Favored by the Family That Will Become the Strongest! - Chapter 50

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A few days later, late in the night. Diana slowly opened her eyes.
She surveyed her surroundings. No sign of anyone nearby.
‘Good. It’s time to prepare.’
Her identity had been nearly settled, allowing her to participate smoothly in the Winter Festival. And with that, her relationship with the Kardian Family had begun to shift.
“Diana, I’d really like it if you’d speak to me more casually!”
Bianca had said so with flushed cheeks and a bashful expression as she was leaving at the end of a meal.
“I want to become closer to you. So I was hoping you could… speak more comfortably with me too? There’s really no reason for you to use formal speech with me anymore.”
As Bianca said, the two of them were of similar standing and the same age. Diana had hesitated briefly at the strangeness of it all, but she nodded in agreement.
“All right, I’ll speak comfortably from now on.”
Barcan, who had been watching their conversation from the side, interjected.
“What about me—can’t I be treated casually too?”
“Pardon?”
“I was planning to say it anyway.”
……
“It might feel a bit awkward, though…”
“That’s fine.”
Pfft!
“What?”
“Oh, nothing. I just thought you were adapting remarkably fast.”
Though Barcan had been quite taken aback by her natural casualness, he’d been watching her carefully all along anyway. In her previous life, she and Barcan had spoken informally with each other, after all.
It pleased her to feel that intimacy returning. Bianca felt the same, and somehow Diana found herself settling into Kardian as though she’d always belonged there.
‘Things have gone smoothly in so many ways.’
And now there was something new she needed to do.
Diana climbed onto the bed and slowly closed her eyes. She hadn’t had the chance to try this since her Regression—now was the time.
‘Mana Sensing.’
Three forces sustained this world.
Ability, Mana, and Holy Power.
Among them, Ability was what people considered the most powerful force. It was optimized for combat, making it the most useful power against Demon Beasts outside the Purified Zone.
Next came Mana. It was the source of magical power, closer to an ability useful in daily life.
The primary goal of magical development was to aid those with Ability who suffered from darkness. The head of the Magic Tower overseeing this was none other than Malacar.
In recent times, lethal magics had begun to be developed one by one, but compared to the overwhelming might of Ability, they remained insignificant.
And Holy Power.
It was the power that purified darkness, and its strength far surpassed that of Mana.
This was why the Magic Tower’s Side Effect Suppressant was deemed so inferior compared to the Temple’s Side Effect Suppressant.
‘That’s why Ability users naturally had no choice but to watch the Temple’s mood.’
To them, the Side Effect Suppressant was practically a spare life.
It was also the greatest reason Baltazar would later succeed in his rebellion—because he backed the Temple and controlled the distribution of Temple Side Effect Suppressants.
But what if such a Temple Side Effect Suppressant could be replaced with something else?
‘Then we could thwart many of our greedy uncle’s schemes.’
In her previous life, Diana and Malacar had worked to find that very method. Together they had spent a long time researching how to elevate the Magic Tower’s Side Effect Suppressant to the level of the Temple’s.
‘By the time I died, we had managed to bring it up to a certain level.’
If they had been given more time, they could have completed the research.
And Diana’s help was absolutely essential to that research.
Was it because she was a genius at magic?
Unfortunately, no.
Having become Malacar’s student, Diana came to realize she had little talent for magic.
Barcan had said something to her as he watched.
“Well, with an unfair Ability like yours, it would’ve been imbalanced if you were a magic genius too.”
Malacar had cuffed Barcan on the head for that.
“You fool—Diana is already exceptional. Besides, you can’t judge magical talent in a single moment.”
“Really?”
“That’s right. Often there are people who grow in stages.”
Diana unfortunately fell into neither category, but she was able to recognize one crucial thing.
That she could use her Ability to refine the Magic Tower’s Side Effect Suppressant.
That was the research the two of them had nearly completed in her previous life. Now, having become his student, she needed to reveal that method to Malacar and help him with the work.
‘To do that, I first need to sense Mana.’
Only then could she convince Malacar and participate in the research. Concentrating her mind, Diana let out a small exclamation.
“Oh.”
Ordinarily, sensing Mana required at least several months of effort.
And in her previous life, it had taken Diana six months to sense Mana.
But perhaps because she’d walked this path once before?
She could sense it immediately. She’d had a feeling it would be easier than expected, but it was even simpler than she’d anticipated.
‘Is this what genius feels like?’
Diana smiled with quiet satisfaction.
Her identity was settled, and she had sensed Mana.
Now she was fully prepared to attend the Winter Festival.
‘When I go there, I’ll meet people from the Five Major Families.’
People from the Rothwell Family, and friends who had once betrayed her. Yet strangely enough…
The thought filled her with no fear at all.
3.
Time passed quickly.
The members of the Kardian Family were now preparing to depart for the Winter Festival Venue in the Northern Region to attend the Winter Festival.
Diana too had been able to attend the Winter Festival as Bianca’s dedicated healer, since Bianca had only recently Awakened her Ability and remained in an unstable state.
“Diana, look at this—snow! It’s so beautiful.”
“It really is, isn’t it?”
Diana was wearing a fur coat that Barcan had given her. She gazed at the fluffy gloves and felt her cheeks warm.
It felt strange not to suffer from the cold in winter. Only the beauty of winter itself reached her now.
‘At the Rothwell household, I never would have dreamed of wearing a fur coat.’
Even after Awakening her Ability, she’d spent her time only within the house, so they had seen no reason to provide her with something like a fur coat.
“Diana, look—Awakening is really amazing. I’m bursting with strength everywhere! Oh.”
Bianca stopped mid-sentence and covered her mouth with her hand. Her Awakening was still a secret.
She planned to announce it proudly at the Winter Festival days from now.
Bianca calmed her excitement and walked over to Diana’s side. After a moment, she spoke with a worried tone.
“I’m a little nervous.”

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