A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 93
Chapter 93
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Translated by Sylph
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Tie examined the woman before her eyes with sparkling eyes.
Round, pretty eye shape.
A softly formed smile and an impression that looked warm too.
‘She looks exactly like Teacher Lee Sol-jae.’
The woman who seemed to be the owner of the pub gave off an atmosphere similar to a teacher at Hanbit Kindergarten.
And that meant,
‘A kind person!’
At once letting down her guard, Tie stepped down to the floor and gave a polite belly-button greeting.
“Hello, boss lady. Tie didn’t come to drink alcohol, Tie came to drink strawberry juice.”
“Strawberry juice?”
“Yees. If there are no strawberries, orange juice is okay too.”
Meanwhile, Adeline, the owner of the pub, lifted her gaze while hiding her wary face.
Two children and four men.
‘It is a rather strange combination.’
Then she looked again at the young children in front of her.
“Lucariong, what do you want to drink?”
“The same thing as you.”
These children, on top of that, were confidently ordering fruit juice, knowing full well what place this was.
However, after narrowing the space between her brows, Adeline ended up smiling.
‘It is an age when they would really want to imitate grown-ups.’
There were many children like that in her village, Caldenvine Ridge, too.
The problem was that the lives of the adults those children imitated were rather harsh and rough.
“All right. I will take the order as two orange juices. Because we are all out of strawberries.”
At Adeline’s answer, Tie beamed.
“Waa! Thank you!”
“Sure.”
“….”
“What are you doing, Lucariong, you have to say thank you too.”
“Thank you.”
“Not to me, you have to say it to the boss lady sister here!”
“…Thank you.”
Adeline laughed ha-ha and turned toward the fruit crate behind the counter.
Most of the fruit was going bad, but fortunately there were two oranges that were still fine.
She cut the oranges in half, squeezed out the juice, then mixed it with birch syrup and clean water and poured it into glasses.
When she even inserted straws and held them out, the child received the glass with a thoroughly excited face.
Adeline next turned her gaze to the four men.
“What would the rest of you like?”
At those words, one fine-featured man swept over her as if on guard, then answered.
“Four of what you said earlier.”
“Shall I bring Birchbrew?”
“Yeah.”
Adeline nodded, then began pouring alcohol into the cups she had taken out a little while ago.
Then her eyes met those of one villager through the spikes hanging from the oak barrel.
‘Adeline. Are you sure this is okay?’
After reading his lips, Adeline quickly smiled.
And as if to say not to worry, she shook her head at the other customers in the pub too.
The villagers who had been staring at the outsiders only then turned their gazes away.
That was after she handed the last cup to Agabert’s group.
“Are visitors rare here?”
Enzo asked.
Adeline involuntarily looked back at the other customers in the pub.
Then she awkwardly smiled and asked back,
“Why? Because of that just now?”
Enzo let out a hollow laugh.
“Of course. It is the first time in my life I have received that many looks at once. And they were not exactly good looks, either….”
Adeline recalled the gazes that had focused on them the moment they entered the pub.
Well, even to her eyes, the villagers’ gazes toward outsiders were not very favorable.
“Well, that is actually….”
However, Adeline, who had been about to say something, closed her mouth again.
‘…These people do not need to know.’
Something like Caldenvine’s dark side. They were people who would leave soon anyway.
“Adeline! One more drink here!”
At that moment, a customer in the corner of the pub called Adeline.
Adeline quickly turned around to prepare a new drink.
Veil was watching that with a meaningful expression.
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“That woman is a noble.”
As soon as they moved to a small table in the corner of the pub, Veil said.
“What do you mean by that….”
Basto’s eyes immediately grew round, but Raul and Enzo nodded as if they had thought the same.
“I thought the same.”
“Me too.”
Basto stared at the members with a bewildered face.
When he turned his head, several more customers had entered the pub before he knew it.
Each of them glanced once toward Agabert’s group, then conversed with Adeline about this and that.
Basto’s gaze turned toward Adeline’s appearance.
‘A noble?’
Plain clothing and a face without makeup.
Adeline was polite and kind, but she was a woman who seemed far removed from the word noble.
Most of all, how could the owner of such an old pub possibly be a noble?
It was when he was wondering.
“When she handed over the glasses, she kept her elbows to her body the whole time, and she turned the handles toward us too.”
“I found the eye greetings surprising. At first I thought it was a coincidence, but now that I look at it, she gives an eye greeting every time she hands over a drink. And each one lasts exactly two seconds.”
Basto furrowed his brows.
“What is supposed to be what about that? Does doing things like that make someone a noble?”
Veil looked at Basto as if frustrated.
“The important thing is not that she did those things.”
“Then what is it.”
“The important thing is that she repeats those things over and over as if they were stamped in place.”
Raul nodded.
“That is right. Repeating the same actions means it is highly likely that she trained them and embodied them.”
Only then did Basto let out a small ah.
Well, then.
Even if it was a trivial action, if it was repeated without the slightest error, one could not call it coincidence.
“It seemed like men’s etiquette, though.”
“No, there was women’s etiquette mixed in too.”
In front of Veil and the twins, who had begun a discussion, Basto looked down at the seat beside him.
There sat Astie and Lucarion side by side.
Astie had been imitating the ‘noble etiquette’ the members had been talking about for some time now.
“Like this?”
“No, they said the elbows stay against the body.”
“Like thiiis?”
“Astie. You spilled the ice.”
“Gasp. Sorry….”
“….”
“But Lucariong, do you want to eat this ice that fell?”
“No.”
“If you eat it, I’ll eat one too! Let’s each eat one, ung?”
“…Why on earth?”
As expected of a child and a familiar, it was a conversation impossible to get a handle on.
Meanwhile, Veil was still talking about Adeline.
“Doesn’t that woman seem to have quite a good relationship with the villagers?”
“I thought so too. Honestly, this village… doesn’t the atmosphere feel a little eerie?”
“That is right. The business with the inn, and meeting a pickpocket in front of the pub as well.”
For some reason, Veil fell silent.
He was slowly spinning his beer mug, which was running empty, as if he had fallen into deep thought.
It was then.
“Would you all like another drink too?”
Adeline asked, no one knowing when she had come over.
Startled, Veil stared straight at Adeline, then nodded.
“…Sure.”
“Then I would like one too, my lady.”
“Me too.”
As Raul and Enzo also placed orders, Adeline gave a gentle smile and walked toward the counter.
“Uncle Basto.”
Then Tie lightly tugged on Basto’s sleeve.
When he lowered his gaze, the child was looking at her with sparkling eyes.
“Tie wants one more toooo-?”
Basto gave a short laugh, then answered firmly.
“No. No more juice.”
Shock came over Tie’s face.
When the child stuck out her lips, Lucarion patted Tie’s back with an expressionless face.
That night.
The members remained in the pub until quite late.
Once Tie fell asleep leaning against Lucarion’s shoulder, the members walked back to the lodging under the cloud-covered night sky.
Was it because the fatigue that had piled up in the meantime was great?
All of them, made heavy by drink, fell asleep quickly.
However, at dawn, before daylight had fully broken.
At the unexpected loud noise shaking the inn windows, all of them had no choice but to snap their eyes open.
[Ah, ahhh, I inform everyone in Caldenvine Ridge! This morning, this week’s levy will come to a close-!]