A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 66
Chapter 66
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Translated by Sylph
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“Necromancer King! Are you safe?!”
Tie stared at Velugon with bewildered eyes.
Velugon, the moment he regained consciousness, was already floundering as he tried to get up from his place.
Watching Velugon warily, Tie edged backward.
Because he was worried about what if Velugon became strange again.
However, Velugon seemed to have recovered a certain amount of reason.
“What about Krazar? Was the red mist exterminated? What in the world happened how…!”
Though he staggered a little, his eyes were properly focused.
Before long, as if his head hurt, he frowned and then sat up by himself.
“It was Necromancer King who disposed of the red mist, right? I mean, you found that bastard’s core and destroyed it, right? Wait, then why are we still inside the subspace?”
At the shower of questions, Tie closed her mouth.
Then he rolled his eyes.
“Well, um.”
From where should he start explaining?
Tie turned around to ask Lucarion for help.
“Hing?”
However, Lucarion had vanished before he knew it.
Instead, he was in a totally different place.
None other than inside Tie’s bag.
“Blackie, why are you in there….”
Lucarion was crouched inside the bag like an angry cat.
As if that were not enough, he made his eyes like axe shapes and then turned his head away with a huff.
Tie opened her mouth wide.
‘…He’s sulking!’
No matter how one looked at it, Lucarion seemed displeased that Tie had decided to raise Ppuppu.
What should he do.
Growing dejected, Tie let her eyebrows droop and looked at Ppuppu in her hand.
‘Ppuppu is really a good baby elephant, though.’
From the moment Ppuppu woke up from the core, Tie had been sharing Ppuppu’s senses exactly as they were.
Ppuppu’s anxiety, the guilt that she had made Tie scared.
And even the bewilderment that none of this had truly been what Ppuppu intended.
‘Of course….’
While looking down at Ppuppu’s head, Tie glanced back at Velugon again.
For a while now, Ppuppu had been watching Velugon and smacking his lips.
‘He must still want to eat the Factory Manager.’
Velugon was prey that Ppuppu had carefully cultivated for a very long time.
So no matter how full he had become from Tie’s magic power, he would still want to eat Velugon for now.
Tie felt that if it were her too, if her favorite food were right in front of her, she would want to keep eating it even if she were full.
However, since she had decided to become Ppuppu’s mother, Tie needed from now on to educate Ppuppu properly.
Among that, the most important point was surely to keep him from thinking of people as food.
Tie first covered Ppuppu’s mouth as she made a slurp- sound.
And then he answered calmly.
“Krazar is gone.”
Velugon jumped up from where he was sitting.
“Really?!”
Tie looked back once at Lucarion, who snorted from behind her, and nodded slightly.
“Yeees.”
Lucarion kept saying that Ppuppu was probably Krazar.
That he could feel Krazar’s bad magic power from Ppuppu, or something?
But Tie did not agree.
‘Ppuppu is a baby who doesn’t even know what Krazar is.’
Besides, he had seen it just a little while ago.
Ppuppu twisting his whole body in grievance.
Tie could feel it exactly.
That Ppuppu’s actions and reactions were definitely not fabricated lies.
And was that all?
Tie also had her own logic for interpreting this situation.
‘If Krazar is the mommy egg, and Krazar’s core is the eggy egg.’
Then Ppuppu, who was born from inside it, naturally became the baby.
‘You can’t say a baby and its mother are the same!’
Especially in Korea, that yeon… what was it?
Anyway, that scary law that sent even the wrongdoer’s family to prison together had disappeared a very long time ago.
It was just when Tie was feeling proud of her own logic.
“To think it was truly you who disposed of that monster.”
He heard Velugon mutter. Wiping the blood running down his forehead, Velugon continued speaking.
“There was indeed a reason such a great reputation followed you.”
Tie stayed still because she did not know what to say in response.
“Then was the reason cracks formed in Krazar’s core also because of the collision of two gigantic magic powers?”
However, at those next words, he rolled his eyes in confusion.
A collision of magic powers…?
Now that he thought back on it, that feeling had been closer to a ‘transfer’ than a collision.
The moment Tie picked up the core in the armory hall.
Ppuppu had said he felt an enormous amount of magic power pouring into him.
Just then Ppuppu had been in a state of tremendous hunger for an extremely long time, so she absorbed every bit of Tie’s magic power.
‘And after that, he said he got full.’
Enough that he could attempt the hatching he had been preparing for a long time.
After beginning to hatch, Ppuppu opened the subspace, and out of gratitude tried to offer Tie the prey she had carefully prepared.
However, the power he had regained after so long was unstable.
That was exactly why the created subspace ended up threatening even Tie.
Just as he was thinking that far, Velugon’s voice continued.
“Necromancer King. If my guess is right, it seems somehow you saved me.”
Tie’s eyes grew round.
But Velugon’s face was serious.
“Because it seems Krazar’s core, that is, that cursed thing, had been bewitching me all this time.”
Tie quietly covered Ppuppu with one hand.
Fortunately, Velugon did not cast his eyes that way, and only let out a sigh.
“Yes… I’m sure of it. Thinking about it, it seems it’s been years.”
He could not know exactly when it had started.
But even Velugon could be sure that something had changed beginning from that point.
After steadying her breathing, she stared at Tie.
“In fact, three years ago I temporarily kept Krazar’s weapon in my quarters.”
Around that time, the religious order had gradually begun pressuring him to hand the weapon over to them.
Using inspection as an excuse, Velugon brought the weapon to his quarters.
And from that day on, the memory of the most horrific day of his life began replaying as a nightmare.
“I do not know your exact age. But if perhaps you are over forty, you would have heard of it. The Hederdel Massacre.”
Hederdel sparrow?
Forty?
Tie folded her fingers, then jerked in surprise.
‘Forty!’
Never mind forty, Tie was four years old.
And moreover, Hederdel sparrow was something he had never heard of at all.
When he shook his head, an expression as if he found it interesting spread across Velugon’s face.
It was an expression as though she were trying to gauge Tie’s real age.
Only then did Tie hurriedly add,
“I think maybe I’ve heard of it…!”
Velugon nodded as though he had expected that.
“Yes. You certainly would have heard of it. It was quite a famous incident.”
For some reason, a shadow fell over Velugon’s face.
“It was the incident in which the son of the lord of Hederdel, beginning with an attack on a hospital, killed as many as ninety innocent people.”
An attack on a hospital, ninety people?
Tie’s eyes filled with slight fear.
If someone had entered a hospital and harmed sick people, that was an enormously bad thing.
“It was I who sold him the weapon.”
However, at that moment Velugon said it.
Tie shut her mouth, then opened her eyes round.
“Wh-what?”
“I’m saying I was the one who put the weapon in that bastard’s hands.”
Before long, Velugon had hung his head deeply.
“As a rule, I did not accept personal commissions. I also generally refused requests to make special weapons for someone. Of course, even now I am forced to accept commissions from the imperial family.”
Velugon let out a sigh.
“But that man… at once the son of a lord and a knight who was suppressing the civil war in the Hederdel region. I was bewitched by those words.”
Though it was not Hederdel, Velugon too came from a village like that.
A place where magic stones rose up, and because of that people began fighting.
And a battlefield where that fight eventually spread into a dreadful civil war.
Velugon, who had lost his adoptive parents and seven siblings on the battlefield, could not bring himself to refuse the request of that knight, no, that monster.
Because until that moment, he had not known what he intended to do with the weapon Velugon made.