A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 94

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 94

[This morning, this week’s collection will be completed-! If you exceed the deadline, 1.3 times will be added to next week’s collection amount, and severe punishment will be imposed, so please keep this in mind-! That is all!]

It was literally a megaphone sound that seemed to tear one’s ears.

Tie was so startled that she staggered to her feet.

And she made eye contact with Veil and Basto, who had similarly risen from their seats.

“What was that just now?”

At Veil’s hoarse voice, Tie shook her head as if she didn’t know either.

Basto, still half-awake, also looked around with a bewildered expression.

That’s when it happened.

“Tie. Look over there.”

Lucalion, who had been standing by the window at some point, spoke.

Tie quickly approached Lucalion’s side.

Soon the child’s eyes widened as she looked out the window.

“Veil, what’s that?”

However, Veil was also looking down at the square with a confused expression as he stood next to Tie.

In the square that had been completely empty until yesterday, dozens of large chests were now placed in a circle along the edges.

People were busily moving around them despite the early morning hour.

Veil narrowed his brow when he spotted some of those he had encountered at the pub yesterday and the innkeeper among them.

“Why are those people over there…”

“Brother, huh? What’s that black thing?”

Tie tugged at Veil again, pointing somewhere.

Following the child’s gesture, they could see a chubby man struggling to load something onto a large cart.

The man was neatly stacking the items he had brought on the cart into the chests.

Veil’s expression darkened.

“…It’s coal.”

“Coal?”

“Yeah. You can do a lot of things by burning that.”

Tie tilted her head.

It already looked like it had been burned, but they were going to burn it again?

That’s when it happened.

“Catch him!”

Suddenly a menacing voice came from the opposite side of the square.

Turning their heads, they saw a child running quickly from one side of the square to the other.

Tie’s eyes widened.

“It’s that kid from yesterday!”

The pickpocket child who had tried to steal the necklace from Veil last night.

However, the fleeing child soon tripped over a stone in the square and fell.

The knights who had been chasing didn’t miss the opportunity and grabbed the child’s clothes.

“How dare you touch the tribute meant for the lord!”

“Let, let go of me! Let go!!”

The knights’ handling of the child was extremely rough.

As they dragged the child somewhere, Basto covered Tie’s eyes.

Tie, seemingly frightened, buried her face deeply in Basto’s hands.

Meanwhile, Veil continued to observe the situation in the square with a hardened expression.

Even though a child had been captured, the people in the square didn’t move.

They just looked at the alley where the child had disappeared with dark expressions, then went about their own business.

Veil’s eyes, which had been observing them, soon stopped at a particular spot.

Now that he looked, each chest had a black brand mark that seemed to have been carved with a heated iron.

“Fluvius, Adren, Quill…”

Those were definitely surnames.

After thinking for a moment, Veil muttered.

“…This village. They’re collecting coal as tribute.”

“Catch him! Catch him-!”

But then once again a loud voice came from a corner of the square.

The commotion was coming from where the knights had dragged the pickpocket child and disappeared.

Shifting their gaze, somehow the pickpocket child had escaped and was crossing the square again.

He had what looked like a fairly deep wound on one cheek.

Veil unconsciously swallowed his saliva.

Tie and the other unit members also watched the scene with sweaty palms.

“What are you doing! Hurry up and catch him!”

The knights with swords once again shouted at the residents standing in the square.

However, they stood in place avoiding the knights’ gazes, and the child skillfully weaved through them and hid behind a chest.

And taking advantage of the moment when the knights approached and looked the other way,

“…Gasp, he went to the pub!”

He quietly disappeared into the pub run by Adelin.

“Find the brat!”

“Yes!”

The knights began searching through the square.

“Damn brat! Come out right now!”

It was a moment when the only noise was the shouting of the knights coming from outside the window.

“Did you all see that too?”

The door burst open and Nordics, Enzo, and Raul entered.

Nordics was holding several dried herb roots and bandages in his hands.

“I wanted to pretend I didn’t see it, but that child. The bleeding looked severe.”

He continued with a considerably tense expression.

“A small tavern in the village wouldn’t have proper hemostatic agents, would it.”

Tie held her breath quietly while clinging to Basto’s back.

Looking up, she could see Lucalion guiding the way in front of everyone.

“This way.”

Lucalion had been quickly crossing between narrow alleys for a while now.

It was because he knew the back road leading to Adelin’s pub.

Veil asked breathlessly.

“Hey, Kamang. When did you scout out all the roads?”

“Yesterday. Everyone was sleeping.”

“Don’t you sleep?”

“Not really.”

Lucalion lightly omitted the rest of his words.

Roughly speaking, he had stood guard because the village atmosphere was ominous.

At that cynical appearance, Tie was sending passionate admiring glances toward Kamang.

“Here it is. This door.”

Finally the Agabert group reached their destination.

Adelin’s pub that they had visited yesterday.

However, it was the back door that could only be entered through narrow alleys.

“What is all this at a place we came to rest…”

When Veil opened the door first, the dark interior of the pub was revealed.

The sparkling lights they had seen last night were gone, and all the chairs were placed on top of the tables.

At first glance there seemed to be no one there, but Veil spoke calmly.

“I know you’re there, so come out.”

Then a soft intake of breath could be heard from beyond the bar.

And soon after,

“…What’s going on here? Business hours are over.”

From beyond the bar, Adelin appeared in comfortable clothing.

Seeing Adelin, Tie climbed down from Basto’s back and hurriedly ran over to her.

Then she held out Nordics’ herbs, bandages, and disinfectant with a tearful expression.

“Sister! Tie saw at the inn.”

“What?”

“A friend with blood on his face running away with a thud!”

Adelin’s throat moved slowly.

She looked back and forth between the Agavert members and Tie with troubled eyes.

Veil, who had been silent, opened his mouth again.

“We have no intention of harming you. We also have no intention of telling the villains outside that the pickpocket child is hiding here.”

“…”

“So come out, will you? I’m sure I clearly said I know you’re there.”

Basto furrowed his brow.

He then stared at Veil as if asking what he was talking about.

But the moment he placed his hand on Veil’s shoulder.

With a strange creaking sound, the storage cabinet occupying the left wall began to rotate entirely.

Then a hidden space beyond it was revealed.

Inside were about a dozen villagers with surprised eyes.

“Grandmother Mikhail, are you crazy?! What are you doing opening the secret room door from there!”

“What did I do.”

“What if they go to the lord and tell on us! Don’t you know that would be the end for both Adelin and us?!”

Tie watched the people fighting and spitting while feeling somewhat deflated.

Angry men.

Women sighing while each holding their young children in their skirts.

Even the innkeeper grandmother who stood blankly and had said nothing since earlier.

“Say something in response!”

“You know. That we’re here.”

“What, what, what?”

“I opened the door because they know, so shut up.”

The man with wide eyes frowned.

But then Adelin stepped forward.

“Sir, please calm down. Elder Mikhail is right. They already knew. That there’s a secret room beyond the storage cabinet.”

Only then did the villagers stare at the Agavert members.

Veil adjusted his hold on Tie with an indifferent expression.

“Right. But setting that aside.”

Then he brought up the question he had wanted to ask since earlier.

“What exactly are you all doing here?”

While the villagers hesitated.

Tie quietly tugged at Veil’s sleeve.

“What’s wrong, brother. They were all playing hide-and-seek.”

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