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I was silent after watching the horse-drawn carriage Princess Anastasia was riding in leave and return home to the Royal Palace.

On the other hand, Hana also went home by riding Princess Anastasia’s horse-drawn carriage.

Their departure, filled with urgent needs, forced their vacation to end immediately with activities that would make their days busy in taking care of the seventy-two cursed swords successfully created by the cult.

It made me a little pensive for a moment and think about the fate of this world after the seventy-two cursed swords could be freely created and freely used at any time.

Honestly, it made me feel annoyed with the other work that had increased without warning like this.

If only the cult had not made a strange breakthrough like creating cursed swords until the number increased to seventy-two, of course, I would still look relaxed after the Marquess Rommel family had just returned from a family vacation and underwent a Major Operation that took place around the Marquess Rommel Main Mansion.

Two Major Operations had been completed and now there was only free time to compile a loss report after some of the family’s gold coin funds were used for such a troublesome situation.

"Lily, did something happen between you and Princess Anastasia and Saintess Hana?" asked my father who was accompanying me to see off my two close female friends.

I immediately shook my head to answer the question that looked like I had caused trouble for them.

"It’s not like what you’re imagining right now, Father," I answered briefly while leaning my body which was now touching Momo’s Odachi sheath standing behind my body.

Who would have thought that this long Odachi sheath would be useful as a support when my body was tired of standing like this?

"There are several things that need to be discussed at the family dinner, Father," I continued to narrow down what my father and Sebastian who was standing behind my father were thinking.

"Things that need to be discussed? Like Lily’s rejection of the invitation to a birthday party from the noble family who had twins?" My father seemed to be thinking about many possibilities about my request to discuss something at dinner.

"That’s something that will be discussed later, but what’s more important is..."

I immediately took out the command baton that was still kept with me.

"Ugh!!" Seeing the command baton that I had taken out from between my long sleeves, my father seemed unwilling to accept the command baton that I was going to return to him.

"Father, you don’t intend to make me the Matriarch of the Marquess Rommel family without a formal ceremony, right?" I said while handing over the command baton that had recently given me greater responsibility than Marquess Rommel himself.

How could I feel such a great responsibility if I still hadn’t been officially appointed as the Matriarch of the Marquess Rommel family?

I felt like it was an arrogance that went beyond the traditions and ethics of nobility.

My father only smiled as he listened to my words and my hand that was trying to return the high authority that I had borrowed from him.

"It seems that my vacation as the Head of the Family who is on vacation from giving orders to the Marquess Rommel family assets is over," My father accepted the return of the command baton from my hand and the power of the Marquess Rommel’s assets has officially been transferred to my father.

"You’ve been on too much vacation, father. Even Sebastian feels like he hasn’t been working hard lately," I replied with a satisfied smile after one heavy responsibility had been lifted from my heavy shoulders.

"I intend to retire early as Marquess Rommel and give the title of Matriarch to you, Lily. But it seems that it’s still too early when you still need real experience to do something, huh?" My father forced his will a little which sounded like a joke that threw his responsibility to me.

"I’m still too young to take on such a responsibility," I replied with the fact that I was still too young to accept this kind of responsibility. Unlike my father who seemed to have a lot of experience at his young age.

"Still young huh? Those are words that make me feel nostalgic after my age is the same as yours now, Lily."

I tilted my head slightly after hearing that while maintaining my body posture while still watching the horse-drawn carriage carrying Princess Anastasia and Hana leave.

"At your age, I’ve been in the Aurora Royal Academy taking a military lesson that made my head spin after receiving many war theories that are ineffective to use in this era."

It seems like I just heard a complaint from my father who was forced to do something that hard at a young age.

"Oh! That’s right! Why didn’t I think of this before? I almost forgot that the new school year at the Aurora Royal Academy is about to open!" with my father’s loud words, it seems like I’ve understood where this conversation is going along with Sebastian’s facial reaction who is starting to worry if his workload increases after I and my twin step-sister go to study at the Aurora Royal Academy.

"What if Lily, Alice, and Alyssa register to enter the Aurora Royal Academy earlier than other nobles who are the same age as Lily?" asked my father which made Sebastian’s face dripping with sweat.

For some reason, Sebastian’s face seemed to be giving me a signal to stay here for a while while waiting for the situation at the Marquess Rommel Main Mansion to stabilize after a long family vacation.

"I don’t know how to answer that, as it requires further discussion at dinner tonight," I replied, throwing out another answer option that made Sebastian feel at ease.

With the unknown political situation that was happening to the Aurora Kingdom and the ongoing conflict after the Marquess Rommel family declared themselves as Neutral nobles, we only had a few allies.

Delaying my departure to study at the Aurora Royal Academy and find new allies seemed like a reasonable thing to do.

I should consider this before the dinner filled with heavy talk began.

My eyes that watched the departure of the horse-drawn carriage carrying Princess Anastasia and Hana slowly disappeared into the distance. With a feeling of loneliness like this, it didn’t feel so bad to live a peaceful life without being filled with problems all the time.

I, who was leaning on Momo’s Odachi sheath immediately stood up straight and held Momo’s Odachi sheath.

"It would be better to discuss this with Mama, Alice, and Alyssa directly, right?" I said while walking towards the main entrance of Marquess Rommel Mansion after watching Princess Anastasia and Hana leave.

When I entered the Main Mansion of Marquess Rommel, several stealth slimes wearing maid uniforms approached me.

Their faces were filled with something they wanted to talk about immediately. Explore more stories at Lokepub

"Is there a problem that I need to know about immediately?" I asked after seeing their faces that wanted to say something but the presence of my father and Sebastian seemed to hinder what they wanted to say immediately.

They looked at each other before nodding and taking out a paper in their bodies which suddenly turned into a slime ball.

Seeing the disgusting changes in the stealth slime’s body like that, I seemed to have gotten used to it and didn’t show an excessive expression with my flat face.

Booiiinngg...

Pooiiinngg...

Several stealth slimes that had turned into slime balls immediately took out something from inside their bodies like a document filled with handwriting.

Tiinngg!!

The fine hair on my neck suddenly stood up along with my detection of danger that was getting closer. When I turned my head to the source of the danger, my eyes could see a thin magic circle being created and slowly releasing the figures hiding around me.

I took a deep breath with Aiko’s technique which seemed to be getting harder to find her presence as it was getting thinner like that.

"Please explain what you have found, Aiko," I said before Aiko’s body showed her thin presence like that.

Aiko’s appearance slowly surprised my father and Sebastian, I glanced at her with a cold smile that made Aiko look awkward.

"S-Supreme Commander, we have found some secret documents and recorded conversations that came from the twin boys and twin girls who dared to insult the Supreme Commander’s family!" she said in a loud tone with a fire of passion burning in her eyes.

Aiko’s words made Father and Sebastian immediately glance at me.

"So that’s why Lily-sama told me to burn the invitation letter?" Sebastian muttered softly which caught my father’s attention.

"It seems that our family has been neglected after the family vacation for too long. It seems that we have to approach this matter more professionally," grumbled my father who seemed to know what was going on in the noble circles at the moment.

Together with several stealth slimes who were still releasing the secret documents that had been found by the noble family that had openly insulted Marquess Rommel’s family in the invitation letter for the birthday party, I seemed to be making good use of these secret documents.

"Good work, Aiko and all of you," I said while giving a compliment on the Soul Tame communication channel.

As I said that compliment, several of the stealth slimes who had not yet had a nickname assigned by me cried in the Soul Tame communication channel.

The tears that came from the hard work of infiltrating and conducting the spy operation seemed to have exhausted them mentally rather than physically.

With the report found by the stealth slimes who were infiltrating the troubled noble family, I had to admit that such hard work deserved to be appreciated.

"If you get very important information about the twin boys and twin girls from that family, then I will give you a name for only ten stealth slime," I said while giving a small competition to the stealth slime herd who were on duty as infiltrators and spies.

Oh, I guess this would be unfair if it was only given to the stealth slime who was on duty in the field. For that, I have to give something similar to the stealth slime who was on duty as a Maid.

"And for the stealth slime who is on duty as a Maid, give me a report on the amount of dirt and magic core residue that you have cleaned. The top ten stealth slimes who are actively cleaning dirt and magic core residue will get a nickname from me directly," I said to increase the chances until there were twenty stealth slimes who would get a nickname from me.

I don’t know how I can make a nickname from that many stealth slime groups, it seems like I have to read a book that will inspire a nickname.

I slowly glanced at Sebastian and walked towards him.

After I was close to Sebastian, I whispered to him.

"Sebastian, can you help me find a book that contains unique nicknames to fulfill my promise to give nicknames to this herd of stealth slimes?" I whispered to Sebastian who seemed to understand the difficulty I was having in giving them nicknames.

"I understand, Lily-sama. I will make sure to find a book that will give Lily-sama a wide inspiration about a nickname," Sebastian replied with a wide smile and a respectful attitude to carry out my task.