A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 68
Chapter 68
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Translated by Sylph
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“Kkyuung….”
At the sound of Ppuppu grumbling, Tie raised her eyebrows sharply.
Then after glancing once at Velugon, who was untying the badminton net tangled around his ankle some distance away, he said,
“Enough excuses, Ppuppu.”
“…Kkyu!”
“That is an excuse right now! No matter how badly you wanted to hatch, you can’t go poking at people’s trauma!”
“Kkyu, kkyu. Kkyurung.”
Tie shut her mouth.
‘Ppuppu says he couldn’t help it because he also had to eat to live…!’
His heart weakened at the unexpected answer.
Perhaps knowing that, a faint light flashed in Ppuppu’s eyes for an instant.
The baby elephant placed his hands on his waist and began talking back at greater length.
“Kkyururung. Kkyu! Kkyukkyu!”
“But….”
When difficult expressions like ‘the order of nature’ and ‘competition for survival’ even came out of Ppuppu’s mouth, Tie’s eyes spun around.
Even though she called Tie her mother, Ppuppu seemed far smarter than Tie.
“Kkyururung. Kkyu? Kkyu. Kkyurut.”
At that moment Ppuppu bounced up and down on Tie’s palm.
Tie thought for a moment, then asked back.
“Really?”
“Kkyu!”
“You’re really promising for real?”
Ppuppu shook his trunk vigorously.
Tie let out a sigh as if she could not win.
“…They say no parent can beat their child.”
Then he gently stroked Ppuppu’s head with his finger.
“Fine. From now on you absolutely must not bother people anymore.”
“Kkyu….!”
“If you’re hungry, Mommy will give you magic power. Got it?”
Ppuppu flattened himself down and made a heart shape with his trunk.
It was when Tie was grinning.
[Just as I thought.]
An offended voice came from below.
When Tie lowered her gaze, Lucarion was sitting neatly on the floor, apparently having come out at some point.
His black tail smacked the floor hard, hard as if he were in a bad mood.
[You’re saying you’ll share your magic power with that bastard?]
Before answering, Tie first checked again where Velugon was.
Velugon was in the play area after looking around the teachers’ office.
Tie lowered her voice and whispered.
“Blackie. Ppuppu says she can only live if she has Tie’s magic power. Otherwise he gets so hungry that he has to eat people’s trauma.”
[Are you seriously saying you’re going to take in a monster right now?]
Tie scooted over a little closer to Lucarion on her bottom.
“But he says he can’t remember… and the baby is pitiful.”
[What’s that supposed to matter? Forgetting is natural for everyone.]
Tie’s expression drooped.
Soon his small lips stuck out.
“…Even so, Tie doesn’t like it when someone loses their memories.”
Meanwhile, Lucarion barely swallowed a sigh.
It was obvious without looking what Astie was thinking about right now.
‘No matter what, he’s probably thinking of that man.’
That man, meaning Astie’s father.
The reason Lucarion knew of his existence was simple.
‘Because I heard about him every day in the previous world.’
At that time Lucarion had been asleep inside the Bed of Repose.
And from inside it, he could hear sounds from outside, if only faintly.
Including the sounds of Tie and that man living together, the sounds of conversations with neighbors, and all sorts of other sounds.
Inside the Bed of Repose, Lucarion had been fairly comfortable.
When she heard Astie laughing, she felt good, and on the days when she cried, her heart felt uneasy.
‘…Can I even describe that as merely uneasy?’
Whenever the child cried, Lucarion felt as though the world itself were shattering into pieces.
Should one say that unbearable compassion swelled up in him, and that he felt an obsession that he had to stop the child’s tears by any means?
Lucarion sighed again.
‘That was why. That day too.’
She vividly remembered when Astie touched her inside the box for the first time.
Lucarion’s eyes flew open as though waking from a long sleep.
It felt as if hot blood were flowing once more through his frozen veins.
And then for the first time he saw.
“Blackie. Are you okay?”
Astie, who looked not all that different from now.
Eyes the color of new shoots that called to mind spring arriving at a lakeside.
Even his small white face and plump cheeks.
It was a face he had never seen before. It was definitely unfamiliar and awkward, and yet at the same time familiar.
That was why it confused him.
Because the moment he saw the child’s face, she felt such longing that it seemed all the walls in her heart would collapse.
The moment Lucarion saw Astie’s tears, he literally could no longer control himself.
How could he make the child stop crying.
How could he lessen that sorrow even a little?
Because of that, with the power he had recovered over a long time inside the Bed of Repose, he distorted time and space.
What the child ultimately wanted was that man, that is, Astie’s father….
‘But the one in that world was already dead and gone.’
That was how they returned to Talochium.
But once he actually arrived, things he had forgotten in the severed parts of his memory came back to him.
That before falling asleep inside the Bed of Repose, he had been chased by something.
That the operation of the magic power inside his body was abnormal.
And even that although he had brought the child immediately, that man would not remember the child anyway.
Just as his head was complicated and he was agonizing over it, he fell asleep from exhaustion of magic power.
Of course, just as in the Republic of Korea, Lucarion could roughly know the situation outside even from inside the Bed of Repose.
So long as he did not fall into rest that was too deep, such things reached him naturally even without trying.
The problem was that what he could do inside the Bed of Repose was limited.
Still, perhaps one should call it fortunate?
During that time he learned something by chance.
That she could absorb Astie’s magic power herself.
And it was not even such a difficult thing.
Lucarion only had to come into contact with Astie in some way.
Whether he was inside the Bed of Repose, or manifested.
The moment Astie’s hand touched her, highly pure magic power poured into her in torrents.
As though some kind of law of nature existed between the two of them.
In truth, from that moment on the things Lucarion could do increased greatly.
She could have absorbed Astie’s magic power to the fullest and left, or prepared herself to face those who were pursuing her someday.
But he could not do that.
Because Astie weighed on her mind.
‘Just what is that child to me.’
With a resentful heart, Lucarion stared hard at Tie.
Astie was a strange existence to her.
From the very first moment where her severed memories began, Astie had seemed exactly like a sovereign to her.
A sovereign that he had to serve absolutely.
An absolute existence that held his leash gently, one he could neither now nor ever in the future defy.
Because of that, Lucarion could not rest deeply even while inside the Bed of Repose.
With his nerves drawn taut, he keenly watched the situation outside all day long.
So that she could manifest when Astie found herself in danger.
And when the child was safe, she returned to the bed and rested again.
Because the longer she remained manifested, the more magic power she had to absorb from Astie.
But Lucarion did not find it agreeable somehow to absorb Astie’s magic power.
Should one say that it felt similar to sucking blood by making wounds on the child’s body.
Of course, when the child had been trapped inside the subspace, he too had wanted to manifest immediately and destroy that damned Krazar.
But perhaps because the place was a subspace, using magic power was not easy, and so his manifestation had been delayed.
‘…Whatever the case.’
Lucarion shook his head hard and cast away those thoughts.
And with a fierce light in his eyes, he glared at the uninvited guest before him.
The biggest problem at this very moment was that thing.
That disgusting monster with the bizarre appearance.
And yet Astie said she would willingly give her magic power to that foolish monster.
The magic power Lucarion had cherished with his whole mind focused on it, magic power that was desperate and precious to him.
Staring at the tiny elephant wearing a triumphant expression, Lucarion ground his teeth and said,
[I don’t believe this. No, I can’t believe it.]