18 - Chapter 18
The Dragon Who Saved the Duke's Family, Episode 18
"As the knight knows, our Temple prioritizes the child's happiness above all else."
"I would assume so."
"Do you know where happiness comes from?"
"I wonder."
"Money."
He made a circle with his index finger and thumb and smiled creepily.
"With money, you can wear pretty clothes, and with money, you can eat delicious food."
"I see."
"Our Temple prioritizes the child's happiness above all else."
He then cleared his throat, and Dylan finally realized that he meant he wanted money if he wanted to take the child.
'I expected it, but I didn't think they'd actually trade a child for money.'
He sighed and took out the emergency funds he had and handed them over.
"Ahem..."
Theodore checked the contents and openly showed his disappointment.
"This is not enough for a happy child."
"I will bring more later."
"Happiness cannot be bought on credit. Let's see, how much did that person bring yesterday..."
He was blatantly implying that if he didn't match the amount, he would send her to someone else, and Dylan barely managed to hold back his irritation.
Ashil stared intently at Dylan.
'It seems like you need money to take the Yeoju human.'
Even though she was young, she knew everything. She was also quick-witted.
'He could just ask Ashil.'
Even though he was so poor that he had to cut logs with a wooden stick, he was trying to help. It was touching.
'I should go break logs for him again later.'
Ashil, thinking of something that would shock Dylan if he knew, secretly went out of the drawing room.
Then, avoiding the eyes of others, she opened her Subspace and took out her treasured pouch of treasures.
'How many should I give to take the Yeoju human?'
She tilted her head and pondered for a moment, then decided to just take the whole thing, assuming they would give her change.
"Pipi."
Since she had decided to act like a pet, Ashil crawled on all fours, pushing the pouch forward, and returned to the drawing room.
"Hmm...?"
Dylan, who hadn't even noticed Ashil leaving, paused at the sound of gold coins clinking.
'Could that pouch be...?'
On the other hand, Theodore, who had sold his soul to money, was overjoyed without asking any questions.
"Oh, my, as expected of the Duke's pet, you are very clever. Are you giving this to me, Pipi-nim?"
"Pipi."
"Thank you. I think Selena will be happy enough with this, but just in case, I will check."
Dylan couldn't even stop him.
Theodore opened Ashil's pouch with lightning speed.
And as soon as he opened it, he gasped at the dazzling golden light.
"Heuk!"
He wanted to take it all out and see it right there, but he was a Priest who shouldn't have greed.
For the sake of his public image, he quickly pulled the pouch strings to the sides.
"Excellent! This is more than enough for Selena to be satisfied!"
Then he slipped it into his arms-
Oh my, he took it all! Ashil was greatly shocked by his attitude of not giving back a single penny.
And Dylan, who was also shocked in a different sense, stared at the Priest's chest with trembling eyes. It seemed like that was it...
Theodore, unaware of what the one dragon and one human were thinking, immediately ordered a junior Priest to bring Selena.
Soon, a shrill voice echoed throughout the hallway.
"Let go of me, I told you I'm not going, you rotten bastards!"
Then, a Priest who was exhausted from trying to stop the child's struggles and a girl who was furious entered together.
It was Selena, a young girl with pink hair and golden eyes, about the same age as Edenber.
"You damn, freaking! Die, you perverted son of a bitch- huh?"
She, who had been showing off her rough language and fancy aerial punches, which was unusual for the original Yeoju, paused as soon as she saw Dylan.
"What, why is it different from the original?"
"Is that the child?"
Please, let that child not be the one the lizard is looking for, Dylan asked in a desperate tone.
But sadly, Ashil nodded.
Pink hair and golden eyes.
It matched the characteristics of the Yeoju that her mother had told her about so often that she was sick of hearing it.
Selena, who belatedly discovered Ashil, muttered with a blank face.
"What, why is it really different..."
"Hoo."
Whether it was strange or not, it couldn't be helped since that was the one she was looking for. He had no choice but to take her to the Duke's family.
Dylan sighed and stood up from his seat.
Theodore, who felt like he was walking on clouds because of the much larger amount of money than he had expected, escorted them out with great care.
And that night.
"Lululu- lulululu."
Theodore, who had processed all of Selena's documents with unprecedented speed, hummed.
Today was a very satisfying day.
The noble who had said he would take Selena first was very angry, but that was not a problem at all.
That alone could not bring down his floating mood to the ground.
"The world moves with money. Those with a lot of money can receive my choice-"
Theodore hummed to himself and looked at Ashil's money pouch, then smiled slyly.
"You cute thing."
He quietly got up and locked the door so that no uninvited guests could enter.
"Now, shall we see how much is inside?"
He rubbed his hands together like a fly and then dumped everything in the pouch onto the desk.
Golden coins that seemed to blind the eyes poured out with a crash.
A greedy joy spread across Theodore's face.
"Yes, this is it! This is it! ...Hmm?"
He paused as he scooped up the gold coins with both hands.
What, why are these gold coins so light?
Even at the very bottom of the pouch, there were all sorts of junk, such as broken chess pieces, crushed powder, and strangely shaped pebbles.
The pouch was heavy not because of the gold coins, but because of these things.
"What is this..."
Realizing that something was wrong, he looked closely at the gold coins with trembling eyes.
And he was shocked.
「Great job!」
「Our child is the best!」
「Use money wisely.」
What he had received were none other than toy coins.
Selena was a transmigrator.
She had been living as an ordinary office worker in a country called Korea when she was hit by a truck while returning home from work after watching a romance fantasy novel.
Then, when she opened her eyes, she had transmigrated as the heroine.
"Ah, damn it. Reincarnation truck."
As a romance fantasy enthusiast, she adapted to the new world very quickly.
"But why did I have to transmigrate as the heroine?"
As a rule of romance fantasy transmigration, it was common to transmigrate into gloomy characters and change their destinies.
Unless it was a poorly written or dark story, it was rare to transmigrate into a heroine whose future was already paved with flowers.
And this novel was neither poorly written nor dark.
Although the heroine suffered hardships when she was sold to a perverted noble when she was young, she completely changed her fate by meeting the male lead.
"There's no way I could have transmigrated into such a good character."
What the heck? True to her cynical personality, she pondered and pondered.
In the meantime, it was a bonus that she took revenge on those who tormented her, as long as the original story didn't change.
Selena soon became the crazy person and the number one person to avoid in the Temple.
As a result, she ended up going to the perverted noble, but the result was the same even in the original story, where she behaved quietly, so she didn't care much.
That was until someone from the Munrepe Duke's family was sent to pick her up.
"What is it."
It wasn't the time for them to come pick her up yet?
In the original story, the perverted noble who had taken her had accidentally realized that Selena could use Divine Power, and then tried to make a fortune by connecting her with Edenber.
It was a refreshing episode where he threatened Selena as a hostage, and then the male lead, Edenber, defeated the villain and saved his grandfather.
'But why did it change?'
She thought about it so hard that her head was burning, but there was nothing she had done that could have changed the flow of the original story.
If so-
'There's another transmigrator besides me.'
There was no other explanation.
Just as Selena made that judgment and was about to get into the Munrepe Duke's carriage, Ashil took off the cloth she had been wearing until then.
Selena was shocked inside at the familiar face that suddenly appeared.
'That guy is!'
