# 27 - 27
Now it's no longer just spectators, but spectators?
“Ah!”
I hurriedly opened the status window.
[System: status window]
Tulia Fraser (15 years old)
-Coins owned: 995
-Personality: 1
-Beauty: 8
-Skill: 1
-Wealth: 0
-Luck: -10
Overall rating: F
The temperature of the meeting room, which was as fragrant and beautiful as the angels' tea room moments ago, was dropping by the minute.
Without thinking any further, I spent the coins immediately.
ringing!
[System] 2 coins have been consumed.
[System] Skill 2 achieved!
'Now it should work, right?'
But again, Frieza's pendant twitched like a snake with a soul and tried to fall to the ground.
Out of survival instinct and fear, she hurriedly picked up the pendant and frantically spent more coins.
ringing!
[System] 3 coins have been consumed.
[System] Skill 3 achieved!
[System] 4 coins consumed.
[System] Skill 4 achieved!
In the midst of all this, unlike what happened with the character stat, I was shedding tears of internal relief that the skill stat was surprisingly cost-effective, when—
Ring!
[System] 986 coins have been consumed.
[System] Skill 5 achieved!
At that moment, my eyes froze in the air. No, did my breathing stop?
How much does it cost?
How much did you say?
As if to answer me, the system window gently lit up.
[System] Coins currently owned: 0
[System] One coin will also be given as a reward for promoting to rank two.
[System] Coins owned 0 → 1
Current overall rating: D-
“…Tulia Fraser?”
I came back to consciousness after staring blankly into space.
Grand Duke Fraser was looking at me with a strange expression.
Are you feeling unwell?
If I had been in my right mind, I would have been horrified by the hidden anxiety I could detect in Assis Grand Duke Fraser's voice, but I was not in my right mind at that moment.
I can't be.
I could barely pull myself together, or rather, I pretended to pull myself together as best I could, and opened my trembling lips.
I'm sorry, grandfather. I was very surprised that my hands kept getting weaker...
Then Grand Duke Fraser's assistant said, “Hmm,” as he frowned and looked towards the Lilius family.
Of course, I didn't have the ability to look at them again.
She simply moved like a machine, slowly, unconsciously, and began to put the Fraser necklace around my neck again.
If I fail to put the necklace around my neck this time too, that will be the end.
Anyone will see that this is intentional, and naturally the glory will be confiscated.
Without glory, according to the family law, I would not be able to go out, and I would not be able to meet the first leader, which is the first requirement for achieving A rank.
If that happened, the main mission would naturally be a complete failure.
“This basically means I'll just die…”
Thanks to that, my hands are shaking badly.
But the necklace remained securely hanging around my neck as if it had been created to be worn, shining beautifully.
Although I felt aggrieved, frustrated, and confused by the reckless spending of coins, it was strange and poignant enough to make me emotional.
It was beautiful.
“Congratulations, Miss Tulia!”
“Glory suits you well.”
It looks like it has found its rightful owner. You are really amazing.
The joyful laughter of the servants did not reach the depths of my heart, so it scattered emptyly like warm clouds.
My eyes were fixed on the empty space.
[System] Coins currently owned: 1
“This is crazy...”
Haha.
I learned for the first time that when a person is extremely startled, he will let out an empty laugh regardless of the situation and location.
They said that once you raise a statistic, you can never reverse it.
If I had known this would happen, I would have spent the money without saving and put it into wealth, but regret overwhelmed me like crazy, even though the bus that leaves never comes back.
“A villain who recklessly raised skill stats instead of wealth stats.”
What is this behavior, like the barbarian who learns to play golf before he learns to hunt?
There's a villain who indulges in luxury with statistics, and that's me.
“Congratulations, Miss Tulia.”
Congratulations. Did any of the Frasers ever achieve glory this early in history?
“Miss Tulia seems destined to become a great and respected figure who will bring honor to the House of Fraser in the future.”
“How does the color of jewelry suit you perfectly?”
Amidst the outpouring of congratulations, I was able to swallow my tears with difficulty.
“Thank you. Thank you.”
Even as I bowed to each of the servants one by one, the Glory, Fraser's pendant, hung from my neck and shone splendidly.
“That's enough. Tulia Fraser.”
As I bowed repeatedly, Grand Duke Assis approached me.
"Go rest now. You don't look good at all."
Normally, I wouldn't waste the opportunity to make a good impression on the Grand Duke, but right now I was in desperate need of rest.
Otherwise I would have grabbed that unconsciously fluttering window, that winged star, and torn it in half and burned it.
“Thank you, Grandpa...”
My energy was completely exhausted, so my voice stopped weakly at the end.
That night.
She only discovered the next morning that Grand Duke Fraser's assistant had sent over a pile of extremely expensive and precious medicinal herbs.
* * *
The long-awaited day has dawned.
After I had eaten my late breakfast and finished washing the dishes and brushing my teeth, I called the maids and arranged them in a row.
“Relda?”
Yes, yes. Miss Tulia.
The incident that occurred in the meeting hall was supposed to spread as rumors throughout the main castle and all the annexed buildings in the Fraser Domain.
Since servants were also involved, it was likely that by this time there would not be a single noble in the vast Fraser region who did not know about it.
The same would be true for the maids assigned to Skanai.
I waddled over to Rilda. Her face was as pale as a sick person, and cold sweat was pouring off her like rain.
Well, the other maids are similarly obese.
Was Rilda the only one who received bribes?
Was she the one who hid that bastard Tedrick's exam paper in my room?
Neither I nor Adel, the head maid, knew that much.
However, all the maids here were girls sent by Aubrey.
It was absolutely impossible to know if there were accomplices among these maids who had been bribed by Aubrey…
'Wait a minute?'
Today I also clicked on the star that was flying around me like bird droppings to my eyes.
I looked at the maid standing on the far left, who was sweating profusely.
At that moment.
[System:Profile]
Mary (23 years old)
-From the southern city of the Briang Empire.
She entered the Grand Ducal House as a maid for the first time in 3 years...
“No, I don't need a detailed profile!”
As I slowly moved my gaze, again this time as well.
-As for the secrets she hides...(Show more)
I clicked “Show More” immediately.
-An accomplice who was bribed by Viscount Lilius and Aubrey.
'Crazy!'
My eyes widened like an astronomer who has just caught a recently fallen meteorite.
“Profile Check” can be used for this purpose as well!
After quickly checking the profiles of all the maids, I was now smiling very brightly.
This must be the kind of smile someone who has won the lottery twice would smile?
“Relda.”
“Yes yes...”
Mary. Beckley. Cindy. Gigi. Clara.
The maids whose names were called shuddered in surprise.
“How can they all be partners without a single exception?”
It was a bit bitter, but what could I do?
Aubrey was a powerful person who held local power, and until yesterday I was just a little girl in an abandoned marquis' house with nothing special about me.
"girls."
I approached Rilda directly and raised my hand.
Then Rilda reflexively hunched her shoulders and closed her eyes.
Since Rilda was old, if she handled this well, perhaps she could have been promised a position like assistant to the head maid in the viscount's house?
I held Rilda's hands very gently with my raised hand.
I welcomed her with all my heart.
"Thank you."
No violence, no reproach.
I just said thank you with the kindest smile Tulia could give.
Rilda, who opened her eyes a little late, asked with confused eyes.
"…What?"
“It's all thanks to Rilda and the rest of the five of you.”
How many people can immediately understand a thank you with all context removed?
Especially in a situation where there was so much to make me feel guilty.
But Relda was actually a maid whom Aubrey had boasted had noble blood flowing through her.
Because she understood what I said, even if it was a little late.
My gratitude, which had no beginning or end, had one meaning.
“Thank you for betraying your true master Aubrey’s plot and helping me.”
Words with this meaning.
Similar words would be a false accusation.
Or maybe turns?
“Oh, miss. When did you do that...!”
When had Aubrey betrayed and helped me—a protest she couldn't even finish seemed to explode in her throat.
However, this evil person probably wasn't able to say those words until the end.
If Rilda spoke like this, it would give me a way to attack in return.
I could have interrogated her and asked her what she was talking about, and whether she was the accomplice in yesterday's false accusation incident.
And most importantly….
“...Tulia. Sorry I came in without knocking, my dear.”
The voice of Aubrey, who was always smiling, pretending to be a good aunt, or glaring at me secretly as if at Tedric's enemy, fell to my ears.
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