A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 64
Chapter 64
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Translated by Sylph
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It was not something to brag about, but Tie had learned to read fairly quickly.
Maybe because of that, compared to children his age, he was also always a beat faster at reading and understanding things.
‘When my friends were learning consonants and vowels, Tie was reading storybooks.’
And by the time his friends were just entering storybooks, he had already graduated from them.
Then what had he read?
Like a curious three- or four-year-old, he went around reading the letters he could find within his daily range of movement.
Words that were a little harder, a little cooler, and a little longer.
For example, things like the product description written below a box of tissues.
And was that all?
‘Tiny label!’
When he read things like attached to one side of a blanket, or ‘Do not eat under any circumstances’ written on top of a preservative packet, his heart had raced so much.
Among them was also these six characters written large on the back of the vacuum cleaner in the teachers’ office.
“Commercial use! Eight meters!”
When he read the letters out loud, Velugon narrowed his brow.
As expected, he wore a face that clearly had no idea what it meant.
Even while sweating coldly, Tie showed Velugon a meaningful smile.
After that, he started diligently pulling out the vacuum cleaner’s power cord.
When she first learned what commercial use eight meters meant, Tie too had been a little surprised.
‘Commercial use eight meters? Ahh, that means the length of the cord. It means this cord is that long.’
‘The cord is long?’
‘Yeah. One meter is about this much, and it means there are eight of those.’
‘Gasp….!’
‘And the word commercial use means appliances used in wide places that aren’t homes, like our kindergarten.’
‘Then are there home-use ones too?’
‘People usually don’t say home-use, they say household use, right?’
Anyway, if one summarized what he had learned that day, it was this.
That the kindergarten’s vacuum cleaner was for commercial use, so the cord was as long as eight meters.
And if that were expressed differently at this very moment,
‘It means I can make the Factory Manager’s ankles even more completely stuck with this cord!’
Tie’s heart pounded.
This was the first time he had ever been grateful for the trash in an alley, with so many things literally tangled around Velugon’s feet.
But what would happen if this tremendous commercial-use eight-meter vacuum cord got wrapped around them too?
Just then, the long cord made a clack- sound and caught on the doorframe.
Tie thought this was the moment and shouted loudly.
“Lucarion! Heree!”
Lucarion, who had been dealing with the mist, turned his head.
In her eyes entered Tie and the pile of black electrical cord set at Tie’s feet.
Lucarion seemed to understand Tie’s intention even without any further explanation.
After cornering the red mist into one side as a finishing blow, he quickly turned his body.
Tie only had time to open her mouth at the nimble movement.
“Throw it!”
Lucarion shouted.
Tie waited for the moment Lucarion came above her head, then threw the cord upward with all her strength.
As if he had been waiting for it, Lucarion snatched the end and approached Velugon.
Then he began wrapping the cord tightly around his ankles.
“Waaah-!”
Jumping up and down in delight, Tie quickly looked around.
Now that Velugon’s ankles had been wrapped, it was time to fasten him somewhere so he could not move.
Tie’s eyes landed on a table drawer and its handle.
The hole in the handle looked wide enough that it seemed like he could stick the plug attached to the end of the wire through and secure it.
“Lucarion! Here!”
Tie, having gone over the barricade, waved her hand.
Lucarion once again grasped the situation immediately and nodded.
Before long, Lucarion flew over and dropped the plug cord into Tie’s hand.
Tie quickly passed the plug through the drawer handle.
Then he wound it once, twice, three times, and when that became four times too.
“Necromancer King! You brat!”
Velugon shouted and reached his hand toward Tie.
But Tie let go of the cord and quickly ran to the other side of the chest of drawers.
“You brat! If I catch you, then you-!”
Velugon too immediately flung himself to the other side to catch Tie.
But,
“Urk-!”
The wire pulled taut and he instantly fell to the floor with a crash.
Watching Velugon groan in pain, Tie blinked uneasily.
‘…He fell, the Factory Manager.’
Even though it was something he had done because he had no choice, guilt poked at his heart again and again.
“What are you doing! There’s no time!”
But there was no time to be feeling trivial guilt.
At Lucarion’s shout, Tie came to her senses again.
Then he hurriedly ran to one corner of the teachers’ office.
It was where the supply boxes he had knocked over earlier were piled up.
Among them, Tie’s target was only one thing.
“Found it!”
Tie’s green eyes sparkled as she looked at the object in her hand.
The object’s identity was none other than a toy police handcuff for children.
It was said to be a prop left over from when the older boys and girls of Flower Deer Class used it for the kindergarten recital’s segment.
Among the props, the teacher always kept only these handcuffs in the teachers’ office.
And Tie knew why.
‘Such a tremendous toy.’
Things like toy handcuffs, toy swords, and toy guns always held an invisible magical power.
A very tempting and fatal power that completely stole a child’s mind.
You could tell from the fact that a bloodstorm had blown through Flower Deer Class during the few days those were kept in the classroom.
‘Tie has those handcuffs now.’
Leaving aside her pounding heart, Tie cried out bravely.
“Don’t move!”
At this moment, a shallow hope was blooming in his heart.
‘I can get out.’
He could get the core Velugon had, and escape from the subspace.
‘I can do it!’
Without hesitation, Tie ran forward.
And he fastened one side of the handcuffs onto one of Velugon’s wrists.
“You brat!”
Velugon writhed, but Tie quickly fixed the other side of the handcuffs to the clothes drying rack.
On top of the drying rack was the barricade Tie had made.
“I can’t get this off!”
Velugon flailed his arm.
However, the sturdy handcuffs and the drying rack did not budge at all.
Without letting down his guard, Tie watched Velugon struggle.
Velugon, whose both feet and one arm were restrained, seemed considerably flustered.
He glanced once at the red mist in the corner, then ground his teeth.
Then he stretched his one free arm with all his strength toward his feet.
Since there was nothing to be done about the bound arm, it seemed he intended to somehow deal with at least the wire tangled around his legs.
But there was no way Tie would miss that chance.
“Hiyah!”
Running to the window, Tie hung from the curtain with all her strength.
Unable to bear her weight, the curtain fell down with a thud-thud sound, and Tie, who had tumbled over, rose again like a roly-poly toy.
Then, holding one side of the curtain, he began running toward Velugon.
Velugon’s eyes went wide, but Tie threw the curtain over him.
“What are you doing!”
Velugon struggled in order to get out from inside the curtain.
However, since the only part of his body that was free was one arm, he could not easily shake the curtain off.
Before she could stick one hand out from the curtain, Tie quickly climbed on top of her.
“You brat!”
When Velugon’s face and one shoulder emerged from inside the curtain, Tie drew in a short breath.
Seeing the bright red blood flowing from Velugon’s forehead, cold sweat beaded on his back.
It was surely the wound from tripping over the wire a little while ago.
“B-blood….”
Fumbling for a moment, Tie soon shut her eyes tightly and focused.
‘There is only one thing Tie has to do.’
Take Krazar’s core away from Velugon.
And thus escape from the subspace.
‘Tie has to get out. I absolutely have to get out.’
That was partly because he had to stay alive and meet Dad,
‘Tie will definitely take really good care of Raul hyung and Enzo hyung!’
‘If Tie buys poison dart bombs, I’ll protect Veil hyung from now on!’
‘As the Necromancer King, I have to become an even more dependable commander!’
But it was also because he had already made promises.
As commander, that he would protect everyone.