A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 139

Chapter 139

“Tie can have all of these too.”

Selina unpacked something she had brought in armfuls in front of the sofa.

Inside the large cloth were toys, accessories, jewels, and all kinds of objects of unknown use.

Tie stared blankly at Selina in surprise.

Right before they came out of the Belmore mansion.

‘Wait just a second! There’s something I need to bring.’

Selina had been gathering her pajamas when she suddenly said there was something she had to bring and ran to the storage room.

Only a long while later did she come back.

She was groaning under the weight of an overstuffed sack from who knew where.

‘Wow, back then I thought Selina had brought toys.’

The things in the sack were not only toys.

“You said you’re a mercenary, Tie, right? So I thought you might like treasure-like things like these.”

At the word treasure, curiosity appeared in Tie’s eyes.

“Treasure?”

Selina nodded.

“Like I said earlier, my mommy and daddy go on business trips all over the continent. Then sometimes they get things like these, and if there’s something valuable, instead of selling it they gave it to me. As presents.”

“Isn’t this a fragment of the Keilak Tablet?”

Raul, who had been looking around, stepped in.

As though fascinated, he looked through the miscellaneous objects and picked one up.

It was a stone tablet about the size of a child’s palm, engraved with unknown letters.

“To think Young Lady Selina had a fragment of the Keilak Tablet. Our House of Waveril has one piece as well!”

Tie looked back and forth between Raul and Selina with puzzled eyes.

‘A real treasure……?’

But it did not end there.

“Oh ho, there is even a First Eastern Empire silver coin!”

“Sir, please look at this. What royal seal is this? It looks like a fallen royal house. Judging by the rune letters, is it the North Continent?”

“It is the Ibranis Dynasty. There is a laurel drawn on the upper part of the seal, isn’t there. After it continued into the Ascalia Dynasty, the laurel disappeared.”

The company members all came over and began looking at the things.

Even Marshall’s eyes brightened as he looked at rolled-up parchment and small ornaments.

“These things would be perfect for decorating the second-floor hallway. I was thinking the mansion felt a bit bare anyway……”

Tie hurried over to Selina.

“Selina, can Tie really keep all of this?”

Selina nodded as though there was no problem.

“They’re things that just keep piling up in the storage room every day anyway.”

Then she gestured somewhere and added,

“More than that, I think those two like the wood carving.”

When he turned his head, Lucarion and Ppuppu were indeed looking at a small wood carving of a strange shape with interested eyes.

Tie tilted her head.

‘Does Lucarion like that treasure?’

Until now, Lucarion had hardly shown interest in anything other than books and Tie.

Growing curious, Tie quietly went over beside Lucarion and Ppuppu.

“Blackie, Ppuppu. What are you looking at?”

“Tie.”

As though he had not even noticed the approach, Lucarion, who had been focused, raised his head.

Then he held the wood carving out in front of Tie and said,

“I think we need to take a look at this.”

The wood carving Lucarion held out had an unusual shape, with the body of a woman and the head of a lion.

“Can you possibly operate mana?”

Tie widened her eyes at the sudden question.

But the child quickly answered bravely.

“Yeah, I can. But why?”

“Qyu, kurut. Qyu!”

Tie let her lips fall open.

“Sealed?”

Selina and the company members gathered around Tie.

“Sealed? What are you talking about, kid?”

Tie looked at Veil with a puzzled face.

“Ppuppu says something is sealed inside this wooden doll!”

“Sealed?”

Veil immediately took the wood carving and turned it this way and that.

“To me it just looks like a piece of wood.”

“Of course it would, since you have no magical talent whatsoever.”

Lucarion answered in a cynical voice.

Then he snatched the wood carving from Veil’s hand and put it back into Tie’s hands.

“It’s a simple seal. One that comes undone if you pour in mana stronger than the sealer’s. Try it once.”

Tie looked at the wood carving with curious eyes, then hesitantly asked,

“But what if something bad comes out from inside?”

“Qyurung! Qyuu!”

Ppuppu spun her nose in circles and chattered something to Tie.

Tie tilted her head.

“A spirit……?”

Lucarion spoke up too.

“This time, what it says is right. Judging by the aura, it feels clean.”

In the end, Tie nodded.

Holding the wooden doll tightly, the child shut her eyes, and then,

“Nnnng……”

he puckered his lips as tightly as possible and tensed his body.

“Puhup!”

At that sight, Veil spat out the water he had been drinking.

Basto and Nordix watched Tie as though he were cute.

But even as time passed, nothing changed.

“Nnnnghcha…… uhh?”

At last Tie, who had been straining, let out the breath she had been holding and opened her eyes.

Then he looked slightly flustered.

In the diagonal direction, Selina was watching him with an expectant face.

‘This is bad. Selina is watching too, so why isn’t the mana coming out……?’

Tie anxiously looked down at the doll.

Then he tensed his body again.

“Hrrr-ya!”

“Pu, puhahaha! Kid, what are you doing?!”

But the mana did not operate, and the wooden doll did not move in the slightest.

Tie looked around at the company members in agitation.

“I forgot how to do it……!”

Basto, who had been laughing, came over.

She sat on the floor and placed Tie on her lap.

“It’s all right, Tie. Even though you’ve never properly learned how to operate mana, you’ve done well all this time.”

Basto stroked the head of the dejected Tie.

“Don’t be nervous. Even if it doesn’t go well, it’s fine. Just do it the way you usually do. There’s no need to rush.”

Tie had no choice but to nod.

Then he tried to recall the faint sensation of how he had been operating mana until now.

‘……There it is!’

Indeed.

As Basto said, once he calmed down and took a deep breath, he could feel mana inside his body.

Tie shut her eyes tightly and recalled the sensation she had experienced every time she used mana.

The thing he did when he called out his bone friends.

The power he had used when he summoned the shipwreck and gave orders to his subordinates.

The mana he felt around his heart throbbed greatly and spread through his whole body.

And then,

Clack-

The lion head of the wooden doll she was holding turned in a full circle toward Tie.

“Huh?”

When Tie looked down with startled eyes, golden light flashed in the doll’s eyes.

“The doll……!”

The next moment the doll slipped out of Tie’s hand and landed on the floor.

Then a heavy voice rang out through the mansion.

[O one who crossed the river of silence and came into contact with my soul. Why have you come so late.]

Tie furrowed her brows at the light pouring out from the doll’s eyes.

Meanwhile, the doll bounced over in front of Tie.

[What is your reason for awakening me? Without speaking it, you will not be able to take even one step forward. What is it that you desire?]

Tie looked at the doll with a confused face.

And she thought,

‘Tie doesn’t understand a single thing of what it’s saying……!’

The doll’s words were too difficult, so he could not understand them at all.

Whether that was the case or not, the doll only kept speaking.

[I am at once the beginning and the end of the Ibranis Dynasty. A being that witnessed with these two eyes the birth and downfall of a nation. The dynasty has already vanished and turned to ash, yet I remain here still. Now speak your wish. I shall grant one of your desires……]

“……Your tongue is long for something that was just saved.”

At that moment, something suddenly kicked the wood carving with a thud.

When he turned his head, Ppuppu in the human appearance seen at Caldenvine Ridge had appeared.

Silver hair fluttered in the air, and beneath the elephant mask came a displeased voice.

“In front of whom do you dare exalt yourself. Mother is being dazzled, so put out the fire in your eyes at once.”

The doll, kicked away by Ppuppu, alternated its gaze between Ppuppu and Tie.

Then it seemed as though a brief silence followed.

“……Huh? It really turned it off!”

Just as Tie said, the light shining from the doll’s eyes timidly went out.