A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 43

Chapter 43

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Translated by Sylph

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“She definitely said that? That he was a spirit, and that he was Seradin?”

Tie nodded.

Veil and Basto continued the conversation with serious faces.

“Strange that something like that really exists. I thought it was a fake god the religious order made up to stir up the villagers.”

“I thought so too. And a spirit…… I have never heard of such a being until now.”

Meanwhile, for some reason, Nordix had been quiet for a while now.

Then, after thinking, Veil turned to Tie.

“Are you sure? That Seradin said he had become a magic stone, and that you let her out.”

“Yes!”

“And then she handed you that relic, saying she’d give you a gift made from her own essence?”

“Yes! The Purity of Oblivion!”

Veil turned to Basto.

The two of them then spoke at the same time.

“……Wow, the brat can see spirits too.”

“It seems Tie can communicate with spirits as well.”

Then they took one breath and spoke at the same time again.

“Doesn’t that seem like quite a useful ability?”

“It certainly looks like a power that will be helpful someday.”

Tie stared at the two speaking as if they had rehearsed it, her mouth hanging open.

Then Veil turned his body toward Nordix.

“Then the problem is what we do with that relic from here on……”

Then he continued.

“Old man. What do we do?”

According to what Tie said, it seemed there was not just one or two spirits.

And besides, they also sounded as if they were connected to magic stones somehow.

The problem was that all of this was something completely unknown until now.

“Is there any mercenary company currently keeping a relic in private?”

At Veil’s question, Nordix shook his head.

“……I don’t think so. If a mercenary company got hold of a relic, didn’t the religious order usually step in and recover it?”

There had been only one mercenary company in history that obtained a relic while conquering a magic stone.

Trevaga, currently ranked first.

But before long, Trevaga voluntarily returned that relic to the religious order.

Still, everyone in the world knew. That it had not been a voluntary return.

“Even if the Holy Knights found a relic, didn’t the religious order always take it?”

Nordix nodded.

Veil seemed to sink into thought for a moment, then continued.

“If they took the relic from Trevaga, then the religious order must have come down pretty hard.”

Her gaze went to the Purity of Oblivion on Tie’s wrist.

“Then there’s a high chance they’ll come after the brat’s bracelet too.”

Without realizing it, Tie quickly hid her wrist behind her back.

He did not know what sort of people the religious order were, but he did not want to hand over the precious bracelet Seradin had given her.

And Tie absolutely needed this bracelet too.

“I have to erase Guv’nor’s sons’ memories with this……”

To erase the memories of Raul and Enzo, who had found out her identity.

“Oppa Veil, when are we going to Guv’nor’s sons?”

Thinking about it made her heart grow hurried again.

Because he began to worry that Raul and Enzo might have gone somewhere else after leaving the first floor of the government office.

But at that moment Veil came closer.

“Brat. I thought about it.”

Meeting Tie’s eyes, she asked,

“How about using that relic to make the mercenary company a little bigger?”

Tie tilted her head.

“The mercenary company’s size?”

“Yeah. Think about it. First we take in those two guys, Raul and Enzo, as our members. They came to find us while you were asleep, saying they wanted to join Agabert.”

“Gasp. Really?”

“Yeah. So first we accept them, then leave it alone whether they know your identity or not.”

“And then……?”

“If it looks like they’re going to leave, then that is when you erase their memories about you.”

Tie’s mouth parted slightly.

“Then we can increase the size of the mercenary company, and we won’t have to worry about your identity leaking outside. Isn’t that good?”

Tie nodded.

But soon she asked with a doubtful face.

“But…… what if Guv’nor’s sons don’t say they’re leaving and just run away secretly?”

Couldn’t they secretly escape the mercenary company in order to spread Tie’s identity around?

But for some reason, Veil snorted a laugh.

“Brat. I admit that up until now, because of your subordinates or bone friends or whatever, we haven’t had much to do.”

“……”

“But do you seriously think we wouldn’t notice even one hint from people trying to slip away secretly?”

Tie’s mouth fell open.

“If there are bastards trying to run, we can catch every last one and drag them in front of you, so don’t worry about that.”

Tie soon nodded with a reassured face.

Then she shouted sturdily.

“Mm-hm!”

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“So then……”

Raul and Enzo opened their eyes wide in disbelief.

“Lady Astie awakened her mana at a young age and became a dark-attribute mage.”

“And because of her family circumstances, and because if useless attention gathered there could be people who would try to harm the young little commander.”

“You’ve been disguising her not as a real four-year-old, but as a madman pretending to be four years old?”

Veil nodded.

“Yeah. That’s exactly it.”

Raul and Enzo’s gazes naturally turned toward Tie.

Toward the child sitting across from them, clutching her bag tightly with an embarrassed expression.

“What, does that put you off? Now all of a sudden our brat looks easy to you or something?”

As soon as Veil growled, Raul and Enzo waved their hands in alarm.

“N-no.”

“No way.”

But neither of them stopped their gaze from going to Tie once again.

In truth, both of them were thinking the same thing.

“‘I can’t believe it. She was really four years old.'”

A small child fidgeting, with chubby cheeks faintly red.

Now that they knew the truth, the Astie before their eyes was truly……

“‘She is cute.'”

“‘She’s very, very cute.'”

Fortunately, the one who came to his senses first was Raul.

Raul barely tore his gaze away and cleared his throat.

“I understand what you mean.”

Then he turned to Enzo and asked,

“You understand too, Enzo?”

Enzo nodded quickly.

“Of course. We will do our utmost to ensure the little commander’s identity does not leak outside.”

“I can’t trust words alone.”

At that moment, Veil stepped in.

Leaving the twins behind, she looked straight at Tie.

“Brat. Go do it.”

At those words, Tie stood up hesitantly.

Then he climbed down from the sofa with uncertainty and soon stood in front of Raul and Enzo while everyone watched.

“P-please give me your hands.”

The twins stared at Astie with puzzled faces.

But before long, they hesitantly held out their hands.

Tie first extended the hand wearing the Purity of Oblivion toward Raul.

[If you touch a target with the hand wearing this purity, you will likely be able to erase whichever memory you desire from the memories that target possesses.]

The idea to test the relic on the twins had been Veil’s.

Tie was a little worried, but Veil had stayed firm.

“‘Brat. Will you get your head on straight? We’re the ones with the upper hand anyway. If they want to join Agabert, they should put up with that much.'”

“‘……Oppa Veil, you sound like a really bad person right now.'”

“‘What’s bad about it? Did I say to erase some huge important memory? No, right? Besides, the less rejection people feel, the better if they don’t even know what’s being done to them.'”

Tie agreed with that too.

The twins did not know about the relic’s existence or effect.

So they probably could not even guess what Tie was about to do.

One only had to look at the two hands obediently held out in front of her.

Even so, before taking Raul’s hand, Tie took a deep breath.

Because she wanted to wipe away the guilt pricking at her heart.

“‘Guv’nor’s sons, I’m really, really sorry!'”

What Tie planned to do was erase Raul’s memory of candy as a test.

By chance she had candy in her pocket, so it would also be easy to check whether the memory had really been removed.

Of course, when he thought that Raul might no longer remember the sweet taste of candy from now on, it felt like a terrible thing to do……

“‘But to find out the relic’s effect…… it can’t be helped!'”

She squeezed both eyes shut and took Raul’s hand.

And before long, she opened her mouth at what appeared before her eyes.

“W-wow.”

Countless rings and threads made of light were floating in the air.

Tie knew instinctively.

That all of them were Raul’s memories.

Before long, one of them shone right in front of her.

“‘This is it.'”

This was definitely the memory in Raul’s head related to candy.

The moment she became certain, as though it had been waiting, that ring of memory moved right up before Tie’s eyes.