A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 47

Chapter 47

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Translated by Sylph

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“What is the brat’s dad’s real identity, I wonder.”

After confirming that Tie was nodding off, Veil whispered.

After talking for a long while, the child had now fallen fast asleep with her head on Basto’s thigh.

“I am curious too. What in the world is Daehangminguk……? What is that?”

Now that they roughly understood Tie’s circumstances, Raul and Enzo were the same.

Basto let out a sigh.

“For now, I am assuming it is a small principality or tribal nation we do not know.”

Tie had said Daehangminguk was a country.

But none of those gathered here had ever heard of such a country even once.

“Actually, the bag the little commander carries as well.”

At Enzo’s words, the members’ gazes turned to Tie’s pink bag.

“It seemed interesting from the first time I saw it. In the empire, no, on the continent, I do not think I have ever seen a bag shaped like that.”

“It’s not just the bag. You should’ve seen what the brat was wearing at first.”

Veil gestured with his chin toward the huge bundle loaded in the luggage compartment.

“It’ll probably turn up somewhere in there if you look. It looked kind of like a dress nobles wear, but also not really. Anyway, it was interesting clothes.”

Raul nodded.

For a moment, silence continued inside the carriage.

“……Will we be able to find him.”

Looking at the sleeping Tie with troubled eyes, Basto murmured that.

“I’m worried we might not be able to find him when she wants so badly to see her dad.”

“The part about him having lost his memories does bother me a little, actually.”

Veil cut in with a serious voice.

“You said someone erased the memories about the brat from inside her dad’s head. If we meet him and he still can’t recognize the brat……”

The image of Tie being deeply hurt rose naturally in everyone’s minds.

After falling silent, Veil added,

“Whatever. Even if he has forgotten the brat, we just make her remember.”

“How?”

“Wouldn’t he remember if you smacked him hard on the head once? She’s his daughter, and if he can’t remember her, that’s irresponsible. More than that, there’s something else we have to find.”

Veil looked around and spoke quickly.

“The bastards who erased the memories from inside the brat’s dad’s head. We have to find those bastards.”

They were probably also the ones who abandoned Tie in Briowood Forest.

“At present……”

“Yes. The ones from House Luminen are suspicious.”

Raul and Enzo swallowed hard.

They too had once belonged to a holy knight unit in the imperial capital, and had seen the holy knights of House Luminen from afar.

Valentis Luminen was a monster.

Because it was by no means easy for a man of his age to distinguish himself in every battlefield.

And what of his four sons.

Aside from the whereabouts of the youngest son being somewhat unclear, the eldest Edmund Luminen, the second Leonardo Luminen, and the third Alexander Luminen were all excellent soldiers.

To such a degree that every holy knight had no choice but to look up to them.

“Do you truly think those people erased the little commander’s father’s memories?”

Enzo looked as though he could not believe it no matter how much he thought about it.

Veil gave a snort.

“We’ll have to find out for sure. But a few days ago the brat said something. She said there was a saying where she lived. Something about a thousand people, or a road. Anyway, that you can know the inside of water but not the inside of a person.”

Everyone’s eyes widened.

Enzo muttered,

“It seems to be a saying filled with considerable wisdom.”

“Right? I suppose it means that even if you can predict deep water, you still can’t know what is inside a person.”

“Yes. Tie seems to know quite a lot of proverbs and maxims.”

Soon the three of them looked at Tie with fondly doting eyes.

How much farther had they traveled like that.

“Old Man Nordix. A moment.”

Basto, after laying Tie down on the seat, stuck his head out the window.

Nordix, who had been driving the horses while looking at the constellations, brought the carriage to a stop.

“I believe there is a lake on the right. It seems we should stop there a moment.”

When Basto shook an empty water bottle, Nordix nodded.

The moment the carriage door opened, Raul, who had been sitting the whole time, carefully stood up after Basto.

Basto looked at Raul.

“I can go fetch water quickly by myself.”

“That isn’t it, actually……”

Raul cleared his throat briefly.

He glanced at Veil and then said hesitantly,

“I’ve needed to relieve myself for a while now……”

“Ah.”

Basto nodded as if he understood.

Then Enzo also stood from his seat.

“I as well……”

At that moment, Veil, who had been sitting across from Tie, got up.

“Then I might as well come too.”

At the sight of him stretching and putting on his outer garment, Raul’s eyes widened.

“Where do you mean?”

Veil looked at Raul with eyes that seemed to say he was an idiot.

“Where else. I’m going to relieve myself too.”

“Pardon?!”

Raul’s face turned scarlet.

“‘Do mercenaries…… relieve themselves together regardless of whether they’re men or women?'”

The holy knight corps had been packed with men anyway, so he had no way of knowing.

Then again, mercenaries operated in groups of at most fifty or so, so they would be less structured than a holy knight corps.

But even so…… still.

“W-would that not be a little uncomfortable for Lady Veil…… to relieve yourself together……?”

“What would be uncomfortable for me? Letting water out is something everyone does.”

“L-letting water……”

“Be quiet and just get out. It’s cramped.”

Veil shoved Raul, who had been standing in the doorway, outside.

Raul staggered out and, still with a bright red face, looked at Veil.

Veil narrowed his eyes.

“What’s with you? Do you maybe get shy? Like you feel uncomfortable living with other people.”

“N-no!”

Raul was precisely the sort of proper soldier perfectly suited for group life.

It was only that he had never gone to relieve himself together with a woman.

“A-at minimum, if it were in a forest where one could cover one’s body……”

“Why bother covering your body? Sooner or later we’re going to end up seeing everything there is to see anyway.”

“P-p-p-pardon?”

Veil snorted a laugh and gestured to Basto.

“Basto and I have already seen everything there is to see. Doing this job, most of the time you end up jumping into any stagnant water you find and washing up. You can’t think about it like Waveril’s grand mansion where hot water pours out.”

“Y-you mean you washed together?”

“Would that be a problem? Then what, should I say I’ll wash first, you wash first, and wait around for each other?”

Raul’s head spun.

No matter how much mercenaries were wanderers camping from place to place.

How could a woman and man relieve themselves together and wash together?

Setting himself aside, Veil was a woman.

Did that really mean he felt not the slightest discomfort with such a life?

Flustered and stammering, Raul barely managed to pull himself together.

He steadied his breathing by nearly slapping himself across the face.

“My apologies. I showed a brat-like side of myself.”

Let us not judge.

Who was he, to presume to measure mercenary life this way or that.

In any case, he was now a member of Agabert, and Veil was his senior and almost like a master.

Even if their genders were different, there was a great deal in Veil’s swordsmanship that Raul needed to learn.

“Forget it. We lost those two because of you.”

Muttering as though it were nothing serious, Veil quickened his pace, passed Raul, and went on.

He was already following after Enzo and Basto, who had gone ahead.

Raul hurriedly followed after Veil.

After walking with a certain distance between them for some time, Veil stopped among trees thick with grass.

“L-L-Lady Veil?”

The next moment, Raul was so startled that he took a step back.

Because Veil had placed a hand on his own waistband without a moment’s hesitation.

“L-Lady Veil. Just a moment……!”

Raul hurriedly tried to turn away, then froze stiff. And he stood there as though he had turned to stone.

Veil’s irritated voice rang out at once.

“Ah…… what are you doing? A guy who says he was in the knight order doesn’t know bathroom manners? Did you stare that hard at your superiors too?”

But the mouth already hanging open in shock did not close easily.

Raul remained standing there stiffly frozen.

Until Veil muttered, “Isn’t he crazy……” and headed back to the carriage first.