A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 151
Chapter 151
Ardiana was flustered.
‘A princess.’
She had spent her whole life inside the palace.
Though she often attended festivals and banquets where nobles gathered, it meant she had never shown herself before the imperial citizens.
‘Then how……’
“Hello, Princess, I’m the Necromancer King!”
Ardiana curled her hand beneath the cloak.
‘Can he see through me?’
Before assigning this state request, also known as the clock tower mission, to Agabert.
Naturally, Ardiana had looked into the Necromancer King.
A childish appearance and behavior.
An enormous power hidden inside.
The informants who said they had investigated the Necromancer King all spoke with one voice.
‘His true form, you say? You will find it difficult to uncover. Even with dozens of informants attached to him, it could not be uncovered.’
They said the Necromancer King was someone who controlled her appearance and behavior very thoroughly.
‘He picked up a fallen stone while walking down the road and started observing it, you know? And then suddenly followed after a butterfly too! It’s as though he swallowed a child whole. Of course, those were actions taken because he was conscious of us.’
But Ardiana did not dislike that Necromancer King.
Though his actions were strange, if one looked at the path he had walked, his character could be seen.
‘The fact that he stayed in Pearl City and protected the residents, and safely rescued the factory manager who had been trapped in the subspace.’
Even the incident that had happened at Caldenvine Ridge.
Adeline, whom she had reached again after a long time, had said.
‘It is not just because I received help, Your Highness. The Necromancer King is truly a good and clean person.’
‘May I ask why?’
‘Because the Necromancer King has no malice whatsoever. I understand that you are wary because there are many rumors in the world, but you will soon come to know it.’
In that way, Ardiana was able to completely let go of her prejudice toward the Necromancer King.
‘And in any case, as a mercenary, he is also someone I am grateful to.’
Unlike the Emperor and Fides, he cherished mercenaries.
Protecting the people was the duty of the state, yet mercenaries instead sacrificed themselves to protect the state.
Ardiana wanted to build a friendly relationship with Agabert.
She also wanted to make them join the Association and guarantee their practical interests a little more systematically.
However.
“Princess, you’re extremely pretty!”
She had not expected the Necromancer King to see through her at this moment.
She had covered everything from head to toe except for her eyes.
As she remained frozen, the adjutant who knew her identity gestured toward the Necromancer King with her eyes.
Her look was asking what she would do.
After thinking it over, Ardiana went down on one knee on the ground.
Then, after raising one hand to keep the other company members from approaching, she looked into the Necromancer King’s eyes and asked,
“How did you see through me?”
The Necromancer King’s face turned puzzled.
“See thwough?”
“Does my identity simply show in your eyes?”
“I will not deny it. From now on, you and I will become cooperative partners, and then trust will be more important than anything else. However, my identity must not be revealed to the world. If it becomes known that I am an imperial princess, the Association I have worked so hard to build will collapse. Of course, then I will not be able to guarantee your practical interests either.”
Silence followed.
Seeing the expression of anguish spread across the Necromancer King’s face, Ardiana thought,
‘Adeline, I trusted you and set it down. How indeed will this man react?’
Adeline was a wise and capable maid.
So if Adeline had said the Necromancer King was trustworthy, then Ardiana too could trust her.
As expected, after pondering for a long time, the Necromancer King said in a smaller voice, almost like a whisper,
“The princess, really is a princess?”
Then he moved close and whispered into Ardiana’s ear.
“And the princess is the Frost chairwoman?”
Ardiana, whose brow had been furrowed, nodded.
“Yes. I hide my identity outwardly because of circumstances.”
Tie was seized by a great shock.
‘The princess and Tie are…… birds of a feather?’
The point that, though being the leader who guides a group, she hid her identity.
Even the point that if that identity were exposed, she could lose the whole group.
The princess and Tie had very many similar parts.
Pressing his cheeks with both hands, Tie muttered,
“I see, so Tie figured out the chairwoman’s identity……”
The company members had said it.
That the chairperson of the Frost Association was a person hidden behind a veil.
That even on the days she appeared, she came out wrapped all over her body so her identity could not be confirmed.
‘It was because she was a princess!’
As though entranced, Tie stared into the princess’s eyes.
He could see eyes as blue as though they held the sky.
Each time the princess blinked, the pupil held within slowly widened and narrowed.
Tie whispered with an excited face,
“Tie will keep the secret.”
Then, after turning to look at the company members stopped at some distance, he added,
“I won’t tell anybody! Because we’re both secretly-overpowered!”
The princess froze for a moment.
But soon she answered calmly.
“Thank you.”
While Tie giggled, having grown shy, the princess rose from her place.
He raised one hand toward the other company members and the people of House Luminen who had arrived some distance away.
When everyone gathered, the adjutant standing beside the princess stepped forward.
“I am the chief administrator of the Frost Association.”
Unlike Ardiana, she removed the cloak she had been wearing.
“The reason we opened this temporary summons today is because the magic stone you will besiege a week from now is of a somewhat special form.”
Basto furrowed his brows.
“What do you mean, a special form.”
“It means a form we have never seen before. That magic stone is larger than the large ones we have seen until now. Its exterior is also considerably different from those up to now.”
“Is that really true?”
Edmund, who had been standing beside Agabert, came forward.
After giving Tie a light greeting with her eyes, she asked,
“This was not information that had come into Strategic Headquarters.”
“The Association also only learned of it recently.”
The chief administrator calmly continued her next words.
“You all know the old palace site in the north very well, I am sure.”
The old palace site.
The place where the imperial palace from before monsters appeared in the world had existed.
The old palace built there had long since become ruins.
Since foot traffic to and from the place had ceased, and a magic stone had formed nearby, it was only natural.
But for the old palace, which had been left neglected until now, to be the site of this mission.
“The problem is that the magic stone is devouring the old palace. According to the results of our investigation, the point of origin of the magic stone was the clock tower on the palace grounds.”
She lifted one hand and pointed to the clock tower standing tall behind them.
“The style is identical to this one. However, the clock tower on the palace grounds will be wrapped in black vines. Your mission is to remove that.”
Silence fell among the company members.
The same was true of the members of House Luminen, who were also left speechless.
Until now, magic stones had existed only in the form of buildings.
But according to what the chief administrator said, this time the magic stone was exactly……
“Do you mean the vines are the magic stone?”
“According to our investigation, that is correct.”
Edmund narrowed his brow.
The chief administrator went on speaking.
“Since there was no precedent, people whose ability had been proven were necessary. Therefore, we gave the right of first action to Agabert, which is regarded as being at the peak of ability today, and as for House Luminen, it should not even need further explanation.”
Instead of answering, Valentis looked at Astie.
‘It sounds quite a dangerous mission.’
It might have been different before she knew Tie’s identity.
But now that he knew it, he did not want to have a child participate in something like this together with them.
Of course, Tie was only brightly cheerful.
“Yes! Then when do we go? Do we go a week from now? How do we go?”
Whether because she was excited, she was stamping her feet in quick little steps, and the chief administrator hesitantly opened her lips.
“One week from now. You will be dispatched together with a unit of holy knights. Teleportation circles will be supported by the Association.”
Tie turned around with a pounding heart.
Then he was about to say something to Basto when he froze in place.
On the other side of the plaza.
Along the straight, open road, something like a small dot was approaching.
Tie opened her eyes wide, then rubbed around one eye with one hand.
The dot grew a little larger.
More exactly, it stretched vertically.
They were people.
“Huh?”
“Tie. I was going to tell you in the morning, but……”
Lucarion came over and whispered, but it did not reach Tie’s ears.
The child was already unable to take his eyes off the figure at the very front of the group, whose form had become distinct.
“Is this all the Association’s level amounts to?”
The man who had come up and stopped shone cold eyes.
“After working us like dogs for years, I thought maybe now you’d throw us something at last.”
Tesetan let out a sneer.
“And now you take back the bowl you handed us?”
Tie stared at that sight without even remembering to blink.