How to Be a Dark Hero’s Daughter

“So, you never realized it until now.”

Bang.

I pull the trigger again.

“I am in my right mind.”

Bang.

“I’m grateful for all the effort you’ve put into raising me as a monster, but I already have a monster-like Dad at home.”

To be precise, my Dad might be cruel and cold-blooded like a monster, but he’s also cool, handsome, and unexpectedly considerate. But let’s skip the details.

With each shot from the magic bullet gun, Siebel’s upper body jerked up.

“Ku-huk, uh…”

Convulsions were already wracking Siebel’s entire body.

“It stings, doesn’t it, Doctor? Ah, right. You’re not my teacher anymore since there’s nothing left to learn.”

“…”

“Excuse me, sir, who has nothing to do with me.”

I whispered.

“If you’ve done something wrong, you deserve punishment. It’s void until you get caught, but now you’re caught.”

Continuously pulling the trigger is intended not just to restrain Siebel but also out of spite. To teach him a lesson.

“Everyone knows you can’t die, but if you keep getting hit with the magic bullet gun with a force strong enough to paralyze your whole body, you won’t be able to move, right?”

It must sting a lot, right? But there might be a limit to this. With a snap, Siebel grabbed the muzzle of the gun. Indeed, he has an unbelievable body.

“Since when…”

“You’re asking when I was in my right mind?”

I rolled my eyes.

“Wouldn’t it be faster to ask when this was planned?”

* * *

So, the story began the day I was standing at the train station.

I was trembling, holding Marianne’s locket pendant.

Thud! I bumped into a man who was running.

The moment I tried to push the man away, I realized he was a heretic inquisitor. In less than a second, countless thoughts raced through my head.

‘This man is one of Cedric’s subordinates. I’ve seen his face. I see. Cedric had sent someone to the city hotel to find Marianne. This inquisitor, having missed her at the hotel, has followed her here.’

At the same time, another thought struck me.

‘If Marianne is on that train, then Siebel, that tiresome villain, will be there too.’

If that’s the case…

The worst criminal ever. My only chance to approach Siebel might be now.

‘I have no choice. I have to save Marianne, right?’

I swallowed hard.

And whispered in the inquisitor’s ear.

Pretending to be dizzy, I stumbled onto the train.

And I deliberately resisted to give Marianne a chance to escape.

Felled by Nigel’s surprise attack, my only thought as I blacked out was:

‘Am I finally entering the tiger’s den?’

This might be my last covert mission. That’s what I thought.

* * *

And so, I entered the tiger’s den, no, the tiger’s castle.

‘Hiding such a fortress. It’s a world where criminals live even more brazenly.’

Seeing the castle owned by the wealthy Siebel, I was flabbergasted.

But what I overlooked was-

‘I received the three kisses of the white wizard.’

The very fact that the hypnotic magic wasn’t a legend was shocking.

‘Once in the royal underground passage, and then during the Kien incident in the interrogation room…’

Under the spell of the hypnotic magic, memories swirled, and I realized I’d already received two kisses. And then?

‘Fainted, knocked out, a total mess.’

I really fell under hypnosis.

Wow, I didn’t expect this. Even if there are wizards in this world, magic that controls a person’s mind exists. What a supernatural twist.

‘All this time, Siebel has been forcing many who knew his identity to commit suicide.’

Even Collen, who controlled the demons, didn’t have that skill.

‘I wanted to know the secret of how Siebel controls people at any cost.’

Curiosity can be deadly.

And the second thing I overlooked.

After Siebel knocked me out and kidnapped me on the train, he didn’t drop me off at any station but had me jump off the train while passing through a forest rail.

‘And he escaped to the castle, mixing fifteen routes, including a secret passage and a one-time-use gate.’

So even if it was Cedric, he wouldn’t have been able to track me immediately.

‘A one-time-use gate? What kind of magical tool does he possess to make such a thing possible?’

There are gates all over the country, but they are relics from the days when there were many wizards. I heard that for a one-time-use gate, a national budget has to be allocated and a lot of money spent to open it just once.

‘Given all the effort he took to kidnap me, I became sure he wouldn’t kill me.’

It was a persistent escape route. It was clear that it had been planned for a very long time.

‘And then, the hypnosis spell was lifted.’

I can’t explain why, but that’s when I remembered Cedric.

‘From the day I found something sparkling in my heart… that’s when I started to come to my senses.’

To be precise, real memories of the past resurfaced.

‘But my affection for Siebel remained.’