If it was the Mercy Region, that’s where our father had gone for volunteering. I couldn’t help but entertain extreme worries, even the thought that our father might have been caught up in the turmoil and perhaps even died.
In an instant, I was filled with sudden fear, and I looked at Ted with a worried expression.

“What about our, um, father…? What’s happened to him?” I inquired.

“Matthias Mirmord, he…” Ted fell silent.

‘Why is he staying silent?’ I wondered, growing increasingly anxious. Deedree, standing by my side, began to fret incessantly.

“Tell me, what’s going on with Matthias Mirmord?”
“What did Matthias do in the Mercy region?” I asked, my voice trembling.

“Don’t speak of such dreadful matters, Deedree,” Ted cautioned.

“Is, is he still alive…?” The mere thought of our father being gone was enough to bring tears to my eyes.

Deedree looked at me as if she had heard a completely unfamiliar question in her life.

“Pardon?”

“I, our father.”

“…Well, of course, he must be alive, right?” Deedree replied, her uncertainty mirrored in her voice.
“Worrying about that… Please, rather worry about my muscles,” the maidservants said, but I was still very concerned.

“…We must check if our father is safe…” I said, my hands trembling with anxiety.

At that moment, as I fretted and worried, Ted spoke up.

“Don’t worry. Matthias is safe and will return soon.”

“Really? Then we must celebrate when he returns!”

I was relieved that he was alive.
I clenched my fist tightly and thought solemnly before turning my head.

“By the way, how’s the progress on the gardening project?”

Today’s events had made it clear to me.

Dad, who was willing to go on vacation to an area where trouble was brewing, was too free-spirited and kind-hearted.

So, I needed to quickly gather some gold and hire knights or mercenaries to protect our dad.

Otherwise, our fragile dad might just keel over and die…!
So, I needed to make money quickly.

I looked at the servant girls with a sparkling urgency.

“Our little one knows about the progress…”

“…That’s not the most important thing right now!”

As I shook my head, Bench Unnie, who was next to me, spoke up.

“Oh, we’ve almost finished selling them all. They said we should reach the edge of the land by tomorrow. Those guys who are digging seem to think they’ll find something at the end of their shovels.”
“Let’s go to the orchard tomorrow morning.”

Axel said he would arrive a little later, Dad is still alive, and tomorrow, I’ll be a conglomerate.

Thanks to the time loop, I had plenty of time to stick with Axel.

The next morning.

I woke up, brushed my teeth diligently, and put on my socks with determination.

But that’s not all.
I stylishly did a double ponytail and put on a majestic dress adorned with gold.

After finishing all the preparations and looking in the mirror, there was…

“Do I look like a king?”

“Oh, yes, you do.”

I saw a very magnificent version of myself.

I proudly flipped my double ponytail and smiled.

“Now, everyone, let’s go.”

The maids who considered themselves my loyal subordinates stood by my side.

“Yes!”

The knight, Ted, also stood by my side.
“I will follow as well.”

I looked at my attendants with satisfaction and raised my chin proudly.

Today is the day when we dig diligently with shovels and then pick up gold, so I wore clothes full of gold. After dressing up so splendidly, I had a happy premonition that everything would go smoothly.

I shrugged my shoulders and held the hands of the maids.

But…

“Is, is this it?”
I looked around inside the entrance of the botanical garden with a bewildered expression.

The botanical garden was now a perfect empty field, quite different from the past. All the rose bushes had been removed.

Of course, they had always intended to remove the wood, but I didn’t expect it to happen so quickly.

I thought the muscular maid knew about the situation.

“D, d, did this happen? Why did it progress so quickly?”

“They’ve finished everything.”
Even my sister, who personally hired the workers, seemed clueless… It was truly a strange occurrence.

For some inexplicable reason, I blinked repeatedly with an ominous foreboding.

Seeing my bewildered expression, the maid sisters began to exchange worried glances.

“What… Hey, Bench. What’s going on?”

“While we did bring in a lot of honorable muscle men from the family… this is… like magic?”

As fate would have it…
“Could it be that someone came here knowing there’s gold here, intending to steal it?”

It was certainly possible.

My actions at the Auction of Shadows might have seemed a bit suspicious.

“Where have those contract workers gone?”

“Yeah, they’re the type who love to eat and chat, so it’s strange for it to be this quiet.”

Furthermore, the muscular laborers sent by my sister’s family were nowhere to be seen.
When we meet, I was planning to thank them for helping me dig out the gold and even share some of it as a gift.

“What on earth happened?”

I said, bristling with prickles like a hedgehog.

“Let’s first go deeper inside.”

“Yes!”

The maids stood on either side of me, and Ted stood behind me.

I took the lead and entered the inside, all tense and ready, and at the scene I arrived at…

“Gasp.”
…I blinked in confusion. Why was that person coming out here?

“Today, too~ Let’s~ do some~ digging~.”

Delphia, with her bright silver hair, was waving a shovel as large as her own body and digging in the ground.

Beside her, Leonhardt was grumbling as he brushed off the dirt stuck to the gold.

‘What on earth is going on?’

I couldn’t help but feel like I was the only one not understanding this situation, so I looked at the maids and the knight Ted, whom I had brought as an escort.
They too were shaking their heads in disbelief.

“We kept it so discreet that rumors wouldn’t spread… I had no idea they would come here to help.”

“Maybe the ones our family hired didn’t stay silent or got kicked out…”

“How on earth did this leak out?”

As I whispered, Deedri washed her face with a dry expression.
“Come to think of it, Delfia has been quite interested in your daily life, Sienna, so if there’s anything that can help you, she insisted I report it immediately…”

I shook my head in exasperation.

“Being a popular figure has its downsides, after all.”

Leaving that aside, I moved briskly inside.

“Onni!”

Delfia, who had been working diligently with her shovel, looked in my direction upon hearing my voice.
She immediately set her shovel down as if throwing it outside and stood up straight.

“I finally get to see your face! That old hag, anyway, I don’t like her. She’s trying to claim you for herself!”

I thought Delfia had been too busy to look for me lately, but it seemed that wasn’t the case. Moreover, with Leonhardt by her side, their combination was quite unusual.

“Bantol, do you have any idea… that there’s gold here?”
Even Leonhardt had a twinkle in his eyes when he saw me.

“Wow! My gold!”

I burst into laughter and sprinted at full speed.

Delfia spread her arms as if to embrace me, but I leaped over her in a single bound, reaching the space filled with piles of gold.

“Hee!”

It was when I excitedly pounded my feet, realizing that I had become rich.

“Why is our baby so lucky like this?”
I heard Delfia mumbling something quietly. At the same time, Leonhardt shook his head and said,

“It’s not luck; it’s because she’s a genius.”

I thought with my hands firmly resting on my soft cheeks,

The fact that I discovered gold, it’s like winning the lottery.