A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 73

Chapter 73

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Translated by Sylph

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Interesting.

Thinking that, Elanes tilted her head slightly with her arms folded.

She soon lowered her eyes and opened her mouth.

“If that’s true, that’s impressive. Talent is talent, of course, but it also means your judgment was that fast.”

“Judgment?”

“That’s right. If you awakened magic power a month and a half ago and suddenly became able to use dark-attribute magic, honestly, it should have been pretty bewildering, shouldn’t it?”

Elanes lifted the corners of her lips.

“But instead, you calmly thought about what to do with that power and then formed a mercenary company, so it’s impressive.”

And that mercenary company had already settled into rank 39.

“In every way, it was the optimal choice, wasn’t it? Honestly, the situation fits together so well it’s strange.”

Naturally, Elanes was mocking the Necromancer King.

‘You should keep the performance within reason.’

In effect, what the Necromancer King had just said had to be a complete lie.

What? He awakened magic power a month and a half ago?

And in that short span he honed his magic power and even formed a mercenary company?

Elanes had let it pass that the Necromancer King deliberately went around in the appearance of a child.

Because the world was wide, and there were many lunatics who wanted attention.

But no matter what, saying he had awakened magic power a month and a half ago was an excessively forced setting.

“Honestly, it sounds too much like a lie, doesn’t it?”

With an expression that said she had definitely landed a hit, Elanes shrugged.

However, the Necromancer King’s expression was strange.

“Heheh… thank youuu.”

The Necromancer King was blushing bright red and acting shy.

“Everyone does say Tie is amazing, hhehheh.”

He was even twisting his body around while doing it.

Just as Elanes narrowed her brow.

“Stop it, Elanes.”

Reaper beside her lightly struck her arm.

Looking at Elanes with an expression of exasperation, he was frowning.

“No matter how much you’re trying to keep him in check, why are you picking a fight with a fellow worker in the same trade who nearly died and came back?”

“W-What are you talking about?!”

Elanes cleared her throat and looked toward the Necromancer King in a fluster.

The Necromancer King was looking back and forth between Reaper and Elanes with an expression that seemed not to understand what was going on.

“Stop while the other side is letting it slide. Don’t make this bigger.”

Elanes looked at Reaper with an absurd expression.

Reaper looked considerably exhausted from all the commotion of the day.

After gulping down the water in the glass before her, she turned her gaze toward Astie.

“Considering you came back alive from subspace, it’s a relief that you look to be in good condition.”

Unlike Elanes, Reaper was sincere.

To be honest, he had been slightly impressed ever since the Necromancer King tore open the subspace and emerged.

“They say that inside Krazar’s subspace, you come face to face with what you fear most. The moment you collapse in there, it’s over.”

Astie rolled her eyes round and round.

When he turned his head, he saw Basto sitting beside him in silence.

In truth, the ones originally invited to the upper conference room had been only Reaper, Elanes, and Astie.

However, Astie had insisted that he wanted to go together with Basto.

It was to prepare for any accidental slip of the tongue or unexpected situation.

‘Like right now.’

Noticing Tie’s gaze, Basto patted Tie’s hand under the desk.

It meant there was no problem, so he could keep talking with them.

Having regained courage, Tie nodded at Reaper.

“Yup. I almost diiied.”

More precisely, it had been Velugon, not Tie.

Thinking back, inside the subspace Velugon had really nearly died several times.

Tie tied up her feet with the vacuum cleaner cord and made her hit her head on the floor, and on top of that she wasn’t in her right mind because of Ppuppu… anyway.

“But it’s good because we lived!”

When he added that, Reaper nodded.

For a moment, an awkward silence flowed through the reception room.

The three of them were waiting for Velugon to return after going to receive emergency treatment.

Because Elanes and Reaper absolutely had to check Velugon’s condition.

In addition, at the association’s request, they also had to investigate where Krazar’s core was.

So for now, it would not be wrong to say they were in the stage of feeling one another out before starting a full conversation.

‘And while we’re waiting for the Factory Manager too.’

Reaper looked at Astie again.

“Valentis Luminen. Have you ever met him?”

Tie, who had just been thinking of Valentis Luminen, started and looked at Reaper.

Then he shook his head.

“Nope. Never.”

Reaper answered as though he had expected that.

“He is one of the highest leadership figures of the holy order, so he is not someone easy to meet. I heard his position recently changed too in the reorganization of the military system. Did you hear?”

Reorganization of the military system? Position?

At the difficult words, Tie tilted her head, and Reaper smiled.

“It seems mages being dim about current affairs is common everywhere. Why, he used to be called High Commander Valentis.”

High Commander Valentis.

At the impressive-sounding title, Tie fell silent.

But it did not end there.

“However, in the recent military reorganization, a position above High Commander was added. So now they say he is called Grand Commander.”

“Grand Comman…?”

“That’s right. Grand Commander Luminen.”

Tie unconsciously swallowed hard.

Actually, a little while ago, Tie had begun experiencing the limits of her stamina.

Because so many things had happened since morning, his concentration was slowly dropping.

But the moment he heard the words ‘Grand Commander Valentis,’ his mind snapped awake.

‘…Maybe he might be a little scary.’

He had longed more than anyone to meet a holy knight who might know Dad.

But now that he imagined facing the highest holy knight in the Empire, his heart began pounding.

As though he had read that tension in Tie’s expression, Reaper smiled.

“Unexpected. You don’t need to be that nervous. Of course, he’s a knight whose rank gives him nothing to be ashamed of and he’s a noble to the bone….”

“….”

“But I never got the sense, as holy knights so often do, that he looked down on mercenaries. I met him once a long time ago, and he had a more courteous and gentle impression than I expected.”

Tie nodded before she knew it.

By then, Reaper, who had completely emptied his water glass, leaned back in his chair.

“Once the Factory Manager comes and we identify the whereabouts of the core, he’ll probably go right back.”

Core.

At the topic coming up once again, Tie moved her eyes and timidly asked,

“B-But can’t a core disappear too…?”

At those words Reaper’s gaze turned toward Tie. Then Elanes, who had been silent, leaned her body over the table.

“If it’s a small monster, that can happen.”

Tie opened her eyes round and stared at Elanes.

Meeting Tie’s gaze, Elanes continued calmly.

“In the case of small monsters, I’ve seen several cases where even the core disappears. Especially from magic-based attacks.”

Elanes’s mercenary company, Silvar’s Scream, had a total of seven mages.

So she knew better than anyone what happened to monsters struck head-on by a magic strike.

“As you know, magic strikes are powerful, but the accuracy drops a bit, right? One could say they lack the sharp precision of a sword strike.”

“Ummm… yuuup.”

“So when our mages besiege magic stones, now and then there are monsters whose cores disappear too. A shame, really.”

I see.

A small hope spread in Tie’s heart.

If things were like this, then perhaps Tie saying that he had also destroyed Krazar all the way through the core inside the subspace….

“But a heavyweight like Krazar is a different matter.”

The moment she heard that, the plan building in Tie’s head turned into bubbles and vanished.

“It makes no sense for the core of a bastard like Krazar to disappear. Unless it’s because the bastard is still alive somewhere, hidden.”

Elanes narrowed her eyes and thought something over, then opened her mouth.

“Which is why I wanted to ask from earlier. According to the Factory Manager, it seemed like you personally destroyed Krazar.”

“….”

“You didn’t see the core?”