I’Ll Protect My Tyrant Dad! [EN]: Chapter 52

52. Why Are These People Here

Dad went on vacation.

During the remaining time, I decided to focus on eliminating that wicked Axel Mirmord.

First, I diligently worked on building my strength every morning and evening.

The maids, who are experts in muscles, helped me.

‘I need to build strength!’

I watched the maids and diligently followed their movements. Of course, my arms were too short to do as much as they did.

Still…….

“I think I have a little bit of an *alttong* [slang for bicep]!”

“Y-you’ve only been doing it for three days……?”

Bench Unnie, who was stroking my soft arm, muttered quietly, looking embarrassed.

“That’s…… just fat……. *Keheok*!”

“Nonsense. Oh, our *Agi-nim* [term of endearment for a baby or young child]. Your muscles are amazing!”

“Really?”

I looked back and forth between Deadri Unnie and Bench Unnie, then sighed.

And then, I took Grandma’s poison academy.

“Oh, my *Ggulppang* [term of endearment, like honey bread]. Your face looks so worn out.”

“Ung……?”

“Come, sit on this *Halmi’s* [grandmother in a cute way] lap.”

“……Yes.”

I sat on Grandma’s lap and listened to stories about poison.

‘There are so many poisonous plants in the world.’

There are many poisonous plants to use on Axel Mirmord.

Hiding a sinister smile, I listened intently to Grandma’s class. As soon as I heard the story of the Servey flower, which is said to confuse people’s minds, I clapped my knees.

‘If you want to be a villain, you have to handle poisonous plants well, of course.’

After several hours of Grandma’s passionate lesson, to the point where her voice was hoarse, I was getting sleepy, so I tried to get up from Grandma’s lap.

But…….

“*Ggulppang*, you’re not going to leave like this, are you?”

Grandma’s expression looked very disappointed.

I hesitated and scratched the back of my head.

“*Anniya* [no in a cute way]. I’m not going!”

“*Aigoo* [expression of endearment or exasperation]. That’s a relief! Good!”

Grandma had become a bit, no, a lot, more of a fool for her grandchild than I had seen before.

I tilted my head, puzzled. Then Grandma stroked my plump and bouncy cheeks with a look of pity and muttered.

“You’re so skinny like this.”

I was wondering how she could say that when I seemed to have gained weight and even pumped up my muscles.

I narrowed my eyes and stared at Grandma. Then Grandma stroked my hair with a pitiful look and opened her mouth.

“Let’s eat.”

“……?”

Saying let’s eat with such scary eyes; she was indeed someone to learn from.

***

A few hours later.

After returning to my mansion, I patted my bulging belly. Grandma had prepared all sorts of delicacies and even threatened that I couldn’t leave if I didn’t eat them all.

There were 12 appetizers alone, and dozens of main courses, both meat and fish. When I said I was full, she gave me plum tea, which helps digestion, and fed me again.

When I said I couldn’t eat anymore, Grandma stroked my cheeks and said ominously.

‘I told you to come again tomorrow…….’

It was like the voice of a witch in a gingerbread house.

‘I shouldn’t go to Grandma’s tomorrow and should rest.’

I felt bloated for some reason, and my arms seemed to be plump like Michelin tires.

In a word…….

“I think I’m going to become a *Ddaeji* [pig in a cute way]…….”

Deadri Unnie rubbed my arm and whispered softly.

“……You did eat a lot.”

“Ung…….”

I tapped my head lightly to clear my mind. Bench Unnie stifled a groan as if she felt sorry for the red mark left on my forehead, but that’s not important.

“More than that, our arboretum land, are you digging it well?”

“Of course!”

“Our prestigious Muscle Pigs of the Press family are working hard to dig the land, so don’t worry!”

With those words, Bench Unnie showed off her *alttong* [slang for bicep]. Looking at her trustworthy muscles, I nodded in admiration.

That’s how Dad’s vacation period was passing.

I thought it would pass peacefully…….

But just when I thought that, a problem arose.

***

“Did you hear the news?”

“Ung?”

I was holding a small hand and staring intently at the magic tool. I needed a way to postpone Axel’s return schedule through this magic tool.

It was only about two weeks before Axel returned.

Just when my little head was about to explode.

“There’s an urgent matter, Sien-nim.”

Ted came into the room, fluttering his hair. I tilted my head.

I haven’t seen Ted for a long time, but it was the first time I saw that paladin come in so urgently.

“It’s a message from Leonhardt-nim. Axel Mirmord-nim’s return schedule has been delayed, he says.”

I opened my big eyes even wider.

Before I had fully developed my skills and before I had completely turned Dad into a villain, an unexpected and great fortune occurred.

I widened my eyes and gestured with my chin.

“Why is it delayed?”

“Well, there’s been a major disturbance in the Merci region that Axel-nim is in charge of. It’s so bad that he can’t visit here.”

The Merci region was where Dad went to volunteer.

For a moment, I even had the extreme worry that our Dad might have been caught up in the riots and died.

For a moment, I was terrified and looked at Ted with worried eyes.

“Our, A, Dad……? What happened?”

“Mathias Mirmord-nim is…….”

Ted was silent.

‘Why are you silent?’

Deadri Unnie was fussing beside me, who had become more anxious.

“In the Merci region, what did Mathias-nim do? That, that is.”

“Let’s not talk about anything too terrible, Deadri.”

“H-he’s alive, right……?”

Just imagining that my only Dad had died already made me feel like my eyes were getting red.

Deadri Unnie looked at me as if she had heard a strange question for the first time in her life and said.

“Yes?”

“O-our Dad.”

“……W-well, of course he’s alive, right?”

“To worry about that…… Rather, worry about my muscles.”

Even if the maids were saying things next to me, I was very worried.

“……I have to see if our *Appa* [Dad in a cute way] is safe and sound…….”

Just as I was trembling with worry, Ted said.

“Don’t worry. Mathias-nim is safe and sound, and he will be back soon.”

“*Ggurae* [okay in a cute way]? Th-then when he comes back, I have to *mae-mae* [hit in a cute way] him!”

I was relieved that he was alive.

I clenched my fist tightly and thought solemnly, then turned my head.

“By the way, is there any progress in the arboretum soil digging project?”

I realized for sure today.

Dad is too free-spirited and kind to go on vacation to an area where riots will occur.

So I need to quickly collect gold bars and hire knights or mercenaries to protect our Dad.

Otherwise, my weak Dad might die, *ggagokdak* [onomatopoeia for dying]……!

So I had to make money quickly.

I looked at the maids with sparkling eyes, as if urging them on.

“Our *Agi-nim* [term of endearment for a baby or young child] even knows the word ‘progress’…….”

“……That’s not important right now!”

When I shook my head, Bench Unnie, who was next to me, opened her mouth.

“Ah, it’s almost all dug up. They said it looks like they’ll reach the end of the land by tomorrow. The guys who are shoveling said it seems like something is caught on the end of the shovel.”

“Let’s go to the arboretum tomorrow morning.”

Axel is coming a little later, Dad is still alive, and tomorrow I will be a *chaebol* [conglomerate/rich person].

Thanks to the time I bought, it meant that I could fight Axel enough.

***

The next morning.

When I opened my eyes, I brushed my teeth diligently and put on my socks all by myself.

Not only that.

I also did a great pigtails hairstyle and wore clothes with gold embedded in them to show off my dignity.

After finishing all the preparations and looking in the mirror, there was…….

“Do I have the face to be a king?”

“*Aigoo* [expression of endearment or exasperation], yes, you do.”

There was a very wonderful version of myself.

I smiled, satisfied, and shook my pigtails.

“Then everyone, let’s go.”

The maids, who claimed to be my loyal subordinates, stood on either side of me.

“Yey!”

The paladin, Ted, was also next to me.

“I will follow you too.”

I looked at my aides with satisfaction and raised my chin with strength.

Today is the day to dig the soil with a shovel and pick up gold, so I wore clothes full of gold leaf. After taking care of the uniform in a fancy way, I had a happy feeling that everything would go smoothly.

I shrugged my shoulders and took the hands of the maids.

But…….

***

“Wh-what is this?”

With a flustered expression, I stretched my neck out from the entrance of the arboretum and looked around inside.

Unlike in the past, the arboretum was completely barren. All the rosewood trees had been cut down.

Of course, I was originally going to cut down the wood, but I didn’t know it would happen this quickly.

I thought the muscle maid would know the situation properly.

“W-w-well, I don’t know either? Why did it progress so quickly?”

“Everything’s gone.”

It was really strange that even the unnie who hired the service didn’t know.

With an ominous feeling for some reason, I blinked my eyes repeatedly.

The maids, seeing my flustered expression, began to argue.

“What……. Hey, Bench. What happened?”

“It seems like the family brought a lot of honorable Muscle Pigs…….”

“That’s right, but this is……. It, it’s like magic?”

Just in case…….

‘Could it be that someone knew there was gold here and came to steal it?’

It certainly could be.

The behavior I showed at the dark auction house must have been somewhat suspicious.

“Where did those service guys go?”

“That’s right. They like to eat and chat, so there’s no way it would be this quiet.”

Moreover, the muscle manpower sent by the maid’s family was nowhere to be seen.

If I met them, I was going to thank them for digging up my gold and give them some gold as a gift.

‘What the heck is going on?’

I said, bristling like a hedgehog with thorns all over my body.

“Let’s go deeper inside for now.”

“Yes!”

The maids stood on either side of me, and Ted stood behind me.

As the leader, I took the lead and stepped inside.

At the scene where I arrived, full of tension…….

“Heok [gasp].”

……I rubbed my eyes in embarrassment. Why is that person coming out from here?

“Today too~ I’m shoveling~.”

Delphia was fluttering her brilliant silver hair and shoveling the ground with a shovel as big as her body.

Next to her, Leonhardt was grumbling, but he was dusting off the dirt on the gold.

‘What the heck is going on?’

I wondered if I was the only one who didn’t understand the situation, so I looked at the maids and the paladin, Ted, who I had brought as escorts.

They also shook their heads.

“I thoroughly kept my mouth shut so that this wouldn’t spread……. I didn’t know those people would come and help.”

“Maybe the guys hired by the family were all silenced or kicked out…….”

“H-how did it leak out?”

When I whispered, Deadri Unnie washed her face dry.

“Come to think of it, Delphia-nim is very interested in Sien-nim’s every move, so she told me to report immediately if there was anything that would help Sien-nim…….”

I shook my head.

‘As expected, the sinful life of a popular person.’

That’s beside the point.

I moved my feet inside.

“Unnie!”

Delphia Unnie, who was working hard with a shovel, looked this way at my voice.

She immediately threw the shovel out and stood up.

“I’m finally seeing your face! That old woman, I don’t like her anyway. She’s monopolizing you!”

I thought Delphia was too busy to find me these days, but that didn’t seem to be the case. Besides, she even had Leonhardt by her side, so the combination of the two was quite unique.

“*Bamtol* [term of endearment, like chestnut], did you know that there was gold here?”

Even Leonhardt was sparkling his eyes when he saw me.

“Ung! My gold!”

I smiled brightly and sprinted.

Delphia spread her arms wide as if to hug me.

But I passed Delphia at once and reached a space full of mountains of gold.

“Hit [sound of excitement]!”

It was when I was excited by the thought of becoming rich and stomping my feet.

“How can our *Agi* [term of endearment for a baby or young child] be so lucky.”

I heard Delphia muttering quietly. At the same time, Leonhardt shook his head and said.

“It’s not luck, it’s because she’s a genius.”

I put my hands on my soft cheeks and thought.