My Dream is to Get My Own House - Chapter 63

Episode 63

“Yes, that’s right. It’s near the Grand Duke Castilla.”

I just found out now.

There was only one reason why I chose that place.

It was because there was an undiscovered gold mine there.

Moreover, there was a pure mana crystal mine.

What is a mana crystal?

It was a kind of auxiliary battery that could supply mana to humans with insufficient mana in a limited way.

Mana crystals were divided into impure mana crystals and pure mana crystals.

Impure mana crystals could amplify only about 5% of the mana a human possessed due to the many impurities they contained.

Unfortunately, most of the mines in the current empire were impure mana crystal mines.

However, in my past life, there was one, just one pure mana crystal mine on the Ast Peninsula.

Pure mana crystals could amplify the mana a human possessed by more than 100%.

Even just selling them would make me rich in no time.

What if my mana increased dramatically?

I could possibly synchronize even more with Mung Mungi, the divine being who contracted with me.

I might be able to feel the prophecies that Mung Mungi sees.

And my awakened purification ability could be further elevated.

As I discovered my abilities until now, I had this thought.

“I wonder what the limits of my abilities are.”

I wasn’t the me who died pathetically before reincarnation.

If I made money through the gold mine and elevated my abilities with mana crystals…

My future would not just be limited to a penthouse.

I looked forward to my future.

To me, who now had new goals and ambitions, the new territory would open up new horizons.

“Besides, if I want to survive, I need to significantly increase my strength.”

I was the top priority for exterminating the terrorist group <Red Castle>.

I gazed at the Emperor with a mixture of eeriness and excitement.

He muttered with a bewildered expression, “Still, to choose the Ast Peninsula….”

Why such a reaction?

While the Emperor was taken aback, Dylan asked in a low voice, “Aren’t you afraid to go near the Grand Duke Castilla?”

“Huh? I’m not afraid.”

Originally, ‘the monster born of capitalism’ was more frightening than a ghost.

What could be scary about the human Grand Duke Castilla?

Besides, I heard the ice was melting, so, whatever.

The Emperor clasped his hands together with a delighted expression and mumbled, “Perfect. I’ll give you the Ast Peninsula! I’ll make sure to develop the land and villa into a personal territory. Until then…”

He glanced at me and Dylan as he spoke.

“Rest well. At home. Yes, rest well.”

…Something felt very off.

But because I had something else to say, I suppressed my unease and spoke. 

“There’s one more thing I’d like to ask, Your Majesty.”

* * *

Inside the dark and damp prison, I smirked.

I had just one request.

I wanted to bid farewell to the Lorelei family.

The Lorelei family had been staring at me intently from within the prison.

Viscount Lorelei glared at me with a displeased expression. 

“You… cursed woman, you’ll be damned!”

He was the man who always hit me, but now, I was not afraid of him.

I tilted my head and looked down at him. 

“I came to watch your end. How do you like the prison?”

“Do you think you’ll get out of here forever?”

“At least I don’t think I’ll end up like you?”

There was nothing much to say.

I glanced at them as if pitying them and then turned my head.

How miserable they were.

It would be a waste of time to mock them.

Viscount Lorelei spoke behind me, talking ill as I turned away. 

“Shall I tell you a secret you’ll never know forever?”

“It’s a secret. What kind of secret is it?”

He smirked with a vile smile.

“Did you think you were my daughter? You’re not my daughter. You were just a wretched woman I picked up from the streets.”

I coolly brushed off his slander and laughed.

“Oh, really?”

“Yeah! How dare a lowly creature like you dare to challenge and confront me, not knowing the favor I’ve shown you.”

He seemed to feel a fairly fatal wound from me.

The corners of his mouth were raised in cowardice.

But now, I was finally free.

Knowing that their blood did not flow in my body made me so willing.

“Isn’t it strange? Intelligence is supposed to be hereditary.”

“What?”

I stared intently at my mother, no, Countess Lorelei, who was about to hurl insults with a trembling voice.

“Unlike the mother who doesn’t even know Ancient Language, somehow, I was too smart.”

They made surprised expressions.

But I wasn’t done yet.

“All the properties and money you have, I’m going to reclaim them now.”

It’s clearly my money.

I stared at Viscount Lorelei with a cold gaze and spoke.

“You won’t even be able to get out of prison anyway. I’ll use that money wisely.”

Soldika, whose body was a mess, wiped her eyes and mumbled.

“You…!”

“Why? Is it hard for you? But what can you do.”

I smiled, just like I always did with Soldika, in a sneering manner.

“Now, you and I are on a ‘different’ level.”

Soldika made an indescribable expression.

I stared at her intently and tilted my head.

Then Soldika screamed like crazy.

“Aaah!!”

“Soldika!”

“Snap out of it, dear!”

Hearing Soldika’s crazy scream, I left the prison with a satisfied heart.

First, humiliation at the ball.

Second, cutting off the noble line as a noble.

And third, to prison.

My three-part revenge was perfectly finished.

They would rot forever inside the Imperial Palace prison.

As I left the prison, I saw Dylan’s back, who had been guarding the door firmly.

Seeing him, my slightly trembling body found peace.

He looked at me and smiled warmly.

“Are you alright?”

“Yes, I am.”

“Then, now, it’s better to go and have a meal.”

Wait, was this guy a Korean like me in his past life?

I was very suspicious of how he took care of my meals so thoroughly.

But still.

“What’s on the menu today?”

I had also become quite domesticated by his consistent behavior.

He extended his hand.

“I’d like a simple snack.”

I held his hand and nodded my head.

“Toast will do.”

Our hands, which were held together, were tightly intertwined.

Suddenly, I remembered the kiss from earlier when I touched his light touch.

The sound of my heart pounding echoed in my ears.

‘Am I not sweating in my hands right now?’

I glanced at Dylan briefly and quickly turned my gaze forward.

Even trivial matters that were previously insignificant were now starting to bother me, especially after that kiss.

* * *

At the same time.

Duke Saboia escorted the fake Diana, Anna, who was pitifully bound, to the Duke’s mansion.

The atmosphere in the Duke’s mansion was gloomy.

It was because the nobles and maids voluntarily put out the lights in grief.

Anna was hanging in the dark corridor, bound by the rope.

For a moment, hope sprang up in her mind.

It was supposed to be the path to the Imperial Palace prison for criminals who used dark magic.

But she came to Duke Saboia.

Perhaps Duke Saboia would save her.

After all, they had a brief connection.

She kneeled on the floor of the reception room, looking up at Duke Saboia.

“Hal, Hala-.”

“Shut up.”

His order was sharp.

However, he didn’t drive her away.

Anna looked at him with hopeful eyes and stuttered softly.

“Y-you, are you calling me to save me?”

Duke Saboia glanced from the top of Diana’s head, now an old woman, to her feet, and spoke coldly.

“I never believed you from the beginning.”

“From the beginning, you liked that girl, didn’t you? Ishael, she said.”

“She’s not a child who speaks without reservation.”

“Even in this situation, you’re only thinking about that girl.”

Anna glared at Duke Saboia with a trembling expression.

“You still don’t realize your mistakes.”

His expressionless face suddenly changed after a long time to a gentle look.

“You dare to impersonate my precious granddaughter. Even if I tear you apart, it wouldn’t be enough.”

Anna’s face twisted into a mocking expression only then when she faced the change in Duke Saboia’s icy attitude.

“Isn’t that granddaughter dead anyway?”

“What?”

“She wouldn’t have been hiding so thoroughly from the start, right?”

“How dare you.”

“Following the shadow of your dead granddaughter, are you happy?”

Endless slander continued, but Duke Saboia remained expressionless.

“I may not know if I will be happy, but you will be miserable.”

“Hahaha…!”

A tear fell from Anna’s eye.

Duke Saboia had no intention of engaging in further conversation with her.

“Take her back to the Imperial Palace prison forever.”

“Yes!”

From the moment the guards left with Anna, she no longer existed in Duke Saboia’s mind.

He recalled what had happened in the hunting grounds with Ishael.

“I heard that Ishael was actually a practitioner of purification, according to Ishael.”

His expression stiffened subtly.

Many had the ability to awaken their healing abilities.

However, the ability of purification was a great power possessed only by the Archmage, Ilina Sared.

The ability of purification could heal the wounded world and truly save the human spirit.

Could such a coincidence exist?

But…

Clearly, Ishael had no power from the Saboia family.

He splashed some water on his dry face.

At that moment, Helic approached him.

“Your Grace, you have ordered that the fake lady be taken to the prison.”

“Yes.”

Helic said with a pitiful tone.

“Ugh, by the way, Ishael is worried.”

“Why?”

“Those damn Lorelei people are talking nonsense in the Imperial Palace prison, saying Ishael was an orphan.”

“…Really?”

“Yes. They said she was taken from an orphanage.”

Ishael was not the daughter of Lorelei, but was born in an orphanage?

“Which… orphanage?”

“Well, I don’t know.”

Seeing Helic’s innocent expression, Duke Saboia whispered lowly.

“Then, should I tell Ishael that I’ll find her family?”

Ishael had no power inherited from the Saboia family.

But, just in case.

On the off chance.

Maybe Ishael…

“Oh, she’ll definitely like it!”

Like anyone who had lived with the expectation that his granddaughter would return someday, Duke Saboia did his best to suppress his expectations.

The bigger the expectations, the greater the disappointment.

He turned his head and mumbled.

“Oh, I should also prepare a meal.”

“This time, will you let her be a mistress?”

“I’ll mention it once.”

It didn’t matter even if Ishael was not Diana.

Strangely, for that child, nothing else mattered.

8. The Glorious Return of the True Granddaughter

At the same time.

Claude, without going on the hunt, was completely absorbed in the search for the real Diana at Matap.

While Ishael was catching the fake Diana, Claude had made an agreement to find the real Diana.

During the hunt.

He relentlessly searched every corner like a madman.

And finally, today, the result appeared.

“I found it. Clues to the coordinates of the <Sangermane Nursery>!”

He clenched his fist while looking at a very old report.

<Title: Exposing Sangermane Nursery!>

Author: Mad Goblin and the Rough Kiss

He had finally found a lead to the real Diana.

His heart seemed to be filled with joy.