I’Ll Protect My Tyrant Dad! [EN]: Chapter 79

It hadn’t even been five minutes since the exam started, and he was already fluttering his paper around as if he was done?

Seeing this, Sienne wore a dumbfounded expression.

‘……What is he doing? He’s not even pretending to take the exam?’

A thought occurred to her that he might be trying to bribe the examiner during the grading stage. But when she thought about it, that couldn’t be possible. There were observers present during the grading.

If that was the case, there was only one possibility.

‘So, he was just bluffing earlier, and he’s giving up on the exam!’

Liena smirked. She broke the rule that neither the observers nor the children taking the exam should speak during the exam.

“How pathetic.”

It was a very small remark, but everyone there thought the same thing.

‘Even so, isn’t throwing away the exam like this foolish?’, ‘At least try. Is he trying to silence everyone with money? Typical Mirmode.’ Voices like these could be heard.

The atmosphere was at its worst for Sienne.

However, Sienne simply stared at the supervisor who was collecting her paper with an expressionless face.

“I’m done, so can I do whatever I want now?”

Evan, who was supervising the exam, mumbled with a blank look.

“W-Well, you can, but…”

“Yes.”

And so, the total exam time was 60 minutes.

Sienne, who submitted her paper in just 5 minutes, dozed off, even snoring softly.

As if all of this was nothing!

Liena gnashed her teeth and glared at the exam paper held by the supervisor.

She was really looking forward to what would happen in an hour.

Sienne Mirmode.

That little girl would definitely be taking on all the disgrace and shame in just one hour!

Finally, all the exams were over.

Liena took her eyes off the masked Leonhardt and stood up. The exam was over, but the observers had to attend the grading session as well.

The exam papers were being graded in another classroom, so the observers had to move.

As she walked to observe the grading process, Liena estimated their scores in her head.

‘At first glance, Leonhardt Mirmode seemed to know quite a bit of ancient language.’

Her thoughts jumped to Acid. He only smiled when he was next to Sienne Mirmode, and when her gaze fell away, he immediately had a calm and subdued look. She heard from her mother that he was a healer….

‘I don’t know about the child named Acid… But if he’s a healer, he has the qualifications to enter the academy. He’s an eyesore, though.’

But when she looked at Sienne, it was different. She definitely seemed to be guessing on the multiple-choice questions and writing anything that came to mind for the essay questions.

Otherwise, how could she finish all the questions in five minutes and then lie down to sleep?

‘Sienne Mirmode is hopeless. There’s no way she could do it properly. How foolish!’

Sienne Mirmode was too cute to be the infamous Mirmode, so she lacked destructive power. That’s why it was easier to ignore her.

Liena smiled, raising the corners of her lips. The thought of finally bringing shame to the Mirmode family filled her head with joy. If her mother, who was pro-crown prince and hated the Mirmode family, knew about this situation, she would be delighted.

“Now, let’s begin the grading.”

While she was simulating their scores in her head, the teacher seemed to have brought the exam papers.

The grading began in front of everyone.

First, Leonhardt’s exam paper was opened. Circles and slashes were drawn one by one, revealing the outline of his score.

“Eighty points.”

It was a very excellent score. There probably wasn’t a student who received 80 points on such a difficult ancient language exam. Leonhardt raised his nose and said.

“See? I told you I’d be first place! I’m a genius after all!”

Liena tried to calm herself. She had already expected Leonhardt to get an outstanding score, so it didn’t have much of an impact.

Next was Acid’s turn.

“Acid is a healer who has already been recognized for his divine power, so it doesn’t really matter, but…”

The grader’s expression darkened slightly. Compared to Leonhardt, of course, and even compared to others, his level was definitely lower.

But Acid was a healer, which was rare even on the continent. Just because he wasn’t good at ancient languages didn’t mean there was a flaw in his abilities.

Finally, it was Sienne’s turn.

Everyone expected Sienne to have not taken the exam properly. Liena smiled maliciously, anticipating Sienne’s face to be distorted when she received a zero.

But just as the grader picked up the red pen and brought it to the exam paper, the grader tilted his head and then drew a circle.

“W-Well, lucky. She guessed it right.”

But that was just the first question. Liena fixed her trembling lips back to a horizontal line, thinking that the beginner’s luck would end there. But….

“Hic.”

“……W-What is it?”

The grader’s pupils widened greatly, and his hand began to draw circles without hesitation.

Circle, circle, circle….

The row of circles being drawn without hesitation made the graders and observers shudder.

Except for one person.

Sienne was tilting her chin and tapping her toes as if she was bored, but everyone here knew how amazing what she had done was.

When the grading was quickly finished and the exam paper was handed over to the inspector,

The grader, who had put the red pen down on the desk, looked at Sienne with wide eyes.

“A-Academy first.”

Sienne asked indifferently.

“Even first?”

“……Yes! First! A perfect score in ancient language. Such a case is unprecedented…! And they said the exam was very difficult…!”

Sienne smiled, raising the corners of her lips.

“It wasn’t a big deal.”

Everyone began to stir at those words.

Leonhardt and Acid, with flushed faces, spoke to Sienne.

“Sienne, that’s really amazing!”

“That’s right! How did you get them all right?”

It was then. A shrill scream was heard from the observer’s seat in the distance.

“T-This is impossible!”

It was Liena.

The people who were looking at Sienne stared at Liena in the observer’s seat.

Seeing Liena with her hands on her cheeks, some whispered.

“In the end, it was only proven that Sienne Mirmode is a genius?”

“Liena is the only one who was humiliated.”

Those words also reached Liena’s ears. Liena trembled and shouted.

“This is really, really impossible!”

“What’s impossible?”

“Could she have been cheating?”

I tilted my head crookedly with my chin resting on my hand.

‘These guys, are they underestimating me too much?’

I pushed the graded paper with the tip of my finger.

I had been quiet until now, but now that I had proven my skills, there was no need to stay still any longer.

“Liena, was it?”

At the end of my gaze was Liena, but at the end of my finger, the perfect hundred-point exam paper was shining. The principal’s seal was stamped on it.

In short, it meant that it was absolutely impossible to cheat, and my skills were guaranteed by the principal himself.

I raised my chin and whispered to her.

“You, really, do it moderately.”

“…….”

Liena bit her lip with a speechless expression. The children who were sitting next to her as observers were also the same.

“According to you, this exam paper with the principal’s seal is wrong?”

Liena whimpered when I brought up the principal’s authority. It was time to deliver the final punch.

“Then go and argue with the principal yourself. Don’t do this to me.”

Liena couldn’t say anything and just gasped roughly. I looked around at the children next to her. None of them could say anything.

I had crushed them with my skills, so it was a perfect victory for me.

I glanced at Liena, who was still huffing and puffing without saying a word, and then turned my gaze back to Teacher Evan.

“Teacher Evan! What’s the exam tomorrow?”

Evan, who had been rolling his eyes at the power struggles of the noble children, opened his lips.

“Ah, ah…….”

‘He must be very flustered.’

I waited for him to wipe his cold sweat and calm down. After some time, Evan opened his mouth.

“Tomorrow is swordsmanship and magic.”

“Yes, good.”

I nodded and stood up.

It seemed that the exam was being conducted like a formal academy exam.

Of course, I had already received more than enough qualifications to enter the academy thanks to the perfect score I received in ancient language.

‘I just need to avoid failing in swordsmanship and magic!’

My heart felt much lighter. I smiled and shrugged my shoulders.

Pressing down the noses of those who looked down on me was always an exciting thing to do.

***

And so, Sienne left with the teacher. The reason was that there was no need to remain in this place any longer since the exam and grading were all over.

However, the children who were pro-crown prince, led by Liena, remained in the classroom.

“It’s impossible.”

“I agree.”

There was a sound of a chair being dragged. It was the boy who had been closing his eyes and watching the situation without saying anything.

“What’s impossible?”

The boy’s mysterious purple eyes stared intently at Liena. Liena, flustered by the arrow-like words that were poured out on her, hurriedly called out his name.

“What’s wrong, Martin?”

Martin, as if he had no interest in Liena, straightened his coat and walked out of the classroom. Of course, he didn’t forget to whisper mockingly to Liena in front of the doorway.

“She proved it after all.”

“……!”

“Don’t you think so?”

It was true that Liena, the class president, controlled the atmosphere of the classroom.

However, each word that Martin said had a clear resonance.

Although he didn’t have any close friends around him, he was the only son of the Marquis and the top student of the academy. Moreover, he was already famous as a genius who could create aura in his sword.

There were also many children who secretly admired Martin. Liena’s lips trembled.

She ran towards Martin, who was already walking out of the doorway. Perhaps because he walked so fast, he was already far away in the hallway.

Liena screamed at Martin’s receding figure.

“Martin! So you’re taking Sienne Mirmode’s side? Your family has suffered a lot from the Mirmodes!”

Martin turned his head. He smirked and raised the corners of his lips.

“I’m pointing out your stubbornness, not taking Sienne Mirmode’s side.”

“……What?”

A flash of light sparked in his purple eyes.

“I don’t like the Mirmodes either. You know I don’t have many things I’m interested in, right?”

Martin looked at Liena with a dispassionate gaze that was unlike someone his age.

He was right. Liena liked Martin, so she knew everything about him.

She had a bloodless, white face as she watched Martin’s departing figure.