A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 86

Chapter 86

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Translated by Sylph

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Populosa Weapons District.

“Departure berth number 5 is opening!”

As the midday sun began to tilt, the Primordial Furnace grew busy.

“Youngest! What are you doing sending out the molten metal already, you punk! I told you to clear away the piled-up slag first…!”

“Who used up all the carmine alloy I filled up! Come out!”

The blacksmiths’ voices were loud and rough.

However, unlike their rough voices, faint smiles lingered on every face.

“The quality of the ore is good this time. The gold vein is really alive and breathing.”

“More importantly, did you hear what Factory Manager said this morning?”

“Of course I did! To think that the business of fighting with mercenaries every single day is over….”

The reason the blacksmiths were excited was simple.

Because this morning, Velugon, who had appeared at the morning assembly with a bright face for the first time in a while, had said this.

‘From now on, there will be no more orders telling you to drive customers out of the weapons district.’

The blacksmiths doubted their ears.

Up to now, no matter how much they pleaded, he had not even pretended to listen.

They were bewildered as to what had changed Velugon’s mind.

However, once they heard Velugon’s next words, everyone had no choice but to be astonished.

‘Ahem! Well, up to now, even I could not help it. The core of Krazar was the problem.’

Velugon confessed the fact that, all this time, he had not been in his right mind because of the core of Krazar.

And he did not forget to say that it was the Necromancer King who had saved her from that state.

Of course, even such a morning assembly ended, as usual, with Velugon’s shouting.

‘What are you all doing! The forge is going to rust! Resume work! Hurry and scatter!’

Even so,

“Was the sky always that high and beautiful?”

“That is what I am saying. Even that youngest one’s mistakes look cute today.”

The blacksmiths, having shaken off a long-standing worry, felt lighter than ever.

“Balkad! Your hammer is really flying about!”

“Hahaha! Garok, you too.”

It was when a harmonious atmosphere was spreading through the smelting area.

“Agabert is leaving! Anyone who wants to see them off, come out!”

Olek, who had opened the iron gate of the smelting area, shouted loudly.

Every blacksmith inside hurriedly put down the hammers and weapons they were holding.

“They are the ones who brought our Factory Manager back to his senses, so we should see them off.”

“Of course, anyone with decency should!”

Olek stood holding the door and watched the blacksmiths pour out in a rush.

Then he too joined at the very end of the procession seeing them off.

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“Waa, they are blacksmith uncles!”

The plaza where Agabert’s carriage was waiting.

Tie’s expression brightened at the sight of the blacksmiths coming in a crowd.

“You should say blacksmith, squirt. Or at least call them weaponsmiths properly.”

Veil casually told him, but the excited Tie did not hear it.

“Uncle Olek the blacksmith!”

Olek looked at the Necromancer King running up to him and smiled awkwardly.

Suddenly, he recalled wrestling with the swordproof bag in front of him.

As he remembered that the pointless scuffle had broken the equipment and, as a result, trapped the Necromancer King inside the subspace, guilt washed over her once again.

However, the Necromancer King had a bright, innocent face as if she had forgotten all that.

“Uncle blacksmith, why did you come?”

Olek looked back at his colleagues, then gave ahem, a dry cough.

“Well, of course I came to see the little commander off.”

“See hiiim off?”

“Well. Thanks to the little commander, Factory Manager is safe too, and the weapons district can live without worrying about being shut down….”

A bright smile spread across Tie’s lips.

The child soon twisted his body shyly and laughed, saying, “It is nothing.”

At that response, Olek, who had been wearing an awkward expression, spoke again.

“Do you have any other plans after you go to the imperial capital?”

At that, as if she had been waiting for exactly that question, Tie’s face flushed all over.

“Yes! Tie is buying a house in the imperial capital!”

“A house?”

“Yees! A big house, like this, from here aaall the way to over there! Three floors! They say it even has a basement too!”

When the blacksmiths looked bewildered, Basto approached.

“We are looking into a base in the imperial capital.”

“A base in the imperial capital?”

“That is right. Even if we wander, there should still be a place where we settle.”

Olek quietly furrowed his brow.

‘A base in the imperial capital….’

Hearing Basto’s words, he suddenly remembered that another mercenary company had said something similar.

He was certain they too had said they were planning to purchase a mansion in the imperial capital and use it as a base.

‘Which mercenary company was that again?’

However, no matter how much he thought about it, nothing came to mind.

In the end, Olek shook his head as if it were nothing.

When he turned his gaze, the Necromancer King had gone to another blacksmith and was again talking about the imperial capital base.

“We gathered this maaaany magic stones in the carriage, and if we take them to the reward office, we get a whole lot of money, and we are buying a house with that, and there is no loan and it is a lump sum!”

“Th… that is so. Congratulations.”

“Yees. When Tie buys a house, Tie will invite all the blacksmith uncles here! Housewarming!”

“Housewarming?”

“Yes! When you come to the housewarming, please bring toilet paper and detergent as presents, okay?”

“Detergent……?”

“Do you not know the stuff you use when playing with soap bubbles?”

“Soap bubbles…??”

“O, okay! Commander! We should get going now!”

Unable to watch any longer, Veil approached and lifted Tie up in one swoop.

Because she was disappointed, Tie let her eyebrows droop, but she soon smiled brightly.

“Bye, uncles of the great factory!”

“Blacksmith or great factory, please just pick one.”

Veil shook his head, but Tie only giggled.

After climbing into the carriage, Tie sat in her seat, where Basto had laid down a soft cushion.

When he looked out the window, he saw the blacksmiths gathered in the plaza and waving their hands.

And,

“Oh! It is Factory Manager!”

He also saw Velugon, who had gone up to the roof of the armory hall and was looking down at the plaza.

“Factory Manager! Goodbye, have a nice daaay!”

However, Velugon only cleared his throat awkwardly and then turned his body away.

“Then we will depart!”

At last, Enzo, holding the reins, set the carriage in motion.

With a pounding heart, Tie stared at the scenery outside the window as it gradually grew farther away.

‘The weapons district was really fun.’

It had been scary when he was trapped in the subspace, but now that it had passed, it felt as though there had been more fun experiences than frightening ones.

Tie picked up the kindergarten bag lying by her feet and hugged it tightly.

Unlike when she had first arrived here, Tie’s bag was now swollen full.

“Hehe.”

Tie opened the zipper and touched the three teddy bear orbs inside.

Then he opened the storage compartment in front and let Ppuppu come out.

“Kkyu-!”

Ppuppu let out a fuaah sound as if she had felt cramped, then went into Tie’s pocket.

However, Tie, who had been smiling in satisfaction at the sight, soon rounded her eyes.

“Huh?”

Basto looked at Tie.

“Tie, are you all right?”

But Tie did not even look at Basto and only moved the hand inside the bag quickly.

“Squirt, what is wrong?”

Only then, after even Veil stepped in, did Tie lift her head.

Great shock was written all over the child’s face.

“I, it disappeared.”

“Disappeared? What did?”

“Kkamang is gone….”

At those words, Enzo stopped the carriage.

Nordix said soothingly,

“That cannot be. Look carefully.”

However, nowhere inside the bag was Kkamang’s black stone.

Worry instantly filled the child’s eyes.

Tie hurriedly got up from her seat and grabbed the carriage door.

“I think I left the stone at the lodging! Hurry and go back, okay?”

But at that moment.

“…I am here.”

A voice sounding as though it were crawling in came from the luggage compartment behind the seats.

At those words, everyone turned to look behind them.

In the pile of luggage stacked one atop another.

Something was glinting below the blanket they had folded and left there in preparation for the cold.

“……Haa.”

The thing with only its head sticking out of the blanket was Lucarion in human form.

“Astie.”

Lucarion’s face was full of fluster and embarrassment.

“I….”

“……”

“I cannot go back inside the stone.”