The Villainess is a Millionaire Solver - Chapter 151

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Chapter 151

I rushed down to the 1st floor in an instant, but Duke Carnel was nowhere to be seen. When I grabbed the employees and asked them, they all said they hadn’t seen him.

‘Why is he so fast?’

He must have fled with all his might.

Why is that man so easily hurt?

It’s understandable that I would misunderstand. Who would have ever imagined that the Ice Duke would try to go together to events that his daughter likes?

Still, I shouldn’t have said it was pathetic and childish. I made things worse by trying to score points unnecessarily.

Come to think of it, it was always like this. Our relationship grew distant due to mutual fault.

‘But we were getting closer little by little. Especially this time, the Duke had mustered great courage.’

I ran quickly, thinking that I absolutely had to find the Duke.

But then I suddenly stopped.

“Hahaha! That’s my daughter indeed!”

Because Duke Carnel’s words from earlier suddenly came to mind.

‘Right. The Duke prepared those tickets for his daughter…’

My feet, which had been running busily, slowly came to a halt.

Perhaps it was better that I couldn’t follow him.

After all, I’m not his real daughter.

I’m just something like a buffer, trying to survive in that position while filling the empty space so the Duke’s family doesn’t collapse.

‘I need to know my place.’

A calm voice of advice echoed in my head.

What I should be doing right now isn’t this. I need to quickly find emergency measures before the Imperial Knight Tournament begins.

Thinking that, I turned around.

But after just a few steps, my pace slowed again.

Even though I knew my position well in my head, somehow my heart wasn’t at ease.

The back of Duke Carnel as he turned and walked away kept appearing before my eyes.

Eventually, I stopped walking.

“Head Butler, Father seems to have gone to the fashion show, so please follow him.”

“Yes, Young Lady.”

After catching a passing Head Butler and making the request, I felt somewhat better.

“That’s enough, right? Now let’s get to work.”

Muttering that, I returned to my room.

Letters and documents were neatly stacked on the desk.

I rummaged through them and found the 【Founding Festival Activity Plan】 sent by Argos Trading Company.

When I received this, it didn’t catch my attention, so I just skimmed through it and put it away.

Reading it carefully again, it said they would participate in the expo with their products for business promotion.

‘They’re busy too? I should go quickly.’

Thinking that as I put down the plan, I suddenly thought.

‘Wait a minute. Since this is the first contact after the guild leader changed, shouldn’t they send someone to report? But they just send one report and that’s it?’

The paper crumpled with a rustling sound in my hand.

‘I need to establish some discipline.’

“Young Lady, His Highness the Second Prince has reserved front seats for the dance performance praying for the Empire’s peace and asks that you must come. His Highness the Crown Prince plans to observe the art competition being held at the atelier today, saying it’s a good opportunity to see the works of emerging artists.”

“Mmm. I’m busy. Just politely make appropriate excuses for me.”

I rejected all the proposals pouring in from all directions for the festival and left the manor to meet someone.

Neither pouring rain nor festivals could separate us.

A person who held such important meaning in my life.

It was Benjamin, the only employee of our guild.

As soon as I met him, I apologized first.

“I’m really sorry for calling you out like this when you should be spending time with your siblings during the festival.”

“Not at all. My siblings have all grown up now and started abandoning me to play on their own, so I was just lying in bed doing crossword puzzles.”

Benjamin said that and added.

“Besides, for something like this, I should drop everything and come out. Isn’t that right?”

“Right.”

I replied with a grim expression.

“I saved them from facing the fate of being dissolved into thin air, but these guys seem to have not come to their senses.”

“We need to snap them back to attention. Let’s go, Master.”

“Let’s go!”

We immediately set out for Argos Guild Headquarters.

When the door burst open, the employees working inside looked up in surprise.

Golden hair flowing like a lion’s mane. Eyes glowing bright red like burning flames.

Wasn’t this roughly how I appeared in their eyes?

Seeing that someone even dropped what they were packing, I seemed more frightening than that, if anything, certainly not less.

At the sudden attack of the villainess who hadn’t shown her face at all, the employees stammered.

“M-Master…”

“Everyone’s busy? Come to think of it, you sent some kind of plan, but I can’t read, you see.”

I said as I swaggered inside.

“Wow, look at this interior. Very luxurious, isn’t it? A successful guild is indeed different.”

“Look at this. There are endless commendation plaques. Just looking at them is demoralizing.”

Benjamin also swaggered in following me and said.

I deliberately raised my voice to reply.

“Why be demoralized? We’re all one family now anyway. We could take all of these and display them at our Black Rose Trade Guild, right? Oh, wait. What’s this? This round red thing. Is it perhaps an apple?”

“Yes, it is an apple.”

“My goodness, amazing! Didn’t the employees here have a disease where they die if they eat fruit? When Benjamin visited with a fruit basket saying let’s get along well as guilds in the same family, everyone didn’t even look at it, so I thought that was the case.”

“Ah, you still remember that incident?”

“Of course. To ignore our Benjamin’s sincerity, I thought I shouldn’t forget and should get revenge… no, I shouldn’t forget and should take good care of them. Since they’re people with a disease where they die if they eat fruit. Benjamin, who were those people back then?”

“Haha. I don’t even remember.”

Benjamin replied like that while looking directly at several people. Meaning he remembered them all.

“…”

The faces of the Argos Trading Company employees turned even whiter.

Should I stop here?

I had already completely cleaned out the hopeless trash who had caused trouble.

The rest had just committed the crime of being annoying. This much should have taught them well how to conduct themselves in the future.

‘It’s not about fighting, but I need to keep these employees and use them so it’s convenient for me.’

After looking around at the employees once, I said.

“Well, whatever. I heard you’re participating in the expo, so I stopped by to take a look. Where are the items you’re exhibiting?”

“They’re here.”

The employees guided us very obediently.

The items were mainly helmets, armor, shields, etc. made using monster horns and leather.

Almost all of them had tags with names like some marquis or count written on them, seeming to be reserved items.

“Names like these would be good publicity too. Good. You’re working hard.”

After praising them, I asked.

“But where are the really useful items?”

“Really useful items?”

“Hey! Don’t think about hiding or concealing anything from the Master!”

When Benjamin shouted, they flinched.

I said again.

“Aren’t there items you don’t put out externally for various reasons? Treasures with very powerful forces. Among them, if there’s equipment that can produce the strongest physical power, I’d like to see it. According to Father, such things do exist?”

“Ah. Is that what you meant? Please follow us.”

They guided us to an inner space.

When the door opened, something like a training ground appeared.

There was a huge hollow mark in the center of the stone wall, like where a meteorite had fallen.

One of the employees said.

“If it’s a treasure that produces the strongest physical force, it would definitely be ‘that thing’. This is the mark left when we tested that item. It became like this in one hit. And we only struck it lightly.”

Oh? That’s interesting?

I asked the employees.

“What is that item?”

“Here it is.”

One employee brought over a box about the size of a palm.

What? Why is it so small? They’re not trying to scam me, are they?

Perhaps thinking the same thing as me, Benjamin stepped forward first.

“Be careful. I’ll open it.”

As he carefully opened the lid, the item’s identity was revealed.

It was a black leather glove. It looked ordinary on the outside.

“You’re saying this glove enabled such tremendous strength?”

Benjamin reached out as if he couldn’t believe it.

At that moment, there was a crackling sound and sparks flew.

“Wait!”

The employees hurriedly stopped us.

“You mustn’t touch it. We only showed you the treasure capable of the strongest physical force as per the Master’s orders, but that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to touch it.”

I asked, not understanding.

“What do you mean?”

“These items have a separate owner. Sion. Since he personally crafted them and completed the imprinting, no one else can use them.”

“What?”

So you’re saying it’s just eye candy?

I was frowning, thinking this was ridiculous…

“Um, Master.”

An employee came forward from behind and handed me a letter.

“What’s this letter for? You’re right in front of me, just speak.”

“It’s not from me, but a letter sent by Sion.”

“Sion?”

“Yes. As you know, he couldn’t be released from the Holy Order and immediately started his labor service, right? He designated this place as his belongings return address, so we received his clothes, and this letter was found inside them.”

The employee said.

“There was a note attached to the envelope that said this: Sister Aristina will come to collect the guild’s treasures soon, so please give her this letter then.”

“…?”

Really? So he already predicted that I would come here?

What could he have written?

I thought curiously as I opened the envelope and took out the letter.

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