A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 51

Chapter 51

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Translated by Sylph

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Olek moved his lips in flustered surprise.

“‘Why do they have to leave when they did nothing wrong……?'”

He had expected anger first, and curses to start flying first.

He had not expected that the Necromancer King would ask for the reason in that way.

When he looked back, the other blacksmiths wore expressions much like his own.

But Olek quickly righted his thoughts.

The problem was that even the blacksmiths, himself included, already knew Velugon’s decision was unfair.

However, as an apprentice, he could not talk back.

“‘Who on earth can break Master these days.'”

Today, Velugon’s stubbornness was truly at the level of trying to beat even the Emperor.

Olek looked straight at the Necromancer King again.

“There is no use in politely asking back.”

Then he deliberately twisted his face into a harsh frown.

“What does the reason matter? In this place, the words of the Factory Manager, Lord Velugon, are the law and the truth itself. Once an expulsion order has come down from him, all I want you to understand is that there is nothing we can do either.”

The Necromancer King’s lips parted slightly.

“Eeh? But……”

Because the muttering voice sounded quite stricken, Olek swallowed hard.

He watched the agonizing Necromancer King in taut tension.

“‘Don’t let your guard down, Olek. The Necromancer King is a man three times the size of an ordinary person, with hair all over her body. You don’t know when he might suddenly snap and start wrecking the place.'”

His goal was to drive the Necromancer King and Agabert out of Weapons District while keeping the damage to a minimum.

And to do that, no matter what, they had to handle things quickly instead of dragging time out.

“For reference, leave all of that in the cart too before you go. We have instructions from the Factory Manager not to sell anything to you.”

The Necromancer King turned and looked at the cart behind her with a shocked expression.

It was a face that said, ‘Not only are you throwing us out, you’re saying you won’t sell us anything either?’

After a brief silence, just as the Necromancer King’s lips were about to open,

“Commander. What is happening?”

The other Agabert members from the other sections joined them.

Each of them was pushing a cart of their own holding the things they wanted to buy.

The member who had been with the Necromancer King shrugged.

“No idea. We were picking out weapons and then suddenly……”

“G-give us the carts at once!”

That was when Olek stepped in.

He hurriedly snatched away the cart of Raul, who had been nearest, and hid it behind himself.

This was, in a sense, one of the tricks he had learned from driving out mercenary companies countless times.

“‘If you let the situation drag on, things always got complicated.'”

So the best timing to drive out defiant and combative mercenaries.

That was right at the beginning, when the mercenaries were still bewildered by the sudden expulsion order.

“R-right! Quickly get out! Hurry and go over there!”

“Yes, yes! Look at weapons later, after the Factory Manager’s anger cools down.”

The blacksmiths all rushed forward and snatched away the carts from the remaining members too.

“And give me this bag too.”

Finally, after snatching away even the small weapon-proof bag Veil had been carrying, Olek turned his gaze to the Necromancer King.

“If you go toward the imperial capital, there are plenty of good weapon shops. Look for weapons over there instead……”

“It’s unfair!”

However, at that moment.

The Necromancer King, who had been silently watching the whole situation, suddenly grabbed the end of the bag Olek had snatched away.

“This is discrimination! Hatred of children!”

At the words that followed, Olek’s eyes went wide.

* * *

Fuming, Tie faced Olek, who was several times larger than he was.

A few months before crossing over to this other world.

Once, just once, she had faced something similar to the present situation.

At the gelato shop she had entered beside the playground on the way home from kindergarten, with a fluttering heart.

“‘Hey, didn’t I tell you to get out? Didn’t you see the sign outside? The one that says kids aren’t allowed here?'”

The gelato shop beside Hanbit Kindergarten had opened a month before that.

The shop had run opening events for a while.

One day, Hyunwoo’s parents from the same class bought Tie one cup of the smallest size of gelato.

The taste of gelato, which she had eaten for the first time in her life, was truly…… sweet enough to come to mind all the time.

From that day on, Tie began saving five hundred won every single day to buy gelato.

It was money she could receive by giving Dad a ten-minute massage every night.

But when she had finally saved four thousand won and gone to the shop with an excited heart.

“‘Didn’t you hear me tell you to get out?'”

The shop owner, who had been on the phone with someone, became irritated and snapped the moment she saw Tie.

“‘Uh, Oppa, I’ll call you back later. No, the kindergarten brats from the alley came again. Exactly. I told you last time, one of them touched the display case with dirt on their hands and left fingerprints, right? Yeah, exactly! And they spill everything on the floor while eating! Once kids come through, the table and chairs get so sticky……'”

Tie stood frozen in front of the shop door, clutching eight five-hundred-won coins tightly.

The woman sitting on the high stool kept talking on the phone without even glancing at Tie.

“‘That’s what I’m saying! Business is terrible, it’s driving me crazy! Ah, I put up that no-kids-zone sign. But I don’t think it works, if one came again today……. Hey, why haven’t you left yet?'”

The woman swept Tie up and down with an annoyed look.

Tie hunched her shoulders without realizing it.

“‘Business is over for today. I’m not selling anymore.'”

Tie hesitantly turned her gaze.

If business was over, the wall clearly said ‘9:00 open, 8:00pm close.’

“‘But it doesn’t say that on the wall……'”

“‘What?'”

“‘It says over there that you close at eight o’clock…….'”

“‘You are seriously so annoying!'”

The woman came out after opening the counter door.

Tie stood rigid and looked up at the frightened face of the woman.

With a phone in one hand, the woman flung the door wide open and showed it.

“‘Our shop is a no-kids zone. I’m not selling to you. Can’t you understand that?'”

“‘Why……?'”

“‘Because I, the owner, don’t want to sell to you. If you keep interrupting business, I’ll call your parents, understand? You! What’s your mom’s number!'”

Her heart pounded in fear.

And besides, Tie did not even have a mother whose number she could give.

Feeling miserable, Tie was about to leave the shop when her eyes turned toward the display case on their own.

Among the many gelatos, a distinctly sweet brown color caught and held Tie’s gaze.

It was the chocolate gelato she had eaten before.

“‘Um, Tie only needs one small chocolate one……. I have money too!'”

“‘Get out.'”

But before she could even finish speaking, the owner drove Tie out.

At the rough shove on her back, the five-hundred-won coins she had been holding rolled across the floor.

Tie stood for a long while in front of the gelato shop with a blank face, unable to leave.

“‘I wasn’t being noisy. I didn’t touch anything at all and didn’t talk loudly and didn’t run……?'”

No matter how much she thought about it, she simply could not understand the reason she had been chased out.

That night.

Tie told Dad what had happened during the day.

After hearing the story, Dad said gravely,

“‘Our princess didn’t do anything wrong.'”

“‘Tie didn’t do anything wrong? Then why did they chase Tie out?'”

“‘Sometimes bad adults do that. They get angry somewhere else and then take it out on someone easy.'”

“‘……That’s super mean.'”

“‘It is. So from now on, our princess, don’t accept that kind of anger as something natural.'”

“‘Don’t accept it as natural?'”

“‘Yes. If you stay silent in the face of unfairness, that silence becomes the truth.'”

“‘……'”

“‘You can resist unfairness, Tie. To a certain extent.'”

That was the thought that came back to her.

“It’s unfair!”

Shouting that, Tie pulled on the end of the weapon-proof bag with all her strength.

“This is discrimination against children!”

Ever since entering Weapons District, Agabert had not done any sort of bad thing.

That meant they had not behaved badly enough to be kicked out of a shop, not at all, not even a little.

And yet they were being driven out.

“Hatred of children!”

The only explanation was that Populosa Weapons District was the no-kids zone Tie hated most.