A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 97

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 97

“Ah, aaah-! B-blood from my mouth!”

Reginald began screaming like a madman.

But that didn’t last very long.

“My teeth! How dare you… urgh!”

Veil, who had mounted the lord, mercilessly threw his fist at the other side of his jaw as well.

“S-stop…!”

Reginald flailed about, practically coughing up blood, but Veil’s eyes had already lost focus.

“What? Send a child to the coal mine instead?”

“Urgh!”

“The narrower and lower the mine shaft, the more convenient it is for kids to work?”

“What are you all doing! Get that bastard off our lord!”

The knights who had come to their senses came rushing over in a crowd.

However, Veil shook off the knights and grabbed Reginald by the collar again.

“…Scum like you should die. You should disappear from this world. You piece of trash.”

His eyes were gleaming fiercely like a beast eyeing its prey.

“Quickly escort our lord!”

The knights rushed at Veil again.

As Veil hesitated, several knights lifted Reginald to his feet.

Blood streaming from his mouth, he had already fallen unconscious.

“What are you doing! Take his weapons first!”

At one knight’s words, those holding Veil’s arms began removing and dropping the weapons from his waist.

But strangely, Veil didn’t move and only stared straight ahead.

Only at the unconscious, limp Reginald.

While everyone was frozen in place like that.

“Drag him to the castle prison!”

At the captain’s command, large soldiers began dragging Veil toward the lord’s castle.

Soon everyone had turned the corner and disappeared from sight.

As the square became quiet as if washed clean, Basto finally parted his lips that had been stuck together in bewilderment.

“What the hell…”

Raul paced the inn room anxiously.

Enzo was crouched on the floor by the door across from him, and next to him, Tie was in the exact same position, sighing deeply enough to make the ground cave in.

Raul approached Basto, who was standing by the window.

“Lord Basto. What should we do?”

Even though it had already happened, he couldn’t believe it.

“Lord Veil has been captured and taken to the lord’s castle.”

Veil.

Veil, a skilled fighter whom Raul admired and wanted to learn from, had been captured by mere knights from a small village.

“Wasn’t he feeling unwell? Or maybe those bastards secretly stabbed a vital point…”

“There was nothing like that.”

Basto had also seen with his own eyes Veil knocking out Lord Reginald and being dragged away by his knights.

“Then why on earth…”

At that moment, Nordics stood up from his seat.

“That’s not what’s important. Now is not the time to be sitting here like this.”

Nordics had an anxious expression.

“What if those bastards interrogate Veil? If they investigate his identity, it’ll quickly come out that Veil is an Agavert unit member.”

“…”

“The moment they file a complaint with the Imperial Court, we could all face banishment from Jedo. Then all the plans we’ve built up would be ruined. Shouldn’t we do something before that happens?”

Instead of answering, Basto let out a deep sigh.

In fact, this was what Basto had been worried about too.

Mercenaries must never attack nobles unless for rational and verified reasons.

This was a kind of rule that had existed since the mercenary profession was created, and was like a long-standing condition set by the Imperial Court to appease fearful and suspicious nobles.

“…Veil shouldn’t have let himself be dragged away by the knights so obediently.”

Nordics clicked his tongue.

From long ago, most nobles had viewed mercenaries unfavorably.

While they received help from mercenaries when conquering Mastone.

They were displeased about mercenaries taking money and power as compensation.

In fact, this aversion was even more extreme long ago.

At one time, the nobles of the Central Dominion had even issued statements refusing to allow mercenaries to enter Jedo to conquer Mastone.

In fact, there was this reason why Paladins mainly conquered Mastone inside Jedo nowadays.

“How about this? My brother and I could try contacting our mother.”

Enzo stepped forward.

“If the Waveril Marquis steps in to defend Lord Veil, wouldn’t the situation change? Even if Reginald reports to the Imperial Court, he’s just a humble rural lord, and our family is…”

“If that was the plan, we should have at least avoided drawing blood from that bastard.”

Nordics answered with a complicated expression.

Enzo was right.

Reginald was the humble lord of the mountain village Kaldenbain-Ridge.

But he was still a Jedo noble and someone qualified to send official documents to the Imperial Court.

“It’s true that bastard Reginald is utterly vicious. It’s also true that his level of exploiting his territory’s people is cruelly unspeakable.”

“…”

“But the moment a complaint is filed, all that background gets erased. What happened earlier ultimately becomes nothing more than a mercenary using physical violence against a Jedo noble without reason. And that’s exactly what the Emperor hates most.”

“…”

“Commoners. Lowly people daring to challenge the authority of their superiors.”

Enzo’s face darkened.

He too, being a noble, knew this fact.

That it was a serious crime for mercenaries, or commoners, to use violence against nobles.

His vision went dark.

Looking back, Reginald had even lost two front teeth.

From his appearance after fainting, it seemed his nose and cheekbones were broken too.

Enzo muttered in a despairing voice.

“If only he had at least run away from there…”

Then the situation would have been much better than this.

If they all left the village together, it would be somewhat resolved.

“Why on earth did he let himself be dragged away so obediently? He surely could have shaken them off…”

“He went to kill.”

At that moment, a chilling voice came from the crack in the door.

As everyone froze in place, the half-open door opened with a creaking sound.

Outside stood the innkeeper Mikhail, emanating the same ominous atmosphere as the day they first met.

“Don’t his so-called comrades even know that? That bastard’s eyes were exactly like those of a hunter crawling into a beast’s den.”

Enzo watched Mikhail with wary eyes.

She entered the room without permission and continued speaking.

“That bastard let himself be dragged away on purpose. He’s decided to make the lord’s castle Reginald’s tomb. Or maybe he wanted to cut off that bastard’s head in a quiet place.”

“…Such…”

But thinking about it, that really seemed possible.

Not resisting once while being dragged away by the knights.

Not taking his fierce gaze off the unconscious Reginald until the end.

Moreover, considering Veil’s usual personality…

As Enzo gulped, Mikhail continued speaking.

“But there’s something your companions have overlooked.”

The elder’s faded eyes rolled slowly.

“Reginald’s wife is quite a skilled mage.”

At the mention that she was a mage like himself, Tie, who had been listening to the story, widened his eyes.

“As long as that woman is protecting him, your companions won’t be able to cut off Reginald’s lifeline. If it were easy, one of us would have already punished that villain long ago. In short, your companion could die.”

“….”

“…I’ve seen many hunters who recklessly started hunting beasts only to be left with nothing but bones.”

Silence fell over the room.

However, soon after, Tie hesitantly rose from his seat and muttered.

“Veil hyung is going to die…?”

The child’s eyes were now filled with fear.

“Those knights from earlier are going to kill Veil hyung…?”

Basto pressed his forehead.

Enzo and Raul couldn’t find words to explain the situation and just stared at Tie.

Tie looked around frantically at the unit members.

“Let’s hurry and go save him! Okay? Quickly!”

However, Basto carefully grasped Tie’s arms.

“Tie. This isn’t such a simple matter. I want to bring Veil back right away too, but….”

There was the obstacle of the mage who was Lord Reginald’s wife.

Plus the Lord’s Castle whose internal structure they didn’t know, and Veil’s exact whereabouts.

There were far too many variables they hadn’t yet identified.

“Let’s wait until sunset for now. Above all, we don’t even know exactly where Veil is….”

“I know.”

But at that moment, someone else entered the room.

Everyone froze in their seats upon confirming his face.

It was none other than Adelin.

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