A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 99

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 99

Around the time Adelin suffered her second poisoning attempt at the Lord’s Castle.

Her mother had rashly sent Adelin’s name to the Princess’s aide who was said to be looking for a maid.

A few days later.

“My lady, a letter has arrived from the Imperial Palace.”

The bribed Maid Steward quietly brought a letter to Adelin’s Mother.

The Imperial seal was clearly stamped on the envelope.

When she opened the letter, only one riddle-like question was written inside.

[Write down your thoughts and decision regarding the situation I present.

A young lady is on a small ship and the ship is sinking.

Nearby there is a small plank that only one person can cling to, but a child desperately wants to grab that plank just as much as the young lady does.

What choice will the young lady make?]

Adelin laughed helplessly after reading the letter.

Meanwhile, her Mother beside her had a serious expression.

“She’s trying to test your loyalty toward Her Highness the Princess. Quickly write that you would sacrifice yourself to save the child. Hurry.”

Adelin began writing her reply in front of her Mother.

[I offer my answer to Your Noble Highness the Princess.

Based on moral values, I believe children should always be the first to receive protection.

A child’s life also holds more time and possibilities than my own life.

Therefore, I would gladly give the plank to the child and face death.]

After writing this and putting a period, Adelin’s Mother nodded with a satisfied expression.

She proudly patted Adelin’s back and left the room.

But Adelin did not seal the letter as it was.

Instead, she took out another sheet of paper and began writing more.

[Actually, this was the answer my Mother wanted me to offer to Your Highness the Princess.

But if I may dare speak my true choice, I would grab that plank myself.]

Adelin knew that if she continued writing like this, she would not become a maid.

All the other maid candidates would write as her Mother had wished.

They would openly hint that they could even sacrifice their lives for the Princess.

But Adelin did not want to do that.

If she became a maid and escaped to Jedo, then from that point on, only her Mother would remain alone in this Lord’s Castle.

[My life belongs to me. No one else can take the place of my life, can they?

I have an obligation to choose myself for my own sake.

Yielding the plank to the child may be noble, but it would be nothing more than deceiving myself.]

Having truly finished the letter, Adelin sealed it while holding back tears.

Though she had written that her own life was most important, in reality there was herself deliberately writing the wrong answer because she was concerned about her Mother.

Actually, Adelin knew too.

From the moment her foolish Father left behind such a will and departed, the probability of her Mother and herself surviving had drastically decreased.

To her Uncle, Adelin was the highest priority target for elimination.

And her Uncle would probably achieve his goal.

She could tell just from how he had brought in a quite skilled mage as his mistress as soon as he was delegated the Lord’s authority.

The letter was safely delivered to the Princess through the Maid Steward’s hands.

And then…

“Adelin! Well done, well done!”

A few weeks later, it returned as an acceptance letter saying she had become the Princess’s maid.

“Now I can finally breathe. Finally, finally…”

Adelin could say nothing while watching her Mother shed tears of joy.

She had clearly written the wrong answer.

She couldn’t understand why the Princess had chosen her.

But since she had received the Princess’s summons, she had to go.

This time, even her Uncle who held the Lord’s authority could not stop her.

“…You’ve done something interesting, sister-in-law.”

“Right? Well, it really is joyful that our Adelin received a summons from Her Highness the Princess. I was just worrying about what clothes to dress her in when sending her off in three days. Shall I tell Letia to choose together?”

But her Mother was different from her Father who had been too foolish to see even one step ahead.

Her Mother always faced Reginald with a smiling face, continuing a precarious tightrope walk.

And on the night before Adelin’s departure, she came to the bedroom and spoke with serious eyes.

“Don’t worry about this Mother, Adelin.”

She added while stroking Adelin’s head.

“You just need to not come back from That Place. Once things are settled here, I’ll follow you too.”

“…”

“I can do anything to keep you alive. Wouldn’t it be enough to just give Reginald whatever he wants?”

Adelin broke down that day in front of her endlessly strong Mother.

No matter how clever and smart she was for her age, she was only fifteen.

A fifteen-year-old who had to tremble from daily assassination attempts after her short-lived stepfather died and the family was stolen by her Uncle’s hands.

Though she tried not to show it, her insides were already burned black.

“Don’t cry. Smile. If you can’t do that, then rather stay silent.”

But her Mother wiped away Adelin’s tears and repeatedly urged her.

“The harder it gets, the more you must do so. So enemies don’t know your heart, so they let their guard down.”

Don’t be swayed by emotions and look at reality.

If you do that, a way to survive will appear.

That’s how she came to Jedo.

The Princess was a completely different person from Adelin’s expectations.

After just a few months of observing the Princess, Adelin had no choice but to realize.

The reason she had chosen her.

“Always remember the answer you gave, Adelin. There is nothing more important than yourself in this world.”

The Princess’s appearance within the Imperial Palace was shockingly different from what was publicly known.

She was just like Adelin when she had stayed at the Lord’s Castle.

She suffered assassination attempts every few days, and those who approached from around her also each carried daggers.

“…Every family has their circumstances. The Imperial Family is no different.”

On days when she happened to treat the Princess’s injuries, the Princess would say that.

“I won’t live long. So if things go wrong, you must escape.”

While smiling very calmly.

Unlike when she first arrived, Adelin gradually grew to like the Princess.

She even thought that perhaps abandoning Kaldenbain-Ridge and settling down in Jedo might be the better choice.

So she began looking for a house in the Realm Core where she could live with her Mother.

She arranged the garden and hired and placed servants.

Even if she stayed at the Imperial Palace, her Mother would need a place to live.

But right around that time, a letter from her Uncle arrived from her hometown.

Saying that Adelin’s Mother was critically ill.

The news was that she probably wouldn’t last more than a few days.

Adelin said with a smile.

“I knew. That Uncle, or Letia, had done something to Mother.”

Enzo and Raul listened to her words with hardened faces, concentrating intently.

Tie was equally entranced by Adelin’s story.

‘Sister Adelin…’

She remembered what Sister’s mother had said about smiling more when things get difficult.

Perhaps that’s why even in this moment, the smile hanging on Adelin’s lips pricked like thorns, making her heart ache.

“I told the Princess. That I thought I should return home to check on things.”

The Princess seemed puzzled by Adelin’s sudden request.

But she soon readily granted Adelin’s retirement.

‘Yes, you’re too precious a child to be confined in the Imperial Palace.’

Adelin packed her belongings that very day and returned to her hometown.

She hadn’t even thought about organizing the mansion prepared for her in Jedo.

Only after arriving at Kaldenbain-Ridge was Adelin able to discover it.

The enormous amount of jewelry and gold coins the Princess had secretly placed in her luggage.

But she didn’t have time to feel strange about that.

“I pounded on the castle gates like mad. Then after a long while the gates finally opened, but I couldn’t enter.”

Adelin smiled slightly again as she recalled that moment.

“Mother was being carried out right before my eyes. Already having passed away.”

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