Chapter 104.

The fingers tapping on the table stopped.

“…?” I thought I’d misheard the butler. So I looked to the door.

“Phew, come in.”

Crunch-. As soon as the door to the room opened, I stood up from my seat in a heap.

“Ah, dad?”

It wasn’t the butler who came in, but the Duke.

“What, why is he here all of a sudden?

He’s never been in my room, not even in the game.

“What are you doing?”

The Duke walked to the middle of the room with his hands behind his back in great embarrassment.

“Turns out it’s still there. What is it, father?”

“I have something to say, come sit here.” *

The Duke walked over to the desk and sat down. Stood at the desk, looking at me. I went over to him.

‘Is …… a reason to come and say I was rude at dinner?’

Full of questions. But this doesn’t make any sense.” The person who was smothered by the stench of breast milk after calling me to the office every time even liked my room ……”

I was not across from him in a trance-like mood.

Then Duke slaps something on the table. A thick bag with Eckhardt.

“What is this ……?”

It’s completely impossible to find anything. As soon as he saw the gaze filled with doubt in the Duke, he avoided the sight with a dry cough.

“Open it and see.”

Out of curiosity, I obediently opened the paper bag. The moment I picked up the white paper inside

“Confirmation of the transfer of emerald minerals in the southeast.”

The Duke’s words made me crack up. Picking it up. I was instantly skeptical listening to those words.

“Mine transfer…confirmation?”

“It says your name at the bottom, so go ahead and confirm it.”

The eyes couldn’t help but fall on the Duke’s words.

The transferee, Penelope Eckhardt.

It was true. The mouth widened in a grin.

“Ah, Papa. Suddenly what is this…”

“Nothing special.”

“Oh 。。。。。。?”

“I thought you wanted to own personal property.” Instead, the Duke countered my reaction with a surprised expression.

“Why don’t you like it?

“No, no. It’s not that I’m not satisfied…”

He gave me some pocket money and the mine. Wouldn’t that be ridiculous?

“.. It’s too much for me, Papa,” feeling dumbfounded, I managed to move my lips. The more hasty I was the more I would stutter which was quite different from what I wanted to accomplish.

“I didn’t say I wanted this.”

“You used to love your eye color and chicken emeralds.”

Duke blocked my thoughts of a proper rejection.

“I wanted to give it to you when you were older anyway. It’s just a little early, and it’s never fun to hear it in your heart.”

The mine was given to her as a gift for the return of her only daughter.

Suddenly, I remembered a scene from the game. In normal mode [it’s only been a short while since I chose the ONO function]

It seemed that the Duke, who heard the voice of her father for the first time, was overjoyed. So, not long after adopting his daughter’s birthday, he transferred the mine to the heroine for no reason at all. ……

“Are you tired of emeralds now? Well, how about we go to the Magic Stone Mine? Isn’t there a lot of interest in that lately?”

Staring dumbfounded at the Duke, he added wittily. The feeling was indescribable. Controlling unwanted feelings was harder than expected.

“… You don’t have to do that, dad.”

I was extremely polite to the Duke and handed him this paper bag that I put the confirmation back in. If I succeed in escaping, then all of this will be a true “Duke’s daughter”.

“I will be grateful.”

“Penelope.”

The Duke’s face deflated for a moment. Since he had rejected his kindness, it was justifiable. His mouth turned bitter.

“….”

For a moment, there was no cold silence in my room.

I would have preferred the Duke to be arrogant. He angrily tried to leave the room. But noiselessly stayed half a day’s work.

“By now ……”

The silence was suddenly broken by a careful voice.

“Are you still angry?”

“…?”

“The hunting convention?”

A look of hopelessness confused me. The Duke said in a panic.

“Penelope. You seem to have misunderstood…”

“What ……”

“I believe you.”

“I mean you wouldn’t shoot a nobleman.”

Suddenly the topic changed. I’m a bit baffled as to why I’m bringing up the story that the trial has already told again.

However, the Duke seemed to be misunderstanding something and had been catching on.

“At first I had the thought that maybe you did that sort of thing. But you’ve promised several times.”

“Yeah?”

He said, “You know, draw them out where no one else is and kill them.”

“God, you’re crazy, Father.”

I couldn’t help but feel ridiculous for a duke who was becoming quite radicalized. The duke who was so excited that he couldn’t even say a word also felt out of place and coughed dryly several times.

“Oh dear! How come you know better these days too, I’m sure it won’t happen in front of many people.”

“With the Crown Prince.” He said.

“This is so uncharacteristic, but a momentary coincidence.”

“I should be talking to you directly, both the Crown Prince’s faction and the Second Prince’s faction are being held back and are in a position where they can’t move easily.”

“…”

To summarize, that was the sentence. He said that he went to prison for Derrick even though he believed that he had suffered a wrongful conviction, since he could not go directly to prison himself.

In the midst of a lengthy defense, the most important sentence was finally uttered.

The Derrick fellow had not consented to what I had done, and this duke was to be congratulated. But the mood didn’t improve at all.

“But brother doesn’t think so.” I replied in a low voice

“What?” At this, as if he had been waiting for a long time, the Duke forgot about Derrick for a moment.

“I gave him a hard time after the trial. So, please relax.”

“Did dad chastise his brother?”

“Of course! The guy will sneak in just one for you too, eh?

The duke re-passed the paper bag I had returned to him.

“That guy is just now considered a novice dabbling in the mining business. And is still afraid of running out of money, so a few people get together to make a joint investment. And not to fulfill the mission.”

“…”

But you’re the titular mine owner from today. Much earlier than him.”

This is the tone of comforting a crying child.

Haha.

Looking at the duke, who unhesitatingly forgets about his eldest son and tries to make me happy, I also show an incredible smile. The duke followed the smile and looked at me with blue eyes filled with smiles.

“Like it?” The mischievous Duke gives off a very strange and absurd feeling.

“Ha……,” I finally laughed in relief.

“It’s from your big brother behind your back, and it’s off limits for now.”

The Duke, who astutely realized my mood had changed for the better, snickered.

“Especially that Leonard guy! It’s even more important not to open your mouth in front of that guy. Got it? Hmm?”

“Got it, Dad.”

I had to take the paper bag he held out. Not just take it, but deliver it to my head like that and stick another one in.

“And… Thanks. You’re giving me such an over-the-top gift.”

I hung my head low and greeted politely. Then, thinking intensely in my head about “what to do with this mine now.”

” . . That.” Suddenly making a bitter sound to the Duke, he said “It’s too much for me too.”

“I was foolish, I didn’t know before.”

I don’t understand what his words really mean. I don’t know if it’s because he regrets the past because he blindly adopted me. Or maybe he felt sorry for me as a young daughter who knew what she was doing.

Due to the improved relations between the staff and the people around me, my reputation became +10.(Total: 410)

But suddenly looking at the snow-white front, unbearable feelings arose. The meaning of this sentence is that his face is not the real Penelope, and it doesn’t matter if he’s my real father.

I had a hard time fooling the Duke.