I’Ll Protect My Tyrant Dad! [EN]: Chapter 45

I widened my eyes and looked at him.

A Roma woman with a shaman son would have no reason to go to the battlefield. The Roma weren’t particularly strong in combat.

“He said he would work hard to help someone high up… So he would come back. Of course, it could be a lie.”

The captain’s eyes were full of spirit as he said that.

I was slowly thinking of asking him his name, taking his hand, and taking him home.

But it was at that moment.

The paladin Ted and Acid, and the muscle maids who were guarding me as I talked to the captain, simultaneously fixed their gazes elsewhere.

“There are shady guys over there!”

“Capture them!”

At that moment, Deadly unnie [older sister/female honorific for older sister or respected female figure] spat out a curse that she would never utter, thanks to my usual education.

“Catch those bastards!”

The captain and I widened our eyes.

Ted stepped forward first, and Acid and the captain stood closely in front of me as if to protect me.

“Wh-what is it?!”

***

The muscle maids and Ted roughly sensed the power of Pat and Mat.

However, they hadn’t been able to catch them because they were so well hidden in the shadows.

But Pat and Mat momentarily let their guard down the moment they saw Cien’s good deeds.

That’s because the child didn’t counterattack the captain who attacked him, but embraced him with a generous heart. Moreover, he publicly announced that he would sponsor the orphanage. That little kid… to have such admirable thoughts.

Their hearts were momentarily choked up, so they momentarily forgot to hide in the shadows.

“It’s purifying…”.

“We were assigned to this job… it’s fortunate.”

And at that moment when they let their guard down. The paladin Ted, who had sworn allegiance to Cien, looked at them.

At that moment, Pat and Mat thought they had to run, but they were overwhelmed by Ted’s sudden divine power.

If the two of them used their full power, they could have escaped or killed Ted.

But…….

“Moya [what]?”

Cien was looking at them.

Escape necessarily involves a fight. They couldn’t dare to splatter blood in front of the pure, lovely, and kind Cien. So they couldn’t dare to run away and were captured and dragged out.

Being dragged out helplessly.

Pat and Mat were dragged out in front of Cien with their eyes lowered.

“Cien-nim [honorific suffix]. This guy kept watching us.”

Ted reported calmly, and the muscle maids took over the words.

“That’s right. He’s been watching us creepily since earlier!”

Pat and Mat smiled to look as innocent as possible. They had expressions that said, ‘We’re good people.’

Cien’s eyes shone fiercely at the sight.

“Name moya [what]!”

Cien clenched his tiny fists and glared at Pat and Mat.

“Let’s take them, unnies [older sisters/female honorific]!”

Pat and Mat widened their eyes. Mat, overwhelmed by Cien’s cuteness and charisma, hesitated and said.

“Wh-where are you going…….”

“Where else would we go! To our house! Captain, you come too!”

……And so, Pat and Mat, and the captain left the orphanage and entered the Mirmord mansion. To the place where Matthias Mirmord was waiting.

……He told us to monitor quietly, but we got caught like fools.

Pat and Mat sensed that today would be their death anniversary.

***

“Appa [dad], this is the captain!”

Cien stood proudly in front of Matthias, having dragged all three of them.

Matthias smiled coldly at Pat and Mat, then looked down at Cien affectionately. It was like Jekyll and Hyde, but Cien didn’t notice it.

Matthias asked Cien warmly.

“Captain?”

“Ung [yes]! I went to volunteer at the orphanage and brought a chinggu [friend]! Heet [giggle]!”

“You went to volunteer at the orphanage…….”

Matthias glared coldly at the captain. With eyes that said, ‘Is he a jerk trying to rip off the kind Cien?’

But no matter how he looked at it, he didn’t seem like it.

He decided to monitor him and leave him alone for now since he hadn’t harmed Cien yet, and he stroked Cien’s head with an impressed expression.

“Our daughter did a good thing?”

“Ung [yes]!”

“Appa [dad] is so touched…… I’m getting a little teary.”

Matthias’s voice was slightly tearful. Of course, it was half acting.

Cien stomped her feet and grabbed her dad’s hand tightly.

“Appa [dad] babo [fool]. Your heart is too soft.”

“Eung [yes]……. Right.”

The captain, who didn’t know much about Matthias’s rumors, didn’t seem very impressed.

But Pat and Mat were staring at the scene with their mouths open.

Is this the Matthias-nim [honorific] we knew?

Are we seeing things because we’re about to die?

“Ah, but Cien.”

And then came news like a bolt from the blue for them.

“Did our daughter catch these bad people?”

Pat and Mat looked at Matthias as if they were wronged. But Matthias had already cut ties with them.

Cien pointed at Pat and Mat with a bright smile.

“But these ahjussis [uncles/men] are babos [fools]!”

“Huh? Why?”

“I thought they were going to run away, but they got caught right away! I’m going to hit them!”

“Shouldn’t you…… leave it to Appa [dad]? Appa [dad] will interrogate them. Cien is still young.”

Cien narrowed her eyes and looked at Matthias.

She had an expression that said, ‘Is this kind Appa [dad] going to be a pushover again and not interrogate them properly?’

“Ung [yes]! After Appa [dad] interrogates them, Cien will interrogate them again!”

Matthias looked at Pat and Mat without hiding his ferocious expression.

“Right. They might be stupid spies who got caught by a paladin…….”

Pat and Mat felt a chill run down their spines.

Death seemed to be approaching.

But fortunately for them, it seemed that there was a god, Matthias took his eyes off them and looked at Cien warmly again.

“Daughter, so what did you do at the orphanage today?”

“Hehe, thinking of Appa [dad].”

At those words, Matthias grinned. It was quite cute to see a beaming smile spread across his cold face.

Of course, this was from Cien’s point of view.

In other words, he looked like a vicious grim reaper to others.

Cien poked her dad’s cheek with her index finger and smiled.

“Babu [fool]. Giyeowo [cute].”

Pat and Mat had expressions on their faces that said, ‘Am I seeing things because I’m about to die?’

Even though she’s his daughter, she dared to do something that damaged Matthias-nim’s [honorific] authority…….

It seemed that Matthias-nim [honorific] liked Cien a little, but she dared to touch his face.

It’s been a serious situation since earlier. Are we really going to die like this?

Even Matthias-nim [honorific] was smiling so hard that his mouth was tearing. Like a vicious grim reaper.

Pat and Mat, who had already become very fond of Cien, opened their mouths at the same time.

Please don’t bother Cien.

“Th-.”

……But, Matthias said shyly.

“Appa [dad] is originally cute, right? And kind.”

They flinched, shocked.

The world turned upside down.

Matthias-nim [honorific] said such a thing……?

And there was one more person who was confused.

It was Acid, who had awakened to save Cien.

He even awakened his healer abilities to save Cien from Matthias Mirmord. What’s going on.

Acid looked at them with a more chaotic gaze than the villains.

He had to go find Leonhardt, who had told him the story.

***

Perhaps because Axel Mirmord was about to arrive at the mansion, the atmosphere at Leonhardt’s mansion was crowded.

Even in the midst of all this, he appeared silently without showing any annoyance when he heard that Acid had come.

“Did something happen to Bamtol [chestnut/Cien]?”

Acid carefully mentioned the situation he had observed so far.

Leonhardt’s face turned pale in an instant.

“……Wh-what? No way.”

Unlike the flustered Acid, Leonhardt quickly regained his composure.

He bit his lip and muttered.

“That genius…… finally won over even Matthias-nim [honorific]?”

“I think so.”

Leonhardt put his hand to his mouth and muttered.

“It’s really cool. At this rate, he might even break that threatening Axel-nim [honorific]…….”

Acid’s eyes twinkled as his shoulders drooped at the thought that he couldn’t protect Cien.

“Axel-nim [honorific]?”

Leonhardt looked at Acid and nodded. The Acid in front of him didn’t seem to know who Axel was.

“Right. Didn’t I tell you?”

Looking at Acid’s docile face, he seemed to have forgotten even if he had told him.

Leonhardt briefly explained who Axel Mirmord was.

There were two mad dogs in the Mirmord family, one was Matthias and the other was Axel.

After Matthias was pushed out of the succession due to some incident, Axel Mirmord gradually seized power.

But he left the Axel mansion to his close aides and rolled around on the battlefield. As if he couldn’t stand killing anymore.

That was actually the case. Axel Mirmord slaughtered people like a blood-crazed demon. There were rumors that good and bad people alike were butchered by his hands.

Unlike Matthias, who planned and killed only those who got in his way, he acted like a truly crazy dog who had gone mad.

So he was literally a very scary person.

Leonhardt glanced at the pocket watch in his arms.

Acid tilted his head, looking at him quietly.

“Ah, I should go soon. It’s time for me to receive teachings from the Duchess. These days, she’s brainwashing me that I have to follow Bamtol [chestnut/Cien]. I’m already loyal to Bamtol [chestnut/Cien].”

These days, Leonhardt was taking separate classes from a wizard at the Duchess’s mansion. It seemed like he was talking about that. Acid nodded enviously and then replied.

“Yes, let’s go together!”

Acid wanted to hear more. Stories about Cien, told by the people around Cien.

When he heard those stories, his mood fluctuated like waves, but he still didn’t want to not hear them. Because he kept wanting to know about Cien.

‘The more I listen, the weirder I feel.’

He didn’t know exactly why he felt weird.

Whenever he heard Cien’s acquaintances talking about Cien that he didn’t know, his heart felt strangely wavy. Sometimes it felt like the waves of a calm sea, and sometimes he felt strange.

Acid, who was still young, was not aware that the feeling was jealousy.

As Acid took a step, intoxicated with his emotions, Leonhardt was in a similar situation. He swallowed a groan and muttered softly.

“Anyway, even though it’s Bamtol [chestnut/Cien], he won over Matthias-nim [honorific]…… How is that possible. Is he really a god?”

In fact, Cien didn’t win him over, and Matthias had loved Cien from the beginning. Leonhardt didn’t have such thoughts.

He was just making extremely reasonable suspicions from his point of view that Bamtol [chestnut/Cien] had won over even Matthias, just as he had done to him.

“To you…….”

“Is he a god to you?”

Acid nodded shyly and carefully. He was too flustered earlier, so the words came out too easily. But now he was embarrassed again.

Leonhardt glanced at Acid and then fell into his own thoughts again.

He even won over Acid.

In the world, handling people is called mercenary tactics. Bamtol [chestnut/Cien] didn’t even learn mercenary tactics, but how can he apply it so well in real life?

Is he really a god?

In this way, new misunderstandings about Cien were piled up in Leonhardt’s heart.

He rubbed his dry face and whispered softly.

“I knew he was a genius, but I didn’t know he was so good at mercenary tactics. I respect him humanly.”

A new misunderstanding was added to the misunderstanding.