Chapter 38
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He answered cheerfully.
"It's a jewel!"
I tilted my head.
I thought demons could have plenty of jewels.
Bune covered his chin with his hand and sighed deeply.
"We all have different powers. Some can make love come true, and some can kill enemies. Sadly, I don't have the power to make jewels."If you can make jewelry, you can also create a great masterpiece." (Why don't you ask a demon who can make jewels?)"
Bune flicked my nose lightly and said.
"Except for a few, we can't meet each other without a medium like you, Little One."
"Ah."
I nodded and looked at Bune.
His eyes sparkled with desperation for a jewel.
For a while, I watched the pure-looking handsome man sob, then nodded and asked the most important thing.
"What can Gromon Bune do for me?" (Then what will Bune do for me?)"
Grinning, I raised the corners of my lips.
The next day, the greenhouse.
From morning, I was stuffing lamb sauté into my mouth.
The table was full of various foods, but my fork kept going for meat. Then meat again. And again and again, meat.
[Little One, you need to eat a balanced diet to be healthy.]
Bune's voice echoed in my head.
I was worried about whether he would stay in human form, but thankfully, he could make his body disappear.
'Be quiet.'
I answered bluntly, and I heard Bune's dejected sigh.
But I was just as depressed.
Summoning a demon requires a lot, a great deal, of Divine Power, making it difficult to maintain an adult's mind.
I needed three or four times as much food and sleep as usual.
I learned a lot about demon summoning from yesterday's Q&A with Bune.
Demons are summoned only when there is a special mineral (or jewel) to act as a passage. You cannot choose and summon the demon you want.
Once a demon is summoned, the mineral (or jewel) that served as the passage loses its function.
Only one demon can be summoned at a time, and it disappears after granting the wish.
During the summoning period, I can use the demon's power through my Divine Power as a medium. However, summoning and maintaining it also consumes Divine Power, so I need to make it disappear as soon as possible. If all my Divine Power disappears, I will go crazy.
Actually, I had some expectations.
I wondered if Bune could help me escape and live in exile right away.
But Bune's ability was to 'summon the souls of the dead.'
'I wish he could give me information I don't know or teleport me.'
Hearing my thoughts, Bune sighed again, sounding sorrowful.
But I was the one who was truly, truly sorrowful!
I was happy because I thought asking for a jewel would be super easy, but the jewel Bune wanted was incredibly difficult to obtain.
'How am I supposed to get <Tears of the God>?'
It's a sapphire that exists only one in the world.
And, of all places, the Temple owned it.
'The Temple that owns it is nearby, should I steal it?'
In my previous life, I lived as a beggar, so stealing was my specialty.
As I was pondering, someone entered the greenhouse.
"Young Lady, good morning?"
My eyes widened.
It was Cattleya.
"What should I do?" (How are you here?)"
"I collapsed while leaving the castle last night. I was rushed to the infirmary in the castle for treatment, and I'm just on my way out now, so I wanted to say hello to the Young Lady."Gurokuna." (I see.)"
I nodded and put the last piece of lamb in my mouth.
Leah asked, "Shall I bring you more?" I nodded, and she left the dining room.
And only Cattleya and I remained in the greenhouse.
She clasped her hands together and said, "Oh."
"I have good news."
"News?"
"Yes. The Temple knows that the Young Lady has demonstrated tremendous Divine Power and is very pleased."
"……What?"
"A letter has arrived for His Grace, asking him to come to the nearby Temple to confirm the Young Lady's Divine Power."
Then she came close to me and smiled sweetly.
"With that much Divine Power, you might be summoned to the central Temple right away. Congratulations."
"……."
"While the Young Lady is at the central Temple, I will take good care of His Grace and the Young Masters."
Cattleya then stroked my hair.
"Got it, you moron?"
She seemed to be quite twisted from yesterday's events.
She had even thrown away the mask she had been wearing, however clumsily.
'Cattleya or the Baron and his wife must have told the Temple.'
Since they failed yesterday, they were trying to get rid of me by using the Temple.
Cattleya tapped my cheek, tap, tap, and said.
"How dare a commoner orphan covet something like this. Do you think you can erase your origins just because you have Divine Power?"
"……."
"Please know your place."
I had been quite lenient with Cattleya.
She was a child, and I hadn't been particularly harmed by what she had done.
But I wasn't a very patient person.
The kind LeBlaine who would put up with everything just because she was a child was no longer here.
It was when Cattleya tapped my cheek once more.
"Eek-!"
I fell off the chair and screamed, and the outside became noisy before the door burst open!
"Young Lady?!"
The employees and officials nearby rushed in.
Henri was among them, holding a book.
"What's going on!"
I pointed at Cattleya.
"I will hit you." (She hit me.)"
The girl turned pale and waved her hands.
"N, no……! That's not true!"
Henri strode forward and grabbed Cattleya's wrist.
There was oil on her palm. It was the lamb sauté oil that was on my face.
"N, no, I, it's not like that……!"
I smiled inwardly, shamelessly displaying the blackmailing skills I had used on people who bullied me for being a beggar back in my beggar days.
'I'm the drama queen of this area, you fool.'
The Willston couple was immediately summoned.
The couple was very embarrassed to see Cattleya kneeling in the greenhouse, and Isaac and Henri with fierce expressions.
"Mother!"
Cattleya burst into tears as soon as she saw the Baroness, and the couple embraced their daughter and asked.
"What on earth is going on?"
"She hit LeBlaine."
The Baroness's eyes hardened at Henri's cold words, and Cattleya cried out as if screaming.
"No, I'm innocent! I was just, just trying to wipe something off the Young Lady's face……!"
The Baron, who had been momentarily flustered, glared at me with a 'that's what I thought' expression.
"Young Lady, enough is enough! Yesterday you made her fall, and today you're framing her! What grudge do you have against Cattleya to do this-"
Slap!
Isaac slapped him across the face.
The Baron, who had been hit by a palm infused with Aura, fell onto the greenhouse lawn.
He covered his cheek as if he couldn't believe it.
"W, what…… what is this……."
"See, that's hitting."
Isaac grabbed the grass stuck to his face with his index finger and thumb and flicked it away, then continued.
"That's wiping it off."
"Excuse me?"
"Where should your daughter's hand touch if she's trying to wipe crumbs off the little one's face?"
"Of course, her fingers……."
Isaac grabbed Cattleya's wrist, which was trembling, and held it out to the Baron.
"Where's the oil on your daughter's hand? Huh?"
The Baron swallowed hard when he saw the palm glistening.
When he didn't answer, Isaac muttered, "I guess I need to demonstrate again."
The Baroness looked at her daughter with an incredulous expression.
"Is that true?"
"……."
"Cattleya!"
Realizing that there was no room for excuses, Cattleya bit her lip tightly.
"I only tapped her cheek lightly!"
"Why did you do that!"
It was rude to touch someone without permission, but tapping her cheek was even worse.
Moreover, I was Dubled's Young Lady of the main family. It was something that should not have happened.
Cattleya glared at me, shedding tears.
"She's bad! She stole what was mine!"
"This kid……."
"She's a commoner orphan! She's far below me, I should have been Dubled's Young Lady! Mother, Father, and Roman also said so. You said you would make it so that the Duke would have no choice but to accept me……!"
The Baron and Baroness's faces turned pale.
Cattleya's words were like a bomb.
If those words were interpreted maliciously, it would mean 'they tried to make a branch family head in order to swallow up the Ducal family.' In other words, it was a challenge to the Duke's power.
Isaac and Henri looked at Cattleya, who was crying, and the Baron and Baroness, who didn't know what to do, with vicious expressions.
"Brother. How many guys do you think we can involve in this?"
"Leave it to me. I'll involve all the guys who cornered LeBlaine yesterday."
After lightly bumping fists, Isaac ran out of the greenhouse.
"Duke!"
I'm going to tell Father.
It goes without saying that the castle was turned upside down.
