My Daddy Hides His Power - Chapter 79

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Father hiding his strength
Chapter 79
I clicked my tongue and looked over our kids again.
“Cheshire! I’ll hold this thing down as much as I can so it can’t move…! Got it?”
Gem, channeling Mana through the Gauntlet, drove her fist through the thick stem of the Carnivorous Flower like tearing fabric.
The flower’s movements became sluggish.
Seizing the opening, Cheshire planted his feet on the stem and scrambled up quickly.
“Ugh… this is terrifying.”
I bounced on my feet watching it all.
The Carnivorous Flower writhed as if it would snap its jaws open any second and swallow Cheshire whole.
My heart pounded — I couldn’t look away, yet I was too frightened to keep watching.
A piercing shriek tore through the air!
When Cheshire plunged his sword into the plump flower bud, the Carnivorous Flower thrashed in agony.
The razor-sharp Mana-infused blade sliced through the flower’s petals in an instant.
A grotesque howl exploded from it!
The flower bud burst open, and Gerard, drenched in the flower’s sap, tumbled free.
‘Yes, yes! We did it!’
The moment Gerard was safely out, Cheshire ignited flames on the sword he’d driven into the flower.
The Carnivorous Flower crumbled to ash and burned away in an instant.
“G-Gerard! Are you alright?”
As I drew closer, Gerard’s expression looked anything but normal.
‘He’s hurt, isn’t he?’
Even though he was doing his best not to show the pain, it showed plainly on his face.
The flower’s sap must have contained something corrosive.
‘Is it like acid?’
White smoke was rising from his body — it looked like it hurt terribly.
“That’s right, Lilis!”
“Y-yes! I’m here!”
Lilis ran over as if she’d been waiting for this moment.
“…What?”
Gerard tensed.
“I-I’ll h-heal you!”
“Gerard, you’re in pain right now, and your team doesn’t have a healer anyway. Don’t be stubborn about pride — let Lilis treat you.”
Gerard looked up at me, gasping for breath.
“Lilis, hurry. You look like you’re in so much pain.”
“Okay!”
Lilis quickly knelt down and began casting Healing Magic on Gerard.
Then.
A shadow stirring behind us.
All of our eyes turned in that direction.
Creeping quietly forward.
It was Bruce, moving toward the core that had come from the Carnivorous Flower.
“That thief?!”
Gem gasped in shock.
Caught red-handed, Bruce hurled himself toward the core—
A wall of flame erupted!
“Argh!”
Black fire bloomed across the ground in a perfect line, blocking his path like a boundary.
It was Cheshire’s doing.
“Are you insane, Cheshire?! You nearly singed my head off! Don’t you know it’s against the rules for ability users to attack each other?!”
“What did you say, you thief? The audacity! I’ve never seen such shameless hypocrisy!”
Gem fired back without backing down, bristling with anger.
“T-thief? How dare a lowborn commoner speak to me that way—!”
“Hey!”
Just then, Gerard shouted.
Bruce’s mouth clamped shut like an oyster.
“Don’t touch it. Leave it.”
So he does have a conscience after all.
At Gerard’s command, Bruce immediately slumped his shoulders.
“Yeah.”
Cheshire then glared at Bruce, walked over, and picked up the core.
“You thief!”
“Th-that—!”
Gem stuck her tongue out and teased Bruce once more.
“…Here.”
Cheshire returned and wiped the sap clinging to the core on his clothes, then handed it to me.
“Oh….”
It was moving.
Since entering the Field, the number of Monsters I’d caught was zero.
“Thank you, Cheshire.”
Cheshire hadn’t just said it—he’d truly kept not a drop of blood from staining my hands….
“I’m genuinely touched….”
“…….”
“But we have to graduate together! You said you’d been saving up C-Class cores for me without eating them, right? Hurry and absorb them all now!”
“Yeah, okay.”
I watched contentedly as Cheshire absorbed the remaining cores.
“…….”
Beside him, I could see Rom still treating Gerard.
“Rom, how are you doing? Is it hard to finish healing him? Want me to take care of the rest?”
“N-no! I, I can do it!”
Rom had such limited Mana reserves.
Cold sweat was pouring down in streaks, and the sight of it looked rather pitiful.
“That’s enough. Stop now.”
“U-um? A-are you, are you sure?”
Apparently recovered enough to move about, Gerard limped to his feet.
“Gerard, are you okay? You don’t need more healing?”
“…Yes.”
When I asked, Gerard answered while avoiding my gaze.
‘His conscience is weighing on him.’
Rom, who had hardly any Mana to begin with, was draining it all away to heal him, and that seemed to be bothering him.
I nodded and spoke to Rom.
“Rom, Gerard’s fine now. You did great. Really great.”
“Hehe, it’s nothing. I-I’m just gl-glad I could h-help somehow.”
“Ha ha, you’re the best. Here, and take this too.”
“Huh?”
I handed Rom the 1000-point core I’d been holding.
Cheshire and Gem’s eyes went wide with shock at the sight.
Even Gerard, who’d been turning back to rejoin his group, stopped and looked around at me.
“What? Why are you giving that to her?”
“L-Lilis? You’re only at 46 points now.”
“Lilis.”
Gerard, Gem, and Cheshire spoke in turn.
Rom, whose mouth had fallen open in bewilderment, frantically waved her hands.
“N-no! No! I don’t need this! I-I didn’t d-do anything!”
“You did plenty. Gerard was hurt and you healed him. I’m fine, so absorb this quickly.”
“N-no! Pl-please, d-don’t do this! I, I, I can w-wait longer to g-graduate! I r-really can!”
Rom, genuinely flustered, was stammering twice as badly as usual.
“Lilis.”
Just then.
Cheshire approached with a rare angry expression and seized my arm.
“I told you we had to go home quickly. If you give that to Rom now, you’ll have to stay here another month.”
“N-no, that’s not true.”
I smiled slightly and pointed with my magic staff at the Bear Monster visible atop the cliff sixty meters away.
“I just need to catch that.”
“What?”
“Rom, absorb it quickly!”
I pressed the core into Rom’s hands and moved forward.
Suddenly, someone else grabbed my wrist.
It was Gerard.
“What now. More obstruction?”
“That thing—none of us can catch it right now. We’d need A-Class Casting.”
“Wow, someone who actually knows that!”
I planted my hands on my hips.
“So you sabotaged us? Caught all the Monsters so we couldn’t collect points?”
“…….”
Gerard’s face flushed crimson, and he twisted his gaze away.
I let out a heavy sigh, then tapped his arm gently—a sign for him to lower himself to my height.
“Gerard.”
When he bent down awkwardly, I draped my short arms around his shoulders and whispered in his ear.
“You fool. That flower nearly ate you alive—you were about to die. Don’t forget that our children turned and ran without hesitation to save you.”
“…….”
“And Bruce and your other teammates—they didn’t even flinch when you got swallowed.”
Gerard stared at me intently.
I spotted a small cut at the tip of his chin and gently brushed it away—it healed instantly.
“Ah.”
Only then did his handsome face clear.
“And such a pretty one at that!”
“…….”
“If only your heart were as beautiful as that face—wouldn’t that be something?”
I gave Gerard’s shoulder one last affectionate pat, then turned back toward the Bear Monster.
By now all the children had fallen silent, simply watching me.
“Now then, let’s see.”
I pressed my back flat against the Cliff.
‘My height is 108 centimeters right now….’
I gauged the distance carefully, then slowly stepped backward.
‘About… here?’
Once I’d found my spot, I looked up at the Bear Monster looming impossibly high above.
To catch that, I’d need A-Class Casting, just as Gerard said.
But we hadn’t learned A-Class spells at the Training Institute, so I couldn’t use them.
‘Then I’ll use C-Class Casting instead.’
To cast magic at that height with lower-tier casting, the formula would become extraordinarily complex.
But there was a way.
All it required was mathematics.
That’s why the Cliff had been kind enough to mark its own height.
To catch that thing with C-Class Casting—
I needed to calculate the approximate straight-line distance between where I stood and where the Monster waited.
Who could know that distance? Nobody.
Except me.
‘But I’m someone who learned the Pythagorean Theorem in eighth-grade mathematics—I can calculate the hypotenuse of a triangle!’
A thousand-point Bear Monster that no one at the Training Institute’s level could ever catch.
But I was someone Oscar, the Magic Tower’s leader, had personally tutored in advanced studies.
Catching it with C-Class Casting wasn’t strange at all.
‘Thank you so much, Oscar. Did you perhaps foresee this moment from the beginning…?’
After silently offering my gratitude, I pointed my magic staff toward the Bear Monster.
“Here goes.”
For a touch of spectacle—and because I’d clutched it desperately through every crisis—it was time for the Lara Princess Magic Staff to shine.
“Burst!”
I lightly burned the Monster’s head away.
White flames melted the Monster, and a violet core tumbled down the Cliff’s face, rolling toward us.
“Easy enough.”
I walked over and picked it up.
When I turned back—
“Ahem!”
Every child’s eyes had gone wide as saucers.
With perfect composure, I absorbed the core.
In the same instant, the Score Magical Device screen updated.
Lilis Rubinstein: 1046 points
Cheshire: 1000 points
Jem: 1050 points
Rom: 1000 points
All of us in our group had graduated!

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