I Just Wanted Revenge, But Everyone Loves Me - Chapter 86

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Chapter 86
“…What?”
Io looked momentarily taken aback by my words.
But she quickly composed herself and broke into a bright smile.
“Just wait a moment, please!”
…?
‘What on earth is she up to?’
* * *
It was then that I thought that.
I should have just said it was fine.
But staring at the paper before me, I swallowed silently.
They say when someone is utterly speechless, words simply won’t come.
This was exactly that moment.
[10,000,000,000 Gold]
One zero, two… three… six….
‘Why, why….’
No one ever told me that personal allowance meant money!
What is this number?!
I rubbed my eyes hard and looked at the figures again.
The zeros, printed clearly in ink, stood their ground with unbending dignity.
‘One, two, three….’
I kept counting even though it was pointless.
I turned to the person who seemed most capable of judging this situation objectively.
“Rem.”
“Not permitted. The -. Incorrect. Protocol.”
Rem, standing quietly in place, spoke with conviction.
‘Now that I think of it…’
He’s speaking the sentence in reverse order.
‘Is he from abroad?’
It’s understandable if you’re not used to speaking Brosia.
‘The conversation is comprehensible enough.’
I let it pass naturally.
“But you’re the one protecting me—”
“I would die. For you. My lord.”
“Well—”
“Would you kill me. By your hand. My lord?”
Ah, no… I don’t think I’d go that far….
“Formal speech might be acceptable. But not permitted. The -. I would die. By my—”
“Ah, I understand!”
All this over a single form of address!
For a moment I was taken aback, but with such forceful insistence, I had no choice.
‘He says formal speech is acceptable, at least.’
I cleared my throat loudly to change the subject.
“Can I just ask you one thing?”
“Ask. Anything at all.”
“Well….”
I carefully pointed at the paper.
“What exactly does ‘personal allowance’ mean?”
“Personal wealth. In dictionary terms.”
“So… that means money? This?”
“Yes.”
Rem nodded.
Increasingly confused by his answer, I looked back and forth between the paper and Rem.
“Is it… is it common for noble families to just give amounts like this?”
“I cannot say. Other families. I have not seen.”
“Who should I ask about this? The Duke and my sister seem busy….”
“There is. One person. Who can explain in detail.”
“Who is it?”
Rem paused at my question, then suddenly turned on his heel.
“I will. Accompany you.”
* * *
‘I was wondering who he’d take me to.’
Isn’t this person incredibly busy too?!
Settling into the plush sofa, I held my breath. After a moment had passed, Sys, who had been wrestling with stacks of documents, removed his glasses and approached.
“Heard you have business with me.”
“It’s just…”
“Questions. About personal allowance. He said.”
“Personal allowance? Ah—”
Sys nodded as though he understood, listening to his companion’s words.
“You mean cookies? Those taste delicious.”
“…That’s money, isn’t it.”
“Money tastes delicious too.”
Sys replied confidently and examined the paper I’d brought, laid out on the table. The amount given to me.
‘Certainly.’
Unlike the Duke and my sister, who’d just called it something delicious, Sys seemed like someone who would tell me straightforwardly whether this was excessive or not. Hyacinth apparently loves money enormously.
‘If I tell him I received this much, he might even be pleased.’
But that wasn’t the answer I was looking for.
I needed someone to evaluate the situation and amount more objectively.
“Hmm. The amount is the problem here.”
“Yes!”
A third party apparently found it excessive.
Finally finding someone who understood, I hurried to speak.
“From the Duke, maybe a bit more….”
“You should ask for more.”
“Yes!”
…What?
What did he just say?
“Don’t take it the wrong way.”
“No—”
How could I possibly take this amount the wrong way….
“It seems the Duke set it at ten billion gold first because he was worried it might burden you. If you go ask for more, he’ll probably give you double.”
Double… here?
“If you ever run out while using it, just say so. Then he’ll double it again… no.”
“….”
“He’d be better off just giving you a blank check.”
“….”
“I heard from Hyacinth that you understand currency values quite precisely, so you’d certainly be able to use a blank check just fine.”
…On what basis exactly?
I slowly gave up thinking.
‘Could my sense of money be… that rigid?’
I’d learned about money from books, but I still knew that ten billion was an astronomically large sum.
The Countess and Emily had made a huge fuss when dress debts ran into hundreds or thousands of gold.
Even that much money was an enormous amount.
‘If there are this many zeros, it’s more than that.’
Though Bancadium’s wealth was considerable, experiencing it directly exceeded my imagination.
‘Is the world of the rich really that different?’
It was so vast I didn’t even know where to begin….
“Shall we go together and I’ll explain—”
“That’s fine. It’s enough! Thank you for the explanation!”
Let me escape first!
* * *
After long deliberation, I came to a realization.
‘If I refuse here,’
a sum many times larger would come back to me.
Sys’s words had just proven it.
“But how am I supposed to use this….”
I’ve already received massive gifts.
They feed me, house me, clothe me, do everything for me here.
Accepting money on top of that felt too shameless.
‘Everyone says it’s fine,’
but surely there’s some limit to propriety.
If it had been tens of gold, I might have accepted gladly.
But this… how much more did I receive?
‘Sigh. There’s no help for it.’
Even if I sought out someone else, the result would likely be the same. More than Sys offered, certainly never less.
Which left me with only one option.
‘I simply won’t spend it if I can help it.’
One never knows what life might bring, so I’ll keep it just in case.
I couldn’t imagine needing that money unless there was a truly urgent crisis.
I’d simply hold onto it quietly without spending it, and return it when I eventually left.
“Phew.”
So let’s put that aside.
I turned my thoughts to the next plan.
‘Now I need to dig into the Count Family.’
The Count Family must be entangled in all manner of wrongdoing and crime. Would bad people commit just one bad deed?
Perhaps, once I caught one thread, all the other misdeeds would unravel in a chain. I’d find out directly through investigation.
‘I need to go to Arabesque.’
If I told the Duke or my sister, they could probably look into it right away.
‘But I’ve decided to do this myself from now on.’
I jumped up from the sofa.
‘If I openly say I’m going there, they’ll try to stop me.’
But there are ways around that.
I looked up at Io with a slight smirk.
“I want to go see that sister of yours!”

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