A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 121

Chapter 121

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‘……I ended up coming in before I knew it.’

Sitting at the drawing-room table, Selina folded her arms.

In front of her, the little girl who had just opened the door was making a fuss with people who might have been her family or might not.

“See, Veil hyung. Tie said we have to greet the house in front and the house next door.”

“What greeting. I told you, everyone in this alley is nobles.”

“Even if they’re nobles, you still have to greet them. That’s why a friend came here.”

“No, even if they hate us? People here are the sort who, if people like us come to their house, would find it uncomfortable and dust off even the front doormat, thump, thump.”

“……Why would they dust off the front doormat? Because there’s a lot of dust?”

“Ha, what I mean is.”

At the conversation that had no context, no meaning, and no value, Selina let out a sigh.

At once, the six pairs of eyes in front of her turned toward her.

Selina shook her head and then lifted her gaze.

“What kind of rudeness is this, bringing a guest into the drawing room and then doing this right now?”

At those words, everyone made embarrassed expressions.

But then the slender and pretty-faced one asked the large man,

“Uh, what was it, Basto. Do you know noble etiquette at all? Like, that sort of thing about receiving guests.”

“I do not.”

“What about you two, Raul and Enzo?”

“In times like this, it is proper that only the representative remains and everyone else leaves.”

“Representative? What’s that?”

“Well, should I say the actual owner of this house. Usually it is a role the head of the house performs, but……”

“We don’t have a head of the house.”

“Even so, we do have a little commander, do we not……?”

The converging gazes moved all at once toward Tie.

When Tie became bewildered, Veil said,

“Kid. Can you receive the guest?”

“Mmm? Tie by herself……?”

Veil glanced at Selina and then whispered into Tie’s ear.

“Yeah. She’s a kid exactly like you. Just have whatever conversation you can. We can’t just chase her out anyway.”

“But……”

“The fact that she says she came from the house in front too, and if you listen to how she talks, she’s no ordinary one, okay? She’s a noble. Before sending her away, we should at least keep up appearances.”

Tie swallowed hard and looked at Selina again.

Pretty and neat clothes.

Hair tied tidily so that not a single stray strand stuck out.

And finally even a calm expression and straight posture.

“Then we’re going? When you’re done talking, come out, got it?”

In the meantime, the members all trooped out of the drawing room.

Tie, flustered, stared blankly at Raul, who was waving his hand as if telling him to do well.

Inside the drawing room where only Tie and Selina remained like that.

At the end of the short silence, Selina opened her mouth first.

“……I am called Selina Belmore. I live in the mansion in front, which is in my mother’s name.”

Tie nodded her head in haste.

“Mm-hm!”

“What is young lady’s name?”

But before long he had no choice but to make a flustered expression again.

That was because he had no idea at all who the ‘young lady’ Selina had been calling since earlier was.

Still, if there was something he did not know, the best course was to ask!

Tie briskly raised one hand.

“But Tie has a question! What is young lady?”

Selina’s brow furrowed.

But Tie only continued asking her question briskly.

“Tie isn’t young lady, Tie is Kim Astie. Why do you keep calling Tie young lady?”

Selina stared blankly, her lips parting.

But the child soon regained herself and answered with an unpleasant face.

“Young lady is a form of address that, in the past, was used to respectfully address only the daughters of nobles or high families.”

“Gasp, a form of address……”

“But recently it is used for all noble women who possess dignity and manners. Like how I called you young lady ‘out of courtesy.'”

Tie furrowed her brow.

‘So……’

Young lady was a form of address like ‘-nim’ used in the Republic of Korea.

Like when kids like Hyunwoo played things like RaiseSpiritStars or MarvelCraft on their tablets and attached it after the other person’s nickname.

Thinking of it that way, Selina’s difficult words were translated like game chat.

‘Are you nim? This mansion, owner-n. nim?’

‘Receiving guests is something the owner does. Since nim came out, nim is the owner?’

‘Super strong MarvelCraft way of talking……!’

Of course, that was not what was important.

‘So here, instead of nim, you attach young lady, politely!’

Tie corrected her posture as she sat.

And he said briskly,

“So Selina young lady was asking Tie’s name.”

Selina frowned.

But Tie, smiling broadly, continued speaking.

“Tie’s name is Tie! Originally it’s Kim Astie, but everyone calls me Tie. How old are you, Selina young lady?”

Without realizing it, Selina leaned back a little.

‘What is this, really……’

She had realized long ago that the child before her was not a noble.

But it was not as though she alone had come from some other world.

Could someone really know so little about manners and etiquette to this extent?

On top of that, this child called Tie was using the word young lady in a far too strange way.

It was irritating in a peculiar way, to the point that it would rather be better if she did not use it at all.

Of course, Astie had no way of knowing Selina’s thoughts like these.

“You know, Tie is four years old. Selina young lady, do you happen to like fairies?”

Selina stiffened with a start at the sight of Tie suddenly rising from her seat.

Without minding, Tie ran to the doorway and brought back her uniform from the coat rack.

Returning to the sofa, Tie proudly held out the Tanipang embroidery to Selina.

“Here!”

Selina’s lips, which had been frowning, soon fell open.

‘……Wow.’

The fairy in the embroidery was something she had never once seen among toys sold on the market.

An intense pink color that drew the eyes at once.

Even the sparkling eyes and round face.

Selina asked hesitantly,

“……You mean this is a fairy?”

“Yes!”

Tie went even further and placed the uniform in Selina’s arms.

“You know, after just a few nights, a painter is coming and is going to draw thirty or forty Ttonapangs in Tie’s room.”

“……In your bedroom, this fairy?”

“Yes! And Auntie Marshall said he’ll put a whole lot on Tie’s clothes too.”

Selina swallowed hard.

Then she examined the fairy fixed into the uniform more closely.

“Th-then perhaps……”

But Selina, who had been about to say something, immediately clamped her mouth shut.

‘I almost fell for it.’

She had almost asked whether they could put this fairy on the loungewear she cherished too.

But that was a disgraceful display she absolutely must not show.

All the more so for a fully grown noble young lady who had turned five long ago.

Recovering her senses, Selina quickly set Astie’s uniform back down.

“I-I did not come to look at something like fairies.”

“Huh? Then?”

“I came because I was curious about an ignorant neighbor who moved in and still did not even greet us once.”

Selina hurriedly rose from her seat.

“Th-that said, now that I have heard at least your name, that is enough. I have a schedule at the Imperial Royal Academy, so I will be going now.”

Tie stared blankly with bewildered eyes at Selina leaving the drawing room in haste.

‘Wow…… the Imperial Royal Academy!’

Selina definitely seemed to be a noble child.

Even down to her neat gait and her crisp pronunciation.

But there was one thing that was strange.

“But why does she go around alone……?”

In truth, since last night, the main gate outside the garden had remained locked the whole time.

But Selina had knocked on the front door.

She had climbed over the fence by herself, come in, and knocked on the front door.

“Doing that without an adult is really dangerous……”

It was then.

“Kid! Did she leave? We didn’t even act like we’d seen her and just came out.”

The members all came rushing in.

“Commander. What did that young lady say? Her expression looked serious.”

But Tie could not answer the shower of questions.

‘Could it be that Selina saw Tie yesterday?’

Did she climb over the fence today because she wanted to play with Tie?

‘But if she goes to the academy too, doesn’t Selina have any friends?’

It was as he was thinking.

Ding-a-ling.

The bell hanging on one wall of the drawing room rang.

It was a device that made a sound when a guest visiting the mansion pulled it from the main gate.

Tie sprang to her feet.

“I think Selina came back!”

But when, with a happy heart, he crossed the garden and reached the main gate.

The person standing in front was not Selina.

“Excuse me. I am called Leonardo Luminen. I came on behalf of the Valentis family to escort……”

“Eeh? Bird-poop mister?”

The mouth of Tie, who had confirmed the other person, fell open.

The man who had gotten hit by bird poop in front of the reward office.

So the man to whom Tie had lent her handkerchief,

was standing there accompanied by a luxurious carriage and many people behind her.