A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 46

Chapter 46

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Translated by Sylph

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Meanwhile, inside the carriage.

“Kim Young-su? You mean there is a holy knight with a name like that inside the imperial capital?”

Tie nodded hard.

But Raul and Enzo furrowed their brows.

“I’ve never heard of such a name.”

“That’s right. It’s a name I don’t know at all.”

Basto, Veil, and Nordix quietly watched Tie’s reaction.

Because they were worried Tie might be disappointed.

But Tie was calm.

“Mmm.”

Instead, she pursed her lips and muttered as though there was something she could guess.

“Tie thought about it.”

“……Thought about it?”

“I think Dad didn’t tell Tie his real name.”

Everyone’s eyes widened.

But Tie calmly continued speaking.

“Tie’s dad’s name is really Kim, Young-syllable, Su-syllable. But if there isn’t a name like that in the Holy Knights, then the probability is that the probability Dad’s name is fake!”

It was not a well-constructed sentence, but everyone understood.

“To be honest, it is a slightly unfamiliar name.”

Veil nodded.

When he first heard it, hadn’t it even been confusing whether ‘Kim Young-su’ or ‘Kim Young-syllable Su-syllable’ was the real name?

Still, a few days ago, Veil had learned that of the two, ‘Kim Young-su’ was the real one.

That was after listening to Tie’s long, long explanation on ‘how to politely say an adult’s name.’

“Did your dad definitely say so? That his name was Kim Young-su.”

At Basto’s question as well, Tie nodded.

When had that been again, that day.

Thinking of how cold it had been, it felt like it must have been winter……

“Ah.”

A short sound slipped from Tie’s mouth.

The child soon looked around at the members and let her brows droop.

“It was at Tie’s kindergarten, on the day of the drawing contest.”

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“Now then, Quail Class friends, everyone has their colored pencils, right?”

“Yes!”

“And you all got your paper too?”

“Yes!”

Like the other children, Tie answered while gripping her colored pencils tightly.

The teacher standing in front smiled brightly.

On the blackboard was written, ‘Draw Our Family.’

With a pounding heart, Tie looked down at her drawing paper.

It had a stick-figure drawing of Dad and Tie holding hands tightly and playing in the park.

“Tie’s one is a worm.”

At that moment, a classmate beside her started making fun of Tie’s drawing.

Tie’s face turned red and she shouted.

“It is not? This is Dad and me!”

“Tie’s dad is a worm! Minjun! Yeoleum! Look at this! Tie’s dad is a worm! Wahaha!”

“All right, all right, everyone stop. You mustn’t make fun of a friend’s drawing.”

At that moment, the teacher, appearing like a savior, looked at Tie’s drawing and said,

“Our Tie drew it so well! How did you draw such a pretty picture? That’s amazing.”

Only then did the child in the next seat quiet down.

Tie snorted and focused on the teacher again.

But what the teacher said next embarrassed Tie.

“All right, then shall we try writing names now? Everyone showed their parents what the teacher wrote in the notification notebook yesterday, right?”

“Yes!”

Among the answering children, only Tie stayed quiet.

After kindergarten the day before, Tie had spent the whole time in room 107.

Dad had come back very late, and Grandma said it was because he had a lot of overtime work.

“Tie, did you show the notebook to Dad too?”

The teacher came over and asked.

Tie looked down restlessly.

“Tie……”

Normally, she should have asked Dad to check the notebook.

But Dad’s face had looked so tired that she forgot she was going to ask him in the morning……

“Oh dear, it’s all right, it’s all right. Tie, just wait a little, okay?”

The teacher gently patted Tie’s head, then went to the other children.

“All Quail Class friends, your parents probably wrote the names in the notification notebook, right?”

“Yes!”

“Then from now on, we’re going to write your family members’ names one by one on your drawing paper, and you can all do that well, right?”

“Yeees-!”

Tie watched with a slightly blank face as the child in the next seat wrote letters on the drawing paper.

It was not especially pretty handwriting, and there were many wrong letters too.

“‘……There are a lot.'”

The child in the next seat had lots of names to write.

Really lots.

“Hey! Don’t look at mine!”

The child glared at Tie and said that, so Tie hurriedly turned her head away.

“I didn’t look!”

But her eyes kept going back there on their own.

Mom, Dad, older brother, older sister……

As she watched the child in the next seat write four names, the teacher came over.

“Tie. Do you know Dad’s name?”

Tie could not answer.

“I don’t know……”

All this time, she had always just called him Dad.

And the people in Gold Villa called him the bachelor in room 106.

“I should’ve asked……”

As Tie muttered that with tears in her eyes, the teacher looked startled.

The teacher soon came right up to Tie’s desk.

“It’s okay, it’s okay. Let’s go check it together with teacher.”

Tie looked up at the teacher in surprise.

“Dad’s name is in kindergarten?”

“Of course~ When Tie was registered at kindergarten before, there was a paper your dad filled in with her name.”

The sadness in her heart felt as though it might blow away and become light.

Tie tightly held her colored pencils and drawing paper and followed behind the teacher.

They arrived at the staff room, where children were normally forbidden to enter.

After confirming that the children were all focused on writing names, the teacher took Tie over to a cabinet.

Then she opened the drawer labeled .

After rummaging through it for a while, the teacher finally pulled out a sheet of paper.

“Let’s see. Tie, you can read it, right? Your dad’s name is here.”

Tie’s lips parted slightly as she concentrated.

Tie slowly read the writing in the small box.

“Kim…… Young-su?”

“That’s right.”

Kim Young-su, Kim Young-su.

Feeling her heart thump, Tie repeated the name.

“Tie’s dad’s name was Kim Young-syllable, Su-syllable? Then should we go back to the classroom and write it?”

“Yes!”

Her steps going back to the classroom were lighter than ever.

Tie wrote Dad’s name and her own name side by side on the paper.

That day, unlike the day before, Dad came home early.

The moment he saw Tie, she showered her with kisses, and Tie said excitedly,

“Dad! Tie learned Dad’s name today!”

“Huh? What did you learn?”

“We drew this at kindergarten, look!”

Dad saw the paper Tie held out and fell silent.

“Teacher told me Dad’s name. Dad’s name is Kim, Young-syllable, Su-syllable!”

“……”

“Tie knows Dad’s name now! Our Dad is Kim, Young-syllable, Su-syllable!”

For a while, Dad said nothing.

She only smiled faintly and brushed Tie’s hair behind her ear.

“That’s right, our princess. Dad’s name is Kim Young-su.”

“Mm-hm!”

“If someone asks what Dad’s name is when you’re out somewhere, you can tell them that. Okay?”

“Mm-hm! But is Tie’s name Kim Astie too? Today Tie just wrote Tie, but teacher said I have to write Kim Astie……”

“Ah, that.”

Dad thought briefly, then said,

“For now, let’s write it that way.”

“Huh?”

“Kim Astie is the name Tie uses in Korea, understand?”

“Then does Tie have another name too?”

“Not another name, exactly. When we go back to our hometown, you have a different family name.”

Without realizing it, Tie blinked.

To think she had another family name.

“Is Tie maybe not Kim but Park……?”

Dad burst into laughter.

“Not like that.”

Tie was puzzled, but could not ask more questions.

Because Dad pulled her into his arms again and showered her with kisses.

The child laughed brightly and hugged Dad back.

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“……I should have asked back then.”

Tie’s shoulders sagged as she recalled what had happened in the Republic of Korea.

“Back then Tie should’ve asked what Tie’s hometown family name was……”

The child clenched her fist tightly and blinked.

Before long, the inside of the carriage became quiet.

Because everyone knew.

That Tie was barely holding back tears right now.