Those guys seemed like really scary ones, who would even rip off my father’s organs.

Since I decided to directly find out the identities of my father’s associates at the hunting contest, I couldn’t rest easily. They say that people should be careful of those closest to them after all.

Father, as usual, seemed carefree, humming a tune and remarking, “It’s like a picnic.”

“Such innocence is the charm of our father, indeed.”

While I was on high alert, and Father was singing carelessly, our carriage quickly arrived at the small villa where the hunting contest was held.

In the villa owned by our father, a simple speech for the hunting contest was planned, followed by a feast from the hunt.

Father, who led me to a room in the villa, lovingly looked down at me and said.

“Daughter, take a good rest.”

“Uhhuh!”

“I’ll show you the hunting later.”

I waved my hand at Father several times.

“Shall I assist you with your shower? We have some time before the hunting contest begins!”

I vigorously shook my head.

There was no time for a shower.

I had to sit on the sofa in the most luxurious room in the villa and rack my brains.

‘Today, I have to reveal the identities of my father’s associates, and tomorrow, I have to charm the knights… Oh, my head hurts.’

Axel was coming to the Duke’s house, just one month left.

Thinking about the survival weapons Grandma gave me while jingling my pockets, I felt a desperate thought that I had too much to do for a baby and that it was hard to survive.

The maid sisters, seeing me sigh heavily, carefully looked down at me.

They were in a state of pouring loyalty to me to the point where they couldn’t help but be flustered by my sighs.

“Miss Cien, is your head complicated?”

“I’m just disappointed that there’s no cake here…!”

I opened my mouth, shaking my head dramatically.

“Everything will be alright!”

The maid sisters who were looking at me proudly gathered their mouths and sang in unison.

“You will have a simple snack later, and after the hunting contest, you will be able to eat a lot of meat!”

“I’m looking forward to the hunting contest. They said they prepared something tremendous…”

“Something… tremendous?”

“Yes! I heard those people whispering among themselves earlier.”

I definitely felt something suspicious about them.

Thanks to the words passed on by the whispering maid sisters, my doubts only strengthened.

“I can’t stand it. Just in case, I have to protect my body properly.”

I bit my lips tightly and searched my pockets.

After tucking a large bomb artifact shaped like a lucky bag under my dress, I tied various safety devices and offensive artifacts all over my body.

The blue hairpin on my head was a survival artifact that could cast a large safety barrier around me, the watch on my wrist was a recording device, the anklet on my ankle was…

Explaining each one was exhausting. Right now, my body was practically a weapon.

‘Some call it Temppal.’

The maid sisters looked at me curiously, but that wasn’t important.

With a sudden boost in confidence, I smirked like a little devil.

‘This looks pretty good!’

Then, at that moment.

A strange noise seeped in through the open window of the villa.

“Didn’t you hear something?”

When I asked, the maid sisters also cautiously nodded their heads.

I stared out the window, shivering. Something definitely seemed to be out there.

While the hunting contest was in full swing, Princess Delphia, who received the news late that Matthias had become the Minor Duke of Mirmode, frowned.

She wasn’t fighting like Axel, but she was training her own soldiers in the outskirts of the Duke’s territory. On top of that, she had to tediously inspect the borders as a mission given as a Grand Duchess. It was a situation where she couldn’t move her body immediately.

“Ah, while I’m stuck in this corner of the border.”

“Yikes.”
“…The heir of the house has been decided, hasn’t it?”

Snowwhite hair and blue eyes.

She carried an impression very similar to a witch from a fairy tale.

Naturally, her character was eccentric and meticulous.

“This is absurd.”

The Grand Duchess Delfia ran her fingers through her white hair, spitting out curses one after the other.

Yes, I did not assume that the succession of the Mirmod would naturally be mine.

However, it was inevitable that my temper would twist upon the fact that Prince Matthias, who had been exiled and recently returned, ascended to the position of heir.

She tersely addressed her confidant who brought the scorpion.

“Now it’s a threeway struggle between Axel, Matthias, and me. Right?”

“Ha! Even if Prince Matthias has taken the position of heir, it will only be a superficial position. It’s amusing to see him so happy about preemptively securing his spot as an exiled one. The position of Duke is yours, Delfia…!”

“Quiet.”

Delfia watched her enraged confidant’s shoulders slump.

There was nothing to like here.

My body was eager to return to the mansion immediately. Because there were more amusing things there.