A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 65

Chapter 65

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Translated by Sylph

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Taking a deep breath, Tie swiftly shoved her hand into the inner pocket of Velugon’s clothes.

It was not especially difficult to find the core in there.

At last, once he had grabbed the core in his hand and pulled away from Velugon, Velugon immediately began screaming.

“No! That-!”

Watching the Velugon who was shouting at the top of his lungs, Tie let out the breath he had been holding.

Meanwhile, after shouting a few more times, Velugon slowly closed his eyes.

Tie only lowered her gaze after Velugon went limp.

In the palm of his hand, he saw Krazar’s core, glossy and red.

The slightly cracked stone in his hand only shone faintly, as though asking what had happened.

“You took it?!”

At that moment Lucarion approached Tie.

When Tie turned her head, the red mist had vanished before she knew it.

Tie nodded with frightened eyes.

“Y-Yeah. This….”

“Let me see.”

Looking at the core lying in Tie’s palm, Lucarion narrowed her brow.

He rolled the core around with his forepaw and muttered.

“I can feel condensed magic power. It seems stronger than before.”

“Condensed…?”

The moment Tie tilted her head.

Crack-

The core in Tie’s hand began cracking again.

At the sight of dozens of fissures forming around the crack that had already existed, Tie stiffened completely.

Lucarion too held his breath.

But after several seconds passed like that.

“Oooo-”

The vibrating core made a strange sound and then split neatly in half.

At the something that revealed itself from inside, Tie parted her lips slightly.

“Kkyuut! Kkyu!”

Pitch-black, round eyes.

A long nose positioned below them.

And even ears fluttering uselessly at both sides.

“An eggy egg…?”

At Tie’s words, Lucarion frowned.

“What egg?”

Tie turned stiffly toward Lucarion.

“L-Lucarion. From the eggy egg. From the eggy egg….”

The child’s eyes shook nonstop.

“A baby elephant was born!”

The king of herbivorous animals that he had watched again and again in savanna documentaries.

The animal Tie liked most of all, more than wolves, more than giraffes, more than pandas.

An elephant had been born from none other than Krazar’s core.

But even more unbelievable than that was,

“Kkyu!”

“…It’s calling Tie Mother!”

Not Mom, but Mother.

The fact that Tie could understand every sound the baby elephant chirped out.

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“Kkyu, kkyurung, kkyupit!”

“Ppuppu says he’s a filial son. So she was going to give Tie the food she’d treasured away for a long time.”

“Kkyuuung…. Kkyuu.”

“He says he treasured it for years.”

“Kkuuoo….”

“The reason he was saving the food was because he wanted to eat it and hatch all at once.”

A sigh burst from Lucarion’s mouth.

She saw Tie sitting beside a fist-sized monster in front of her.

For some reason, the monster was kneeling demurely toward Tie.

“Kkyurung! Kkyuung! Kkyukkyurut.”

“But then he says that after meeting Tie, she gained enough strength to hatch even without eating the food! So instead of eating the food himself, he kept chasing after me because he wanted to give it to me?”

Lucarion narrowed both eyes.

“Don’t tell me that food is that?”

Following Lucarion’s glance, Tie hesitantly nodded.

Where Lucarion had gestured, Velugon was lying unconscious flat on his back.

“Ha.”

Swallowing a groan, Lucarion slowly closed and opened his eyes.

Then, looking at Astie with a serious face, she pointed with her forepaw at the monster with the bizarre appearance.

“Do you know what that is?”

“…Kkyupiit!”

The kneeling monster jumped up.

Then it stood on two feet and began scolding Lucarion as if asking where he got off pointing fingers.

But Lucarion lightly ignored the monster, which Astie had already even named ‘Ppuppu,’ and continued speaking.

“That’s a monster.”

Tie’s shoulders twitched.

“That hatching or whatever happened because that thing absorbed your magic power too.”

“Kkyukkyukyurut-! Kkyu-!”

The monster came pattering over and hit Lucarion’s foot with its nose, thump, thump.

However, Lucarion continued speaking without even glancing that way.

“The magic power left behind in Krazar’s core absorbed your magic power and took on a substantial body as a monster, I’m telling you. Don’t you get it?”

Tie swallowed hard and avoided Lucarion’s gaze.

However, Lucarion continued speaking in a serious voice.

“In other words, it was that monster that trapped us in here and that scared you with a delusion a little while ago. Are you letting your guard down just because its outward appearance changed a little? Judging by what I can sense, that monster has killed at least two hundred people.”

“No!”

“Kkyuruk!”

The monster and Tie answered at the same time.

The wavering monster even grabbed the back of its neck with one foot and toppled over with a thud.

Tie ran over in a hurry, hugged the monster to her chest, and said,

“This kid’s name isn’t that, it’s Ppuppu!”

After that, he put on an extremely profound expression.

“And Ppuppu says he doesn’t remember very well.”

“What?”

“He says he doesn’t remember what he was doing before he got trapped in the eggy egg.”

Lucarion blinked in bafflement.

“And he says he’s never hurt anyone. Ppuppu says he isn’t that kind of bad baby elephant!”

Lucarion swallowed a groan.

‘He says he’s never hurt anyone?’

Then how was he supposed to explain the smell of blood wafting from that monster’s magic power?

Bloodlust, or bloody aura.

It was a distinct smell that only came from those who had carried out merciless slaughter.

“That’s absurd.”

When she muttered that, Astie looked at the monster anxiously.

The impudent monster was standing on Tie’s palm and glaring at Lucarion.

Tie hesitated, then spoke again.

“It says trapping Tie in the subspace was… um, it says it didn’t do that with bad intentions.”

“Then?”

“It says it did that so Tie could eat the Factory Manager comfortably….”

Tie, who had shut her mouth, continued awkwardly.

“It says because it’s still a baby and can’t control things, it accidentally made the things Tie is scared of. At first it was going to let Tie out, but because it still hadn’t fully hatched yet, it was going to help with the mist. But it says Tie kept running away, so it couldn’t catch me.”

Lucarion let out a hollow laugh.

Then he soon glared at the monster with fierce eyes.

“It says it doesn’t hurt anyone, and yet it was going to eat that human? Doesn’t that contradict itself?”

“Kkyu! Kkyukkyurut! Kkyu! Kkyurung-! Kkyukkyu!”

“Ppuppu says what he eats isn’t people, it’s hearts! Hearts that are afraid!”

Tie hurriedly stepped in and defended the monster.

“He says he’s a baby elephant who lives by eating scared hearts! So at first she thought Tie ate that too and was trying to give it to me! But Tie told her properly!”

“….”

“Tie only eats rice and snacks and bread, so she doesn’t have to give me scared hearts.”

Lucarion blankly shut his mouth.

Before she knew it, Astie was holding the monster out toward her as if to show her.

“So, Blackie. Maybe there’s some misunderstanding? Look, Ppuppu is really really small.”

“…Kkyurung.”

“He’s really cute and he keeps calling me Mother.”

“Kkyukkyurung!”

“Ppuppu says he wants to keep staying with Tie forever and ever. She says if Tie says no, she won’t even do feeding activity!”

Lucarion unconsciously pressed a hand to his forehead.

“…That’s because even at this very moment that bastard is filling his belly by continually absorbing your magic power! There isn’t any need for it to do feeding activity in the first place!”

Tie’s eyes instantly brimmed with tears.

“But Tie wants to raise Ppuppu…?”

Lucarion held his breath at the absurd words.

“Necromancer King?”

A hoarse voice came from behind.

Velugon, who had awakened before anyone noticed, was staring at Tie and Lucarion as if he could not believe it.