A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 87

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 87

“Stop staring already.”

At Lucarion’s resigned voice, Tie quickly turned her head away.

However, her gaze slyly drifted back toward the opposite side again.

There sat Lucarion in human form, whom she hadn’t seen in a long time.

Wearing the pea-green blouse and beige suspender skirt that Tie had brought from South Korea.

“I didn’t know he could do human form too.”

Veil clicked his tongue from the side.

“Good thing the child had spare clothes though. Otherwise he would’ve had to go around naked, right? Even if he’s a summoned creature, that would be a bit…”

“Veil oppa! Stop it.”

Tie scolded Veil with narrowed eyes.

“Kamang, no, Lucarion is embarrassed! Being naked isn’t his fault!”

Hearing those words, Lucarion let out a deep sigh.

When he looked up, he could see Ppupppu giggling smugly from inside Tie’s pocket.

A vein naturally bulged on his forehead.

Looking back, that was the beginning of this whole incident.

The matter of Tie putting that strange dog collar on Lucarion.

Before departure.

While Tie was busy packing her luggage.

[Ah, why won’t this come off.]

Lucarion had been struggling for a while trying to remove the dog collar Tie had put on him.

But for some reason, the collar showed no signs of coming off.

Then Ppupppu, who had been watching him, spoke.

[Give up, lizard. You cannot break Mother’s compulsion with your strength.]

[What?]

[I thought only your heart had holes, but it seems your head has holes too. Can’t you understand when you hear it?]

Ppupppu lay on his side, supporting his head with one arm.

Then he wiggled his legs and added.

[You and I both maintain our forms through Mother’s magical power. There exists an insurmountable wall of power between Mother and us.]

‘What is he talking about now.’

Of course, he had been getting a strange feeling that he somehow couldn’t go against Tie.

But compulsion? An insurmountable wall of power?

[Mother is your lord, you are Mother’s familiar. It’s impossible for you to defy what Mother has done.]

Lucarion let out a hollow laugh.

[Little bug. Are you saying I absolutely can’t remove this dog collar?]

[That’s right. Because that’s something Mother ‘compelled’ you to do.]

He recalled what had happened earlier.

How Tie had quickly put the collar on him, asking him to just try it once, even though Lucarion had refused.

But that was compulsion.

The flustered Lucarion hesitated and opened his mouth.

[That was, I pretended to give in thinking I’d remove it later. If I had known it was compulsion…]

[How foolish. There’s no such thing as ‘pretending to give in’ for you. You simply cannot resist Mother.]

Ppupppu sneered as if enjoying the situation.

[Go ahead and try your best until the day you die. See if that collar comes off.]

Only then did Lucarion, recognizing the severity of the situation, lose his words.

So, to summarize.

‘If Astie does something to me, I can’t resist it.’

It was an absurd situation.

But thinking about it that way, it also explained all the mysteries so far.

How seeing Tie’s tears made him want to stop them somehow.

How he ended up listening to whatever Tie said.

How he always acted for Tie’s sake rather than his own.

[…Huh?]

He slumped down in place,

[But why do you want to take that thing off?]

Ppupppu, who had changed position to lie down using a bag strap as a pillow, said.

Lucarion glared fiercely.

[Would you like wearing a collar that livestock would wear?]

[Lizard. That’s not a collar for livestock. It’s an advanced magical device that holds onto leaking magical power.]

His brow furrowed at the mention of a magical device.

[Look. Your body that was wasting Mother’s magical power like breathing is now finally holding onto magical power, isn’t it?]

Lucarion’s eyes widened slightly.

Come to think of it.

The magical power that had been leaking out like water poured into a bottomless pot no matter how much he absorbed, was now staying in place.

When he concentrated, he could feel magical power pooling around the device on his neck.

[It seems the wise Mother designed all of this, so just accept it.]

[…]

[This would be better for you too than being trapped in the Resting Couch all day, wouldn’t it?]

At that moment, Lucarion thought that might be true.

If this dog collar, no, device really stopped his magical power from leaking.

Being able to maintain his manifestation without constantly absorbing magical power would be good, right?

But that was a mistake.

‘This magical device doesn’t just contain the magical power absorbed from Tie.’

The magical device was preserving even the faint original power that regenerated in Lucarion’s body.

In other words, it meant that unprecedentedly abundant magical power was accumulating in his body.

Originally, Lucarion could have handled however much magical power was contained in his body.

He could have cast more powerful magic and strengthened his body robustly.

But the problem was that it had been too long since all this.

‘…I’ve forgotten everything, damn it.’

Lucarion had completely forgotten the sense of controlling magical power.

He was sure he had done it in the past, but for some reason it wasn’t coming easily now.

[It’s been too long, I can’t control the magical power…]

Eventually, unable to control the overflowing power, Lucarion had unknowingly transformed into human form.

Inside the carriage, no less.

Flustered by his transformed appearance, Lucarion quickly crawled into the cargo hold before anyone could come.

And he held his breath hiding under a blanket.

[Ahahaha! Kuhahak! Uhahahak-!]

Ppupppu, who had been watching from the front pocket of a bag, was just laughing at Lucarion as if he found it hilarious.

“Haaa…”

Another deep sigh burst from Lucarion’s mouth as he recalled the situation.

Right after he poked his head out from the cargo hold.

Confirming that Lucarion was ‘naked,’ Tie quickly offered her own clothes.

The sleeves were a bit short, but fortunately Tie’s clothes roughly fit Lucarion.

The problem was that they were a girls’ blouse and skirt embroidered with flower patterns.

“I told you to stop looking.”

“Oh, I wasn’t looking!”

When he said it once more, Tie quickly looked out the window.

Lucarion leaned back against the backrest as if giving up.

From beside them, the voices of Astie’s colleagues could be heard.

“I can understand why they say Berukon is the greatest factory manager of all time.”

“Exactly. I never imagined the level of summoned creature stabilization would be this advanced.”

They were conversing among themselves while looking at the device Lucarion wore around his neck.

‘I can’t exactly shut their mouths…’

Calming his frayed nerves, he rubbed his throbbing temples.

But who could he blame?

It was none other than himself who had told them to introduce him as a summoned creature.

“Lucarion, are you okay?”

Just then, Tie asked casually.

Lucarion turned his head with a sullen expression.

“I’m fine, so don’t worry about it.”

“You know, Enzo said he’d buy you men’s clothes when we get to the next village.”

“…I see.”

At his lukewarm response, Tie’s eyebrows drooped.

Tie soon pestered Basto to switch seats and moved next to Lucarion.

As soon as she sat down beside him, Tie leaned close to Lucarion’s ear and whispered softly.

“You know, do you want to take off that necklace? You’re acting like this because of that necklace, right?”

Lucarion looked at Tie with resentful eyes before turning his head away.

“Forget it. I’m going to keep wearing it for a while.”

“Huh? Why?”

“Since things have already come to this, I should at least confirm how far this necklace’s capabilities extend.”

Tie’s lips parted slightly.

Soon her green eyes lit up, and the child spoke in an excited voice.

“Lucarion, you’re so smart!”

Lucarion cleared his throat softly.

Finally, just as he was about to look at Tie with a pretense of reluctance.

Thud-

Suddenly, Tie weakly leaned her head against Lucarion’s shoulder.

Lucarion’s red eyes widened in surprise as he examined Tie.

“…Astie.”

“Child!”

How had they not noticed until now?

Looking at her now, Tie’s body was radiating heat like a ball of fire.

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