A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 42

Chapter 42

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Translated by Sylph

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“Hey, brat! Absolutely not!”

Tie was startled by Veil’s voice.

Then, tightly gripping the bracelet, she blinked and asked,

“Why not……?”

“No matter how mercenary work is a job that does anything without discrimination, what would a four-year-old be doing!”

As Veil leaped up, Tie turned sullen and closed her mouth.

But no matter how much she thought about it, she could not understand why she should not erase the twins’ memories.

“But Tie has to test the new power I got!”

When he shouted after steeling her heart, Veil’s eyes grew even wider.

“If you wanna see whether it erases well or not, doing it to Guv’nor’s sons is the best! Then Tie’s trouble goes away too, so it’s kill two birds with one stone!”

Basto quietly pressed a hand to his forehead.

An unpleasant thought rose in his mind.

“‘……As I thought. Did we expose her to too many violent things.'”

He had been worried ever since they fought on the deck.

Astie was witnessing far too many scenes that a child should not have to see at such a young age.

Cutting monsters down was one thing, but Karl’s final state had clearly had a bad influence on a child.

“‘That bastard truly was no help, alive or dead.'”

Of course, Basto had no way of knowing that Tie herself had no such thought at all.

“Tie is gonna do it no matter what! Since they found out Tie’s true identity, the only choice is to erase it!”

At that moment, Tie angrily started walking toward the drawing room door.

Veil ran over and picked Tie up.

“B-brat, what’s wrong with you? How did a kid who was dumb but nice turn out like this, huh?!”

“Put me down!”

“I can’t! Absolutely can’t! I can’t watch you kill people at only four years old-!”

At that heroic shout, silence fell in the room.

Then the child’s mouth slowly opened, her eyes wide.

“Wh-who’s killing people……?”

Tie’s face had already gone frightened.

Veil froze for a moment, then went blank.

Then he asked back in a half-doubting voice.

“Brat, you…… what did you just say you were going to erase?”

Tie hurriedly pointed at the bracelet on her wrist.

“I said I was gonna erase Guv’nor’s sons’ memories. This is the Purity of Oblivion, and Tie found it in the magic stone……”

“What purity?”

At that moment, Nordix cut in between the two of them.

Coming right up to Tie, Nordix asked again as though he could not believe it.

“Astie, what purity did you say you found in the magic stone?”

At Nordix’s unusual expression, Tie blankly held out her wrist.

“This, Purity of Oblivion……”

Nordix’s eyes grew wide.

For a few seconds he fumbled with his lips, then turned his head and looked at Basto.

After a brief silence.

“Basto.”

Speaking almost in a whisper, he added gravely.

“I-I think Astie…… may have found a relic.”

* * *

Tie sat neatly on the sofa and concentrated on Nordix’s explanation.

“Astie, there are broadly two kinds of rewards a conqueror can receive after conquering a magic stone. Reward money and spoils.”

“Tie knows! Mercenaries conquer magic stones and get reward money!”

After coming to this other world, Tie had also worked hard in her own way to gather information.

She listened hard to what people around her said, and also looked around into various things by herself while pretending otherwise.

“If you go to the reward office and say you conquered a magic stone, you can get reward money!”

The reward office was a national institution located throughout the empire.

To be exact, one that paid mercenaries the rewards for the magic stones they had conquered.

As if finding her admirable, Basto stroked Tie’s head.

“That’s right. There was one at the gate too.”

Tie nodded.

“‘Right, those people who don’t work hard.'”

The reward office at the gate handled its work terribly.

It had registered the magic stone Basto conquered as if Karl had conquered it, and had even given the reward money to Karl.

“‘They’re strange people, not even checking properly.'”

If Grandma in room 107 had seen it, she definitely would have flown into a rage about taxes being wasted.

Still, fortunately, Basto had gotten the reward money that had been stolen from him back last night.

Because after Karl was eaten by a monster, Rekar had become the commander of Death Hound.

For some reason, Rekar was terribly afraid of Basto, and even paid the delayed commission in full.

Adding a few treasure chests brought from the wrecked ship on top of that, Agabert’s financial state recovered all at once.

“‘Now Tie is rich.'”

Anyway.

“Then what are spoils?”

Now that she knew what reward money was, it was time to hear about spoils.

Nordix set a sack down on the table with a thump.

“This is exactly that.”

Looking inside the sack, Tie’s eyes grew wide.

It was filled with the monster cores Agabert had gathered until now.

“Cores are a very basic resource obtained by disposing of monsters. You know that too, don’t you? The more powerful the monster, the higher the value of its core.”

“Yes. You can sell them at the reward office!”

Cores were usually traded at the reward office.

They were also used as evidence when a mercenary proved the fact that he had conquered something.

“A similar energy flows through a magic stone and the monsters summoned from that magic stone. So if one presents a monster core, the office can know which magic stone that person conquered.”

When Tie nodded with dignity, Nordix added,

“For reference, the reason we are gathering cores is that we intend to process them all at once when we go to the center of the imperial capital.”

“So we’ll draw people’s eyes?”

“Yes.”

Mm, certainly.

It really did seem more impressive to trade a huge pile of cores all at once than to trade them little by little.

“Thanks to your abilities, Astie, Agabert’s standing is rising day by day. In the middle of that, if we trade an enormous quantity of magic stones all at once, eyes will gather on us.”

Tie swallowed hard.

It felt as if she were getting one step closer to the title of secretly-overpowered Necromancer King.

“But, very occasionally.”

At that moment, however, Nordix lowered his voice.

“There are cases in which conquerors come to obtain spoils not of monster cores, but of another kind.”

Her gaze was on the bracelet around Tie’s wrist.

“Something like the bracelet you are wearing. In other words, a relic.”

“A wellic……?”

“Yes, a relic.”

Veil, who had been standing leaning against the wall, came over.

Sitting down beside Tie, Veil asked,

“Brat. Where did you get that? Did you name the relic yourself? And how do you know what it does?”

Tie looked at Veil with a slightly cowed face, then hesitated and opened her mouth.

“So, um……”

It seemed that now was the time to tell them about the spirit she had met that morning.

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“A spirit?”

Basto looked surprised in a way that did not suit him.

Veil was much the same, with a bewildered face.

“So you’re saying that while you were sleeping, a spirit came to see you?”

“Yes! A pwincess spirit with long hair like this, and eyes all shining!”

Basto, Veil, and Nordix exchanged looks, then muttered.

“Does she mean a spirit of the dead?”

“That’s how it sounds for now.”

Tie was a dark-attribute mage.

Therefore she could see spirits of the dead that ordinary people could not see.

So Basto and Veil thought that the ‘spirit’ Tie said she had seen would also be a spirit of the dead, but,

“Nooo? It was a pwincess spi! rit! Not subordinates, a spi! rit!”

Tie puffed out her cheeks and shook her head hard.

“She was different from the subordinates on Tie’s sailboat! The subordinates have black energy going poof poof all over their bodies, but the pwincess was all sparkly!”

“It was shining?”

“Yes! It had a name too, Sseradin!”

Seradin……

Repeating it to himself, Nordix flinched and looked up.

He then looked at Basto and Veil and said,

“Seradin should be a local deity handed down in the Pearl City region.”