Episode 03
“Mom, here’s the newspaper.”
“thank you.”
Nibelia, who delivered the morning newspaper in her pajamas, asked.
“Can you vouch for Nini, Mom?”
“Did you learn something new again?”
Selena smiled faintly.
“I asked my dad, but he refused….”
“Guaranteeing is a truly terrifying thing. You shouldn’t ask others to do it for you. A truly great person is someone who pays their own debts.”
“Is that so?”
“That’s what it is.”
“I guess there’s nothing I can do….”
In return for running the errand, Nibelia took a debt reduction certificate out of her pocket.
“Please paste it.”
The deduction certificate had a large picture of a grape. Each time they completed a task, the adults would place a purple sticker on the grape.
If I could fill all 128 of these, I could erase my debt.
“I delivered the morning paper, so I’ll put a sticker on it.”
“Can I have two?”
“No way.”
“Mom is so cruel.”
“Nini’s current buzzword is ‘spicy.’”
“‘Paksene’ is also a trendy word!”
“…Who taught you that?”
Selena put a sticker on the certificate.
Nibelia’s expression was one of weariness as she looked through the certificate, which was not even halfway filled.
“Sigh, it’s not easy to earn money from others.”
Phew-!
Selena, who was drinking tea while reading the newspaper, coughed loudly.
“Mom! Mom, what’s wrong!”
“Cough, bang…!”
“Mom, die! Mom, die!”
Nibelia hurriedly called the servants waiting outside.
I got an extra sticker for helping someone in an emergency.
“I hope Mom gets sick again!”
“…….”
Selena, who had barely stopped crying, just smiled silently.
Childlike malice was sometimes cruel.
* * *
Nibelia’s efforts to clear her debts continued.
I ate a balanced diet, picked up any trash I saw and gave it to my employees, and collected all the fallen branches in the garden.
“How about selling the leftover cookies?”
Deter, who was standing by, suggested.
“What’s left?”
“If I sell all the cookies, I’ll make money. I can turn them into stickers and attach them to my deduction certificate. I’ll pay off my debt in no time.”
“There is such a way!”
Nibelia hurried back to her room and took out the remaining cookies from the inventory.
The box contained 19 bags of cookies that had been left behind immediately after the bankruptcy.
“What if we sold these cookies to the people working at the mansion? They also have a fatigue-reducing effect.”
“That’s right! If you eat it, it’ll be hard, ugh, it’ll disappear!”
“What about the price?”
“25 thousand Uva for one.”
The clever Nibelia did not forget what Kaleo had said.
“Then, three, uh….”
“75 thousand Uvayo.”
“Wow…!”
I don’t know what it was, but it was a huge amount.
Nibelia finished her calculations, her fingers churning and unfolding. A dark smile spread across the child’s face.
“If you sell like this and become rich, you can rule the world…!”
“Our young lady has broad ambitions.”
“If you rule the world, you become a king.”
“okay.”
“And if you rule the king, you become a saint!”
“The saint is the strongest.”
“huh!”
After placing the cookies in a round woven basket, Nibelia went around the mansion selling them.
“buy!”
“yes?”
“Buy! Buy!”
“Miss, that’s not how you do business.”
After calming down Nibelia, who was blocking the path of a passing servant and forcing him to buy something, Deter showed an example of selling.
“Hello, this is the Bankrupt Meow Shop. We’re clearing out inventory, so check out these cookies. They’re cheap.”
“Aha, so you were clearing out inventory.”
Only then did the servant nod, remembering the news of bankruptcy.
“How much is it?”
“75,000 Uva for three cookies.”
“…Yes?”
The servant glanced at the cookie in Nini’s hand.
Three lumps of what appeared to be small, ugly cookies cost about 80,000 Ubara. 80,000 Ubara was the price of a pound of beef.
“These cookies are no ordinary cookies.”
Deter explained the benefits of cookies.
“It is very effective for headaches, toothaches, menstrual pain, stomachaches, and back pain.”
“Well, first of all, I’m a man, so I need to deal with menstrual cramps….”
“But you have the head and waist. It’s also good for the wrist joints, right?”
“Is this a cookie?”
Aside from the effectiveness of cookies, the biggest obstacle was their higher price compared to meat.
“…Ugh.”
Nibelia’s shoulders slumped as she sensed the sales failure.
It was at that moment that the servant, who felt sorry for no reason, was about to say sorry.
“Oh, maybe.”
The servant took something out of his pocket.
“Wouldn’t this work?”
What he pulled out was a purple circle sticker. It was a deduction sticker to be attached to Nivelia’s debt settlement documents.
“uh!”
Nibelia’s eyes widened.
“Madam, you gave me these this morning. Could I give you three of them as payment for the cookies?”
“Okay! It’s a sticker!”
“Then I will exchange the cookie for this sticker.”
Nibelia quickly handed over a debt reduction certificate with a picture of grapes on it. The servant attached three stickers to it and then took the cookies.
“miss.”
Deter winked.
“Thank you for buying it for me!”
Nibelia nodded.
The servant also bowed his head.
“No, I hope you prosper too, young lady.”
“What is prosperity?”
“It means, ‘Make lots of money.’”
“Then can you give me a guarantee?”
“That won’t do.”
“It won’t work….”
Riding this momentum, Nibelia diligently traded cookies for stickers. Occasionally, people tried to haggle down the price, but Nibelia steadfastly maintained her price.
“This is Nini’s pride.”
“Oh, you even know the word ‘pride’? That’s a difficult word.”
The green-haired maid who was putting stickers on the certificate giggled.
“Pride is like a person’s legs. Only by protecting it can you stand tall. Without pride, you will eventually collapse.”
“I like it when you talk nicely sometimes, young lady.”
“If you like me, will you vouch for me?”
“I don’t like it enough to warrant it.”
“Igu….”
The debt reduction certificate, which I had been wondering when it would ever be filled, was already more than half full. There were only two cookie bags left in the basket.
“Hehehe!”
A smile spread across Nibelia’s face as she looked at the certificate.
“I guess I can work a little less hard now!”
“I have to work hard to pay off my debt.”
Deter asked, looking inside the basket.
“There are two left, should I continue selling them?”
“Ugh.”
Dori Dori, Nibelia shook her head and put the cookie in her pocket.
“I want some, oppa. And grandma and grandpa too.”
* * *
Nibelia was the youngest of a large family of three generations living together.
Grandparents, parents, and older brother.
She also has a wandering aunt, but unfortunately, Nibelia does not remember her.
Because we went on a trip when the child was younger than he is now.
Anyway, Nibelia had a 10-year-old older brother.
Unlike Nibelia, who had white hair, she had red hair, like her father and grandfather. Her eyes were green, like her mother, Selena.
Nibelia loved her brother very much.
“Nini!”
“Haaaaaah!”
But I ended up slamming my brother’s jaw when he appeared with a loud voice.
Nibelia, who was sitting on a soft carpet playing with a wolf doll, was startled by her brother’s sudden appearance and quickly ran away to a corner.
Then he threatened, showing his small teeth.
“Haaah! Haaah!”
“Nini, calm down. It’s my brother.”
Whoa, whoa.
Soles Deiamor was quite used to this situation, so she naturally calmed her younger sister’s surprise.
Deter, who was watching from a distance, thought that he looked like a zookeeper taming a wild beast.
The fact that the beast was so insignificant was both its flaw and its strength.
“Are you surprised? I’m sorry. I was in a hurry because I missed you.”
“…….”
“Do you recognize me now, oppa? Are you okay with being surprised?”
“Brother!”
Nibelia jumped up and swung her fists, grumbling.
“You surprised me! You idiot! You idiot!”
Nibelia whined for a long time, probably quite upset by the surprise she had received a moment ago.
Solace only took one punch. She dodged the rest, and instead hugged Nibelia tightly.
Nibelia also put her arm around her brother’s back.
“How have you been? Did you miss me, oppa?”
“I didn’t really want to see you, but I like you!”
My little sister, who had been so angry just a moment ago, was so cute when I hugged her and she started laughing so childishly.
“Where have you been, Oppa? I was a little curious because I couldn’t see you.”
“I looked for mushrooms in the forest. I found poisonous ones and even made medicine from them. It was so much fun.”
“Poisonous mushrooms are dangerous! If you eat them, you’ll go to the bone!”
“goal?”
The two siblings walked down the hallway, holding hands.
Deter, who was following behind, asked Solace.
“What mushrooms did you find in the forest?”
“It’s spring, so I couldn’t find many. Yellow chanterelles, silk funnel mushrooms….”
“After all, mushrooms multiply a lot in summer and fall.”
“But, I found something incredibly rare.”
Solace suddenly made a scary expression and pushed her face towards Nibelia.
Nibelia, who had been secretly picking her nose, quickly pulled her finger away.
“It’s a pink mushroom!”
“Pink!”
“It was a really pretty color. But it was the most dangerous poisonous mushroom.”
“Wow….”
Nibelia nodded repeatedly with a serious expression.
Solace asked.
“Want to go and see? I brought it to show you.”
* * *
In the living room, the adults were already talking about mushrooms.
“It really looks like deer antlers.”
“Don’t touch it. Even the surface of the mushroom is extremely poisonous.”
“Honey, can you help me out?”
“Of course, Mother. How much should I set the price at?”
“We need to charge as much as possible. First, both the information center and the magic tower…”
“I brought Nini!”
The adults, who had been discussing what to do with the poisonous mushrooms, turned around at the sound of Solace’s voice.
“Nini!”
Nibelia raised both arms and made her presence known.
