A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 123
Chapter 123
‘A child of a Holy Knight family who awakens mana is irreverent.’
That was something everyone who belonged to the religious order knew.
But even such people overlooked something.
Then where, exactly, did those irreverent children go.
Edmund, Leonardo, and Alexander did not know either.
Until their only younger sibling.
Theseos became that ‘irreverent child.’
“U, huuuk. Tesetan, it’s okay. It will be okay……”
Even now, Leonardo remembered it.
The sight of the Holy Knights tearing four-year-old Theseos away from his mother and dragging him off.
“Mother! Father!!”
The young younger sibling struggled again and again with his little body.
The more he did so, the more mana raged irregularly from the child’s body.
Without the slightest hesitation, the Holy Knights put a restraint on Theseos.
“Ah-!”
The child twisted his body and screamed.
But the knights merely looked at such a child with indifferent faces.
When Theseos collapsed after resisting, only then did the Holy Knights sling the child over a shoulder like baggage.
“Then we shall see him after the ‘purification’ is finished.”
And so the door slammed shut.
Inside the mansion, where silence had settled, Mother let out a scream-like cry.
Valentis, embracing his collapsing wife, was clenching his fists so tightly that the joints stood out.
It was the day when Theseos, born with mana in the noble Luminen family,
was taken to the central continent under the order of the religious order.
Theseos only returned two months later.
In a state visibly thinner than on the day he left the mansion.
“Mother, Father…… brother……”
“Tesetan!”
Eleonora embraced the returned Theseos as if she would break him.
“Tesetan, my baby, uheuk……”
Theseos looked exhausted.
What he had gone through in the central continent, his eyes were hollow underneath, and his cheeks were sunken.
But the child instead tried to reassure her family.
“It’s okay, Mother. They say it’s all purified now, it’s okay……”
Mana no longer flowed from the child’s body.
That mana which had suddenly begun one day, and all that time had been erupting irregularly.
From the day he returned, Theseos took to bed sick.
And he could not easily get up.
Only a quiet and gloomy atmosphere drifted through the mansion.
The air was cold, and across Mother’s face, as the three brothers remembered it, a deep shadow was cast.
“How can I be all right……! My child is in pain, my child cries that he hurts, how can I……!”
“Eleonora, please……!”
“It is because of us. If only I had not been a saint who manifested unprecedented holy power. If only you had not been Duke Luminen, Tesetan, our Tesetan would……”
Mother was out of her mind.
Whenever he saw the suffering Theseos, he fell apart.
“Purification, they say. They say purification after putting a terrible restraint on a young body, on this child’s heart that is not even a handful……”
Only later did the brothers come to know.
What it was that the religious order had done after taking Theseos to the central continent.
They had put a kind of holy restraint on Theseos’s body.
So that mana would not erupt outward.
So that it would only keep piling up layer upon layer inside the child’s body.
Without caring in the least what kind of pain that caused the person involved.
But should one say it was fortunate?
Before long, an unexpected miracle occurred.
“……Mother.”
“Tesetan!”
Theseos, who had only lain sick, began miraculously to recover his strength.
The child gradually began to live outside the bed.
He smiled as before he had been taken to the central continent, and played around with his brothers.
“Father, I want to do it too!”
At some point, he was even able to set foot again in Valentis’s training grounds.
Seeing Theseos who appeared to have grown healthy, Eleonora became much calmer.
The times she cried in silence every night disappeared, and she no longer skipped several meals at a time.
Edmund, Leonardo, and Alexander thought.
That happiness had finally returned to the mansion again.
So from now on, everything would be all right.
The truth was that they did not know.
That Theseos’s pain remained the same.
That the more the suppressed mana piled up, the higher its level only kept rising.
That the young Theseos was merely enduring it in silence.
……Because they truly did not know, not even in their dreams.
* * *
“Huuuh?”
Tie stood in the central courtyard of the magnificent Luminen mansion and opened her eyes round.
‘Carriage mister and lantern mister?’
That was because the two people receiving him right in front of him were familiar faces too.
It seemed the other side was just as surprised.
“Ah……”
On the day of their arrival.
Alexander, who had treated Tie’s knee in the carriage, came closer with a bewildered face.
“It is nice to meet you again. I am called Alexander Luminen.”
Tie swallowed hard.
‘Luminen?’
Here, people put the family name after the given name.
That meant, in other words, that carriage mister’s family name was the same as Grand Commander-nim’s.
And they had said Grand Commander-nim had no fewer than four sons,
“Grand Commander-nim’s son……?!”
Alexander smiled, folding his green eyes prettily.
“That is right. I am the third son of House Luminen.”
Tie, whose mouth had fallen open, turned her head.
This time he saw rich lantern mister standing to Alexander’s left.
“Are you Grand Commander-nim’s son too, mister?”
Edmund held out his hand to Tie.
“As you can see. I am Edmund Luminen.”
Tie hesitantly took Edmund’s hand and shook it a little.
At that moment, the butler who had been standing behind the young masters guided them.
“Please come inside. Grand Commander-nim is waiting.”
Tie cautiously moved her feet after looking back at the members.
Basto, Veil, and the other members followed behind him.
The place they arrived at after passing through the luxurious hallway was a banquet hall of tremendous size.
On the table in the banquet hall, which looked as though it could hold at least two hundred people, all kinds of food were already laid out.
And at the seat of highest honor on that table.
“It has been a while, Necromancer King.”
Valentis, who had been sitting quietly, rose to his feet.
Feeling again her weighty presence, even on seeing her a second time, Tie swallowed hard.
Meanwhile, the butler pulled out the chair in the seat closest to Valentis.
“This way.”
Though hesitating, Tie walked over little by little.
Then he carefully climbed onto the chair.
On top of the chair, a high cushion had already been placed so that Tie could match eye level with the others.
“The rest of you, please sit here.”
Basto and the members sat down in a row to Tie’s left.
Before long, when even the three young masters of Luminen sat across from them, Valentis opened his mouth.
“You have worked hard. Were there any particular incidents while coming here from the weapons district?”
Tie’s eyes turned round.
‘Particular incidents……!’
It was when the child quickly raised one hand and was about to speak about Caldenvine Ridge.
Basto gently caught Tie’s hand beneath the table.
Tie realized.
‘Ah, right.’
The people of House Luminen, including Valentis, did not know that Tie was a child.
Because in the weapons district he had spilled the secret, and used Sanctum of Oblivion to erase the Grand Commander’s memory.
So in order to be safe, it would be better if Tie spoke as little as possible.
As expected, Basto opened his mouth in place of Tie.
“We stayed for about half a month in a village called Caldenvine Ridge.”
“Half a month?”
“Yes. Because we got entangled with rebels who had usurped the status of the lord of that region.”
“For something like that, you crossed the Boundary of the Old and New without much delay.”
But Valentis answered only briefly, then turned his gaze to Tie again.
“Necromancer King, it seems that you may have grown a little taller than before.”
Tie’s eyes widened.
That he had grown taller!
At a compliment so rewarding and happy for a child, the resolve that he had to pretend to be the Necromancer King melted away softly.
Without realizing it, Tie wriggled her bottom.
“Really? Actually Tie has been eating a whole lot of food during that time……”
“Ahem!”
At that moment Veil coughed loudly.
Coming to her senses, Tie hurriedly clamped her mouth shut once again.
‘Ah, right, right!’
He made a mistake again!
Ever since a base had been established and she had tasted freedom, Tie kept forgetting the fact that she had to act like the Necromancer King.
Watching Valentis’s reaction, Tie continued in rambling words.
“Ate. Because I ate, maybe the top of my head got a little plumper……?”
But then.
Valentis set down the napkin he had been holding onto the table.
Then, calmly, he looked around the banquet hall.
“If I do not make this point clear now, it seems a similar situation will repeat itself, so I will say it.”
Her gaze once again turned toward Tie.
“Necromancer King. Sanctum of Oblivion does not work on me.”