A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 144

Chapter 144

“Escort them to the basement prison of the mansion.”

Selina’s mother, Catrin, commanded.

At those words, workers from the merchant company came crowding over and bound the servants who had tormented Selina.

The servants who had just been released from Ppuppu’s subspace all had hollow faces.

“I paid wages twice the going rate and told them again and again to please take good care of our Selina……”

Catrin’s eyes flashed.

Meanwhile, on the opposite side, Selina’s father Newman was showering kisses on his daughter.

“Selina. Our daughter. You missed Daddy a lot, didn’t you?”

Selina nodded in Newman’s arms.

“I’ve finished talking everything over with your mommy. From now on, if we have to go on a business trip, we’ve decided to take you with us too.”

“Really?”

“Yes. Until now, because of your education, we only thought it wouldn’t do for you to drift around from place to place with us……”

Newman gave a bitter smile and tucked Selina’s hair behind her ear.

“More than that, Mommy and Daddy learned this time that being together as a family is much more important.”

Blinking in surprise, Selina suddenly hugged Newman tight.

There were already faint tears in the corners of the child’s eyes.

While he was watching that scene, Catrin came over.

“Our Selina was indebted to you, Miss Tie.”

Catrin had already roughly heard the story of Selina and Tie through the communicator.

Like the seasoned businesswoman who ran several merchant companies, she quickly grasped Tie’s situation.

Tie answered shyly.

“It’s okay! Selina is Tie’s friend, so it’s not being indebted!”

Catrin stroked Tie’s head.

“How could it not be. Thank you so much for staying by our Selina’s side. Judging by what I see, it seems that at such a young age you’re running quite a large business.”

“Business?”

“Of course. A mercenary company is a business too. In that sense, though you’re young, you are a very excellent businessperson.”

A slow look of pride fell over Tie’s face.

“Yeees! Tie is the boss!”

Catrin laughed heartily.

Then she removed the golden pearl brooch attached to her chest and fastened it to Tie’s clothes.

“As one boss to another, if you ever need anything, contact me anytime.”

Then she beckoned toward the worker behind her.

The worker came over and held out one black box tied with a gold ribbon to Tie.

“What is this?”

At Basto’s question, Catrin gestured toward the box as though telling him to open it.

Tie undid the ribbon and opened the black lid. Then,

“……Waa!”

Before long, a round magical device with a sparkling pink body revealed itself from inside.

“What is this, a communicator?!”

Veil ran over.

Enzo and Raul also gathered around with curious faces.

“That’s right, it’s a communicator. Usually approval doesn’t come through easily for a mercenary company, but I pulled a few strings.”

Basto looked at Catrin in surprise.

“……Wait a moment. Do you mean you have already received approval so that Agabert may use this communicator?”

Catrin nodded.

“Our merchant company also does a little finance business, and one of our major clients is the son of the Imperial Transmission Bureau.”

Basto, dumbfounded, turned his gaze away.

Tie had already run over holding the communicator and was showing it off to Selina and Newman.

“Selina! Tie got a kids phone too!”

“What’s a kids phone?”

“This! It’s for making calls! It’s pink, hehe!”

Catrin added with a smile.

“It’s awkward for me to say it myself, but our merchant company has fairly wide connections. We have a lot of ties reaching here and there. Sometimes that helps during negotiations that are at an inconvenient stage, you know? To the point that mercenaries even contact us sometimes, somehow having found out.”

“……Mercenaries, you say?”

“Of course. There was something similar in the North Continent right away too. Trevaga had friction with the Order, and we stepped into the middle and greased this a bit so it was smoothed over.”

Catrin made a circle with her fingers.

“Anyway! Usually in the case of mercenaries, we take monthly dues and help them, but Agabert is now practically family to us, so no need for that.”

She gestured with her eyes toward Selina and Tie.

“Would it be all right if our Selina sometimes hung out and played with Miss Tie? It’s the first time Selina has liked a friend that much, so as her mother, I’d like to support the friendship of the two children a bit.”

Basto swallowed.

Then he nodded.

“……Very well. In any case, they are already very close, so now even if we tried to separate them, we would not be able to.”

As if proving those words, Selina was once again chatting with Tie about this and that.

Things like what color the communicator was, and what Tanipang, Tie’s favorite character, was like.

“Thank you so much.”

Catrin bowed once more and offered her gratitude.

Then, looking around at each of the company members, she said,

“If you need anything, please contact me anytime. Through that communicator.”

Before long, Catrin left the mansion with the workers and Selina.

Holding the newly received communicator tightly, Tie clung to the window and watched Selina’s family go into the house across the street.

* * *

Two days later.

Agabert’s besieging of magic stones began again.

The total number of strengthened teleportation circles Marbas could make in one day was two.

One for going out to besiege, one for coming back, was a quantity that caused no great strain.

Two more days after that.

This time, Leonardo Luminen came secretly to the mansion.

“I have found an academy that Miss Tie can attend.”

The moment Tie heard those words, she hurried up to her room and came back down wearing her clothes in a complete mess.

It was a ridiculous outfit with only her uniform thrown on over her underwear.

“Let’s go quickly! Okay? Let’s go quickly!”

Leonardo soothed the commotion-making Tie, got her dressed properly, and then put her into the carriage.

When they arrived at the Luminen mansion, Tie ran in quick little steps and hugged Valentis tightly.

“Graaand Commander!”

Now that he had seen him a bit often, the child had completely let down her guard around Valentis.

“Grand Commander, you’ve been well all this time, right?”

Valentis smiled at the awkward way he was asking after him.

“Yes. I have been well. It seems you have been spurring on your besieging of magic stones.”

“Yeees! If it’s not number one, it’s shame!”

Valentis burst into laughter.

The company members, seeing him laugh out loud for the first time, could not hide their surprise.

Tie then greeted Edmund as well, and Alexander too.

“Mister Edmung, Mister Alexsunder. Were you well!”

“Mm, I was well. Child Necromancer King, your face looks good, doesn’t it? I hear you’re already in eighth place?”

“Yup! Tie worked hard!”

“Even so, you must always keep safety in mind, Miss Tie. If you rush and get hurt, everyone will be sad.”

“Yeees! If I get hurt, Mister Alexsunder can heal me.”

“That of course I can, but from the beginning, not getting hurt is best, right? You have to stay healthy to keep besieging magic stones and to attend the academy too.”

Tie let out a gasp and raised her head.

Then he ran back to Valentis.

“But is there really an academy Tie can go to?”

Valentis laughed softly.

“Yes. Let us go in first and talk.”

“Yeees!”

After answering energetically, Tie took Valentis’s hand.

Inside the great conference hall where everyone had moved.

“I bought two buildings in Flint Cove.”

At Valentis’s next words, the company members’ eyes widened.

Nordix asked back,

“Buildings? Did you just say buildings?”

“Yes. One is a tavern building at the end of the commercial district, and the other is an old orphanage inside Flint Cove.”

Nordix’s brow narrowed.

“I understand why you purchased an orphanage, but why the tavern building……”

At that, the butler handed Valentis one rolled-up parchment.

When Valentis spread it open, a complicated map was soon revealed.

“While investigating, I happened to find out. Under Flint Cove, an underground passage with a complex structure has been built. It connects to almost all of Flint Cove.”

Nordix’s mouth parted slightly.

Valentis looked around at the other company members and said,

“If one uses that underground passage, then outwardly it will look that way. That every morning, the Necromancer King goes to work at the tavern.”

“……”

“But in truth, that is not so. Tie will go down the tavern’s basement stairs, pass through the underground passage, and then attend an academy deep inside Flint Cove.”