Adopting the Male Protagonist Changed the Genre - Chapter 53

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Chapter 53

I had Mary bring something that matched Suga’s description.

【What’s this?】

“Dew. I specifically collected only what was gathered in the morning.”

【Suga doesn’t eat stuff like this!】

The tiny thing rudely tried to knock over the soy sauce dish-sized bowl containing the dew.

Fortunately, it failed since it couldn’t exert physical force like a ghost, but its personality seemed extremely nasty.

Suga tirelessly explained again.

【You know, that thing. Yellow, round, and something people like!】

This time I thought I knew the right answer, so I had Mary bring what Suga was talking about again.

However, when Suga saw the yellow, round thing wrapped in paper, its expression twisted sourly once more.

【What’s this?】

“Lemon-flavored candy.”

【Suga doesn’t eat stuff like this!】

“Should I have prepared butter flavor instead.”

Half a day had passed since I holed up in the Velvet Room to avoid Suga, who was pretending to kick the candy as big as its body, and to gather information.

Before I knew it, the day had grown dark.

【I’m hungry! Don’t starve Suga! Adi, Adi’s descendant is starving Suga! Suga is so sad it can’t live. Waaah.】

My ears were on the verge of bleeding.

Had its temperament changed like that as a side effect of corruption?

Suga finally started throwing a tantrum like a bratty five-year-old, lying down in the air and flailing its arms and legs.

“What on earth should I give it to eat?”

【Why don’t you know! Suga explained it many times. Give me that thing!】

You say “that thing” but how am I supposed to know!

Even when I brought things that fairies would generally like according to fairy tale books, Suga just shook its head. Its taste wasn’t just ordinarily picky.

“Is its diet peculiar because it’s a corrupted fairy?”

【No! Suga likes what humans like!】

“Should I offer a sacrifice or something?”

Maybe, befitting the title of corrupted fairy, I really need to offer a living sacrifice.

It was when I muttered jokingly.

Clatter.

I heard a presence from the direction of the door. Thinking it might be Lord Penandel, I turned around and saw a familiar maid.

‘Why is a maid here at this hour…?’

Both the maid and I froze, staring at each other.

I couldn’t tell from where or how much she had heard, but I couldn’t let Schubel know that I was an ability awakener who had unsealed a fairy.

‘I feel sorry for that maid, but I should take this opportunity to raise my synchronization rate and seal her lips for sure.’

I deliberately glared at the maid menacingly.

Then the maid covered her mouth and tried to back away, but ended up falling on her bottom.

Oh my, to be that frightened.

Even if she had encountered the worst evil spirit in a cursed manor, she probably wouldn’t have been more scared than this.

For a moment I thought about pretending not to know anything, forgetting about synchronization, but I soon steeled my heart and spoke heavily.

“You.”

First, I needed to check what and how much she had heard.

‘Should I apply some light pressure?’

“You saw it.”

It was the moment I muttered ominously and opened my mouth again to begin interrogating her in earnest.

Synchronization rate has increased by +1.

Synchronization rate has increased by +1.

Synchronization rate has increased by +1.

System windows indicating synchronization rate increases appeared in a row before my eyes, and the maid rolled her eyes back and fell backward.

“…”

I quietly crouched down beside the maid and carefully checked whether she had died of a heart attack.

As soon as I confirmed she was still breathing, I covered my face with both hands.

“Ah, this isn’t right.”

I haven’t even started yet…

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In the end, I couldn’t properly seal her lips and had to send the maid back to the main building.

Fortunately, she didn’t seem to have noticed Suga’s existence, but after that day, the maids began avoiding me more blatantly.

“In the sealed room… the walls were blood red…”

“Resentful ghosts lined up along the walls… sacrifices…”

“I heard… conversing with evil spirits…”

Along with that, some very occult and terrible rumors about me were added.

Without the energy to explain, I just rummaged through genealogies with a haggard face from early morning.

‘Taming fairies… an ancestor whose nickname is Adi.’

I examined the books until my eyes nearly fell out, repeating only those two things in my head.

Although the valuable information and artifacts that had been in the Velvet Room were already moved to the main building, there were quite a few books left in the annex, so finding something about Suga’s contractor shouldn’t be difficult.

No, it shouldn’t be difficult. Otherwise…

【I’m hungry! Give me food, food! Suga is hungry!】

That earthbound spirit-like thing would stick to me for life, crying “Give me food, I’m hungry!” all day long.

I had already spent hours examining records of ability awakeners until my eyes were bloodshot, but I couldn’t find the information I wanted.

Spirits and beasts, ghosts, even insects.

Throughout history, ability awakeners had tamed various things, but there wasn’t a single line recorded about anyone taming a fairy.

Was there something I was missing?

It was when I was rubbing my tired eyes and letting them rest for a moment.

“…?”

The surroundings were strangely quiet. Suga’s crying had completely subsided.

Instead, I heard the sound of crunching, like someone eating nuts.

When I turned my head, I saw that Suga had somehow crawled inside and was sitting in the glass display case where commemorative coins were stored.

It had its back to me, but I could see its chubby cheeks earnestly chewing on something.

I approached the glass display case with delight, but my jaw soon dropped.

“Wh-what are you eating right now?”

I was so shocked that my voice trembled even after going through Belinda’s translator.

Suga was indeed munching on something that sparkled in the sunlight, was yellow and round, and that people absolutely loved.

It was embossed with the profile of the founding king…

【Gold coins are delicious.】

Fairies shouldn’t eat things like that!

Fairies are supposed to be nature itself, a mysterious race that knows nothing of desire or filth.

But it likes gold coins.

‘No matter how corrupted it is, where would you find such a worldly fairy!’

Regardless of my shock, Suga continued to munch on the gold coin efficiently while muttering indifferently.

【Suga’s belly needs to be full to bestow blessings upon Adi.】

“What power could your blessing possibly have?”

【Suga’s blessing makes Adi pick up gold coins while walking!】

I asked casually, but got an unexpected answer.

It makes you pick up gold coins while walking, like this is some fairy tale?

What kind of lucky coincidence is that…?

“Ah!”

Suddenly a lightbulb went off in my head.

The event called ‘Fairy’s Blessing’ that occurs when you meet a fairy.

Usually it randomly raises one of your stats, but if Suga’s blessing raises the contractor’s luck stat…

‘That’s the person!’

I quickly opened the Blanche family’s biographical dictionary.

Taking up even more pages than the founding head, the most famous head of the Blanche family in the Kingdom.

A historical figure who used god-given business acumen during her lifetime to transform the Blanche family from a poor count’s house that had sold off even their estate into a marquess family called the Kingdom’s gold mine.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that all of the Blanche family’s current wealth was built by that one person’s hands.

My eyes rolled busily as I found the page I wanted.

Outstanding business sense aside, I dare say that Adelia Blanche’s greatest skill was her technique with cards.

This is proven by records left by a historian who was closest to her during her lifetime.

‘Adelia Blanche, she was the best card shark I’ve ever known.’

The casino business, which is the Blanche family’s biggest source of income, was also an achievement she built.

There are no records of Adelia Blanche being an ability awakener, but if she had hidden this fact and used Suga’s blessing to raise her luck stat to become the queen of casinos.

I took down Adelia Blanche’s portrait from among the portraits of past heads and swept away the accumulated dust.

A red-haired woman with her hair tied up so that not a single strand fell loose.

I showed it to Suga and watched for a reaction.

“Is this Adi?”

【Adi!】

Suga, who had been busy gnawing on commemorative coins, flew over at the fastest speed I’d ever seen and rubbed her cheek against the frame.

【Adi, Adi! How did you become so flat and thin! Where did your body go, coming here with just your neck like this…】

With a tearful face, Suga worried about her contractor’s health in the portrait, then began straining to stuff the gold coin she’d been eating into the mouth part of the portrait.

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