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“Oh~am~ I slept well.”

“Oh, it’s already time…”

When I had passed the time of suffering and reached the state of liberation, Hoyo and Bandi opened their eyes and raised their bodies.

“Umm, I slept without knowing anything about the world.”

When the two of them wake up, Night also looks at the clock while stroking his disheveled blonde hair.

“Ain slept well too… Huh? Why? Doesn’t she look a lot more tired than before?”

Hoyo, who saw my (mentally distressed) sunken eyes, made an expression like “Huh?”

“Ah… It’s nothing… I’ll just lie down a little longer.”

Because if I wake up now, I might find another me crying (physically) asking why I’m putting myself through this ordeal.

The other me is now well hidden, hidden under the blanket.

“We tossed and turned while we were sleeping. Is that why you couldn’t get any rest?”

Bandi asked with a worried expression, but they weren’t sleeping rough at all.

It’s just that you’re holding me back and not moving. If you had just kept tossing and turning, it wouldn’t have been this painful.

After a while, I managed to reach a dramatic agreement with another me and got out of bed.

“Hmm~~ Meal time has passed vaguely. What should I do?”

I watched Hoyo stretch out the window and thanked my past self who had come wearing a long, loose-fitting top.

If not, there would be traces of me crying in my tight pants, asking why I wasn’t using him, shining and shining.

“Are you awake?”

Outside the room, the voice of the maid, Hodo, that was heard during the day can be heard.

“You can come in, Sister Hodo~”

“Hey, you’re my servant in my house. Why are you asking me to come in first?”

“Tsk tsk, a female who obsesses over trivial things is not popular, Chairman.”

“What is this kid talking about?”

Hoyo and Bam, who are showing off their interlude, open the door and approach the maid, Hodo.

“Marquis Goldbunny and Count Iron Foxtrot returned home first. My master (Duke Knight Sustaind) went out on business.”

As he said this, Hodo handed each of the three females a small sack.

“What is this, Sister Hodo?”

At the question of the night, Hodo quietly gestured for him to open it.

At the same time, the three members of the Miscellaneous Book Research Group opened the bags they were holding and had question marks above their heads.

“…If I add up all the allowances I’ve received throughout my life, it’s more than double?”

Hoyo takes out a platinum coin from his pocket with slightly trembling hands.

“I don’t even spend half of the allowance I get.”

The night was equally dumbfounded. However, Bandi’s reaction was a bit milder than the two.

“You gave me quite a lot.”

“Quite a lot? I’ve never seen platinum in my life.”

Although each family has a different specialty, the Bandine family is particularly good at money, so they seem to react relatively calmly even when they see a large amount of money.

“That’s all I have now, and they said they’ll send it to you separately later.”

“Oh… …”

I was thinking that it was a good thing since I didn’t receive anything, but then the maid gave me something a little different.

“Thank you. What is this…?”

The badges she handed me were made of black pearl, gold diamond, and platinum, each with the family crests of the Knight Sustained, Gold Bunny, and Iron Foxtrot carved into them in a more ornate and ornate way than the ones I had.

“Huh? It’s a family feud? We’re not married yet, right? ”

The night looks at the family crest and the walnut in my hand alternately with a face that says it is absurd.

“What is a family crest?”

I’m asking because I don’t know what it means, but I can only tell that it looks damn expensive since it’s an item that doesn’t exist in the game to begin with.

“Ah, the little master may not know.”

Then, Hodo explains about the family tree.

“A family crest is an item that symbolizes a family, and those who possess it can use the family’s power based on all financial activities within the territory. Usually, when a group is formed, the owner of the territory, or the successor, or a female who belongs to the territory, gives it to the male.”

The male can move around the territory with it without much difficulty, and can use it in a similar way when going to other territories, with the feeling of claiming it later, adds the maidservant.

‘If you think about it simply, it’s like a credit card with no limit.’

When I nodded, saying that I understood the general idea, Hodo smiled faintly.

“In fact, Marquis Goldbunny gave me money and a family crest and gave me a secret order to look after the young master.”

This time, four of us, including me, have question marks above our heads.

“The Marquis of Goldbunny and his wife believe that people reveal their true natures in front of big money. However, the little master understood the value of the ladies’ platinum coins and the family crest…”

The maidservant smiled.

“You didn’t show any greed or desire. You just said, “Oh, that’s good.” It was a reaction that most males don’t show.”

I nodded at Walnut’s explanation.

Academy Story 2 basically requires the player to earn or buy the money or items they need by themselves, and all they receive is a small gift along with a letter from their parents on the designated character’s birthday.

That’s why they didn’t think much about receiving pocket money because they had the basic mindset of ‘I can just earn it myself’. (Because it wasn’t their money.)

There, the family seal provides absolute power only in the family’s territory, and it is unknown whether it can be used within the academy.

“As expected, Ain is so mature!”

“Hoyo, we’re all adults, legally.”

As Hoyo shouted with a big smile, I carefully kept the family crest in my bosom and answered.

“Oh, and you can use the family badge within the academy, so if you need to spend money on your own, you can use that. Although the three of you argued about who should use more of yours…”

As he was explaining, Hodo smiled broadly when he saw my expression.

“Now you look like you want to buy something.”

“Oops.”

I laughed awkwardly because I was caught thinking about what high-performance items were in the Academy and the surrounding stores, without being able to control my facial expressions for a moment.

“That’s a good thing. I guess that means you’re really active and sincere in your academy life. I’m just a lowly maid, but I feel reassured.”

Even though the maidservant Hodo smiled and said such self-deprecating words, I didn’t believe her.

The head maid is the person in charge of managing all the maids and servants of a family. If it’s the head maid of the duke’s family…

“Are you by any chance from a noble family?”

My reasoning surprised all three of them, including the head maid, the head of the study group, and the miscellaneous book research group.

“How…?”

“Wow, how did you know?”

“The head maid is in the position of a person in charge, and I think that if she is the head maid of a duke’s house, she should be at least the second or third youngest daughter of a count’s house. ”

In my deduction, the maid of honor (in a subtle, though inexplicable, manner) revealed her family origin.

“A Hanmihan family in the eastern part of the empire. My name is Hodo Blade Song. ”

The maidservant, who had revealed her family name, advised, “The festival is going on late today, so why don’t you go and check it out?” and left the room with a backwards step, saying, “Then, excuse me.”

“As Hodo said, it went well. I wouldn’t say that our Yeongji Festival is the best, but it’s pretty good.”

“You’ll sell a lot of delicious things, right?”

“Hoyo, if it weren’t for Park Too-sul, you’d definitely be a pig.”

“…”

Night was shooting at Hoyo who was lighting up the food, but Bandi suddenly became depressed due to the unexpected friendly fire.

“Bandi, don’t think badly of me. I like you.”

When I tried to comfort him by sticking my face in, Bandi blushed and turned his head away, but the place he turned his head was right in front of Hoyo.

“Hey, is this kid laughing?”

“…”

In the end, Hoyo was hit with a couple of cotton batting punches from Bandi, and then he laughed and said he had to wash up and ran away, dragging Bandi and Bam with him.

I wondered why she disappeared on her own, but then the head maid, Hodo, magically reappeared and guided me to the small male bathhouse, mainly used by the Knight Sustained, along with some clothes to change into.

After some time had passed and they had finished bathing, they returned to the night room, where all three were chatting, dressed in fresh outdoor clothes and looking fluffy.

“Why is there a stray in the chairman’s room? Isn’t the stray a melancholy tool that follows the flow of the times?!”

“What? The waste is the very bottom of emotions that radiate from the extremes of human emotions…”

“Still, the miscellaneous books here are all mediocre works for the stale genre. Hoyo, you’re just like a stray dog, picking up anything…”

“You pick up anything and eat it!! Are you saying that it has a wide defensive range?”

“But you have a clear taste. If an attractive male comes along, you definitely…”

“Ugh! What’s wrong with a female seeing a male in a book!”

As I watched Hoyo spinning around on the floor of the room at night with the door open, making a loud noise, the night and Bandi awkwardly greeted me.

“Ain! Ain, don’t you agree? If possible, it would be better if the male appears in the female-oriented book, and the female appears in the male-oriented book! ”

While I was handing them over to Bam and Bandi, who came running and took my bath basket and my new clothes, Hoyo suddenly got up from the floor and clung to me, asking for my consent.

“If that’s what you’re saying, then that must be it…”

“Ha! Ha! Ha! Did you hear that? Even the mob males admit it…”

“…Only in your imagination…”

“Phuhat!”

At my old joke, Bam and Bandi burst out laughing at the same time, and Hoyo cried out, “Th… the world is bad!! It’s not my fault!” and ran away somewhere.

“Ahahaha, that’s hilarious. Let’s go too. Even if we run that far, we’ll probably be at the entrance to the mansion.”

As I went out to the main gate of the Night Sustained Mansion as the night had said, I burst out laughing when I saw Hoyo craning his neck to look around to see when they would come down.