A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 55

Chapter 55

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Translated by Sylph

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Veil had no words.

“‘The brat will be fine because she’s an archmage?'”

Because she was a powerhouse among powerhouses, she might overcome the confusion and escape like Valentis Luminen?

A sigh burst out from inside him.

“Yeah, right.”

What did it matter if Astie was an archmage with tremendous power.

“‘She’s four.'”

The image of Astie crying inside the subspace while facing confusion rose in his mind.

After grinding his teeth, Veil stared at Nordix.

“We have to find a way for this. Old man.”

Nordix turned back to him with a worried face.

“They say there is no way, so how……”

“Then are we just supposed to watch? While our little commander gets eaten by Krazar?!”

Everyone fell silent.

But at that moment,

“Um, how about this, perhaps.”

Enzo, who had kept his mouth shut the whole time, raised one hand with a serious expression.

At the words that followed, Veil’s eyes widened.

* * *

Creeeak-

The rusty iron gate opened with a loud sound.

Holding onto the doorway carefully, Tie climbed over the tall cement threshold.

“Gold Villa……”

Her anxious eyes swept around the surroundings.

In the seven days since arriving in this strange Republic of Korea, Tie had been wandering the streets.

Fortunately, she had found a familiar alley just moments ago.

[6beon-gil, Hyeonim-ro, XX-dong, Jongno District.]

After checking the blue road-name address stuck to the wall, Tie swallowed hard.

“There’s no mistake.”

Tie had memorized the house address from the time she was very little.

Because the lady in room 203 had once set aside a day to teach it to her, since Gold Villa was in such a winding area.

So this was definitely the right place.

“It’s definitely right……”

She quietly peeked inside the iron gate again.

The broken paving blocks and the thick weeds growing between them were similar to the alley in front of her house.

So were the pools of rainwater gathered along the roadside, as if the ground were low.

“But why isn’t there a yellow painting……?”

Normally, the yellow butterfly mural ought to be around there.

And after passing that butterfly mural and turning right, Gold Villa ought to appear.

But no matter how much she looked around, the butterfly painting did not appear.

“Maybe this isn’t it……”

With her lips pressed together, Tie carefully turned back out of the iron gate.

Then she turned her head and tried to gauge the path she had come from again.

“……Sniff.”

The tears she had been holding back began leaking out again.

No matter how much she looked.

No matter how much she searched, Gold Villa would not appear.

If only it were a completely unfamiliar place, that would be one thing, but because the scenery kept feeling both vaguely familiar and strange, she felt hopeless to death.

“It’s okay, I can find it.”

Coming back out into the empty night street, Tie wrapped her clothes around herself.

Though the clothes, drenched through by the rain, did not make her body any warmer at all.

How long had she walked.

Another similar alley and another similar iron gate appeared.

“This time maybe it’s right!”

Tie quickly ran to the door and pushed with all her might against the rough surface.

Praying with all her heart that she had finally come to the right place.

But the sight that unfolded beyond the opened gate was,

“……It’s the same.”

Completely the same scene as the strange alley she had already checked and left behind long ago.

She had definitely walked for a long while and come back out.

A chill prickled all over her body.

“‘The typhoon, and the darkness, and the crackling radio, and even these maze-like roads.'”

All of it was terrifying enough to make her lose her mind, but she endured it and endured it again.

Because here, Tie was all alone.

Because there were no bone friends or subordinates she could call.

So she thought that crying alone would not solve anything.

But now she had reached her limit.

“……Huu.”

Tie slumped down in the doorway like a raccoon whose cotton candy had been washed in water.

“I wanna go home……”

This place was too frightening.

From the moment she encountered the crackling radio until now, at least ten times it felt as though her heart would stop.

It was just as Tie sniffled and curled herself into a ball.

Sssssk-

Suddenly, behind Tie, an unpleasant mist began welling up.

Soundlessly it moved and quickly surrounded Tie.

“Mister Basto, waaah……”

The mist spread wide, as though it were about to devour the crouching Tie at any moment.

The mist, which had paused as if savoring its meal before eating, was just about to pounce on Tie.

“Found you! At last! At last I’ve found you!”

Someone suddenly sprang out from the alley on the opposite side of the door.

Tie jerked her head up.

And after seeing the person’s face, her mouth fell open.

Hair drenched through.

A face plainly showing how exhausted he was from wandering about.

And Tie’s kindergarten bag dangling in one hand.

The person who came running over deathly pale and pulled Tie to her feet was,

“Necromancer King! What in the world did you do to Krazar’s core! Huh?!”

None other than Velugon, the Factory Manager of Weapons District.

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“Subspaace……?”

In front of the convenience store.

Tie repeated the word Velugon had just said while standing under the ripped canopy.

Velugon answered with a serious face.

“Yes, subspace. Here, right now!”

Tie shut her mouth again.

What Velugon had just explained was so complicated that her head was spinning.

Still, if Tie had understood properly,

“Then this isn’t really Jongno District?”

Looking at Tie with suspicion, Velugon nodded.

“That’s right. In a manner of speaking, this is an illusory space. Nothing here is real.”

“……Huuuh.”

Covering her mouth with her tiny hand, Tie lowered her gaze.

Then, in a trembling voice as though she had known it all along, she said,

“I-I thought it was something like that.”

Only now, after hearing Velugon’s explanation, had all the riddles been solved.

The maze-like alleys she had wandered for so long.

The strangely empty streets and the endless rain too.

“I thought it was weird that it was full of only things Tie is scared of!”

Her gaze turned to the dark-red haze shimmering near the gutter on the far side of the empty street.

“‘But to think all of that was made by that thing to eat Tie!'”

The haze had been circling that same spot for a while, watching Tie and Velugon.

It wasn’t as though there were eyes attached to the haze, so how could she know it was looking this way?

And yet Tie somehow felt the haze’s gaze.

Swallowing hard, Tie tightly gripped the sleeve of Velugon, who was sitting beside her.

“Factory Manager-nim, then how do we get out?”

That was the very thing Tie had wanted to ask the whole time while listening to Velugon’s explanation.

“How do we get out before we get eaten?”

Meanwhile, Velugon was equally troubled.

“‘How do we get out,’ is it.”

In theory, the way to get out of Krazar’s subspace was clear.

To find the veil of space inside the subspace and tear it.

In a word, that meant they had to find the point where the subspace ended.

After looking around, a sigh slipped from Velugon’s mouth.

“How can it be like this……”

His gaze turned once more to the tiny Necromancer King sitting beside her.

“What kind of shape is your inner fear, anyway?”

The Necromancer King’s eyes widened.

“Huh?”

“What in the world is this place supposed to be.”