A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 56
Chapter 56
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Translated by Sylph
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As far as Velugon knew, the principle by which Krazar created subspace was simple.
“‘The greatest focus is what the target fears.'”
Krazar was a monster that used human fear to create confusion.
To one who feared snakes, it showed a forest crawling with venomous serpents.
To one who feared water, it showed a vast open sea.
And while they panicked, it bound their whole bodies and slowly digested them.
So when he realized he had been trapped in subspace, Velugon thought he might be returned to ‘that day.’
Because if he had to choose the most terrifying moment of his life, there was only ‘that day.’
But the place he arrived in had not a single thing Velugon would fear.
Nor did there exist anything that called ‘that day’ to mind.
Just as he was seriously wondering where this place was, he noticed the Necromancer King’s pink bag in her own hand and finally realized.
“‘This confusion wasn’t made with me in mind.'”
That this place was confusion created with Agabert’s commander, the Necromancer King, as its target.
Velugon’s gaze turned to Astie before him again.
“‘And that’s why I came looking for this one.'”
After narrowing his brow, he opened his mouth.
“If not me, then you should know, shouldn’t you. Where this place is.”
The Necromancer King looked at her with round eyes.
His brow naturally furrowed at the blank way the child merely stared despite the seriousness of the situation.
“I nearly died of frustration while wandering around looking for you! What are those rocks full of holes? And what are those things passing by, flashing lights! Are those the things you fear? Is that why they exist in this subspace?”
“……”
“Please say something, at least! You’re not planning to tell me you don’t know where this place is either, are you! Don’t we have to get out of here, just as you said!”
Meeting Velugon’s fierce face, Tie timidly looked away.
The child’s lips naturally jutted out.
“‘I already knew it from when he tried to throw Tie out of the armory hall, but Factory Manager-nim is really, really……'”
Even if one washed one’s eyes and looked, there was not a single kind corner to him.
Here they were, the two of them trapped together in subspace.
How nice it would be if they could lean on one another and get along while looking for a way out.
Tie answered in a sulky voice.
“I know, but I don’t know!”
“What?”
“I know this place, but I don’t know where the way out is!”
Of course, Tie had also grasped the situation to some extent.
The monster core that had fallen out when the armament broke.
Tie had touched the smoke that came out of it and was now trapped in this place.
This place, which they called a mental weakness and which was full of the things she feared.
But that did not mean she knew how to get out of it too.
Though the Factory Manager, who had gotten trapped together with her by accident, might regret it.
“And those are buildings! Look! Triangle! Bank!”
Still, she could not let the Factory Manager go on calling the bank a rock, so Tie pointed at the buildings herself and explained.
“And that’s a vroom-vroom car! And that’s a streetlight! Factory Manager-nim, don’t you know those either?”
Velugon stared at her with an incredulous face.
Tie pouted, then let out a hmph and snatched back her kindergarten bag from her.
“And besides! It got like this because Factory Manager-nim was trying to throw Tie out from the start!”
“What?”
“We didn’t cause any trouble at all and you still said to get out no matter what! And said you wouldn’t sell us anything too!”
“……No, that was.”
“Tie was just trying to resist unfairness! I wasn’t trying to knock over the Heart of Krazar! Self-defense! Self-defense!”
Velugon felt utterly stifled and shut his mouth.
Before his eyes, the Necromancer King was still crying out, “Self-defense.”
A faint coldness entered Velugon’s eyes.
Soon he lowered himself to the child’s level and met her gaze.
“What are you?”
“Self-defe…… huh?”
“I asked what in the world you are.”
Startled by the coldness in her gaze, Tie flinched.
But the moment he took a single step back, Velugon immediately poured out his words as if waiting for it.
“People say I am a gloomy mole who never takes a single step outside Populosa.”
“A mole……?”
“That’s right. But I, too, keep track of all the major rumors going around in the world, the important incidents one must know, and the decisive news such as which local person conquered which magic stone. In other words.”
“……”
“It means I have already heard quite a lot about you as well.”
Gulp-
At the words that she knew things about her, Tie swallowed.
Velugon’s gaze, staring fixedly at her, turned sharper still.
“The two magic stones in Tenebraum Cave. And as if that were not enough, even the unprecedented medium magic stone that rose in the Pearl City sea. You conquered all of them, didn’t you?”
Her eyes were now on the two tiny hands Tie was clasping tightly against her chest.
“There’s a rumor that what lies inside that appearance of yours is a giant body three times the size of ordinary mercenaries.”
“U-umm……”
“There are also rumors that you’re a vicious witch who toys with people using nasty dark-attribute magic. Some even say you’re a monster wearing human skin. But.”
Thump-
Velugon’s hand landed heavily on Tie’s right shoulder.
“I’m not afraid of you. Do you know why?”
“……”
“Because here, inside Krazar’s domain, no magic can be activated. In other words, even you, an archmage, cannot use much power here.”
Velugon tightened the hand gripping Tie’s shoulder.
“So stop playing with dolls and start revealing your true identity.”
“F-Factory Manager-nim……?”
“What in the world is your true identity?”
Velugon’s eyes hardened savagely.
Tie’s shoulders hunched even further.
“How did you break Krazar’s core? How did you destroy that core which stayed intact for decades even when melted in molten metal and smashed with hammers?”
Tie shook her head in complete panic.
“Tie didn’t do that!”
“Ridiculous! Do you take me for a fool right now?!”
Sparks flew across Velugon’s eyes.
“I already knew the imperial family was aiming for the Heart of Krazar! That they were looking for any excuse to take the armament from me! Were you sent by them?! To kill me and shatter the blacksmiths?”
Hot fury began to surge through Velugon’s heart.
Weapons were sacred.
It was people who were filthy.
Velugon knew that better than anyone.
“Yes, I see it now. The imperial family meant to use you to swallow Populosa Weapons District whole. I expected it from the imperial family and the religious order, but now even mercenaries……”
The veins at Velugon’s temples slowly rose.
And hatred gradually filled his unfocused eyes as well.
“All the same sort! Even after we grind away our souls making armaments, all they want is to stuff their filthy desires with them. Bastards without so much as the faintest scrap of duty or righteousness as human beings!”
Tie grew frightened and took a step back from Velugon.
By now, he had lowered his head deeply and was muttering without coherence.
“I should never have given anything to such people. I should never have let them set foot in my Weapons District……”
Tap, patter-
The rain, which had seemed to be stopping, began to pour down again.
Tie stood in place, stamping her feet.
At the end of her vision, she could still see the red mist writhing across the road.
“‘Factory Manager grandpa is strange.'”
The talk of the imperial family and the religious order that had suddenly popped up too.
The situation was urgent, yet Velugon was acting strangely.
To be exact, it was more accurate to say he had suddenly become strange.
“‘Why? What made Grandpa angry all of a sudden?'”
But no matter how much she thought about it, she could not understand why Velugon had suddenly become strange.
Just as Tie pressed her lips together, feeling at a loss.
“Huh?”
Near Velugon’s heart.
Something suddenly glimmered faintly from inside his collar.
Tie’s eyes widened.