I’Ll Protect My Tyrant Dad! [EN]: Chapter 38

Tyrant Daddy is My Protector! Episode 38. I’ll Become a Terrifying Demon (38/140)

38. I’ll Become a Terrifying Demon

2023.04.11.

“That’s good! A present!”

Despite my protests, the maids’ attitude was very firm.

“A present? This is no present! It must be threatening Lady Ciel!”

“Exterminate that ferocious thing immediately—”

Cutting off the maids’ words, I shouted loudly.

“No! I like goblins!”

Because it’s the cute goblin I wanted so much!

Leaving the maids behind, I clenched my fists tightly and ran excitedly towards Blin.

Before I knew it, the carriage had arrived at the field of our mansion.

Delphia’s servant and the goblin in the carriage were looking at me with innocent eyes.

Delphia’s servant, looking terrified, delivered the message to me.

“S-So… the news that Lady Ciel likes goblins… I-I’m sorry.”

“Why are you sorry?!”

“T-To send such a hideous thing as a gift… Lady Delphia likes to j-joke…”

I tilted my head at the servant’s words.

And I looked at the goblin with a heart full of happiness.

The goblin didn’t say anything but stared at me with a villainous expression.

It was very cute.

“I like Blin!”

“B-Blin…?”

I’ve already decided on a nickname.

“It’s a nickname!”

Surname Go!

Name Blin!

***

A rumor spread widely throughout the world.

The rumor was that Delphia Mirmod was crazy. She was collecting all kinds of monster poisons and evil magical tools.

The story that Delphia was struggling to gain an advantage in the succession structure became the accepted theory, but well.

…The reality was a little different.

All the monster poisons and evil magical tools that Delphia collected were….

“Hehe, Daddy. How am I?”

Right in my hands, Ciel’s.

I smiled slyly and brought my hand to my mouth.

“Let’s eat bread quickly, Ciel… It’s dinner time.”

“Okay!”

Watching me eat bread vigorously, Dad said with a complicated expression.

“The goblin is in the underground prison… no, locked in the basement.”

“Huh. Underground? Our Blin! He’s my companion monster…!”

When I looked a little sullen, Dad said carefully.

“Blin… likes darkness a lot…”

Dad muttered, washing his face with a complicated expression.

“How did my daughter come to like something like a goblin…”

I made him face reality.

“Daddy. You have to adapt now.”

“….”

“Now Ciel will become a very terrifying demon…”

When I said slyly, Dad asked with a complicated expression.

“How… did you come to like something so… scary, Ciel?”

“Just because. Ciel has always been like this.”

Dad hesitated and stopped talking.

“….”

I blinked several times to change the situation and changed the subject.

“Daddy, but you know, Delphia seems like a pretty okay sister.”

Fortunately, Dad joined in on my change of subject.

Although he looked a little displeased.

“…Are you charmed by the gift?”

I shook the letter I had put in my pocket and said.

“But she gave me Blin, and she gave me a letter… Um, it’s good.”

The contents of the letter she wrote were a bit ambiguous….

[The reason you’re gathering ability users like healers is to get stronger. If Matthias Mirmod harasses or tries to kill you, come to me.]

It seems she has a severe misunderstanding about Dad.

I said carefully so that Dad wouldn’t feel bad.

“But, that sister, she thinks too badly of Daddy!”

“Is that… so?”

“Yes. She told me to come to her if Daddy harasses me. Where is there a kind person like our Daddy?”

Delphia’s only problem is that.

She sees our good and kind Daddy as a villain.

But well….

It was better for that rumor to spread within the family.

I decided not to correct that part and decided to take the next step.

“Oh, I’m going to write a reply now!”

I called the maid and quickly received a quill and stationery.

Meanwhile, Dad’s dark, abyss-like eyes were staring at me the whole time, but writing a letter was important, so I ignored it for now.

At the dinner table. I picked up the quill and wrote the letter very politely.

[That’s right. Our Daddy is not stupid at all. He’s not a pushover, and he’s very, very bad.

Actually… his personality is similar to a demon.

Surprised? Scary?]

After writing this far in crooked letters, I pondered for a moment.

What Delphia likes the most these days….

[Then I’ll come visit next time. Bye.]

I thought this was a pretty polite letter for a child.

Looking down at the letter I had written after a long time, I felt quite proud.

I folded the letter like origami and handed it to the maid.

Dad stared at me writing the letter diligently with a dazed expression.

***

When Ciel left the table, dancing a cute butt dance, Matthias felt the need to investigate why Ciel had become like this again.

As a result of the investigation, Delphia Mirmod was definitely on the decline and was dedicating everything to Ciel….

What on earth did she say to Ciel to bewitch her like that?

Ciel is cute, but even her doting father had doubts, so this situation was somehow strange.

He, who could never overlook anything unsettling about Ciel, decided to dispatch an investigation team immediately.

A few minutes later, Matthias’ close aides gathered at his word.

“Ciel is becoming more and more like this family.”

“Yes, Matthias-nim.”

“Why did my daughter become like this?”

He added with a questioning look.

“Are five-year-olds originally… like this? Find out properly.”

As soon as they heard his words, more than ten subordinates bowed down.

When ten men with fierce impressions knelt on the floor, the sight was truly spectacular.

However, Matthias muttered languidly as if he were used to the sight.

“Get up. And if there is anyone who has a bad influence on my daughter….”

They rose to their feet to deal with the evil and wicked things around Ciel.

“Bring them alive before my eyes. And… Delphia Mirmod.”

The person who received Ciel’s letter, which Matthias had not received many times.

Matthias gritted his teeth.

How dare that humble person receive my precious daughter’s letter? The same complex thoughts flashed through his mind.

In a bleak and quiet atmosphere, Matthias muttered quietly.

“I heard that person swore allegiance to Ciel.”

Not long ago, Matthias attacked a key point in Delphia’s territory. He expected Delphia to struggle as she was a fairly skilled opponent. However, Delphia Mirmod collapsed far too easily.

As if she had planned to fall into Matthias’ hands.

It was foreseen, but it was an unsettling victory.

One of those who knew the fact carefully opened his mouth.

“Yes, that’s right.”

“When everything is over, catch her alive too.”

…I’ll have to have a conversation with Delphia soon.

After all, Delphia was definitely a person of interest who seemed to have a bad influence on Ciel.

She even dared to give Ciel a goblin as a gift, so she was harm itself.

***

Meanwhile, the next morning.

Inside the temple.

Ted, who had fallen asleep immediately after returning from the tea party yesterday, headed to the training hall. It was to carry out the official training schedule for the holy knights.

But today, the atmosphere of the training hall was a little strange.

The few holy knights gathered in the hall kept glancing at Ted.

Moreover, their faces were flushed.

In short, they seemed a little excited.

‘What on earth is going on.’

But training came first.

As Ted finished all the sparring and put his sword into its scabbard, the group of holy knights who had been gathered together approached Ted as if they had been waiting.

“Hey, Ted!”

“Congratulations!”

“What….”

It was sudden to hear congratulations.

“Your brother is amazing!”

“Yes? What does that….”

Even sudden praise for his brother.

He hadn’t said that he had a younger brother. Of course, he didn’t intend to hide it, but he didn’t intend to reveal it openly.

The holy knights tilted their heads at the bewildered Ted.

“Huh? Ted, didn’t you know?”

“Your brother came to the temple yesterday!”

“Really, he had amazing abilities!”

Finally, the whole story began to be revealed to Ted.

When the priest saw his face turn white, he tilted his head, and Ted asked carefully.

“…Did Acid come to the temple?”

Ted’s face was filled with confusion.

The other holy knights also shrugged their shoulders with embarrassed expressions.

“Yes! Surely you haven’t heard?”

“Yes, I was at the tea party that day….”

“A tea party… Ah, with Priestess Gabrielle?”

“Yes.”

The holy knight made a knowing expression.

“The Mirmod family asked you to stay, but I wondered why you ignored it and went to the tea party.”

“That’s a tea party you don’t have to go to… Priestess Gabrielle must have made a special request?”

“Still, your brother came, so you should have been at the temple rather than the tea party.”

Gabrielle hadn’t said a word to him about Acid. She looked anxious at the tea party all day yesterday.

The pieces were slowly falling into place.

Ted clenched his fist.

“….”

Living as a holy knight, he was quite sensitive. He thought he could distinguish between the goodwill and hostility of others.

But he didn’t think that Gabrielle, who was only about ten years old, would act so shrewdly.

He didn’t think that his precious younger brother, Acid, would have the courage to come and see him, but he wouldn’t be able to meet him….

“Hey, Ted, Ted!”

“Where are you going, that friend!”

Ted hurriedly started running without even saying hello to the holy knights.

He had to go to Priestess Gabrielle.

***

Gabrielle was staying in her room.

She looked delighted to hear that Ted had come.

“Ah, Ted. What’s wrong?”

“…I greet the priestess.”

She pointed to the table and smiled brightly at Ted.

That smile, which would have looked lovely in normal times, did not feel good to Ted.

“Priestess, I heard that my brother came yesterday. Did you know that in advance?”

Gabrielle’s expression became ambiguous at Ted’s blunt words.

But she soon hardened her lips as if she had made a decision.

“Ah, yes. Acid, was it?”

“…Yes.”

“I knew. But protecting me is more important than that brother. Of course, that brother….”

A greedy smile inevitably spread across Gabrielle’s lips.

“I heard that he is quite a remarkable talent.”

“….”

“I think it would be good if that child protected me with Ted.”

Ted’s gaze towards Gabrielle turned cold.

But even at this moment, Gabrielle didn’t seem to think that Ted was angry at all.

She just stared at Ted with an innocent face, as if she thought Ted would naturally accept her proposal.

It was time to point it out.

Priestess Gabrielle, your attitude is wrong.

And now it is time to leave the temple and serve Ciel.

“What do you think, Ted? About protecting me with Acid.”

It was a very hateful thing for the young girl who had arranged for Ted and Acid not to meet to say.

With Gabrielle’s one word, the relationship between Ted and Acid once again drew a parallel line.

His younger brother, who must have been hurt, had the courage to come, but he ended up standing him up.

But after learning that Acid has healing abilities, she changes her attitude like this?

How can a young girl be so heartless and shrewd?

Ted couldn’t help but be angry for a moment and gritted his teeth.