A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 79
Chapter 79
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Translated by Sylph
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Without realizing it, he let out a small laugh.
‘Just in case, I thought.’
The lukewarm energy seeping in from his back was undoubtedly holy power.
He slowly pulled himself away from the child.
And then, looking at the child who for some reason lowered her head weakly, she parted her lips.
“Repor….”
In truth, what he had been about to say was simple and direct.
She had meant to ask Astie, ‘Were you trying to erase my memories with that unreported relic?’
However, for some reason, the moment he saw the child’s face lift, her mouth closed on its own.
“…My.”
Sorrowful tears were falling in drops, plop, plop, down the Necromancer King’s cheeks.
“Grand Commander misterrr… I’m really really sowwy and sorryyy….”
And what about those eyes, weighed down with guilt in clusters.
At the reaction he had not expected, Valentis furrowed his brow.
Meanwhile, there was a perfectly natural reason why Tie was sniffling.
‘I really did it.’
He had hesitated dozens of times before doing it.
Because erasing someone’s memories was not a light thing, after all.
Until now, Tie had only ever erased the memories of the members and Governor Marianne.
But that had been something done with the other person’s consent,
‘And when it only made their memories disappear if they betrayed Tie, that was self-defense.’
His gaze turned toward Valentis in front of him.
She was still looking at Tie with that impassive face, though now with a slightly strange look in her eyes.
‘What Tie just did to Grand Commander mister was completely….’
Words like rascal, greedy selfish cheat, and swindler all crashed through Tie’s head.
A little while ago, after obtaining only the promise that he would be shown the roster, Tie had gone ahead and erased Valentis’s memories.
More precisely, every single secret Tie had told her up until just then.
His lips automatically began wriggling again.
Up to now, Tie’s conscience tree had been full of rich fruit.
At this moment, because of the fraudulent act he was committing for the first time in his life, each fruit was having one hundred I’m Sad stickers stuck on it, but.
“…Tie is a really bad child. A bad consumer.”
His voice grew even more sorrowful.
A small trace of bewilderment appeared on Valentis’s face.
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Meanwhile, Veil’s eyes snapped open.
At the tip of the hand he stretched out in his sleep, the thing that should have been there was gone.
When he sat up, sure enough, the spot beside him was empty.
“…Emergency.”
Veil immediately ran to the wall, turned on the magic lamp, and shouted.
“Emergency! The kid’s gone!”
At those words, Basto jerked his waist upright as if springing out of place.
After that, even Nordix, Raul, and Enzo opened one eye with frowns.
“Astie is gone?”
At Basto’s question, Veil hurriedly gestured toward the place where Tie had been lying.
“I don’t know. He was there just a little while ago, and then in the blink of an eye…!”
Before he even finished speaking, the door opened.
Basto had kicked it open and gone out.
“Basto! If you just rush out like that!”
Nordix called out hurriedly, but,
“I’m going too!”
Even Veil had already followed after him and left the room.
Looking back and forth between the now-empty bedding and the door, Nordix let out a short groan.
‘Until the investigation is over, everyone is to remain in the quarters as much as possible.’
He recalled the Grand Commander’s instruction that had been relayed through the blacksmiths the previous evening.
Of course, there was no reason that mercenaries had to obey his command absolutely.
Mercenaries were, after all, a separate organization independent from the Holy Knight Order.
But.
‘As Agabert stands right now, we need to avoid crossing that man’s temper as much as possible, don’t we?’
“Old man, what do we do?”
Raul asked.
Nordix let out a groan and rose from his place.
“For now, you all stay here. I’ll go out and bring them back. Astie can’t have gone far.”
As far as he could see, Basto and Veil were making too much of a fuss.
When she thought about it, it was not as though Astie had absolutely no reason to leave her bed.
“As he’s a child, he may simply have gotten thirsty in the night, no?”
Or he might have urgently needed to use the toilet.
If so, then at least he could not have gone far.
At most, he would be in the common room prepared on the first floor of the lodging building.
After putting on his uniform, Nordix opened the door and stepped out.
Then he began walking down the hallway after Basto and Veil.
Whatever the case, he had to settle things down before those two caused an even bigger commotion.
‘It seems Krazar’s core truly remains of mysterious whereabouts.’
Nordix had already heard from Basto about the contents of the meeting the previous day.
‘It seems the Silvar’s Scream side suspects Tie. They appear to think that because Krazar was such a tremendous thing, Tie might have siphoned off its core.’
That part was perhaps natural.
Because Krazar’s core had long been an object many desired.
Someone might indeed fail to accept the claim that it had simply been destroyed one day.
So Nordix had thought that Grand Commander Luminen’s declaration that he would search the weapons district was also quite justified.
‘So I only wished it would all be wrapped up quickly.’
That was, until she saw the thing that briefly showed itself and vanished again from Tie’s bag just before she fell asleep.
“Haa….”
His head throbbed, and once again a sigh slipped from his lips.
At first, he thought it was some kind of toy or doll for children.
However, it had unquestionably been alive and moving.
A small, chubby body.
Round eyes, a tiny mouth, and even that strangely shaped nose.
‘For a moment I wondered if it was a familiar….’
But when it had peeked outside from the gap in Tie’s bag and then hurriedly hidden itself back inside.
Only then had Nordix instinctively felt that something was wrong.
‘Did Astie ever have time to summon a new familiar?’
Before being trapped in the subspace, Tie had only one familiar.
That black thing that looked like a young dragon.
After being trapped in the subspace, it was likely that summoning a familiar at all had been impossible.
Because inside the subspace, one could not wield that much magic power.
If so, then Tie’s second familiar had to have been summoned after escaping the subspace.
The problem was that ever since Astie emerged from the subspace, she had never activated anything with her magic power.
By that point, one suspicion had begun growing uncontrollably in Nordix’s head.
Could it be.
‘It seems Krazar’s core truly remains of mysterious whereabouts.’
Could it be…?
‘It seems the Silvar’s Scream side suspects Tie.’
The previous night, he had tossed and turned unable to sleep for a long while.
Krazar’s core, suddenly gone.
And at the same time, Tie’s second familiar appearing.
Was that a coincidence?
However, whatever the truth, one thing alone was certain.
‘If Tie is hiding something, then the moment it is discovered, it will be over.’
Tie had already publicly declared to everyone that ‘Krazar’s core has been destroyed.’
If in that situation the whereabouts of the core were revealed otherwise, Agabert would surely find itself in trouble.
Moreover, right now in the weapons district was Grand Commander Luminen, leader of the holy knights and a loyal individual of both the religious order and the imperial family.
‘If we get entangled in something like deceiving the religious order by accident….’
There was a very high chance that a little mistake caused by a four-year-old child would not end as merely a mistake.
‘Where in the world did they all go.’
It was when, walking through the hallway, Nordix anxiously looked around.
At last he saw Veil and Basto stopped at the corner some distance ahead.
“Veil, Basto!”
Calling out quietly, he quickened his steps.
Then, only once he had nearly reached the corner, he stopped in place.
“Astie?”
Astie, whom he had assumed had gone down to the first floor, was standing before Veil and Basto in his pajamas.
And behind him,
“Grand Commander?”
A wholly unexpected person.
Valentis Luminen was looking down at Basto and Veil with an expressionless face.