A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 134
Chapter 134
The reason Tie came to think this was because of one incident in the past.
More exactly, it was something that had happened in the year before Daddy disappeared.
That day, Tie had come back from kindergarten and was with Grandma in Unit 107.
But then all of a sudden, the moving-center mister from the big alley came and banged on Tie’s house door.
“Mister Kim! Come out! I know you’re in there, so come out, you son of a……!”
Tie was startled by the curse words the man spat out.
But Grandma in Unit 107 did not so much as blink an eye, as befitted the commander of Gold Villa.
Instead, she leisurely went outside, clasped her hands behind her back, and dealt with the man.
“What brings Choi here.”
The moving mister, glimpsed through the crack of the opened door, had a bright red face.
“No, how can Mister Kim dry up all of somebody else’s work like this?!”
“Work?”
“I’m talking about the job of carrying the fresh goods for Singsing Mart in the morning! It was what I used to do, but Mister Kim took it! Doesn’t that man have any business ethics? If he lowers only his own daily wage without even talking to me first, what is that if not market disruption, huh?!”
Grandma laughed as if dumbfounded.
“Then you can lower your own daily wage too, can’t you.”
“Listen here, ma’am! How much do you think I make that I could lower my daily wage? And every time the sewer in that shopping strip gets clogged, I’m the one who unclogs it for money by the job! But Mister Kim goes and does it for free!”
“……”
“And those one-room moves in this neighborhood too! Everything I used to handle, Mister Kim stole by slashing the price! If I starve to death at this rate! If my business goes under, will Mister Kim take responsibility, huh?”
Only then did Tie realize that the “Mister Kim, Mister Kim” the man kept saying meant Daddy.
Come to think of it, he remembered how Daddy had looked busy day and night all that time.
Meanwhile Grandma snorted and shot back.
“Then why did you go and scratch at a person who works honestly, scratch at him. Tsk.”
The moving mister opened his eyes wide as if dumbfounded.
“What did you say?”
“You made such a show of yourself for giving work to a person whose identity wasn’t clear. But what did you do when it came time to pay him? Not half, you slashed his daily wage down to a third? Is that something a person does?”
“N-no, that was because I……”
“Hey, don’t you look down on the young man in 106! No matter how much trash like you stabs him in the back, he still works steadily! Didn’t he say he’ll raise his daughter to be the smartest in this whole neighborhood!”
Grandma absolutely did not lose to the moving mister.
“……I’m seriously going to tell your wife about the way you go and play around filthy at the hop house.”
Tie did not understand what Grandma’s last words meant.
But for some reason, the moving mister turned deathly pale and went back that very way.
And she never came to Tie’s house again.
Coming back into the room, Grandma patted Tie’s back and said,
“It’s okay, baby. People always go wild when their rice line gets cut off. He’s got a bad heart, that one, seriously at this rate I wish he’d just starve and di…… goodness, what am I saying in front of you.”
Tie realized something that day.
That when their rice line gets cut off, even crickets jump.
So no matter how she thought about it, there was only this one way to make Daddy come looking for Tie herself.
‘Tie is going to cut off Daddy’s rice line!’
Even if she did not literally cut off Daddy’s rice line, it would be enough if Tie only did better than Daddy’s mercenary company.
Because after learning Daddy’s identity, there were a few clues he could think of again belatedly.
‘Daughter, Daddy’s cool, right? Isn’t he cool? They said he was the number 1 Holy Knight.’
‘Mm-hm, cool.’
‘What’s with that reaction~ Say congratulations sincerely. Say Daddy’s the best.’
‘Mmm-hm, Daddy’s the best! But Daddy, do you like being number 1?’
‘……Who knows? Rather than liking it, I had to do that to feel at ease back then.’
‘At ease?’
‘Yes, it was a time when it was hard if I didn’t throw myself into some kind of goal. I had too many stray thoughts.’
She had not known it at the time, but now Tie could understand.
‘Daddy is in his stormy-youth period right now!’
So even if he had lied about his job, what he said about number 1 being his goal was true.
With certain eyes, Tie looked at the members.
“Tomorrow Tie is going to buy lots of teleportation circles and besiege magic stones fast fast fast! Super fast fast!”
Then, alone, he threw both hands up and cried out briskly.
“Until Agabert becomes number 1, fighting!”
* * *
The next day.
The members of Agabert were all forced to wake up at six in the morning.
That was because Tie, who had gotten up at dawn, properly dressed herself alone, and then opened Ppuppu’s subspace.
“Kkamang! This too!”
In accordance with Tie’s orders, Lucarion was flicking her hand this way and that.
Each time he did so, sacks full of gold coins floated through the air and were stacked neatly on the cart.
“Kid. What is all this?”
When half-awake Veil asked, Tie shrugged her shoulders.
“I told you yesterday. Tie is going to buy teleportation circles.”
“Where would there be teleportation circles?”
“At Selina’s house!”
At those words Raul and Enzo, who had been coming down the stairs, stopped.
Nordix too, who because he was not sleepy had been reading in the kitchen from early on, showed himself.
Regardless of that, Tie continued speaking innocently.
“Selina’s Mommy and Daddy sell lots of teleportation circles, so she says they have tons in the basement! She said if we pay money, we can take them. Friend sale!”
“What is a sale? More importantly, wait a second. You’re saying we’re going to the house in front right now?”
“Yes! Since it’s time for Selina to be awake now, quickly!”
Veil looked around at the members with a troubled face.
“No, even so……”
“Okay, let’s go!”
But in the meantime Tie was already flinging the front door wide open and going outside.
Lucarion, pulling the large cart, followed after Tie at a trot.
“……Kkyutchya!”
Ppuppu was nobly standing at the very front of the cart and swinging his nose around.
Watching that sight, Basto hurriedly stepped forward.
“Veil. You go along with him.”
“What?”
“We can’t send the kid alone, but if I or Raul or Enzo follows, it’ll draw attention, won’t it. You’re the best option, so follow him.”
Basto threw Veil his coat.
Veil narrowed his eyes, but after catching the coat, he went outside.
Tie and Lucarion had already gone beyond the main gate.
When they crossed the quiet road and arrived opposite, Tie, without even a little hesitation, pulled the bell.
A little later.
“……Who is it?”
A woman who had come out crossing the garden looked down at Tie through the iron gate bars as if asking what this was.
Tie first gave a bow from the waist and then said,
“Hello, I’m Selina’s friend, and I came to meet Selina!”
“……The young lady’s friend?”
“Yeees!”
The woman furrowed her brow.
After looking once at Veil and Lucarion standing behind Tie.
“……Come in.”
She unwillingly opened the main gate.
Tie, together with Ppuppu, crossed the garden in lively steps.
When the front door opened, he saw Selina standing in the first-floor hall in pajamas.
“Selina!”
“Tie?”
As if surprised, Selina looked around the surroundings.
Then, seeing Lucarion behind Tie, he looked with curious eyes at the cart Tie had brought.
“What brings you here so early in the morning……”
It was then.
“Ah, how annoying, suddenly saying she wants breakfast! She can just eat on her own and go. Honestly, she has no childish side at all, just sly like an old woman……”
Someone who had been climbing the stairs saw Tie’s group and stopped in place.
“……Ah.”
Then she closed her mouth, and pretending she had seen nothing, hurried back down below.
Tie stared at that sight, then turned her head.
For some reason Selina’s face had no energy at all.
She looked as if she had just woken up, but her hair was tightly tied today too, and the fists she was clenching were for some reason pale.