I’Ll Protect My Tyrant Dad! [EN]: Chapter 61

I Protect My Tyrant Father! 61. How Dare You Touch My Daughter (61/140)

61. How Dare You Touch My Daughter

2023.06.30.

Today, I met with Princess Anessa again.

She searched my body to see if I had a recording device, and then she started to torment me.

It was common for her to pinch my cheeks as a way of venting her anger.

“Baby, does it hurt a lot?”

“No.”

When I said that so confidently, the princess would glare at me and whisper in a low voice.

“Cry and say you’ll listen, ask me to help you. Then I’ll help you not fall all the way to hell.”

“I don’t want to.”

She smiled sarcastically and touched me again.

“You’re just a fake daughter, and you still don’t know your place. Shall we do a little more then?”

I endured it all the while.

After pinching my face, she would pour holy water on my cheeks.

It was so my cheeks wouldn’t swell up or scar as if I had been hit. It seemed she was getting rid of anything that could be used as evidence.

‘Okay, honestly, it’s not a big deal. I can handle it.’

I had to slowly and silently accept what Princess Anessa’s intentions were and exactly what she was going to do.

That woman sees me as just a cunning ‘little kid’.

So, I had to let her be careless like that, and I couldn’t suddenly act rashly.

‘My dad is more precious than my body. That person might use me to do something to my dad.’

So, I silently endured her attitude.

Today, she and I were talking together in a small drawing room.

Princess Anessa kept talking about me being a fake daughter and generously shared her information with me.

“Do you think you’re a fake daughter now? Have you heard the rumors?”

“Did you spread the rumors?”

“Oh, I thought you were stupid, but you can guess that much. I did a little something, do you like it? What do you think about the rumors, Ciel?”

“Yeah. I guess I’m a fake daughter.”

When I pretended to be sulky, the corners of her lips turned up.

“There’s also a rumor that your mother rescued you from a hut before she died. There’s also a story that the real daughter was switched at the hospital. The latter is more credible. So, if you find the real daughter, you’re done for.”

What she said was exactly what I had heard from Delphia.

There were no other special words.

‘Does this woman not have any more information either?’

Thinking that it was time to stop doing this, I remained silent.

As if she thought I was hurt, a bitter smile appeared on her lips.

Now it was time for her to make scratches on my face with those long nails.

If I didn’t act according to her intentions, Princess Anessa would lose her temper and suddenly strike me. After that, she would throw holy water on my scratched cheeks to heal them and then leave.

As if she was going to do that again today, Princess Anessa raised her hand.

But…….

Contrary to my expectations, she lowered her eyebrows and whispered to me.

“Ciel, how can you say such scary things?”

I tilted my head.

I wondered what she was up to, since she had been cursing me all along.

“Even if you don’t want me to be your stepmother…….”

The princess even shed tears from her beautiful eyes.

I gaped.

‘So, this woman is suddenly doing this……. This is……. It’s like something out of a weekend drama……!’

Just as I was sweating in my hands at the dramatic situation.

Tap, tap. Tap.

Quick footsteps were heard from the doorway.

The murmuring voices of people also began to ring sharply in my ears.

As if she thought she had finally reached the climax, Princess Anessa shouted theatrically.

“It’s hard for me too if you torment me like this! Other people like me……. Even if you think of me as a stepmother, please keep it within reason!”

“H, huh?”

“I’ve even put up with you calling me a stepmother every time!”

Finally, there was a loud noise as the door slid open.

And outside were the maids, Duchess Lucella, Leonhardt, and Delphia.

Princess Anessa lowered her eyelashes sadly and lowered her eyes.

“I’m……. I’m not hurt by the words of a five-year-old.”

Princess Anessa muttered with an expression that anyone could see was hurt.

“Even if Ciel throws my heart away like this.”

I admired her brilliant acting.

Anyone who saw that would reach out to her. Thinking that her heart was aching, they wouldn’t even know what was inside that angelic appearance.

Princess Anessa had been building up her reputation in this mansion for a short time.

That magical tool-like thing that the woman was hiding in her arms for a moment was probably something with a brainwashing effect.

Princess Anessa seemed to think that people would fall for her acting.

But there was something that Princess Anessa had overlooked.

These people are…….

“What a load of bull, you b*tch.”

……are on my side.

Delphia’s words, “What a load of bull, you b*tch,” echoed loudly in the drawing room.

I smiled and tilted my head.

The fact that I had cut off almost all contact with the family members to deceive Princess Anessa finally paid off.

‘Stupid Princess Anessa.’

Since no one got angry even when I was hit by Princess Anessa, Princess Anessa must have thought that I was the black sheep of the Mirmord family.

Even when I spread the rumor that I was a fake daughter, no one got angry, so she must have thought that her plan had worked and she was rejoicing and carrying out her next plan.

“……What a load of, you said?”

For a moment, Princess Anessa trembled her lips as if she didn’t know what she had heard.

I began to watch the situation with interest.

“What did you just……say?”

“I said it’s a load of bull.”

The princess looked flustered at Delphia’s violent remarks.

It’s no wonder. The princess must have put a lot of effort into Delphia until now.

She might have been mistaken that they had all come over to her side.

But people like Delphia were not interested in people who were nice to them. She was the type who was only nice to the people she was interested in.

“Why, do you want me to curse you more?”

The princess’s face was stained with embarrassment at Delphia’s words.

Besides, contrary to the princess’s expectations, people really liked me.

I was a little embarrassed that they liked me even though I didn’t do anything.

‘So, Princess, I’ve secured a much more advantageous position than you, that’s what it is.’

People like the princess are like that.

They think that everyone will like them and that they can construct human relationships as they want.

They think that everyone will play along with the game they’ve set up.

It’s not unreasonable for her to think that way.

Serena Anessa is the princess of a great empire. Until now, no one would have been able to displease her.

But she was wrong.

No, even if she was right usually, today was not.

Duchess Lucella, who had been coldly watching Princess Anessa’s flustered appearance, opened her mouth gracefully.

“Step back, Delphia. Princess, there’s no way our Honey Bread [term of endearment for Ciel] would do that. You must have misunderstood.”

“I was also surprised to see Ciel’s violent side.”

It was funny that she was trying to slander me again, as if she didn’t understand the situation properly yet.

Princess Anessa lowered her trembling eyelashes.

The grandmother, who was staring at her, said in a sweet voice.

“No? What I mean is, Princess, what kind of trick are you playing?”

Of course, the content of the words was not sweet.

‘The elegant grandmother used the expression ‘what kind of trick’…… Seeing that she used the way of speaking that Delphia usually uses……. She seems very angry, it’s scary!’

The princess, embarrassed by her grandmother’s appearance, rose to her feet and bit her lip tightly.

“……Even if this is Mirmord, I am a princess, how can you use such expressions?”

However, even if she said that, there was no one here who would move according to her intentions.

Delphia smirked and laughed.

“I was crawling around like a dog, but you were just a human who made up dog-like sounds as if they were real? You framed our baby, you did. But do you expect to be treated like a human?”

Princess Anessa straightened her back and glared at me. Then Leonhardt strode over and stood next to me. As if he was going to be a knight to protect me.

“That’s right, Princess, you must have done something wrong, right?”

She must have noticed that everyone in this place was hostile to her.

When her acting didn’t work, the princess looked confused for a moment, as if this wasn’t right.

I watched her facial expressions closely.

‘In the past, she must have always slandered people in this way.’

It didn’t matter if Princess Anessa’s acting was a little sloppy. She was a princess and had an angelic image. If you spread rumors that the people around her were uniquely slandering the princess, that was all you had to do.

But today was different.

No matter what anyone said, the people here were my people.

Delphia sighed deeply as if she was getting angry and said roughly.

“I’m really going crazy. What are you standing there blankly for? Princess? Get lost.”

……No, it wasn’t just rough.

Delphia even raised her fist at the same time as she cursed.

“Our master wouldn’t do that? Don’t piss me off and get lost.”

The princess must have thought of me as just a young child who was being quietly bullied. And she must have been mistaken that she had easily won over the Mirmord people.

She trembled with rising betrayal and futility and closed and opened her eyes tightly.

But it was at that moment.

Leonhardt looked at Delphia with surprising calmness.

“Delphia.”

Even if others didn’t know, I could see his rapidly sinking tension.

“Ah, why! Aren’t you angry? She’s slandering us right now!”

Delphia ruffled her silver hair wildly. Then Leonhardt raised the poison he was holding in his hand.

“I’ll sacrifice myself. I’ll send her away in one go.”

……No, are you trying to kill someone just for acting?!

Trying to kill someone, as expected, it was an evil family.

But if that happened, a huge emotional rift could really deepen between the Imperial Palace and the Mirmord family.

Above all, our Mirmord family might have to pay astronomical compensation.

But the people in this place didn’t seem to care about that.

In the end, the conclusion is that I am the only one who can mediate this situation.

I clapped my small hands.

The moment everyone’s eyes were focused on me, I opened my mouth and said.

“Leave, Princess Serena Anessa.”

“……Ha! Everyone……is out of their minds. I didn’t do anything! Originally, due to my nature…… I used to receive a lot of slander like this. I was nice to this child, but I didn’t know she would insult me like this…….”

Her eyes began to turn red. I almost applauded her amazing acting skills.

I looked at the princess with a pitiful face. Then, she also began to stare at me with bloodshot eyes.

“Ciel, how could you do this-.”

“It’s already all revealed, and there’s not a single person on the Princess’s side here. So…….”

I stared straight at the princess, who was putting on a pitiful act and slowly distorting her expression, and recited.

“Don’t say anything to my people, and get lost.”