I’Ll Protect My Tyrant Dad! [EN]: Chapter 83

Academy Friends (1)

Unfortunately, my efforts to stop him were in vain.

It seemed like every kid in the cafeteria heard him!

I sighed deeply and shook my head at Leonhardt.

‘It’s definitely Leonhardt’s overprotectiveness that’s keeping me from making friends!’

But I didn’t intend to just study and kill time at this academy.

I wasn’t an ordinary child, and I knew that the Mirmord family would soon be destroyed by the temple that appeared in .

Now that I knew the Saintess and the Pope had gone down the ‘path of light,’ I needed to bring in talent to protect the Mirmord family.

‘I need to steal all the kids who will become the temple’s power in the future.’

A genius of swordsmanship and strategy.

Later, he would even possess divine power, making him coveted by the temple as a holy knight. The boy with purple eyes who would eventually become the sword protecting the Crown Prince, Martin!

Getting that boy would have a good impact on my school life right now. Because he was said to be the top student in this academy.

“……What to do.”

But right then.

Someone took a seat near us that was empty.

It was a boy with tangled, matted hair and flies buzzing around him.

Leonhardt, who was blankly staring at the boy with the swirly glasses, muttered.

“What is that?”

“I don’t know.”

He didn’t seem to pay any attention to us. I glanced at the boy who was busily picking up his hamburger with a silly smile, and then paused.

“Hehe. Why is there nothing here?”

‘He really seems like an idiot…….’

“The hamburger patty is delicious. The lettuce is delicious. It’s the best!”

Leonhardt, who was next to me, asked.

“Are you scared, Cien? Should I take care of him?”

Acid also resolutely added.

“I can send him somewhere else if you need me to.”

I shook my head and observed him.

In a situation where no one else came near us, I didn’t want to kick out the boy who sat next to me.

I turned my gaze to the side and stared at the boy sitting alone. He had a hamburger and a small notebook in his hand.

“Hehe, the hamburger is delicious.”

‘……Is he just an idiot?’

How could just an idiot get into this academy?

There must be at least one outstanding thing about him, I thought, and then I was surprised to see the boy’s notebook flipping quickly.

‘It looks like there are a lot of amazing formulas written there?’

“Hamburger diameter. Cylindrical hamburger. Delicious. Pi. I like it.”

The words that I heard from time to time made me doubt my ears. It was the first time I had ever seen someone talk about pi while talking about hamburgers, and talk about cylinders.

‘I know that mathematics isn’t that developed in this world…….’

I narrowed my eyes and observed his appearance.

Dirty black hair and lime green eyes. But his eyes were as clear as a madman’s.

‘His name is…….’

I was surprised to see the name tag dangling on his chest.

‘How can someone’s name be Burger?!’

……What’s even more surprising is that I’ve thought this before.

Although he looks like a foolish boy who only knows about hamburgers right now, he was a genius in accounting and taxation in the future.

However, due to the trauma of school violence he experienced as a child, he hardly did any external work and ended up in the dark guild, or so I heard…….

‘He might be helpful to me, maybe.’

I definitely needed Martin, the genius of swordsmanship.

Of course, it would be even better if I could recruit this little hamburger maniac as a one-plus-one.

To do that, it was essential to prevent Burger’s school violence.

Of course, from a justice perspective as well.

***

Burger was incredibly elusive, unlike his size!

For a week, I launched Operation Find Burger, and failed miserably. It felt like a miracle that I had seen his face at the cafeteria the other day.

‘I can’t find him, nightingale.’

When I went to Burger’s class, he had already hidden himself.

So, I had no choice but to put off finding Burger for a while, and I tried to approach Martin diligently, putting off playing with Leonhardt and Acid, thinking of getting close to him first.

But……!

“Sigh, another failure today…….”

Martin didn’t seem interested in me, or rather, he didn’t even make eye contact with me as if he was trying to avoid me.

When I approached him and tried to talk to him……!

“I’m busy right now.”

……He just passed by with an iron wall.

‘Hmm, what should I really do? I can’t even meet either of them easily!’

But I, Cien Mirmord, am a woman who doesn’t know how to give up!

I was walking around the hallway pillars again, trying to find Martin and Burger, when suddenly a black shadow fell under my feet.

I raised my head and looked at the boy in front of me.

With the thought that it might be Martin, I shined my eyes.

“Oh? Acid? I thought it was Martin.”

“Ah……. The person that Cien-nim likes these days……. you mean?”

Acid blinked his eyes as if he was embarrassed. He was moving his lips to say something, but I saw something else more than his lips.

‘Acid, why does he seem so much taller? Is it my imagination…….’

He used to always have his shoulders hunched over, so I used to call him ‘baby,’ but he seemed to have changed a lot. More than that, he seemed to be aware of my feelings now.

I was so proud of that fact that I giggled and answered.

“Is it obvious that I like Martin?”

To be exact, it’s not ‘like’ but ‘have to like for my and Dad’s survival,’ but that’s that!

At my words, Acid made a complicated expression and fidgeted with his hands.

“…….”

I tried to change the subject and smiled brightly, grabbing Acid’s sleeve and shaking it.

“More than that, Acid! You’ve gotten so much taller since I last saw you!”

His cheeks turned red for a moment and then turned cherry blossom color again. Seeing his cheeks turn red made me want to tease him for some reason.

But Acid looked at me seriously and said.

“Yes, I have…… grown a lot.”

After hearing the sincere words ‘grown a lot,’ my heart pounded with a subtle momentum. I quickly put my hands behind my back and said playfully on purpose.

“You’ve grown a lot! Yeah, great!”

Acid nodded and said.

“Then…… that’s a relief. It’s enough if I look cool only to Cien-nim.”

Looking at Acid’s serious eyes……. I felt like I had indigestion.

I nodded and glanced away, and then I ran into Leonhardt, who was spilling orange juice from the cup in his hand in the hallway next to me.

“……Leonhardt?”

“Uh, uh……? I didn’t see anything. Continue!”

‘What do you mean continue?’

I tilted my head, but Leonhardt didn’t answer.

I grabbed their hands.

I was going to give up catching Burger and Martin today and play with Acid and Leonhardt.

“Let’s go to the path behind the school!”

But……!

***

When we arrived at the path, we discovered a scene where boys with fists as big as adult men were threatening a boy.

The boy’s face was not clearly visible, but his voice was heard vividly.

“How much money did you earn today?”

“My fist is really crying, crying [meaning, ‘you’re going to get hurt’].”

“Hit him. Except for the face, only hit other places!”

It was literally a scene of school violence. I trembled and thought.

‘School violence is so rampant in a noble academy!’

Burger and the scene of school violence that I witnessed now, as a child in my second life, I couldn’t tolerate such evil school violence.

I clenched my fists and was about to run out when I paused. I could see the face of the boy who was being abused in the middle!

“The person lying down there! It’s Burger!”

“Burger?”

“Yeah! My friend!”

No, the kid who will be my friend!

I clenched my fists again.

But right then.

Leonhardt flew away first. Perhaps because he had just come out of swordsmanship class, he had a small wooden sword in his hand.

“Cien, because you are righteous, I will do it for you!”

“I’ll take care of the back as a healer! Cien-nim, please watch out! Because it’s dangerous!”

Acid and Leonhardt took the lead instead of me. No, the word ‘took the lead’ is a bit strange in this situation. Because Leonhardt’s fists came before his words!

Pow-!

The cheek of the child who was committing school violence touched Leonhardt’s hand.

He was a delinquent boy who seemed as big as a mountain when he was bullying the math genius Burger. But now he looked like a dry twig.

‘Oh, by the way.’

Since Leonhardt and Acid were moving, I was free.

I decided to take on the role of watching out so that the dangerous scene of responding to violence with violence would not be discovered.

But it was at that moment when I was watching.

I saw Martin, a boy with purple eyes, near the path. Martin looked at me and tilted his head.

He looked at me and started to flinch his hand.

‘Come to think of it…….’

In the original story, Martin used his power for sacred things as a helper to the Crown Prince and the temple.

He claimed that he had been doing things without any shame, but there was one thing he was ashamed of in front of God.

That was that he had condoned and tolerated the school violence that was taking place at the academy.

‘It was an episode that showed that Martin was such a righteous person, and that the protagonists who Martin helped were also righteous people.’

Although his righteous appearance was completely contrary to our family, it didn’t matter.

It wasn’t that difficult to seduce someone who valued one goal.

I stared at Martin, who couldn’t leave the front of the fence, with a cold expression all the time.

His wavering gaze and my upright gaze met in the middle.

“Hello, Martin.”

“……Cien Mirmord?”

I took a step towards him. Fortunately, the commotion near us seemed to be ending more easily than I thought.

I got up and ran towards him.

“You’re quite a righteous kid, too?”

I’ll start by saying this first.

Since no one would notice that righteousness was planted in the ‘cold and cynical’ Martin, the direct attack strategy was quite effective.

He flinched.

“……Not really.”

“You came to save Burger, didn’t you?”

“……Not really.”

I reached out to him and said.

“Let’s be friends! I also believe that school violence should be eradicated in the school.”