A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 115

Chapter 115

Tie stood on the first floor of the mansion and opened her mouth.

“Wow!”

This was Agabert’s new base and, at last, the house prepared for Tie.

The underground storage room and utility room were huge, and there were countless rooms,

“Waaah……!”

and the view from the terraces on the second and third floors was no less than the night view of Cheonggyecheon.

“Tie’s house is, hwaaah, a park!”

This house was even incredibly big.

It would take a full twenty minutes for Tie to make one complete round of it.

Veil, who had been standing in front of the central staircase, gave a bewildered echo.

“……I-it really is nice.”

At this moment, above his head hung a gigantic chandelier reminiscent of the body size of a medium monster.

Tie, nodding her head, ran past her with a patter of feet.

Then he ran here and there across the first floor and shouted.

“Waaah! It’s Tie’s house, Tie’s house!”

“Astie. Don’t fall.”

Lucarion and Ppuppu hurried after him.

Veil clicked his tongue yet let out a snort of laughter.

“Looks like he really was feeling stifled while doing that Hisunjjim or whatever it was.”

Basto nodded his head.

“Yes. The information broker who latched on as soon as we arrived in the imperial capital too. He must have had to watch all sorts of things.”

“Only now have we arrived at a real home…… everyone has worked hard.”

When even Nordix said it, it was just as the members, tension released, were all laughing aimlessly.

“Hello.”

Someone approached them cautiously.

Basto’s eyes, as he turned his head, widened a little.

Opposite them stood a woman with graying hair neatly pinned up, smiling as she looked at the members.

She was the woman who had opened the gate for them outside a little while ago.

“My name is Marshall. You heard about me from Ms. Adeline, right?”

“Yes.”

Marshall.

The woman before their eyes was the estate manager Adeline had recommended all the way from Caldenvine Ridge, saying she really was trustworthy.

Apparently she had been managing this mansion ever since it had belonged to the princess.

“Go ahead and unpack your luggage first. I’ve already put all the rooms you’ll stay in in order, and I’ve prepared food in the kitchen too.”

Sure enough, Marshall gave off a plain and gentle atmosphere.

“I thought you would all like meat, so I boiled pork shoulder with garlic and vegetables until it was tender. You’re hungry, aren’t you?”

Besides that, the smell of pork that she had supposedly cooked had already been filling the mansion since a little while ago.

Most of the members, who had skipped dinner, smacked their lips.

But for some reason Basto hesitated and looked at Tie.

“That’s true, but Tie……”

Marshall burst into laughter.

She looked at Tie, who was clinging to the window, with eyes overflowing with affection, then said,

“Let our little commander look around to his heart’s content. I heard you’ve all been through all sorts of things. To young eyes, how much of another world would a new house be?”

Turning to the members, she clapped her hands together.

“Now, now! From this point on, I’ll take care of our little commander, so all of you have dinner first and get some good rest, all right?”

Basto closed his mouth.

But before he could even answer, Marshall was already stepping toward Tie.

“Oh my, our little commander. It’s nice to meet you, Auntie’s name is Marshall.”

Tie turned her head at Marshall’s greeting.

Perhaps she had been touching the charcoal piled up next to the fireplace, because Tie’s hands had turned pitch-black in the brief time.

Marshall naturally wiped the child’s hands with her apron and said,

“What is our little commander’s name? Can you tell Auntie?”

Tie’s eyes went round, and then her mouth spread wide open.

The child politely bowed from the waist and said,

“Hello, Auntie. Tie’s name is Kim Astie! It is.”

“What are you doing? Aren’t you coming?”

Just then, Veil, who had been about to go toward the kitchen, called out to Basto.

Basto, who had been looking at Marshall and Tie exchanging names, turned his head.

“Ah…… ah.”

But for some reason he could not readily turn his body away.

It was because Marshall’s words from a moment ago kept circling in his ears for some reason.

‘From this point on, I’ll take care of our commander……’

From now on, she would take care of Tie?

Objectively speaking, it was a good thing.

How much had he suffered all this time, doing childrearing that did not suit him?

On any day when he gave in and listened to the child over anything because the child nagged so much, Veil would seize the chance and start nagging……

‘Then why do I feel like this.’

Shouldn’t it feel light and, well, like he had regained his freedom?

But why did he keep……

“Now then. Aren’t you curious what our little commander’s room looks like?”

“Yeeees!”

“Since it’s the little commander’s room, would it be the very best one? Could it be on this floor? Or maybe the third floooor?”

“Th-the third floor?”

When had he even seen him, yet Tie had already completely let down her guard and was clutching Marshall’s hand tightly.

“Basto! Aren’t you coming?!”

Veil called again.

Basto had no choice but to move his feet.

But a gloomy look had already spread all over his face.

“Tie relaxes when she’s with me……”

He muttered a sulky little soliloquy for no reason.

* * *

Could this be Tie’s heaven?

Tie lay sprawled on the deep pink bed and thought.

Big and small fairies were painted densely all across the ceiling.

At first he had thought they might be stickers and asked, but Auntie Marshall had told him.

Those fairies were all paintings directly painted by an artist who had come.

After hearing that, Tie asked Auntie Marshall.

‘Then later, will the man who draws pictures come again?’

‘You don’t like the ceiling? Shall I ask for it to be changed to another picture?’

Tie grew shy and twisted her body as she answered.

‘No, I’m gonna ask him to draw other pictures on the wall too. This……’

And then he showed the Tanipang character embroidered on the uniform.

‘This is Ttonapang, and Tie wants Saekompang and Poseulpang on the wall too.’

‘Oh my, their eyes look incredibly sparkly.’

Auntie Marshall seemed a little flustered, but soon nodded her head.

Feeling better, Tie went down to the dining room and ate dinner.

Dinner was a dish like the boiled pork he had eaten whenever Grandma in Unit 107 made kimchi.

“Uaaah, Tie’s stomach is bursting!”

“Tie. Did you see this?”

As he lay on the bed patting his belly, Lucarion called him.

When he raised his body, he saw Lucarion and Ppuppu standing in front of the wardrobe.

“There are lots of pink clothes.”

“Really? Waaah!”

Only then did Tie check the clothes, then hurried to the wardrobe.

“It’s a princess dress!”

With an enraptured face, Tie flipped through her clothes one after another.

‘What color clothes does Tie like?’

No wonder Sister Adeline had asked so earnestly back in Caldenvine Ridge!

“All of this is Tie’s……!”

He was so happy that snot came out without him even realizing it.

Lucarion looked at Tie with a startled face.

“Tie, are you crying?”

Tie shook her head from side to side.

“I’m not crying.”

Of course, it was true that his heart felt a little stirred up.

Because this wide room too, the sparkling princess dress too, and the toy boxes piled up in one corner of the wall too.

“At Hanbit Kindergarten, only Tie didn’t have them……”

were things that had really been hard to have in Jongno District.

But Tie soon wiped her nose in a dignified way.

“It’s okay! Now Tie has them too!”

Tie was no longer the one in Quail Class who alone did not have an Elsa dress!

Lucarion looked at Tie with a strange expression.

“Today I have to wear this!”

In the meantime, standing on tiptoe, Tie pulled out the most glittering dress among them.

And after putting it right on over the clothes he was already wearing, he climbed onto the bed covered with a pink blanket.

“Hehe.”

Laughter kept leaking out of his mouth.

“If the room is this wide, I could even play hide-and-seek with Daddy too.”

This was not a house rented by paying monthly rent, like Gold Villa Unit 106.

It really was Tie’s house.

Tie knew very well how hard it was to pay monthly rent.

Because that monthly rent was why Daddy had to work every day in Jongno District.

But now that kind of life was over too.

‘Daddy doesn’t have to work. Now we have a house, and Tie earns money too!’

Right now the first floor was piled full of the monster cores Agabert had collected.

Tie was scheduled to go together with Basto tomorrow, after the sun came up, to the reward office to receive compensation for these cores.

‘How much can we get?’

Since there were more than several sacks of monster cores, one hundred thousand won? Or three hundred thousand won?

‘And the next day I have to go to Grand Commander-nim’s house too……’

As he thought, drowsiness slowly came over him.

When Tie tossed and turned, the skirt of the princess dress she had put on a little while ago brushed her fingertips.

Tie touched it with a hazy feeling.

“I have to wear it tomorrow too……”

It was while he was murmuring that.