Chapter 63
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'I need to find out if she sold it to anyone other than the Empress Dowager.'
I followed the Empress Dowager as she left the hall to take her medicine.
As I approached the Empress Dowager, who had just stepped out the door, she asked as if wondering what was going on.
"Why aren't you in the hall?"
"I want to be with Your Majesty. There are too many people in the hall, it's scary."
Not many people dislike a child following them out of goodwill.
The Empress Dowager chuckled as she watched me desperately follow her like a chick chasing its mother hen.
"His Majesty the Emperor didn't cherish me this much when he was young, but it seems the baby really likes me."
It was then.
"Your Majesty."
A familiar voice echoed in my ear. I flinched and turned around.
'Priest Adolf.'
The man who pressured Dubled with Spinelle five years ago, and the man who persistently tormented me in my first life.
[Even though it has been revealed that it was fake, why don't you hang yourself? Do you have any idea how much the Temple's reputation has been damaged because of the baby?]
The Empress Dowager looked pleased, but soon glanced at me and said.
"What brings you here? Duke Dubled would be displeased if he saw you."
"I brought more medicine. In case you run out."
"That's perfect. I take it every day, so I was already sad that it was running out so quickly."
She smiled and gestured, and the head maid received a box full of medicine bottles from the Priest.
The Empress Dowager gently pushed my back.
"This is the Child of Destiny. She's grown a lot, hasn't she?"
The person who said she wouldn't call a Priest to the castle when I came is now introducing me to the Priest as soon as she receives the medicine.
The Empress Dowager was this kind of person. She would immediately turn to whoever gave her something bigger.
Adolf didn't seem interested in me at all, but he looked at the Empress Dowager and said.
"Nice to meet you, baby. I am Adolf from the Central Temple. You've grown a lot."
"Hello."
"Keep striving and striving. The baby has received a great mission compared to what you have, so you need limitless patience."
Adolf, who glanced at me with eyes that seemed to see me as a parasite, laughed and turned to the Empress Dowager.
"Your complexion has improved a lot."
"It's all thanks to the Priest. The medicine's effectiveness was amazing."
"I was desperate to manufacture it, thinking how painful it must have been for you to take medicine sold by such a small merchant group."
He stole our merchant group's recipe and is still so shameless.
Well, Adolf was always good at stealing other people's things.
He stole the Divine Power calculation formula that I desperately completed and reported it to the Papal State as his own invention several times.
"I'm just grateful. The ones sold by the merchant group are in such small quantities, and I heard you can't buy them unless you go there yourself."
"They are detestable people. Don't worry now. I'll prepare a lot before the medicine runs out."
"If it's such good medicine, it would be profitable to sell it, but wouldn't you be too busy to take care of an old woman after you start selling it?"
"Of course not. I only make medicine for Her Majesty the Empress Dowager."
Thanks to the amicable two people, I, who had grasped the situation, trembled.
Trying to hold back the cheers that were about to burst out!
'What a windfall.'
Mina said this after seeing the effects of Luminous medicine.
[Ah, so steroids come from herbs here.]
That was a drug with serious side effects if abused.
If used well, there is no better medicine, but if used incorrectly, it can kill in the worst case.
The reason I had a doctor stationed to check the symptoms before selling Luminous medicine was not only to maximize the rumors of its effectiveness.
It was to protect the customers.
'If she only gave it to the Empress Dowager, the other customers are safe.'
They are taking only a very small amount of the medicine according to the instructions of the doctors I have stationed, so there is little chance of side effects.
But if she takes that much medicine, the Empress Dowager will definitely experience side effects.
My medicine doesn't cause side effects, but the medicine made by the Priest does.
That means he has to take all the responsibility for the Empress Dowager suffering from the aftereffects.
The Empress Dowager laughed and said to me.
"Isn't the Priest amazing?"
"Yes. He's amazing!"
I said brightly. The Priest's lips twitched.
After returning from the party, I looked around and went to the corner of the dressing room without windows and grabbed the Communication Stone.
I connected with Seria and explained what happened today.
"An incident related to Luminous medicine will break out soon. Build trust so that customers don't panic and stop taking the medicine right away."
'It's dangerous to suddenly stop taking Luminous medicine.'
[Yes, baby. But what about the Empress Dowager?]
"Hmm, that's... not my problem?"
[Pardon?]
I am not a pushover. The kind LeBlaine, who even worried about the Empress Dowager's life, who had contributed to ruining my life several times, was no longer here.
'Now I just have to wait.'
Thanks to Adolf's greed, I just have to watch the ceremony and eat bread.
A week later.
Humming, I left the room and walked down the hallway.
'I have to tour the mansion!'
I had been so busy with everything from banquets to the Empress Dowager to the aftermath of the Luminous medicine that I didn't have time to properly tour the mansion.
Even when my brothers came every day to play with me, I pretended to be tired, burrowed into the blanket, and looked at the ledger with my eyes burning.
'There's absolutely nothing to be caught!'
I'm relieved no matter what the Temple tries to threaten me with.
The scenery of the mansion and the castle were very different.
The castle had many employees passing through the hallways and was crowded with people.
But the mansion had a very small number of people passing by quickly. To avoid being seen by the owners.
I don't know why, but that's the rule for High nobles' employees.
Servants are no different from tools, so they have to move around so as not to bother the owner.
The Valua mansion was also like that. Amitie's mansion, which only had a butler and a maid due to her frugal nature, was different.
'It seems like a lonely scene.'
Wouldn't the people who live here be lonely?
I, who will soon be going down to the territory, am having fun looking around without the interference of the servants.
I was slightly excited.
The servants said I could go anywhere except for my Aunt Javelin's room.
The mansion was so large that running from one end of the hallway to the other made me pant.
As I was wandering around the second floor, I found a room decorated with a slightly different pattern.
'What is this place?'
I opened the door slightly and found a small room without windows.
I thought it was a storage room, but it was very well maintained. There was a table, a pretty chair, a cabinet, and a small bed.
'Is it an employee's room?'
But are there any employees in the mansion who can have a room?
Judging from the fact that it has no windows and is small, it can't be Javelin's room.
I quietly sat down on the chair. There was a small drawer under the table, so I opened it slightly and found a bunch of letters, no, a bunch of notes.
Should I read them? I hesitated for a moment.
But soon I made up my mind.
They said I could go anywhere, so if there was something I shouldn't read, they would have put it away in advance, right?
[Apologize to me.]
[Isn't an apology something you say when you're sorry?]
[You were rude!]
[I don't know what's rude about letting down a lady who cries at harsh words. If you're worried about seeing tears, don't worry. You're not special enough for me to keep in my memory.]
[I wasn't crying! I was just practicing riding! It was rude enough to grab me by the neck and throw me off while I was practicing riding.]
[I don't know when clinging to the horse like a flying squirrel became riding.]
It's a neat adult's handwriting.
There were endless notes.
[I apologize for screaming yesterday. I was just trying to put the medicine I had prepared for fatigue recovery in the bathroom at the butler's request. I really never dreamed that you would come into the bathroom naked in the middle of the day.]
[I am writing again because it seems that my apology was not properly conveyed in the last letter. I'm sorry. And I have never spread rumors that your cobra is a cobra.]
[If you mention the cobra again, I will burn down the room.]
[I'm sorry if I made you uncomfortable. But it's really not me. I hope you don't glare at me like you did earlier because I'm scared. It is true that the words 'co, cobra' that I said in the bathroom referred to your cobra, but I really, really didn't spread the rumors.]
[What if you really set the room on fire!]
I chuckled and turned the note over.
[Are you okay from the injuries you sustained yesterday? If you don't get treatment, the wound will fester.]
[It's none of your business.]
[Don't leave unnecessary things in front of the room.]
[It's not unnecessary, it's medicine. The weather is nice. So, I was wondering if we could have pudding for a snack today. Please tell the butler. I'm sorry to ask for such a favor when I'm being taken care of.]
[You're not being taken care of by the butler, but by me.]
[Thank you for the pudding.]
[Do you know how happy it is to soak your feet in ice water in the shade of a garden tree in the summer?]
[Thank you for the ice water.]
The one who was using honorifics was very brazen, but I didn't find it unpleasant. I could feel the loveliness in the handwriting and the sentences.
[Why didn't you come out yesterday?]
[If you're sick, say you're sick. And don't just cover yourself with a blanket and endure it.]
It seems that the other side started writing notes first.
My heart was pounding. Could this be a love letter?
[I'm not getting married.]
My guess was right!
[Why are you telling me that?]
[Then why don't you stop glaring at me when we meet.]
[It's because I have an eye disease! ...But are you really not going to get married?]
[Yes.]
The letter became a little sweeter.
[I wish you would let go of your anger.]
[I hope that's not an apology? If you knew that I almost jumped into the lake because you kissed me in front of the butler, you would never apologize like that.]
They kissed!
My heart was pounding, so I covered my blushing cheeks.
[Were you okay yesterday?]
[I'm not that weak.]
.
.
[It's been 3 months.]
What's been 3 months?
'Is she sick somewhere?'
There were no more notes. I caressed the end of the note with a worried face.
I only peeked into their hearts a little, but my heart ached and I wanted them to be happy for a long, long time.
I sighed sadly and tried to tie the notes back together and put them in the drawer.
But I felt something blunt in the corner of the drawer.
I took it out and it was a pair of rings. The wider one had nothing on it, but the narrower one had a ruby embedded in it.
As I looked around the wider ring, I found the letters engraved inside.
"Lis... Lisette. Lisette!?"
