A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 88

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 88

Enzo hastily stopped the carriage on the mountain path.

It was at the eastern entrance of the ‘Gravis Mountain Range’ that they had to cross to reach Jedo.

“Child, hey Child! Wake up, okay?”

Veil, who had laid Astie down on the seat, gently shook the child.

“Child. Can’t you hear me? Huh?”

But no matter how much he called, Astie didn’t move at all.

Enzo, who touched Tie’s forehead, muttered.

“…It’s too hot.”

Astie was literally suffering from a burning high fever.

He looked around at the other unit members restlessly.

“High fever in children… isn’t that dangerous?”

Silence fell.

Everyone was exchanging bewildered glances when.

“…Ice.”

Raul, who suddenly came to his senses, muttered.

He hurriedly ran to the cargo hold and opened the food box.

Inside was about half the ice that the forgemasters had packed along with fresh food.

“How about we use this to lower the body temperature?!”

“Yes. That’s a good idea.”

Basto, who answered, took off his coat.

And he stepped into the carriage as if to cover Tie with it.

“Wait! Just in case, I have some fever reducer I brought from the gateway. This too…”

Then Nordics also took out a pill from his small bag, but.

“Are you all crazy?”

At Lucalion’s words that followed, everyone stopped dead in their tracks.

Lucalion, who was examining Tie’s face, was now glaring with eerie eyes.

He looked at Raul first.

“Ice compress? Don’t you know that trying to lower fever rapidly causes hypothermia? Astie is still a child. His temperature regulation ability is already immature, so what…”

Raul quickly put down the ice pack.

Lucalion then looked at Basto.

“Same goes for you. Don’t think about covering Astie’s body with anything, go light a fire over there first.”

“…Fire?”

“Yes. Make lukewarm water and fill that container. Along with clean cloth.”

Basto stood frozen for a moment, but soon hurried toward where Lucalion pointed.

Lucalion stared at Nordics.

“Where did you buy that fever reducer?”

Nordics looked flustered but hesitantly answered.

“Outside Jedo, that is, at the gateway pharmacy…”

“You didn’t buy the children’s version.”

“I bought the adult version.”

“Then cut it into a quarter.”

“What?”

“Unless you want to overdose a child with adult fever reducer, cut it into a quarter.”

Nordics’ eyes darted to the pill in his hand.

Soon he hurriedly pulled out a small hand knife from his waist.

As he started cutting the medicine, Lucalion added.

“Just in case, let’s use the medicine as the very last resort. If the fever doesn’t go down with other methods, then.”

“Understood.”

Lucalion finally turned his gaze to the frozen Enzo and Veil.

“You check where the nearest village is. You go heat up drinking water. Lukewarm as I said before. At this rate, Astie will get dehydrated.”

Veil gulped.

But he soon grabbed a water bottle and ran toward Basto.

Enzo had already disappeared toward the driver’s seat to get the map.

Inside the carriage as the sun was setting dimly.

“Uuung…”

Astie’s groaning echoed softly.

Lucalion, sitting by the child’s bedside, gently stroked Tie’s wet forehead.

“Shh, it’s okay. It’s okay. Astie.”

At those words, the child’s furrowed brow smoothed out.

Tie tossed and turned, curling up to one side from lying spread-eagle.

Veil muttered.

“…Thank goodness the fever is going down.”

Recalling the situation from a few hours ago made him feel dizzy again.

The unit members moved busily according to Lucalion’s instructions.

Basto made lukewarm wet towels to wipe Tie’s body.

Nordics ground up the fever reducer and divided it into small portions that the child could take.

Raul and Veil continuously poured lukewarm water into Tie’s mouth to prevent dehydration.

Meanwhile, Enzo, who checked the map, returned with an anxious expression.

“If we go a little further into the Gravis Mountain Range, there is a village. From what I can see, there’s an inn so we should be able to stay the night comfortably, but…”

“But?”

“I think I heard from one of the forgemasters that most residents evacuated recently because of mastone that emerged in that area. What if we go there and the village is empty?”

“…Right. It would be even worse if there’s mastone that hasn’t been conquered yet.”

Agavert went into emergency meeting.

They considered just turning back toward the Weapon District since they didn’t know what would happen to Tie, but,

“Going back to the Weapon District is impossible. Looking at the sky, it seems like it’s going to rain soon.”

The problem was that the path they had traveled was a dirt road with gentle slopes.

Actually, Agavert’s carriage was on the heavy side.

Still, they had been able to come this far because the mountain path had been reasonably dry.

However.

“If it starts raining on the downhill road, it’s a different story. The whole area will become muddy, and if the horses slip, everyone will be in danger.”

Considering the weight of the carriage loaded with the mercenary group’s luggage and all the monster cores they had processed.

There was a high probability of overturning if they ran on steep slopes or rainy roads.

“I thought we were hopelessly isolated.”

Veil, recalling the dizzying situation, rubbed his face and stared at Astie.

Fortunately, the child’s fever gradually went down when they wiped his body with lukewarm wet towels.

The dehydration symptoms that Lucalion was most worried about seemed to have passed safely too.

“It’s okay, Tie. Everything will be okay.”

Veil stared at the summoned creature nursing Tie with subtle eyes.

‘Since the child is a monster, is that summoned creature also a monster.’

All the summoned creatures Veil had seen so far were just lumps that made strange noises and followed their summoners around.

This was the first time he’d seen one with human appearance, and it was even intelligent.

Just as he was shaking his head and turning his gaze away.

“…”

He made eye contact with Basto, who was sighing with a similar expression.

Though they had growled at each other at first, they had gotten somewhat closer, so Veil could naturally read Basto’s eyes.

It seemed Basto was thinking something similar to him.

Meanwhile, Nordics, who was staring at the campfire lit in the distance, muttered.

“Next time we stop at an apothecary, I’ll need to stock up on emergency medicine for children first…”

Nordics was equally flustered by this incident.

‘You’d only know these things if you’d actually raised a child before…’

His gaze suddenly turned toward Astie’s summoned creature.

Was its name Lucalion?

If not for that summoned creature, there was a high probability that Astie’s condition would have worsened.

Moreover, being isolated in the forest, if we assume the worst case scenario…

Nordics, his face pale, asked Lucalion.

“Where did you learn all those things?”

At those words, the summoned creature turned its head.

Though it was a summoned creature, its human appearance was so natural that it looked like an ordinary boy at first glance.

“From some man.”

“A man?”

“I learned it from the man who was Astie’s father.”

At those words, Nordics’ eyes widened.

The other unit members were equally surprised.

Meanwhile, Lucalion glanced back at them indifferently as if annoyed, and added.

“It’s been quite a while since Astie summoned me. I’ve been with her since she was a newborn, so it’s been over 4 years already.”

“…”

“Whenever Tie was sick, that man would always do this for her. I heard and knew all of it.”

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