A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 147

Chapter 147

Tie liked the academy.

Just as Valentis had said that he was a trustworthy person, the teacher was truly kind too.

Tie clasped both hands together and giggled.

‘Teacher Lil, I like her as much as Teacher Lee Sol-jae.’

The same was true of his friends.

Only two weeks after starting at the academy, Tie came to monopolize all the popularity of the academy’s nine friends.

How had he made friends so quickly?

“……Here. I brought it. That pink bug doll.”

Just then Veil set down three large boxes in front of the first-floor entrance.

Tie, who had been rolling around on the sofa, hurriedly came down and ran over in front of the boxes.

“Waa! It’s really Tanipang!”

As the result of waiting with his neck stretched out for the past week.

At last, Tie had been able to create in this world the slightly squashed Tanipang dolls.

Nordix and Marshall helped Tie make the design, and a seamstress from the Luminen mansion completed them.

“It’s really pretty, it’s cute Poshilpang and Ttonapang too!”

“They finally arrived?!”

Selina, who had come over to play, hurried through the entrance and ran over.

With eyes full of emotion, Tie held one doll out to Selina.

“Yeah! This one is Selina’s!”

“Waa! Hachopang, the one I like best!”

Selina took the doll Tie held out and hugged it tightly to her chest.

During that time, while spending time with Tie, Selina had memorized as many as forty-two Tanipang names.

Giggling, Tie took out nine more dolls from the box.

Then, grunting, he stuffed them into his Hanbit Kindergarten bag.

After putting them all in, the bag looked ready to burst, but that did not matter.

“Tomorrow I have to bring them and give them to my friends, right?”

That was right.

The reason Tie had been able to monopolize the popularity of the academy friends all at once was precisely this Tanipang.

In truth, the academy friends had shown interest in the Tanipang embroidered on Tie’s uniform practically from the first day.

To be exact, the girls had not been able to take their eyes off the embroidery from the beginning, while the boys had gradually gotten drawn in.

Some among them seemed to struggle to keep showing Tie a cool attitude to the very end, but,

‘Later on, they all kept trailing after Tie because they wanted to be friends with Tie!’

In any case, in the end they fought over who would play with Tie.

“Commander. Did you do that again today? Play-marriage.”

Raul, who was sitting on the central staircase, asked.

Tie smiled brightly and nodded.

“Yeah! Tie was playing the girlfriend role.”

“The girlfriend role? But if it’s play-marriage, why……”

“The husband’s girlfriend role. So the one playing the wife pulled a little bit of Tie’s hair.”

Basto, who had been listening, hurriedly ran over.

After looking at the back of Tie’s crown, she pressed a hand to her forehead and shut her eyes.

“Tie. Some of your hair got pulled out. You’ve got a bald patch.”

But Tie merely played with the dolls indifferently.

“It’s okay!”

“What do you mean it’s okay. If a friend pulls your hair, you should have told them not to!”

“But the husband’s girlfriend role is originally a role where your hair gets pulled……”

Basto was left speechless.

From some distance away came the sound of Selina chattering to Tie.

“Grown-ups really don’t know anything. Play-marriage is only fun if you do it like the real thing.”

“Mm-hmm, that’s what I mean.”

In the end, Basto gave up on persuading him and went to sit beside Raul.

Dinner had ended a little while earlier, and the clock was already pointing to seven in the evening.

“Maybe because it’s a day off for once, it feels nice.”

Raul said lazily from beside him.

Instead of answering, Basto nodded.

As Raul said, today was a day when Agabert was resting from besieging.

There were a total of two days a week when they rested from besieging.

Because even Marbas, who made the teleportation circles, had to recharge his mana periodically, time for regrouping was absolutely necessary.

Looking at Raul, Basto asked,

“Did Sir Leonardo say he is coming tomorrow?”

“Yes. He said he would come to pick him up early at dawn. He said not to eat breakfast, as they would prepare it over there.”

Basto nodded.

Spending one day a week with the Luminen family had, before anyone knew it, become one of Agabert’s rules.

That was because Tie wanted it, rather than it being the opinions of the other company members.

‘Tie likes Grandpa Valentis! And Uncle Edmung and Uncle Leonard and Uncle Alexsunder too!’

At first, Tie’s affection toward the Luminen family had seemed strange.

It was true that she had received all kinds of help from them, but Tie had only seen them once or twice.

But he soon accepted it.

‘Kids are like that.’

How easy was it to understand why kids liked something.

Of course, Tie had a clear reason of her own that Basto did not know.

Tie thought of the Luminen family as her benefactors.

Precious benefactors who had helped him discover a clue to the father he had been searching for so desperately.

“……It’s peaceful.”

Using the sound of the children chattering as background, Basto slowly closed his eyes.

Agabert’s current ranking was fourth.

Their speed of besieging was faster than that of any mercenary company currently in existence.

Thanks to that, magic stones were disappearing at a rapid pace both inside and outside the imperial capital.

Though even so, because new magic stones kept appearing, the damage still did not cease.

Of course, the sacks of gold coins in Ppuppu’s subspace were now piled up like a mountain too.

Yesterday, for the first time, the reward office had refused to accept the cores.

Saying they had run out of rewards to pay for the time being, Ornel had sent the company members back, telling them to come again next week.

‘It’s a good thing.’

Basto thought.

But at the same time, he could not shake an uneasy feeling.

When one runs at too fast a pace, accidents are bound to happen.

For now it looked like a good thing because Agabert was making a name for itself and earning money, but……

Bang bang bang!

Basto’s eyes flew open.

It was not only Basto who was startled.

Selina and Tie, who had been playing near the entrance.

Veil and Nordix, who had been sitting on the sofa.

Even Marshall, who had just come running out of the kitchen.

Everyone looked at the door in surprise.

Together with the rough pounding sound, a gruff voice followed from outside.

“I know you’re all in there, so open the door!”

For some reason, it sounded like a familiar voice.

* * *

Tie and Selina lay flat beneath the second-floor railing.

From below came Basto’s voice.

“……So that’s why you came. Because while you were in the imperial capital, you came to tell us that news?”

On the first floor, Basto was talking with the uninvited guest who had come to the mansion.

The uninvited guest was alone, huge, and even indoors wore an enormously large gauntlet.

“That is so. I do not cling greatly to rankings, but your side is different.”

He was Reaper.

Reaper, the leader of the second-ranked Grim Reaper, whom they had met exactly once before in the weapon district.

He slowly looked around the mansion.

“If one really gets down to it, what your side did is little different from trampling Tesetan’s plan.”

At the word Tesetan, Tie swallowed without realizing it.

Beside her Selina cast her a curious glance, but Tie was focusing all her attention on the downstairs and failed to notice.

“In the first place, the reason Trevaga went to the North Continent was that. Because the Association kept refusing to give state requests, as a sort of warning.”

“……A warning?”

“That is so. A signal of something like, if you keep treating us like this, we will no longer take on dirty work for you. And it is true that it worked to some degree.”

Tie quietly drew in a breath.

Even though the words were all complicated, for some reason his head was spinning very well.

It had to be because this was related to Dad, giving him superhuman power.

Reaper continued.

“As proof of that, do you know that the Emperor, who used to disregard Trevaga and only slight them, recently changed his thinking?”

When Basto made a strange expression, Reaper explained.

“The foreign currency Trevaga earns in the North Continent was no petty sum, was it? Watching that, the Emperor finally turned his attention there, but.”

“……”

“Recently, because your side has been besieging at a bizarre speed, it got buried very quickly.”

Tie’s heart pounded hard.

Meanwhile Reaper added,

“To summarize. Because of that, there is talk that before long Tesetan will come looking for you. For now it is still only a rumor, but.”