A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 44
Chapter 44
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Translated by Sylph
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Looking at the ring before her, Tie swallowed hard.
“‘If I break this, will Oppa Raul forget about candy?'”
She had been curious how exactly the relic erased a person’s memories.
Now that she was looking right at it, she could not hide how amazed she felt.
Tie raised her hand and gently touched the ring of memory.
Then small droplets immediately formed around the ring and puffed up like slime.
“‘It looks like it’d disappear if I blew on it.'”
After swallowing hard, Tie carefully tried to take hold of the ring.
At that moment.
[……Conditions……]
Hundreds of droplets gathered in front of her eyes and displayed an unknowable notice.
[Hello, little friend! Nice to meet you. Shall we set conditions?]
Conditions?
Tie’s eyes grew wide.
This was something really……!
A little later.
“O-Oppa Veil. Mister Basto! Grandpa Nordix!”
The three of them looked at Tie, who had turned around and was waving both arms wildly, with startled eyes.
“The Purity of Oblivion is awesome, it’s awesome! It’s super strong!”
At the mention of the Purity of Oblivion, Veil furrowed his brow.
“What, did you already do it?”
“Mm-hm!!”
An oh sound slipped from Veil’s mouth.
“The way it works is quieter than I expected. It might be even more useful than I thought?”
“You could even set condishuns!”
“Conditions?”
“Yes! Make it disappear when they do or think certain things!”
Veil’s mouth fell open.
“Really?”
“Yes! So I played with it a little, and then I turned the ring like this and this so that Guv’nor’s sons would forget Tie’s identity only when they hate Tie or leave Agabert!”
To think it was possible to erase memories in such detail.
Swallowing hard, Veil muttered while looking at Nordix and Basto.
“Wh-what is this. So this really is a relic? I think I can understand why the religious order went crazy and collected them……”
“Wait a moment.”
At that moment, Raul cut off the two.
With a flustered face, he was looking at Tie, Veil, and Basto.
“Did you do something to me?”
At once, guilt spread over Tie’s expression.
“Th-th-that……”
Veil rose from his seat.
She put a hand into the pocket of Tie’s uniform and pulled out a piece of candy wrapped in paper.
“What does this look like to you?”
Raul’s brow narrowed.
“……It looks like paper.”
“Not the paper. What do you think is inside this?”
“I don’t know. Medicine?”
“No? It’s something sweet that melts in your mouth. You don’t know what it is?”
“Pardon? I truly have no idea what you mean……”
Enzo, who had been watching, stepped in as though dumbfounded.
“Hyung, are you stupid? It’s obviously candy.”
Raul frowned and looked at Enzo.
“What’s that.”
“Huh?”
“I said, what’s that.”
Enzo’s gaze slowly turned toward Tie.
Tie was fidgeting as if she felt terribly sorry.
“Tie said I really, really didn’t want to do it…… but Oppa Veil kept making me……”
Behind her, Veil smiled in satisfaction.
“Wow, the effect is solid.”
* * *
Tie used the Purity of Oblivion to cast the same magic on Enzo as well.
So that if the two left Agabert or came to harbor hostility toward her, Tie’s identity would be deleted from their heads.
Once the work was done, unexpectedly, Veil came over.
“Brat. Want to do it to me too?”
Tie looked up at Veil with startled eyes.
“Huh?”
“I mean if you’re uneasy, you can do it to me too. It’s not like I’ll ever leave Agabert anyway.”
Veil looked as though it truly was nothing serious.
While he stared at him in bewilderment, Basto came over too.
“You may do it to me as well, Tie. It does not seem likely there would ever be a time for that magic to activate anyway.”
Tie felt something deep in one corner of her heart swell.
“Mister Basto and Oppa Veil……”
They really do think of Tie as a lifelong companion!
Tie soaked in emotion, then nodded vigorously.
“Yes! We’re making a booond of loyalty!”
Tie took the two hands held out to her one by one and activated the Purity of Oblivion.
To be honest, using the Purity of Oblivion was pretty fun.
Like playing with a toy, maybe?
“I don’t feel anything at all.”
Veil tilted his head.
Basto silently rubbed Tie’s head and said,
“You worked hard, Tie.”
At that chance, Tie handed the Purity over to Basto and told him to try activating it.
Because he wanted to show this amazing relic to Basto too.
But for some reason, the relic seemed to react only to Tie.
Feeling somewhat proud, Tie laughed to herself, hm-haha, then stopped short.
“‘But where did Grandpa Nordix go?'”
He had definitely been here just a little while ago.
He was tilting her head by himself when soon Veil called Tie.
“Brat. Raul and Enzo say they’re curious.”
“About what?”
“They want to know how you came up with the name Necromancer King. Listening to them, now I’m curious too. Where’d you pick up a name like that?”
“That was……”
Tie immediately forgot about Nordix.
Then she began enthusiastically explaining how she had come up with the nickname Necromancer King.
As they listened to Tie’s explanation, smiles slowly spread across the members’ lips.
A warm and peaceful atmosphere lingered in the drawing room of the government office for quite a while.
Until the sun disappeared beyond the horizon.
* * *
A few days later.
“W-wow……”
Tie looked at the two splendid carriages stopped in front of the government office and let her mouth fall open.
Then, growing restless, she turned to Governor Marianne.
“Guv’nor, is it really okay for Tie to keep these?”
Marianne answered with a gentle smile.
“Of course. If I were to repay all that the little commander has done for Pearl City, I still have a long way to go.”
“……You don’t have to call me little commander, you can just call me Tie.”
“What are you saying. No matter what anyone says, Astie is Agabert’s little commander. Regardless of age.”
Hearing those words, what had happened a few days ago suddenly came back to her.
The day after Raul and Enzo joined the mercenary company, an unexpected person came to Tie’s room.
Nordix.
“‘Astie. I have come to think it may be all right to tell Marianne Waveril your true identity.'”
Nordix seriously suggested one thing to Tie.
That they tell Marianne Waveril the truth about Tie’s situation.
It turned out Nordix had gone to see Marianne the day before as well.
Because after seeing that Tie’s relic worked properly, all sorts of worries had suddenly come to her.
“‘If it becomes known that you possess a relic, the religious order will certainly become curious about your identity. And beyond that, they will try to take your relic away, as they always have.'”
Even now, Tie was famous.
And perhaps she might become even more famous in the future.
“‘But it struck me that your ability is too sharp and too great to keep hidden forever. In this world, those who possess strong power are always restrained to the same degree.'”
“‘Really……?'”
“‘Yes. I judged that if the attention of the religious order and the imperial family begins to turn toward you, it may become difficult for you to protect yourself with the power you presently have alone.'”
At first, Tie could not understand what Nordix meant.
Seeing that, Nordix explained it in a way that would be easier for Tie to understand.
“‘You spoke about Puppetmon before, didn’t you?'”
“‘Yes!'”
“‘You said that if one gets hold of a strong Puppetmon, one becomes that much stronger.'”
“‘That’s right! If you get a legendary Puppetmon, you become super super strong!'”
“‘Then think of it like this. You could become the Puppetmon.'”
At those words, her head went blank.
“‘Ti, Tie becomes a Puppetmon?'”
“‘Yes. What it means that you are strong is also that if anyone gets hold of you, that person becomes strong.'”
“‘……B-but how can a person just get hold of a person like that?'”
Nordix smiled, then said quietly.
“‘Tie, there are far more ways than one might think to make people move like puppets. One can take hostages and threaten them, use hypnosis, manipulate the mind and control them, or use drugs.'”
“‘……'”
“‘If someone were to do such things to you, do you think you could really stop it all by yourself?'”
No.
Tie had no choice but to answer that.
But as though he had expected that answer, Nordix gave her the solution.
“‘That is why we need the help of House Waveril.'”