Episode 07
Although she had a mountain of debt to pay, Nibelia never gave up on her dream of becoming rich.
Today, I ran an errand for Kaleo, moving the double-sided paper into a box.
Although I lost focus for a moment and ran off to draw, I completed the task perfectly.
“phew.”
Nibelia pretended to be tired, wiping her clean forehead with the back of her hand.
“Thanks for your help, Nini.”
Kaleo put a sticker on the debt reduction certificate.
“One, two….”
Nibelia calculated the remaining debt. The certificate was now tinged with purple.
“Wow! I just need to collect 9 stickers! Then I’m debt-free!”
“Amazing! Even adults have a hard time paying off debt like this.”
“You’re so handsome,” Kaleo praised. Nibelia giggled and rested her head on Kaleo’s arm.
“Dad, once you pay off all your debts, should you start a business again?”
“Well, I think I’m going to fail again….”
“No! I’ll do better this time.”
“How about making money in another way besides business?”
Nibelia’s ears perked up.
But Kaleo was not willing to tell me.
“Well, but would it be a bit difficult for you, Nini?”
“I’ll study! Nini, you’ll study too!”
Nibelia grabbed Kaleo by the collar and asked him to teach her.
Kaleo, moved by his daughter’s active will, is choked up.
“Ugh, wait, ugh…!”
“Teach me! Teach me!”
“Okay, Dad, let go of my neck for a second…!”
Kaleo, who had just gotten out of bed, straightened his disheveled collar.
I heard the secretary watching from behind me laugh loudly, but I pretended not to hear. I could deal with that guy later.
“Do you know what investment is?”
“invest?”
Nibelia tilted her head.
Kaleo explained it as simply as possible.
“There was a man who couldn’t start a business because he didn’t have money. Nini saw him and lent him the money, and with that money, he became very successful.”
“Then Nini will be jealous! I lent it to you for nothing!”
Kaleo buried his face in his hands for a moment.
The secretary, too, bowed her head to the desk, groaning and shaking. Deter, too, bit her lip and looked off into the distance.
Ahem, Kaleo continued, catching his breath.
“Anyway, that guy became successful with the money he borrowed from Nini, right?”
“That’s why I’m upset….”
“No, listen first. He made money, didn’t he? He’ll give it to Nini as a thank you for helping him.”
“Of course you have to pay back the money you borrowed!”
“It’s not just about giving back the money you borrowed.”
Kaleo finally gave us some important information.
“He’s giving me a portion of the money he earned from business.”
Nibelia opened her mouth wide in surprise.
“You’re not just giving me the money I borrowed?”
“Yeah! That guy earned 100 Uva, right? Then I’ll give 10 Uva to Nini. I’ll thank you for lending me the money.”
“That, that’s such an easy way to make money…!”
“But if the person who borrowed the money fails in business, he can’t get the money back.”
Kaleo asked if he understood.
“Uh, uh, so….”
Nibelia repeated what she had heard.
“If you make money by doing business with the money I lent you, you share it with me. It’s different from the money I borrowed!”
“That’s it.”
Having learned something new, Nibelia hurried back to her room.
Nibelia, sitting at her desk, completely revised her plans to become rich with a solemn expression.
“Nini will now make money through investments.”
“Where are you going to invest?”
Deter asked, bringing chocolate cookies and milk for a snack.
Nibelia said, squeezing the cookies into a glass of milk. Even her fingers were soaked in the milk, turning them a whitish color.
“mom!”
Celestina Deiamor, the richest woman in the empire.
“Mom always succeeds.”
“That’s right. You can only make money by investing in successful people.”
But when Selena returned home from work, she rejected her daughter’s investment offer.
“Mom, I already have so, so, so much money, I don’t need to invest, what should I do?”
“Ugh….”
Nibelia, in despair, fell to the floor.
“Haha, you can’t give up already.”
Selena spoke, holding the fallen Nibelia in her arms.
“So, you have to invest quickly to make money. Or is there a way to invest in companies that haven’t yet succeeded?”
“But if you don’t succeed, you won’t get the money you lent back.”
“Have you figured it out yet?”
Selena, who was delighted with her daughter’s achievement of learning ‘stability’, promised to help her as a reward.
“Can you recommend some good places for Nini to invest?”
“Yeah! Introduce me!”
“But Nini.”
“huh?”
“Do you have money?”
“…That damn money!”
Kkaaaak!
Nibelia screamed, clutching her hair.
“What is money! What is money!”
“Don’t you hate money? But you need money to make money.”
That’s the way of the world.
Selena patted her daughter’s bottom, comforting her to cope with the cruel reality.
Nibelia, who had been grumbling, soon calmed down.
“Please knock on the left side too….”
Selena also patted her left buttock as requested.
* * *
Late at night.
While Solace and Nibelia traveled through Dreamland, the adults enjoyed a light drinking party.
As the adults’ conversation grew more intense, the amount of alcohol and snacks on the table gradually decreased.
“By the way, Nini is also really amazing….”
Kaleo quietly admired.
“She’s my daughter, but I didn’t know she had that much tenacity.”
“It’s already been two years, right?”
Selena made a gesture of folding her fingers.
Nibelia’s quest to become rich has now reached its second year. It’s been a struggle that’s lasted a full half of her life.
But the reality was that there was no way to show favoritism to a four-year-old, and even to the most noble young lady in the empire.
I tried countless times over the past two years.
Dig the ground to find coins, run errands and get 100 Uva for one, etc.
Every time I saved up money like that, I bought a lottery ticket and bet on who among the adults playing cards I thought would win.
Naturally, all these attempts failed time and time again, and Nibelia was constantly burdened with debt. The sticker-covered debt collection certificates already numbered well over twenty.
It was always said that he was in debt once a month.
So why does Nibelia want to become so rich?
“You all remember, right?”
Kaleo smiled bitterly.
“When Nini showed up with a live rat in her mouth.”
“That’s when the mansion really turned upside down.”
Ardores also remembered that day clearly.
A day when the family gathered in the pavilion built in the garden to have lunch.
Nibelia, who was looking at the flowers blooming in the garden with Solace, suddenly ran off somewhere and came back with something in her mouth.
It was a live rat.
The surprised adults took Nivelia to have her brush her teeth and called a doctor to check for any injuries.
Instead of getting angry and telling them that they shouldn’t do that, the adults asked why they did that.
“Nini, kitty!”
I’m a cat, so I have to hunt.
This is why Nibelia caught the rat.
Muniel calmly explained to his young granddaughter, who referred to herself as a cat.
“Nini, you are a human now, so you shouldn’t put a mouse in your mouth.”
“It’s a cat….”
“It has hands and feet like Grandma. But it doesn’t have hair. And it doesn’t have a tail.”
“…….”
“People don’t catch rats. They hunt for money.”
“money?”
“With money, you can buy food, a house, clothes. So, let’s hunt for money, too. It’s much harder than catching rats, but can you do it?”
“huh!”
From that day on, Nibelia started making money.
“…It’s really funny when I think about it now.”
Muniel said, gently shaking the glass filled with alcohol.
“It’s like having a mouse in your mouth with a face as clear and pure as if you couldn’t kill a single bug.”
“Don’t talk to me like I’m someone else’s child. I’m your granddaughter.”
“Before that, remember that she is your daughter.”
“Solace wasn’t like that.”
“Nini takes after you. You and your brother were such a troublemaker, but our grandson, on the other hand, is just like his mother: kind and dignified.”
“Isn’t that Muniel?” asked Selena. Selena answered with a shy smile.
“But I think there was another reason besides that….”
“A wolf by any chance?”
Ardores, who had been quietly enjoying his drink, spoke for the first time.
“That’s right, wolf.”
Nibelia’s love for wolves was special.
“I still really like wolves.”
“Why do you like wolves so much? Come to think of it, ever since you were a baby….”
“You said wolf.”
dripping.
Muniel tapped the table with the back of his hand.
She said, taking back control of the conversation.
“They say a guest will be arriving at the mansion in a few days.”
“Are you your mother’s guest?”
Selena asked.
“Better than me….”
Muniel paused for a moment and smiled.
“I think it would be better to say ‘Nini’s guest.’”
* * *
A few days later.
“The Duke of Daygladis is coming.”
“really?”
Nibelia’s ears perked up as she was still half asleep.
I sat at the dressing table, quietly receiving Deter’s brushing, and focused on the chatter of the maids tidying up the bedroom behind me.
“Why do men with perfect faces and bodies find partners so early in life?”
“Because I don’t want to marry you.”
“Thank you for proving our pathetic friendship, you nemesis.”
“It’s like there’s a special organ in the body that builds muscle. Your thighs are so round.”
“Do you only eat grass? Horses only eat grass, but they have a lot of muscles….”
“It’s sturdy because it moves a lot!”
Nibelia interjected with a loud voice.
The other maids who were helping with the grooming, including Deter, who was combing, stopped.
“Horses move around a lot so they don’t gain weight!”
“I see. Our young lady is smart, isn’t she?”
“Nini, move a lot so you don’t gain weight!”
As she got down from the dressing table chair and stood, Nibelia’s plump belly stood out noticeably.
“…….”
Nibelia looked at Deter and the other maids for a moment in silence.
“Didn’t everyone move around much?”
