I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 122

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The Count’s knight guarding the door looked back and forth between me and Lute with a flustered expression.

“N-no, he’s not here.”

“Really? When will he return?”

“I don’t know the details, but it shouldn’t take too long.”

“Then I’ll wait inside. Open the door.”

However, the knight hesitated without moving immediately. Lute’s face turned menacing.

“What are you doing instead of opening the door right now?”

“I-I’m sorry! But since the Count isn’t here, I can’t just open the door for you…”

Well, that makes sense.

The study is a very important and confidential space, so it’s natural for the knight to risk his life defending it…

But such common sense wouldn’t work on Lute Sieri.

That’s why I brought Lute with me.

“So you’re telling me to wait here until the Count comes back?”

“Th-that is…!”

“A mere Count’s knight dares to say that to me.”

The knight’s face turned pale at the angry voice.

Watching the knight, Lute smiled brightly.

“I didn’t know a Count’s knight ranked higher than a Duke. I’m sorry, Sir Knight. Should I bow and scrape like this?”

“…”

The knight, who was old enough to know better, was now on the verge of tears.

But how could he handle Lute’s terrifying glare alone?

In the end, the knight tearfully opened the study door for us.

As soon as the door closed, I immediately turned to look at Lute.

“Duke, that was really scary just now.”

“So you’re saying thank you?”

What kind of response is that? I frowned deeply.

“Of course! I’m really grateful.”

My purpose was to investigate the study while the Count was away.

Without Jeremy here, if Lute hadn’t been here either, I wouldn’t have even been able to attempt it.

What would I have done without Lute? Being nice to Lute really pays off big time.

“I’d like to hear more praise, but unfortunately we don’t have much time. The knight probably went to report to the Count, so if you have something to do, do it quickly.”

“Yes.”

I can’t waste the precious time Lute created for me.

I nodded and immediately got to work. While doing so, I glanced at the air.

‘Sun God. There aren’t any watchers here, right?’

【’The Sun Who Crawled Out of Death’ says you don’t need to worry.】

Good. I felt relieved and boldly opened the liquor display case on the wall near the Count’s desk.

“Is there any liquor that catches your eye?”

The Count’s liquor? Would I get indigestion from drinking it?

“The only liquor that catches my eye is yours, Duke.”

“When we return to the Grand Temple, I’ll give you as much as the Holy Maiden wants.”

“That’s a promise.”

My enthusiasm is rising even more.

The liquor I was looking for was in the most secluded corner.

The cap of a liquor bottle carved in the shape of a dahlia.

When I turned it counterclockwise three times, the display case smoothly slid to the side.

I let out a hollow laugh at the empty space revealed behind it.

It’s real. It’s really exactly as written ‘there’.

I bit my lip slightly and immediately went inside.

The inner space was smaller than I thought. It was packed with just a small single-person desk, chair, and one drawer cabinet.

However, those weren’t the only things filling the space.

“Ha.”

The wall.

All kinds of papers and writing densely covered the black wall.

To a degree that wouldn’t be strange to call it madness.

【Ordel – Infiltration of Sun God’s Main Temple complete. Countdown to Sun God’s Main Temple’s destruction begins.】

There was even content that confirmed my expectations.

As I thought, this place is related to ‘Evil’.

I need to memorize everything here somehow, but my head isn’t that good.

But I don’t have time to copy everything, and it’s not like I have a camera like in my previous life.

Then there’s only one method left.

‘Sun God. Memorize all of this.’

I pointed at the wall and boldly demanded.

【’The Sun Who Crawled Out of Death’ asks if you really just told him to do that.】

‘Well, who else is here besides you, God? Hurry up and memorize it.’

Surely a god can do something like this, right?

【’The Sun Who Crawled Out of Death’ boldly declares that he can do it.】

【’The Sun Who Crawled Out of Death’ carefully scans the wall.】

Why would I need a camera or anything like that? It’s convenient to just ask a god!

Actually, there was also the option of calling Lute and asking him, but I deliberately didn’t do that.

Because there’s information related to him here too.

“Holy Maiden. I think it would be good to wrap up and come out soon.”

I was quietly staring at the wall with Lute’s name written on it when I sighed at the voice from outside.

I postponed my thoughts for later and quickly came out of the secret space.

When I turned the dahlia cap three times in the opposite direction, the display case returned to its original position.

The moment I finished everything and sat next to Lute.

Bang!

The study door opened and the Count appeared, pale as a sheet.

“You’re here, Count?”

I smiled brightly at him as if nothing had happened.

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“Phew!”

Returning to my bedroom, I threw myself onto the sofa.

Strangely, the sofa is more comfortable than the bed.

Even now, the sofa’s exceptional softness slowly melted away the fatigue that had been weighing on my shoulders.

In Yoanna’s room, this sofa was the only thing I genuinely liked.

“At least it seems like we weren’t caught.”

After ransacking the secret space, it was Lute who handled the Count who came bursting in, dealing with him as easily as cooking.

‘I have something important to tell you, but I couldn’t find where the Count was. So I was waiting here.’

‘You could have asked where I was.’

‘Hm? You’re not telling me to personally go around looking for you, are you?’

Lute’s face as he said that and burst into mocking laughter was really so annoying that even I wanted to punch him.

Of course, the real part came next.

‘So, what’s this important matter?’

‘Hm? Oh, I forgot while waiting. You should have come faster, shouldn’t you?’

The statement naturally shifting the blame to the Count was truly the finishing touch.

Even I, who have a good relationship with him, was getting angry, so how must the Count, who dislikes him, have felt?

It was the first time I’d seen the Count’s face tremble like that.

“Ha… This isn’t the time for me to be doing this.”

Among the things I saw in the Count’s secret space, one thing remained particularly deep in my mind.

【Lute Sieri – Observe whether he shows signs of trembling hands or pain.】

Only three people know exactly about Lute’s condition: Yuri and Jun, his closest associates, and me.

But seeing that the Count knows something, the black stain must definitely be something planted by ‘Evil’.

Then when?

【Lute Sieri observation start period – Age 7】

Probably around age 7.

I should ask Lute about what happened back then in detail.

Perhaps I might discover another unknown subordinate of ‘Evil’ like Count Kiris.

This was truly an enormous harvest.

‘This is all thanks to this thing.’

I took out the diary from my inventory.

Ordel’s diary that I picked up from under the bed in Ordel’s room.

Surprisingly, this contained information about Count Kiris’s secret space that never appeared even in the original work.

Including the method to enter it.

“How did she know about this?”

How shocked I was when I first saw this.

The front part was a simple diary.

The diary that started from the moment she became the Count’s adopted daughter was filled with nothing but excitement and joy to a touching degree.

However, from a certain point, it began to be marked with tears, pain, and despair. It was the period when she was being abused by the Count’s family.

Then suddenly there were traces of several pages being torn out, and from that point on, the content completely changed.

What filled the diary instead of diary entries was none other than all kinds of information.

The information about the Count’s secret space was one of them.

This is too strange. How could Ordel possibly know such high-level information?

I opened the very last page of the diary. There was written a single line filled with pain greater than when she was abused by the Count’s family, no, with rage.

【I curse Joseph Kiris who used me as a tool for his own desires.】

And also a line mixed with regret and remorse.

【I apologize to everyone who was harmed because of me, who was foolishly only used. But to speak truthfully, I didn’t want to live like this either.】

This sentence was so very strange.

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