‘At this rate, except for Jan, no one might want to take charge of my escort.’

I had planned to come and go quickly without being noticed, but my family arrived by carriage faster than I did.

At the moment when my family was about to turn everything upside down, I managed to arrive just in time.

“Call Garrison!”

As soon as the main gate opened, the servants all moved busily. I went up to the Duke’s room and received a medical examination from the doctor.

“W-well, there doesn’t seem to be any particular problem…”

“Did you look carefully?”

“The baby said the stomach hurts. Maybe something he ate was wrong?”

Outside the corridor, many people were gathered, including Dad and my brother, who had the sun on their side.

“How are you, little one?”

“You mentioned that the meal might be wrong…”
“Then, is it all because the little lady is unwell due to the food?!”

‘…Why do I feel a sense of crisis?’

At that moment, knights standing outside the corridor hastily rushed to the kitchen. Seeing that, I was horrified.

‘Kussess did nothing wrong!’

Kussess was the head chef who devoted day and night to making my favorite chocolate cookies, pudding, and other foods. I couldn’t let any harm come to him.

“I’m not sick anymore!”

“Cough!”

In a hurry, I sat up, and as I spoke, the doctor, surprised, stumbled backward.

The Duke and Clements quickly came to my side.

“But still, lie down. It’s better to rest when you’re not feeling well.”

“Right, what if the stomachache comes back?”

I shook my head firmly. I even waved my arms to them.

“I was just sick from going out after a long time! I’m not sick at all now, so it’s okay!”

After firmly informing them, I turned to the people outside the corridor who were worried about me and spoke confidently.

“I’m not sick anymore, and what made me sick wasn’t the food! Kussess puts so much effort into cooking! There’s nothing wrong with Kussess’s food!”

“Miss…”

A voice behind me sounded touched.

At that moment, Kussess, who was being dragged by Bart’s formidable strength from the end of the corridor, was blocking his mouth with both hands.

Tears welled up in his eyes.

‘…How did I manage to capture the chef’s heart as well!’

It was embarrassing, but since it was a good thing, I said a praising word to Kussess.

“Kussess’s cooking is the best! Kussess’s cookies are the best!”

“Yes! I will dedicate the rest of my life to you, miss! All the cooking I do from now on will be for you!”

‘He doesn’t need to go that far…’

I awkwardly scratched my face and stepped back. Actually, I was quite impatient right now.

“Okay, then I’ll go to my room now! Since I’m going to rest, nobody should come!”

After making a clear statement, I quickly entered the room. As I closed the door, my tension was finally released. I leaned against the door and sat down on the floor with a sigh.

The silver snake silently crawled out of the bag and raised its head erect.

[Tsk tsk, if you had made the contract, you wouldn’t have to worry about the compensation.]

“It’s okay; no one should come in now.”

I lay down on the bed with a thud and stared blankly at the ceiling.

In the end, Deivan didn’t kill the inspection team. Worried as I was, Deivan promised me even putting his little finger on it.

‘As you said, I won’t kill them. I won’t cut off legs or pull out tongues. So don’t worry.’

Since Deivan came there secretly, he couldn’t return with me on the carriage. He brought me to the vicinity of the carriage and decided to return separately to the mansion.

‘By the way, I was really surprised.’
In the original work, it was Deivan who killed the inspection team. He killed the inspection team, fabricated the incident as a magical anomaly by eliminating evidence.

‘She’s been missing since the morning.’

Now I see that it was all for that incident.

The reason I could find the hidden Deivan was all because of the visible magical power.

That is, magical power visible only to my eyes.

I couldn’t tell if it had been visible from the beginning or if it started appearing after the supernatural beings showed up. When I was with Rebeca, I had never seen a magician.

Seeing the aura artificially attached to the magician, I followed it and could locate a place where Deivan seemed to be.

At first, even after searching everywhere, I couldn’t see anything. The moment I was wandering around, the silver snake gave me a little poke.

[Just keep walking forward; he’s over there.]

‘If it weren’t for the silver snake’s help, I wouldn’t have found him.’

As the silver snake said, there was tall grass in front and shadows cast heavily. Ignoring those, I walked forward and saw Deivan manipulating magic while leaning against a tree.

Later, the silver snake told me that it was a concealment barrier he cast.

[To hide with magic, you need to cast a barrier.]

Since he was casting a barrier, no one would have known that Deivan had come. If I couldn’t see magical power either, I wouldn’t have been able to stop Deivan.

Anyway, the reason I’m trying to stay alone in my room now is all because of that. To have safely stopped Deivan.

‘The members of the inspection team won’t die.’

They will return safely to the capital. In other words, those who should have died again didn’t die.

‘What will be the price I have to pay this time?’

First, dizziness, then a runny nose, and next, fainting.

‘I hope it’s not too severe.’

I hope it gets resolved before Sophia comes to my room. Then everyone won’t have to worry.

While waiting quietly for the price, it didn’t come immediately.

‘When will the price…’

That moment. It didn’t seem like much time had passed, but Sophia knocked on the door.

“Miss, are you still sleeping?”

I got up suddenly from my seat. Somehow, two hours had already passed.

‘Oops, did I fall asleep without realizing it?’

I rubbed my face. There was no runny nose, no fainting. I hadn’t even fallen asleep out of boredom while waiting.

“Sophia, wait a moment!”

I quickly grabbed the silver snake and asked.

“The price you mentioned. Can’t I just let it go without receiving it?”

[That’sabsolutely not going to happen.]

“I’m perfectly fine right now…”

As I said with my hands fluttering, the silver snake responded as if it was obvious.

[Well, then, there’s only one answer, right?]