A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 145
Chapter 145
Nordix readily nodded.
‘Indeed……’
In truth, until now he had not been certain.
Even if they were lucky enough to obtain an academy in Flint Cove, it would still be difficult to have Tie attend every day while avoiding people’s eyes.
But the Grand Commander’s plan was plausible.
“How is the underground passage operated?”
“It is extremely closed off. If you are not a resident of Flint Cove, it is difficult even to enter. I have already confirmed that it is not a place even information brokers can come and go from freely.”
“I understand very well what you mean. But there is no guarantee such people will let Tie in, is there?”
At those words, Alexander, who had been listening, stepped forward.
“You need not worry about that. I have some connections with the people over there.”
Alexander continued speaking with a gentle smile.
“There were a few times when I performed medical treatment that was officially prohibited. Inside Flint Cove.”
The company members and Tie looked at Alexander with curious faces.
Recalling the past, Alexander spoke.
“A year ago, there was a time when a severe cough sickness spread inside Flint Cove.”
That illness was highly contagious.
One could catch it merely by being in the same place, and for children or the elderly, it was quite deadly.
The Emperor immediately closed off Flint Cove.
And he began providing them only basic food and water.
But Alexander thought differently from the Emperor.
‘We cannot leave it like this. It is too dangerous. Water and food are not a fundamental solution to the illness, are they.’
He thought Flint Cove needed medical personnel to treat the sickness.
The problem was that the Emperor had absolutely no interest in the people of Flint Cove.
The Emperor supported medical personnel only for noble patients inside the Boundary of the Old and New.
In the end, Alexander made one decision while taking a risk.
He resolved to divert the Holy Knights’ medical supplies and carry them into Flint Cove.
Outwardly, he pretended to have contracted the cough sickness and to have been quarantined, and secretly snuck into Flint Cove.
And, beginning with the severe patients, he started treating them one by one.
Valentis, too, secretly helped him from behind.
As a result, they were able to save the lives of many people within Flint Cove.
“At that time I became acquainted with the district chief. As expected, when I explained the situation, she said she would allow Miss Tie to come and go freely.”
Tie swallowed.
‘So, this is originally a place Tie can’t go.’
Did that mean he would be able to go thanks to Alexander’s connections?
His heart pounded so hard from excitement.
‘Tie really wanted to go to the academy……!’
Going to class and putting his coat and bag on the shelf.
Then greeting his friends and doing free play.
Singing songs, talking about the weather, reading stories, craft time, and all that!
“Tie, can you play with friends again now……?”
Veil stroked Tie’s head.
“Yes. Though your schedule will get busier.”
With her face going all soft, Tie nodded vigorously.
“Even if it’s busy, it’s okay!”
Going to the academy during the day and besieging magic stones at night was nothing!
“Tie can do it!”
At the sight of him overflowing with determination, the company members burst into laughter.
Valentis and the three young masters likewise watched that sight with satisfaction.
* * *
Thus, after a few more days, one morning.
“Oh my, our Tie, how can a princess dress suit you so well? How pretty.”
Tie put on the princess dress Marshall had dressed him in and even had a hairpin placed in his hair.
After that, he put on Agabert’s uniform and stood before the mirror, pressing his cheeks with both hands.
At his side, Lucarion cautioned him.
“……I said it before too, but if anything dangerous happens, shout. I’ll be watching nearby.”
Tie nodded bravely.
“Okay!”
After placing Ppuppu on his shoulder and going out of the room, Basto was waiting.
“Let’s go! To the bar!”
Veil, coming up the stairs, said,
“I said it’s a tavern, not a bar.”
“That and that! They’re both places where people drink alcohol, Brother Veil.”
Answering pertly, Tie hummed as she went down the stairs.
On the first floor, the company members had already gathered.
“Tie, go and do well.”
Nordix patted Tie on the back,
“Commander! Fighting!”
and Raul and Enzo, who had learned fighting from Tie, pumped their fists.
Tie solemnly nodded, then opened the front door and came out.
“The weather is nice.”
Basto said in a gentle voice.
Tie smiled with a hehe and looked once at the empty neighboring house where Dad had lived, then passed through the gate.
As they walked along the neat brick path, far away the roof of the imperial castle looked huge.
“It is about a fifteen-minute walk each day. If we pass through the commercial district, the tavern building is at the end. I will always take you there.”
Instead of answering Basto’s words, Tie nodded.
That was because he could already feel information brokers trailing behind him in droves.
The information brokers’ interest in Tie had grown even greater once Agabert’s ranking entered the top seven.
“The life of a popular person is really tiring……”
Shaking her head, Tie strode forward vigorously.
How long had they walked?
At last they arrived at the shopping street bustling with people from morning on.
“My lady, have a look at this. It’s a line the Kamor Brewery just started producing, and the flavor is outstanding!”
“Please take a look at the clothes! They’re on sale at a special price for today only!”
Holding Basto’s hand, Tie wove through the crowd.
Among them were some who recognized Tie and lit up with curious eyes.
“It’s over there.”
Basto pointed somewhere.
At the end of the alley.
At the place where the round plaza and the gate leading to Flint Cove stood.
A huge six-story building towered there under a sign that read “.
Tie swept a glance around her.
Then he deliberately raised his voice and said,
“Ahem. I’m craving something strong from the morning!”
This line was one Tie had figured out with Veil after researching how to make him look like a heavy drinker.
Sure enough, the people who had been watching Tie exchanged looks among themselves.
They wore expressions showing they firmly believed Tie was not a child, but a Necromancer King who enjoyed strong liquor.
“Please go in.”
When they arrived in front of the tavern, Basto said.
Tie waved one hand around, then went inside.
The tavern was huge.
The first floor was already crowded with countless people.
But there was another place Tie had to go.
“Aaahem! I’m craving something strong from the morning……!”
Just in case, after delivering his line once, the child stood before the stairs leading underground at the innermost part of the tavern.
The two men guarding the stairs recognized Tie and quietly moved aside.
As he went down the stairs, he could hear people whispering behind him.
“Wasn’t that the Necromancer King just now? I heard he’s a mercenary doing well these days.”
“That is correct, Your Excellency.”
“……I suppose it really is true that he’s raking in money. To think Tavern would hand over the entire underground.”
“Is it because they say there’s a VIP room underground?”
“Yes. They would never show it, so I wondered who on earth the VIP was, but honestly. To think they would open it to a trivial commoner mercenary like that.”
Of course, the VIP room was a lie invented by the tavern to hide the underground passage to Flint Cove, but the nobles believed it.
“When I asked several times to be guided to the VIP room, they would not even pretend to hear me!”
The gazes of several arrogant nobles stabbed toward Tie.
But when they met the huge Basto standing behind Tie, they quickly averted their eyes.
Meanwhile, Tie went down the seemingly endless stairs, passed through a storeroom piled with miscellaneous objects.
And when he went down another long, long staircase and opened the iron door,
“Good heavens…… from Tavern…… a person has actually come down……”
Inside the huge, intricate underground passage made by layering rusted iron and wood.
Dozens of eyes turned toward Tie.
They were elderly people sitting gathered around the edges of the underground passage, each with a small stall of their own.
“Child, how old are you……? How did you come here, hm?”
Tie stared at the old people with her mouth hanging open for a moment.
Basto, who arrived a moment later, looked at Tie with a worried face.
That was because she was worried Tie might be frightened by the old people.
But that was a tremendous misunderstanding.
“Grandma, hello! My name is Tie!”
Tie ran over, politely bent at the waist in greeting, and then plopped herself down among the old people.
“Tie is four years old! How old are you, Grandma? What are you doing here?”