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Chapter 145: By Yushia!
Three days later.
The club room of Merhen Academy.
Yushia had set up her base here.
It looked like a ‘glow-in-the-dark puzzle lovers’ club, but in reality, it was the office of the secret organization ‘Wilderness’.
Of course, the space she got as a freshman was not very impressive.
But what did it matter?
She was happy enough to have a base of her own.
“Oh, I’ll take care of that myself.”
“What are you talking about?”
“All the glowing items over there.”
“Yes.”
She had the organization members sort out the documents and other information, but she insisted on organizing the glow-in-the-dark puzzles and items herself.
“The display case… Where is the display case?”
“It seems to be a bit late, but I checked and it should arrive soon.”
The girl who looked like a soft ball of fluff, Yushia. Her face hardened unusually.
“Didn’t I tell you to make it the top priority? How many times did I emphasize that?”
“I’m sorry. I won’t make any excuses.”
Yushia sighed deeply.
She could forgive minor mistakes, but the delay of the display case for the glowing doll was an exception.
It was absolutely necessary for this base.
Yushia tapped the floor with her toes.
She didn’t care about the dust that stuck to the tip of her white shoes.
“Yushia, it’s here.”
And finally, the display case arrived.
At the top of the pyramid-shaped display case, there was a ‘glowing doll’ modeled after Flan.
Yushia smiled brightly.
“Hehehe…”
She held her chin with one hand and admired the scene that pleased her heart for a while.
Running a secret organization was not going to be smooth sailing. But whenever she saw this, she felt a bit more relaxed.
The narrow base was filled with Yushia’s unique clean cotton scent.
That was when it happened.
“Yushia!”
“…!”
One of the organization members burst into the room.
Yushia quickly sat down and pretended to be working on a glow-in-the-dark puzzle.
And she met the eyes of the organization member with an awkward face.
“…”
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds.
“Ahem.”
Yushia broke the silence with a cough.
She tried to sound as stern as possible.
“What is it?”
“Yes, yes. You should check this out.”
The organization member also looked embarrassed and flushed, avoiding eye contact. But Yushia did her best to keep her composure.
“Is it new information?”
“It’s a decree from the royal palace.”
“A decree?”
“Yes. It was issued by the second princess herself.”
Yushia nodded quickly and pushed the organization member out of the club room.
“Hmm…”
Her face was still hot.
She had to be more careful next time.
Yushia tapped her cheeks a few times with that thought.
Next time, she would examine the information with a cool eye.
It was a decree from the second princess Aurora, so she had to scrutinize its contents.
[Dawn Butterfly Collection]
▶We wish you endless development. In anticipation of the appearance of the dawn butterflies soon, the royal palace will….
(To be continued)
Yushia’s eyes widened.
The decree was full of unnecessary words, but the main point was roughly this.
The method was simple.
Three people would form a team and compete to collect ‘dawn butterflies’ on the Reheln Hill.
That was it.
“Open recruitment?”
But what caught her eye was ‘open recruitment’.
Anyone who was enrolled in the academy could form a team and apply, and if they beat Flan’s team, they would get a huge support from the royal palace.
“Should I be happy or not?”
She had something to be happy about, of course.
It meant that Flan’s reputation had risen so much that they had to find opponents through open recruitment.
But.
“Anyone who is enrolled?”
It meant that even the upperclassmen could participate freely, and if there was a team that could defeat Flan, it would cause a great setback to the investment plan of the tower.
“I have to look into it carefully.”
If she could identify the participants, it would be helpful to Flan as well.
As she was thinking that, in the meantime.
“Yushia!”
The door opened again with a loud bang.
“…!”
I instinctively reached for the glowing puzzle, but I barely stopped myself.
It was natural.
It probably was.
I looked at the face of the organization member who stood in front of me, feeling proud of my growth.
“What is it?”
“This time, it’s information about Flan.”
“Ah.”
I smiled and waved my small hands to both sides.
“It’s fine. I promised not to investigate Flan anymore. Please stop looking into him as well.”
“Um, it’s a bit different.”
The organization member shook his head with a strange expression.
“While investigating the von Fritz family, we accidentally found some information that involved Flan.”
“Hmm.”
That meant it wasn’t really an investigation on Flan.
“Then let me see.”
I carefully unfolded the paper I received.
As the organization member said, it was full of details about the von Fritz family.
The short life span of the head Isaac, the relatives who were eyeing his shares, the undeciphered tombstone….
As I read only the information about the von Fritz.
“Huh?”
My eyes stopped at one line.
“…?”
Marriage.
It was surprising enough that Trixie was getting married, but the problem was the name of the spouse next to hers.
“Wha, wha…?”
At first, my hand trembled.
I felt a huge shock and repeatedly unfolded the paper.
Flan Judith.
It was clearly written there, and it was a very important and familiar name to me.
“How could this… how could this be….”
My heart started beating faster than ever before.
It was unbelievable.
And it was something that shouldn’t have happened, so I kept looking at the name over and over again.
“….”
Later, I couldn’t even mutter anything.
I wondered why.
Did he have feelings for Trixie all along? Or did he need something from the von Fritz family?
I had money too.
No, it didn’t matter how it happened.
The result was too shocking and I soon found myself biting my nails.
I rubbed the name of Flan on the paper.
“Flan….”
The paper wore out, the ink smeared, and the letters ‘Flan Judith’ disappeared completely.
I kept rubbing the man’s name.
“….”
Only cold silence remained in the club room.
When my thumb nail was completely gone, I prepared to go outside.
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At the same time, in the garden of von Fritz.
“Aaaah….”
It had been more than a week and three days since I started organizing.
Becky lay down on the ground, even though it was dirt.
“I’m tired, I’m so tired. I’m going to die.”
She wasn’t lying when she said she was tired, and she enjoyed the dirt floor as if it was a soft bed.
I looked at her messy appearance and recalled the past week.
It was easy at first.
Trixie aside, Becky, Louis, and I started organizing the von Fritz garden.
The difficulty of the small book buds was no different from the assignments I had given them, so Becky quickly tackled the organization as if she was weeding.
I thought it would always be like that.
“One sentence is written in five languages…. In other words, you have to know all five languages.”
Becky made a dying sound.
She was right.
The book buds at the end of the plants that were similar to Becky’s height were beyond her ability to handle.
“Don’t rush. Just do your best.”
But I planned to train them by organizing, and make Louis and Becky familiar with this difficulty.
‘Dawn Butterfly.’
The schedule of the bet with the second princess Aurora was getting closer at this moment, so I had to polish the stones a little more.
“Flan, can’t you help me a little?”
“No. Didn’t I pick out a reference book for you?”
“I don’t understand the reference book….”
It would work out if she did it, so I didn’t bother to answer her mumbling.
She sighed deeply and lay on the dirt floor for a while.
I continued to interpret.
And then, at some point.
“…?”
I unconsciously furrowed my brows.
“Could this be…?”
“Huh? Flan? What did you say?”
I quickly closed the book I was browsing.
“It’s nothing.”
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