A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 127
Chapter 127
Tie looked shyly at Alexander, who was spreading both arms toward him.
“Tie can walk too……”
But Alexander let out a low laugh, then lifted Tie right up and settled him on one shoulder.
“Waaah-!”
At the higher viewpoint, laughter burst from Tie’s mouth.
Seeing the child stretch her arms toward the ceiling, Alexander said playfully,
“The last time too, you fell and didn’t cry. Miss Tie is very brave. Aren’t you afraid of heights?”
Tie shook her head while ducking her own head so Alexander could go out into the hallway.
“Not at all! When Mister Basto gives Tie a shoulder ride, it’s high enough to touch even the trees, and Tie thinks it’s super fun!”
At that Alexander let out an ah.
“You mean that member who looked like a wild bear?”
“Wild bear? Uahahahng!”
Tie burst into giggles again.
In the child’s head, the image of Basto wearing a bear mask and going ‘Uwooo!’ was billowing up.
At that moment Alexander opened his mouth in a dispirited voice.
“That member was tremendously tall. Compared to that, my shoulder ride must be poor. Too low.”
Tie, startled, lowered her head in a hurry.
“No…… uah!”
But because of that, his upper body pitched forward as his center of gravity collapsed.
Even so, Alexander leisurely flipped Tie around and adjusted him in front.
“No?”
At the sight of Alexander asking back, Tie, who without realizing it had clung tightly to his shoulder, shook his head violently.
“Yes! It’s not that! Tie thinks carriage mister’s shoulder ride is even more super super fun! It’s more fun than Mister Basto’s!”
At that moment, from behind, there came a “Pfft!”
When he turned his head, Basto was walking with the members behind him, wearing a deathly dark expression.
“Basto, what are you going to do now? The kid completely fell for someone he met only a day ago.”
At Veil’s teasing, Basto answered icily.
“What are you talking about. You were thrown away just the same.”
“Wh-what, thrown away?!”
At the sound of the two bickering, Tie slyly watched Alexander’s expression.
But Alexander only smiled brightly at Tie.
“Then that’s a relief. If Miss Tie wants, I could carry you to the banquet hall every morning.”
“Really……?”
“Of course. Since it seems it will take at least several more days to check the documents. How about it, shall I escort you to the banquet hall every morning from now on?”
The face of Tie, who had kept her mouth firmly shut, grew rosy.
“Then……”
It was when the child, after dragging it out, finally nodded shyly.
“Well, well. If it isn’t little child Necromancer King.”
In front of the banquet hall.
Someone who had been just about to go inside stopped at the door.
It was Edmund, in floating hair and pajamas, waving brightly.
Still held in Alexander’s arms, Tie bent deeply from the waist.
“Rich lantern mister, did you sleep well.”
But Edmund shook his head playfully.
“Unfortunately, I didn’t sleep well. A skeleton came out in my dream, you know?”
Tie’s eyes grew round.
“Skelleton? Bone friends came out in your dream?”
Edmund let out an exaggerated sigh.
“Yes. Maybe because I’m not as brave as the Necromancer King? When I saw the bone friends, my body started trembling. Because I was scared.”
At the sight of Edmund rubbing both arms with his hands, a broad grin floated up to Tie’s mouth.
The child immediately answered with a proud expression.
“……Ahem, even though Tie is four years old, bone friends aren’t scary at all.”
“Really? Wow, how can you be so brave? I’m twenty-eight years old and bone friends are still so scary. I guess that’s why the world these days calls the Necromancer King a legend.”
“Legend……?”
“Yes. I’m a very high Holy Knight in the Central Battalion, but no one calls me a legend. Maybe that’s why I feel just a little jealous?”
The corners of the child’s mouth went all soft.
Legend meant, in other words, legendary rank.
“Tie already became a legendary-rank Tanipang……”
Tie, chuckling like the strongest one would, tapped Alexander’s shoulder and said,
“Tie is getting down!”
Once Alexander set him down, Tie came running up to Edmund.
And, so excited, he clasped Edmund’s hand tightly.
“Lantern mister, do you want to sit next to Tie while we eat?”
Edmund exchanged glances with Alexander, his eyes slightly surprised.
But soon he smiled kindly.
“Then it would be an honor for me. If not now, when else would I sit next to the Necromancer King. Right, Alex?”
As if he had been waiting for that, Alexander joked,
“I’m jealous, hyung.”
The corners of Tie’s mouth softened once again.
Without realizing it, the child straightened her shoulders all the way and turned her head.
And he informed the members standing some distance away.
“Hey, today Tie is going to eat breakfast with carriage mister and rich lantern mister!”
Veil made an absurd expression.
“What?! Kid. Isn’t this getting a bit much since yesterday? How can you ignore us like this?”
Letting out a sigh, Tie shook her head from side to side.
“Veil hyung. This isn’t ignoring, it’s business.”
“……What?”
“Didn’t you hear yesterday? Grand Commander-nim said now we’re all accomplices.”
Edmund pressed his lips tightly together.
He was doing his utmost to hold back the laughter bursting out.
“Being accomplices means that we all put on bear hats together and become friends.”
“Who says?”
“The thinking inside Tie’s head.”
“No, what……”
“And look. Tie is the boss leading Agabert, right. Bosses originally eat with new friends for business. To test who’s above and who’s below!”
“Not affection, but superiority? ”
“……That or that!”
As if he couldn’t do anything about it, Veil finally let out a sigh.
With a snort of laughter, he answered,
“Fine, do as you want. You’re the little commander, so do what the little commander wants.”
Tie made a dignified expression.
“Okay! I learned this at kindergarten, but friends are something you can’t keep all to yourself. They say you also have to know how to share and play with other friends.”
Afterward the child grinned and turned her body around.
When Edmund opened the door for him, the banquet hall where breakfast had been set out came into view.
At the seat of honor, as always, sat Valentis, and beside him Leonardo was eating.
Holding Edmund’s hand, Tie ran over on pattering feet and stood before Valentis.
“Grand Commander-nim, you slept well, right!”
Valentis looked at Edmund and Alexander, who had come together with Tie, with a surprised face.
But soon he smiled and answered,
“Yes. I wonder whether your sleeping arrangements were comfortable.”
“Tie slept well! I even dreamed about going to kindergarten again.”
“Kindergarten? Do you mean an academy?”
Sitting up on the chair, Tie nodded her head.
“Yes. Kindergarten is fun because there are friends there, but Tie can’t go anymore.”
Valentis set down his utensils.
After sinking into thought for a moment, he asked back,
“Because of your status?”
The Necromancer King was currently known to have only the outward appearance of a child, while in truth not being a child.
With such rumors widespread, it was realistically impossible for the child to freely go to an academy.
“Yeees…… since I became a mercenary, it can’t be helped.”
While Tie was becoming dispirited, a small piece of bread spread with strawberry jam was set before the child.
Edmund himself had spread the jam and cut it so it would be easy to eat.
Tie put the bread into her mouth in one bite and chewed.
“Buh if, laher, Agabehr gets super super big.”
Then, after swallowing and drinking milk as well, he continued speaking.
“Then Grandpa Nordix said maybe Tie might be able to go to kindergarten again!”
Valentis looked at the members of Agabert.
Then, after wiping the milk mark at the corner of Tie’s mouth with a napkin, she said,
“That as well, but. I think there may be a faster way than that.”
At those words, everyone’s gaze converged on Valentis.
Tie, who had been in the middle of picking up a second piece of bread, opened her eyes round.
“Really?”
Valentis nodded his head.
“Inside the eastern part of the Boundary of the Old and New, there is a place called Flint Cove. It is an underdeveloped area where commoners who work in the imperial capital gather and live.”
“Underdeveloped area……?”
“From what I have learned so far, the region itself is quite closed off. Most of the residents are unaware of outside news, and it is as if there is no information spread about mercenaries.”
Tie tilted her head, while Alexander let out an ah.
“Come to think of it, I remember. Every time I went out for medical support, I believe I saw quite a few decent childcare facilities there.”