A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 114

Chapter 114

“Squirt. Your legs really don’t hurt?”

Bearing the huge load containing all the members’ clothes, Veil whispered.

Tie nodded bravely to mean that she was fine.

But unlike her actions, sweat was trickling down over her forehead.

At last Tie lowered her voice and asked,

“Oppa, how much farther to Tie’s house…?”

Veil looked around the area, then answered.

“Hmm, about one hour….?”

Tie forced strength into the leg that had almost given out.

Then, after taking a deep breath, she pulled up the pants that had slipped down.

“Yes! Tie’s okay.”

Bravely, Tie looked back again.

She saw several people trailing behind them once more hurriedly hide themselves.

Some behind nearby buildings, some behind piles of trash stacked on the street.

“Commander, instead of this, how about riding in this cart at least?”

Enzo, who was pulling the cart containing the monster cores, asked again from beside her.

But Tie shook her head from side to side.

“Tie is going to keep walking to the very end.”

Originally, once one decides to do something, one has to remain consistent all the way through.

Otherwise, people only remember the very end.

Panting, Tie looked around the area.

The road Agabert was currently walking on was a medium-sized alley quite far from the main road.

That was because there were too many people enjoying the festival on the main road for passage to be possible.

“Waaaa-!”

Just then, cheers were heard from the direction of the main road.

Soon, a group of lanterns floated up above the buildings.

It was while Tie stared blankly at the sight.

“Waaah!”

Tie missed a step and suddenly pitched forward onto the ground.

She had been walking while looking at the sky instead of the road and tripped over a stone.

Basto came running, and Veil lowered his posture.

Lucarion too asked with a worried face,

“Are you okay?”

Tie looked back once more at the information brokers behind them, then nodded stubbornly.

“Y, yes, I’m okay.”

Actually, it hurt so much it nearly made tears come out.

But that did not mean she could act spoiled while the information brokers were watching….

It was when she got up from where she was, breathing in and out.

“How far are you all going?”

A luxurious carriage stopped beside Agabert’s party, appearing from nowhere.

Tie blankly looked at the face revealed as the window opened.

“I saw an elderly and infirm person among your group. If you wish, I can give you a ride all the way to your destination.”

Hair like white moonlight.

And eyes of a color similar to Tie’s too.

An adult whose face seemed to sparkle, wearing a black uniform, got down from the carriage.

* * *

Tie whispered into Veil’s ear.

“Oppa. Carriages are forbidden, so why is this carriage on the road?”

Veil likewise answered in Tie’s ear.

“Isn’t it obvious at a glance? Because he’s a noble. And a super rich, high-ranking noble at that.”

Tie swallowed hard and turned her gaze.

‘I see….’

Sure enough, she could see the inside of a carriage three times as wide as Agabert’s.

And that wasn’t all.

Even the seats decorated with red velvet and the carriage windows hung with golden tassels.

It really did seem that the good-looking man sitting opposite with his legs crossed, the owner of the carriage, was a rich noble.

But even so.

“Isn’t this a liiittle unfair….?”

They had absolutely refused to let the other carriages cross beyond the river.

And yet this carriage alone was being allowed to move around.

At that, Veil pressed a finger to his lips.

“Anyway, we’re hitching a ride, so shh.”

Tie nodded unwillingly.

As Veil had said, Agabert was in the position of riding along in this carriage.

At the moment Tie, now out of words, fiddled with the bag in her arms.

“I heard that carriage traffic was banned because of the Lantern Festival.”

From the opposite side, a gentle voice that had remained quiet the whole time was heard.

The owner of the carriage, the man, was looking at Tie with a faint smile on her lips.

“The Holy Knights sometimes lack flexibility in this way. Luggage being a problem is one thing, but a carriage carrying the elderly and infirm should, in principle, still be let through.”

Veil examined the man with wary eyes.

“Ah… well.”

But the man smiled in an easy, good-natured way and asked Tie,

“Is where you fell all right?”

Tie was flustered.

That was because she had not expected the man to ask her anything.

But then she looked down at her own knee and answered bravely,

“Yes! I’m okay!”

“Then may I take a look for a moment?”

Tie’s eyes grew round.

After looking at Veil and Basto, the child soon answered as if it were nothing.

“Yees.”

As if he had been waiting for that, the man leaned his upper body forward.

After examining Tie’s knee carefully, she furrowed her brows.

“There’s a bit of blood showing through the pants.”

What the man said was true.

When he rolled up the trouser leg on the side where she had fallen, a small scraped wound was revealed on the little knee.

“Ow ow ow….”

As soon as the wound met the air, a stinging sensation was felt at once.

When Tie let out a pained sound, the man furrowed her brows.

Then he lifted up the empty seat beside him.

There was a very neatly organized storage compartment there.

The man took out a bottle of ointment, disinfectant, and clean gauze from inside and said,

“May I clean it for you?”

Tie hesitated, then nodded.

“Just in case, once you arrive at your residence, make sure to disinfect it again. Whether large or small, disinfecting is most important in any wound.”

“Disinfect, yees!”

At Tie’s answer, the man smiled and dampened the gauze with disinfectant.

She carefully cleaned Tie’s wound so it would not hurt, then even applied ointment and covered it with fresh gauze.

“All done.”

At the quick and skillful treatment, Tie’s mouth fell open in admiration.

In the meantime, the man was pulling her trouser leg back down again.

With a rather kind and careful touch.

Without realizing it, Tie stared straight at the man’s face.

‘This mister is a super kind person!’

She had thought he was just selfish because he alone went around in a carriage.

And that wasn’t all.

When the man smiled, he strangely resembled Daddy.

‘Daddy used to treat Tie carefully like this too whenever Tie got hurt.’

It was while Tie, feeling odd, quietly glanced at the man.

“Commander, we’ve arrived.”

From the front, the coachman’s voice was heard.

At the same time, Enzo, who had been by the window, pointed outside.

“I think this is the place!”

Tie hurriedly got up and ran to the window.

Sure enough, beside the road where the carriage had stopped, there stood a great mansion brightly lit up.

“This is Tie’s house…?”

A garden that looked as though ten playgrounds in front of Hanbit Kindergarten had been combined.

And the magnificent building at the end of the stone path through the garden.

“It’s not a princess castle…?”

To be honest, she had been imagining something like the apartment-commercial complex across from Gold Villa all this time.

But the building gave off a very elegant atmosphere.

On the walls of white stone, winding ivy was growing, and the pretty blue roof came to a point at its ends.

‘It’s super pretty….!’

And that wasn’t all.

The large arched windows on every floor were huge and clean.

To the point that one could clearly see the warm interior with its luxurious furniture.

“Please get down this way.”

At just the right moment the coachman opened the door, and Tie hurriedly jumped down onto the road.

Then she stood with her mouth open and looked inside the main gate.

“Thank you. Thanks to you, we arrived comfortably.”

Behind her, the members getting out of the carriage were taking down the luggage one by one.

Nordix politely offered his thanks to the man inside the carriage.

“Thank you.”

The man smiled good-naturedly, as if to say it was nothing.

“Then I wish you a comfortable night.”

It was as the coachman was about to close the carriage door again.

“Ah. Wait a moment!”

Tie, who had been distracted by looking at the mansion, hurriedly ran back to the carriage.

Struggling, the child opened the bag and took something out from inside.

“Mister, Tie will give you this.”

What the child took out was a local specialty she had brought from Caldenvine Ridge.

More precisely, handmade candy that the inn grandmother said she had made herself with honey, and a special snack that Tie had gone four whole days without eating in order to save.

“Caldenvine special product! There are three, and Tie is giving you one.”

Smiling, the child readily grabbed the man’s hand and pressed the candy into it.

“Then goodbye!”

After that, the child turned around without hesitation.

As the excited child ran toward the mansion, the main gate opened as though it had been waiting.

“Good heavens, you’ve arrived at last! Lady Adeline told us!”

A woman who appeared to be the manager of the mansion was greeting the child and her party with a delighted face.

“Commander, shall we depart?”

“Ah… please take us to medical corps headquarters. I have something I need to review.”

“Then we will depart.”

The carriage wheels began to roll again.

Rolling the candy in his hand, the man looked out the window.

In the distance he could see the child’s back running across the garden.

“…There she goes running again. Even though she just fell a little while ago.”

The man’s name was Alexander.

The commander of the Central Medical Corps of the Imperial Holy Knights,

“It does look as if it’ll get infected.”

and the third son of House Luminen.