A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 97

Chapter 97

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Translated by Sylph

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“A, aaah! Th, there’s blood coming from my mouth!”

Reginald began screaming like a madman.

But that did not continue for very long.

“My teeth! How dare yo… ugh!”

That was because Veil, straddling the lord, mercilessly swung his fist into the other side of his jaw as well.

“St, stop…!”

Reginald flailed, almost coughing up blood, but Veil’s eyes had already lost focus.

“What? Send a child to the coal mine in someone else’s place?”

“Ugh!”

“Children are better suited to work the narrower and lower shafts?”

“What are you all doing! Why aren’t you pulling that man off His Lordship!”

The knights, finally coming to their senses, rushed over in a mass.

However, Veil shook off the knights and grabbed Reginald by the collar again.

“…Trash like you ought to die. You should disappear from this world. You garbage bastard.”

His eyes were shining fiercely, like a beast of prey eyeing its quarry.

“Escort His Lordship away at once!”

The knights rushed Veil again.

As Veil faltered, several knights helped Reginald to his feet.

He was already unconscious, blood streaming from his mouth.

“What are you doing! Take his weapon first!”

At one knight’s words, those holding Veil’s arms began pulling out and dropping the weapons at his waist.

But strangely, Veil did not move at all and only stared straight ahead.

Only at Reginald, limp in unconsciousness.

While everyone remained frozen like that.

“Drag him to the castle prison!”

At the command of the commander, large soldiers began dragging Veil toward the lord’s castle.

Before long, all of them turned the corner and disappeared from view.

As the plaza became quiet as if washed clean, Basto at last peeled apart his lips, which had been stuck together in bewilderment.

“What. In the world….”

* * *

Raul paced the inn room anxiously.

Enzo was crouching on the floor by the door opposite, and beside him Tie was in exactly the same posture, letting out a sigh heavy enough to sink the ground.

Raul approached Basto, who was standing by the window.

“Sir Basto. What do we do?”

Even though it had already happened, he still could not believe it.

“Sir Veil was taken to the lord’s castle, wasn’t he.”

Veil.

Veil, whose skill was so great that Raul had thought he wanted to learn a thing or two from him, had been captured by the knights of a mere small village.

“Could he have been hurt somewhere? Or perhaps those bastards struck a vital point where it couldn’t be seen….”

“There was nothing like that.”

Basto too had seen with his own eyes Veil knocking Lord Reginald unconscious and being dragged away by his knights.

“Then why in the world….”

At that moment Nordix got up from his place.

“That is not what matters. This is not the time for us to be standing around like this.”

Nordix had an anxious face.

“What will you do if those men interrogate Veil? If they look up his identity, it will not take long at all for it to come out that Veil is a member of Agabert.”

“….”

“The moment they raise an objection to the imperial household, all of us could be issued an imperial capital exile order. Then every plan we have built up until now will be thrown off. We must do something before that happens, must we not?”

Instead of answering, Basto let out a deep sigh.

In fact, this was essentially what Basto had been worried about as well.

Mercenaries, unless there is a rational and verified reason, were absolutely not allowed to attack nobles.

This was a kind of rule that had existed since the profession of mercenary first came into being, and an old condition the imperial household had put forward to placate fearful and suspicious nobles.

“…Veil should not have let himself be dragged away obediently by the knights.”

Nordix clicked his tongue.

For a long time, most nobles had found mercenaries distasteful.

While taking the help of mercenaries when conquering magic stones.

They did not like the fact that those mercenaries took money and power in return.

Indeed, long ago, this aversion had been even more severe.

At one time, the nobles of the central imperial capital had even issued a statement refusing to allow mercenaries to enter the imperial capital for the purpose of conquering magic stones.

In truth, this was also one reason why the Holy Knights mainly conquered the magic stones inside the imperial capital these days.

“What about this? My brother and I contact our mother.”

Enzo stepped forward.

“If House Waveril steps in and defends Sir Veil, wouldn’t the situation change? Even if Reginald reports it to the imperial household, he is no more than the lord of an insignificant rural village, and our house….”

“If that was the plan, at the very least he should not have drawn blood from the man.”

Nordix answered grimly.

Enzo was right.

Reginald was the lord of Caldenvine Ridge, an insignificant mountain village.

But even so, he was a noble of the imperial capital and someone qualified to send official documents to the imperial household.

“It is true that Reginald is thoroughly vicious. And it is also true that the extent to which he exploits his territory’s residents is so cruel that one can hardly put it into words.”

“….”

“But the moment an objection is raised, all of that background disappears. What happened just now ends up being nothing more than a mercenary physically assaulting an imperial capital noble without cause. And that is precisely what the emperor hates most.”

“….”

“A commoner. A lowborn creature daring to challenge the authority of someone above him.”

Enzo’s face darkened.

He too knew it, as a noble himself.

That it was a grave crime for a mercenary, or a commoner, to use violence against a noble.

His vision went black.

Thinking back on it, Reginald had even lost two living teeth.

Judging by the state he had been in after collapsing, his nose or cheekbone also seemed to be broken.

In a despairing voice, Enzo muttered,

“If only he had at least run away from there….”

Then the situation would have been far better than this.

Because if they all left the village together, that would resolve things to some extent.

“Why in the world did he let himself be dragged away obediently, when he certainly could have thrown off that much….”

“He went there to kill.”

At that moment, a chilling voice came through the gap in the door.

As everyone froze on the spot, the half-open door creaked wide.

Outside stood Mikhail, the inn old woman, giving off the same gloomy atmosphere as on the day they first saw her.

“Are you people his companions and still don’t know that? His eyes were exactly the eyes of a hunter crawling into a beast’s den.”

Enzo looked at Mikhail with wary eyes.

She entered the room without permission and continued.

“He let himself be dragged away on purpose. He made up his mind to turn the lord’s castle into Reginald’s grave. Or maybe he wanted to take the bastard’s head in a quiet place.”

“…That….”

But thinking about it, that really might be so.

The fact that he had not resisted even once while being dragged off by the knights.

Even the way he had kept his fierce gaze fixed on Reginald to the very end.

And when one considered Veil’s usual personality….

While Enzo swallowed hard, Mikhail continued speaking.

“But your companion overlooked one thing.”

The old woman’s faded eyes rolled slowly.

“Reginald’s wife is quite a skilled magician.”

At the words that she was a magician like herself, Tie, who had been listening, rounded her eyes.

“So long as that woman is guarding him, your companion will not be able to cut off Reginald’s breath. If that were easy, one of us would have punished the bastard long ago. In other words, your companion may die.”

“….”

“…I’ve seen many hunters who started driving beasts recklessly and wound up as nothing but bones.”

Silence fell over the room.

But then Tie unsteadily got to her feet and muttered,

“Big brother Veil dies…?”

At some point the child’s eyes had filled with fright.

“Those knights are going to kill big brother Veil…?”

Basto pressed a hand to his forehead.

Enzo and Raul could only look at Tie, unable to find words to explain the situation.

Tie looked around at the members in a hurry.

“Let’s hurry and go save him! Okay? Quickly!”

However, Basto carefully took hold of both of Tie’s arms.

“Tie. This is not such a simple problem. I want to bring Veil back right away too, but….”

The magician who was said to be Lord Reginald’s wife was a concern.

And also the lord’s castle, whose internal structure they did not know, and Veil’s exact whereabouts.

There were far too many variables they still had not grasped.

“For now, let’s wait until nightfall. More than anything, we don’t even know exactly where Veil is….”

“I do.”

But at that moment, someone else entered the room.

Everyone froze in place as soon as they saw her face.

It was none other than Adeline.