A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 9
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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 9
The girl collapsed to the floor from a single swing of the man’s hand.
Her white cheek swelled up instantly.
“You thieving bitch! Where did you hide my wallet! Hand it over right now!”
It was when the man shouted as if he was about to kick her.
“Don’t hit…!”
Without realizing it, Tie shook off Grandmother’s hand and ran over, squeezing between the two people.
Grandmother had told her to stay right beside her, but her feet moved on their own.
Tie looked at the man with a frightened face, fidgeting restlessly.
“You’re not supposed to hit people…?”
The image of 203 Aunt, who sometimes bought her ice cream, overlapped with the girl’s appearance.
The day after loud noises came from upstairs, 203 Aunt was always in pain.
And Tie vaguely understood why Aunt was hurting.
“Hitting people is bad!”
The man’s face turned vicious at the sight of Tie on the verge of tears.
“What the hell is this damn brat?”
“St-stop it!”
“Yeah. Just go away! She said she didn’t steal anything!”
Then the merchants who had been watching stepped forward.
Passersby also began to intervene one by one.
The man’s eyebrows twitched menacingly.
“Do you people know who I am right now-!”
At that moment, someone appeared and blocked Tie’s path.
Tie looked up at the back in front of her with a surprised face.
It was the innkeeper Grandmother.
“Listen here, young man.”
Grandmother stared intently at the man and warned quietly.
“Think carefully. The Back Alley of the Police Station is where people with nothing left to lose gather to live, isn’t it?”
“What?”
“I’m saying that whether you’re a noble or rich, it means nothing here.”
“…”
“Aren’t you afraid of the night roads, the deserted alleys?”
The man flinched at the somehow chilling voice.
Only then did he hesitantly look around.
Merchants and passersby alike were looking at him with cold expressions.
“Ahem, ahem!”
The man who coughed awkwardly eventually stepped back hesitantly.
Then he disappeared into the crowd as if fleeing.
Grandmother slowly turned around and spoke to the girl sitting on the ground.
“Room at the End of the 2nd Floor. Right?”
Tie’s eyes widened.
“I thought you hadn’t come in for a few days. What exactly are you doing here?”
She didn’t know, but the girl seemed to be a guest at the inn like Tie and Basto.
But the girl only replied coldly.
“Mind your own business, old woman.”
“Such insolence. Do you know what your face looks like right now?”
The girl who had hesitated got up from her spot.
The girl headed toward the General Store a few steps away.
Then she looked at her swollen red cheek in the mirror and immediately spat out curses.
“Damn it. Shit…”
Tie gulped, and beside her she heard Grandmother sigh.
Grandmother clicked her tongue while looking at the girl and said.
“Follow me for now.”
Tick-tock- Tick-tock-
Only the sound of the clock filled the space on the first floor.
Tie sat in a chair, fidgeting with her fingers.
She tried not to, but her attention kept being drawn to the girl sitting in the chair next to her.
‘That sister must not like talking.’
The girl had been keeping silent for quite a while.
She didn’t even say a word of greeting when the innkeeper Grandfather went out shopping instead of Grandmother.
That wasn’t all.
‘She glared at Uncle Basto.’
The girl had even looked at Basto leaving the inn earlier with what seemed like contempt.
She had even muttered something like ‘what kind of person looks like such a beast.’
“End room! You hold this against it.”
Then Grandmother appeared from the kitchen.
In her hand was a strange object with clean cloth smeared with something green.
The girl’s expression frowned.
“I don’t need it? Who wants this kind of thing…”
“Should I smash it into your face!”
But even the girl shut her mouth at Grandmother’s following scolding.
Tie glanced at the girl who was grumbling while pressing the cloth to her cheek.
Then Grandmother looked at Tie.
“Child, let’s get you fed first. If I let you go hungry, who knows what I’ll hear from that Basto fellow.”
Basto had gone back to the Entry Office to find a way to restore the identification number.
“If you wait just a little, I’ll make you an amazing carrot soup…”
“No, I don’t want it!”
Tie’s eyes widened at her own unconscious response.
“I ate a lot of carrot soup already? In the Forest…”
Grandmother’s eyes widened, then she nodded as if doing a favor.
“Good. Then let’s make spinach soup.”
“Spinach is…!”
Tie’s face, who had shouted, soon became dejected.
It was because Grandmother had disappeared into the kitchen like the wind without even listening to her answer.
“Pfft.”
Then a clear snicker was heard from beside her.
When she turned her head, the girl was leaning her head diagonally on her hand while looking at Tie.
“Serves you right. Stupid, don’t be picky and just eat what you’re given. Such a tiny thing already being picky about food.”
Great shock appeared on Tie’s expression.
She had been thinking this since earlier, but this girl was really, really…
“Me, mean.”
The girl’s eyebrows twitched, but Tie clenched her fists and added.
“If you’re mean, a tiger will take you away!”
A hollow laugh burst from the girl’s swollen lips.
“What?”
“Sister will be taken away by a tiger tonight!”
“Who’s your sister?!”
At that moment, the girl took off the hood she had been wearing all along.
Thick, dark eyebrows that were quite bold for a girl appeared above the red eyes.
“That pig from earlier too, why does everyone see me as a girl?”
Tie was dumbfounded and blinked her eyes.
“I’m a boy. A boy! You little pipsqueak!”
The girl made a motion as if to bonk Tie on the head.
Tie shrank her neck like a turtle while staring intently at the girl, no, sister, no, brother… anyway, the person across from her.
Though the skin was fair and the eyelashes were long, now that they said they were a boy, they really did seem like a boy.
“…T-Tie, this is a first.”
“What are you talking about? What is?”
“It’s the first time seeing a brother who looks like a sister.”
A “Hah!” sound burst out from the other person’s mouth again.
The boy put down the cloth and leaned toward Tie.
“Hey, you. Do you even know who I am?”
Tie tilted her head.
“A boy who looks like a girl…?”
“This kid, really!”
The boy lowered his voice and lightly pushed Tie’s forehead.
“I’m an assassin, you punk. Do you even know what an assassin is? Huh?”
Tie’s expression became serious.
A female lion?
Did that brother just say he was a female lion?
Back where she used to live, there was also an uncle who thought he was a mouse.
That uncle would hurriedly run away whenever he saw a cat on the street.
Once, she was worried about the uncle and tried to follow him, but 107 Grandmother blocked Tie’s way.
And she told her that the uncle needed time alone, that he was acting that way because his heart hurt, so she shouldn’t follow him.
That means this brother is also…
“How about it, scary right? You’re getting the feeling that you shouldn’t mess around, right?”
“Mm-hmm…”
The boy lifted his chin as if satisfied.
“Now your look is finally to my liking. Remember this, I let that man hit me on purpose earlier too.”
The boy who spoke took something out from his chest and waved it around.
“Because no matter what happened, I had to get my hands on this.”
What the boy was holding was a wallet.
That wallet the man was shouting loudly about losing!
“B-brother, did you really steal it?!”
“Yeah. I stole it. No wait, do you call it stealing when you take back money that was originally yours?”
Tie’s eyes grew wide.
“He said he’d find two people to form a Mercenary Group with, then just took the payment and wiped his mouth clean?”
“Mercenary Group…?”
“That’s right! If you want to kill monsters and make money, you have no choice but to become a mercenary. It’s not like a commoner like me can receive a knight’s appointment.”
Tie’s mouth fell open.
It felt like something flashed brightly in her head and then disappeared.
“Brother, if you become a mercenary, can you get an identification number?”
“Well, probably. You’d have to pass the mercenary exam first though.”
“Then let’s do it together with Tie!”
The boy hesitated.
“What?”
“Let’s do it with Tie and Uncle Basto! Uncle Basto has a hammer, and Tie has…!”
Tie wasn’t as strong as Uncle Basto.
But at least she had a reliable legendary puppet monster.
She had Kamang.
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