was just a four-year-old child who had suddenly become a great mage one day.

Suddenly, he recalled the large mercenary who had been guarding the child’s side in the conference room.

And the other unit members who had welcomed the child back to the lodging with smiles.

‘If everything is real, is it because of them?’

The reason why the child, who had essentially fallen into a lion’s den, had remained safe until now.

Hiding his identity, not spilling his circumstances here and there.

From Valentis’s perspective, each of them was helping the Commander King’s safety in their own way.

“Then will you show me the organization chart now?”

Just then, a bold question came from right in front of him.

When he lowered his gaze, the child was looking at him with a face full of wariness.

Valentis’s gaze moved to the bracelet the child had been fidgeting with continuously.

He nodded his head.

“Fine. I’ll let you view it.”

“Really? For real? It’s a promise, right?”

“Yes, it’s a promise.”

The child jumped up from his seat.

Then for some reason, he hesitated for a long while before suddenly embracing Valentis.

While it would look like a simple hug on the surface, Valentis could sense the child’s palm pressed against his back.

Specifically, the palm on the side where the bracelet was worn.

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