A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 72

Chapter 72

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Translated by Sylph

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Tie walked following behind Basto.

Even as he did so, he kept watching the area ahead of Basto.

A few steps away, he could see a large man and a slender woman walking ahead.

‘Those people are the rank 2 and rank 3 mercenary companies….’

Should one call it fortunate.

Thanks to Veil quickly explaining things in front of the armory hall, he had already grasped the situation.

Of course, that only made things more troublesome.

‘What, what do I really do….?’

Tie only learned for the first time today that a place called the association existed.

Naturally, it was also the first time he learned that most of the top mercenary companies belonged to that association.

The important thing was that unlike Agabert, which still had a long road ahead of it, those people were ‘verified.’

And the reason those verified people were here was none other than,

‘To take Ppuppu away!’

Dizzy, Tie hugged the bag in her arms even more tightly.

Before coming out of the subspace, Lucarion had turned back into a black stone.

Ppuppu laughed at that Lucarion for a full five minutes as though it served him right, then demonstratively came out of the front pocket and moved into the main storage compartment.

He wore an expression as happy as a lottery winner moving from a cramped rental to a fifty-pyeong home of his own.

Rolling around inside the roomy bag and enjoying his freedom, Ppuppu had only just fallen into an incredible nap a little while ago.

Just then, he heard the rank 2 mercenary commander speaking to the rank 3 mercenary commander up ahead.

“The Factory Manager says Krazar’s core disappeared.”

“Does that make sense? He dealt with the bastard, and yet there’s no core?”

“I don’t know the details either. I’m just saying that’s what the Factory Manager said. He said he’d been under delusion for quite a long time, but that his mind is clear now. That means Krazar was destroyed in one way or another, doesn’t it.”

“I’m saying then where in the world is its core?”

At the irritated pressure from the woman mercenary commander, the male mercenary commander furrowed his brow.

Even to Tie, her eyes looked full of annoyance.

“I told you a moment ago I don’t know, Elanes. If there were anyone who knew that, would Valentis Luminen have said he’d come all the way here in person?”

Wait, Valentis Luminen?

At the familiar name, Tie tilted her head.

And for good reason: Tie already knew that name.

As for where he knew it from, surely it had been before he got trapped in the subspace….

Without realizing it, Tie stopped in place. Then his eyes grew round.

‘The weapon!’

He remembered where he had seen that name.

It was the very cause of everything that happened.

He had seen it on the plaque in front of the relic weapon Krazar’s Heart.

[The core was recovered through the donation of the conqueror ‘Valentis Luminen,’ and was reborn as a relic weapon by the hand of the artisan ‘Velugon Gregor.’]

The conversation he had shared with Veil also flashed through his mind.

‘Veil hyung. Who is Valentis Luminen?’

‘A holy knight.’

The strongest man, who at the age of only twenty had besieged a large magic stone and survived alone from Krazar’s subspace.

And the commander of the holy knights, who had led the Holy Knight Order for the following thirty years.

“Tie?”

Seeing Tie stop in place, Basto bent down and whispered.

But Tie only blinked without answering.

Because he was thinking hard in his head.

‘Valentis Luminen is coming here? Really?’

From the moment she arrived in this world, Tie’s goal had only been one.

To find the Holy Knight Order headquarters and ask about Dad.

But things had started getting tangled from the imperial capital gate onward.

At Pearl City, which they had visited after passing through the gate, the incident of a sea magic stone appearing had occurred,

and when an unforeseen situation arose even in the weapons district, where they had only planned to stop briefly,

‘Tie is tired now too….’

Even cheerful Tie had reached the point where everything ahead of her felt utterly hopeless.

Naturally, he had also been anxious about when he would finally be able to go to the Holy Knight Order headquarters.

But then,

“Valentis Luminen is really really coming here?”

If that was true, then wouldn’t Tie no longer need to go find the headquarters?

Because Valentis Luminen himself was coming here.

“Yeah. I only heard just a little while ago too.”

At Basto’s answer, Tie’s mouth fell open.

But that did not mean he could simply be happy.

“It seems the imperial family also heard the news that Krazar’s core disappeared.”

Because the reason Valentis Luminen was coming was none other than ‘Krazar’s core.’

‘But the core….’

Tie swallowed hard.

His gaze returned again to the bag he was hugging tightly to his chest.

‘It’s not a core anymore, though?’

His heart thumped, and deep worry filled his head.

What would happen if he said that Krazar’s core was actually an egg, and that Ppuppu had hatched from inside it?

First of all, the Agabert members would be greatly surprised.

Basto and Nordix might worry greatly, saying it was dangerous.

But even so, in the end they would believe Tie’s words.

That Ppuppu knew nothing, and that he was not Krazar, the monster that had caused countless victims long ago.

‘But if it were other mercenaries or holy knights….’

Tie’s expression darkened.

To people who were not Agabert members, Ppuppu would simply look like Krazar.

Just as Lucarion was wary of Ppuppu.

‘What if they try to kill Ppuppu?’

Ppuppu was a cute and delicate baby elephant.

Even if they did not kill her, might the religious order not try to take Ppuppu away from Tie?

‘…The religious order.’

In Tie’s head, the religious order was that kind of existence.

‘Whenever a mercenary company got hold of a relic, wasn’t it always the religious order that stepped in and took it away?’

‘Even when the Holy Knight Order found a relic, didn’t the religious order always take it away too?’

‘Then there’s a high chance they’d aim for little kid’s bracelet too.’

An existence like bandits who unhesitatingly stole away the spoils of magic stones that mercenaries had earned with difficulty.

“…I won’t let them. Because I’m the mother.”

Hearing Tie mutter those words, Basto opened his eyes round.

But as if it were nothing, Tie only puffed out her breath through her nose and began walking again.

‘I have to come up with a plan.’

But halfway through thinking that, he stopped in place again.

Because ahead of him, Reaper and Elanes, who had stopped walking before he knew it, were looking down at him with strange expressions.

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Weapons District, the iron tower in the smelting district.

The upper conference room overlooking the Primordial Furnace.

“Since it’s the first time meeting you in a place like the weapons district, it feels bleak and nice, doesn’t it?”

At Elanes’s words, Tie puckered her lips.

Even to young Tie, the Elanes before her eyes was a glamorous beauty.

Her wavy silver hair, her long and slender neck.

It was hard to believe that such a beautiful woman was the commander of the rank 3 mercenary company.

By contrast, beside her was a man with an appearance exactly opposite to Elanes’s.

“I’m Reaper. Commander of ‘Grim Reaper.'”

At the sight of him offering his rough hand, Tie hesitantly stood up from the chair.

And then he took the tip of Reaper’s thick index finger and gave it a slight shake.

In the meantime, Elanes opened her lips again.

“I’ve heard a lot of rumors. They say you handle a rather unusual attribute of magic?”

Tie rolled her eyes and said,

“Yeees. Necromancy.”

The members called his ability to summon bone friends and call forth shipwrecks necromancy.

So Tie also roughly knew that she was a necromancer who handled dark-attribute magic.

“When did you awaken? According to my members, mages usually awaken after entering their teens.”

Tie tilted her head.

Awaken was also a word he had heard before.

Because Nordix had certainly said that it seemed Tie had awakened his power at a very young age.

But if he had to name the exact timing,

“Ummm, a month and a half ago…?”

He thought it would be best to talk about right after he arrived in this world.

But for some reason Elanes fell silent.

Then, in a voice mixed with a slight hollow laugh, she added,

“Are you saying that you awakened only a month and a half ago and then formed a mercenary company?”

“Yup!”

Then even Reaper’s gaze changed in a strange way.

Tie tilted her head.

‘Why are their expressions like that?’

And for good reason: Tie did not know.

That for mages who had awakened to magic power, it took an average of at least three years before they could cast their first spell.