A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 78

Chapter 78

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Translated by Sylph

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“How do you know thaaat?”

Tie’s head began spinning round and round.

Who all had he told Dad’s name to?

The members including Basto and Veil, and only Pearl City’s governor besides them?

“We have a system.”

Valentis said, easing his posture.

Even now one hand remained firmly gripping the railing that Tie was leaning against.

“Within an organization that has a system, the movement and reporting of information become swift. In handling work, efficiency is the most important thing.”

“….”

“And the place where all information ultimately arrives is me, the head of the organization. In a sense, there is nothing surprising about it.”

But even so.

Tie’s heart was pounding like never before.

‘This is like!’

Like the president unexpectedly knowing a secret you had confessed only to your best friend after saying, ‘Don’t tell absolutely anyone, okay?’

“That is why I thought you would ask me about him first.”

“Huh?”

“Rather than worthless questions like why I cried or why I was sad, I thought finding that knight was what you were more desperate about.”

The truth was, Grand Commander Luminen was right.

Immediately after hearing that Valentis Luminen would come here, that had been Tie’s very first thought.

‘I have to ask this person about Dad.’

After all, there could hardly be anyone who knew better whether Dad was inside the order than the Grand Commander who led the knight order.

Tie looked at Valentis hesitantly.

Platinum-blond hair of a color similar to his own.

Eyebrows slightly darker than that, and the deep blue eyes beneath them.

Even the buttoned-up pajama collar, the bold build, and the expression that looked detached.

‘He feels a little scary… but still he doesn’t really seem like a bad person.’

In truth, when he had seen him in the conference room, he had given up because he felt there was no way he could dare approach him.

But after seeing him standing at the railing and crying, he felt a strange impression for some reason.

Should one say that because he looked so much like Dad, his guard kept loosening?

“Then can I really ask?”

After hesitating, Tie spoke, and Valentis answered.

“Of course. The freedom to ask belongs to the one asking.”

“There really isn’t a holy knight named Kim Young-su?”

“There is no such person.”

The corners of Tie’s eyes drooped slightly.

“You already knew that, didn’t you? That there was no holy knight with such a name in the knight order.”

“That is….”

Right, he had known that in truth.

Because Raul and Enzo had been like that.

They had said that if there were a holy knight with such a distinctive name, they who had been at the imperial capital headquarters would have known first.

“I know. So Tie was thinking too that there’s a chance the name was fake.”

If the Dad he met at the landing truly was here, Dad would be living under a different name rather than Kim Young-su.

And that name was probably Dad’s real name.

“In the end, then, you do not even know the true name of the one you are searching for.”

“….”

He hated to admit it, but that was right.

Tie was a pathetic child who did not even know her own dad’s real name.

“Then do you know his face?”

At the question she heard then, Tie’s gaze shot up.

And with a brightened face, he nodded.

“I know his face!”

He could draw it even with his eyes shut.

The face of Dad, whom he had seen and smiled at tens, thousands, tens of thousands of times.

Valentis answered.

“Then there is a master roster of the knight order at the imperial capital headquarters.”

“A roster…?”

“Documents in which the faces, names, ages, and personal information of holy knights distributed across Talochium, no, across the whole world, are recorded.”

Tie swallowed hard.

With a roster like that, this time he might really be able to find Dad, who was hiding so well.

“Of course, it is not a document that just anyone may inspect.”

But at Valentis’s next words, Tie’s eyebrows drooped again.

It was just as Tie was clenching her fist tightly in silence.

“However, if you make a few things clear, then as Grand Commander I may permit you to inspect it. Making a capable mercenary company friendly toward us is also part of my duties.”

His lips fell open.

If he made just a few things clear, he would show him the roster?

Before he knew it, Tie grabbed Valentis’s sleeve.

“I will!”

“….”

“Tie will do that clear thing!”

The child’s eyes were filled with desperation.

“Please show Tie the roster, okay? Tie absolutely has to find that person and meet her again….”

Looking steadily into Tie’s eyes, Valentis nodded.

“Then what is your relationship to that person?”

Tie blinked in confusion.

It was a simple question, and one that could be answered in a single word.

But….

‘If I say he’s Dad.’

Wouldn’t it be revealed that Tie was really four years old?

Then wouldn’t Tie’s power be suspected, and wouldn’t the whole mercenary company be put in danger?

But Valentis remained calm.

“What reason do you have to find him? What is it that you are hiding by becoming the Necromancer King?”

Tie’s gaze met Valentis’s gaze.

Unlike Tie’s trembling eyes in her fluster, Valentis’s blue eyes were perfectly calm.

“Only the one who opens his own door can open the door of another.”

Tie drew in a short breath.

Then, biting his lip, he fell into deep thought.

After a long while, Tie opened her lips.

“That person is….”

Then, gripping the Sanctum of Oblivion tightly with one hand, he answered clearly.

“Tie’s dad.”

* * *

Sanctum of Oblivion.

A bracelet hanging just right on Tie’s wrist, and the relic the sea god Seradin had left behind.

The name Tie had attached to it on her own was ‘Super-Ultra-Strong-Memory-Eraser-Princess-Bracelet.’

“He’s Tie’s dad, and Tie is four years old, and I lived with Dad in Jongno District in the Republic of Korea, and so….”

Valentis quietly looked down at Tie as he spilled out all her secrets.

The information that poured out was all over the place, but taken together, what it meant was clear.

First, Valentis slowly drew a long line through time in his head.

And then she began organizing the incident by putting together Astie’s words.

“I had a dream, and Dad was besieging a really big magic stone.”

Back when the one before his eyes, the Necromancer King, had been still a baby.

His father, Kim Young-su, had been besieging magic stones in Talochium.

“Then after that we lived in Jongno District for four years.”

But after the series of events that followed, father and daughter moved to another world called the Republic of Korea and lived there for four years.

“Dad, on a rainy day… the death paper….”

Then, during that time, the Necromancer King’s father died.

And the Necromancer King awakened magic power and returned to Talochium.

Having finished arranging it, Valentis looked down at the Necromancer King, who had grown dejected, with calm eyes.

‘Is such a thing possible?’

If everything were true, then the child before her was not a great mage pretending to be a child.

He was only a four-year-old child who had suddenly become a great mage one day.

Suddenly, the huge mercenary who had been guarding the child at her side in the conference room came to mind.

As did the other members who had welcomed the child smiling when she returned to the quarters.

‘If all of this is real, is it because of them?’

The reason the child, who was no different from having fallen into a lion’s den, had remained safe until now.

Their hiding his true identity, and their not telling his situation everywhere.

In Valentis’s view, each of them in their own way had been helping preserve the Necromancer King’s safety.

“Then now you’re showing me the roster?”

At that moment, a bold question sounded right in front of him.

When he lowered his gaze, the child was looking at her with a face full of wariness.

Valentis’s gaze moved to the bracelet the child had been fidgeting with for some time.

He nodded.

“Very well. I will let you inspect it.”

“Really? Really really? It’s a promise, right?”

“Yes, a promise.”

The child sprang to his feet.

Then, for some reason, he hesitated for quite a while before suddenly throwing his arms around Valentis.

Outwardly it was just a simple hug, but Valentis could not help but be conscious of the child’s palm pressed tightly against her back while pretending otherwise.

More precisely, the palm on the side wearing the bracelet.