I’Ll Protect My Tyrant Dad! [EN]: Chapter 108

The Tyrant Father I’ll Protect! Episode 108. From Now On, I’ll Show You Dad’s Abilities (108/140)

From Now On, I’ll Show You Dad’s Abilities

“They said Yuela’s bloodline inherited the blood of the extinct fairy race.”

“Fairy race……?”

The word ‘fairy race’ sounded strangely familiar, and as I pondered, I suddenly slapped my knee.

When I was five years old and struggling to get rid of the head of the family’s education center, Leonhardt had given me a fairy necklace.

“Yuela was the last fairy’s daughter. Though that blood didn’t reach you, Cien.”

“Fairies are… a very pure race, right? But they can summon demons?”

“……That’s why Dad doesn’t believe Yuela summoned a demon.”

I quietly stared at Dad. Conviction flickered in his eyes.

And I believed in that Dad.

It wasn’t that I believed in my mother, Yuela, whom I had never met, but that I believed in Dad’s conviction.

“……Okay, I understand, Dad. I’ll think about it a lot too.”

Gathering the bits and pieces of information that had come from the Pope and Dad so far, it was like this:

1. Mom, Yuela, went to find Moira, the God of Time, to save me.

2. I don’t know what happened, but I lived, and Mom died implicated in the charge of summoning a demon.

3. I don’t know how it happened, but I have memories from before my reincarnation.

4. The prophecy seems to say that Acid will kill all the Mirmords, including me.

5. Like Mom, who left for Moira to protect me, Acid has embarked on a journey to protect the Mirmords.

The thought occurred to me that I just needed to find the missing pieces of the puzzle here.

‘There’s no mention of a prophecy in the original story, and there’s even less about Mom going to find Moira and summoning a demon. It’s really strange…….’

In many ways, it was full of suspicious and curious things.

‘Is there anything I can do?’

Right now, I couldn’t know exactly why Mom, Yuela, went to find Moira, the God of Time.

With Acid having just left, there was nothing more I could find out.

Just as frustration was about to set in, a lightning-like realization flashed through my mind.

‘No, why isn’t there anything I can find out?’

At this moment, there was exactly one thing I could do.

I had to catch Saintess Melodia, who had the ‘prophecy,’ and check the entire contents of the prophecy, and I had to prepare to build a solid foundation for the Mirmord family until Acid returned.

I clenched my fist and waved it threateningly at Dad, saying,

“Dad.”

“Yeah?”

“Thinking about it, we’ve already become rebels who invaded the Central Temple.”

“Ah, about that.”

“……I have something prepared.”

“Dad also prepared something…….”

Dad and I met eyes in the center. I spat out the small candy I had been carrying under my tongue since I was deliberately kidnapped.

“Cien?”

The villainous Dad, who ‘pretended’ to value etiquette, wore a flustered expression. Regardless, I clenched my fist and shook it gently.

The Pope’s voice, who had kidnapped me, began to flow out through the gap.

“It’s a recording candy.”

“……Huh?”

“I deliberately put it in my mouth very small, but you didn’t notice. Now, just embellish it appropriately and spread it.”

Dad blinked and said.

“Cien, um, Dad too…….”

“Yeah?”

“I did prepare something…….”

We had already passed through the empty underground of the Central Temple, crossed the temple’s garden, and passed through the main gate. Dad smiled and snapped his fingers lightly.

As soon as Dad’s finger snap ended, the sound of something breaking was heard in the distance.

“……Huh?”

The temple was collapsing.

I stared at the temple collapsing in the distance with wide eyes. The collapse of the Central Temple’s pillars was not a simple matter.

Because the power of God was protecting the temple, the Central Temple had not undergone repairs for a very long time. For such a temple to collapse meant…….

“I was going to spread the story that the temple was cursed because the pillars were broken.”

Huh……?

“You can destroy the temple? How did you destroy it?”

“Since the Pope, the axis of the temple’s great power, died, I took advantage of the weakened power to spread monsters. Your grandmother and Delphia’s subordinates, who were holed up at home, went to destroy it instead, excited.”

“Heok [a gasp].”

“Delphia was disappointed, and Grandma was more excited than I thought. She said she got a chance to exert her power after a long time.”

‘I think I would have been a little scared…….’

I was impressed by their villainous aspects.

‘I see why the temple was wary. I understand why the Mirmord family is quietly like a sleeping dragon, but the temple keeps hovering around and trying to get rid of them.’

“That’s a relief. It’s really collapsing with excitement!”

The temple scattered with a bang, as if dynamite had been installed.

It was fortunate that there were no casualties because it was night and they were destroying the sacred temple area, not the priests’ quarters.

“That’s right. Since the Pope died, the divine power surrounding the Central Temple must have taken quite a hit.”

Even though he lived like Melodia’s puppet, the Pope was one of the temple’s great powers. Since he died after exhausting all his power, the temple building itself must have been greatly affected.

“I see. Good job!”

“Eung [a casual affirmation].”

Staring at me intently, Dad shrugged his shoulders as if he was proud. I could only admire his villainous appearance.

But now was not the time to admire Dad’s villainous side.

Bang! Bang!

While blankly staring at the temple exploding with loud noises, I hesitated and continued to speak.

“And Dad, actually, there’s something I want to tell you…….”

“What is it, Cien?”

“Um……. Well, I was going to say that the Pope was possessed by a vengeful spirit and suddenly kidnapped noble young ladies and poor commoners…….”

With the Pope dead, it would be easy to coax a priest and get information about human sacrifices.

“Dad will do that too.”

“Huh?”

“From now on, I’ll show you Dad’s abilities.”

“……Um, like the best villain of Mirmord?”

Dad’s face clouded over for a moment at that, and he avoided my gaze.

I glared at Dad and pouted my lips.

“Okay. Do well, Dad! Find Saintess Melodia and retrieve the prophecy too!”

Even as I said that, I was overlooking Dad’s ‘villainy.’ I thought Dad would resolve the situation in a timely manner, but still.

And, the next morning.

I was led by Dad’s hand, rubbing my sleepy eyes, and went out into the street.

***

“Extra, extra!”

The voice of the newspaper-selling boy announcing the extra loudly changed the quiet atmosphere of the early dawn.

Until then, people thought there would be some appropriate gossip written in the newspaper. There were even those who were annoyed and tried to throw the newspaper, scattered haphazardly in the alley, straight into the trash.

However, even those who looked annoyed, those with sleepy eyes, and those who started business early in the morning froze like stones after seeing the newspaper headlines.

That was because…….

[Breaking News] Pope Dies, What is the Reason?

[Breaking News] Is the Temple’s Corruption Okay as It Is?

[Report] The Temple Stained with Kidnapping and Human Sacrifice…… Digging into Their Two Faces!

[Breaking News] The Empire’s Successor, Who Was in Collusion with the Temple, Will He Disappear Like This?

[Front Page] A State of Confusion, the Successor’s Position…… Will Grand Duke Selbastian Take It?

“What is this?”

The gossip covered in the newspaper this time was an issue that had not occurred even once in the last few decades.

The Pope died, the Saintess ran away, and the Crown Prince was stripped of his title.

The reason the Pope died was because his corruption was exposed, and the Saintess and the Crown Prince lost their authority after living as the Pope’s assistants.

The downfall of three super-powerful figures who dominated the empire happened in just one night!

The grandmother standing at the fruit store stall in the central square hurriedly grabbed her surprised, throbbing heart. For the lower people, the lives of the upper people were not something to talk about in the first place.

But lately, very strange things had been happening.

The upper people, that is…….

“His Holiness the Pope has passed away, is this even possible?”

“Not only that. Human sacrifice, kidnapping charges…… Look at this recording!”

“It’s also written here that His Majesty the Emperor was very angry after seeing this.”

The newspaper stated the Emperor’s threat that he “will not condone the negative collusion between divine power and imperial power.” It was an open attitude to be at odds with the Crown Prince.

The storytellers in the street were constantly gossiping about this incident.

“So, listen. A big deal has happened, literally!”

“I know it’s a big deal. What will happen in the future?”

“His Highness Grand Duke Selbastian may take the position of His Highness the Crown Prince…….”

“Hey, you! Don’t say such scary things. You don’t know what will happen!”

A girl with a silk scarf on her head and a tall man with a hat pulled down to the end were passing by that spot.

It was a suspicious appearance that anyone would have noticed under normal circumstances, but now it was an emergency situation.

It was a situation where even an orangutan walking around naked would not receive a single glance.

And the girl who was eavesdropping on the rumors in that city and went out into the alley was…….

“Hoo! I thought I was going to die from frustration!”

I was the one who checked people’s reactions while passing through the city with silk on my head, and I opened my mouth wide in an empty alley.

“Can the situation change like this in just one day? Did this really happen?”

And the man next to me, who took off his hat, smiled at me.

This man next to me was none other than my dad.

“Yes.”

“You finished all this in the morning? Dad is really a villain?”

Dad’s face clouded over for a moment at the words ‘real villain.’

Dad gently stroked my hair and smiled.

“It’s an overstatement, Cien. It would have been impossible without the candy-type magic tool our daughter gave me.”

“Hoo, ha. Still, in just one day…… I didn’t know everything would change so drastically.”

Dad smiled at me with a proud expression.

“Take a deep breath and watch.”

“…….”

“Did Dad do well?”

It seemed like there was a tail attached to Dad’s back.

A tail that was shaking fiercely like a puppy.

I took a deep breath and turned away from the newspaper with trembling hands.

One day.

In just one day, everything changed drastically.

The Saintess disappeared, the Pope died, the temple became the target of criticism, and the Crown Prince’s title, who was in collusion with such a temple, was also revoked.

Currently, the Crown Prince was said to be in custody within the Imperial Palace.

As I came out of the alley, I began to hear from Dad exactly what had happened.

And…….

“So Saintess Melodia really ran away? What really happened to the Crown Prince?”