A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 137

Chapter 137

Tie, who had run hurriedly to the front entrance, opened her mouth wide.

“Gasp, it really was poison dart bomb……!”

The front entrance.

In front of the steps where the cart had been left, eight servants were sprawled on the ground.

With little thorns stuck all over their arms and legs, each of them looked just like chestnut burrs.

“I thought there was something off, their eyes looked like starving rats who hadn’t eaten in weeks.”

Veil leisurely walked toward the front of the cart.

Under the sacks of gold on the cart, the two poison dart bombs he had placed there were gaping open in an activated state.

“Head Maid-nim!”

“Unni!”

Lea and Helga, who had chased after Tie’s party, collapsed to the ground.

In front of the head maid, who was lying stretched out closest to the cart.

“Unni! What’s wrong, are you okay? Hm?!”

But the head maid did not answer.

She only rolled her eyes while breathing in ragged gasps with a stiff face.

Veil said nonchalantly,

“She won’t be able to answer. That’s paralysis poison.”

Lea’s and Helga’s faces turned pale.

“Wh-what did you say? Are you insane right now?! Are you trying to kill everyone?! Seriously?”

But Veil did not so much as blink.

“Yeah. So what if I am?”

“What do you mean, what!”

“It’s fine when you people torment a blameless child. But I can’t torment people like you a little?”

“Th-that is……!”

As if speechless, the servants only opened and closed their mouths.

Veil looked at Tie.

“Kid. You say it once. I’ll follow the opinion of you, the little commander.”

Tie made a troubled expression.

The people were unable to move, rolling only their eyes.

It was true that the sight was a little frightening, but,

‘If it gets dangerous, don’t worry and go ahead and use it, Tie. Since I’m putting it in your bag because it’s a weapon worth using for you, after all. This poison is paralysis poison, and it doesn’t endanger life. It comes off quickly with antidote.’

According to what Basto had said, poison dart bombs were not dangerous enough to take a person’s life.

If you were hit by one, it would hurt a little and your body would be paralyzed for a while, that was all.

“Say it quickly. I’m asking what we’re doing.”

Tie pressed both cheeks firmly with her hands and agonized.

But at that moment, the hands of the collapsed servants entered his field of vision.

Each of them was clutching a handful of gold coins they had stolen from Tie’s cart.

Tie’s face slowly turned serious.

‘……Really, super bad people!’

The servants of this house were not satisfied with tormenting Selina, they had even tried to steal Tie’s money.

If he made a hundred concessions, he could forgive the money, because they could just earn it again,

‘But several adults tormenting a child is a crime!’

Having made up her mind, Tie opened her eyes wide.

“Selina, do you know this? A needle thief becomes a gold-coin thief.”

“A gold-coin thief……? What’s that?”

“Mm-hm, it means that the thieves who steal Tie’s gold coins all first stole tiny things like needles!”

Selina’s eyes grew wide.

Before long, the child’s face darkened and she opened her mouth.

“That’s right. Actually……”

But Selina could not finish her words, only shrank her shoulders.

‘Wh-why, why can’t I breathe all of a sudden?’

It was because the fear she had kept suppressed all this time had suddenly come rushing in.

At first she had not spoken because she did not want to worry her parents.

But from a certain point on, even if she wanted to tell the truth to her parents, she could not do it.

Whenever she was facing the servants, her chest tightened and she could not breathe.

An auditory hallucination hummed in her ears and echoed.

‘Nothing will change. Not now, not ever.’

Just as the feeling of her body sinking into a deep swamp was making the strength leave Selina’s legs.

“Selina, look at Tie a little.”

Tie took Selina’s hand tightly.

Then, as if he had read Selina’s heart, he said,

“You know, don’t be scared. Tie will bring all the members and protect Selina from now on! Okay?”

Selina could not say anything at all.

Without realizing it, tears welled at the corners of her eyes.

‘……So they say he’s a mercenary.’

Was that why?

Tie was a brave and kind child.

He had more dignity than the other noble children who attended the Imperial Royal Academy, and was more mature even than her, who was one year older.

Suddenly, Selina remembered the day Tie moved into the house in front.

An evening when the festival was in full swing.

The night when every servant had thrown Selina aside and gone out to the street.

That day, Selina first discovered Tie while looking out the window.

A mansion brightly lit up.

Someone welcoming the child across the garden, and bright smiling faces filling the space around her.

Every person around Tie looked at her with loving eyes.

They stroked her head kindly, and affection showed through in every gesture of lifting her up.

That was why the next day Selina climbed over the fence into Tie’s house.

Because the warmth overflowing around Tie looked so enviable and warm.

Because even if only once, just once, she too wanted to touch it.

‘Our daughter, you’re doing well, right? The head maid said so? She said you eat well and go to the academy well! Mommy thinks our daughter is so wonderful and pretty. Once Mommy secures this contract, I’ll come, so wait just a little longer, all right?’

‘Selina! Our pretty daughter! Daddy bought you lots of presents. I always love you, Selina. If we struggle only a few more years, you too, and even your children, will be able to completely settle in the imperial capital. Though we suffered……’

Selina’s parents were people who hated poverty terribly.

Apparently that was because when Selina had just been born, they had been desperately poor.

Once, Mother had said.

That when Selina was a newborn baby, she had not even produced much milk, and so had had to enter a forest crawling with monsters.

That was why Father had only one arm.

Even after losing an arm to a monster, Father kept going into the forest and gathering herbs.

Because they had to at least boil those herbs into gruel so that Mother and Selina would have something to eat.

But when she was small, Selina ate that herb gruel once and became gravely ill.

Her whole back became covered in boils, and she really nearly died.

It was from then on that her parents began working desperately.

Father, with a body no longer sound, threw himself into dangerous work he had never done in his life.

Mother was the same.

By the time Selina had just started walking, they were moving once every few weeks.

From outside the imperial capital to the outskirts, and from the outskirts again to the central region.

And finally, to Rosewobel Street.

As a result of her parents, who had started merchant-company businesses, winning the favor of high figures in the religious order, Selina had at some point become a baron’s daughter.

‘Now it’s safe, my love! Only now have we finally been able to raise our daughter in a safe place……!’

‘Uhuk…… Selina!’

That day.

Selina saw her parents shedding tears of joy.

He saw Father’s empty sleeve flutter every time he sobbed.

Selina told herself again and again.

This is a good thing.

So I too should be happy and grateful.

Because everything is what Mommy and Daddy achieved through their hard efforts all this time.

But……

Whenever she saw her parents return from their trips and then leave again right away, she wanted to say it.

It’s not money that I want.

It’s not the status of being the daughter of a baron family that I wanted either.

What I want is…… just to be with Mommy and Daddy.

Tears flowed.

Astie wiped away Selina’s tears.

“Se-Selinaa. Don’t cryyy……”

For a long time, she had always grieved alone in silence.

Because the wounds scraped by the servants’ hands hurt, because she was hungry, or because she was lonely.

“Tie keeps wanting to cry too……”

But this moment felt different somehow.

Looking at Tie, Selina clumsily wiped the corners of her eyes.

She had not known that the fact that someone was by your side could give this much courage.

‘Because Tie is…… my friend.’

Tie was Selina’s friend.

A friend she had finally only just now come to have, no matter how much she had wished and tried until now.

Selina opened her lips.

And in a voice barely audible, she sniffled.

“Tie. Actually, the head maid…… if there was anything valuable among my things, she took it away saying she’d clean it for me.”

Her voice shook, but she tried hard to speak clearly.

“And then, huuu, she never gave it back again. It’s mine, Mommy and Daddy gave it to me!”

The tears she had held back began to spill again.

Tie’s lips parted slightly.

Before long, Tie turned to look at Veil.

An expression full of anger had spread across her face.

Speaking as though everyone should hear, Tie said,

“……Say, Veil oppa. If we don’t give them the antidote, then everyone who gets hit by the poison dart bombs goes to heaven, right?”

The servants flinched, and Veil’s expression turned strange.

That people did not die from poison dart bombs was a fact Veil and Tie knew better than anyone.

‘And yet for her to say it like that means……’

As if he found it interesting, Veil smiled.

“……Wow, our squirt. You’ve really become the Necromancer King.”