I’Ll Protect My Tyrant Dad! [EN]: Chapter 1

Protecting My Tyrant Father! Episode 1. Dad Was Actually the Heir to a Villainous Family (1/140)

Episode 1. Dad Was Actually the Heir to a Villainous Family

2022.12.02.

I was sitting on the mud wall of our flower-covered house, waiting for my dad.

With my white, plump cheeks like fluffy milk bread, soft pigtails like blankets, and round, stubby legs all basking in the sunlight, I felt wonderful.

‘Dad said he’d buy meat! Meat!’

Waving my short, round arms and legs like cardboard tubes, I smiled excitedly.

‘Today is a beef party!’

Sitting on the wall, craning my neck, and waiting for Dad would be boring for anyone. Moreover, even though I was reincarnated and living my second life, I was much more physically immature than other children because of the penalty I received from God during reincarnation.

They say a healthy mind resides in a healthy body.

It was the opposite for me. Instead of having a healthy body, I was born with a younger and more immature body than others in exchange for retaining the memories of my past life.

Unfortunately, the immature body often negatively impacted my mature mind. It meant that sometimes, my mind was assimilated into the physical age of a child.

It was the same now.

I hesitated, trying to puff up my cheeks while clenching my round hands.

‘Ugh, this is too childish!’

I tried to scold myself, but strangely, my body wouldn’t listen to me today. The weather was nice, and the breeze was blowing on my cheeks, making me sleepy.

‘I feel like a real baby. I hope Dad comes soon because I’m sleepy.’

Besides, on days like today, it’s too hard for a baby to resist sleepiness…

On such a day when the sunlight is warm, the air is crisp, and my cheeks are flushed, I dozed off on the wall.

How many hours did I doze off like that?

“Little one.”

I blinked my eyes open and looked ahead.

“Yes?”

I tilted my head, my round eyes wide. Knights with spears and swords surrounded our house, the small mud wall, and me. I tilted my head, watching the armor that sparkled in the light.

“Isn’t there an adult here?”

“Adult?”

“Yes. I mean the man who lives here. Isn’t he here?”

The man who lives here seemed to be talking about my dad.

I instinctively sensed that this situation was dangerous and lied.

“That *ajusshi* [a Korean term for a middle-aged man, often used informally] went to work.”

“Perhaps, is that *ajusshi*… with blue eyes and black hair? About thirty years old…?”

The knight spoke in a friendly manner.

His eyes were gleaming. It was the look that scammers often had when they were trying to swindle money from my dad, so I felt repulsed.

‘No matter how I think about it, those people seem to be looking for my dad. Suspicious?’

If I were to talk about my dad, he is the purest and kindest in the village…

A pushover.

He is so kind-hearted that he gives money to the villagers in the name of donations, goes around doing work without pay, and always laughs heartily.

Remembering my dad, who was so soft that he made me feel like a burst steamed bun, I had an ominous feeling.

‘Has Dad finally been caught up in something so big that even scary knights are coming after him? Has he been falsely accused of someone else’s wrongdoing?’

Dad is smart, but he is so kind that he always loses out. He even cosigns for others sometimes.

Whenever that happened, I would offer them a plump potato from our yard, charm them with my cuteness, and then have the guarantee canceled. I am a famously cute child in this area, so when I shone my eyes and asked if they could cancel it, everyone would melt like an egg in ramen, pat my head, and disappear.

The problem was whether my charm would work on these knights.

‘I wonder if my charm will work on these knights?’

I took a deep breath and puffed up my cheeks again, which had shrunk like a deflated cream bread, and said.

“I don’t know. There’s no such person here.”

And I used my secret sparkling eye-rolling skill to look up at them.

The knight’s mouth stiffened. Just when I thought it was a failure and squinted my eyes, the knight said.

“Well, you are very cute.”

As expected, my cuteness seemed to work everywhere.

I smiled inwardly like a mastermind and brazenly replied.

“I know!”

“Th, that… Could I hold your hand just once…?”

Watching the knight *ajusshi* open his mouth like a fool and slowly reach out his hand, I shook my head.

“No way.”

The knight quickly regained his senses and shook his head several times, then nudged another man standing next to him.

“What do we do now?”

“We came here after hearing a report that he was definitely here; this is a big problem.”

“Should we withdraw for now? Should we come back tomorrow?”

While pretending not to listen to them and kicking my feet, I thought.

‘Phew, thankfully, my dad is excluded from the suspects.’

The knights were glancing at me while chattering, but… that’s not important!

I pouted my lips and thought with sparkling eyes.

‘I need to ask Dad what happened tonight, and if it’s a big deal, we should run away in the night, I guess.’

There is a reason why running away is a valid strategy.

If dangerous guys appear, running away is the answer!

But just when I was clenching my lips and thinking about my and Dad’s future.

“Sien!”

…Oh no.

‘Isn’t that my foolish dad’s voice? Why did he come so early? I need to send those knights away quickly!’

I widened my eyes and turned my head sharply towards the voice. The knights who saw my head turning also turned their heads in that direction.

“Sien! I bought meat……”

“Heeup. Shh!”

I quickly inhaled. Waving my hands to tell him to go away was a bonus.

But Dad narrowed his eyes, ignoring my emergency rescue signal. Then he ran quickly.

The problem was that Dad’s footsteps were as fast as a sword master.

Dad is gentle, but his physical abilities are unmatched. Because he is so diligent in farming, he has bulging pectoral muscles.

‘Dad coming is like threatening the knights!’

Provoking the knights is not good; this is a big problem.

Last time, when I was about to be bitten by a threatening monster chicken, Dad showed superhuman abilities.

It’s the same today.

Perhaps thinking that I was in danger, a determined light settled in Dad’s innocent eyes.

‘Dad, he’s so fast!’

In a dangerous moment where the knights were concentrated, Dad was running hard with a black bag full of meat.

Running quickly as if to protect me, my one and only on my side, the kindest in the world, my dad.

“Who are you people?”

Dad narrowed his eyes and asked sternly.

I sighed deeply.

‘Why did you come now, you fool!’

Those knights could be very, very scary guys. I was trying to get rid of them with my cuteness, but if he comes this early, I can’t save Dad.

But just when I was about to kick the knights in front of me.

“We greet the First Mirmod Young Master, Matthias Mirmod. We have come to tell you to end your game and return.”

My foot, which was about to kick the knights, stopped in mid-air.

‘……Huh? What did you say? Mirmod?’

The Mirmod family.

A cancerous existence in this empire, involved in all sorts of fraud, illegal activities, and evil deeds.

It was a place that had grown based on all sorts of crimes, and each member was specialized in magic or swordsmanship, and they committed crimes, including murder, without hesitation.

‘These knights must have blurry eyes and are mistaken. Mirmod, scarier than a tiger.’

I clenched my plump fists and tried to shake my head. No. Our dad has nothing to do with the ‘Mir’ in ‘Mirmod.’ So get out of here.

But that’s when it happened.

Dad asked sternly, as if it were natural.

“End the game and come back?”

At that moment, a red blush appeared on my fair cheeks.

Because he asked so coldly, it felt like Dad was really a Mirmod Young Master. I blinked in confusion.

***

……Surprisingly, it seems that our dad is indeed the Young Master of ‘that’ Mirmod family.

After the knights left, our humble country mud house disappeared into brittle soil.

And…….

Dad and I were dragged to the strange and dangerous Mirmod Duke’s castle.

This Duke’s castle looked very eerie and desolate.

My small head was struggling to recognize the fact that Dad was not actually a simple country farmer.

So, to summarize.

In fact, our dad was said to be the first Young Master of the Mirmod family. He was exiled from the duchy for unspeakable reasons, but finally, the exile order was lifted, or something like that.

‘Our kind dad is a member of the Mirmod family? If it’s the Mirmod family, it’s the villainous family in the novel. This really doesn’t make sense.’

This place was inside the novel I had half-read, . It is a novel that deals with the beautiful love story of the Crown Prince and the Saintess Melodia, but since the main character is the Crown Prince, political strife stories also often appear.

The villain with a strong presence in that novel was, of course, the Crown Prince’s rival, the ‘Mirmod family.’ A place that uses all sorts of dangerous methods such as fraud, evil deeds, violence, and gambling. A typical villain family that everyone avoids and reveres…

Moreover, the Mirmod family constantly had internal wars of killing and being killed. In order to become the successor, to become the Duke, and to possess dangerous but powerful magical tools and sacred objects, they killed each other.

A place where news of people dying every day is heard. And a place where that is not strange at all.

In the end, a villainous family that is annihilated by the Crown Prince.

The problem is this.

Our dad’s name, ‘Matthias,’ does not appear in the novel.

That means our dad is an extra who died without even appearing, right?

‘Ha, a kind person like our dad is not compatible with a villainous family. But why was he called here……?’

Because he doesn’t fit in like this, Dad might have gone back to the countryside on his own. Our dad is not the type to become a successor. He is not a tough person enough to wage a succession war, and he was the type of person who would readily step down and cheer on the other person if they wanted to become the successor.

‘Could it be that they brought Dad to eliminate future troubles?’

The humble mud house where Dad and I were together has already been demolished.

Our father and daughter have now become wanderers with nowhere to go.

In this situation, if the villains try to harass our dad…….

An emergency warning light turned on in my head.

Like in the original story, innocent people like us will obviously become food for the villains if we are spaced out.

I was worried to the point where my fair cheeks turned pale.

‘Can Dad and I survive?’

All sorts of worries dug into my head, making me unable to eat well or sleep well.

It was Dad who keenly noticed my condition.

“What are you thinking about, my daughter?”

“Hoo.”

I took another deep breath and looked around.

This place seemed to be a place where the villainous family members used as a conference room, and it looked quite gloomy and scary.

‘There seem to be skulls lying around here and there on the floor. It must be my imagination. It must be my imagination.’

Dad, who was sitting indifferently on a scary chair with a skull pattern drawn on it, put me on his lap, hugged me, and patted my shoulder.

“It’s okay, my daughter. Were you very tired? Let’s talk quickly and go to sleep.”

Dad stroked my hair, making a silly laughing sound.

Survival is the problem now. Even after entering this dangerous family, Dad is cheerfully laughing.

‘This doesn’t make sense!’

Suddenly, I was in a situation where I had to worry about survival with my foolish dad, and I was upset and miserable. I was just trying to be excited about catching crayfish today and eating pork tomorrow.

‘But there’s nothing I can do about it now.’

I drooped my shoulders, tapped Dad’s arm with my hand while he was sitting me on his lap, and said.

“You know, Dad.”

“Yeah?”

Dad made a cozy laughing sound and fiddled with my pigtails.

Dad braided my pigtails nicely this morning, but they were slightly loosened because I entered this family, which upset me.

I sighed deeply and leaned my small body against Dad’s flat upper body.

“Don’t worry. I’ll protect you, Dad!”

This place was an ominous zone that seemed to be full of poison. It is a place where villains can appear at any time.

My plump arms, like sausages, began to tremble like an aspen tree, but there was nothing I could do.

I glared sharply at the empty air.

They will pull back the curtain, and soon a member of the villainous family will appear, right?

Then I had no choice but to protect Dad.

‘Get out of the way, you scary and dangerous monster villains! I will protect our dad!’

At that time, when I was determined to fight, Dad clenched the hand that was holding me and whispered.

“You don’t have to protect Dad, Sien.”

There was a subtle laughter in his voice.

“Dad will protect you. Our daughter.”

The thick, muscular arms and the hands full of scratches that I don’t know where they came from were quite firm, but even that didn’t seem very strong considering Dad’s soft personality. I think my soft, plump arms would be more reliable?

I sighed heavily.

I am really worried about the future of our foolish dad and me…….