A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 69
Chapter 69
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Translated by Sylph
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The elephant snorted.
“Kkyuryung (This body does not trust a lizard like you either)!”
Lucarion’s eyes narrowed.
Just until a little while ago he had not understood what that bastard was saying, yet now for some reason he did.
Reading his expression, the elephant grinned and added,
“Kkyurung, kkyururung (It is an arrangement I made in order to convey this body’s will to an uncivilized one such as you).”
Lucarion furrowed his brow and then sneered.
[How funny. If I put my mind to it, I could read the bug-like thoughts of a bastard like you from the start.]
The elephant grabbed the back of his neck and staggered.
Soon a crack split between the two bean-sized eyes.
“Kkyu! Kkyukkyuut (How insolent! Do you not fear pain that tears flesh and shaves bone)!”
“Both of you stop!”
At that moment Tie stepped in.
The elephant who had been huffing shut his mouth, and Lucarion snorted and whipped his head away.
Tie let out a sigh while looking at her two retainers, who already did not get along.
‘This is bad….’
There was a reason Ppuppu and Lucarion must not start fighting already.
“If you keep doing that, people will talk bad about Tie!”
Lucarion and Ppuppu stared at Tie.
As though announcing a grave fact, Tie added,
“Don’t you know if babies don’t listen, people scold the mommy? Saying she didn’t teach proper home discipline.”
Lucarion’s eyes went wide.
[Have you lost your mind? Why am I your baby?!]
Meanwhile, Ppuppu plopped down where he was. Then he lay flat on the floor and apologized while dabbing tears.
“Kkyurut, kkyu!”
Tie shook her head from side to side.
Then first he suddenly picked up Lucarion, who was standing there blankly.
[What are you doing? Let go of me!]
Lucarion immediately struggled, but Tie, grunting, stuffed Lucarion into the bag anyway.
Then after zipping it all the way up so that only Lucarion’s head stuck out, he said,
“Blackie, from now on be quiet.”
Lucarion wore an incredulous expression.
Whether she did or not, Tie this time put Ppuppu into the front pocket of the bag.
After that he likewise left only his face sticking out and put the bag on his back.
“From now on Tie is going to talk with the Factory Manager.”
Lucarion went limp with a resigned expression. Then at that moment he sensed Ppuppu in the front pocket through the cloth.
Lucarion kicked Ppuppu with his foot for no reason.
“…Kkyupit (What do you think you’re doing, lizard)!”
Ppuppu immediately flew into a rage and glared at Lucarion.
Lucarion snapped back so that Tie would not hear.
[You had better not be thinking of trying anything funny.]
At that, Ppuppu’s eyes narrowed.
[That is what I wish to say, lizard.]
[What?]
[Stop extorting Mother’s lifeblood and return to your small and revolting nest. Surely you are not going to claim you cannot feel it?]
Ppuppu motioned toward Lucarion with his eyes.
More precisely, toward the faintly distorting space around Lucarion.
[Because of you, Mother’s precious magic power is leaking away. And not a small amount of it.]
Lucarion shut his mouth.
Though he hated to admit it, what Ppuppu said was true.
The longer Lucarion remained manifested, the more magic power he had to absorb from Astie.
[With a body full of holes that cannot even contain magic power, what is it you think you can do? The more you insist on remaining manifested, the more you only waste Mother’s essence.]
In fact, Lucarion had been in this state all along from the very first time he awoke in the Bed of Repose.
Magic power would not store properly in his body, and so manifestation was difficult.
As if mocking that, Ppuppu laughed, hmphahaha.
[Even if I am granted magic power from Mother only once, ten days is easy for me. It seems I shall be spending a great deal of time with Mother from now on. Far more than you, with your mayfly heart!]
Feeling his insides burning fiercely, Lucarion looked at the detestable monster.
‘What, Ppuppu?’
The moment she recalled the way Astie called that wicked monster, her head throbbed.
That bastard was surely maintaining that form on purpose.
Since it was the sort that rummaged through the insides of others, of course it would have figured out beforehand what Astie liked.
And without knowing any of that, Astie thought that black-hearted, blood-smelling bastard was cute….
[How long do you intend to go on like this? Are you going to let Mother fall into a state of depletion because of you!]
As if he were not enraged enough already, Ppuppu would not stop needling him for even a moment.
Of course Lucarion knew too. That if she kept up manifestation, someday it would become a burden on Astie.
But Astie possessed an enormous amount of magic power.
So he would not fall into depletion that easily….
[No matter if Mother’s magic power is like a spring that does not dry up, a state of depletion is dangerous. Do you not know that the broader the ocean, the moment it begins to dry up once, recovery becomes impossible?]
Lucarion pressed his mouth tightly shut.
As expected of a bastard who peered straight into the insides of others.
Ppuppu seemed to have perfectly grasped even what Lucarion feared.
[If you truly care for Mother, then return to your nest at once. Just in case, if you disappear, then I shall close the subspace. From now on, this body, Lord Ppuppu, shall take responsibility for Mother’s well-being.]
It was just as Lucarion frowned at the sight of that bastard laughing ha-ha while waving his crude trunk.
“Battery? The name of this object is battery?”
Velugon’s voice came from some distance away.
When she turned her head, she saw Tie, some distance away with the bag set down, and the Factory Manager standing in front of her holding something in her hand.
Tie nodded.
“Yes! There’s this much zappy electricity in here!”
Curiosity appeared in Velugon’s eyes.
“Electricity?”
“Yes! It’s like a monster core!”
“A monster’s core? You mean there is something like magic power inside this?”
Tie nodded enthusiastically.
Then he looked all around the kindergarten and ran to a large box filled with toys.
What in the world he was trying to do, just as Lucarion and Ppuppu exchanged bewildered glances.
“There’s a place where you put the battery in here.”
Tie lifted a toy out of the box and held it out in front of Velugon.
It was a baby doll that looked quite real.
“What is this….”
Velugon looked flustered, but Tie casually flipped the baby doll upside down.
Then he felt along the smooth back and opened the lid of the battery compartment.
While Velugon stood with his mouth hanging open, Tie took the two AA batteries Velugon was holding and firmly pushed them inside.
“Like this, put them in here like this….”
Tie closed the battery compartment lid and set the doll upright.
Then, when he pressed down on the baby doll’s chest in front of Velugon’s eyes,
“Kaarururu-”
“Hiiik.”
At the baby laughter that came out, Velugon recoiled in shock and took a step back.
Tie, on the other hand, only smiled brightly. Then he quickly found the bottle model from the set and fitted it to the baby’s lips.
This time, the sound of a baby drinking milk began to come out from the doll.
“Let’s put our baby to sleep~”
Absorbed in playing mommy, Tie held the baby horizontally and rocked it back and forth.
Then even breathing sounds began coming steadily from the doll.
Looking at the doll with satisfaction, Tie only then flipped it over again and took the batteries out.
“This is how you do it.”
Velugon stared at the batteries in Tie’s hand as if he could not believe it.
Then he picked up the toy train at his feet and held it up.
“Can this be done with this too?”
“Yeees!”
Tie skillfully inserted the batteries into the train.
When he set the toy on the floor and pressed the button, the train began racing off while sounding its whistle.
A strange light flashed in Velugon’s eyes as he watched it with a curious expression.