A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 140
Chapter 140
“What’s your name?”
At Tie’s question, the doll answered briskly.
[Marbas! That is me!]
“I’m Tie!”
Tie held out one hand.
After hesitating, Marbas bounced hop, hop and lightly bumped her head against Tie’s hand, then backed away.
Tie, who was watching that with wonder, asked,
“But, you know, Marru, are you really a spirit?”
[I am not Marru, but Mar……]
The doll flinched and looked at Lucarion and Ppuppu.
Then it answered in a fluster.
[M-Marru is correct! And from today onward I am not a spirit, but my master’s servant! From now on I will serve diligently without any compensation whatsoever!]
At the sight of how rigidly disciplined he was, Ppuppu smiled with satisfaction.
Then, as though pleased, he smacked the floor with his nose, bang, bang.
Tie walked up in front of Marbas.
“Got it! But why were you inside there, Marru?”
Marbas lowered his lion head and let out a deep sigh.
[That is because I was sealed away when the Ibranis Dynasty fell……]
“The Iburami Dynasty?”
“It’s the Ibranis Dynasty, Tie.”
Nordix came over.
Sitting beside Tie, Nordix looked at Marbas with curious eyes.
“Ibranis is an ancient dynasty. At one time, they were also those who prospered most in the world. According to the records, they handled both magic and mechanical engineering. Because of that, in the present day……”
Nordix’s eyes shone as he looked at Marbas.
“There is also the claim that their wisdom actually came from something that was not human.”
“Not a human……?”
Tie turned her gaze back to Marbas.
The child asked in a curious voice,
“Marru, did you maybe give wisdom to the Iburami Dynasty? Is that why you got sealed?”
Marbas let out a deep sigh.
Then he spoke in an uncertain voice.
[Actually, I do not remember well……]
Before the conqueror sealed Marbas into the wooden doll.
Just as Tie said, she had continued contracts with members of the dynasty for generations.
The reason was to share knowledge.
[That is probably right. All the technologies the Ibranis Dynasty possessed were things I made.]
Whenever Marbas granted blueprints to the dynasty, the people of the Ibranis Dynasty praised him like a god.
Marbas liked receiving that praise.
But one day, a problem suddenly arose.
‘Did the Ibranis Dynasty act tyrannically toward the surrounding kingdoms.’
With the technology they had obtained from Marbas, they had begun making weapons.
People said human greed had no end, and indeed the dynasty waged reckless wars of conquest.
In that process, countless lives left this world.
At first Marbas did not think much of it, but by around then he too had realized something was wrong.
Yet while he was agonizing for a long time over how to overcome the situation.
‘Someone came, turned the dynasty to ashes, and sealed me into a wooden doll too.’
So much time had passed after that that the present Marbas had forgotten all of his former memories.
He could not even remember who had sealed him.
‘Was it a human? No, maybe it was not a human…… was it a dragon?’
Marbas looked down at his own body as though he found it stifling.
A wooden doll without arms or legs.
It had a curved torso like that of a human woman, and on top of that a lion head that looked as though it had been roughly carved.
Without realizing it, a mutter mixed with resentment escaped him.
[……How unjust. They even imprisoned me in a female doll……!]
Hearing those words, Tie let her mouth fall open, then shouted,
“Marru, you were a male!”
Inside his heart, Marbas wiped away the tears at the corners of his eyes.
That was because, with the doll having no arms, he could not actually do that.
At that moment, his eyes suddenly met Ppuppu’s.
“Qyu.”
At the look that asked, ‘What are you looking at,’ Marbas hurriedly lowered his gaze.
For some reason, whenever he looked at that elephant alone, his heart pounded as though he had eaten something wrong.
‘Was I in some ill-fated relationship with that one in a past I don’t remember?’
Could it be that that elephant was the one who sealed the dynasty and shut him inside the doll?!
But Marbas shook his head.
His memory was already incomplete as it was, and he did not want to indulge in delusions too.
“Then, Marru, now that you’re Tie’s subordinate, you’ll play together with Tie, right?”
Marbas raised his head.
Right in front of him, the benefactor who had awakened him was making his green eyes sparkle.
[Th-that is the case.]
Strangely enough, his benefactor already had an unusual elephant and a young dragon at his side.
To command those two, whose auras were far from ordinary, as if they were subordinates.
‘As expected, a strong one.’
In reality, Marbas’s seal could by no means be broken under ordinary circumstances.
It would not break unless there was a power higher than the mana of the one who had sealed him.
After thinking it over, Marbas nodded inwardly.
‘Right. I should side with this one.’
Although the seal had been broken, Marbas was still unable to return to his original form.
It seemed that because he had been sealed for so long, it would take time to reconstruct his body.
‘If it is the sort of mana that can break the seal, simply staying beside it may help.’
After finishing her judgment of the situation, she bounced in front of Tie.
[If there is something you wish to make, or strengthen, or restore, then please show it to me!]
Tie tilted her head.
Marbas confidently continued speaking.
[For all that I may look like this, from flying airships to siege weapons to self-restoring armor! There was nothing I could not make!]
Tie fell into thought.
Then, as though he had remembered something, he hurriedly ran somewhere.
What Tie brought back before long was one teleportation circle that had been loaded on the cart.
“Then, Marru! Make me one million twenty-two of these!”
The company members’ eyes widened.
But Marbas took her place before the teleportation circle Tie had set down with dignity.
[Certainly! Leave it to me!]
Then golden energy gathered in Marbas’s two eyes.
The energy grew to the size of Tie’s fingernail, then made a pop and fired toward the teleportation circle.
However.
“What? Did it do it?”
Just as Tie said, that power reached the edge of the teleportation circle and vanished like heat haze.
[Uh, uhh.]
Marbas bounced around the teleportation circle in a panic.
‘Why is this not working?’
This was strange.
The blueprint drawn in his head was certainly exact.
He quickly called the blueprint to mind again.
[It appears I made a mistake because it has been so long! I shall try once more!]
He gathered his power again. But,
Jijijijik……
“Kid. You know the spirit we met last time, the one that said it gave you Sanctum of Oblivion.”
“Yeah! Princess Seradin’s spirit!”
“Was that spirit a little lacking too, like this one?”
“Nooo? It was super pretty!”
Marbas’s shoulders trembled.
[Ugh, I-I truly can do it!]
Pop- jijijijik……
Pop- jijijijijijik……
But even after trying three times, four times, the result was the same.
Marbas collapsed in shock.
His wooden doll body rolled across the floor.
‘This cannot be.’
In his days of prime.
Teleportation circles had been among the most basic of basics to him.
Marbas was a capable being with mastery in both mechanical engineering and magic, one for whom no blueprint in the world was impossible to create!
With difficulty he rose to his feet again.
Then, gathering his last strength, he fired at the teleportation circle.
Boom-!
At last, beside the teleportation circle, one similar-looking teleportation circle was copied.
Marbas jumped high in excitement.
[L-look! Does it not work! Though there is only one for now, I have succeeded in copying the teleportation circle……!]
But he soon shut his mouth.
“Selina, what’s this?”
“I don’t know. It seems like music comes out if you open it. Daddy brought it for me from some island……”
That was because no one at all was looking at him anymore.
* * *
That evening after they had finished eating.
“Now then, we’ll start the meeting!”
Tie, who had been sitting on the sofa with Veil and Basto on either side of him, hopped down.
The child walked in quick little steps to the table and placed his hand firmly atop the pile of teleportation circles there.
Then, imitating Teacher Lee Sol-jae’s tone from kindergarten, he said,
“People of Agabert! Starting tomorrow, we’re going to go besiege magic stones!”