A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 138
Chapter 138
Veil answered brazenly.
“Right. They don’t have long to live. At best, maybe they’ll last about two minutes?”
“Two minutes?! You said two minutes right now?!”
Lea and Helga sprang to their feet.
“U…… uh……”
The servants who had collapsed began wriggling with all their might.
Helga hurriedly stepped forward.
“D-don’t do this. Please, I’m telling you, give us the antidote! Are you trying to kill everyone? Seriously?”
But Tie only shrugged with a sullen expression.
Lea, growing desperate, ran up in front of Tie.
“A-a-а mercenary company can do this? A mercenary company that protects people from monsters can just go around hurting people like this?”
“Mm-hm? Tie’s mercenary company didn’t do any bad thing like that, though?”
“That’s nonsense! If this isn’t hurting people, then what is it!”
“But we only put poison dart bombs on the cart. Then some people came and touched them however they wanted, so the poison dart bombs went off……”
Helga could not refute that and closed her mouth.
Then Lea, who was beside her, shouted sharply.
“Wh-what did we do that was so wrong! As servants, is it such a terrible sin that we were a bit cold because the young lady we serve is a little annoying?!”
Watching that calmly, Tie muttered to herself as if she found it amazing.
“Wow, really, the person who farted is the one getting angry……!”
“U, uu!”
At that moment, an urgent scream came from behind them.
There, the head maid was letting out strange groans.
The head maid cast a desperate gaze at Helga and Lea, as if telling them to come here and look.
When the two of them dropped to the floor, the head maid moved her lips and said something.
After understanding those words, Helga’s and Lea’s complexions darkened.
Before long they came back to Tie.
“A-all right! We were wrong about everything! So please give us the antidote! The two minutes are almost up!”
But Tie answered firmly.
“I don’t want to. I’ll give the antidote when the servants bring back all the things of Selina’s they stole.”
He brought his kindergarten bag to the front as though showing it off.
And from inside, he took out the antidote and waved it before the two of them.
“First give back Mommy and Daddy things of Selina’s, and all the money you have too to Selina.”
“Uuu……!”
Those sprawled on the ground let out groans.
But Tie only smiled as though she were a boss from a movie.
‘Hmph. Tie isn’t stupid.’
If these people had stolen valuables from Selina’s family’s house, what they would have done with them was obvious.
They would have sold them and turned them into money.
He was angry and wronged, but these people had probably already spent most of that money.
“If you don’t want that, then all the bad servants can go to heaven together!”
“Uuu! Uaaau!”
A mumble begging for her life flowed out from the head maid’s mouth.
She sent another look toward Helga and Lea.
Helga and Lea, anxiously biting their nails, glanced at Tie and hurriedly spoke.
“I-if you really put it that way, actually there are some valuables we happened to find in the mansion in the lodging……”
“If you lie to Tie or hide things, then you’ll go to heaven then too.”
“I-in the basement storage too! And in the national vault r-rented under the young lady’s name too……!”
Veil stretched.
“Only now can we talk. Then first we should confirm it, right? If even one more thing that’s been siphoned off comes out, you die at the hands of our Necromancer King, got it?”
The servants trembled.
“A-all right! Th-then now you can give us the antidote……”
“Noble kid. You come with me. We have to check the lodging and the basement storage those brats talked about. I don’t know the structure of this house very well.”
Selina hesitantly took Veil’s hand.
“W-where are you going? You have to give the antidote before……!”
It was then that Tie called out brightly.
“Ppuppu! Evolve the subspace!”
The moment Ppuppu heard his name called, he spun his nose in circles and created a subspace in the air.
Tie then looked at Lucarion.
“Lucarion, let’s put these people in the subspace!”
Lucarion nodded and flicked his hand upward.
At once, Helga, Lea, and the paralyzed servants floated up into the air.
“Aaaah! What, what are you doing?! The antidote?!”
“Uuu!! Uuuuuuu!”
Even amid the flying screams, Tie only grinned.
Then, after taking one look at the servants in chaos.
“Ppuppu, close it!”
He started closing the subspace outright.
“W-wait a second-!!”
“No-!”
Tie watched the subspace as it began to close with a satisfied expression, and at the final moment stuck out her tongue.
Then, folding his arms, he smiled once more like an organized-crime boss.
“Mwahaha!”
If there were no antidote, the paralysis poison from the poison dart bomb would last ten hours.
So that meant the servants would have to tremble in fear for the next ten hours, thinking they might die without any antidote.
“An eye for an eye. And a butt for a butt! Mwahahaha!”
Tie’s booming laugh echoed through the mansion for quite a while like that.
Two hours later.
Selina, having found some of the valuables and money the servants had siphoned off, returned to the dining room again.
And in the kitchen she discovered an unfamiliar person.
“Selina! This auntie is Auntie Marshall. Since we’re hungry, she says she’ll make something delicious for us!”
“I-is that so?”
Come to think of it, she remembered seeing her a few times.
The old manager of the mansion across the street.
The kind woman who waved to Selina every time their eyes met.
Awkwardly sitting down in the chair, Selina soon saw Marshall approaching the table carrying two large plates.
“Our little ones will eat a lot, right? Eat vegetables here too.”
Selina blankly looked at the plate in front of her eyes.
Inside the richly colored soup she saw meat piled full.
On one side of the plate, perhaps with nutrition in mind, there were vegetables cooked until soft too.
“Eat a lot, and then eat more. When you’re young, you have to eat well so you can grow and grow.”
Marshall stroked Selina’s head.
“Thank you for the meal!”
Tie, who greeted briskly, was first to scoop up a big spoonful of soup and put it into her mouth.
“……”
Then Selina, taking up her spoon, lost all words.
The soup was truly delicious.
Not charred black meat, not undercooked vegetables.
It had been so long since she had eaten food that was delicious and properly cooked, food full of care, that the corners of her eyes stung on their own.
“Selina, don’t cry, eat Tie’s too!”
Seeing the corners of Selina’s eyes redden, Tie hurriedly stepped in.
Tie scooped up a heap of meat from her own soup and moved it into Selina’s soup.
It was when Selina, with reddened eyes, was watching that.
“Hey, noble kid.”
Veil appeared from behind.
In Veil’s hand was a communicator flickering with red light.
For only a moment Selina’s eyes grew wide.
-Selina! W-we’re coming right now!
From beyond the communicator came Mother’s cracked voice.
-Our daughter, you were very startled, right? Mommy and Daddy are coming right now, so, if you just wait six more days, Mommy, Daddy are coming…… u, huuk.
-We didn’t know. It’s all our fault! All this time, how much you must have been all alone……
Veil placed the communicator into Selina’s rigid hands.
Holding the communicator tightly, Selina barely managed to get her voice out.
“M-Mommy, Daddy……”
-Yes, baby! It’s okay. You don’t have to say anything. Mommy heard everything, and is so…… so sorry. Agabert said they would protect you until we arrive, so don’t worry about anything at all……!
Before long, thick tears began to fall in drops down Selina’s cheeks.
Without realizing it, Tie rubbed her nose lightly.
‘……Will Daddy remember Tie again someday too?’
And then say he was sorry for not recognizing her all this time, and hug her?
For quite a while, Tie only looked at Selina, forgetting even to eat.
That was because somehow one side of his heart felt all wobbly, and it was hard to hold back tears.
* * *
That evening.
“Y-you received one hundred teleportation circles?!”
At Agabert’s base, returned to together with Selina.
Nordix, who had been standing at the entrance, staggered in place.
“Yeees! Selina’s Mommy and Daddy gave them to us for free!”
“Not for free. We received payment in exchange for taking care of the noble kid for the next six days.”
Tie let out an ah-right-right sound, then nodded her head.
“Mm-hm, payment!”
But even so, Nordix could not easily close his mouth.
At the present time, the price of one teleportation circle was 300 gold.
‘So if it’s one hundred, that’s thirty thousand gold, and……’
Nordix’s gaze blankly turned toward Tie.
Tie had gone to spend sixteen thousand gold, and ended up simply earning money amounting to double that.