A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 142

Chapter 142

“Marru!”

Tie ran over and picked Marbas up.

The lion head attached to the carving looked at Tie in alarm.

Tie made her eyes sparkle and said,

“Marru, you said earlier you can evolve things too, right?”

Marbas stared at Tie with a frightened face, then hesitantly nodded.

[Not evolve, but strengthen. In the old days I did it a little……]

“Then can you evolve teleportation circles too?!”

Interest appeared on the company members’ faces.

That was because they had grown curious whether the carving that had come to life thanks to Tie could really do such a thing.

Under the gathering gazes, Marbas felt his shoulders rise slightly toward the sky.

That thrilling attention, no matter how many times he received it, and just as he was about to answer after hesitating briefly.

“Can you? You couldn’t even copy a single teleportation circle properly.”

Veil ruined the mood.

Marbas flared up and shouted.

[I, I did copy one! One!]

“……Huh, Marru. You did?”

Marbas let out a broken sound and wiped tears in his heart.

[Yes! Even though no one looked at it!]

He gestured with his eyes toward the distant window.

There, one teleportation circle Marbas had copied had slipped under the side table and was half visible.

Tie nodded vigorously.

“Yeah! Marru is the best! Tie trusts Marru!”

Marbas hesitantly lifted his head.

Then she jumped down from Tie’s palm.

[In that case, evolution…… I shall try it once.]

He hopped up onto the table.

Once he stood on top of the pile of teleportation circles, red beams began to pour from Marbas’s eyes.

“Oooh. Doesn’t it look a bit more convincing than earlier?”

“Be quiet, Veil. It says it’s a spirit, after all. Stop making fun of it so irreverently.”

“Now that I think about it, it’s pretty pathetic. If that thing is a spirit, then I guess I’m Spirit Grandpa.”

[……Kuhk.]

Ignoring Veil’s and Basto’s voices, Marbas concentrated.

Before him, the complex formula of the teleportation circle began to take visible shape.

“W-wow.”

While Tie exclaimed in admiration, Marbas strengthened the circuits.

And into each engraved rune he breathed his special power, supplementing the stability.

[It is almost finished!]

At the final moment, Marbas made his wooden torso tremble and squeezed out all the strength he had.

And in the end.

“Huh! The teleportation circle really changed!”

Along the edges of the two teleportation circles at the top of the pile, a new formula was engraved in intaglio.

Tie hurriedly picked up the teleportation circles, their formulas glowing faintly.

“Marru, this evolved now just like Puppetmon, right?”

Though reeling, Marbas nodded.

[Yes! If you only enter the coordinates, you can move to any place whatsoever! There is no distance limit, and in particular, I made it so it will not be affected by the wavelength flowing out from magic stones, so you may trust it……!]

“Waa!”

Tie hurriedly carried the teleportation circles over to Basto.

“Mister Basto! Marru did it for us! Let’s use this, okay?”

But Basto gave no answer.

Tie grabbed Basto’s sleeve and shook it again.

“Let’s go to a magic stone together, okay? Since there are two, let’s try it out and see if it really works!”

At last Basto nodded.

“All right. But you stay here with the old man, Tie.”

Tie’s eyes widened.

“Wh-why?”

“Just as I said, this is still in the testing stage. Since we still do not know for certain whether it is safe, you wait here.”

Tie blankly watched the company members take the two teleportation circles from her hands.

The company members gathered in a circle a little distance away from Nordix and Tie.

“I know a place for the coordinates.”

At Basto’s words, Enzo nodded.

“An unconquered small magic stone in Briowood. 383 etheron east…… 12 lunax south.”

Enzo tore the teleportation circle in half.

At once, a bright light burst into the air.

When Tie squeezed her eyes shut and opened them again.

Basto and Veil, Raul and Enzo had vanished completely.

* * *

“Waaaah!”

“……Don’t cry, Tie.”

Lucarion quietly comforted Tie.

But Tie could not stop her tears easily.

‘Did you hear that? They say Baron Matthias got his hand cut off.’

That was because the teleportation circle accident he had heard about a few days ago just would not leave his head.

He trusted Marru, but still, what if the teleportation circle evolution had not worked properly?

So if an accident really had happened and the company members got hurt……!

“It’s Tie’s fault, because Tie said we should test it today right away!”

“How is that your fault. Testing the strengthened teleportation circle was something that had to be done someday.”

“Buut……”

Lucarion patted Tie on the back.

Selina too silently held Tie’s hand tightly.

Marbas stepped forward as well.

[Master! Do you not trust me? I truly am confident! This body that once held the Ibranis Dynasty in its grasp……]

“Qyu.”

As though telling him to be quiet, Ppuppu smacked the floor once with his nose.

Marbas hurriedly shut his mouth.

“Tie, are you still doing this?”

At just that moment, Nordix came over to Tie holding two cups of warm milk with steam rising from them.

After putting a cup of milk into Tie’s and Selina’s hands, Nordix said,

“Nothing much will happen. They only used the teleportation circle near a small magic stone, and in case it malfunctioned, they are all carrying travel expenses as well.”

Tie nodded gloomily.

Then he ran over and threw himself into Nordix’s arms.

Nordix smiled, then familiarly held Tie and patted him on the back.

“Nothing in life is easy, is it?”

“Nooo……”

Though she had never said it once, after coming to this world Tie was learning many things anew.

Starting from the fact that choices carry responsibility.

That to take profit, sometimes one must take risks.

Even the fact that there is nothing in the world one gets for free.

“Why is making a living this haaard……”

When he lived at Gold Villa, Grandma in Unit 107 and the lady in Unit 203 were like that too.

Whenever they met, they chatted about how life was hard and existence was bitter.

“But that’s life.”

Still, Tie spoke in a voice firm with resolve.

Then he came out of Nordix’s arms and bravely drank his milk.

“Tie trusts Marru! So, everyone will be okay!”

With white milk foam stuck to his upper lip.

And, five hours later.

“Mister Basto……!”

The light of a teleportation circle flashed once again on the first floor of the mansion.

“Kid! We’re back!”

“Commander, the teleportation circle works well! It does not seem like you need to worry.”

The light went out and the company members revealed themselves.

In their hands they each held one sack of monster cores.

* * *

“So, does that really mean you were able to move right up in front of the magic stone?”

At Nordix’s question, Basto nodded.

“Yes. There was no roaring sound from mana clashing either.”

“……I see. And besieging the magic stone was manageable?”

“There was no problem.”

After answering, Basto gestured toward the back.

There, Tie was neatly loading the sacks filled with monster cores onto the cart.

“Selina, when morning comes tomorrow, let’s go to the reward office together, okay? If we take these there, you know, they turn them into money!”

“I’ve never gone to the mercenaries’ reward office before. It sounds fun.”

“Yeah! It’s super fun! But there, it’s a secret that Tie is a child.”

Basto looked at Nordix.

“It seems we’ll be busy from now on.”

“It seems that way to me too.”

Tie did not seem to know it well, but the strengthened teleportation circles were innovation itself.

A technology the world had not had.

The key that could reduce the time needed to besiege magic stones to an absurd degree.

All of it was the gain Tie had obtained by awakening Marbas.

Basto’s eyes shone.

“Now I wonder how the very top mercenary companies will react.”

Leaving other mercenary companies aside, Trevaga had never had its place threatened even once until now.

But if Agabert kept up this speed of besieging……

In Basto’s eyes, the competitive spirit he had forgotten until now blazed up.

The next day.

With the noon alarm, on the wall of the central courtyard there hung the crooked company motto Tie had written.

[If it’s not number one, it’s shame!!!]

And, fitting that company motto, the company members set out once more.

This time not toward a small one, but toward a medium magic stone.