A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 153
Chapter 153
“Ha, why do I feel so uneasy?”
Livia said.
Aleric shot her a glare.
“Don’t say ominous things, Livia.”
But Livia could not shake her uneasy expression.
After looking once at Tesetan, who was polishing his sword some distance away, she continued.
“Doesn’t this feel strange to you? That the Necromancer King accepted this duel of honor?”
In Livia’s view, there was no reason for the Necromancer King to accept a duel of honor.
Tesetan too agreed with her on this opinion.
So wasn’t that why he had deliberately spoken even more sarcastically to the Necromancer King.
In order to provoke his temper and make him accept the duel of honor in a fit of anger.
But Tesetan did not even need to spend much time provoking the Necromancer King.
The Necromancer King bit down on the bait at once with only a few obvious taunting lines.
“Look! Their side is in a complete emergency too!”
In reality, where Livia jerked her chin, Agabert’s company members were gathered in a circle.
The Necromancer King could not be seen because she was buried among the company members, but at a glance that side’s mood was extremely grave.
“It was a sudden action. Even the company members on their side couldn’t predict the Necromancer King’s behavior. That’s how little sense it makes!”
“And what do you intend to do about it now.”
Aleric stepped in.
“Livia, the duel of honor has already been accepted. The leader is going to duel with the Necromancer King.”
Livia muttered in a half-doubting voice.
“……What if the Necromancer King is stronger than the leader?”
Her gaze shook uneasily.
“If that isn’t the case, does this make any sense? He has some power he still hasn’t revealed to the public. Something with which he could lightly sweep away our leader with a mere flick of his hand. So, knowing he’d win anyway, he accepted this duel of honor……!”
“Enough, Livia. Do you really want Trevaga to be dissolved?”
Victor clicked his tongue.
“No, it’s because I’m uneasy!”
“Enough. In any case, all that’s left is to watch.”
With a sigh, Aleric searched through his belongings.
Before long, he took something out from within them.
It was a pair of rings of covenant that had not been used for a long time.
Rings of covenant.
High-grade magical devices that protected oaths and promises.
The participants in a duel of honor always wore these magical devices before starting the duel.
The victor could remove the ring the moment the duel of honor ended.
But the loser could not remove the ring until carrying out all of the promises made before the duel of honor.
The problem was that as time dragged on like this, the ring gradually bit deeper and deeper into the flesh.
In the end, unless the victor personally removed the ring, the loser who failed to keep the promise would lose his hand.
Since nothing was more important to a swordsman than the wrist, it was a structure in which the loser had no choice but to keep the promise in order to have the ring removed.
“I’m uneasy, ah, I’m really uneasy!”
Hearing Livia’s muttering, Aleric turned the ring over in his hand.
It was true that he himself did not feel at ease either.
‘Even so, surely not.’
Their leader, Tesetan, would not be defeated, would he.
It was while he thought that.
Meanwhile.
“Mister Basto, if Tie wins, then it’ll be fine, right? Yes?”
Tie dejectedly grabbed Basto’s arm and shook it.
But Basto kept his mouth tightly shut and said nothing at all.
Tie could tell that Basto was extremely angry at this very moment.
Nordix was the same, his complexion gone white.
“Tie. That man is a swordsman. He will try to force close combat, so if even the slightest dangerous situation occurs……”
From a little while ago, Nordix had been explaining to Tie every possible situation that might unfold from here on without rest.
As for where Veil was?
He had gone off from the group and was sitting down by himself some distance away.
Seeing her expression, which somehow looked as though her soul had departed, Tie cast her eyes downward sadly.
‘……It’s Tie’s fault.’
Tie knew very well that the duel was dangerous.
And when doing something dangerous, he always had to discuss it with the company members first.
Because they had promised that.
But Tie had answered on her own that she would have the duel of honor.
‘But there was no way Tie couldn’t do it……’
She had not known it would be today, but Tie had imagined and prepared for this day for a very long time.
Once she met Dad, Tie absolutely had to keep Dad by her side.
Because after meeting him with such difficulty, they could not separate again.
But there was no way Dad, who did not remember Tie and was in a raging period, would obediently remain by her side.
‘So Tie thought really hard.’
In truth, there were quite a few methods he could try.
From openly trailing after him everywhere, all the way to disbanding the mercenary company and entering under Dad as a subordinate.
But all of these methods had fatal flaws.
There was always some part that Tie had to give up.
‘If I trail after him too much, Dad might run away forever.’
And becoming Dad’s subordinate after disbanding the mercenary company was impossible, because he would have to say goodbye to his present companions.
Because of this, Tie’s head had been so complicated all this time.
He had even lost sleep at night from worrying so much on his own.
But today.
At last, the Dad he met unexpectedly presented a solution.
‘……He said duel of honor, right?’
Knight against knight.
No, a duel said to be done as mercenary against mercenary.
To have this duel, there was a promise that absolutely had to be made before fighting.
It was to decide what each side would give up if they lost.
And according to what Basto said, this promise absolutely had to be kept.
If it was not kept, one would go to prison and be punished by magical devices, or something like that.
Tie thought this was a chance.
‘Might Tie be able to win?’
After awakening Marbas.
Tie had diligently practiced the operation of mana with Blackie’s help.
Each time he besieged a magic stone, he had called out his bone friends, and he had made far more subordinates than before.
Moreover, the place where the duel of honor was to be held was also a very favorable place for Tie.
‘Absolutely not in the plaza. His Majesty the Emperor would by no means be pleased by the display of force in this place.’
According to the instructions of the princess, no, the Association President, Dad and Tie were scheduled to move to a nearby empty ruins.
Of course the company members too would come together, and for some reason it also felt as though the Luminen family would follow along.
“Ppuppu says there are a whole lot of bone friends in the ruins. Tie says Tie is super strong there, yes?”
Tie earnestly reassured the company members.
But the anxiety on the company members’ faces did not lift easily.
At that moment.
“Hey.”
Someone approached Agabert.
When Raul and Enzo stepped aside, blazing red hair came into view.
‘……Gasp, that older sister is!’
‘Miss. You must always stay healthy. And smile a lot with the leader.’
Dad’s subordinate, whom he had seen in the dream while in Pearl City.
The woman who, until the very moment she was dying after being attacked by monsters, held Tie tightly in her arms and protected her!
“You’re all prepared, right? If you don’t have some other scheme, then hurry up, will you? Our leader’s already finished preparing.”
But the woman’s way of speaking was clearly different from the one in the dream.
Tie’s brows drooped without her realizing it.
But he soon nodded bravely.
“Yeah, all done! …yo!”
The woman looked at Tie with uneasy eyes.
“……I really can’t get used to it.”
Then she tossed one teleportation circle down at Agabert’s feet.
It was the teleportation circle that could move them to the place where they had decided to hold the duel of honor.
“Let’s go! Tie will wiiin!”
Running over and picking up the teleportation circle, Tie cried out in a bright voice.
Raul and Enzo had no choice but to nod.
Before long, Enzo spoke the coordinates and tore the teleportation circle.
After enduring the briefly wavering sensation, the surroundings had already changed before they knew it.
They could also see Trevaga, the Frost Association, and the people of House Luminen arriving one after another some distance away.
Basto swallowed a sigh and bent one knee.
She was about to straighten Tie’s cloak when once again a silver-haired man from Trevaga approached and held something out.
“These are rings of covenant.”
Tie swallowed.
‘So these are the promise bracelets.’
Basto had told him.
That once you put on these bracelets, you had no choice but to keep the promise.
But the moment Tie was about to hold out her wrist, Veil came storming over.
“Have you lost your mind?! Why are you making him wear something like this too!”
Veil glared at Aleric.
“You said our leader would have the duel of honor you wanted, didn’t you. Is that still not enough?”
Aleric’s brow narrowed.
“As a matter of principle, rings of covenant……”
At that moment, Tesetan leisurely appeared from behind Aleric.
He took a ring of covenant from Aleric’s hand and, as though to show it off, put it on his own wrist.
Then, looking at Veil, he smiled coldly.
“In a duel fought with life on the line, is there such a thing as doing it halfway?”
“What the hell is this crazy bastard saying right now? Since when are you suddenly talking about lives? A duel of honor is a duel for honor!”
“Sorry, but that isn’t my duel.”
In the blink of an eye, Tesetan grabbed Tie’s wrist.
And before anyone could stop him, he slipped the ring of covenant over it.
At the sight of the ring tightening to fit the child’s wrist, killing intent came over the faces of Agabert’s company members.