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[ Three months after the Marquess Rommel family went on vacation. ]

For the past few months, Marchioness Amagi had been busy studying Lily’s handwriting and the old magic book that had caught her great interest.

The old and peeling cover of the magic book almost made Marchioness Amagi’s head explode from dizziness after seeing the writing language used by one of the Great Heroes who lived in the past.

As one of the women who had been the Head of the Aurora Kingdom’s Witch Division, Marchioness Amagi was very interested in magic knowledge and used her creative brain to publish a new thesis related to elemental magic.

After seeing Alice and Alyssa struggling to study the magic book under Lily’s direct guidance, Marchioness Amagi felt challenged to study it blindly before giving up and asking Lily to explain the complicated elemental magic formula.

On a piece of paper written by Lily, there was a periodic table of chemical elements that was used to manipulate elemental magic using chemical elements. In her blind study of the elemental magic incantation that she had just learned, Marchioness Amagi understood that the value of the magic book that Lily had bought should be a historical treasure that was specially stored using space and time magic so that it would remain eternal without being eroded by the changes of time.

"I can’t believe that this is a simple magic formation that the Great Hero in the past timeline had," Marchioness Amagi was again fixated on Lily’s handwriting and little by little tried to understand the German language written on the Great Hero’s magic book.

"If fire elemental magic mixes with oxygen atom molecules, it will make the fire elemental magic burn longer than the conventional fire magic that is often used by witch in general," following the guidance given by Lily’s handwriting, the Marchioness slowly began to understand the difference between the magic used by the Great Hero in the past timeline and the use of conventional magic in the present era.

"From the beginning, the use of magic formations that were written and distributed in general did not use the idea of ??the periodic table of chemical elements that the Great Hero in the past timeline had discovered. Does that mean, a magic book that has been circulating all this time has a wrong basic concept?" Marchioness Amagi slowly immersed herself in her magical research to the point of missing the afternoon tea party hosted by Alyssa to the dinner personally brought by her Maid.

The habit maintained during her time as the Head of the Aurora Kingdom’s Witch Division made Marchioness Amagi immersed in magical research that made her a witch who locked herself in her research room.

Tokkk... Tokkk...

Marchioness Amagi heard a knock coming from the door of her personal study room to sink into studying Lily’s handwriting along with the old magic book that had become her family’s treasure to be passed down from generation to generation.

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"Marchioness Amagi, I brought the dinner that you missed together with your family," understanding Marchioness Amagi’s personality who often locked herself in studying magic books or new magic, her personal Maid had to be more forceful to maintain Marchioness Amagi’s diet and health who was very stubborn when it came to magical matters.

"Yes, please feed me," Marchioness Amagi replied without looking at her maid and focused on studying the magic book that Lily had translated.

Baaamm…

With a gentle sweep of her hand that covered the magic book that Marchioness Amagi was studying, her maid forced her hand to distract Marchioness Amagi who was too focused on studying the magic book.

"Marchioness Amagi, you have become a mother and become one of the important parts of the Marquess Rommel family. If you continue like this, it will become a bad habit. It has been three months since you locked yourself in the study room to study the magic book," Marchioness Amagi’s maid used a gentle tone to reprimand Marchioness Amagi’s stubbornness who ignored everything for the sake of studying the magic book.

"Seeing the thickness of the magic book and your personal thesis notes, isn’t it more than enough to take a short break before continuing to study the magic book?" continued her maid who was currently preparing a cup of warm tea and a simple dinner that could fill Marchioness Amagi’s stomach until midnight.

Takkk...

Takkk...

Takkk...

With a gentle attitude that displayed elegance and politeness, her maid arranged a simple dinner on Marchioness Amagi’s research table while forcibly pushing aside her research papers.

"Thank you, you may leave me now."

"I will wait for you to finish your dinner before leaving this room."

"Ugh, haven’t you been forcing me a lot lately?"

"I am not forcing you because it is my duty as your maid."

"Still, this seems like one-sided forcing."

"This is not forcing you, Marchioness Amagi. It is now winter and it would be better for you to do research in your room without caring about anything else since Marquess Rommel is taking all measures to take care of the family’s territory and business. If I don’t do this, you will be like a winter bear hibernating to study the magic book."

"I am not like that, I also went out several times to clean myself with a hot bath before returning to studying this magic book."

"I knew this would happen, this became your bad habit in the past."

"Didn’t something like this happen often in the past timeline?"

"Yes, I’ve known your habits since you were born until you became a mother like this."

"Then what’s the problem?"

"You don’t know that you’ve forgotten something."

"Hmm? Forgot something?"

"Do you know what day it is?" asked Marchioness Amagi maid with a friendly smile.

"Of course, I know what day it is, isn’t it the day… uhh… where’s my calendar?" Marchioness Amagi immediately looked for her calendar until she found one full of scribbles to mark the days that Marchioness Amagi had passed while locking herself in her room to study the magic book.

"Oh! The sixth day of winter!" exclaimed Marchioness Amagi with a smile at her maid.

"I still remember today’s date!" shouted Marchioness Amagi.

"Marchioness Amagi… it’s already the seventh day of winter. Bypassing these two days, you forgot something important for a Mother," replied her personal Maid who didn’t care about Marchioness Amagi’s childish attitude after she focused on studying the magic book.

"Oh? If I feel it again. The cold air in winter has started to feel cold, penetrating my body," Marchioness Amagi began to feel the cold air that occurred in winter.

"You seem to forgot that one important thing as a Mother."

Marchioness Amagi took a cup of warm tea that had been prepared by her personal Maid. She drank it slowly and enjoyed every drop of the warm tea that soothed her thirsty throat.

"Is there something important that I forgot? We are currently on vacation for an indefinite time. There is no noble party invitation that requires the Marquess Rommel family to attend, right? Even to track our tracks, the royal family is having a hard time because we tricked them with false clues and traces."

"There is no such thing because Marquess Rommel closed all access to party invitations given by the noble proxies who have become his subordinates. The Marquess Rommel family has also officially left the faction that supports the royal family and has been neutral until now."

"Then what’s the problem? Isn’t there nothing important that I have to do as the Marchioness?" Marchioness Amagi finished a cup of tea that had been prepared by her maid, her hands now busy holding a spoon to enjoy a simple dinner that was able to fulfill her nutritional needs for staying up from night until morning.

The sound of spoons and plates clashing echoed in her research room, her maid who had seemed chatty until now fell silent to respect Marchioness Amagi who was enjoying her dinner.

After Marchioness Amagi’s dinner was finished, her maid began to clean up her plates and poured a cup of tea with her dessert.

"Tonight’s dessert looks different from usual, it’s not usual to have a cake with thick cream like this."

"Yes, it’s the leftover cake from yesterday that still hasn’t been finished because it was large size cake."

"It looks like a birthday cake, is there someone having a birthday in our mansion?" Marchioness Amagi asked as she ate her dessert with a happy smile.

"You failed as a stepmother," replied her maid who had given up on her situation.

"Failed as a stepmother? What did I do to be such a failure?"

"Marchioness Amagi, it is truly a shame that you forgot something important for your stepdaughter."

"My stepdaughter? Is Lily hurt again? Even with her talent in using swordsmanship like that, she could get hurt?"

"Yes, Lily-sama is hurt. To be more precise, it’s not because of her physical condition but because of her hurt feelings after you didn’t attend her sixth birthday celebration."

Praakkk…

Hearing her personal maid’s words, Marchioness Amagi accidentally dropped her spoon and immediately stood up.

"I’ll be right back!" said Marchioness Amagi who had realized her mistake as a stepmother who forgot her stepdaughter’s birthday.

"It’s too late for that, Marchioness Amagi."

Ignoring her personal maid’s words, Marchioness Amagi immediately ran through the mansion’s hallways towards Lily’s room door.

When Marchioness Amagi’s running steps close to Lily’s room, she was greeted with protective magic and barrier magic in the form of chunks of ice that blocked the hallway to Lily’s room.

Marchioness Amagi was very surprised to see the ice elemental magic standing firmly in front of her.

"It seems I’m too late," Marchioness Amagi hung her head dejectedly as she saw her stepdaughter sulking.