Hush Now, Saintess!

Chapter 51

Translator: Yonnee

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A few days later—

〈 I added a little extra in return for your gift to me. 〉

Along with that succinct note, the duke sent over the payment for the jewelry that I had entrusted to him.

And after checking the amount, I had to physically cover my mouth so that I wouldn’t yell at the top of my lungs.

‘Two hundred… and eighty million?’

The jewelry got sold at 180 million shillings.

And.

What the duke so casually said as 〈 a little extra in return 〉 was 100 million shillings.

So, it was a total of 280 million shillings, all in cold hard cash.
(Approx: 200,000 USD)

Staring blankly at the mountains of cash in my room, my jaw dropped.

The jewelry he sold was priced at 180 million, he said.

No, besides that.

‘What kind of return gift is 100 million won?’

How much did I spend on that fountain pen again? I think it was only about 200,000 shillings…(Approx 150 USD)

“…I should have spent more money and bought clothes or something. High-yield investments lie with gifts after all. Dang.”

I had a moment of sudden regret.

“Milady, where shall we store all this money?”

As I was just standing there, vacantly staring at the money, Mary piped up and asked while she was cleaning up.

I thought about it for a moment before I replied.

“Can’t we just leave it all here? I feel so good just looking at them.”

“Ke-hum— Milady. As expected, the shock you received from the last incident…”

“Never mind. Stop looking so sad.”

“Yeees.”

As she was lightly scolded, Mary schooled her features.

“Anyway, it would be kind of strange to leave it all here. It doesn’t looked aesthetically pleasing, and it’s dangerous to just leave money out in plain sight.”

“Well, I guess.”

Mary had a point.

It’s nice to look at, but it’s a bit of a security risk.

I have to wonder who’d have the gall to pilfer some money from the room of a duke’s daughter though, but there’s already a precedent for that named Charlotte.

‘Then, should I just donate it all and change it to coins?’

That way, I’d be able to convert the coins back to money whenever I need it.

However, I quickly gave up on that idea.

‘The duke’s gonna start suspecting me.’

If I were to donate all of the money, the news of it would naturally reach the duke’s ears.

Then, if I were to buy some stuff later, he’d start getting suspicious of where I’m getting the money to afford it.

I had barely raised his trust up to the point of him accepting a favor of mine, but everything might come crashing down again.

“Then, where should I put a huge amount like this?”

“You can put it in your bank safe, Milady.”

“My bank safe?”

I have something like that?

I must have looked visibly confused as Mary started to explain.

“A household with lots of assets such as House Brietta has bank safes for each family member. I’m sure Milady has a personal safe as well.”

“Really? But why don’t I know about it?”

“…That’s because you spent all your money before you could start saving it.”

Aha.

Mary’s factual assault, no holds barred, quickly resolved my question.

I get it. Roella didn’t need a safe because, in the first place, she used up all her money before she could save any.

To the point that she had even forgotten about it.

“Then, can I still use it?”

“It might be possible. The central bank where your safe is located is open twenty-four hours a day.”

“Oh, really?”

24/7 business hours?

That’s straight up nightmare fuel for an employee, but it was the most convenient thing for a customer.

“Then, let’s go today. Get things ready, Mary.”

“Yes, Milady.”

After a while, all of the preparations were done.

Mary left the room for a bit, saying that she would call in some knights so they could carry all the money.

Left alone, I looked around me for no reason at all.

And then…

I ran straight to my lovely piles of money and hugged them as hard as I could.

“Oh, my babies. My sweet babies.”

I barely managed to stop myself all this time from hugging you again and again.

Still, it would have been embarrassing to show such a sight to Mary since I was supposed to be a duke’s daughter.

“I never ever thought I’d be able to touch such a huge sum of money in my life.”

My cutie 280 million.

As I was getting intoxicated by the fragrant scent of money,

Ding—!

“AAACK!”

The sudden notification bell made me shriek.

And at that moment.

“What’s the matter, Milady?”

“Milady!”

“Lady Roella!”

As those various cries broke out, the carefully shut door burst open at the same time.

“Milady, are you oka— Ah, pardon me.”

Thud!

Mary came into the room one second, then disappeared the next.

Along with the countless knights that were lined up behind her.

…What the?