I’Ll Protect My Tyrant Dad! [EN]: Chapter 106

I Protect My Tyrant Father! Episode 106. I Have to Leave (106/140)

Episode 106. I Have to Leave

2023.12.05.

“Finally, the Mirmord family is going to be destroyed.”

I raised the corners of my lips in a sneer.

Anyone could see that it was the Pope who was about to be destroyed.

But he didn’t seem to think so. He looked more certain than anyone that the Mirmord family would be destroyed.

I narrowed my brows and tried to approach the Pope, but I froze as Dad grabbed my hand.

“Sienne, it’s dangerous.”

Dad said, speaking for me.

“Pope, why don’t you explain it in a way we can understand? What do the ancient words on Acid’s cheek have to do with Mirmord?”

I decided to play the role of the annoying heckler next to Dad.

“That’s right, and anyway, Pope, you’re going to die soon, right?”

I thought he would be flustered after hearing ‘you’re going to die,’ but the Pope wasn’t as naive as I thought.

He chuckled and looked at me.

“I can die. If the long-held wish of the previous Popes, no, of the temple, is fulfilled.”

“The temple’s long-held wish?”

“Yes, the prophecy was written in the prophecy book that our well-forged sword will butcher all the evil families that hinder the temple’s good deeds.”

“The meaning of that is…”

Looking at the current situation, the meaning of what the Pope was saying was ultimately one thing.

The fact that the Pope kept calling Acid a ‘forged sword’ kept coming to mind with an ominous feeling.

“Yes, our sword, Acid, will butcher all of Mirmord, the enemy of the temple. The moment he is burned in the sacred fire and the ancient letters are engraved on his cheek, the prophecy will be fulfilled.”

I crossed my arms and looked at him like he was a liar.

“You didn’t hear the words of God, just a prophecy book? Don’t lie. Where is the prophecy book? And where is the proof that Acid is a sword?”

The Pope, who had been grabbed by the neck, coughed for a while and then sneered again.

“Don’t you believe it? You’re provoking me. The proof that Acid is a sword, well. Do I have to explain everything to you in detail?”

The Pope, who had been grabbed by the neck, coughed for a while and then sneered again.

“The original of the prophecy book is held by our Saintess. I’m just a scarecrow, you see.”

The Pope’s expression was full of inferiority, but he was still trying to maintain a calm face.

Dad and I exchanged glances at the same time.

Dad gave a bitter smile and cut off the middle of the still-burning incense with an aura-filled sword.

“Even though you’re a scarecrow, you say the prophecy book is with the Saintess? As a scarecrow, you were qualified to burn incense? A pyramid’s incense is easy to put out.”

The Pope’s expression, which had been chuckling for a while, instantly flared up with anger.

“How dare you try to interfere with the ritual to summon God, you rude Mirmord.”

Matias’s expression was stained with mockery.

“It doesn’t matter. If what you say is true, I’m going to die by this guy anyway, right? He’s a forged sword, and the Mirmord family, and I, the head of the family, are the enemies of the temple and the source of evil.”

“You’re quite perceptive. Yes, your destruction was already written in the prophecy book.”

“So that’s what it is.”

“Although the sudden intervention of an unexpected person has made it feel abrupt… Anyway, the ancient words have been engraved on the sword’s cheek, so everything is satisfactory.”

The Pope’s voice gradually lost strength.

That meant he was dying.

Watching the Pope twist his body and eventually slam his face into the floor, Dad raised the corners of his lips.

“If Acid is going to wipe out Mirmord, I’ll just kill him now.”

My face turned pale in an instant at the thought of killing Acid.

Then the Pope said with a sneer.

“No, those who share the blood of Mirmord, and those who have their will, can never kill the sword. The sword cannot even commit suicide until the source of evil disappears. If you’re curious, try… killing him.”

With those words, the Pope’s eyes slowly closed.

He died believing that he had achieved everything until the very end.

I frowned and muttered annoyedly as I looked at the smile on his lips.

“Right now, I’m just… speechless.”

“Why, Sienne?”

I looked down at the Pope, who had just become a warm corpse, and thought to myself.

It wasn’t that I denied fatalism [the belief that all events are predetermined and inevitable].

The future of mankind may have been arranged by God.

I knew it well because I was in a situation where I was reborn into a book thanks to God’s grace.

However, I believed that human will preceded fate.

I believed that if humans wanted, if they yearned intensely, and if they tried to change their fate, that fate would surely change.

‘Just like I changed the original, .’

“It’s so absurd that he’s acting like that, believing in fate, Dad.”

“Our daughter…”

“I don’t believe in prophecies or anything, fate or anything. I don’t think it will ever be fulfilled if we try.”

At that moment, Acid, who seemed to have come to his senses, grabbed my collar. As soon as he grabbed my collar, he let out a short groan.

I didn’t say anything.

I just hoped that his eyes, which were looking at me, would contain even a little bit of life.

“…You, believe in me?”

The only thing I could say to Acid, who seemed to be suffering from inner pain…

“I believe in you.”

It was just giving him trust.

Acid, who was listening to me, muttered the words he had said several times between his teeth.

‘I believe in you.’

His body trembled, and beads of sweat formed on his forehead. I could see his front teeth clenching roughly, he gritted his teeth so hard.

But clearly, Acid was overcoming something evil that surrounded him.

I watched with my hands clasped as Acid overcame the pain and turmoil in his body.

Every time he muttered to himself, the letters entangled on his cheek slowly disappeared.

This may have been because the Pope had died, and the person who could perfectly suppress him as a ‘sword’ had disappeared.

But nevertheless, it was important that Acid was trying to resist the prophecy with his own will.

I watched the lines that had covered his face disappear with a sense of awe.

“…Sienne, you know.”

“Huh?”

“I… somehow, promised to save Sienne’s life.”

“…Yeah.”

Acid whispered softly with a gentle smile.

“I will never kill Mirmord, Sienne. I’ll try.”

Listening to his heartfelt voice, I felt a subtle wave in my heart.

The reasonless vibration was very subtle, and it gave me a sense of remoteness as if I was isolated in this place alone.

But what was certain was that Acid’s answer that he would try for me drew something extremely sentimental in my heart.

Feeling the beating of my heart slowly and strongly, I looked at Acid.

But the problem was ‘how’ to change fate.

I narrowed my eyes, and then I realized that the incense was still burning on the altar where Acid was staying.

The moment I saw that, I had an instinctive conviction.

“Dad, Acid!”

“Huh?”

“That, isn’t that the prophecy book? It looks like the prophecy book is burning!”

The Pope had clearly said that the prophecy book was with Melodia.

But I didn’t completely believe those words.

‘A suspicious and inferiority-complexed person like the Pope would never have entrusted all the prophecy books to Melodia.’

So, I was secretly guessing that at least some of the prophecy books would be in the Pope’s possession, or in the sanctuary where he stayed.

‘So I was watching the surroundings a bit… I didn’t know it was burning here!’

I saw yellow pieces of paper scattered haphazardly near the altar to burn incense. Dad quickly put out the incense and grabbed the pieces of paper.

As I said, pieces of the prophecy book were scattered around the altar.

“Certainly, there was a prophecy book.”

I quickly skimmed through the contents of the prophecy book.

But I couldn’t read exactly what the letters were.

***

While quietly watching Sienne’s eyes, who was frustrated because she couldn’t see the contents of the prophecy book in detail, Acid was reminded of the promise he had made with Sienne, hooking their fingers together.

‘Acid, do you know?’

‘……Yes?’

‘There’s a rumor that there’s a prophecy book in the basement of the temple.’

‘Ah…….’

‘I got information from the Dark Information Guild leader that the Pope is acting strangely because of that prophecy book. If I infiltrate the central temple, I’ll hear about the prophecy book too.’

‘Yes, I understand.’

A strange anxiety arose at the word prophecy book, but for Sienne, it didn’t matter what the prophecy book was. If it was her order, Acid would do anything.

‘……Besides, this time Sienne has given me a job.’

Not the captain, not Ted, not Leonhardt, not the academy’s brats, but he himself was given the mission.

Acid wanted to do it right, whatever it was.

But…….

He couldn’t completely save Sienne in the end.

Acid clenched his fists as he looked at Sienne, who was diligently reading the prophecy book.

There were bruises on Sienne’s neck now.

The reason why Matias Mirmord was so angry was probably because he was angry at the handprints on Sienne’s cheeks.

‘How dare you, Sienne…….’

He did stand up to the Pope, but he only diverted his attention, and in the end, it was Matias Mirmord who saved Sienne.

He was weak, and Matias was strong.

He plunged the Pope and Axel into the mire as if he could naturally save Sienne.

Acid didn’t care much about the other incidents that occurred in the process.

The only thing that caught his eye was Sienne.

“Acid, can you see the prophecy book?”

“…….

Acid?”

“……Yes, I’ll check it out.”

Acid quietly looked down at the prophecy book.

Unlike Sienne, who could not properly interpret the prophecy book because she did not have divine power, Acid could read the contents of the prophecy book purely.

That was probably because, as the Pope said, he was prepared to be the ‘sword to kill Mirmord.’

As he expected, Matias, who was quietly watching them, added.

“You can probably read it.”

“……Yes.”

At that moment, Acid could see Sienne looking at him with hopeful eyes.

Looking at Sienne, who was scanning the prophecy book and eventually handing it to him, he was reminded of all the favors she had shown him.

At the age of five, his savior, who patted him on the shoulder with her fern-like hands, had grown up to be fifteen. And he himself, who was a stupid little boy, had grown into a young man who had shed his childishness.

No, to be exact, he grew into a young man who wanted to protect Sienne more than anyone else.

In his childhood, he thought that he was following her well because he had been saved.

But…….

He didn’t know, but other people seemed to know.

He was reminded of the conversation he had with the captain a while ago.

‘The way you look at Sienne is definitely different from us. A little more intense…….’

‘……Affection. Affection for wanting to protect Sienne.’

‘Well…….’

‘Whatever you’re thinking, that’s not it.’

He bit his lip.

The way he looked at Sienne was different from the way others looked at Sienne.

He, too, realized that fact now.

When Sienne gave her attention to another man, and when she was being messed up by the Pope, he acknowledged his feelings.

Sienne was a lord to whom Acid wanted to devote his loyalty even at the cost of his life.

And…….

Acid quietly looked at Sienne.

From the moment this small girl flew into his heart like a bird, he had been fond of her. Sometimes when Sienne reached out to others, his nails became rough, reflecting his anxiety.

He had thought that he was not qualified to be jealous, and that thought has not changed now. How could he dare to be jealous of Sienne?

But when Sienne was kidnapped, Acid was able to fully realize his feelings.

‘I am Sienne…….’

When he saw Sienne’s cheeks flushed red after being kidnapped, and when she smiled at him as if to say she was okay…….

Acid even hated the ability of ‘healer’ that was given to him.

Because he wanted to kill everyone.

And as far as he knew, there was only one thing that caused such intense emotions.

‘……I love Sienne. Daringly. With all my heart.’

He, who had become a human from a beast thanks to her grace, had dared to realize his feelings.

However, Acid did not want Sienne to understand his feelings. He just wanted Sienne to be happy.

He quietly breathed and organized his mind, then looked at Sienne.

“I can read the contents of this prophecy book. According to it, I have to leave.”