A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 45
Chapter 45
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Translated by Sylph
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House Waveril was part of the imperial capital nobility.
Not some clumsy power family that had happened to be incorporated into the imperial capital long ago, but true ‘imperial capital nobility.’
“‘So I think it would be best to tell House Waveril our situation and arrange things so we can ask for help if we face danger. What do you think?'”
Tie agreed with Nordix’s opinion.
Because it certainly seemed as though that would be safer for Tie.
More than anything, it did not seem likely that Governor Marianne would refuse Tie’s request either.
In fact, before Nordix, Marianne had already come to Tie first.
“‘I wonder whether there is anything Agabert currently needs. If there is, I want to help.'”
“‘Guv’nor……?'”
“‘Yes. You saved my sons. You did what everyone else avoided. So if there is anything at all I can do to help, please tell me.'”
At the time, Tie had sent Marianne back after saying that she could not think of anything in particular.
But after talking with Nordix, he realized.
What it was that she needed to ask of Marianne.
So that night, Tie firmed her resolve and went all alone to Marianne’s office.
“‘Guv’nor! Actually Tie is not a super-strong Necromancer King!'”
Marianne looked flustered.
“‘Tie is actually a child……. I’m looking for my daddy.'”
But after hearing everything, she seemed greatly shocked, and soon after, instantly became serious.
“‘All of this sounds extremely dangerous to my ears. Exactly how many people know this fact?'”
“‘Ummm, Mister Basto and Oppa Veil and Grandpa Nordix and Oppa Raul, Oppa Enzo, and Guv’nor, I think……?'”
Marianne only relaxed after hearing that Tie had cast conditional memory-erasure magic on everyone.
Then she took Tie’s hand tightly and said,
“‘Very well. I will support the little commander in whatever ways I can. However, it would be better to do so from behind the scenes, without drawing notice.'”
“‘Really……?'”
“‘From the moment Raul and Enzo chose the little commander, we were as good as all riding in the same boat. From now on, I will think of the little commander, too, as no different from my own child, just like them.'”
Hearing those words, Tie suddenly thought of the people in Gold Villa.
More precisely, Grandma in room 107 and the lady in room 203.
Those two also always told Tie that she was no different from their own child, no different from their own family.
Feeling something deep in her heart tremble, Tie’s eyes welled with tears.
Marianne hugged Tie tightly and patted her back.
“‘Commander, no, Miss Tie, you are doing well. Everything will go well from now on too, so don’t worry.'”
“‘Sniff, sniff……'”
“‘It’s been hard on you, hasn’t it?'”
“‘Yes, I walked all the way to Pearl City and I was hungry and my legs hurt. Actually I was a little scared even when I was catching monsters in the sea……'”
“‘Goodness, first of all, I suppose we must secure a sturdy carriage.'”
After saying that, Marianne also took the information about Tie’s father.
He did tilt her head at hearing that his name was Kim Young-su.
At the end, Tie activated the Purity of Oblivion at Marianne’s request.
“‘I knew that Raul and Enzo would eventually take up the sword again. Those children resemble my husband more than me.'”
Before Tie left the office, Marianne said that while holding Tie’s hand tightly.
“‘So I had been prepared that one day I would have to send the children back onto the battlefield…… but even so, I was uneasy.'”
“‘……'”
“‘That is why I am glad that the children chose Miss Tie, and Agabert.'”
Marianne’s eyes were filled with sincerity.
“‘You were the ones who stepped forward in something no one else would. I am relieved that the place my children ended up belonging to seems safe and warm.'”
At that moment, Tie felt something she had never felt before tickling at the inside of her heart.
It was responsibility.
“‘Tie will definitely take good care of Oppa Raul and Oppa Enzo.'”
“‘Really?'”
“‘Yes! So Oppas won’t get hurt, Tie is going to work very hard!'”
That day.
After returning to the bedroom, Tie looked at the ceiling and thought for a long time.
“‘So this is what it means to be a little commander.'”
It had been a role she ended up taking by chance in order to hide her identity.
But now, as commander, Tie was feeling something special and strange.
“‘……I want to become stronger.'”
She had strong power, but did not know exactly how to use it.
“It would be nice if there were a teacher who used magic like Tie does.”
If so, she could learn how to handle this power and use it better.
Tie rose and gazed out the window where moonlight had settled.
“‘How nice it would be if there were no magic stones at all in this world.'”
Then Basto’s wife and daughter, and Governor Marianne’s husband, would not have been killed by monsters.
“And Dad too……”
Suddenly the image of Dad she had seen in the last dream passed through her mind.
Dad standing among a crowd of writhing monsters while tightly holding infant Tie in her arms.
Dad with eyes full of anxiety and worry.
“‘Was Dad also dropped into the Republic of Korea while fighting monsters after all?'”
Then the hardships Dad suffered in the Republic of Korea, and the way he suddenly died one day.
And the way she could not recognize Tie today either, were all virtually because of magic stones.
Tie clenched her fists tightly.
“‘If Tie becomes stronger……'”
She would protect future Dad so that he would not face such dangers.
And beyond that, he would protect Raul and Enzo, and protect Basto, Nordix, and Veil.
Tie opened her bag and tightly gripped the stone where Kkamangi slept.
After that, even though she tried to sleep, she had no choice but to stay awake the whole night.
Because one thought led to another and tormented her.
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And so Tie and Agabert carefully loaded their luggage onto the sturdy carriage Marianne had given them.
“You said you’re going to Populosa Weapons District, right?”
At Marianne’s question, Raul and Enzo nodded.
Agabert’s next destination was Populosa Weapons District.
It was a place they would stop by in order to repair Basto’s war hammer, whose durability had fallen.
“While we’re there, I’m planning to get a new sword made for myself too.”
At Raul’s words, Marianne smiled faintly.
She kept silent for a moment, then went inside the government office.
And soon after, she came back carrying something.
Raul’s eyes widened when he recognized the object in her hand.
“……Mother?”
“It’s the sword your father used.”
Basto and Veil, who had been loading the luggage, turned toward them.
Tie, who had been up on the carriage, also looked at Marianne and the twins.
“The blade had grown very dull. It must have happened in his final battle.”
“……”
“Now have it repaired and carry it yourself.”
Raul froze in surprise.
Enzo, standing beside him, lightly nudged Raul and said,
“What are you doing, hurry up and take it. Mother’s arm will start hurting.”
Only then did Raul come to his senses and take the sword.
But soon he looked at Marianne as though this really would not do.
“Mother. Even so, this……”
“You’re left-handed, just like your father. There is no reason you cannot use this sword.”
“……”
“And your father, too, would not want the sword that would carry on his will to remain stuck on a display stand.”
In the end, Raul closed his mouth.
Before long, once he gave a small nod, Veil waved from a distance as if telling them to hurry up and come.
“Let’s get going!”
Enzo gave Marianne one last tight hug, then turned around.
Raul too, now holding the sword, followed after him with reddened eyes.
“Guv’nor! We’ll come again!”
Finally, once everyone had climbed aboard the carriage, Tie waved brightly.
Marianne smiled back at Tie.
Soon the horses started moving forward.
Marianne held back the tears that felt as if they might come and watched the carriage recede into the distance.
It was regretful, but unlike before, she was not anxious or afraid.
After steadying her breath, she turned around and went back into the government office.
And the moment she sat down at her desk, she started writing a letter.
[There is something I need investigated.
I am looking for a holy knight who is now, or once was, greatly renowned or achieved remarkable merit.
I am told he has black hair and eyes mixed with green and brown, and that his disposition is very serious and taciturn.
His name is somewhat unusual, so I thought that might help find him more quickly.
Please find out whether there is anyone who knows of a holy knight named Kim Young-su in the imperial capital.]
Once she finished the letter, Marianne wrote ‘Walker Waveril’ in the place for the recipient.
Her mother, the current head of Waveril, and one of the five great magnates of the empire.
The current Marchioness Waveril.