A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 136

Chapter 136

Meanwhile, Tie swallowed hard.

That was because there was something he could see only at this moment.

Right before his eyes, the wave of mana stretching out from his body had become threads and was binding the souls of the two servants.

‘Waaah, what is this?’

Everything had happened just a little while earlier.

The moment the servants brought plates to Tie and Selina.

At that time, Tie was finally able to realize it.

‘Selina is being mistreated!’

Of course, at first it had been only a small suspicion.

Because when he entered the mansion, he had seen a woman speaking sharp words as if targeting Selina.

But he soon thought that could not be it.

‘Mistreatment is something only the bad roles who are strong and rich do, right……?’

In Heungbu and Nolbu, it was Nolbu.

In Kongjwi and Patjwi, it was the stepmother and Patjwi who mistreated the main character.

But unlike them, the servants in this mansion were only hired workers.

People who received wages from Selina’s parents and did housework.

Selina, on the other hand?

‘Selina is super rich, pretty, has Mommy and Daddy too, and is a noble child.’

So Tie could only think that way.

‘Yeah, Selina can’t possibly be getting mistreated.’

But when the servants brought food that smelled musty, his thoughts changed.

Only then did Tie realize that she had forgotten one very important thing.

‘Selina is…… still a small child like Tie, right?’

She was smart and pretty and rich, but Selina was young.

And some adults treated children carelessly.

Thinking that because they were children, they would not know anything, they behaved however they liked.

Of course, Tie had experienced that sort of thing before too.

At Unit 205, where he was sometimes left whenever there was nobody at all who could watch him.

‘Again? You ate that much just a little while ago and you’re eating again? You really do have a tremendous appetite. Good grief……’

The lady in Unit 205 disliked Tie.

When Daddy pleaded with her, she said with a smiling face that she would take good care of Tie, but the moment the door closed, her expression hardened completely.

That lady absolutely would not give her the milk Daddy had sent along for Tie to drink either.

Instead, she gave him old bread and things like that from the house, things that smelled musty like the food before his eyes.

‘Selina……’

Once she guessed the situation, Tie soon became so upset she could not stand it.

Did Selina’s mommy and daddy know that the people in this house gave Selina bad food and said cruel things?

Probably not.

Tie too had never told Daddy in the end that she had gotten a stomachache after eating bread at Unit 205.

Because he was afraid Daddy’s heart would hurt, he had not been able to tell the truth.

Looking at the plate, Tie drooped her eyebrows.

‘It would be nice if Tie could tell Selina’s mommy and daddy instead.’

It was at that very moment.

Thunk.

That suddenly a wave of mana flowed out from Tie’s body.

The wave quickly became dozens of thin threads and clung smack to the bodies of the two servants.

Then Tie examined the souls of the two people, which had begun appearing vividly before her eyes.

Small cracks were forming on the surface of the servants’ souls where the threads touched.

As the cracks deepened, something came billowing out through those gaps.

“Helga! Are you crazy? What’s wrong with you?”

“It’s not that I wanted to say it! My mouth moved on its own……!”

“No matter how much you think the young lady is an easy, stupid target, do you not know you’ll get fired if you say something like that right in front of her?! To lightly think that a job where you can work sloppily and still receive a large salary…… why, wh-why is this!”

Watching, Lucarion grabbed Tie’s arm as though he found it interesting.

“You made cracks in their souls.”

Tie looked at Lucarion in bewilderment.

“Craaacks……?”

“Yes. A cracked soul can’t properly keep the true thoughts or emotions inside it contained. So they leak out like that.”

Swallowing hard, Tie looked back at the servants.

It seemed Lucarion could see the same scene Tie was seeing.

It was then.

“Lea, can’t you shut up for once?! Acting all superior every day, and then at an important moment you can’t tell what should and shouldn’t be said? That’s why, mmph!”

“What? How dare you say that to me……! I even pretended not to see it the other day when you swiped Baroness’s earrings, and yet!”

“What are you saying in front of tin-can again?! If this keeps up, then I’ll tell the baron couple all of your atrocities too! That every morning you purposely tie that tin-can head so it hurts! Mmph!”

Growing anxious at the sight of them willingly confessing their wrongs, Tie hurriedly turned her head toward Selina.

Selina was blankly looking at the two servants. However,

‘That isn’t the expression of someone who’s surprised……?’

Even hearing the servants’ words, Selina showed no sign at all of being shocked or hurt.

As though she had been treated this way by them for quite a long time.

“I never directly bullied tin-can the way you did, all right?! If that gets found out you’ll go to prison, but I won’t!”

“Are you sure about that? Even if I tell everything about the atrocities you’ve committed all this time?! And when did you never directly bully tin-can? Every time you bathed her……”

“N-now then. Since that’s enough, how about both of you shut up now?”

But at that moment, someone behind them spoke in a dry voice.

When Tie turned her head, the threads that had been connected to the servants’ souls snapped, and the dining room grew quiet.

Standing behind them was Veil.

“A communicator really is useful, huh? Who knew these days they could record too. Think it can transmit as well?”

Resting on his palm was the communicator that had been upstairs.

“Th-that……!”

One of the servants’ faces went white.

The other servant too opened her mouth in shock.

“Kid, I did well, right?”

In the meantime, Veil strolled over and stood before Tie.

“I saw you were moving, so I went and got it right away. What do you think, doesn’t it feel like we work together perfectly? I’m better than Basto, right? Hm?”

When Veil operated a button on the surface of the communicator, a clear sound flowed out from inside.

-My mouth moved on its own……!

-No matter how much you think the young lady is an easy, stupid target, do you not know you’ll get fired if you say something like that right in front of her?! Mmph! To get a job where you can work sloppily and still receive a large salary……

Listening to the recording, Tie looked at Veil with admiring eyes.

Just a moment ago he had definitely been right beside them.

And yet Veil had really gone up to the second floor and returned in the blink of an eye.

It was a moment in which Tie felt he somehow understood why Raul always praised Veil’s agility.

The recording continued to play.

-I never directly bullied tin-can the way you did?!

-Are you sure? Even if I tell everything about the atrocities you’ve committed all this time?!

“Give me that!”

At that moment, one servant lunged toward Veil.

But Veil lightly twisted his body to avoid her, then wore an amused smile around his mouth.

“Ah, so that’s how you’re going to play it? I won’t stop you if you really want the children to see an ugly scene, but…… are you sure? It won’t end lightly.”

Startled, Tie hurriedly ran over to Veil.

“Don’t do it, Veil hyung! You promised to wash fists with Tie!”

“……”

At the end of the silence.

Veil clicked his tongue and looked at the communicator.

“Yeah, well. Why stick your nose into somebody else’s household affairs.”

Then, operating the communicator,

“The best policy in times like this is to let them solve it themselves.”

he transmitted the recorded sound to the coordinates Selina had input.

“Wh-what, what did you just do?”

Coming to her senses, Selina hurriedly got down from the chair.

And straining, tried to snatch the communicator from Veil’s hand.

“Where did you send that, huh?!”

Holding the communicator high, Veil answered calmly.

“There was only one stored coordinate, wasn’t there? Your parents?”

Tears welled up in Selina’s eyes.

“Th-that is right, but I never gave permission for you to send something like that! Give it here!”

It was just when Veil furrowed his brow.

“Selina, don’t do that……!”

Tie, tearful, hugged Selina tightly.

Then, his throat choked, he said in a sorrowful voice.

“Tie knows too what it’s like not to want to make Mommy and Daddy’s hearts hurt. But if you don’t say it now, Mommy and Daddy will be a hundred times, a thousand times sadder later!”

Back in the Republic of Korea.

Daddy only found out much later that the lady in Unit 205 had mistreated Tie.

It was after the neighbors, having sensed something was not right, had a huge shouting match with the lady in Unit 205.

At that time, Daddy had looked sadder than at any other time Tie had ever seen her.

“Selina didn’t do anything wrong at all!”

Selina’s lips parted slightly.

It was just when, as though about to burst into tears at once, she was trying to answer something.

“Kyaaaah-!”

This time a sharp scream sounded from the direction of the front entrance.

Then Veil, as though he had been waiting for it, muttered while tossing the communicator he held up into the air and catching it.

“Just in time, looks like they’re finally reacting over there too.”

She smiled at Tie.