I’Ll Protect My Tyrant Dad! [EN]: Chapter 62

Tyrant Dad is in My Care! 62. No Matter What Anyone Says, Sien is Dad’s Daughter (62/140)

62. No Matter What Anyone Says, Sien is Dad’s Daughter

2023.07.04.

The Princess seemed extremely angry that I dared to tell her to ‘get lost,’ but the Mirmord family members were already surrounding me as if to protect me.

The Princess gritted her teeth and stood up as if fleeing. She must have decided it was better to retreat and plan for the future.

“Seriously, I didn’t like her from the start!”

I alternated between looking at Princess Anessa, who was leaving, and Delphia Unnie [older sister/female honorific], who was cursing up a storm, and thought.

Princess Anessa wasn’t the type to end things like this.

The key was how she would return, as she would definitely come back.

‘Clearly, all of this isn’t Princess Anessa’s doing alone.’

I realized this while talking to her for a long time.

She was definitely the type to be short-sighted.

There had to be someone behind the scenes orchestrating all of this.

‘But who is behind it?’

Who on earth is the mastermind behind this situation?

I gnashed my teeth and pondered.

***

Princess Serena Anessa could no longer enter the Mirmord mansion.

The marriage talks also fizzled out.

Feeling her safety threatened, the Princess hid herself away in the Imperial Palace.

Of course, Delphia Unnie [older sister/female honorific] was just waiting for the day she would come out, before I stopped her.

She said she was going to blow it up with dynamite…….

But even so, I didn’t expect her to stay cooped up in the Imperial Palace for this long.

This couldn’t be the end of the spiderweb cast by the Princess, or rather, the mastermind behind her, but the atmosphere was too calm.

I rested my chin on my hand and pondered deeply.

Unfortunately, there was no one around me who could help me.

‘But there is one adult who can help with advice.’

That was the Paladin, Ted.

And these days, he was going in and out of the Imperial Palace with Dad, becoming my eyes and ears.

“Ted.”

He replied to me in a serious tone.

“As you command.”

His kind eyes showed his intention to follow whatever I said.

I stared at him quietly and asked.

“Have you heard any rumors about the Imperial Palace lately?”

“There are no rumors about Her Highness the Princess. Only that she is in seclusion…….”

I tilted my head and sighed deeply.

“So that’s how it is…….”

What on earth is the Princess up to? I pondered for a while before opening my mouth again.

“Then, are there any other rumors surrounding the Imperial Palace?”

Maybe there’s even a small clue here.

Then Ted carefully opened his mouth as if he had thought of something.

“Ah! Come to think of it, it’s not related to Her Highness the Princess, but these days, there’s a lot of talk about Count Yoter, the Chamberlain.”

Count Yoter, the Chamberlain?

I tilted my head in confusion at the sudden and unexpected words.

“Count Yoter is my merchant guild’s rival!”

“Yes, that’s right. Haha. These days, instead of focusing on merchant guild affairs, he is mainly taking orders from His Highness the Crown Prince to do volunteer work.”

Then Leonhardt rushed in and scolded him.

“Tch, volunteer work my foot! He’s so obsessed with making money that he does all sorts of shady inspections.”

I pondered, then tilted my head at the words ‘shady inspections.’

“Shady inspections, what’s that?”

“Ah…… that’s.”

Ted was about to carefully open his mouth, but Leonhardt spoke first.

“There’s talk that Count Yoter’s capital was invested in the Divine Power test that little Acid did last time. Well……. Recently, he’s been doing things like paternity tests for illegitimate children of nobles? Count Yoter really does all sorts of things.”

“Ah, yes. That’s right. Count Yoter is making a fuss about how he’s going to oversee paternity tests for nobles these days. It’s secretly quite popular behind the scenes.”

‘Paternity tests, huh…….’

I rested my chin on my hand and pondered deeply.

Princess Anessa kept talking about ‘real daughter, fake daughter.’ And Count Yoter, a close aide to the Crown Prince, is running a paternity test business.

“Ah……. I see.”

I nodded quietly.

The thread that seemed elusive was slowly being grasped.

The reason why that woman kept calling me a ‘fake daughter.’

And the paternity test run by the merchant guild under the Crown Prince.

I looked around.

Leonhardt and Acid, who had appeared as if to protect me, were here today.

I opened my mouth towards Acid, who was sitting demurely next to me embroidering, and Leonhardt, who was leaning back with a mask on across from me, staring intently at me.

“Soon, a child who looks just like Dad will come.”

“Yes, yes?”

“What are you talking about, Chestnut [nickname]?”

“Suddenly…… are you saying?”

Everyone tilted their heads in confusion at the nonsensical words. But I opened my mouth calmly.

“To be exact, our Dad’s daughter will come.”

……To be exact, a child who claims to be our Dad’s daughter, perhaps a ‘real daughter,’ might come.

At my words, Leonhardt dropped the water bottle he was holding quietly. The water bottle fell and rolled across the floor. I stared at the water bottle and laughed softly.

“What are you talking about? Matthias-nim’s daughter is you!”

“Um…… maybe they’ll call me fake.”

Leonhardt’s face turned bright red at the calm words without any explanation of the situation.

“How do you…… know…… no way, do you even have prophetic abilities?”

“……Sort of?”

“Amazing……. Then you must have a plan to crush that daughter, too.”

I couldn’t help but laugh as I met Leonhardt’s eyes, full of faith and trust.

It seems that the child who will become the ultimate villain in the future has an unexpectedly innocent side.

The small healer next to him, Acid, carefully grabbed my sleeve and whispered.

“A real daughter? Then, if Sien-nim is hu, hurt because of that…….”

I shook my head.

The world is wide, and there are many crazy people to be hurt by such things!

“It’s okay.”

I have always overcome adversity.

Princess Serena Anessa is just a new adversity.

And every time adversity appears, I face it head-on without defeat and become stronger.

It will be the same this time.

I clenched my fist tightly.

In fact, I had already thought of a way to overcome this situation.

But there was only one thing that bothered me.

‘If a child claiming to be the ‘real daughter’ appears, Dad…….’

Dad is a person with a lot of affection, so he might be blinded by the words that she is his blood.

More than anything else, if Dad gives his heart to the ‘real daughter’…….

‘He will definitely be hurt.’

For me, the biggest problem was Dad getting hurt.

***

At that time, Matthias Mirmord, who had gone out on patrol outside the castle for a while, had been briefed on Princess Anessa.

Originally, he would have checked Sien’s every move, but the ‘seemingly harmless villains’ he had openly placed next to Sien had already fallen for Sien’s schemes and were not reporting anything to Matthias.

But what is meant to be revealed will eventually come to the surface.

Matthias called his aides who were attached to Sien, and the healer, Acid, to hear the whole story.

It is said that the small scratch on Sien’s face is covered with holy water, but the healer could see the process of a wound that had already occurred healing.

“So that woman harassed Sien.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Daring to scar my daughter and pretending not to…….”

“Yes. Sien-nim didn’t tell anyone about it.”

Of course, Sien had a plan to hold a grudge and pay her back twice as much later.

But the people in this place were completely unaware of that fact.

Matthias whispered as if sighing.

“My daughter is so kind……. She even shows leniency to such trashy women.”

Could it be that educating her to be kind was a problem?

Should I educate her to be a little bad now?

Matthias gritted his teeth, thinking of Sien’s cheek that must have been in pain. So hard that the tendons in his jaw were visible.

The aide was about to say, ‘From what I’ve seen so far, it seems a little inappropriate to say that Sien-nim is kind,’ but quickly shut his mouth.

If he said even a little something wrong about Sien in front of Matthias, who is a fool for his daughter, he would be demoted immediately.

As such silence continued.

After reviewing the report on Princess Anessa, Matthias washed his face with his hands.

If someone interferes with his plan to live happily with his daughter without thinking of getting involved with ordinary people.

What can he do?

“It seems she’s plotting something in the Imperial Palace…….”

If she dares to intend to scratch my daughter.

“If she crosses the line any further, isn’t it okay to kill her without guilt?”

No, maybe she’s already crossed the line.

He crumpled the report on Princess Anessa in his hand and thought.

Daring to touch my daughter.

What on earth is she thinking while hiding in the Imperial Palace?

And how can he make sure that the rumors say she was killed well?

But it was right then.

The door opened, and the secretary urgently pleaded.

“Matthias-nim! Princess Anessa has come, asking you to consider it her last visit. She says it’s important.”

He was already wondering how to chew her up and eat her, and now the prey had crawled into the tiger’s den on its own.

Matthias raised one corner of his mouth, gave a chilling smile, and got up.

***

The time goes back to just before Princess Anessa’s ‘last’ visit to the Mirmord family.

‘The murderous intent of the Mirmord family was real. What is Sien Mirmord that they would go that far for?’

Until her brother, the Crown Prince, came to the Princess’s Palace, which had a deathly atmosphere, Princess Anessa bit her lips and nails and pondered.

“How was Sien Mirmord, Anessa?”

“…….”

The Crown Prince had an expression that knew she had failed. Anessa said as if making a pointless fuss.

“You can tell by looking at me here without me having to say it. I failed.”

He had a calm and composed expression as if he knew it would happen.

Anessa ruffled her hair and muttered.

“……Yes, I failed. That’s why I told you, I should have coaxed Sien Mirmord.”

“If you did that?”

“After winning her favor, I should have entered the family and married Matthias Mirmord. It wouldn’t have been too late to kick her out after that, but I got impatient for no reason…….”

In fact, Anessa had a plan to stab Sien Mirmord in the back.

Everyone seemed to like that child to some extent. Her plan was to seduce her, then enter the family and kick her out.

But it was the Crown Prince in front of her who stopped that plan.

In the end, she did as he said, but the plan failed.

Now Matthias no longer accepted the marriage talks positively. In addition, Duchess Rukella and Delphia Mirmord, who seemed interested in her, kept threatening her life.

“You said you wanted to marry Matthias Mirmord.”

“Yes.”

“Then Sien Mirmord has to disappear.”