I’Ll Protect My Tyrant Dad! [EN]: Chapter 37

Tyrant Dad, I’ll Protect You! 37. Ashid Was Such a Great Talent (37/140)

37. Ashid Was Such a Great Talent

2023.04.07.

The bewildered priest’s eyes widened.

The priest’s mouth dropped open.

The bluish light flowing from Ashid’s hand was excessively large. Usually, someone said to have strong divine power emits light that fills their body.

But the light Ashid was creating was so vivid and enormous that it seemed to fill the entire room.

‘Blue light, and light of this scale, is a first for me…’

He had never appraised the Pope’s divine power, but he doubted the Pope’s divine power was this great.

The priest clenched his fist and blinked.

So… that clear blue light, he had heard, was the light of a healer.

Of course, he had never seen a single healer.

A healer was a rare ability user with the power to heal all human suffering and rescue even those on the verge of death, someone the priest had only seen in textbooks.

“Is there a problem?”

Watching Ashid blink nonchalantly despite wielding such powerful force, the priest’s eyes widened.

“N, no problem…”

Even in the midst of this, the light was growing stronger, to the point of escaping outside the door. As if this cramped examination room couldn’t handle all of Ashid’s power.

The priest, momentarily speechless, turned pale.

This boy from the Mirmord family…

Was a healer, a precious being, fewer than ten of whom existed in the entire empire.

“D, does he really… have the ability?”

That such a gentle and kind-spoken boy was a precious talent of the empire.

“Y, yes…”

It was when the priest, with a dazed expression, parted his lips.

A commotion was heard from outside the door.

It seemed to be an argument between the priest and the Mirmord family members.

“Strange light is flowing out from inside! What if it’s dangerous?”

“Well, misunderstanding-.”

“Worried…”

“Nothing will happen.”

“No. Since my daughter wants to go in, let her in.”

Thud-!

The examination room door burst open.

Matthias Mirmord, known as the greatest villain even within the Mirmord family, opened the examination room door without a care.

Of course, entering the examination room during an examination was illegal, but Matthias didn’t seem to care about such things.

The priest could see Sien Mirmord, a chubby-cheeked five-year-old, clenching her fists as if to protect the boy.

Sien quickly ran towards Ashid.

“What’s this blue light? Are you okay?”

Ashid’s expression, which had been drooping with his shoulders slumped, brightened.

“Yes, yes…! I, I have the ability!”

As if he had seen the light of his life, so brightly and sweetly.

And the boy placed the rosario [prayer beads] he had been holding on the table as if it were worthless.

His expression suggested that Sien alone was valuable, rather than how great his divine power was.

***

Striding into the room, Ashid silently grabbed Delphia’s wrist. Feeling the divine power flowing from Ashid, Delphia frowned slightly.

“Ugh, divine power. It feels bad.”

Indeed, Delphia was incompatible with divine power.

Fortunately, healers possessed fraudulent abilities, so they could easily heal even humans whose bodies were inherently incompatible with divine power. She would feel a slightly unpleasant sensation, like Delphia now.

I shook my head at Delphia, who was frowning like a child who hated getting shots.

“No can do. You have to bear it.”

Delphia’s eyes fixed on me. Watching my blinking eyes, she winked one eye.

“If our master wants it, I’ll bear it.”

I had a feeling that I would be terribly entangled with Delphia, so I really hated that title of master.

But whenever I saw those curious eyes towards me, I felt like I was looking at a curious silver fox.

Even in the midst of that, Ashid silently used his divine power. Bluish light flowed from Ashid’s hand, and Delphia’s purple lips gradually regained their color.

After a few minutes, Ashid declared quietly.

“It’s purified now. It seems it was poison.”

Ashid looked down at his hand as if amazed. He seemed amazed that his healing ability was activated just by thinking about it.

I was also amazed.

I was so surprised yesterday that my cheeks almost puffed up like a pufferfish…

I didn’t know Ashid would be that rare healer.

Moreover, the fact that he was a great talent who could control divine power to some extent without much learning was another unexpected fact.

And one more amazing thing.

‘It must have been really dangerous poison, as expected of the Mirmords, a villainous family!’

To use poison on their own blood relatives, it was indeed a place rife with all sorts of infighting.

But after healing Delphia, I faced a new challenge.

Just as Grandma had taken action for me, Delphia might go and try to get revenge on Grandma.

I clenched my corn-like teeth and stared at Delphia.

“I misspoke earlier. The, the poison, actually, Grandma didn’t put it in.”

I had to protect Grandma, who was working hard for me.

“Huh? Then who put it in?”

Delphia smiled, as if she knew.

“I, I put it in. So Grandma did nothing wrong!”

…My words faltered slightly.

Delphia’s expression changed strangely at my words. With a face that seemed to be holding back laughter, yet not holding it back, she covered her mouth.

“You really…”

“…?”

“So, you poisoned and healed yourself. How cute?”

“…What?”

“To resort to such cowardly tactics, you might really surpass me.”

The words ‘cowardly tactics’ meant villainous, so it was definitely a compliment.

I nodded proudly.

Then, Delphia, who was watching my expression, said playfully.

“I’ve now given you my power and my heart.”

“Huh? I didn’t receive your heart?”

Delphia laughed, tears welling up at my words.

“Then… Master, will you be my friend too? Can’t adults and babies be friends?”

“Huh? It’s not that you can’t…”

As I rolled my eyes, Delphia opened her mouth.

“Then will you be my friend if I give you more gifts?”

“…Um, gifts?”

“Yeah.”

“Um… wait.”

Delphia got up. Her hand was trembling slightly.

I tilted my head, watching her hand approach my cheek.

“But really, can’t I pinch your cheek just once?”

I shook my head and replied primly.

“If you give me good gifts.”

As I replied, Delphia clenched her fist.

“Okay, I’ll give them to you starting tomorrow.”

“Huh? Starting tomorrow?”

“You can look forward to what gifts I’ll give.”

I don’t know what it is, but I need to revise my internal assessment of Delphia.

From a threatening person to a really strange person…!

But…!

“Okay! I’ll look forward to it!”

…Gifts are good!

“No weird stuff…!”

“Of course, baby Master.”

Delphia replied with a kind look.

I’m starting to get a little excited…!

***

After lightly handing over her leash to Sien, Delphia headed straight to Duchess Lucella’s mansion.

She was taken aback by the audacity of leaving the drawing-room door open, as if expecting her visit, when she thought they would block her.

Delphia approached the Duchess, who was gracefully drinking tea with a calm face, and plopped down opposite her.

“You put poison in my teacup.”

Delphia, who didn’t even care about etiquette, said bluntly.

The Duchess also put down her teacup with a face that didn’t care about trivial etiquette.

“Yes. Since you two were having a tea party.”

“Hmm…”

“I thought it would be hard to tolerate you trying to kill the baby.”

“…So, it’s better for me to die instead of Sien.”

“Yes.”

It was a candid admission.

As expected of a mage who often stained her hands with blood. But Delphia only chuckled.

“Is this the first time I’m grateful to the Duchess?”

The Duchess had always thought that Delphia’s crazy way of thinking always surpassed ordinary people. But this time it was really unique.

To be grateful that she put poison in her teacup.

The Duchess, who thought it was good to ask Delphia Mirmord directly to get an answer, narrowed her eyes and asked.

“What do you mean?”

“I like her so much.”

Delphia chuckled and rested her chin on the table. Her eyes were clearly fixed on Duchess Lucella.

“She’s my master now, and I’m on a leash.”

It was too raw of a face to say she was on a leash.

But the reason why Delphia’s words could not be ignored despite that…

Was because her expression, which was usually playful and lived for fun, was too serious.

“Master?”

“Yes, baby Master. I made my mana orb and gave it to Sien.”

She packaged it playfully, but giving a mana orb was not a problem to be glossed over like this.

Duchess Lucella frowned slightly.

“More… sincere than I thought.”

“Of course.”

She seemed sincere.

The moment the Duchess’s eyes narrowed as if evaluating the other person.

Delphia looked at her and said playfully.

“And I was thinking, well, isn’t ‘Master’ a more attractive nickname than ‘Honey Bread’?”

On her second visit to Duchess Lucella’s mansion in recent times, Delphia finally realized who the nickname ‘Honey Bread’ was for.

She couldn’t not know.

Even the moment she entered the mansion today, the maids were whispering.

‘I want to see Honey Bread soon.’

‘Can’t I take a vacation and go to the west mansion?’

‘What vacation… I’ve prepared candy to give to Honey Bread when he comes, so I hope he comes soon…’

Looking at the current situation, it was clear who the word ‘Honey Bread’ referred to.

A slight displeasure was revealed on the face of Duchess Lucella, who had seemed calm all along.

“Our Honey Bread will like this grandma and the word Honey Bread more.”

“Well, isn’t the nickname ‘Master’ cuter?”

The eyes of the two met in the center.

Delphia, smiling brightly, and Duchess Lucella, coldly and calmly watching the situation.

Surprisingly, it was a level where a battle for succession was raging.

Unbeknownst to Sien, the battle for Sien had begun hotly.

***

So the next day came.

After Delphia unnie [term of endearment for older sister] left, Dad said, ‘I’m glad the device installed in the tea party hall didn’t explode.’ I don’t know exactly what that means.

He must have thought I was in danger, so he called those pushover uncles and got them to find cute toy bombs or something and install them.

After brushing my teeth and washing my face, I went for a walk with the maid unnies [term of endearment for older sisters].

But…

A carriage with Delphia’s seal engraved on the outside was coming.

“It’s a bomb sent by Delphia Mirmord.”

“I’ll remove it right away.”

A cracking sound was heard as if breaking all the joints in her body.

“Shall we loosen up a bit.”

I widened my eyes and shook my head. Because the figure visible in the distance…!

I smiled broadly and clenched my fist.