A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 85

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 85

“Gasp!”

Tie froze stiff in place.

Then she belatedly looked at Ppupppu, but

“Kyu, kyu…?”

Ppupppu was already frozen in place like a robber caught red-handed robbing a bank.

“That ‘thing’ I mentioned is right there.”

Just then, Nordics closed the door and spoke.

Cold sweat trickled down Tie’s back.

‘Nordics Grandfather, you knew about Ppupppu’s existence?’

She had been so earnestly pleading with Ppupppu all this time.

To stay quietly in the bag!

As the child’s eyes shook, unable to find direction, Veil walked toward Ppupppu.

He crouched down and gazed intently at Ppupppu before speaking.

“Astie.”

Even though he had simply called her name, dry saliva went down her throat with a gulp.

That was because Veil had rarely called Tie by her name until now.

He had always called her Child…

‘I’m caught, I’m totally caught.’

It seemed the unit members had figured out Ppupppu’s identity.

Sensing that big trouble had come, Tie squeezed her eyes shut.

Then she took a breath and shouted as if making a confession.

“Veil Brother. Tie really, really loves Ppupppu!”

“…What?”

“No one can make Tie separate from Ppupppu. Even if you give me ten thousand, no, forty thousand, it’s no use!”

When she looked up with a forlorn gaze, Veil was looking at her with his mouth slightly open.

Tie asked while being conscious of Basto and Nordics standing behind her.

“Please let Tie live with Ppupppu, okay?”

She knew she might get scolded.

Even though it was an accident, the Ppupppu matter was something Tie had done alone without consulting the unit members.

And there was actually another reason why Tie was wary of this situation.

She suddenly remembered what happened in South Korea.

‘Child, you absolutely must not carelessly bring home things like this. Okay?’

She had only brought home one kitten that was playing alone under the alley wall.

107 Grandmother scolded Tie with a serious face.

‘Cats abandon kittens that have been touched by human hands, you know. Because they smell like humans. Understand?’

‘Umm… But, if the mommy cat abandons it, couldn’t Tie raise it instead?’

She had only suggested a simple and easy solution, but Grandmother’s expression became even darker.

‘Raise it? You?’

‘Yes! Tie will give it milk and clean up its poop and raise it!’

‘What if it gets sick? Do you have money to take it to the hospital? Who will take care of it while you’re at preschool?’

At first, she felt upset.

The small animal in her hands was so cute that she really didn’t want to let it go.

But when 203 Aunt, who had come down after hearing the commotion, joined in, Tie had even less to say.

‘Tie. You might not understand other things, but you must have a sense of responsibility when it comes to life, okay?’

‘Responsibility…?’

‘Are you confident you can stay by this kitten’s side until it lives happily and goes to heaven?’

At first, she wanted to answer yes out of stubbornness.

But when she thought about it carefully, Tie was not in a position to always be by the kitten’s side like Aunt said.

‘…No.’

‘See, that’s why you don’t carelessly take in a life. Even animals understand everything. Being lonely, being sad, missing their owner when left alone.’

Looking back now, 203 Aunt was right.

Tie had to leave everything behind when she left South Korea.

So if she had started living with the kitten then, she would have had to abandon that kitten when she left.

Fortunately, the kitten left after meeting its mother.

After that, it was often spotted enjoying sunbaths on the wall with its mother.

‘So, Tie knows you shouldn’t just bring things home carelessly.’

She also knew that deciding to raise something required sufficient responsibility and consideration!

But Ppupppu had nowhere to go right now.

From the beginning, it had been following her, thinking of Tie as its mother.

As she fidgeted with her hands wondering how to explain this, she heard Veil’s sigh.

“Haah.”

Her shoulders naturally hunched up.

‘Everyone’s angry…’

Looking now, Basto, Nordics, Raul, and Enzo too.

All of their expressions were somehow subdued.

‘Because Tie didn’t consult with them!’

What if the unit members told her to take Ppupppu back to its original place?

What if they treated Ppupppu like a monster? She was agonizing over this when

“Is this little one’s name Ppupppu?”

Veil asked casually.

Tie was so surprised that she hesitantly nodded.

“Y-yes, Ppupppu.”

“Child, do you want to travel with Ppupppu from now on?”

At the more positive reaction than expected, she swallowed hard.

“Yes, that’s… Tie already promised to be Ppupppu’s mommy.”

“Then do what you want to do, Tie.”

Basto, who had been in the back, approached.

He combed through Tie’s disheveled hair with his hand and said.

“Acting in front of people is really hard, isn’t it?”

Tie tilted her head.

Why was he suddenly asking about that?

Of course, sometimes she was scared of being caught, but…

She shook her head to indicate it was okay, but Basto’s expression didn’t soften.

“You don’t have to always say you’re okay.”

“That’s right, Child. You can say when things are hard.”

When even Veil stepped forward, Tie’s eyes widened.

This was strange – Veil’s role was usually just to tease Tie or make jokes every day?

“Come to think of it, since we formed the mercenary group together, we’ve never done anything the way you wanted.”

“Huh?”

“It’s true we moved around saying we’d help find your father, but we’ve never actually done what you really wanted to do together.”

Tie’s mouth fell open.

Come to think of it. Going to Pearl City, coming to the Weapon District.

She had just followed plans made by other unit members.

But wasn’t that unavoidable?

Even though she was the leader, Tie didn’t know much about this world.

“You kept saying you wanted to go to a preparatory school or orphanage, but we couldn’t even grant you that.”

“That’s…”

On days when she missed preschool, she had said things like that.

That she wanted to go to preschool again.

The unit members who learned what that was seemed troubled.

They looked perplexed due to the nature of the mercenary group that had to keep moving around.

Veil, who had been lost in thought, casually asked.

“Ppupppu, it’s safe, right?”

Tie quickly nodded her head.

“Yes! Super, super safe! But Brother Veil, aren’t you gonna ask where Ppupppu came from?”

“I already know. You don’t need to tell me.”

Tie’s eyes widened.

Veil glanced back at Nordics and smiled faintly.

“I know that if it were dangerous, you wouldn’t be this stubborn about it.”

“Gasp. Brother Veil…”

“But if anything seems strange, you have to tell us right away, okay? We can’t have you in danger, child.”

…How kind.

He’s strangely kind today!

Just as Tie was nodding with a bewildered expression.

“When we arrive in Jedo, we plan to exchange all the monster cores we’ve collected for reward money, Tie.”

Nordics, who had been watching, stepped forward.

“After that, we’re thinking of buying a mansion with that money. What do you think? It seems like it would be good for us to have a base.”

Her eyes widened.

“A base?”

“I mean a house. If we have a house in Jedo, you can attend the preparatory school you want, and with fewer prying eyes around, wouldn’t it be comfortable?”

Tie’s lips parted.

A house. Using the money they’d earned so far to buy Tie a house in Jedo.

It was a good idea. It was definitely a good idea, but…

The child soon looked around with worried eyes.

“But can all six of us sleep in Tie’s house? Now we have Kamang and Ppupppu too…”

For Tie, whose only home had ever been Gold Apartment 106.

This was a very serious and important problem.

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