I kept my mouth open as I slowly looked at the knights outside. However, I was the only one who was surprised. âAm I really the only one who was surprised? Why are they all so calm?
âI told you to protect her with a shield, so why are you just standing there doing nothing?â
As if coming back from a light walk and loosened his shoulders, my dad made a frightening remark to Axion.
âWhen Enoch Rubinstein raised his sword, the fight would have been over in a few seconds. What a waste of mana.â
âThis punk really.â
My dad frowned and grabbed Axion by the collar as he rode on his horse.
âWhoo.â
My dad soon let out a sharp sigh, put the sword back in Axionâs sheath, and got into the carriage.
âD, d, dadâŠ.â
âPrincess, donât look at something like that.â
I could almost see the monster wolvesâ corpses through the window of the moving carriage, but luckily my dad closed my eyes and pulled the curtains.
I swallowed my saliva and slowly grabbed my dadâs hand and lowered it.
âW, what did I see? I think heâs more amazing than I think? James Brown, who hid his powerâŠ.â
Dad had a look of insignificance as if catching 30 monsters at once was like chasing a flying bug.
âI see. Thatâs why youâre the main character.â
The power of the worldâs strongest person can only be seen in texts, but the difference was enormous when I actually saw it. It was only when I saw my dadâs performance with my own eyes that I realized itâan aristocrat born of a prestigious family that has produced only the highest-ranking people with power.
The only sword master in the empire.
A silver wolf on the battlefield, a soldier of one hundred victoryâ. The main characterâs true potential has been described 5,000 times as âexistence outside the standardâ!
âPrincess, my daughter, whatâs wrong with your expression? Were you very scared?â
âN, no. I was a bit surprisedâŠ.â
âItâs okay, about Daddy, you know. Come here.â
I swallowed my saliva again in my dadâs arms, who held me tightly and caressed my back as if it were a treasure.
âIsnât this a sharp rise in status?â
My heart beat faster when I finally saw my dadâs hidden power. Because I became the daughter of the worldâs strongest person overnightâ.
* * *
Rise in status overnight!
âWow. Itâs soft.â
For the first time in my life, I felt the texture of the finest clothes Iâve ever worn.
This is the Warp Gate Room in the southern El Pasha temple.
As soon as we arrived, I changed into a white priestâs robe with a cape that baby priests wear.
âBecause I canât wear common clothes to the Capital.â
Again, this is a terrible way to look at the world because, in reality, the commoners are treated like slaves.
The priests at the temple gave me a priestly outfit before I left because there are so many nobles in the Capital.
âBaby, baby.â
âYes!â
The orange-haired Paladin uncle, Philip, called me.
âHow old are you?â
âWhy are you asking such a stupid question? Sir Enoch has been gone for seven years, so she is now seven years old.â
âNo, Iâm asking because sheâs too small to be seven.â
Uncle Philip and Uncle Ben quarreled.
While I waited for my dad in the gate room, I got to know these two uncles quite a bit.
âItâs true, Iâm seven years old.â
âBy any chance, did Sir Enoch starve you?â
âNo.â
I shook my head.
âHave you ever been scolded? Youâre afraid of your Dad, right?â
âHow does it feel when your Dad is mad? Have you ever been hit?â
The two of them were very interested in me, but somehow they all had similar questions. Like am I afraid of my Dad, have I been scolded and moreâ.
âWhen did I get scolded by Dad?â
I managed to say it after searching through the memories of being scolded that I couldnât think of.
âWhen I hid broccoli underneath egg, and when I was caught brushing my teeth after eating chocolate secretlyâŠ.â
âWow, sheâs still a kid. Is that possible? As expected, he scary.â
âOf course. Thereâs no way if Enoch Rubinstein, even if she were his child, will let it go?â
ââŠHe only says donât do it to me.â
Philip and Benâs eyes widened at my comment.
âIs that all?â
âIs he not going to hit you?â
âYes, Iâm not scared of my dad. Iâve never been beaten or scolded.â
They both looked at me in disbelief.
âBut uncles, is my dad that scary?â
When I asked, Philip and Ben shuddered as if they remembered my dad from seven years ago.
âYou know, Sir EnochâŠ.â
Philip, who was squatting, swallowed his saliva and whispered in my ear.
ââŠHe tears the bear with his bare hands.â
âYes??â
âHave you ever seen a bear?â
I shook my head.
Ben was confused when he saw me shaking my head and thinking.
âNever? Actually, Xenon is a perfect place to live in hiding⊠However, itâs pretty dangerous. There are a lot of mountains and wild animals⊠Itâs been famous for a long time.â
âHuh? No, itâs not. Our village is not dangerous at all. Itâs a great place to live inââ
As I was talking, I suddenly remembered what Uncle Joe had said.
âHaha! James and his daughter are such a blessing, blessing! You donât know how much better itâs been since you two came here! In winter, the bears gave me a headache, but after James came, the seeds dried in time, so somehow I couldnât even see my noseâŠâ
N, no way. Did Dad tear it up beforehand?
I swallowed my saliva with a pretty reasonable doubt.
âAnyway, Iâm really scared of your dad. He tear the bear with his bare hands and beat the demonic beast.â
âThatâs right. Even from five thousand steps away, the demonic beasts recognize your father and go wild. Heâs not the silver wolf on the battlefield for nothing.â
As I listened to Philip and Ben, I thought about my dad fighting on the battlefield.
Iâve read it dozens of times in the text, but itâs even more terrifying in realityâ.
âHow cold is he, how cold. It was a tough boss to get along with.â
âStill, wasn;t he close to the commander?â
The two of them glanced back at each other.
A little further away, Axion was watching the Warp Gate.
âSir Enoch, he tried to kill the commander earlier, right?â
âRight. If I did something wrong, Iâm sure I would have been killed.â
The two kept whispering.
âEven so, there is such a thing as a friendship, isnât it too much?â
âHey, can you see anything in that situation? Heâs threatening him with his daughter.â
âItâs because he really surprised.â
Ben swallowed his saliva and looked at me.
âEven though sheâs a daughter, does it make sense for âthatâ Enoch Rubinstein to lose his temper like this?â
âWell, honestly, I didnât expect that weâd be able to find Sir Enoch and take him away like this, right? So!â
Phillip grabbed my hand.
âThank you so much. If we had returned empty-handed, it would have been really bad.â
âThatâs right. Either we died there by Sir Enochâs hand, or we came back without any results and died in His Majesty the Emperor.â
âAhem. Well.â
I felt my shoulders go up for some reason.
âIf youâve seen Sir Enoch in the past, Iâm sure youâll understand why weâre doing this?â
âEhem. A time when no woman dared to command that Enoch Rubinsteinââ
Just as the unclesâ stories were about to start again.
There was a sign of the gate room door opening. It seems that my Dad had arrived.
Ben and Philip, who were sitting in front of me, quickly turned around and got up.
And when I was happy to run to my dadâ.
âOh my.â
I was surprised.
My Dad, no, I mean Enoch Rubinstein, I finally meet the âmain character.â
âWow, ah.â
His strong body was wrapped in sacred silver armor. As well as a blue cloak that fell over one shoulder and was the symbol of a knight. Itâs a great match for his silver hair and blue eyesâ.
âL, look at the pose?â
It was the appearance of the Paladin itself!
The momentum felt from the sharp eyes and tightly closed lips was so great that I even heard hallucinations. It feels like a magnificent BGM that properly mixes the urgency of the battlefield with the sacredness of the Paladin is automatically playing in my earsâ.
âEven if I hadnât read the book, I would know that he is the main character.â
Maybe I wasnât fooled for 7 years, but I just didnât notice it.
âLilith.â
âUng.â
It was awkward when my dad walked up to me, so I swallowed my saliva and took a step back.
Dad couldnât take his eyes off me for some reason and looked down at meâ. Then he put his hands in my armpits, lifted me into the air, and said.
ââŠAngel?â
âUng?â
âUnbelievable. This is crazy. You were an angelâŠIt turned out that our princess was actually an angel.â
âAh.â
I looked down at my priestly outfit and realized immediately.
That my dadâs silly comments will start.
âD, Dad, wait a minute.â
Please donât!
Before I could stop him, my dad put me on his arm, made a fuss, and looked behind me.
âLittle angel, where are your wings? Huh? Where did you hide it?â
AhâŠ
âOh my. Lilith, princess. my treasure. You are my angel.â
Dad muttered something that sounded like he was crying, and then he turned his eyes down and stuck out his lips.
âMy daughter is so pretty, but Dad always makes you wear rags every dayâ. Daddy is sorry. I was wrong.â
âNo, itâs not ragsâŠ.â
Dad rubbed my cheek hard with his forehead.
At that time, everyoneâs eyes were on us.
âAh, Iâm doomed.â
Everyoneâs face was astonished as if they couldnât believe what they saw. Their mouth was wide open, and their pupils were shaking helplessly.
âThe scary, quiet, and cold image of a silver wolf on the battlefieldââ
Caught by my father who kissed me as if he was going to suck my cheeks, I could not resist and stretched helplessly.
âS, stopââ
Even Axion, who had barely said anything, could be seen with his mouth wide open in the distance.
He shook his head and muttered while turning his eyes away as if he hadnât seen anything.