Father, I Won’t Do Anything - Chapter 1

“Hey, hybrid*. Did you really believe that the human who is said to be your father, will protect you?”

T/l: (Hybrid- an offspring of two different species or varieties)

Taylor, Jayna’s cousin, who always bullied her, started a quarrel even on the day she left. But that was also the last quarrel they had.

Jayna did not stop her hands from packing her bag with a grave face, even with Taylor’s harsh words.

“He said he was your parent, but honestly, being a father is the same as the mother who gave birth to you. Oh, I forgot, you also don’t have a mother. Well if he’s a good parent he should provide you food to eat or even the destiny to step on.”

Taylor’s tongue was brutally twisted.

“But what you don’t know is, he’s famous for being ruthless and arrogant.”

“I know.”

“You know? But how can you be so calm in this situation where other dragons are trying to kill you?”

Taylor raised her voice and grabbed Jayna’s shoulder inescapably rough.

“Let me ask you again. Do you really think that human father of yours will protect you?”

“No.”

Taylor hurriedly released her. She was intimidated because Jayna’s eyes facing her were surprisingly calm and clear.

Relatives told Jayna that her father was unaware of her existence, and certainly, the two had never met before. But Jayna already knew her father.

It wasn’t just because he was famous for his outstanding magic skills.

Her biological father, The tower lord, Diamide Bellaphanian.

[Just as your birth didn’t inspire me, your death won’t mean anything to me]

He was the final boss of the world in this novel, with blood cold enough to turn away even though he knew his daughter would die.

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Jayna was born with a peculiar memory of her previous life. She was a high school student named Min Bo-bae in Korea, but if you ask if that was a good thing, well… She shook her head.

‘Memories of the days of abuse’ can’t be better.’

The reason why Jayna died in her previous life was because of a concussion in her brain. And it wasn’t anyone else but her biological father who knocked her head down to the chair. He was verbally abusive and assaultive. The last memory she had was when she closed her eyes and thought Min Bo-bae’s life was finally over, but when she woke up, she found out she was in a new world.

She was unaware of how surprised she was when time passed, and her vision opened. There were scales in her body, and the living things around her were not humans either.

‘I was reincarnated as a race called the dragon race.’

The dragon tribe had the shape of a dragon and a parent branch of humans, so it was possible to change freely. She didn’t have the ability to shoot fire from her mouth, but she looked like a dragon that used to appear in Korean medieval games.

In addition to the change of race, there was one more important fact.

Apparently, her mother died shortly after she was born.

“If other dragons see her, they will surely try to kill her, so let’s hide her so they don’t know her existence.”

Jayna was able to learn a language in this world. And unlike other dragons, she was a bit unusual.

‘Everyone has black hair and black eyes, but why I am the only one with black hair and blue eyes… .’

She noticed it but tried to ignore it.

Just because she was born again, there was no way her miserable life could return smoothly.

It turned out that the difference between hair color and eye color was the evidence that she was not a pure-blooded dragon, but a hybrid. They were treated as a lowly object because of the mixture of the blood of lowly humans.

Jayna, who had no mother, was forced to take turns to her relatives, and she always had to go through all sorts of humiliation for being a hybrid.

“You’re a symbol of negation. Realize that and feel ashamed of your existence.”

However, Jayna didn’t care, because her mother died early in her previous life, so she was used to spilling it to one ear¹ because she had a lot of bites to eat².

T/l: ¹(Spilling it to one ear= Ignoring something by not listening to it)

T/l: ²(Had a lot of bites to eat= hearingexperiencing more than she could handle)

Come to think of it, it wasn’t that her memories of the previous life were not helpful at all.

If she had been an ordinary child, she would have been significantly hurt by the sharp words pouring out toward her.

‘Oh, and one more thing.’

Thanks to the memory of her previous life, Jayna was able to easily realize that she was actually in the world of a fantasy novel, “The Sword of Revenge.”

The names of places, characters, and events from the book matched the contents of the novel she knew. Anyway, all events in the novel are what happens in human society.

Jayna didn’t care that much to it because she thought it had nothing to do with her, living in the Dragon Village.

But…

“I can’t take care of you anymore.”

One day all of a sudden, relatives who had been in charge of Jayna suddenly notified her that they could not take over.

Relatives had thoroughly hidden her until now, saying that if the existence of Jayna, who was a hybrid with humans, was revealed to the outside, it would greatly destroy the honor of their clan.

But now that the tribe’s situation was not good, their patience seemed to have reached its limit.

“I can’t live with you forever. Don’t blame us. Carrying you was originally your mother’s job.” was what he said.

“Also your blood does not belong to your dead mother alone.”

Unlike humans, the dragon tribe had no concept of a married couple, so when a child was born, they were raised by the female alone.

However, when the circumstances did not go well, he pulled out the concept that the Dragon family does not even have, “Father”, and sent Jayna to him.

“I heard he’s a powerful sorcerer, and if that’s right, he’ll protect you from other dragons.”

‘Father and daughter?’

She never imagined she would be intertwined in this way with the final boss of the novel.

‘Hey, there aren’t a few humans who have a connection with the dragon tribe, so I thought it was too easy.’

“Be good to your father.”

At the words of the next relative, Jayna gave a sarcastic smile. Are they saying that because they do not know?

No one in this world can get along with Diamide Bellaphanian.

Jayna, who read the novel, knew him too well.

The time when evil spirits were infested throughout the world under the curse of the evil king.

Diamide, a young man with excellent skills but with an outstanding character, sealed his feelings in order not to be shaken before the decisive battle. And before the seal was completed, he met Jayna’s mother, Bezriche.

A subjugation squad where talented people from the continent gathered to deal with the evil spirit king.

The two met as members of the subjugation squad and fell in love like fate while travelling together. And after a while, they promised to get married.

If you asked if his hardened feelings had melt again, it wasn’t the case.

If he did, he wouldn’t have been the final boss of the novel.

Bezriche, who was cursed by the evil king during the conquest, realized that her life span was not long.

She said goodbye to Diamide, hiding the fact that she had Diamide’s child. She was afraid that her death would hurt him.

And Diamide, who was hurt by Bezriche’s words misunderstands that he was just a one-night companion to her.

After that, Diamide’s heart freezes completely, and he made a name for himself as an inhumane and extremely selfish sorcerer.

He became a cold hearted person, who will not do anything, if someone isnt beneficial to him.

A person who doesn’t blink even if his own child was dying before his eyes.

‘That’s my father.’

It was only after Jayna was ten years old and was told that she was being sent to her father, that she could recall how she was described in the book.

[Diamide had a past where his daughter, Jayna, was brutally murdered by her own Balaur family.

For him, who can’t feel the attachment to his family, the other person was just nuisance.]

‘It was a novel I read many times, but it was mentioned only for a moment and I didn’t realize it was my story.’

Diamide, who couldn’t be shaken even by his own daughter, was insensitive to evil deeds, and to whatever benefited him, he moved without hesitation.

The Archimage, who was revered for defeating the evil spirit king, had become evil himself.

And the main story of the novel <Sword of Revenge> was the content of revenge of the protagonist who lost his mother to Diamide.

‘Of course, it’s a story a few years later, and the main character’s mother is still far from dying.’

For Jayna, the timing of the novel’s development was not important. Before that, she’ll be dead already.

‘How can I survive without dying?’

Jayna kept thinking about it, but she couldn’t think of a suitable answer.

The blood of a dragon was said to be stronger than humans of her age, but it was useless to stand before an adult dragon. Moreover, Jayna had not been able to awaken the true power of the dragon family for a long time.

If her own strength couldn’t stop the dragon, she had to somehow seek outside help. But…

‘It’s impossible to be protected by my father as my relatives say.’

It was clear that Diamide would not protect her from the Dragons trying to do the ‘Honorary Murder’ just like in the original plot.

Rather, it would be fortunate enough if he did not dismiss her, saying that she was not his daughter.

Melting the ice was said to be by warm sunshine, not by the cold wind.

A friendly and charming attitude, and a gentle smile, are the so-called factors that make fathers become foolish for their daughters.

But Jayna had no such thing. No, it was more accurate that she couldn’t.

Because love was something only those who had received it could do.

Besides, the opponent wasn’t even an ordinary person. It was Diamide Bellaphanian, the villain of the novel who barely felt emotion. No matter how hard she struggled, he would not still feel any affection for her in the end.

So Jayna decided before she went to the tower:

Not to make any effort to win the favor of Diamide. And to accept death calmly.

Rather than being distressed and resentful, it would be better to appreciate and enjoy the reality of her life.

Fortunately, the Dragon clan’s “honor murder” was not so close.

‘The time I have left is seven years.’

In the <Sword of Revenge>, it was when she was seventeen that the dragon began the move to kill her.

For the dragon family, who lived for a thousand years and had a different concept of time from humans, seven years was only a night of sleep.

That seemed to be enough to enjoy the small luxury that she had never had in her entire life without much regret in life.