I'll Protect the Tyrant Daddy! - Chapter 45

I looked at him with wide eyes.

A female gypsy with a sorcerer’s son had no reason to go to the battlefield. Gypsies weren’t particularly strong in combat either.

“I said… I would work hard to help the noble one. That I’d come back. Of course, it could be a lie.”

The chief’s eyes were filled with intelligence as he said this.

I was just about to ask his name and take his hand to bring him home.

But right at that moment.

The knight Ted, Acid, and the muscular maids who were guarding me while I talked to the chief suddenly fixed their gazes in another direction.

“There are some shady guys over there!”

“Capture them!”

At that moment, elder sister Deadry let out a curse that she never uttered outside due to my usual education.

“Catch that bastard—!”

The chief and I opened our eyes wide.

Ted approached first, while Acid and the chief stood closely in front of me as if to protect me.

“W-what’s going on?!”

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The muscular maids and Ted had vaguely sensed the power of Pat and Matt.

However, they couldn’t catch their tails because they were so well hidden in the shadows.

But Pat and Matt let their guard down momentarily when they saw Sien’s good deed.

After all, the child didn’t counterattack the chief who had attacked her, but embraced him with a generous heart. Moreover, she even publicly declared that she would sponsor the orphanage. For such a tiny child… to have such a commendable thought.

With their hearts momentarily overwhelmed, they forgot to hide in the shadows for a moment.

“We’re being purified……”

“It’s… fortunate that we were given this task.”

And at that moment when they let their guard down. Ted, the knight who had sworn allegiance to Sien, looked in their direction.

At that instant, Pat and Matt thought they should run, but they were overwhelmed by Ted’s sudden holy power.

If they used all their strength, they could certainly escape or overpower Ted.

But…

“What’s this?”

Sien was looking at them.

Escape inevitably entails a duel. They couldn’t dare to spill blood in front of the pure, lovely, and kind-hearted Sien. So they couldn’t dare to escape and were captured and dragged out.

On the powerless path of being dragged out.

Pat and Matt were pulled in front of Sien with their eyes cast down.

“Lady Sien. These individuals have been watching us continuously.”

Ted reported calmly, and the muscular maids picked up:

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

Pat and Matt smiled at the corners of their mouths, trying to look as innocent as possible. Their expressions said, ‘We’re good people.’

Seeing this, Sien’s eyes gleamed ferociously.

“What are your names!”

Sien clenched her tiny fists and glared at Pat and Matt.

“Let’s take them away, elder sisters!”

Pat and Matt opened their eyes wide. Matt, overwhelmed by Sien’s cuteness and charisma, stammered:

“Uh, where are you taking us……”

“Where else! To our home! Chief, you come too!”

……And so, Pat, Matt, and the chief left the orphanage and entered the Mirmode mansion. To where Matthias Mirmode was waiting.

……We were told to quietly monitor, but to be caught so foolishly like this.

Pat and Matt sensed that today might become their death anniversary.

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“Father, this is the chief!”

Sien, who had brought all three at once, stood proudly in front of Matthias.

Matthias coldly smiled at Pat and Matt, then looked down at Sien affectionately. It was truly a Jekyll and Hyde situation, but Sien didn’t notice this fact.

Matthias asked Sien warmly.

“The chief?”

“Yes! I brought a friend while volunteering at the orphanage! Hee!”

“You went volunteering at the orphanage……”

Matthias coldly stared at the chief. His eyes seemed to say, ‘I hope this isn’t some punk trying to take advantage of the kind-hearted Sien.’

However, no matter how he looked, it didn’t seem that way.

Deciding to leave him be for now since he hadn’t harmed Sien yet, he stroked Sien’s head with a touched expression.

“My daughter did a good thing?”

“Yes!”

“Daddy is so moved…… I’m almost tearing up.”

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

Sien stomped her feet and tightly held her father’s hand.

“Father, don’t cry. Your heart is too soft.”

“Mmm…… That’s right.”

The chief, who didn’t know much about Matthias’s reputation, seemed unimpressed.

But Pat and Matt were watching the scene with their mouths wide open.

Is this really the Matthias we knew?

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

“Ah, but Sien.”

And then, devastating news arrived for them.

“Did our daughter catch these bad people?”

Pat and Matt looked at Matthias as if wronged. But Matthias had already cut them off.

Sien pointed at Pat and Matt with a bright smile.

“But these uncles are stupid!”

“Hm? Why?”

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

“Can’t you…… leave it to daddy? I’ll interrogate them. Sien is still young.”

Sien narrowed her eyes and looked at Matthias.

Her expression seemed to say, ‘This kind father, I hope he doesn’t become a pushover again and fail to interrogate properly.’

“Okay! After daddy interrogates them, Sien will interrogate them again!”

Matthias looked at Pat and Matt with an ominous expression he couldn’t hide.

“Yes. They might be…… stupid spies caught by a single knight.”

Pat and Matt felt a chill run down their spines.

It felt like death was approaching.

But fortunately for them, there seemed to be a god after all, as Matthias took his eyes off them and looked at Sien gently again.

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

“Hehe, I thought of daddy.”

At those words, Matthias broke into a broad smile. When a bright smile spread across his previously cold face, it was quite cute.

Of course, this was from Sien’s perspective.

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

Sien poked her father’s cheek with her index finger while grinning.

“Silly. So cute.”

Pat and Matt wore expressions that seemed to say, ‘Am I seeing things because I’m about to die?’

Even if she was his daughter, to dare to do something that damaged Matthias’s authority…

Although Matthias seemed to find Sien a bit cute, to dare to touch his face.

The situation has been serious from earlier. Are we really going to die like this?

Moreover, Matthias was smiling from ear to ear. Like a malevolent grim reaper.

Pat and Matt, who had already grown quite fond of Sien, opened their mouths simultaneously.

Please don’t hurt Sien.

“Th-”

……However, Matthias said shyly.

“Daddy is always cute. And kind.”

They shrank back in shock.

The world had turned upside down.

Matthias said such words……?

And there was one more person who was confused.

It was Acid, who had awakened to save Sien.

He had even awakened his healer abilities to save Sien from Matthias Mirmode. How did this happen?

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

He needed to find Leonhart, who had told him the story.

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Perhaps because Axel Mirmode was soon to arrive at the mansion, the atmosphere in the mansion where Leonhart was staying was bustling with people.

Even in the midst of this, when he was told that Acid had come, he appeared quietly without any sign of annoyance.

“Did something happen to the Night Bean?”

Acid cautiously mentioned the situation he had observed so far.

For a moment, Leonhart’s face turned pale.

“…W-what? That’s impossible.”

“But it’s true. How did this happen……”

Unlike the flustered Acid, Leonhart quickly regained his composure.

He muttered, biting his lip hard.

“That genius…… Did she even manage to wrap Matthias around her finger?”

“It seems so.”

Leonhart put his hand to his mouth and muttered.

“Really amazing. At this rate, she might even break down the threatening Axel……”

Acid, whose shoulders had drooped at the thought that he couldn’t protect Sien, brightened his eyes.

“Axel?”

Leonhart looked at Acid and nodded. The Acid before him seemed not to know who Axel was.

“Yes. Didn’t I tell you?”

Seeing the docile Acid’s face, it seemed he had forgotten even if he had been told.

Leonhart briefly explained about Axel Mirmode, who he was.

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

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

But he left his Axel mansion to his close associates and rolled around on the battlefield. As if he could no longer hold back from killing.

In reality, it was like that. Axel Mirmode slaughtered people like a demon crazed for blood. There were widespread rumors that both good and bad people were butchered by his hands.

Unlike Matthias, who only killed those who stood in his way as planned, he acted like a truly insane dog with rolled-back eyes.

So he was literally a terrifyingly scary figure.

Leonhart glanced at the pocket watch in his chest.

Acid, who had been quietly watching him, tilted his head.

“Ah, I should go soon. It’s time for me to receive teachings from the Duchess. These days she’s brainwashing me that I must follow the Night Bean. Even though I’m already giving my all in loyalty to the Night Bean.”

These days, Leonhart was taking separate lessons from a wizard in the Duchess’s mansion. He seemed to be talking about that. Acid nodded enviously and then replied.

“Yes, let’s go together!”

Acid wanted to hear more. The stories about Sien told by those around her.

Although his feelings surged like waves when he heard those stories, he still didn’t want to not listen. Because he kept wanting to know more about Sien.

‘The more I hear, the stranger I feel.’

He couldn’t exactly understand why he felt strange.

When he heard Sien’s acquaintances talk about aspects of Sien he didn’t know, his heart seemed to strangely surge like waves. Sometimes it felt like the gentle waves of a calm sea rippling, and sometimes it made him feel odd.

The young Acid hadn’t yet realized that this sensation was jealousy.

As Acid took a step, immersed in his own emotions, Leonhart was in a similar situation. He swallowed and muttered softly.

“Anyway, even if it’s the Night Bean, to have wrapped Matthias around her finger…… How is such a thing possible. Is she really a god?”

In fact, Sien hadn’t wrapped Matthias around her finger; Matthias had loved Sien from the beginning. But such thoughts didn’t occur to Leonhart.

He was simply making what he considered a perfectly reasonable assumption that the Night Bean had wrapped Matthias around her finger just as she had done to him.

“To me……”

“To you, she’s a god?”

Acid nodded shyly and carefully. Earlier, he had spoken too well out of surprise. But now he felt shy again.

Leonhart glanced at such an Acid and sank back into his own thoughts.

To think she even wrapped the Acid kid around her finger.

In the world, they say handling people is the art of diplomacy. How does the Night Bean apply it so well in real life without even learning it?

Is she really a god?

In this way, new misunderstandings about Sien piled up in Leonhart’s mind.

He rubbed his face dryly and whispered softly.

“I knew she was a genius, but to think she’s even so good at diplomacy. Humanly speaking, it’s admirable.”

A new misunderstanding was added to the existing misunderstandings.