'...Did you stay quiet during the time of Shion? Why are you holding only John in check?'
Odette's question wasn't answered.
[ Let's start moving to Count Albrecht! ]
Pretending not to hear it, he carried Odette and his companions to the middle of the Count's garden.
"Aaaaaaaaaaa..."
"Ahh... It's a ghost!"
The servants in the garden shouted at them as they suddenly appeared out of the air. Their clamor disturbed the timing of John's speech.
"Stop the fuss, right? Do you really want me to scream?"
Victor, with a distraught voice, cleared up the messy atmosphere. She doesn't know if they can call it a clean-up.
Odette took her eyes off John and looked at the status window.
'John... Do you care?'
Maybe that's Karl's honest heart, she wondered.
However, the status window still did not answer Odette's question. What should she say? For some reason, she felt like she was scared.
'Status window?'
Odette tried to soothe him, but there was no answer.
After a moment of silence, the message in the status window was completely irrelevant, as if it were a reversal.
[ Time elapsed between 'Fall into Disaster'~ 'Return': 7 days ]
"It's like being alive."
Even before she went to the deep sea, she thought it was like a creature with emotions, but now she doesn't know what it is. It felt like a perfect higher life.
Karl's memories and the strengthening of his ego seemed to have had some effect on that soul fragment.
She didn't want to answer like that, but she didn't want to keep questioning him. Odette gave up the question and changed it.
'7 days? It only lasted for half a day at most, right?'
What the status screen just said was something she couldn't ignore.
[ Time around the World Tree passes much more slowly. ]
Odette, who had no sense of reality, frowned and looked around the garden.
The garden would have been ruined by the power of the disaster, but the scattered mud was collected, and the walls and floor of the first floor of the broken main building were covered with a clumsy cloth.
It certainly didn't look like it had been repaired in half a day.
"Sa, are you alive...? I thought you had passed away a long time ago..."
The same goes for the reaction of the employees who ask me carefully.
More than anything else, Mrs. Becker's appearance convinced Odette that time had passed.
"Apparently, the status window is right."
As if she were already the real owner of the mansion, she must have been leading the workers in a gorgeous dress.
***
Mrs. Becker had a very good taste of flesh these days.
A week ago, a disaster appeared in the dungeon of the Count's main building. It was just after the Crown Prince and Colonel Koenig broke through the walls of the main building and the dungeon.
The walls and floor of the first floor were smashed, and the plague engulfed Odette and the Transcendents and destroyed the garden. Thanks to this, the garden that Sasha had cherished for a long time had become a graveyard of gloomy plants.
Word of mouth has spread so far, and most of the people in the capital are aware of it.
However, Mrs. Becker found another trace in front of the door of the storeroom on the top floor.
"There must have been a disaster in that hallway."
The wooden floor in the corridor in front of the warehouse looks as if it had been torn off by a typhoon. No one has seen the Count, Paula, or Maleah since that day. They had one implication.
"A disaster appeared in that hallway and sucked the three of them in!"
It was sad that Maleah, the most grateful benefactor, had died, but the fact that the 'Count' was gone was even more important.
"Ulrich. That damn thing is dead!"
As if to support this conclusion, there was no news of the Count for a week.
Mrs. Becker pretended to be cautious, saying. "Let's wait for his return," but inwardly she was convinced that she had already become the Countess.
'Fernand's death and the Count dying right away, what kind of windfall is this?! As soon as he joined, my son became a Count."
It is like blowing your nose without touching it. So there was no reason to hate the walls of the main building or the garden that had been ruined by the disaster.
No matter how small the disaster was, what happened inside the capital's mansion was frightening. Many of the users who were not good enough actually got scared and ran away.
But Mrs. Becker felt gratitude instead of horror for the disaster.
'It's a divine punishment, it got rid of all the people who were unnecessary to me! That disaster is a divine punishment!'
The bright future she enjoyed as the Count's mother overwhelmed the reluctance that disaster might happen to the Count again. Overwhelming joy that thrills to the tip of her head. A sense of accomplishment that she had finally achieved the status elevation she had longed for.
There are no senior employees, including butlers. Even among the lower-level employees, there are no long-term employees left. This made Mrs. Becker the longest-serving person in the Count's residence.
Moreover, the mother of the next Count who will succeed to the countship at a young age.
The Count was now a kingdom ruled by Mrs. Becker.
The servants and maids also predicted the future of the Count in the same way as Mrs. Becker. So everyone rushed to give Mrs. Becker a bang.
A week passed like that, and today she promised to deal with the Count's death. They had returned like a disaster.
Even if a missing person is reported to the Metropolitan Police Department, they will not be treated as dead for a week, but if they are involved in a disaster, they will be treated as soon as possible. Therefore, the day when the Count fell legally into her hands was today...
'What kind of fate...? If you fall into a disaster, you must die, right?'
Mrs. Becker was not happy with their return.
***
'A week.'
She thought that the sudden loss of a week due to the disaster might have disrupted her schedule.
'Did you keep the Count alive for nothing? I'm just going to put it in Rosaline's stomach.'
The revenge was now in the final stage. Sasha's anger, which may erupt at any moment, was the last key.
It was the moment when she thought that maybe it wasn't worth bringing the Count.
[ The World Tree gives an oracle to Odette! ]
[ 'Laurel of Light' is activated. ]
A scene unfolded in front of Odette, like a 4D movie.
"Paulaa, how could you fool me?! There is also a degree of deceit! Do you dare give me a fake ring?"
Sasha's expression brushes Paula as if she is going to kill her. In her hand was a blue diamond ring and a pawn shop's appraisal.
It was the same blue diamond ring that Damien had exchanged one day.
The scene that unfolded before her eyes disappeared after a brief moment of Sasha screaming.
Odette could tell that the illusion she had just seen was the future that would take place in the next few minutes.
'Was that just a trust?'
[ Holy and Affectionate Allies of the Divine Tree ]
[ Savior of Yggdrasil ]
She thought it was just a butterfly, but it seemed that the World Tree truly regarded Odette as a 'friend'.
Even if the future is not a big deal, he thinks it will help Odette, and he shows him the future.
'Thank you... But can the Great Oracle of the World Tree be used for such a trivial matter?'
[ The World Tree screams at me to put gratitude in. ]
[ 'Friends don't have that kind of humility,' he says, toughly. ]
'...Isn't it a bit frivolous for a representative of God?'
Just when she thought the World Tree had such an unpredictable character, an uproar broke out at the entrance of the Count's residence, as if to prove the power of the oracle.
Sasha's voice sounded sharp in the distance.
"Paula, where is Paula? Bring Paula!"
"Former Countess. If you do this, you will be in trouble!"
The gatekeeper's restless voice was also there.
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