Chapter 35

Normally, I would have scratched with my sharp claws.

“Kyaak! Kyaak!”

I hated Kim Beolkkul, but I stayed still.

I exercised extreme patience and restrained my bravery.

“Ohonghonghong!”

As soon as Teyselon saw Kim Beolkkul, he fell in love.

How could there be such a cute animal in the world?

Unable to control his love, he rubbed his face all over Kim Beolkkul’s face.

“Kyaak!”

Kim Beolkkul ran away from Teyselon.

“Ohonghong! Come here! I’ll love you to your heart’s content!”

If it had been anyone else, their face would have been a mess, but Teyselon was safe（?）.

It was thanks to Isabel’s request.

Kim Beolkkul snuggled into Isabel’s arms.

“How is it? Can you help me now?”

“If you let me play with Honey for 30 minutes every day.”

Isabel looked at Kim Beolkkul.

Kim Beolkkul shook his head vigorously.

Kim Beolkkul didn’t like Teyselon.

Isabel said.

“15 minutes.”

“20 minutes.”

“15 minutes. No more than that.”

“20 minutes! I can’t compromise either.”

“Really?”

Isabel sighed deeply.

She desperately needed Teyselon’s help, but Teyselon was even more desperate.

“Then there’s nothing I can do. Our relationship ends here……”

“15 minutes! Fine! 15 minutes!”

“Okay.”

Kim Beolkkul hated even 15 minutes, so all the hair on his body stood on end.

Isabel stroked Kim Beolkkul’s back and whispered.

“I’ll give you a kiss later.”

Kim Beolkkul’s fur quickly softened.

Magical letters were engraved on top of Kim Beolkkul’s head.

『Kiss = Marriage.』

The letters, unlike usual, flashed in gold and then disappeared on their own.

But the strange thing was that no one saw the letters.

The next day, Teyselon officially became Isabel’s teacher.

A week later, Isabel found some good news in the newsletter.

‘I finally found it!’

The day she had been looking forward to had arrived.

『Mirotel Magic Federation Math Olympiad.』

『Prize Money: 10 million Luden』

“Can I participate in this too?”

“You need a letter of recommendation, but……”

“Karin-senseongnim will write it for me.”

“Okay. Karin, that scary woman, might be able to do it.”

Karin actually wrote the letter of recommendation.

“Why do you want to participate in the Olympiad, Princess?”

“Because they give money.”

Karin coughed involuntarily.

It wasn’t something a noble princess would say.

Moreover, it was definitely not something that would come out of the mouth of a descendant of the Bilotian Imperial Family, the family of martial arts（武學）.

“Do you…… need money?”

“Yes.”

“How much do you need?”

“A lot. Very, very, very, very much.”

“Why?”

“I want to be rich.”

“Why do you want to be rich?”

I’m going to make sure that Rossild, that j*rk, can’t look down on our family.

Isabel smiled brightly.

“I’m going to leave gifts for the people I cherish and leave.”

Although no one saw it, Karin’s fingertips were trembling.

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I remember Reina’s eyes and expression vividly.

That attitude of reaching out her hand and apologizing was never sincere.

‘She still looked down on me, the half-assed princess……’

Furthermore, they implicitly ignored and looked down on our family.

‘Monsters who are only good at using swords and are barbaric. That’s about it.’

Reina is a young child, so I can understand, but I felt the same look from Duke Rossild.

If my father’s military power had been a little weaker, the Rossild family would have joined forces with the Geomrimwon and established a new emperor.

‘I won’t see that happen until my eyes are filled with dirt, no, even after that.’

In any world, money is power.

The Bilotian Imperial Family has been devoted to swordsmanship for generations and has been in charge of the empire’s military power.

That was the tradition.

‘Tradition! I’m going to break it!’

The Bilotian family, barbaric, unrefined, and actually poor.

That’s how the Rossild family has always been evaluated in the novel.

Thinking about it made me furious.

‘Why are we barbaric and unrefined?’

Just look at my mother, how refined and elegant she is!

A warm smile, a kind personality, dignity and refinement ingrained in her body.

Huh?

And our father is…… well.

‘Yeah, he’s handsome.’

That level of handsomeness is refinement.

And our brother is…… well.

‘Let’s move on.’

I haven’t seen the other brothers in person yet, but I think it’s better to move on from this too.

This novel is almost entirely focused on the male lead, Arun, and the Bilotian Imperial Family is the family that gets destroyed by the male lead, so it can’t be said to be a very normal and desirable family.

‘Anyway, that’s just the setting!’

I can’t stand the setting where the Rossilds look down on us, but I decided to overlook the setting of our own family.

‘Anyway, I need to make money.’

The newsletter listed the big and small incidents that had happened last week.

Among them was the story of a boy who was beaten and kicked out after visiting the Rossild family.

His name is Narmore.

He was the person who would become the richest man in this world in the future, the head of the Virto family, a new wealthy family that would succeed the Rossilds.

I’m buying Narmore stock, buy!

“The soaring train, ppuppuu!”

“……Huh?”

Lord Teyselon, who had come to see me for private lessons, tilted his head.

“Soaring train? Ppuppuu? What’s that?”

“Oh, no, it’s nothing.”

This body is good, but sometimes I end up talking to myself without realizing it.

It’s probably because there’s a gap between the maturity of my mind and the maturity of my body.

“Are you preparing well for the Olympiad?”

“Of course.”

“You’re participating because of the money, right?”

“Yes. I’m going to be super rich.”

“You can’t be rich just by earning 10 million Luden. Do you know how much the housing prices in the capital are? With that money, you can’t even buy a tiny house. You’ll never be rich, give up your dream.”

“You’re an evil invader who destroys childhood dreams.”

“I’m a realistic teacher.”

“I just need seed money.”

“Am I the one destroying childhood dreams, or did childhood dreams never exist in the first place? Is it right for a six-year-old to say the word ‘seed money’? Is this the right world?”

“There’s someone I want to sponsor.”

I’ll raise my own rich person. I’m going to launch a soaring train, no, a soaring rocket.

“Sponsor? If that’s the case, why don’t you ask your father?”

“I don’t want to sponsor with the Imperial Palace’s money.”

“Why?”

“I don’t want to be swayed by the Geomrimwon. I don’t want the Imperial Palace’s sponsorship, I want Isabel to sponsor as an individual.”

I didn’t know that Honey was listening attentively to this conversation.

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Kim Beolkkul returned to his original home, the Dragon’s Nest.

“Did you have a good day today?”

“Yes. But I don’t remember it well.”

“Are you sad that you don’t remember?”

“Yes. I’m sad.”

Kim Beolkkul.

His real name was ‘Arun’, and he put his hand on his chest.

“It feels cozy and warm. It’s a memory I don’t want to forget, but I’m sad that I don’t remember it.”

“It’s proof that you’re having a very good experience.”

Arun lay down on his bed.

It was a very comfortable bed, enchanted with all sorts of magic.

‘I think I can remember.’

Things that shouldn’t be remembered were vaguely coming back to him.

I’m not sure, but it seems like I needed money.

Arun walked out of the nest.

This was the ‘Dragon’s Domain’, and there was nothing here that the dragons hadn’t allowed.

Not even the sound of a common insect could be heard.

He was taking a walk when he picked up a red stone.

“It looks expensive. Hehe.”

He didn’t know what it was.

It was just one of many pebbles, but it was emitting an unusual magical power.

“What are you doing, Arun?”

“I was looking at it because it’s pretty.”

“That’s pretty?”

“Yes, it is. Can you give it to me?”

“Sure. Everything in this domain is yours. But what are you going to use it for?”

“I just want to have it.”

Kadelina was very happy.

She felt a variety of emotions from her son.

What her son was feeling right now was a clear sense of possessiveness.

It seemed that his experiences as Honey were having various effects on the formation of his ego.

“Take it.”

“Thank you!”

Arun put the red stone in his pocket.

Kadelina suddenly said, as if she had just remembered something.

“Oh, I remember. I stole that, no, I received it as a gift about 200 years ago.”

“A gift?”

“Yeah. What was it? Some runt named Sebastian, no, a human, I think he said he worked hard to craft it. Oh, I remember. The Bilotian Emperor had it at the time.”

It wasn’t really important.

The important thing was that she just wanted to see her son’s eyes sparkle as he said, “Wow! Thank you, Mom!”

“He kept messing around, so I gave him a flick on the forehead…… no, I received it through amicable conversation and agreement. But once I got it, I lost interest and threw it outside the nest.”

What Arun had picked up was not a pebble, but a jewel.

One of the “Red Tears” series crafted by the human master craftsman Sebastian 200 years ago.

“Where are you going?”

“To the Imperial Palace!”

“Don’t you want to stay with your mom a little longer?”

“I need to have a lot of experiences quickly!”

Arun transformed into a honey badger and left the nest.

Kadelina was a little disappointed, but she soon laughed. It meant that her son was having that many diverse and enjoyable experiences.

“But…… there was something when I took that away.”

She remembered the Bilotian Emperor screaming 200 years ago.

Something about a ‘Proposal Stone’ that creates a strong bond in the souls of humans.

But Kadelina, the self-proclaimed Ultimate Termination Black Flame Dragon, just brushed it off.

It might be a big deal by human standards, but it wasn’t really a big deal to her, the great Black Flame Dragon.

‘I don’t know. It can’t be that important, can it?’

She decided to just let it go.

She thought that something like that pebble was a very trivial matter compared to something like the end of the world.

Until then.