I Summoned the Demon King and Got a Dad - Chapter 11

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

11. Dad and Daughter (2)

“I don’t want meat, I don’t want vegetables. Give me strawberries.”

I don’t want you…

I was already anxious when she said she wanted cake.

As soon as they sat at the dining table, Shuria began her tantrum, and Theodor pressed his forehead.

Theodor forcibly smoothed his forehead that seemed ready to wrinkle and managed his expression as he placed meat and vegetables back on her plate and spoke.

“You have to eat everything without being picky to become cool like Dad.”

At his words, Shuria scrunched up her face and opened her mouth.

“I’m not your real daughter anyway!”

At her words, the surrounding servants showed bewilderment on their faces, but Theodor continued placing food on her plate as if nothing happened.

Foods packed with protein, carbohydrates, and dietary fiber that Shuria disliked.

“You don’t have to be a real daughter to resemble someone.”

Ignoring the sharp gazes directed at him, Theodor said this, but.

“Then I’ll decide that Dad isn’t cool either.”

At Shuria’s words that came at that moment, he dropped the piece of meat he was holding.

He had never particularly obsessed over being cool in his life.

Yet why did those words irritate him so much?

“…”

She’s a child.

A five-year-old, a child.

My daughter.

Theodor swallowed the various words that had risen to his chin and repeated to himself.

But Shuria, unaware of Theodor’s situation, heard no response from him and seemed to think her words had gotten through, so she opened her mouth again.

“If not being picky made you like Dad, then I’ll be picky.”

And those words exhausted Theodor’s last bit of patience.

He didn’t want to go this far.

At Shuria’s words, Theodor let out a small sigh.

When negotiation didn’t work, the next step was to use force.

This was Theodor’s belief as the former king of the Demon Realm, and it applied unchanged even to his daughter.

“No snacks today.”

“Ah, why!!!!!”

As soon as he finished speaking, Shuria glared at him and a faint pain began to spread through his heart.

At this fact, Theodor clicked his tongue quietly.

He couldn’t understand why such a sweet sugar lump was throwing such a tantrum, but Theodor now knew how to handle this situation.

Picky eating is actually bad for your health.

For a child’s growth, they need to eat a balanced diet.

That was to persuade the Magical Diagram.

Perhaps having some flexibility, the Magical Diagram would remove the pain if it judged his actions to be reasonable.

This time was the same.

Confirming the pain had disappeared, Theodor held out a plate containing various vegetables including carrots and broccoli to Shuria.

“This is abuse!”

What you were experiencing before was abuse.

But seeing her talk back like this, she seemed to have become much more lively.

Watching Shuria glare at him, Theodor sighed softly and reduced the vegetables slightly.

She had just started to put on some weight and looked presentable, so she shouldn’t lose it again.

“Then just eat this much.”

Shuria seemed to sense this was the final compromise point, as she took the plate without further resistance.

So Shuria reluctantly swallowed the vegetables, and after emptying the entire plate, she opened her mouth tearfully.

“I ate it all well…”

Finding her both admirable and pitiful, Theodor unconsciously patted her head.

Looking at her like this, she seemed a little cute too…

“Don’t touch me.”

Watching Shuria glare at him with some resentment, Theodor sighed.

…Canceled.

Theodor thought it was okay for Shuria to be a little cheeky.

Since she was his daughter, not someone else’s.

But she shouldn’t be that cheeky even to him.

Theodor lowered his hand from patting her head, grabbed both her cheeks, and stretched them sideways.

“Who told you to talk to Dad like that.”

“They said until I become an adult, my education is the guardian’s responsibility.”

At those words, Theodor felt a strange emotion.

The fact that a child who hadn’t received proper education knew such words was both admirable and absurd at the same time.

“If only you couldn’t talk.”

Saying this and bursting into a chuckle, Theodor released Shuria’s cheeks.

“I’ll have to find an etiquette teacher for this responsibility.”

In this state, she clearly wouldn’t be treated as nobility, let alone as a human being.

But Shuria, who had no way of knowing Theodor’s thoughts, grabbed his hand with sparkling eyes.

“I want to learn magic!”

Theodor was confident he could provide whatever Shuria wanted or wanted to become while he was her guardian.

Because he had the ability and capital to do so.

But magic wasn’t something that could be used with just those things.

Sighing inwardly, Theodor looked at Shuria.

Magic was talent.

While mana was essential to use magic, only about one in a hundred people were born with that mana.

Among them, even fewer could actually handle that magical power.

To become a mage, one truly had to be born with tremendous talent.

Fortunately, Shuria had tremendous mana capacity that could be called genius-level along with outstanding talent.

The problem was that this was in the past tense.

The magical power that demons possessed to use magic and the mana that humans had to use magic were different in nature.

Both magical power and mana were used through the magic stone located next to the heart, and the moment Theodor made a contract with Shuria, her magic stone was filled with his magical power.

As a result, she could use magic, but.

“I want to become a mage too and make people happy like the fairies in fairy tales.”

It meant she wouldn’t be able to use that kind of magic.

While the Mortal Realm had developed magic focused on protection and healing to guard and save each other.

Magic using magical power in the lawless Demon Realm was mostly aimed at attack and destruction for domination.

It wasn’t that healing magic didn’t exist, but there were no magics in the direction Shuria wanted.

Like creating a beautiful princess wearing glass slippers.

Or healing people with songs.

Or making flowers bloom throughout the Garden—those kinds of cute and lovely magic.

But among the magic from fairy tales, what Theodor could do were things like poisoned apples that could reach lethal doses with just one bite, spinning wheels with needles that made people sleep forever, or magic that turned people into frogs.

Precisely the kinds of magic that could make him the enemy of the protagonists in the fairy tales Shuria read.

How should he explain this?

Just as Theodor was pondering how to tell Shuria this fact.

The Magical Diagram appeared before his eyes.

[Is speaking truly the right choice?]

…Then what should I do?

[Sometimes it’s better to learn things on one’s own later. As a father, you also need to protect your daughter’s innocence.]

He thought it wasn’t wrong.

Still, the reason Theodor was pondering like this was simple.

Because it seemed like Shuria’s dream had disappeared due to his existence.

Because of that, feelings of guilt and remorse filled him completely.

Even though it was his fault, the magic strangely didn’t reproach him, as if it was telling him it wasn’t his fault.

He didn’t like himself for feeling relieved by that fact.

So he tried to speak honestly.

That he wouldn’t be able to use the kind of magic she wanted, and that it was because of him.

The moment he steeled his resolve and opened his mouth, his eyes met Shuria’s as she waved her arm holding a fork in place of a magic wand, laughing.

At that moment, an even brighter smile spread across her face.

She can smile even more happily than that.

The moment Theodor thought that, Shuria ran to the dining table, cut a piece of cake with her fork, and held it out to him.

“When I can use magic, I’ll cast a happiness spell on Dad first.”

Theodor stared blankly at the cake held out before him.

A lump of fat that offered no benefit to the body whatsoever.

He had always thought that way, and that thought would surely never change.

But even so, Theodor pushed the cake she offered into his mouth as if entranced.

The sickeningly sweet taste of cream spread throughout his mouth.

Satisfied with his reaction, Shuria put down her fork and spread her arms as if asking to be held.

“I must have talent for magic! Dad is already smiling.”

At Shuria’s words, Theodor finally realized that the corners of his mouth had turned upward.

When did I start smiling?

Theodor finally realized that he had begun smiling along with Shuria.

So Theodor stroked her head and spoke.

“Surely, you’ll be able to.”

He didn’t know whether his actions were right or wrong.

But right now, he wanted to protect this smile.

Theodor said that.

His heart ached a little somehow.

It wasn’t because of magic, but from the guilt he felt for lying to her.

Even so, he had no regrets.

Theodor thought that as he listened to Shuria’s giggling laughter.

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————