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“Ada is tired of Patrasche!”

Ada was whining as she was hugged by her father, Count Bradley.

Count Bradley was already completely taken by Ada’s whining and responded with a smile so wide that it reached his ears.

“So, you want to raise our Ada puppy?”

“Yes! Big dog! Ada likes big dogs that can pull carriages.”

Recently, after reading a new children’s book written by her older brother, A Dog of Flanders, Ada fell into the role of a tragic protagonist for a while, causing trouble to many people.

In particular, he wants to play the role of Nero, the main character of a children’s book, but there is no dog in the mansion to play Patrasche.

He even performed an eccentric act of pulling a cart himself.

Ada, who was still too short to pull a cart, was caught trying to make a delivery by putting a jug of milk on a cart, wondering where she had gotten it.

It was fortunate that Alain was scared when he saw that and caught it and stopped it.

If he hadn’t done so, a rumor would have spread that the count’s daughter was pulling a cart.

When her own method of becoming Patrasche failed, Ada rushed to her brother as usual.

‘Ada sipper with Patrasche!’

Although I begged him for it.

‘no. Do you know how hard it is to raise animals? ‘Animals are not something you play with like toys and then throw them away when you get tired of them.’

Let’s say that Rupert, who used to listen to most of Ada’s requests, flatly refuses.

Ada quickly turned her target to her father, Earl Bradley.

From the beginning, the Count was a person who would kill Ada, the only daughter and eldest child of the family, and Ada instinctively knew that.

When you whine while being held by your father, something good always comes out.

“Hmm, it’s a big dog that can even pull a carriage.”

Count Bradley wondered if there was a dog that big in his head, but there was no such thing unless it was a monster.

‘I guess I could just ask them to get a big puppy.’

I hugged Ada and rubbed her cheeks, thinking that I would have to ask someone at the mansion to get it for me since children would think they would look similar if they were over a certain size.

“Don’t do it!”

As the count’s chubby cheeks turned red against the count’s beard, Ada shook her head to avoid it.

When his father asked him if he missed Patrasche, he had no choice but to give his cheek with a gloomy expression.

Afterwards, the Count was scolded by Rupert and Alain after seeing Ada’s reddened cheeks, but he was still satisfied because he gained precious memories with his beloved daughter.

***

“Does this mean that the material for ‘Geumseok’ was human?”

Yustav and Harun were reading a book together in the office.

Originally, I planned to buy several copies so that everyone could read them, but it was so popular that I ended up getting one hardcover copy and one entry-level paperback copy.

Even then, my student, Xenia, cried and made a fuss, saying that she could never give up the hardcover copy, so I had no choice but to share the standard version.

The good news is that the quality of the book is not bad and there were no difficulties in conducting the research.

The problem was in the content.

Although it has not been accurately described in the comic book yet, in the eyes of Yustav and Harun, who are experts in their respective fields, ‘Geumseok’ is definitely an object that makes people into materials.

“In order to activate this Yeonseongjin, you must sacrifice a person. How could you do such a terrible thing?”

“It’s not the time to be like this. We need to check if the number of missing people in the empire has increased recently.”

Hwageumseok.

A legendary item and a long-cherished wish of alchemists.

As alchemy itself was originally created to make gold.

Research on goldstone, which is said to transform ordinary stones into gold, has been ongoing since the beginning of alchemy.

However, so many failures have accumulated that it is now just a reality that is treated as an illusion.

I never thought I would find the answer in a comic book like this.

Harun, the best alchemist in the empire, got goosebumps.

After it was calculated that in order to create a golden stone, an unimaginable number of people would have to be sacrificed.

This is because I realized why my attempts to make goldstone had failed so far.

This is something that should not be made.

“We need the help of the Imperial Family to check the trend of missing people in the Empire.”

“That’s right, no matter how wide our feet are, there are limits.”

“Could you please schedule a meeting with His Majesty the Emperor?”

Dealing with the emperor alone is not easy even for Harun, the head of the Alchemy Guild.

“If I said it was urgent, you would meet me.”

However, it was possible if Yustav requested it.

He was the former head of the Magic Tower, the principal of the Imperial Academy, and furthermore, the greatest wizard on the continent.

However, although it was possible to meet with Eustaf, persuasion was uncertain.

What can be called evidence are the materials that have been discovered through research so far.

The problem was that the research was done using comic books.

If it had been a conclusion drawn from a book submitted by a famous scholar or wizard, the emperor would have agreed.

If the conclusion was based on the contents of a comic book, there was a high possibility that it would be ignored.

What’s frustrating is that in order to obtain solid evidence, you have to track down the missing person with the help of the imperial family, so the order is reversed.

“But you still have to try, isn’t it because people’s lives are at stake?”

“That’s right. I will also prepare as much material as possible to help persuade His Majesty.”

Yustav immediately left the laboratory and headed to the imperial palace, while Harun remained alone, preparing to edit the data that had been analyzed and organized so far to make it presentable.

but

“No! You should leave the book behind… .”

Actually, I wanted to watch it again because there were some things I didn’t get to see properly while we were watching it together earlier, but Yustav left with a comic book.

Harun thought that Yustav had taken it unintentionally, but in fact, he had not noticed that he had taken it on purpose when he left the laboratory.

***

“I am not a suspicious dwarf!!!”

“How dare you try to invade the Somerset family’s mansion, and what kind of nonsense are you talking about?”

At the front gate of Somerset Mansion, soldiers were surrounding a captured dwarf and a frightened girl next to him.

“Crun is… It’s not a bad dwarf… I just wanted to meet the author.”

The girl was shaking, perhaps because she was very nervous, and tried to defend the dwarf in a low voice.

However, the guards guarding the mansion had no choice but to be suspicious.

First of all, it was my first time seeing the dwarf race, and the first thing I saw was them trying to enter the main gate of the mansion.

Recently, there were a lot of suspicious people trying to sneak into the mansion, so the number of security guards had been expanded, so I couldn’t help but feel suspicious.

Of course, there were many more cases where people who ran away saying they were leaving work were caught internally.

“What’s the fuss in front of the mansion!”

“Chung! Captain, now… A dwarf was caught making a commotion at the main gate of the mansion.”

Dwarf?

Guard Captain Mullers, who was the only knight in the estate until recently, asked if the soldier had been drinking during working hours. I thought:

Dwarves were a small, fluffy race, but they hated humans and only a very small number of them interacted with them, so they were hard to see.

A dwarf like that making a fuss at the main gate of the mansion?

“You guys seem to have made some kind of mistake, there’s no way a dwarf would show up in a place like this… A dwarf?”

However, when Mullus saw that the dwarf was really trapped, he was speechless.

Why on earth would the dwarves be here, not in the imperial capital, but in the southern countryside?

“Solve this quickly!!! I need to meet the author of the comic book!”

Mullus was troubled as he watched the dwarf screaming loudly, wondering why he was so proud after being captured and tied up by the guards.

If you were a comic book writer, you’d be talking about Master Rupert.

There was absolutely no way to confront a suspicious person.

“Why on earth are you making a fuss?”

“When I went to the front gate, they refused, saying that people without an appointment cannot enter!”

“Of course, dwarves suddenly visit other people’s homes, even nobles’ mansions?”

“That’s… .”

The dwarf was speechless and lowered his head at Mulus’ valid point.

Anyway, I was wondering what to do with this dwarf.

If he had been a human, he would have immediately imprisoned him and scolded him, but since he was of a different race, even as a Mulus, he was embarrassed.

If handled incorrectly, it could have developed into a diplomatic problem with the Dwarven Kingdom.

This isn’t Mulus’s guess, but there was a time when a war almost broke out because of a lord who arbitrarily imprisoned elves within the empire after the previous race war.

‘I’ll have to report it to the master first.’

There were many factors that could make the problem worse if you make your own decisions.

So Mullers decided to report to Rupert.

However, Mullus did not find it strange why he skipped over Earl Bradley, who was still the lord, and went to report to Rupert naturally.