A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 92
Chapter 92
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Translated by Sylph
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Inn, second-floor hallway.
“Is that room the same?”
At Veil’s question after coming out of the room, Enzo nodded.
“Yes. And in our room, that… there was….”
“There was what?”
“There was a dead rat under the blanket.”
“Insane.”
Veil stammered.
“A, absolutely insane old hag. Running an inn like this and charging 100 gold for a single night?! Ha!”
The more they checked the condition of the rooms, the more unbelievable what had happened on the first floor a little while ago became.
“How could she do that if she wasn’t senile?”
How could a person give out a room like this and try to take 100 gold for it?
When he turned his gaze, he saw Basto still cleaning the room Tie would stay in.
Before they knew it, Tie was rolling around on the bed from which Basto had already shaken the dust away.
“Is that really all right?”
Veil nodded.
“…Basto shook it all out.”
Basto, still uneasy, had shaken out the bedcover, blanket, and pillow, and even spread leather over them.
Only after that did she allow Tie to get on the bed, after layering two of the mercenary company’s blankets on top.
But even so, they could not shake off their worried hearts.
“Tie’s cold won’t get worse, right?”
Enzo let out a low groan.
Still, Astie’s room looked far more comfortable than their room.
Though that was all thanks to Basto’s cleaning.
He nodded.
“Yes. At that level, it seems it will be all right. And as things stand now, this is the best place to sleep. Since the weather turned cold so suddenly, it would have been impossible to sleep in the carriage anyway.”
“…That is true.”
The two let out long sighs together, without either one starting first.
It was when each of them was leaning against the hallway wall with tired expressions.
“Veil, Enzo. Do either of you intend to go to the pub?”
Basto, who had come out after finishing the room cleaning before anyone noticed, asked.
Veil straightened the back he had been leaning against the wall with and narrowed his brows.
“A pub all of a sudden?”
“Mm! It’s oveer there!”
Tie’s voice came from below.
When they lowered their gaze, Tie was holding tightly to Basto’s hand and pointing to the plaza outside the window.
“Tie saw it, and five people already went in?”
Basto shrugged as if asking what else he could do.
After narrowing his brows for a moment, Veil crouched down on the floor and met Tie’s eyes.
“Squirt. You don’t hurt anymore now?”
“Nope! It doesn’t hurt one bit!”
Honestly, he did not look like he was hurting.
Was this children’s stamina.
“Wouldn’t it be better to rest today?”
She had only asked just in case, but Tie immediately welled up and stuck out her lips.
“You said yesterday and the day before yesterday that you’d do everything Tie wanted….”
At a loss for words, Veil had no choice but to sigh.
“…Fine, then let’s go.”
At once, a broad smile spread across the child’s face.
“Waa! Then can Tie go and drink strawberry juice too?”
“You are drinking too, squirt?”
“Mm! And we all do cheers together too!”
“Where is everyone going?”
At that moment, Raul, who had just returned after dealing with the rat carcass, cut in.
Tie waved her hand with a bright face.
“We are all going to the puuub!”
“The puuub?”
“Yees. It’s a place where you talk together and drink beverages.”
Raul’s eyes lit up.
“Then I will go with you as well!”
Was it because, shabby though the inn was, they had at last found a place to spend the night?
Once they had set down their luggage, something cool had started to sound good just in time.
“Let’s go, then.”
Muttering that, Basto took Tie’s hand and started walking.
Then Lucarion, wearing Tie’s dress, trailed along after them.
“What about old man Nordix?”
“He says he doesn’t feel like it today.”
Answering Enzo’s question, Veil shook his head.
Then he too went down the stairs.
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The road to the pub was uneventful.
Since the road was nothing more than crossing the plaza to the building on the other side, there was not much to it, but
“Uh……?”
Right in front of the pub, an incident broke out.
“You there.”
Veil called out to a child around seven or eight years old who had brushed past him just a moment ago, while swallowing down his anger.
The child, wearing his hat low, turned with hollow eyes and looked up at him.
“What.”
Anger flared at the insolent tone.
But Veil forced a smile.
“Bring it back while I’m asking nicely.”
Basto looked at Veil as if asking what was wrong.
But Veil ignored his gaze and looked at the brat again.
“The thing of mine you just took. Bring it back.”
At those words, the boy flinched.
“I don’t know what you are….”
However, the child, who had asked back as if she truly did not understand, then,
“Uh?”
swiftly turned and started running toward the nearest alley.
Seeing the silver necklace swinging in the child’s hand, Veil’s gaze turned fierce.
“You little brat!”
“Veil!”
Veil shot forward at high speed.
And in one bound he caught up with the child and lifted her by the scruff of the neck.
“Ugh, damn it! Let go of this!”
The child immediately began struggling violently in resistance.
However, only after taking back his necklace from the child’s hand did Veil release the clothes he was holding.
The child, falling on his backside to the ground, glared at Veil murderously.
“…Tch!”
Then, after spitting a thick gob of spit in front of Veil, he hurried into the alley and disappeared.
Enzo and Raul ran over.
“Sir Veil! Are you all right?”
Veil let out a sigh and checked the necklace in his hand.
Fortunately, the necklace was undamaged.
He held his breath for a moment, then rubbed his temple.
“I’m fine. It was hanging inside my waistband, and he still managed to take it.”
When he returned in front of the pub together with Raul and Enzo, Basto and Tie were waiting for him.
Basto looked startled, and Tie’s eyes were tense, as if he had been frightened.
Veil stroked Tie’s head once, then stepped into the pub.
“What kind of village is this….”
Perhaps because it was so absurd, the mutter came out by itself.
From what they had seen so far, this pub did not seem likely to be normal either.
And his prediction was right.
“Waa…… ah.”
As soon as they entered the pub, the exclamation coming from Tie’s mouth faded.
Ding-a-ling.
Aside from the sound of the door chime, the inside of the pub was silent.
At the dozens of eyes focused on himself and the members, Tie faltered and hid behind Basto.
The eyes of the people inside the pub were, quite literally, all hollow, as if black holes had been punched in them.
Even the bone friends Tie had summoned before had looked livelier.
“Big brother Veil….”
When Tie muttered in fear, Veil quietly approached him.
Swallowing a low groan, he looked around, then pointed to one side.
“Basto. The counter is over there.”
Nodding, Basto lifted Tie up.
As the group moved toward the counter, the dozens of eyes inside the pub followed behind them as well.
“…What in the world is going on?”
“I don’t know either.”
While Raul and Enzo quietly exchanged words.
Upon reaching the counter, Basto pressed the bell on it with a rather tense expression.
With a trrring sound, a small bird figure rose up above the bell and went back down.
A few seconds later.
“Oh dear, I didn’t hear the bell. I’m sorry.”
Someone rummaging through a drawer inside the bar stood upright.
Neatly rolled-up brown hair.
A tall frame and long white arms visible below half-rolled sleeves.
A woman holding five oak mugs in one hand looked at them.
“You seem to be people I’m seeing for the first time. Are you travelers?”
Raul nodded with a flustered expression.
“…Yes, well.”
Then the woman set the cups down on the counter and, motioning with her eyes toward the menu board standing on the counter, said,
“Then I would like to recommend Birchbrew. It’s a beer I brew myself, and it sells best here. But more than that….”
Her gaze turned toward Tie and Lucarion, who was wearing Tie’s dress.
“What business do the children have in my pub? I don’t sell alcohol to children.”