A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 80

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 80

“My lord, why are you here at such a late hour…?”

Nordics quickly pushed past Basto and Veil to step forward.

After bowing to the Commander, he grabbed Tie’s hand and pulled the child toward himself with a composed expression.

“Why are you out here? Are you having trouble sleeping again?”

Nordics said this to downplay the situation.

The Commander might be displeased that Agavert had come out of the dormitory late at night, ignoring his orders.

Whether reading his intention or not, Tie’s eyes rolled around.

The child opened their mouth, then closed it again, and reluctantly answered.

“Mmm, I couldn’t, couldn’t sleep well…”

Nordics smiled as if he had expected this.

He quickly led Tie toward the dormitory.

“You can ask me or other unit members to run errands. You must be quite drained from yesterday’s events, so please go inside quickly.”

“The unit members’ loyalty is remarkable, Sorcerer King.”

But then Valentis’s voice stopped both of them.

Nordics hesitantly turned around again.

The Commander didn’t even glance at him, instead looking down at Astie.

With a very faint smile at the corner of his mouth.

But even a smile as thin as paper was enough to fluster Nordics.

‘Smiling? Commander Luminen?’

As far as Nordics knew, Commander Luminen smiled maybe once every three months.

He had always been emotionless and blunt, but became even colder after losing his wife.

As a result, this saying had emerged about his rare smiles:

‘One smile from the Commander is worth a thousand magic cores.’

Roughly meaning he might smile once for every thousand monsters the Paladins slayed.

While Nordics hesitated, Valentis approached Tie.

Then he spoke in a calm voice.

“If you wish, your unit members may join you in accepting my invitation.”

Silence fell over the corridor.

Basto and Veil quietly exchanged glances, while Nordics froze in place with an awkward smile.

Invitation?

What invitation was he talking about?

But in the meantime, Tie answered.

“…Yeeees.”

Looking down, the child was drawing out the end of their words with a somehow dispirited expression.

Then a dejected gaze fell downward, and the child’s eyes cautiously turned toward Valentis.

“Then we’ll all go together with the unit members? When two full moons rise?”

The corner of Valentis’s mouth curved slightly once more.

“Yes. Now get some rest.”

The next moment, the Commander turned his back without hesitation.

He passed by Basto and Veil, who were standing awkwardly, and went down the stairs.

A few seconds later, the sound of a door closing quietly echoed through the empty lower corridor.

Nordics stiffly turned his head to stare at Tie, then quickly picked up the child.

Back in the room, Nordics asked as soon as the door closed.

“Astie. What on earth happened? What happened between you and Valentis Luminen? And what’s this about an invitation!”

His voice was urgent.

That was because he couldn’t process how to interpret what had just happened.

Tie crouched down on their bedding and spoke in a crawling voice.

“Tie accidentally did something bad to Mr. Luminen.”

Something bad?

The unit members’ eyes widened.

Basto went to Tie’s side and asked soothingly.

“Something bad, Tie?”

Tears welled up in the child’s eyes.

But Tie rubbed their eyes vigorously as if trying to hold back tears and answered.

“Tie made the mister into a fool.”

“Made him into a fool? What do you mean by that?”

When Veil also sat in front of Tie and asked, Tie weakly raised their wrist to show it.

“With this, I tricked the mister… I mean, I scammed him.”

The Oblivion’s Sacred was neatly fastened around the child’s wrist.

Nordics drew in a breath, pushed Veil aside, and sat in front of Tie himself.

“Scammed? What kind of scam did you pull and how?”

Tie, who had been pressing their lips together, looked at Nordics with anxious eyes.

Then they hesitantly began to continue speaking.

“In Jedo, there’s a Paladin organization chart.”

“Organization chart?”

“Yes. So, if I look at that, I think I can find Dad. The names are fake but the faces aren’t…”

While the unit members were at a loss for words, Tie continued speaking.

“But Mr. Luminen said he wouldn’t just show it to me.”

Nordics unconsciously let out a sigh.

Well, what kind of person was Valentis Luminen.

There was no way he would easily agree to show the organization chart.

“He said if I told him everything truthfully about why I’m looking for Dad and who Dad is, he’d consider it. But if I said that, they’d find out Tie isn’t powerful but just a regular kid…”

Tie’s voice grew smaller and smaller.

Then finally, with tears welling up in their eyes, they began to sniffle.

“But I really need to see the organization chart. So after Tie told him everything, really, really as a last resort…”

Basto groaned from the side.

Veil, Raul, and Enzo were holding their breath with wide eyes.

“I only got his promise to show me the organization chart and erased everything from his head. Everything Tie said.”

Silence fell over the room.

Having finished speaking, the child’s face became somehow sad and hollow.

“Tie is a scammer… A bad person who only takes items from secondhand markets and runs away without paying. A fraudulent consumer, a scammer…”

Nordics could only blink, unable to find words for a moment.

Meanwhile, Tie was truly in despair.

‘If this were South Korea, Tie would really go to prison…’

For Tie, who had grown up as a Confucian child in the Eastern Courtesy Nation for four years, there was something 107 Grandmother had earnestly urged them to always uphold.

That was conscience.

‘Wicked lies! Stealing! Such things are absolutely forbidden, Tie. Do you understand?’

But as a result, Tie had essentially both lied to and stolen from Commander Luminen.

Just as guilt was washing over them again and they pursed their lips.

“Danzu.”

For some reason, Raul carefully approached Tie’s side.

“It’s okay. You didn’t lie with bad intentions, but to protect yourself.”

Tie became even more sorrowful and bit their lip even more.

This time Enzo approached and gently patted Tie’s hunched shoulders.

“That’s right. In the same situation, I would have done the same.”

Tie hesitantly raised her gaze.

However, Sire still muttered as if uncertain.

“But still….”

“Think about it. Danzu was in a situation where something terrible would happen if she couldn’t see that organizational chart, right?”

“Something terrible…?”

“Of course it would be terrible. Her identity would be exposed. If things went wrong, she wouldn’t be able to find Father either. Wouldn’t that be too sad?”

Tie, who had been hesitating, nodded her head.

Raul smiled as if to say ‘see, I told you so.’

“Then this time, think about Commander Luminen from the opposite perspective. Do you think something terrible would happen to Commander Luminen just because he doesn’t know Danzu’s identity?”

Her lips parted slightly.

She thought about it carefully, but just as Raul said, it didn’t seem like anything terrible would happen because of that.

When she shook her head, Raul answered.

“See? So it’s fine. There’s no legal problem either.”

At the words that there was no legal problem, Tie’s eyebrows relaxed slightly.

“Really…?”

“Of course. Also, what if I had lied to Danzu? If I said it was unavoidable in an urgent situation, you would forgive me, right?”

“Yeah. Tie is kind and very considerate, so I’d forgive you.”

“Commander Luminen would be the same. Even though we’re in different fields, he’s someone who climbed to the very top. Originally, kind people are the ones who succeed in the end.”

Finally, the child’s face completely relaxed.

When Enzo spread his arms wide, Tie quickly went into them and snuggled into his embrace.

Enzo, who had been patting the child’s back, casually asked.

“By the way, you definitely erased Commander Luminen’s memory, right?”

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