A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 135

Chapter 135

Meanwhile, Selina could not hide her surprised expression when she saw the cart.

“So, you’re saying you’ll buy teleportation circles with all of this?”

“Yes! Because Selina is giving me a friend sale.”

“Even so, I didn’t know you would buy this many……”

“Gasp, does that mean I can’t buy a lot……?”

Selina shook her head.

“No. Just in case, I’ll ask my parents. We have a communicator on the second floor.”

“A communicator?”

Veil cut in.

“You’ve got a communicator in your house?”

Selina nodded.

Without realizing it, Veil looked up at the railing on the upper floor.

They said she was a nouveau riche, and sure enough, Selina’s house was plastered with all kinds of luxury goods and expensive objects.

Even so, who would have thought there would be a communicator too.

In Talochium, communicators were expensive and rare.

On top of that, since you had to have a possession permit in order to use one, under normal circumstances they were difficult to use.

“How’d they get the permit. I heard that for anyone without connections to the imperial house, it would be hard even if they died and woke up again.”

“I don’t know very well either. Perhaps they spent money, don’t you think?”

Selina shrugged her shoulders and continued in a prim tone.

“My parents have a lot of money, after all. More importantly, this way.”

When Selina began going up to the second floor, Tie quickly followed after her.

As if they had been waiting for it, Lucarion and Ppuppu also climbed the stairs.

Watching the children disappear above the stairs, Veil slowly looked around the first floor of the mansion.

The cart placed in front of the stairs came into view.

At the same time, he sensed strange gazes directed toward him.

‘……Well, would you look at that. The atmosphere sure is weird.’

A crooked smile hung on Veil’s mouth.

Three in the kitchen, two in the basement.

Including one standing outside the front door and the presences in the backyard.

Even though it was a place where a child lived alone without parents, there were more than nine servants in this mansion.

But to Veil’s eyes, there was not even a single one among them whose expression looked even remotely decent.

Every one of them had rotten fish eyes, and on top of that they looked at the master they served as though she were troublesome.

Even when he came in just now, he had witnessed an appalling sight.

‘Ah, how annoying, suddenly saying she wants breakfast! She can just eat on her own and go.’

Recalling the woman who had mouthed impertinent words without any fear of listening ears, a greater interest appeared on Veil’s face.

“This is why children need their parents beside them.”

Murmuring gently, Veil walked up to the cart.

Then he lightly lifted one sack of gold coins and set it back down, and afterward climbed the stairs.

* * *

“Selina, who were the people in aprons from earlier?”

Tie asked after arriving at the room where the communicator was.

Selina opened her eyes round, then for some reason avoided Tie’s gaze.

“Th-they are the servants who work at the house.”

“Sayoyee?”

“The people who do things like cleaning and cooking. I said it yesterday, right? My parents are often away on business trips, so I live alone.”

Tie nodded her head.

Selina’s parents were merchant lords who operated several enormous merchant companies.

So she had said they were more often away from the house than in it.

But yesterday, when Tie had asked how she lived in the meantime, Selina answered weakly.

‘I just stay at home.’

‘Alone? Then how do you eat? Children aren’t supposed to eat only egg fry and ramen, they have to eat a balanced diet……!’

‘I don’t really know, because I’m not the one who cooks.’

‘Then?’

‘There are people in the house who do it for me. They also clean and send me to the academy every morning……’

But unlike the contents of her words, Selina’s expression was terribly dark.

When they played corn-eating game, she had been a happy squirrel the whole time.

But now she looked like a squirrel who had suddenly had all her acorns taken away.

Remembering what had happened yesterday, Tie quietly watched Selina operating the communicator.

Then Selina turned her head with a troubled face.

“It’s been a while, so it’s taking time to turn it on. I think we’ll have to wait a bit.”

Tie swung her hand round and round as if to say not to worry.

“Okay!”

And he said to Lucarion, who was sitting beside him,

“Kkamang, let’s wait just a little!”

“……As long as you want.”

Selina, coming closer, stole a glance at Lucarion.

“But who is this young master?”

“Young master?”

Tie’s mouth fell open.

But before long a thought occurred to him.

Young lady and young master both started with young.

That meant it was certain that young master was a word like young lady!

Feeling proud of his own powers of deduction, Tie answered,

“Mm-hm, Young Master Kkamangi is Tie’s friend! Say hello!”

As though shy, Selina dipped her head slightly. Then she asked,

“But then, how is it that you are together with this young master from so early in the morning?”

Tie grinned.

“Mm-hm, because we live together!”

“Wow, really?”

Curiosity appeared on Selina’s face.

As if she found it unexpected, the child’s eyes shone.

“I didn’t know, but Tie, you’re amazing. You already have a betrothal partner.”

“Betroth……?”

As if asking what that was, Tie looked at Lucarion.

But Lucarion only furrowed his brow with a displeased expression, not answering.

Selina laughed.

“It’s okay! I heard that people here on Rosewobel Street all do that. They make betrothals with each other starting from when they’re babies.”

“Marriage promise……?”

Tie’s face grew even more puzzled.

What was betrothal? It wasn’t even konjac.

On top of that, Lucarion kept doing nothing but sighing at his side, which made him even more curious what it was.

In the end, Tie stepped in.

“Tie doesn’t know what betrothal is. But the reason Tie lives with Lucariong isn’t because of betrothal, Tie is a mercenar……”

It was then.

Grrrrrrrrrrr.

An enormous sound rang through the room, and Selina’s face turned bright red.

“Th-that……”

Grrr.

Then another similar sound rang out once more.

This time it came from Tie’s stomach.

Just then, outside the door, Veil slowly showed himself.

“Don’t both of you need to eat something? It seems like it’s still a long way until the communicator starts working.”

Selina, who had gone rigid, hurriedly nodded.

* * *

After coming down to the dining room, Tie sat at the table and swung her legs.

Inside the kitchen, visible through the opening, the people Selina had called ‘servants’ were moving around.

“Why is this so dirty? You didn’t wash it?”

“Ha, we normally wash it in the morning! If I’d known this would happen, I would’ve washed it last night. Suddenly coming in all decked out and saying she’s going to eat……”

Tie tilted her head.

Selina had definitely said they were the people who took care of her.

But their voices did not sound kind or gentle at all.

Meanwhile, Selina too had lowered her head again on the opposite side.

It was then.

“A noble, they say?”

“No, they’re the commoners from the house in front.”

The voices in the kitchen, which had only half sounded as though they might be heard, suddenly became very clear.

When he turned his head, a transparent tube was stretching from Lucarion’s fingertips toward the kitchen.

Through the tube, the servants’ conversation could be heard even more vividly.

“Does tin-can play with those kinds of kids too? If the baron couple knew, their insides would burst. They sent her to the imperial royal academy and……”

“Shh! What if she hears?”

“She won’t hear, she’s a commoner, so it doesn’t matter. And anyway, she can’t hear.”

“Is that so? But did you see the cart? They’ve got a ton of money…… maybe she’s some noble’s illegitimate child or something?”

“I don’t know, what do I care. We should tell Head Maid-nim later about the gold coi…… no. Let’s talk later, and hurry and bring this out.”

The kitchen grew busy.

Soon after, two servants walked toward Tie and Selina.

With a clack, plates were set down in front of the two children.

Tie looked at the plates and her eyes widened in shock.

‘This is……’

Bacon burnt black.

Bread that you would believe had mold on it.

Even butter smeared all over with seasonings, as though someone had brought leftovers from what they had been eating.

Veil glared sharply at the servants, but they only gave a snorting laugh and said,

“It isn’t much of a proper meal. We hadn’t prepared breakfast since we didn’t know you would come.”

At that moment.

From Tie’s body, a wave of mana burst out by itself with a pang.

And then.

“And anyway, even if we serve some sloppy thing, the stupid young lady still eats it, right? She’s too creepy to even say anything to the baron couple. If she doesn’t eat what we give her, what can she do?”

A servant, who had suddenly ended up spilling what was inside her mind, froze in place.

Then, letting out a gasp, she clapped a hand over her own mouth.