A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 106

Chapter 106

“Ugh, uh, urk!”

Tie steadied her breathing.

Was it because she had forcibly manifested the spirit that had been visible only to Tie the whole time?

He could feel a chill as if a cold wind were sweeping through his body.

But Tie bit her lips tightly and raised her head in order to focus her mind.

Right in front of him there was still the blue figure holding Reginald.

Adeline’s mother, who had been sending him looks for a long time now that said she wanted manifestation.

[In my heart, I want to tear you to pieces and kill you. I want to drag you to the underworld this very moment! But, but….]

Stasia’s gaze turned toward Adeline, standing frozen not far away.

Her eyes, which had been wavering with rage, slowly moistened when they saw her daughter.

[My daughter, Adeline, has suffered too much for me to do it that way. I cannot bring myself to let you die easily.]

When Stasia removed her hand, Reginald slowly collapsed to the ground.

He sat there touching the half-frozen side of his face, his mouth opening and closing.

[Go and pay for your sins in the world of the living. Of course, do not dare expect even death to bring you peace. The underworld will be another hell for you-!]

Reginald slowly toppled backward.

Clutching his frozen throat, he fainted just like that.

“…Kkyut!”

At that moment, Ppuppu, now back in the form of a baby elephant, ran toward Tie.

Ppuppu quickly climbed up Tie’s body and perched on her palm.

“…Kkyu! Kkyukut!”

Tie faintly heard Ppuppu shouting something in her ear.

“Astie! Withdraw your mana at once!”

At once, even Kkamang, who had run over from somewhere, grabbed Tie by the shoulders.

But Tie swallowed hard and lifted her dizzy gaze.

“Hurry! I’m telling you to stop?”

“Lu, Lucarion….”

Tie opened her mouth, shivering all over.

Then he leaned his head weakly against Lucarion.

“It’s t, too cold. It feels like wind is blowing inside my body.”

With trembling hands, Lucarion wrapped his own cloak around Tie’s body.

“Dismiss the summoning. Then everything will be fine. It’s all over now, okay? You idiot.”

Tie’s eyes turned toward the villagers, who were beginning to appear from the side opposite the lord’s castle.

The villagers were each running toward the soldiers and taking away their swords, spears, and shields.

As though they meant to repay all the suffering they had endured until now.

“What happened, why is the squirt like this?”

At that moment, Veil came running from the other side.

Basto, Raul, and Enzo also came closer to Tie.

“…I, I think mana depletion has set in. Me, and that one too, we drew on Tie’s mana, and then she summoned all these dead as well….”

Lucarion’s speaking voice came to his ears as though muffled.

“What? Then what are we supposed to do!”

“Astie has to pull the mana back in, but he keeps….”

Leaning against Lucarion, Tie barely opened the eyes that kept trying to close.

“Squirt, can you hear me?”

At that moment, Veil’s bloodied face appeared right in front of him.

But Tie weakly pushed Veil away.

“Big brother Veil… move. I can’t see.”

At those words Veil stopped with his mouth shut.

He faltered and stepped back.

Everyone turned their heads toward the single place Tie’s gaze was fixed on.

There were Stasia, still maintaining the form of a spirit, and Adeline standing before her.

“Mother….?”

As Adeline murmured, Stasia’s spirit reached out a hand toward her.

The translucent hand hovered in the air as if trying to stroke Adeline’s cheek, then drew back.

[You did well, Adeline.]

Adeline’s pupils slowly widened.

From her wide-open eyes, thick tears began dropping one after another.

“Was it Mother, was it you who did it?”

An unbelieving sob leaked from her throat.

“Gathering these people here too, and hiding the will too….”

[No, Adeline. You did it all. You accomplished it.]

Adeline covered her mouth.

Stasia continued in a hurried voice.

[Adeline, listen carefully. There is not much time.]

“Mother, what in the world….”

[My daughter, you will do well. Even if I am not by your side, do not forget that I am always watching over you.]

Adeline’s face darkened.

Frantically, she stretched out her hand, trying to catch hold of Stasia, who could not be touched.

“D, don’t go. Don’t go, please-!”

But Stasia, who had begun growing faint, was rapidly disappearing into the air.

[Adeline, I was simply… glad that I could say goodbye like this at least.]

The next moment, Stasia’s figure dissolved into faint smoke and vanished.

But just before disappearing, Stasia looked back at Astie.

Then some resonance, perhaps like the sound of wind or perhaps like an echo, brushed past them.

[I will not forget today’s deed even in death, O Lord of the Underworld.]

At the same time, Tie’s body went limp.

“Astie!”

Basto caught the collapsing Astie in his arms.

The child’s body was cold as ice.

The skeletons that had densely filled the surroundings were also turning into whitish ash and disappearing.

“F, follow me.”

At that moment, Adeline, running up in haste, said as she wiped her cheeks.

“I know a place where we can lay Miss Tie down.”

Everyone soon began quickly moving toward the lord’s castle.

Meanwhile, in the back garden where the unconscious knights had been left behind.

“Put them in here!”

“Y, you wicked bastards!”

“Take their weapons away!”

The villagers locked up the bound soldiers in the stable one by one.

Reginald, unconscious, was included among them.

* * *

“Miss Adeline!”

When Adeline entered the lord’s castle, the servants who had been watching the situation outside from within came rushing over.

“Miss, how, how did you….!”

The one grabbing Adeline’s hand was the kitchen head, the only person who had kept their life in the lord’s castle until now.

But Adeline pushed the kitchen head away, as if this were not the time.

Then, looking over the other servants with a stern voice, she said,

“As of this moment, the master of this castle has changed.”

At those words, the servants stirred.

But Adeline, without the slightest hesitation, walked over to a wall in the central courtyard and slashed a long line across Reginald’s portrait with the dagger she was holding.

“Reginald’s era is over. From this moment on, he will pay with his life for the crime of usurping the lord’s seat.”

Each of the servants held their breath.

Adeline looked over them one by one.

“Those who wish to leave, leave now. Those who wish to remain may remain. But in that case, you must be prepared to serve me, Adeline Caldenvine, as your new master.”

When he struck the wall with a thud, Reginald’s portrait fell to the floor.

Standing with her foot on the portrait, Adeline added,

“Prepare a bedchamber on the second floor at once. As for the rest, summon craftsmen to replace the bars of the underground prison.”

Lastly she looked at the kitchen head.

“Kitchen head, make some food that can warm the body. Something easy to swallow down, like thin rice gruel.”

Before long, the servants, nodding, hurried out of the courtyard.