I’Ll Protect My Tyrant Dad! [EN]: Chapter 89

Tyrant Dad is on My Side! 89. The Rumor That My Dad Is a Scary Tiger! (89/140)

89. The Rumor That My Dad Is a Scary Tiger!

October 06, 2023

“Dad!”

Even though all the physical penalties were gone, Dad was still ‘Dad’ to me. As if he was happy about that fact, Dad also smiled brightly and said,

“Yes, it’s Dad.”

My dad, who makes a lisping voice, is cute as always. I reached out my hand and stretched Dad’s rough cheeks like cheese.

“You’re so cute, Dad!”

Dad laughed, not even knowing that his cheeks were being stretched.

After snuggling into the arms of the cutest dad in the world, I happily healed while diligently looking at the fountain pens and documents on Dad’s table.

‘The documents are really focused on volunteer work.’

I couldn’t feel Dad’s notoriety that Martin had mentioned at all.

I was once again questioning it in my mind, but Dad’s suspicious behavior wasn’t the problem right now.

The problem is……!

“Why did my daughter come to Dad, so early in the morning?”

“Sponsor my friends!”

I took out the sponsorship form that I had crumpled up in my pocket and held it out to Dad with a thud.

Then Dad frowned and tilted his head.

At that moment, Dad’s expression changed strangely.

[Sponsorship Request

1. Martin McBogue

2. Burger (Real name: Bjorn Hessburger)]

I watched as Dad’s expression slowly hardened as he carefully scanned the contents of the sponsorship form.

‘What is it? Is there something wrong?’

I was worried that Dad would reject it because it was such an unconventional sponsorship.

‘If Dad agrees, I have a way to persuade the Senate.’

There was a way to get the support of a majority of the senators. It was a method of getting the senatorial nobles to agree to the sponsorship by exploiting their weaknesses.

But to get the support of the Senate, Dad’s consent was absolutely necessary beforehand.

I looked up at Dad with a nervous heart and said,

“I wrote it all down on the sponsorship request, but they’re both super geniuses. They might not seem that great right now, but they’re super great.”

“……Are you close?”

I could see Dad’s Adam’s apple trembling. I nodded, tense that the sponsorship would be rejected at Dad’s level.

“Huh? We’ve gotten a little closer, but I’m definitely not asking for sponsorship because of friendship!”

“They’re all…… boys? Are you close?”

Dad said in a trembling voice.

“Boy……friend?”

I pondered for a moment and nodded vigorously.

‘Since their gender is male, they must be boyfriends, right?’

And I answered more energetically than anyone else.

“Yes! They’re my boyfriends!”

As soon as I finished speaking, the parchment crumbled and lost its shape in Dad’s hand.

I stared at Dad with wide eyes.

I could see Dad’s jaw twitching.

That was a more serious expression than when the moles in the countryside ruined Dad’s one-season farming.

***

After Sien left, Matthias stood there dumbfounded.

Sien fluttered and kissed him on the cheek. It was a bonus that she said she hoped Dad would sponsor them.

What power does Dad have? He would have to pressure the Senate to sponsor them.

But…….

“To dare to be near my daughter…….”

The sponsorship application was written neatly and cleanly.

Even Matthias couldn’t see any shady parts.

He had also been hearing stories about her from Sien’s teacher, that her friendships were clean and that she even saved friends who were being ostracized.

‘They weren’t pretending to be ostracized, were they?’

Burger and Martin.

He felt he needed to take a closer look, so he roughly crumpled the sponsorship application into his pocket.

And it was right then.

Knock, knock, someone knocked on the door where Sien had left.

He narrowed his cold eyes and whispered in an affectively friendly tone.

“Sien?”

Of course, he sensed that the footsteps were not Sien’s, but it was a pretentious act because there was a 0.01% chance that it could be Sien.

At that moment, the door opened.

“Ta-da, it’s Delphia.”

As he expected, it was a different person.

Matthias, who had been smiling brightly, hardened his lips and issued an eviction order.

“Get out.”

She shook her head and sat on the sofa.

“I came to give Sien a bag as a gift for entering the academy!”

She shook a bag full of studs in both hands and smiled brightly. Then Matthias closed and opened his eyes.

“Huh? Why that expression?”

“Don’t worry about it and get out. That bag is too shabby for my daughter to carry.”

Delphia said in a puzzled voice.

“What, the studs are quite lovely and nice……. Hmm, but your expression is really deathly. Why, did she make a boyfriend?”

“…….”

“What, really?”

When Matthias frowned at being hit on the mark, Delphia laughed.

“You can’t keep her as a child in your arms forever, what can you do?”

Her silver hair sparkled brilliantly.

It was beautiful hair, as if it had been made by melting silver, but Matthias didn’t seem to be very impressed by that fact.

He just narrowed his eyes as he looked at Delphia.

“You.”

“Yes?”

“You’re banned from entering here.”

“Huh? No way? I have to see our baby master!”

He smirked and smiled.

“If you don’t leave now, you’ll never see her, so leave.”

“I’m not leaving.”

Delphia pouted, but whether she did or not, it wasn’t a big deal to him. He got up and said.

“If you don’t leave, I’ll leave.”

Delphia, rather embarrassed by his attitude of not having any regrets, asked, sticking her neck halfway forward.

“Where are you going?”

He had no obligation to answer, but he answered simply.

“To grant my daughter’s request.”

Delphia frowned as she received his gaze. No matter how she thought about it, she even felt a strange sense of superiority in his words. It was like saying, ‘I’m closer to Sien than you are.’

Delphia couldn’t lose either.

“Ah, our baby master’s request? What is it?”

No one would have been unaware of the fact that she put emphasis on the nickname, ‘our baby master.’

Matthias smirked and said.

“She came to me asking me to sponsor some guys. Not to you, but to me.”

“What! I can also grant sponsorship requests! I’ll send them to the Senate!”

“You’re not close to the Senate, are you?”

At those words, Delphia pouted.

“……It’s annoying. I’m not supposed to be close to the Senate in the first place.”

“Yes, you’re not.”

“Yeah, I just know how to kill those guys.”

He closed the door, leaving Delphia’s words behind.

As she said, over the past five years, he had come to hold the leashes of everyone in the Senate.

Those who were once tigers that dominated all of Mirmord were now just his puppets.

The Senate President resisted quite a bit, but it wouldn’t take long for him to collapse either.

Matthias clicked his fingers with an interesting expression.

The things he had done so far flashed through his mind like a panorama.

***

Matthias dealt with the Senate every time Sien went to the academy.

“Dad, kiss!”

“Yes.”

He gently saw her off as a gentle father for Sien’s happy school life. Then he tightened the noose around the Senate.

He plotted the Senate’s ledger of all sorts of corruption, and based on that, he forcibly received the loyalty of the Senate members. Of course, there were those who did not bow to him.

It was the Senate President.

He lived in the Mirmord family tower as if he had nothing to do with Matthias or Sien.

It was under the calculation that even the Duke of Mirmord would not be able to touch the Senate President, who had no faults on the surface.

What he overlooked was that Matthias was an unprecedentedly violent duke even in Mirmord.

“The Senate, which is just a shell, is struggling a little too much.”

“What is it? How far are you going to go?”

“Are you pretending not to know? You tried to grab my daughter’s leash, didn’t you?”

The Senate President sneered instead of flinching noticeably.

“Oh, did I, Duke?”

It was reported in the Mirmord Senate that selling Sien’s information to the Crown Prince was an act of deviance by a single senator. But Matthias read the hidden secrets within.

“You did. Daringly, presumptuously.”

Matthias gestured gracefully towards the Senate President’s neck. Before he knew it, a sword was in his hand.

The Senate President squeezed his eyes shut and opened them at the clearly black aura surrounding the tempered blade and the entire sword.

The powerful defensive magic circle surrounding the Senate President was being quickly broken down.

He muttered, stepping back with a look of dismay.

“You sold your soul to the devil, I didn’t know you could manifest a black aura!”

Among the few swordmasters on the continent, the number of those who manifested a black aura was extremely small. Even the Dragon Slayer could not manifest a black aura.

Matthias nodded and said.

“If I’m a guy who sold his soul to the devil, aren’t you a guy who’s going to die to such a bastard?”

A vulgar siege took place.

However, the one who seized the victory was, of course, Matthias Mirmord. He had been dismantling the Senate’s limbs for the past five years, cutting off their money supply.

At this moment, the Senate President had useless hope. He thought that Matthias would not slash him with a knife.

“If you threaten me, the Senate President, with a knife, I’ll have something to do……!”

“Necromancer ability, you mean.”

“……!”

“Summon corpses or ghosts. I’ll cut them all down. And say it right. I know all your corruption and I’m executing you.”

The aura that had finally broken through the Senate President’s powerful defensive magic circle was surging on the blade.

The Senate President was also a member of the Mirmord family, who moved according to the logic of power.

He lost the will to fight in the face of the overwhelming difference in skill. Matthias tilted his head as he watched his defeated dog-like appearance.

“Leave a will so that I’m happy to kill you.”

Soon, he smiled mockingly and drew his sword. The moment a scratch-like scar was made on his neck, the Senate President’s face turned pale.

“……Did you say, a will?”

The Senate President coughed incessantly as he grabbed his neck. Coughing flowed out like crazy, and before he knew it, red blood flowed out of his mouth as if he were spitting blood.

However, Matthias did not pity the Senate President.

“Why. Does even an old man want to live a little longer? When my daughter was five years old, you tried to kill her with the help of the head of the educational institution.”

“Cough, cough.”

“When she turned ten, you tried to imprison her with the help of the Crown Prince.”

“Kuh, kuheuk.”

“You have to pay the price for daring to touch a child, don’t you?”

The Senate President couldn’t even make excuses.

Instead, his body collapsed to the floor. It was a very shabby death, considering that he was once the core of the Mirmord family’s power.

But there was no particular emotion.

Even if it wasn’t the Senate President, anyone would end up like that if Matthias touched them.

‘Now that the Senate President is dead, the Mirmord family is in my hands.’

In fact, it was a foreseen event.

The power structure surrounding Matthias was virtually meaningless. It was enough to suppress them with power or money, and money and power were always easy and convenient means to subjugate others.

The only things that were embarrassing or incomprehensible in his life were things related to Sien.

Matthias threw the sword that had cut off the Senate President’s neck into the wall like a throwing star and leisurely walked out and headed to his mansion.

Since it wasn’t time for Sien to return yet, he intended to take a quick shower and make dinner.

Everything was perfect up to this point.

He thought so until Sien ran towards him from the other side of the hallway when he had just entered the mansion.

“Dad!”

“You came earlier than expected, Sien.”

As expected, Sien was the only and enjoyable variable in Matthias’ life.

Is that why?

He hadn’t dealt with the Senate President’s body yet, and he was wearing bloody clothes, but he was too embarrassed that Sien had returned home faster than he thought……. As expected, he couldn’t help but smile.

“Why do you have that expression, Dad? Did you see something strange?”

“No, Dad’s going to take a shower.”

And after taking a quick shower and facing Sien, Matthias was able to receive a shock that was incomparable to the death of the Senate President.

“……Sien, they’re all boys. Are you close?”

Matthias gritted his teeth at the thought of Sien, who had been a child in his arms, leaving.

‘Should I not have sent her to the academy?’

He had no choice because he had to deal with the Senate President without Sien knowing, but he still had a bitter taste.

So this sponsorship request that Sien showed him would soon be accepted.

He was clearly a father who could properly support his daughter.

There was no day when he was so happy that power was in his hands.

Everything was for Sien’s happiness.

***

How could this be happening?

I really didn’t understand.

I was anticipating the Senate’s obstruction and trying to find all sorts of shady rumors and wrong secrets that the Senate nobles had hidden, such as love affairs.

Thanks to running a trading company, I had pretty good ears, so I could easily say, ‘Quickly decide on family-level sponsorship!’

But…….

‘I got a call this morning. The sponsorship was concluded with the consent of everyone except the Senate President.’

Does this make sense?

There was a section in that described the Mirmord Senate.

They were quite picky and slippery, so it was said that it was difficult to deal with them properly unless you were a pretty bad person. Moreover, they never took action on things that had no justification, so they were often said to be upright despite being villains.

For them, this sponsorship issue would definitely be incredibly problematic.

But how could not just a sponsorship, but a ‘diamond-level’ sponsorship be concluded?

In fact, there was only one answer to this. Unless Dad was really taken hostage by someone huge…….

‘……Did Dad really seize the power of this family?’

However, grabbing the leashes of the Mirmord Duke family’s Senate was impossible unless you were a strong-hearted or evil person.

Even the grandmother, who once ruled the family, was not able to grab and wield the Senate’s leashes. Even if the kind-hearted Dad learned villainy in a crash course for 5 years, he wouldn’t be able to catch the Senate.

“Sien, what are you thinking about?”

“Ah!”

I must have been too lost in thought.

I looked at the finely chopped salad pieces in front of me and gave an awkward smile.

“Sorry, Captain. Sorry, Ted! It’s been a while since the three of us have had a meal, but I was thinking strange things!”

It had been a while since the Mirmord Duke’s family members had gathered, except for Dad.

Dad went to participate in a commemorative ceremony to formally sponsor Burger and Martin. Acid and Leonhardt went to school, and I had a slight fever, so I stayed at the Duke’s residence.

So now I was having a meal with the Captain and Ted, just the three of us. The maid sisters were diligently carrying food behind my back!

‘In short, the optimal environment with no interference from other people!’

Ted is not well-versed in rumors, but the Captain is from a street orphanage. Although he is busy training his body hard in the Duke’s residence, he would have heard various rumors even within the Duke’s residence.

I smiled slyly and rinsed my mouth with lemon tea. And…….

“I have something to ask!”

I poked the Captain’s side, who was gobbling down his meal next to me.

“Captain, have you heard that rumor?”

“Huh? What rumor?”

“The rumor that my dad is a scary tiger!”

The atmosphere turned cold.

Thud.

The Captain’s fork fell to the floor and rolled down. At a speed so fast that I was embarrassed.

It’s really strange…….

If everyone comes out like this, it’s even more suspicious, isn’t it?