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The information given by Furina made me think of something.

"Hatching dragon eggs to be used as the main force in the war between nobles, huh?" I muttered a little while thinking about this important thing.

"That’s quite a brilliant idea for a noble family who can only think of using power from the number of troops and mass-produced war equipment.

Using the fighting power that comes from dragons, makes the battles that occur in the war season between the noble families of the Aurora Kingdom more interesting than before," I continued to mutter while thinking about the great potential threat that my family will face on the battlefield.

"Good information, Furina. I’m glad you gave me this valuable information, it makes me happy with their stupidity who are being squeezed to the bone by a heretical sect like this."

By giving a compliment to Furina and stroking her hair, I suddenly got another idea to prepare a counterattack to their dragon attacks.

As more information was given by Furina and the stealth slime herd who were on duty as spy agents, I also had to prepare other problems to be able to survive the attacks given by the heretical sect and the noble family who had reincarnator in there.

"As usual... I’ll be busy again after returning home later, huh?" I grumbled a little while stroking the handle of my cursed Odachi.

My hand was still stroking Furina’s hair and my other hand was stroking the handle of my cursed Odachi, it made me feel a sharp glare from Jean.

The sharp glare came from Jean and her lips were being bitten as if holding back social jealousy from Furina who was being stroked by my hand.

"Make sure you help Jean in some ways, I’m sure you still have some abilities related to diplomacy and planning movement like a cunning noblewoman, right?" I said while stopping my hand from stroking Furina’s hair.

"Yes, Lily-sama. I will be happy to help Jean and spread the teachings of the Goddess of Destruction who seems to be more sane than what the heretical sect believes," Furina replied with a gentle smile towards me.

"However, if the situation moves in a direction that makes it impossible for you to handle the problem, then you must call me like Jean did before. Do you understand this one command?"

"Yes, Lily-sama. I understand my duties and the orders given by you. I will gladly make the most of this new chance at life better than before!"

By giving Furina the chains of freedom, I felt like I was seeing a noble girl rising from her fallen position like this.

As someone who had experienced the bitter abyss of falling, it made me trust the state of this new sect more and let Jean take over the leadership of the new sect that was moving independently without my interference.

"Then, I will return soon to fulfill the lunch invitation given by the main family of Earl Timoti. Make sure you take care of each other and don’t fight all the time," I said before leaving them.

"Yes, Lily-sama," Furina replied with a bow as if seeing me off as I returned to Earl Timoti’s residence.

Before I left, Jean also bowed to me.

My hand immediately pulled the handle of the cursed Odachi and created a teleportation slash that I had used before. Feeling the flow of magic that filled the sharp blade of the cursed Odachi, I made a crack that destroyed the reality of time in front of me.

The slash of the cursed Odachi created a crack in the reality in front of me, it made me nod to Jean and Furina before walking into the slash of my cursed Odachi.

My footsteps walked into the slash of the cursed Odachi.

My gaze immediately changed from the walls of moving plant stems to the fortress that was the residence of Earl Timoti’s family. With the slash of the cursed Odachi connecting to a random room inside Earl Timoti’s residence, it seemed like I stepped into the right room.

Like a luxurious luncheon held by a noble family party, I was a little stunned after coming out of the teleportation slash created by Momo.

"Momo, I want to ask something about this. Can the teleportation you did, know the destination I want to visit?" I asked Momo.

"I don’t know, my Monarch. I even didn’t know that the slash I gave could do something like this. This is the first time I understand another ability that the Goddess of Destruction gave me," Momo replied in a tone that was dumbfounded by this.

With Momo’s extraordinary ability like this, it seems like I just opened Momo’s special ability that can make a teleportation slash that destroys reality.

With this one ability, at least it will cut down the time and the journey home that will happen in an instant. Without riding a horse and going through several village filled with spy agents.

It’s much safer to go and come back quickly.

"Is this the effect of the blessing of the three Goddesses who are merging?" I muttered a little while asking another question that only added to Momo’s confusion.

"Huh?" with words like that coming out of Momo’s mouth, I could see that she didn’t understand the meaning of my previous words.

"It’s okay, Momo. I was just muttering to myself," I replied while looking around me.

With the luncheon about to begin, I saw several noble girls who were part of Evelyn’s small troop and Evelyn who was getting various questions from her small troop members.

Several questions about the illusion technique performed by Evelyn had made several members of her small troop ask to be taught such high-level techniques.

Without disturbing what was happening in the room that was busy preparing for the luncheon, I stood in the corner of the room.

As if feeling nostalgic for the past, I felt the wind glass window from the breeze during the day.

Me, who was wearing magic armor from the Monarch of Holy Destruction mode was seen myself in the reflection of the glass window.

Seeing the reflection of the glass window vaguely then felt the difference between myself in the past and myself in the present. A big difference where my past life was full of helplessness to rise from bullying because of my light brown skin color like this.

While other girls were proud of their cuteness and the beauty of their normal skin, I got a special look because of the social jealousy created by my mother.

Their envy and helplessness fell on me who didn’t know anything in the past.

But with my current state who already knows what happened... It made me smile in relief and realize how weak they were who couldn’t rise from the shadow of my great mother.

It was just a flash of the past that made me have to continue in my mother’s footsteps who could be a terrible threat or a mutually beneficial good ally.

In a state like this, I sank into a daydream of the past and ended up feeling a touch from a figure I knew.

"Lily-sama..." Without turning my head and looking at the reflection of the window, I could feel the soft touch coming from Mio.

The punishment I was giving her was not over yet and it would feel very useless if I replied to her words at this time.

"Please forgive my impudent attitude at night, Lily-sama."

"I didn’t mean to tarnish the trust that Lily-sama had given me and was tempted by the Duchess’s words the night before," said Mio as if admitting the sin she had committed.

"I know that this sounds like me wanting to run away from my mistakes and find another way to get rid of my own mistakes.

But that only makes me tortured with guilt that continues to haunt my every action," with a weak tone and trying to get an answer out of my mouth, Mio then hugged me from behind.

In the room that was being prepared for the lunch banquet, I got an action that surprised me.

The hug that Mio did made me have to talk to her, even though it would end the punishment that I was giving her.

"I entrusted the Duchess to sleep with me without doing anything," I said coldly to Mio.

"If only the Duchess broke her own words, then I would only be angry with the Duchess. But it would be a different matter with an Exclusive Maid that I had trusted secretly being incited to commit treason," I continued my words coldly to Mio.

Mio’s hug got tighter and made me hear Mio’s sobs that touched my back.

Holding back her sobs, I could feel Mio’s body shaking, and felt guilty about this.

"I know about that, Lily-sama," Mio whispered while holding back her sobs.

"I am prepared myself to get a harsh punishment that is more severe than interrogation torture," Mio continued her words by giving options of punishment that sounded terrible to my ears.

I slowly touched her palm which was hugging tightly above my navel.

With a touch that tried to calm Mio’s worries about the punishment that would be given to her, I gave her a small laugh.

"You don’t need to worry about a punishment like that, Mio," I said in a normal tone after acting cold to her.

"The punishment that I will give is much better than interrogation torture," I continued my words by turning around and releasing the hug that Mio had given me from behind.

"The punishment that you have to do at this time is..." by adjusting my tone of voice that was playing around and teasing Mio at the same time, it only made Mio curious about the punishment that I would do.

"I won’t be talking to you for the next few days," I continued, giving Mio a cold smile.

As if seeing a different figure of myself in front of her, I could see Mio standing and pensive for a moment before her body trembled.

"H-Huuh? L-Lily-sama won’t talk to me for the next few days?" Mio grumbled, imitating my previous words.

Without answering what Mio was asking, I returned to the glass window in the room that would be the place for the Earl Timoti main family’s luncheon.

The gentle breeze coming in from the open glass window made me feel the pleasure of a cool afternoon like this.

Before the Earl Timoti main family’s luncheon began, I saw an old man who seemed to have prepared something special for me.

Thanks to the hostile gaze he gave me, it triggered my danger detection ability which suddenly activated like this.

It seems like trouble will come to me again.