A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 122
Chapter 122
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Inside the carriage engraved with the Luminen family crest.
Looking at the holy cavalry surrounding them, Veil said,
“They really came to get us. That great Luminen, coming for us……”
“Didn’t I tell you.”
Enzo stepped forward with a flushed face.
“To begin with, the document called the master organization chart is not a document just anyone can inspect. So it makes sense that they would bring us quietly too.”
Curiosity came over Basto’s expression.
“What do you mean, not a document just anyone can inspect?”
“Well, the Holy Knights master organization chart is, literally speaking, a special material containing the faces and personal details of every Holy Knight distributed across the entire continent. In principle it is kept at religious order headquarters.”
Religious order headquarters was a core institution located inside the imperial palace, no less.
In other words, it meant the leadership of the Holy Knights, where even the highest nobles could not set foot carelessly.
“Therefore, that document originally can absolutely not be taken out of headquarters. Because if someone has received consecration from the Holy Kingdom, their identity is all written in it. So that is why I said at first that it was strange.”
In the weapons district, after hearing Tie’s story, the twins had been greatly flustered.
‘Is that really true? Grand Commander Luminen really said he would let Commander inspect the master organization chart?’
‘Yeeeng, if Tie spills only Tie’s secret!’
‘No, even if he was curious about Commander’s true identity, still……’
That was because they could not believe that Valentis Luminen had made such a deal with Tie while breaking military law.
And on top of that, was Valentis not the Grand Commander who commanded the entire religious order?
For that reason, at the time Enzo and Raul urged the entire mercenary company.
Just in case, they said it would be best to keep quiet about what they were going to see at the Grand Commander’s house.
And right now.
“Look.”
At Enzo’s gesture, the members looked outside the carriage.
“Waaah, there are ten horses outside!”
At this moment, as Tie said, there were more than ten holy cavalry posted outside.
When the flags they held fluttered in the wind, the view inside and outside the carriage was blocked.
“More importantly, how far have we come now?”
“I can’t see well. It still seems to be Rosewobel Street……”
At the moment when all the members were clinging to the window to judge their current position,
“Give it up. I think they’ve put up a barrier.”
Nordix, who had been quiet, stepped forward.
When he pointed at the empty air beyond the holy cavalry, something like a faint membrane appeared there.
“It seems to be a barrier made by operating holy power.”
“A barrier? Then could it be that the commander……”
At Raul’s words, Tie tilted her head.
“Why bird-poop mister?”
Raul looked at Tie.
“Why, did he not say so before we boarded the carriage. That he was Leonardo Luminen.”
Veil nodded.
“Yeah, yeah, he did. He said he was Luminen’s second young master and came because the Grand Commander sent him.”
“Yes. That person is in fact currently the commander of the imperial capital Central Battalion. Just as one would expect of someone from the Luminen family, he awakened quite a useful holy power at a young age.”
Holy awakening.
That was a special power Holy Knights could awaken through long training or inborn holy power when they reached a certain level.
Just like Grand Commander Luminen handled ‘Awakening of Sacred Sight.’
“The power Leonardo Luminen awakened is probably ‘sanctification.'”
“Sanctification?”
“He surrounds the area with holy power and turns it into a holy domain, then visually and audibly blocks the inside and outside. You can think of it as something like a barrier.”
But for some reason Raul’s expression became serious.
“Of course, it is not a power that can be used whenever he wants. Since casting sanctification places a burden on him too. So, what I mean is, something is a little……”
Basto opened his mouth.
“……Yes. We should not think of this invitation as something simple.”
Tie made a bewildered expression.
That was because there were too many difficult words, so he could not understand well.
Meanwhile, Veil, who had glanced at Tie like that, leaned his body toward Basto and Nordix.
“Why is the Grand Commander inviting us while going this far?”
In truth, besides Enzo’s words, there was something else bothering Veil too.
“Have you ever seen nobles inviting mercenaries to their house just like that? The more I think about it, the stranger it is.”
Basto and Nordix silently exchanged looks.
Because they knew it too.
How rare it was for a noble, and moreover a power noble residing in the imperial capital, to call mercenaries into his own house.
“The Emperor too. Doesn’t House Luminen watch the Emperor’s mood?”
It would not be wrong to say that all of this actually came from the Emperor’s deep hatred of mercenaries.
For a very long time, the Emperor had regarded mercenaries as pedigree-less dogs.
What about House Luminen, on the other hand.
The Emperor’s favor toward the Luminen family was truly extraordinary.
The Emperor considered all of the ducal family, including Valentis, to be his trusted aides and valued them dearly.
“What I heard was that the Emperor even keeps an eye on all those House Luminen is close with.”
And yet the Grand Commander was bringing one whole mercenary company into the mansion?
After that, he was even going to show them the master organization chart, which was a confidential document?
“This is completely illegal. Even if he’s the Grand Commander, wouldn’t he be screwed if he got caught?”
Muttering, Veil made a suspicious expression.
“I understand that the kid made a contract with the Grand Commander. I understand that they agreed to inspect the organization chart in exchange for his information. But even so……”
“That’s enough, for now let us watch.”
At that moment Nordix cut off Veil’s words.
“At the very least, House Luminen does not seem hostile toward us.”
Veil kept his mouth shut, then had no choice but to nod.
As Nordix had said, House Luminen seemed fairly friendly toward Agabert.
They had personally sent the second young master to receive them, the carriage they provided was comfortable, and the escort was courteous without excess.
Basto added to it.
“The old man’s words are right. To begin with, it was not even a formal invitation, and yet this level of treatment.”
The invitation Tie had received was, strictly speaking, a verbal invitation.
In other words, to the Grand Commander it meant something that could be canceled whenever he wanted with a single notice.
But the Grand Commander did not do that.
Rather, he chose to bring Agabert in secretly while risking danger.
“Hah…… in the end, was it because our kid was too cute that day and the Grand Commander’s eyes rolled back?”
Veil asked seriously.
Basto nodded as if there was some logic to it.
“In truth, that possibility is the highest.”
On the night they stayed in the weapons district.
For the members, who did not know exactly what had happened between the Grand Commander and Tie, it could only feel frustrating.
Meanwhile.
Inside another carriage behind Agabert.
Leonardo, sitting alone, looked out the window with his chin propped up.
“……That child was the Necromancer King.”
When he recalled the face of the child she had met once in front of the reward office, a hollow laugh burst out.
He had not expected that he would see that child again.
At least not like this.
Suddenly Leonardo remembered last night.
‘There is someone I have invited to the mansion.’
The evening when, at a rare meal where everyone had gathered, Valentis made an abrupt announcement.
‘A mercenary company is scheduled to visit. I have a certain promise to them.’
The three young masters set down their utensils as they were.
Leonardo even asked his father, with whom he was not especially close, ‘Have you perhaps gone mad?’
The Emperor extremely disliked nobles he favored coming into private contact with mercenaries.
Valentis himself was the person who knew that best.
So the three young masters, even after hearing all of Valentis’s story, could not believe it.
That Valentis had met the Necromancer King in the weapons district.
That he had made some sort of deal with him, and even learned the Necromancer King’s hidden background.
But the problem did not end there.
‘He possesses an unauthorized relic. It seemed he did not know the activation condition of the relic, judging by the fact that he attempted memory manipulation on me.’
When the story reached that point, even Edmund, who among the three young masters was the most open-minded, was shocked in the end.
A mere mercenary possessed an unauthorized relic.
And Valentis had overlooked that?
Even a mercenary who had attempted memory manipulation on you?
But Valentis was only calm.
‘Well, does it matter. In the end, my memory is fine.’
A relic does not work on someone whose holy power is greater than the holy power inherent within it.
So it was only natural that Valentis’s memory, he having one of the greatest holy powers on the continent, was intact.
But,
‘Is the religious order aware of this fact?’
To Leonardo, who asked in a trembling voice, Valentis answered.
‘No. They do not know.’
Then he added.
‘And I intend to keep them from knowing in the future as well.’