After leaving the mansion where Leonhart was staying, they headed towards Duchess Lucella’s residence while conversing.

What could there be to talk about between them?

This time too, the topic was Sien Mirmode. Their expressions were very bright as they talked about Sien.

Starting from what Sien likes and what she eats, it went as far as the realm of fandom, so their legs didn’t hurt even after walking for a long time.

When they reached the outskirts of the mansion where the duchess was staying after walking for several dozen minutes, they encountered Duchess Lucella who was taking a walk.

It was just when Acid shrank his body in an unexpected situation. The duchess spoke to Leonhart with a cold face.

“What were you talking about so happily?”

“Ah… It’s nothing.”

Duchess Lucella shook her head looking at the stiff Leonhart.

I clearly know that child’s mouth corners go up when talking about Sien and return to expressionless when talking about other things.

She pretended not to know and continued speaking.

“If it’s about honey bread. I’ll arrange a meeting for the three of you soon. We need to have poison lessons too.”

Leonhart answered immediately.

“That’s good.”

He tried to hide his excited feelings, but a smile was already on his lips.

“Then we can have about five lessons before Axel Mirmode comes.”

Originally, Duchess Lucella should have been very busy taking care of the household because Axel was returning.

However, she just created an empty schedule for Sien. Feeling proud of herself for being able to adjust her own schedule.

Right at that moment, someone eagerly cut in from behind.

“Oh my, then can I join too?”

That someone was none other than Delphia Mirmode. The duchess frowned openly looking at Delphia.

“What nonsense. Delphia, why are you at this mansion anyway?”

Come to think of it, why is Delphia at Duchess Lucella’s mansion? Weren’t they originally on awkward terms?

At that moment, question marks also appeared in Acid and Leonhart’s minds.

Then Delphia sighed dramatically and retorted.

“Well… These days our baby master seems to have forgotten me, not inviting me to the mansion, and that vicious Matthias ignores my letters even when I send them.”

Duchess Lucella still had an indifferent expression. She lightly gestured with her chin and said to Delphia.

“Whether you see our honey bread or not, that’s none of my business. You’re an uninvited guest.”

“Ah, I miss our cutie pie. I want to teach her too. Please?”

Delphia sighed heavily as if suffering from lovesickness. Leonhart glanced at her and thought.

How unfortunate. I can see the chestnut genius a lot. It’s just that I’m busy now, if I go to the chestnut’s mansion, she meets me right away.

Until now, he only thought of Delphia as a dangerous person.

But seeing her calling honey bread “baby master” and desperately looking for her, he felt sorry for her.

Moreover, a strange sense of superiority towards Delphia arose.

But if you think about it like that…

‘That guy Acid lives in the same house as chestnut, right?’

…The strange sense of superiority was also shattered when he saw Acid.

‘I want to live in the same house as chestnut too. Then maybe her genius could be contagious?’

Acid, who actually lives in the same house, just blinked his eyes watching the Sien acquisition battle between Duchess Lucella and Delphia.

Thus, the affectionate offensive of the three towards chestnut, baby master, honey bread continued without Sien knowing.

Me, the captain, and daddy. The three of us remained.

The brown-haired boy was taken to the playground by elder sister Deadry saying she would reform him… so it seemed I wouldn’t have to worry about him for a while.

I tightly grasped daddy’s sleeve and whispered.

“Daddy.”

“Yes?”

“You know, someone must be talking about me!”

My ear was a little itchy.

Wondering who might be speaking ill of me, I clenched my fist tightly and frowned. Seeing me like that, daddy chuckled.

“Sien, you look scary with that expression.”

I nodded and had a faint smile on my lips.

“No. I’m nice!”

After talking with daddy for a while, one thought occurred to me.

That there was one more person here besides me and daddy.

It was the captain I had brought to introduce to daddy.

“Captain is nice too! Can he sleep in the room next to Acid?”

“Yes, if that’s what Sien wants, I’ll prepare a room.”

I decided to try harder to introduce the captain to daddy better.

“Um, daddy. Should we also donate to the captain’s orphanage? It doesn’t have to be much.”

Of course, I would work and pay daddy back for that donation. Daddy will need funds as the heir too. Especially since we are now heirs who have obtained a very small territory, every penny would be precious.

But daddy, either not knowing that fact, or knowing but happy about the donation… just smiled brightly at me.

“Yes, sure.”

As expected, since daddy is a kind person, he must have fallen for the word donation. I buried my face in daddy’s arms and mumbled.

“It would be nice if we could find the captain’s mom too. I’ll help look for her too… The captain’s mom is a gypsy in the Merci region. She might be a shaman. Or she might not be.”

“I’ll look for her. I was going to… I mean, I was going to look into it anyway.”

“Huh?”

When I tilted my head at his words that he was going to look into it anyway, daddy laughed awkwardly.

“Since she’s Sien’s friend, I should meet the friend’s mother too.”

I smiled brightly at daddy with eyes full of trust.

After putting Sien to sleep, Matthias entered his office.

Although Sien hadn’t realized, he too was steadily preparing to welcome Axel Mirmode.

The only difference between Matthias’s preparation and Sien’s was…

“Did you say Axel Mirmode’s weakness is keeping shamans close?”

“Yes, he’s also quite sensitive to jinxes.”

The fact that Matthias’s intelligence was quite excellent.

He looked down at the information guild master and put a pipe in his mouth. As coldness spread across his expressionless face, the subordinate who was already scared opened his mouth.

“As you know, he’s a profligate man with weak mental strength. It would be good to attack the mental side.”

As he said, Axel Mirmode’s only weakness was that his mental strength was weak.

Despite having powerful strength and being fierce, Axel couldn’t properly endure without relying on alcohol or magic potions.

Perhaps because of that.

He was quite obsessed with supernatural things, and this time was no exception.

“In this war, he has a shaman by his side. Although the exact identity hasn’t been revealed yet, there’s talk that she’s a gypsy woman. Her age is around 30-40. He relies on that woman’s divinations to some extent, though not much. He’s vowing to kill her when this war is over.”

At the words “gypsy woman”, what Sien had said earlier suddenly came to mind.

The captain’s mother. The female gypsy shaman in the Merci region she had asked to find.

‘…Is all this really a coincidence?’

But he swallowed his saliva between his teeth.

Even if it wasn’t a coincidence, he would make it one.

If little Sien entered the filthy power struggle of the Mirmode family, she would surely crumble soon.

May the lovely Sien only see good things and do happy things.

“Go find the gypsy shaman in the Merci region right away.”

First, he had to find that woman.

He intended to find out if she was the same person Sien had mentioned. Then if she was the same person.

“We’ll have to kidnap her, bring her here.”

He was prepared to do anything if his little daughter Sien wanted it.

When Matthias obtained the information and moved to the Merci region under cover of dawn.

Sien had already gone to the casino, the dirtiest gambling den in this filthy family.

‘This was where the most money moved in the original story.’

The reason for coming here was simple.

To earn money instead of our daddy who would surely be poor despite being the heir of a noble family, and to request the information guild to find the captain’s mother.

‘There should be quite a good dealer here…’

Behind Sien, who was walking briskly with only her eyes showing, wrapped tightly in a very small bundle.

Muscular maids over 180cm tall were following ominously.

The elder sister maids looked very bewildered.

As this matter required moving quietly, only a select few necessary personnel were brought along. Although they had been asked to assist in advance, they could be flustered as this place was so dangerous.

‘Besides, this casino isn’t just a simple gambling den.’

A place where children absolutely cannot enter through official channels.

It wouldn’t be good for the captain and Acid’s education, but they had to be brought along as they were absolutely necessary.

‘After finding the dealer inside, there’s something we need to do together.’

If asked what I plan to do with the dealer, I can answer very specifically.

This casino wasn’t a simple casino, and the dealer wasn’t an ordinary dealer.

The casino may look like a simple casino where poker is played and roulette is spun on the surface. But only a few people know that this place was actually a passage to the dark auction house.

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A place where numerous dangerous items are exchanged, to the extent that it’s said everything people in the world desire is there.

A space where no one knows exactly who the owner is.

However, regardless of who the owner is, the auction captivated people’s attention by being held on special days.

The auction targets sometimes became people, sometimes magic tools, and sometimes land.

Of course, similar to other auction houses, the probability of getting a proper item was about 10%. Useless junk was auctioned with 90% probability.

Items that weren’t properly auctioned were always re-auctioned at the next auction. But people didn’t even glance at such junk. They always came to this auction house to obtain the 10% of amazing items.

Melodia was no exception.

Befitting the female protagonist of the novel, Melodia bought many good items here. She even used those items to punish the villainous Mirmode family.

Especially the small and beautiful rosewood land with endless gold buried in it that I want to buy, she bought it and became rich!

People only knew about the roses on top, no one knew there was gold buried in the ground.

They reacted coldly, saying it’s pathetic that such a trivial land is put up for auction here, it would lose face to buy such a thing after coming all the way here, and only purchased other items that seemed amazing.

Melodia was just lucky too, she didn’t know there was gold in that land.

And that’s the land I’m going to buy now.

To get my hands on the gold mine buried in it.

Moreover, once you pass the test to enter once, you can enter again and again in the future. That means I can go into the auction house and buy items later when good items come out again.

Probably if things went according to the original story, the land would have been auctioned by now. I thought it might be about the 5th failed auction.

If my guess is correct, now is a good timing for me to buy the land before Melodia.

First of all, I had to find the casino dealer who sells tickets to enter .

That ticket couldn’t be bought with money. You had to pass the dealer’s test.

Today I carefully selected my close associates, the elder sister maids, Acid, the captain, etc. and came together for that test.

‘Before the test, let’s try to look as impressive, cool, and capable as possible!’

So I tried to enter the casino very confidently, like in some noir movie.

But there was a problem…