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“Miss, please don’t do that again.”
I expected Adel to be crying hard.
"I was going to get my medical license back. Miss. Wahahaha."
Well, I didn't expect the personal doctor to cry, but he seemed like a sensitive guy, so I assumed so.
“Miss is a really terrible person.”
But I didn't know that even the butler's assistant would suffer from sneezing.
“Wow!”
Servants are usually meticulous and disciplined, with strong personalities and tough minds to help their masters, right?
Isn't this the picture?
“You're actually like this, so why are you sniffling?”
Anyway, I consoled them well.
“I'm alive, aren't I?”
“But you got hurt!”
“Just being attached to one's life is not everything!”
“You almost couldn't walk!”
I felt a little scared when they got angry at me instead.
My God, what master is afraid of his employees?
“It almost made me unable to walk?”
Of course, this was a little scary.
“Yes! So miss, please take care of your body.”
Adel held my hand tightly and said. I nodded awkwardly.
Thank you for treating me so well. Thanks to you, it doesn't hurt so much anymore.
“I was so terrified. I'm not kidding, Miss Tullia.”
My personal doctor was undoubtedly skilled.
“I think I understand why His Highness the Grand Duke emptied the medicine chest for you, Miss. He must have already known about his granddaughter’s reckless personality.”
“I think so too.”
I didn't even notice when the personal doctor and the butler's assistant were making fun of me side by side.
The wound on his thigh was healing well thanks to a divine skill.
And above all that.
Everything went well.
Very good indeed.
“What about Little Uncle?”
“Right now, the road to and from his residence is completely blocked.”
"truly?"
“Well, does he block employee traffic and start frantically hiding assets?”
I wasn't sure about that part.
I just thought Grandpa should come quickly.
“But Lycian went to accompany him.”
This is correct.
Before I showed everyone the scene of Viscount Lilius getting hit by the bow, I had asked Lycian beforehand.
if.
If Viscount Lilius's arrow hits me.
Can he transport me and bring my grandfather back right away?
Without others noticing, and at a time when others are in a state of chaos.
as soon as possible.
I said I would give him all the money I had if he agreed to that request...
Since I got temporarily rich with the money I extorted from Leon Fraser.
Maybe that's why there's no change to the “Wealth stat” in my status window either.
Either the amount is not enough to raise one more stat, or there is a more rigid standard.
It looked like one of two things, but I couldn't quite tell which.
And most importantly.
That was Lycian's position.
"…money?"
“Yes yes.”
Lysiane showed no reaction to those words.
He stared at me calmly and then suddenly smiled slightly.
“Tulia.”
A smile that felt hidden pain.
“What kind of brother in the world... takes requests from his younger brother... and gets money for it?”
I pondered those words.
Because they were words I couldn't help but ponder even if I tried not to.
I thought it would be good if Lisian came back quickly, and if Grandpa came back quickly too.
but.
“It takes time to search the area, so maybe he can’t come right away?”
However, I expected that he would first send a key advisor like Rook Kilfusher to detain Viscount Lilius, Aubrey, and Tidric and begin a rigorous investigation.
I wasn't sure either.
I looked out the window while drinking warm tea that Adel himself had prepared.
Anyway, the person in power in this Grand Duchy and my ally, my grandfather, needs to return quickly for anything to happen.
I muttered, holding the tea cup in my hand.
“I hope my grandfather comes back soon.”
"Hmm hmm. Is this true?"
“Huh?”
Familiar voice.
I raised my head in amazement.
"serious?!"
Grand Duke Assis, whose return was supposed to take more than a week.
Grand Duke Assis's face as he entered with his hands behind his back was more solemn and serious than ever.
But my mood was different.
When I thought about my financial support finally returning, I couldn't help but smile brightly.
"Grandpa! I'm back!"
At that moment.
What was strange, or rather very rare, was that a smile of satisfaction appeared on my grandfather’s face as he looked at me.
“Yes, I'm back, Tullia.”
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Meanwhile, at Lilius Fraser's house.
He paced up and down the room with anxious steps. His lips, which he had bitten several times already, were severely chapped.
Sir!
Lelios' advisor quickly entered and spoke.
“We have been able to transfer about 20% of significant assets to pseudonymous accounts at the moment.”
Twenty percent.
At first glance, it seemed like an extremely slow pace, but Lelios didn't blame him.
Because the wealth he secretly amassed was enormous.
Until now, no one had dared touch his ill-gotten money. No, they didn't even dare to try.
But now he is about to appear before the servants' court.
In times like these, the most important thing was to quickly move his hidden assets to deeper hiding places.
“We have to get as much work done as possible before Dad comes back. Go quickly and help finish the rest!”
“Yes, sir!”
The fishing competition was already held three days ago.
Even though three days had passed, Lilius had another sleepless night with his eyes wide open today as well.
The same goes for Tedrick and Aubrey.
They instinctively knew that they would lose much of what they had and enjoyed.
So O'Pray was frantically hiding the family jewels, and Tedrick was doing something similar.
Not distinguished titles like Grand Count or Marquis, just Viscount.
Even bearing the name Fraser, once Marquis Aster Fraser later rose to the rank of Grand Duke, they would also be relegated to mere “family branch” status.
Because it was an unimportant job in the beginning, this was precisely why they were eager to move up!
Tulia Fraser. That damned bitch.
Lilius gritted his teeth angrily.
“Why did you say such things, and say that Tulia’s biological mother used machinations and such! The Fraser family had such a high status, and yet you uttered such insults in public, so that no one could take your side!”
"brother!"
Enough! Behave yourself!
“My brother Nigella!”
“These stubborn elders absolutely hate stories that harm the Frieza's honor! And no one else would publish such things publicly! Damn it!”
His older brother, Count Nigella Fraser, even harshly criticized Lilius while distancing himself from the situation.
“When he needed me, he was always busy taking advantage of me!”
There's no way it would collapse like this.
They were still bound together by their shared debts from the failed States Plain plantation project.
He had no choice but to hide as much money as possible and wait for the right moment.
Then it happened.
Sir!
When his advisor called, his attention suddenly regained.
“Right. Where did you say that Lysian man was?”
Even in this situation, Lelius was thinking of negotiating with Lycian.
But since Lycian was nowhere to be found, he sent people to look for him.
Then came an unexpected response.
“What? He left the castle the day Tullia moved us to the hut and never came back?”
“Yes, that is correct, sir.”
“Those rat bastards...!”
He was in such a state of panic that he didn't notice it at all.
Lycian's escape clearly meant that he went to tell Grand Duke Assis everything.
“When will they stop staring at each other like strangers!”
Even Leon Fraser, who was busy shouting at each other, picked up Tulia in his arms as soon as she fell.
They were truly the children of the Marquis family in name and reality.
Although Tullia suffered all kinds of abuse and contempt, in the end she was a young woman of even higher status than Tedric.
And of course, higher than Count Nigella Fraser's children as well.
“Good, perfect. This is absolutely perfect.”
Do they think that only he and his family will drown like this?
Let us all fall together this time.
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