I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 117

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“Holy Maiden, what on earth is this place…?”

Victoria looked stunned as she saw the serious state of the room.

Even I, who had already spent a night here before, was appalled seeing the room again, so how much more so for Victoria seeing it for the first time.

“A bed and desk… It looks like someone lived here, but why does the Count’s family have a place like this?”

Victoria looked around the room with a bewildered expression.

Even when the Sun God’s Main Temple was at its poorest, there was no room like this.

“Just because it’s a Count’s family doesn’t mean everything is good. Especially this household is the worst when it comes to being gloomy.”

And this room was the crystallization of that gloominess.

The Count’s family who locked Ordel in this filthy place and repeatedly abused her so she wouldn’t think of rebelling.

Ordel who crawled around submissively, trembling in fear that her position as fake Holy Maiden would be taken away if she earned the Count’s hatred.

For some reason, I was very concerned about that Ordel.

It wasn’t even something that happened to me, so why does it bother me so much? Is it because I was someone who caught bad guys?

Or is it because I forcibly took over Ordel’s body, even though it wasn’t my intention?

I don’t know the reason.

But what does that matter.

Just like how I’m apologizing and compensating for damages on behalf of Ordel to the people she harmed, it’s natural for me to get revenge on her behalf against those who tormented her.

The reason I came to this room today was to steel my resolve once more.

Of course, to give the Count a warning while I’m at it.

Creak, creak.

As we entered the room, the wooden floor made rough sounds.

Before, it wasn’t this bad since Ordel came to the Count’s mansion almost every other day…

Since I possessed her body, it had been months since anyone visited, so the condition was truly a sight to behold.

They don’t even clean it, honestly, all the servants here are the same kind of people.

I was clicking my tongue at the bedcover that mice had gnawed through when it happened.

“Huh?”

As soon as I got close to the bed, I felt a strange sensation.

Completely different from the disgusting and unpleasant energy spread throughout the Count’s mansion…

Rather, it was a comfortable energy that instantly calmed my troubled feelings.

As if only this place was purifying the energy of ‘evil’.

“Sir Victoria, don’t you feel something here?”

“Now that you mention it…”

Victoria also widened her eyes.

Including Seth, no one had noticed the energy of ‘evil’ that filled the estate, but the fact that Victoria felt this now meant…

“Push the bed aside.”

“Yes!”

Victoria answered energetically and lifted the bed up.

She could have just pushed it aside, but she lifted it so easily like that…

“Holy Maiden, this is the Sun God’s energy.”

Victoria, who had moved the bed aside like a toy, shouted urgently.

As she said, this familiar energy was none other than the Sun God’s.

The floor under the bed.

When I roughly cleared away the dust that had piled up, a small carved groove and rusty handle were revealed.

When I pulled with force, there was a clattering sound and the musty smell of paper wafted up.

“…Is it a diary?”

“It seems like it.”

When I picked up the single book that was there, Victoria nodded.

“This diary seems to be the source of the Sun God’s divine power.”

Right, because of the divine power dwelling in this diary, the energy of ‘evil’ spread throughout the estate couldn’t invade just this area.

Given the circumstances, this must be Ordel’s diary, right?

The original story doesn’t mention that Ordel wrote a diary, but since the original was centered on Idella’s narrative anyway, it wouldn’t be strange at all if Ordel had a secret diary.

However, there’s one thing that bothers me a bit…

For something that was only in this cramped place for a few months, the diary’s condition is somewhat, no, very poor.

It looks like it’s been neglected for at least several years, not just a few months.

“I should take it and examine it.”

“Is it okay to take it when we don’t even know whose it is?”

If I say it’s okay because it’s mine, she’ll realize this was originally the room I lived in, right?

That would be troublesome, so I should make up something appropriate.

“The Holy Maiden of the Sun God wants to take and investigate something that contains the Sun God’s divine power – who’s going to complain?”

“Is… is that so?”

“Besides, looking at its condition, it seems to be several years old, so the owner probably abandoned it.”

Leaving the confused Victoria behind, I looked around the room.

Besides this diary, there was nowhere else I could feel divine power.

“Good heavens!”

Then a shrill voice flew in sharply.

A middle-aged woman stood at the door, pale as a sheet.

Next to her was the maid I had encountered earlier, so she must have called her.

“Wh-what on earth are you doing here?”

What a terrified face. Is she that scared that the existence of this room might be revealed to Rute?

“I was just walking around and saw it, so I came in. Why? Is there some reason I shouldn’t come here?”

“That…”

At her inability to continue speaking and biting her teeth tightly, I burst into scornful laughter.

“…Even so, this is not a place suitable for the Holy Maiden to visit. Please leave. I’ll guide you to your room.”

“Ugh. I can’t even walk around freely in my own house.”

Grumbling, I got up from my spot.

Then I hid behind Victoria’s back and slipped the diary I was holding into my inventory.

Since it was an item containing divine power, it went into the inventory without any problem.

“No wait. Calling it my house is quite inappropriate. If it were a house, it should be comfortable, but this place wasn’t comfortable at all.”

The middle-aged woman flinched at my pointed words.

Standing before her, I looked down at her, who was much shorter than me.

“But who are you again?”

“…”

The woman’s face turned bright red, as if she felt humiliated by my question.

I really asked because I didn’t know.

Though I did have a slight intention of making her feel embarrassed.

“Who?”

“…I’m Linda, the head maid.”

Right. Given her age,

and if she’s someone the maid would urgently call, it could only be the head maid.

“Right, Linda. You’re naturally going to report to the Count that I came here, aren’t you?”

“…”

“Is that a somewhat obvious question? Everyone in this estate is no different from spies who monitor and report my every move.”

Linda couldn’t say anything anymore.

I patted the shoulder of her stiffened form and brushed past her.

“I don’t need guidance. You’ve never done it in your life, and now you’re offering to do it. That’s quite funny.”

I glanced at Linda and the pale-faced maid and left the room with Victoria.

Having heard the news, several maids were standing in the corridor. Some had bewildered expressions, while others glared at me with faces full of irritation.

Among them were maids I had seen yesterday in front of Yoanna’s room corridor.

With so many eyes watching, the story will reach the Count’s ears well.

Yes, hurry and go report.

That way the terrified bastard will quickly give me what I want.

I grinned at the maids and cheerfully left the room.

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“Good heavens! That thing, isn’t she completely insane?”

After Ordel left.

The maids who had rushed over to Linda’s side spat out curses without pause. Ordel’s words and actions just now were truly unbelievable.

“I’ll report this to the Count and Madam right away! How dare that insolent thing act so presumptuously without knowing her place!”

“Don’t worry, Head Maid. Madam cherishes you so much, she absolutely won’t let this matter slide!”

Ordel had originally held the lowest position in this household.

Even lower than them, who were maids.

Trampling on her, the Count’s adopted daughter and Holy Maiden, was everyone’s pleasure.

With her foul temper, yet having to swallow her words without being able to say a single thing when they bullied her, fearing she might fall out of the Count’s favor.

But now, just because she caught onto the Duke’s coattails, she’s acting so haughty!

If it weren’t for the Count’s warning, they would have taught her a lesson like before.

Without admitting that they couldn’t stand up to her because they were somehow overwhelmed by Ordel’s spirit, which seemed different from before, the maids continued to hurl curses at Ordel.

“…What would change by reporting to those two?”

But they didn’t expect the Head Maid to say such a thing.

“Wh-what…?”

“Head Maid, what do you mean by that…”

“…Enough. While Duke Siery is here, don’t act rashly and be careful in your behavior. I will report to those two myself.”

Linda, who had sharply tugged at her skirt, disappeared with quick steps.

The maids, who had been looking around with bewildered faces, had no choice but to scatter to their respective places.

In front of the door that had instantly become quiet after everyone left.

Karen appeared silently with an expressionless face.

After looking around, she soon opened the closed door and entered the room.

“…”

After quietly looking around the room, she soon left with a slightly distorted expression.

The corridor soon became quiet as it always had been.

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