I’Ll Protect My Tyrant Dad! [EN]: Chapter 63

The Tyrant Father I’ll Protect! Episode 63. The Real Daughter Has Appeared (63/140)

63. The Real Daughter Has Appeared

July 7, 2023

Anessa answered irritably.

“Yeah. I have no intention of keeping her either. Anyway, I could have charmed her and then made her disappear later!”

“Do you think that’s possible?”

“She’s just a kid. If you give her candy…….”

“She’s not just a kid. Sure, she’s young, but she’s quite bright. Maybe… even smarter than you. You can tell just by the fact that she’s a rival to Count Yoter, who runs a trading company, right?”

“The adults must have helped her!”

“Even so, Anessa.”

The Crown Prince patted Princess Anessa on the shoulder as if to appease her, seeing her wounded pride.

“You know our goal is to make the head of the Mirmod family a puppet and take control of the Imperial Palace. So… we need to get rid of her as soon as possible, whether she’s a child or whatever.”

Anessa fully agreed with that.

“Sienne Mirmod and Matthias Mirmod are eyesores, yes. That’s right. And then…….”

“…The future we want will unfold.”

They looked at each other and smiled.

For the Crown Prince and Anessa’s goals, Sienne Mirmod had to be eliminated.

“But Brother, the family seemed to cherish Sienne Mirmod quite a bit.”

“They might now. But blood is thicker than water.”

“What a non sequitur.”

The Crown Prince clapped his hands.

At that moment, the servants outside seemed to have been waiting, and the pure white door opened.

And… a small girl hesitantly stepped inside.

She smelled like she had been wallowing in a gutter.

Princess Anessa, no longer interested in wearing a social mask, pinched her nose and asked.

“What is that rotten smell?”

“The real daughter of Matthias Mirmod I told you about before.”

Looking closely, she had a face that was surprisingly similar to Matthias Mirmod.

Black hair, haphazardly cut, and blue eyes. But with a hazy yet cool gaze and a sharp jawline.

It was a completely different appearance from Sienne Mirmod’s heterogenous pink hair and green eyes. Looking closely, her hair color was exactly the same as Matthias’s.

If she were washed well and placed next to him, Matthias Mirmod would not doubt that she was his daughter.

“Yes… a real daughter.”

As Anessa nodded, the Crown Prince stood up and approached the child.

“We’ve already done a paternity test.”

“Oh, really?”

“Yes. Anessa, thanks to this child, our plan will succeed.”

“Did the temple send this child?”

The corners of the Crown Prince’s mouth rose uncontrollably.

“Yes, Melodia sent her.”

“Trustworthy…….”

As Anessa expressed slight doubt, the Crown Prince’s face turned fierce in an instant.

“What nonsense are you talking about? She is wise and elegant. She can’t be wrong. Instead of doubting, perform your role properly. That way, you can avoid doing what you don’t want to do, right?”

Listening to the Crown Prince’s machine-gun-like words, Anessa quietly lowered her head.

“I trust Melodia too.”

“Yes, trust Melodia. Because we have Matthias’s real daughter that Melodia made for us, right?”

A satisfied curve was drawn on the Crown Prince’s lips. He stroked the hair of the five-year-old girl standing blankly next to him and quietly nodded.

“This child will now be at the center of the turmoil.”

The Crown Prince knew very well about Matthias Mirmod.

So he scoffed at the rumors that Matthias loved Sienne.

‘That’ Matthias Mirmod.

Such a person could not love anyone. He was just trying to use Sienne Mirmod because she was quite clever. So…….

“The plan is perfect.”

***

…And so, as the Crown Prince planned, Princess Anessa appeared here.

She recalled Melodia’s calculations as she entered the Mirmod mansion.

In fact, she had thought about secretly letting only this child in by climbing over the fence.

Because Matthias Mirmod’s attitude was more rigid than she had expected.

But surprisingly, Matthias let her in. She didn’t know why, but it was good for her. Whether Matthias thought negatively of her now or not, she was now going to be the benefactor who brought Matthias’s ‘real daughter’.

Finally, inside the huge central plaza of the Mirmod mansion.

A small girl, led by Princess Anessa, appeared in the meantime.

Even though she must have eaten well and slept well in the Imperial Palace, she looked like someone who would evoke pity in anyone who saw her.

And the small girl with black hair and blue eyes somehow reminded people of someone.

People passing through the plaza each glanced at her once.

Princess Anessa stopped with Count Yoter, a servant, and the girl in front of the fountain with the most foot traffic in the central plaza.

“W-what’s going on?”

“Isn’t that Her Highness the Princess?”

“Did Her Highness the Princess come to participate in the Mirmod family’s Harvest Festival?”

There was a reason why she chose today.

Today was the day when many nobles came and went inside the closed Mirmod Duke’s mansion for an event.

Because of that, it was also the day when Matthias Mirmod resided in the mansion and carried out his duties.

Also… it was the day that damned Delphia Mirmod left to take care of her territory.

Princess Anessa gritted her teeth as she thought of Delphia and gestured to the servant next to her.

It meant to quickly stir up the wind as planned [start rumors].

According to her order, Count Yoter and the servants who entered with Princess Anessa shouted sharply.

“Here, is Matthias’s real daughter!”

“Sienne Mirmod is not the real daughter!”

“Just look. Don’t they look alike? Moreover, the paternity test has been completed!”

Finally, the gathered family members began to murmur.

“What on earth is going on?”

And the servants and maids from other families, as well as some nobles, also spoke in bewildered voices.

“…They do look alike?”

“That’s really Her Highness the Princess. She wouldn’t lie.”

“What’s going on? Then the child named Sienne who’s there now, is she a fake daughter?”

As planned, the rumors were spreading like wildfire.

The princess wore a satisfied smile on her lips.

And finally… Matthias Mirmod appeared towards the plaza.

‘…He’s wearing a sword.’

For some reason, he was wearing a sword and even felt murderous, but seeing a child who looked like him, Matthias would also feel strange emotions.

At the same time as Matthias Mirmod appeared behind her, Sienne Mirmod also appeared behind him.

At that moment, Princess Anessa wore a bitter smile on her lips.

Everything was going according to her will.

***

The news that Princess Anessa had arrived was quickly conveyed through the maids. I decided to go meet Princess Anessa faster and differently than anyone else.

The maids put me on their backs and took me to the central plaza where the princess was.

And the sight that appeared before my eyes was…….

Dad, who had already arrived at the plaza ahead of me.

And…….

“Father…….”

…A child claiming to be Dad’s real daughter.

“I brought your daughter.”

It was Princess Anessa and Count Yoter.

Princess Anessa, with a faint smile on her lips, gestured to Count Yoter next to her. The expression of the priest who received Count Yoter’s signal slightly hardened.

The priest knelt on one knee and carefully whispered.

“I inform the successor of the Mirmod family. As a result of the examination, it is confirmed that she is of the Mirmod family bloodline.”

“To be exact, she is Matthias’s child.”

The child hesitated and approached Dad, who was stiff.

“U-um. I wanted to see you, Father…….”

I took a step closer to Dad.

Dad, who is sensitive to people, looked at me. The eyes looking at me were clearly warm, but the expression looking at them was cold.

I didn’t think Dad would abandon me.

But given Dad’s weak nature, I thought he would naturally worry if his real daughter arrived!

But Dad…….

“That’s ridiculous.”

After whispering very calmly as if he wasn’t my dad, he turned his gaze away from the child.

Then, with a frightened expression, the child stepped on the ground.

“F-Father……!”

But Dad didn’t even look at the little girl who appeared to be his real daughter. He said with an indifferent expression.

“Who is your father?”

“……B-but. I said I was Father’s daughter-”

“I don’t remember acknowledging you as my daughter.”

“……Yes?”

The child, who came here holding the princess’s hand tightly, looked embarrassed. Dad coldly ignored the child who looked just like him and hugged me tightly.

“Sienne, our daughter, let’s go.”

While whispering, ‘You don’t have to listen to such dirty things.’

But I glanced at the child who claimed to be Dad’s daughter.

It seemed necessary to check it out for sure.

But Dad…….

…A child claiming to be his daughter had come. Even though her appearance, eye color, and hair color were the same as Dad’s.

“Sienne.”

While only looking at me, he said sternly.

“Don’t look. Dad will take care of it.”

Dad lifted me up and said to Princess Anessa.

“Princess Anessa, is this all you have to say?”

Princess Anessa bit her lip. I carefully opened my mouth to Dad.

“Dad…….”

Dad abandoned his unexpectedly cold attitude and smiled at me.

“Sienne, shall Dad make you something delicious?”

I felt a warm energy in the arms that held me tightly.

I glanced down. I could see the princess and the child who was said to be the ‘real daughter’.

As if noticing my gaze, Dad quietly recited.

“No matter what anyone says, Sienne is Dad’s daughter.”

Dad said that as if it were natural, but honestly, that child looked too much like Dad.

I didn’t seriously think that I was really a fake daughter, but a tangle of miscellaneous thoughts was gradually intertwined.

Perhaps he read my mind.

“Don’t believe anything strange. Dad…….”

Dad hugged me tightly and whispered.

“I’ll punish them.”

…It’s hard to believe, but somehow it felt like they would really be punished.

At that moment, Princess Anessa, as if she had just come to her senses, shouted loudly.

“No, Your Highness [Matthias]. The Council of Elders of the Mirmod family has already decided to verify whether or not she is a biological child through a professional test kit created by Count Yoter.”

The princess took out the card of the Council of Elders.

The Council of Elders was a faction that currently supported Axel Mirmod and was the center of power in this family. It was also a force opposed to our dad.

No wonder she was so confident, it seemed she had already finished a backroom deal with the Council of Elders.

Dad, who had just become a duke, could not refuse both the imperial family and the Council of Elders alone.

Dad became the duke by reaping the benefits because Axel Mirmod, who was a strong candidate for successor, had unexpectedly fought near the Demon World for a long time.

There was no way that Dad’s foundation was solid enough to ignore the Council of Elders and the Imperial Palace.

At that moment, the arm holding me tightly trembled slightly.

My heart pounded, wondering if my weak-hearted dad was hurt.

“Sienne.”

“Yeah?”

“…Do you want to go inside? Dad will solve it as soon as possible.”