A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 118

Chapter 118

“Mister Basto. Do you know who pooped bird poop on my head?”

Reward office, magic stone byproduct compensation window.

Tie, sitting in the waiting seats, whispered into Basto’s ear.

“That holy knight mister from before, he’s exactly the same as ‘Do You Know Who Pooped on My Head,’ right?”

“What’s that?”

“It’s a storybook, and a mole goes on an adventure to find who pooped on his head.”

“I see. So who is the culprit?”

“Actually……”

For some reason Tie closed her mouth.

Tie glanced around for no reason, then asked,

“Mister, is it okay if you get spoli’d?”

“Spoli?”

“If I say who pooped, it’s spoli.”

“Then is that a bad thing?”

“I guess?”

“Then it’s fine. I don’t need to hear it.”

Tie nodded as if she had expected that.

“Yeeeng.”

The child quietly stared straight ahead again.

Inside the reward office.

At present, they were the only ones waiting to have monster cores settled.

‘There are not many customers either. But we have to wait a really, really long time……?’

“There’s no mix coffee or Bacchus either.”

Tie smacked her lips by herself.

Places like this were supposed to have a mix coffee vending machine where sweet milk came out for free.

It was when Tie, having gotten bored, started swinging her legs that did not touch the floor.

“……Agabert?”

The side door inside the window opened, and a man Tie had never seen before hurriedly popped out.

“Us.”

When Basto raised his hand, the man hurried around the window and stood before them.

Then, looking at Tie, she said,

“Then you are the Necromancer King?”

After glancing at Basto, Tie lifted her chin a little.

“Right.”

The man’s eyes widened in an instant.

He turned his gaze and looked at the sacks of cores piled like a mountain next to the waiting seats and……

“F-first, come inside!”

He guided Basto and Tie into a room behind the window.

* * *

‘It looks like a bank!’

After coming inside the office, Tie looked around with a curious face.

When he went to the bank with Grandma, he sometimes saw people being guided into the inside like this.

But now that was Tie……!

“Uhit.”

Tie, who had been laughing, quickly held her breath.

That was because right in front of his eyes, the office employees were counting the monster cores Agabert had brought one by one.

“So this is all byproducts that came from that sea magic stone in Pearl City?”

“That is so.”

“It seems there were quite a few monsters there that you hadn’t seen before too?”

At the question from Ornel, who introduced himself as the director of the Central Branch, the woman standing beside him with hollow eyes nodded.

“Yes. There are even some things the scanner isn’t reading right now, so……”

From a little while ago, she had been stamping the cores one after another with a strangely shaped magic tool in her hand, making a beep, beep sound.

“They are monsters that came from a sea magic stone, so that would be why. Bring another sack separately.”

The employee withdrew.

With a proud expression, Tie copied Basto’s way of speaking.

“There were some special octopus-like things there too.”

“Octopus?”

“Yes. A big octopus with legs this long and so many suction cups!”

He was saying that while recalling the monster in Pearl City that had split Karl’s ship in two.

But tension immediately filled Ornel’s face.

“B-but then how did you deal with that?”

Tie tilted her head.

How had he dealt with it?

“Um, by telling my subordinates to?”

But it was true. At that time, Tie had only given an order to the wraiths awakened from the abyss.

Tie had asked them to help because she had to save the governor’s sons and the members.

After that, Grimnir, who had been the middle boss among the wraiths, had taken care of everything on his own.

‘I wonder if Grimnir is doing well?’

Come to think of it, after leaving Pearl City, he had not seen Grimnir even once.

Would he have to go somewhere with a sea in order to meet him again?

It was while he was thinking about that.

“F-first. Excluding the things omitted by the scanner, and pricing in even what happened recently in the weapons district, the reward money is roughly……”

Ornel scribbled something on a sheet of paper.

Before long, a single document was held out before Basto and Tie.

Tie slowly read the number written on top. How many zeros are there in total?

One, two, three…….

“Nine thousand gold?”

As if troubled, Ornel motioned with his eyes toward the door through which the employee Remi had gone out.

“For now, yes. If we add together all the monsters the scanner didn’t read, you’ll probably receive a little more. About another six thousand gold……?”

Tie closed her mouth.

Then did that mean fifteen thousand gold in total?

But one gold was ten thousand won in Korean money?

Then one, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand…….

After seeing Tie’s face go blank from calculating, Ornel grew restless.

“I-it won’t take that long. We only need to register the newly discovered sea monsters in the computerized system! A week at the latest?”

“……”

“W-well then! Understood. I will proceed as quickly as possible. Of course, the nine thousand gold that has already been settled will be paid today too……”

But at this moment, nothing entered Tie’s ears.

‘Nine thousand gold today? So, ninety million won?’

And on top of that, they said they would give another sixty million won a week later.

The old fried chicken truck that sometimes came in front of the house came to mind.

If he bought two chickens there together with Daddy, that was ten thousand won.

But this was nine thousand of those.

Then six thousand more after that…….

Tie, absentminded, stared blankly at the desk.

Suddenly he remembered something Grandpa Nordix had said.

That thing where she said Tie had awakened incredible mana and something something.

The truth was, Tie had not thought that much of it until now.

That was because he had absolutely no awareness that he himself had done something.

That was only natural, because what Tie had done when she summoned skeletons and handled wraiths was just……

‘not really any different from asking friends to play together?’

Even what happened in Caldenvine Ridge, when he manifested Stasia, had been like that.

At that time, Stasia had kept sending Tie wistful looks.

As if she wanted to speak with Adeline.

So Tie had simply thrown open wide the entrance of the mana that kept gushing out from inside her body.

‘Like pouring water from a purifier……’

The mana released from inside her body changed in amount according to how Tie controlled it.

If he adjusted the strength like when opening a Yakult lid, then only a little at a time.

If he pressed hard on the spout like when pouring water to drink from the kindergarten water purifier, then gush gush.

But by doing that, now Tie had

“the first nine thousand gold.”

Several sacks packed full of gold coins were placed right before his eyes.

‘I earned this?’

Tie stared blankly at the sacks.

“The six thousand gold will be sent by messenger as soon as it is prepared. Is it correct that you said you set up your base on Rosewobel Street?”

Basto nodded his head.

“That is so.”

“Then that means there are already two mercenary company bases on Rosewobel Street.”

Basto’s brow narrowed.

“Two? Who is there besides us?”

Ornel looked at Basto as if asking whether he had not known.

“Trevaga. There was quite a fuss for a while because they established a base right in a street that used to be full of nothing but nobles’ townhouses…… wait a moment. Earlier you said Rosewobel Street 89?”

Tie, bewildered, looked at Basto.

Meanwhile Ornel added,

“That’s right, 89! Then you ended up using the building right next to Trevaga! See, Trevaga’s base address is written here as the building at Rosewobel Street 90?”

Soon Basto’s and Tie’s expressions both went blank.

* * *

“Ninety million won…… Trevaga……”

After coming out of the reward office, Tie, seated on the cart Basto was pushing, muttered to himself.

Just before coming out.

He had completely forgotten what Ornel had told them, that Agabert’s ranking had risen again.

‘Tie earning ninety million won.’

And saying that he would earn sixty million won more a week later too!

Of course, Tie and Agabert had long since been rich thanks to the jewels the bone friends had brought.

But receiving something like salary money properly still felt very strange.

And the second thing was,

‘The next-door house being the house of the first-ranked mercenary company whose name Tie copied……’

The clattering window of the house next door came to mind.

They said the building was empty now, but if those people called Trevaga came back?

‘You dare make your mercenary company name by turning the name of our first-ranked mercenary company upside down exactly as it is? Pay us name rent.’

For some reason the image of the unknown commander of Trevaga was drawn as evil.

It was when Tie, having grown listless, unconsciously let out a sigh, euhu.

“There were casualties in the northwestern border region?”

A rather serious voice was heard from some distance ahead.

When he raised his head, he saw two men standing in front of an enormous mansion at the end of the street.

At the same time, for some reason the cart came to a stop in place with a clatter.