A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 62
Chapter 62
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Translated by Sylph
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The kindergarten was exactly as Tie remembered it.
Except that it was eerie because it was empty with the lights turned off.
Tie reflexively went to look for the ‘Quail Class’ first. That was the place most familiar to Tie.
As if proving it, Tie’s name was written on the praise sticker board attached to the wall.
But what of it.
“Ehu….”
Tie let her eyebrows droop.
Perhaps because he had been caught in the rain, his whole body was icy cold, and he had no energy.
Suddenly, the wooden block toy set placed on one side of the floor caught his eye.
The familiar series of children’s storybooks and the play kitchen set too.
Everything was only familiar, as if he had played with them until yesterday.
But how had things ended up like this?
Tears welled up in Tie’s eyes as she bit down on her lips.
Whether that was so or not, Velugon’s voice continued to be heard through the gap in the window.
“Show yourself, Necromancer King….”
From saying he would not let him go if he found him, to saying he had better be prepared to lay down his life.
Tie stood up from her spot, thoroughly cowed.
And after carefully opening the door, he went out of the Quail Class.
Inside the common play area where darkness had settled, he saw the clock hanging on the wall above the shelf.
The second hand in the clock was still completely unmoving, exactly as it had been when he first entered the building.
“…I can’t just keep running away.”
Tie muttered to herself as she strapped on her kindergarten backpack tightly.
Truthfully, Tie had wanted to snatch away the Krazar core that Velugon was carrying from long before.
But the problem was that he had no idea at all how to do it.
If he tried a frontal breakthrough, it felt as though Velugon would catch him.
And if he only kept running away, it felt as though he would never be able to take the core.
That suspicious magic stone was the very key to breaking the situation open.
‘Come on, good idea, good idea….’
Tie first settled down beside the entrance so that she could run away at any time.
After that, he sank into very deep thought.
Should he just try persuading the Factory Manager?
Tell him that he was being controlled by the red mist right now and that he should hurry and wake up.
Then maybe he would realize it and come to his senses….
“No, no.”
He immediately shook his head.
The method she had just thought of had a high chance of failing, and it was dangerous because it would amount to revealing Tie’s location to the other side.
Then what about setting a trap?
He had seen that once in the traditional folktale series on Youtube.
About a hunter digging a deep trap in the ground to catch a tiger.
But before long Tie had no choice but to shake her head this time too.
This place where he was now was not the Talochium Empire. In other words, there was absolutely nowhere here where he could dig a trap.
An asphalt road where cars sped by.
And even the sidewalk paved with paving blocks.
What ground in the world was he supposed to dig up and install a trap in?
Rather than digging a trap, he would get caught by Velugon and the red mist while trying to remove the paving blocks.
Tie looked at the stopped clock with depressed eyes.
‘If only my bone friends were here at a time like this….’
If at least the spirit subordinates he had summoned in Pearl City were here, the situation would have been far better.
‘But I can’t use magic or anything in here.’
Tie slowly crouched down on the floor. It was when she lowered her head deeply in a helpless mood.
“…Huh?”
On the opposite side.
Through the open doorway, he suddenly saw something glinting.
After confirming that the source of the light was the teachers’ office, Tie quickly stared toward the window. It was because he had grown anxious that Velugon might have seen it.
However, at this moment Velugon’s voice was growing farther away in the direction opposite the kindergarten.
Then the light glinted once again.
Tie hurried over there.
When he entered the teachers’ office, he saw something placed on a stool in the corner.
“…It’s a pad!”
It was the tablet used by the Quail Class teacher.
Tie hurried over to the tablet.
And the moment he reached out his hand toward the screen,
Bzzzt-
The tablet suddenly began playing a blurry video.
[Tie’s… father, now… answer that first… I’ll read the letter you prepared….]
As the image gradually became clearer, someone soon appeared on the screen.
[Ah, are there questions too.]
Tie’s eyes widened.
Dad was appearing on the screen.
Tie hurriedly operated the tablet and lowered the brightness to the minimum.
And after using the button to lower the volume as well, he crouched in front of the stool and watched the video.
[Yes, it won’t take long. In the meantime, Tie will be playing with her friends, so don’t worry.]
Dad on the screen nodded.
On the wall behind Dad, Tie could see a placard made from cut colored paper.
Suddenly it came back to him.
Before coming to Talochium, so around the time Dad had gone missing.
On some strange day in May when the daytime temperature exceeded 31.5 degrees, Dad disappeared.
Tie had been absent from kindergarten for three days because of that.
However, on the fourth day, Grandma said it would be good if Tie went back to kindergarten.
Saying that Dad would return anyway, and that they could not keep living like this forever.
When she went back, the friends she met again after a long time chattered nonstop, happy to see Tie.
And on that day he heard about it.
About the parents’ open class held in celebration of Family Month while Tie was absent.
‘That day we ate banana chocolate bread and all watched the video letter together?’
‘Video letter?’
‘Yeah! They stuck all these colorful sheets of paper on the back, and on the wall with the beam projector, like this, mom’s and dad’s faces came out, and they read the letter too.’
It was a special gift the homeroom teacher of the Quail Class had prepared for the children.
Video letters of love, filmed little by little from parents who came to pick up their children after kindergarten.
‘It’s too bad only Tie didn’t get to see it. Hey, should I ask teacher so we can watch Tie’s too?’
‘Right! I saw it when teacher turned on the beam projector! Tie’s dad was there too!’
Tie’s friends were busy trying to take care of Tie, who had missed the video letter.
Some of them even ran to the teachers’ office and insisted strongly.
‘Teacher! Instead of making castanets, let’s watch Tie’s dad’s video letter!’
‘Tie’s dad is cool, so let’s watch!’
The teacher looked troubled, but soon asked.
‘Should we? Well, Tie was the only one who didn’t get to see it that day. Tie. Do you want to watch the video letter your dad left?’
Tie still remembered exactly how she had felt that day.
The teacher, and his kindergarten friends too.
None of them would have known that it was the fourth day since Tie’s dad had gone missing.
So they brought up the subject of Dad, which he had been trying hard not to think about, and asked if he wanted to watch the video letter.
But even so, Tie hated the teacher and her friends so much.
‘…I won’t watch.’
‘Huh?’
‘Tie won’t watch that! I won’t watch it! I’m not gonna watch it, so why do you keep telling me to watch it, waaah-!’
His friends had looked startled.
The teacher too had worn an expression as if she did not understand what was going on.
And so it had become the video letter that only Tie did not watch.
But then why was that video letter playing in front of him now?
[What kind of existence is our Tie to you, Father?]
At the teacher’s question, Dad on the screen narrowed his brow slightly.
That was a habit that appeared when he listened closely to what others said.
She was generally expressionless, but the way she smiled faintly only when talking about Tie too… it was definitely Dad, and yet.
[Tie is… honestly a burden. To me.]
Something was strange.