A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 133

Chapter 133

“Did you wait for Tie?”

Selina opened and closed her mouth as if flustered.

Then she shouted sharply.

“Wait for you, what do you mean wait for you! I just meant that as the neighbor in the house in front, I wondered where you’d gone.”

Tie nodded her head.

Then, after staring hard at Selina, he carefully removed the leaf stuck on top of her head.

“But Selina young lady, did you perhaps come in through the fence again?”

Selina’s face turned bright red once again.

Then Selina spoke in a voice barely loud enough to be heard.

“I-I rang the bell several times, but there was no answer, so I really had no choice but to come in……”

“Really? That’s strange, there are lots of people in the house, so why didn’t they hear the bell?”

“H-how should I know! It’s young lady’s house, so young lady should know.”

“I see, okay! Tie will definitely fix the bell later!”

Selina looked at Tie as if she were absurd.

Then before long her shoulders drooped.

“……But why are you waiting for the house next door?”

Tie opened her eyes round, then mumbled her words.

“Well, um, because it’s next door……!”

“Because you want to be close with your neighbors?”

“Mmm……”

“Do you think there might be a child your age there? Even if the owner of the house isn’t an ordinary noble family but a mercenary company?”

For some reason Selina added in a disgruntled tone.

“And if it’s for something like that, do you have to wait for people to come into the house next door? I’m in the house in front too.”

As Tie’s mouth fell open, Selina’s face reddened again.

“No! I only meant that you looked around my age too, and it seemed like we talked well last time……!”

Silence fell between the two children.

Watching Selina avoid her gaze, Tie realized inwardly.

‘I get it. Selina really did want to play with Tie.’

There had been kids like this in Quail Class too.

If they wanted to play together, they could just come and say, ‘Let’s play!’

But for some reason their faces would turn red, and they would instead say where they had gone last weekend.

Or what snacks they liked, things like that.

Princesses of Quail Class, Seoyun and Harin, disliked that sort.

And deliberately tried harder not to play together, but Tie was the type who played well with everyone in a friendly way.

Tie quickly smiled bashfully.

“Mm-hm, last time was fun too! Then are we friends?”

Selina’s eyes widened.

The child’s lips parted, and before long a small voice hesitantly leaked out.

“N-no, well, I……”

“You know, then do you want to go inside and play squirrel game? Whoever gnaws the corn fastest wins!”

After blinking for several seconds, Selina hurriedly nodded her head.

“All right!”

“Okay! Let’s go!”

Tie took Selina’s hand.

Without realizing it, Selina looked down at the hands clasped together with Tie’s.

‘Young lady, go away. I have no intention of letting you join the game.’

The voice she had heard that morning at the Imperial Royal Academy brushed past her ears.

‘Father said not to play with young lady. He said people don’t play with nouveaux riches who bought a title with money.’

‘Selina isn’t even a real noble, so why does she keep pretending to be refined? It’s ridiculous, really.’

Without realizing it, Selina rubbed the corners of her eyes.

Then, hesitating, she followed Tie.

* * *

Tie and Selina gnawed through no less than two ears of corn each.

Then, only after lying on their stomachs in front of the fireplace and chatting for a long while, did they get up again.

Tie stood at the front door and saw Selina off.

Though seeing her off only amounted to watching Selina cross the road and go home.

“Selina! Let’s play squirrel game again tomorrow!”

“All right!”

Veil, watching the two children waving their hands round and round across the street, burst into laughter.

Taking Tie’s hand and leading her into the mansion, she asked,

“Kid. Is playing with corn really that fun?”

“Yes!”

“And did the noble kid in the house in front say it was fun too?”

“Mm-hm, she said it was fun. I didn’t know, but it seems like the friends in Selina’s academy are super bad kids.”

While they played squirrel game, Selina had told Tie a little about herself.

“Selina wasn’t originally a noble, but they say Mommy and Daddy bought one for her because they have a lot of money.”

“A title?”

“Yes! So now Selina is a noble too, but the bad friends in the academy won’t play with Selina. They say Selina isn’t a noble, she’s a nouveau riche.”

“Kids are scary, scary. However many years apart they are, it can’t be much, and already from this age……”

“So Tie told Selina that Tie is a nouveau riche too!”

Looking down, Tie’s face looked somehow very proud.

“You did? Good job.”

Answering in a bewildered way, Veil was entering the mansion side by side with Tie when.

“So anyway, Tie is a nouveau riche, so I’m going to buy something!”

“Buy? What are you going to buy?”

It was the first time since the weapons district that Tie had said she wanted to buy something.

At that conversation, the members in the dining room and living room also gathered around.

With a curious face, Nordix asked,

“Tie, are you thinking of using the reward money?”

Tie nodded her head round and round.

“Yeees! Teleportation circles! I’m buying a whole lot!”

Then, without even taking off his outer clothes, he continued speaking.

“We’re going to buy teleportation circles, and from now on besiege lots and lots and lots of magic stones! Because Tie is a secretly strong Necromancer King!”

Basto’s eyes grew large.

“Because, anyway, Agabert is a mercenary company, right, so we have to besiege lots and lots of magic stones, right?”

What Tie said was correct.

To begin with, the members’ goal as well was to besiege magic stones and grow the scale of Agabert.

The reason was simple.

When the scale of the mercenary company grew, Tie became safer.

The more members there were, the less often the commander had to step forward.

But even so.

“Kid, you were serious about having an appetite for power?”

At Veil’s question, Tie shrugged her shoulders.

“Mm-hm! Because Tie is a boss, it’s good if there’s lots of money and power.”

Raul and Enzo exchanged glances.

It sounded a little strange coming out of a child’s mouth, but once again there was nothing wrong with what Tie said.

“If there’s lots of money and power, the religious order can’t watch Tie either.”

For one thing, the grounds were solid,

“And Selina said there are super lots of magic stones these days. But because Tie has bone friends and subordinates, I can besiege small magic stones quickly, right?”

the intention was righteous and moral,

“And if all of us are going to keep eating and living, we can’t just save money, we have to keep expanding the business.”

and even the future plan was highly realistic and concrete.

In the end, Basto, who had gone stiff, repeated back,

“So you’re saying you want to buy teleportation circles?”

“Yes! We have to move fast fast so we can become the number 1 mercenary company quickly!”

As Tie said, a great deal of time was often spent going to and coming back from magic stone sieges.

If they had teleportation circles, they could shorten the travel time, so fast sieges would become possible.

But even so……

Raul and Enzo frowned.

“In other words, Commander’s words don’t simply mean we should put more force into besieging magic stones.”

“Do you mean to pass even Trevaga right now?”

“Yeees!”

After crying out briskly, Tie tilted her head.

“We can’t?”

In truth, just a little while ago Tie and Selina had not only played squirrel game.

While eating corn, Tie had squeezed her head and thought and thought some more.

‘I don’t think he will? The head maid says this house is for show.’

About Selina’s words that the house next door was for show, and that Daddy would not be coming back to this house.

If those words were true, what should Tie do?

‘I can’t chase Daddy to the North Continent either.’

If she just kept waiting until Daddy came, it felt like Tie absolutely wouldn’t be able to stand it.

On top of that, in the documents he had glimpsed at Grand Commander-nim’s house, it had been written like this.

That Trevaga and Tesetan were these days continuing sieges only in the North Continent.

Even a rough glance made it mean that if he waited for Daddy to come back, it would take ages and ages.

‘Then the one truly truly remaining method is just one!’

The child’s eyes sparkled.

The method Tie came up with was, quite simply, to make Daddy come looking for Tie herself.