A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 124

Chapter 124

“……Wait a moment.”

As soon as Valentis finished speaking, Veil rose from his seat.

Raul and Enzo too pushed their chairs back.

As if they would leap out at that very moment if something happened.

With an unperturbed face, Veil looked over the Luminen family.

“We don’t really know what you’re talking about. Sanctum of Oblivion, you say.”

But Valentis gave no answer.

He merely drank the wine that filled his glass about halfway.

Tie instinctively grasped the situation.

‘Grand Commander-nim knows!’

He hurriedly lowered his hand beneath the table.

And he pushed the Sanctum of Oblivion hanging from his wrist inside his sleeve.

‘She knows everything, that Tie has a relic……!’

And as if even that were not enough,

‘Sanctum of Oblivion does not work on me.’

It seemed she even remembered, in full, the fact that Tie had tried to erase her memory.

‘Uh…… what do I do?’

His heart began to pound violently.

Tie looked at Basto with frightened eyes.

Now that she had been caught having the relic, would Grand Commander-nim try to take the relic away from Tie?

They had said that when a relic was found, the religious order always confiscated it.

‘Then could the thing about showing the organization chart be a lie too……?’

If the truth was that she thought Tie was a thief and had called her in order to arrest her……!

It was while the worry in his head kept growing.

“It is the principle that all byproducts that come out after besieging a magic stone be reported to the religious order.”

Valentis said in a low, hard voice.

At some point he was staring directly at Veil, who was standing.

“Especially special forms of spoils like relics are controlled even more strictly. If you obtained one, you must report it to the religious order. And you must voluntarily surrender it. Otherwise you are punished for blasphemy.”

“What? We said we don’t know anything about that……!”

“Even if you did not know, that is holy law.”

Valentis cut off Veil’s words.

Then he continued speaking in a voice without ups or downs.

“Talochium is a nation governed under the name of God. Above state law there is holy law, and those who violate it are punished. Those who colluded with them, and those who saw them and closed their eyes as well, are no exception.”

In the end, silence fell inside the banquet hall.

Tie looked around in the silence in which not even breathing could be heard.

Raul and Enzo too had at some point risen from their seats.

Kkamangi, sitting at the far end, had been staring only at Tie since a little while ago.

Before long, Veil, muttering a silent curse, stared sharply at the three young masters across from him.

Seeing that gaze, Tie understood right away.

‘This is bad.’

That look in Veil’s eyes only came out when he was trying to break through a critical situation.

So Veil was now figuring out, somehow, how to deal with the three young masters and the duke of Luminen and get out of the mansion.

Just like then, when he threw a punch at Reginald’s jaw!

“However, I.”

But then, Valentis opened his mouth again.

When she slowly turned her head, her unfathomable blue eyes stared straight at Tie.

“Instead of reporting you to the religious order, I have decided to become an accomplice in this matter.”

In the briefly frozen air.

Tie’s lips, as she stared with her eyes round, parted.

“Accomplice hat……? What’s accomplice hat, uup.”

Basto hurriedly covered Tie’s mouth with his hand.

“What do you mean by that.”

At this moment Basto’s heart was pounding violently.

That was only natural, because he had been prepared to grab Tie and jump out the window if Veil gave the signal.

Blasphemy was a charge they absolutely must not get entangled with no matter what happened.

So when that word came out of the Grand Commander’s mouth, the members each quickly exchanged glances.

They had concluded that even if bloodshed had to occur, they would get out of the mansion.

Of course, turning the Luminen family into an enemy was practically no different from asking to die.

But.

‘First we have to get out before we can hide Tie somewhere separately or do anything at all.’

But what had the Grand Commander just said?

‘I will report you to the religious order,’ or.

‘I will handle it internally,’ was not what he said.

He said, ‘I will become an accomplice’?

At Valentis’s gesture, the butler came carrying several thick bundles of documents.

“You know this as well, I assume. The Holy Knights master organization chart is a confidential document of the religious order. It is material that absolutely must not be shown to outsiders.”

The butler set the materials down beside Tie with a thump.

“However, I have no intention of breaking my promise. Would this be enough of an answer.”

But even so, the silence that had settled in the banquet hall did not readily leave.

In the meantime, Valentis’s gaze turned placidly toward Tie.

“It will probably not end quickly. So.”

“……”

“First, eat heartily, and then slowly look for your father. Even if it takes several days, that is fine.”

Basto’s hand, which had been covering Tie’s mouth, slowly fell away.

Tie looked at Valentis with bewildered eyes.

Grand Commander-nim’s eyes, shining like the sea, did not seem like those of someone telling a lie.

The child asked carefully.

“Th-then is it okay if Tie keeps the bracelet……?”

She was really saying she would overlook the fact that Tie had Sanctum of Oblivion?

Valentis nodded.

“Yes. I promise that on my side, that fact will not leak out.”

“Even though Tie tricked Grand Commander-nim, you’ll still show the master organization chart?”

“……Tricked, you say. It could be seen that way, but in the end, does it matter. As I said a little while ago, Sanctum of Oblivion did not work on me.”

Tie closed her mouth.

Then after hesitating for a long time, he added one last question.

“Is it because Tie is pitiful?”

Valentis froze for a moment.

A slightly surprised look touched the expressions of the three young masters across from him too.

Hesitating, Tie looked back at the members and then asked again.

“Are you helping because it’s pitiful that Tie has neither Daddy nor Mommy?”

Valentis did not answer.

She merely looked at Tie with a strange gaze, then answered a long while later.

“No.”

And as if nothing had happened, he lifted his wineglass again and added,

“It is to lessen my own personal guilt. It is not because of you.”

* * *

After the meal ended.

The bundles of materials they had seen in the banquet hall were placed before Agabert after they moved to the great conference hall.

“This is the Holy Knights master organization chart.”

Tie, with Basto seated to his right and Veil seated to his left, drew in a short breath.

“It is bound in a total of eight volumes, and the first, second, and third volumes are the knights belonging to Talochium.”

Tie listened hard to the old butler’s explanation.

The old man set blank paper and charcoal to the right side as well so that Tie could take notes at any time, then withdrew.

“Then.”

The door of the great conference hall closed with a bang.

A few seconds later, Raul let out the breath he had been holding.

“W-what in the world is happening now……!”

The other members found it just as hard to believe the situation.

As if representing them, among those at the meal a little while ago, the only one who had properly enjoyed the food was Tie alone.

That was because everyone else had been too tense to eat properly.

“Was failing to surrender a relic something that could be brought up as far as blasphemy?”

Sure enough, Basto asked.

Enzo shook his head as if he had not known.

“It is not! No, when I think about it…… I am not sure.”

Up to now, the number of times relics had appeared from magic stones was few enough to count on one hand.

But most of those had been found by Holy Knights, and there had been exactly one case of a mercenary finding one.

“When Trevaga found one, that side voluntarily surrendered the relic to the religious order so quickly, did they not……”

So no one had expected that secretly possessing a relic would be such a serious ‘crime.’

“Damn it, how would we know some nonsense like holy law or whatever that is!”

Veil shouted irritably.

As he said, for an ordinary person who was not a Holy Knight or a believer, it was common-sense difficult to know holy law thoroughly.

“The Grand Commander goes and puts something terrifying like blasphemy on the kid too……”

Blasphemy, the charge given only to those who insulted or defied God.

It was the principle that prisoners charged with this were escorted to the central continent.

And among them, there was none who returned.

There were only abundant rumors that they suffered terrible punishments and ended their lives in agony.

“In any case, Grand Commander Luminen said he would close his eyes to it.”

At Raul’s words, Enzo nodded.

“That’s right. I do not know exactly what he meant by saying he would become an accomplice, but……”