Chapter 205: Autumn Harvest Festival (2)
JMcCOne white gold coin. That equated to 100 gold coins.faQ
dP8There were a multitude of things that could be done with that amount of money. It was enough to purchase a whole floor of a decent building in the CBD, and although it might not be enough for a wyvern, it would certainly be able to buy you the best-bred horses of the South.syHLi1
uobIt was rare for famous and veteran guardians to be paid that much money. Only a few would ever earn the “qualification” to handle such high-paying tasks.ywEd
2qdLWhite gold coins were a type of currency that was hard to see unless they were in semi-Unique Grade subjugation missions, which only accepted Grade 1 guardians or whole parties of Grade 2 guardians. Grade 3 guardians wouldn’t even be allowed near it.OTR
fFAASAnd yet paying that much money—x2rr
1tqjCcxFor a single day?zow
VtVReEIn fact, it would only be half a day – and even then, it probably wouldn’t go all the way till midnight, so it was practically just for a single dinner.mXrm
C0LeHow could anyone sane possibly waste a white gold coin for that short period of time?GtB
mcCCIsabelle, as well as everyone present, turned their eyes to the one who confidently bid a white gold coin.Q38L1H
8xFpCWho in this Academy other than Marie Dunareff was able to waste their money to such an extreme extent? The person that everyone found in search of the lunatic who spent a white gold coin… was a middle-aged man to everyone’s surprise.hTJRn
qXd4“Who in the— Uncle Marde?!”0XZA
ZEgIw9N“It has been a while, Isabelle.”yLF0E
JvPguIt was none other than Marie’s father, Marde Dunareff.oIuyAY
EYVnMarie might be the imperial princess of the Potato Empire, but he was the Potato Emperor himself. The ruler of the southern empire with the biggest financial influence throughout the continent, Duke Marde, was sitting among the audience of the Auction Contest.vyV2
CIDY– Duke Marde? Why is he here?x2ed75z
V88T0– And why is he bidding…?IbC
tHNC“W, why…?”SECDsF
Daozdq“Huhu. Isabelle. Do you think I wouldn’t know what you’re up to? Marie must have asked you for a favor. All for a single d, d… date with that little guy!”1m5
Le2Lcy4“Umm…”6FR3zQ
yHmcM9The duke barely finished his sentence with his teeth chattering in fury.9ngHkL
qpf0Sa4“Korin Lorrrkk…! I won’t let Marie stay next to you for a single minute today unless you go over my dead body! Because she will be having a date with her father the entire day! WAHAHAHAHAH…!!”G94n
pLI19pH– Oh my gosh…kENe9IK
n3hgD– Wow…5fyX8l
4OrD6– Damn. That’s a bit overboard.ouHRh
oiod2xQ– That’s a little gross.8Lbhxw4
6DWeRight.H4TzQUb
tKVdwDuke Marde – he was simply here to stop Marie from having a successful bid on Korin. In order to monopolize the time with his daughter, he was here to bid on her boyfriend so that he wouldn’t be a nuisance!lrGX
prOyFo“Uhh, Father?”LcX
wsSWxYv“Don’t you dare call me ‘Father’!”wRSNKXH
8oGbTKorin dumbfoundedly raised his hand but Duke Marde yelled in return. Regardless, Korin stuck with his conviction and finished his sentence.LRVKo0D
MPNUZ4X“It’s a bit… unsightly.”7FBTGx
K7WNI“History… is written by the victors!”zzE3
1yFHe seemed to have lost himself from jealousy towards his daughter’s boyfriend. Isabelle concealed her agreement with Korin’s statement and carefully raised the price.plE5
36tsp7“110 coins…”B5ZrjN
fvk“Haha, Isabelle. My daughter has a lot of money but not as much as I do. 1,000 gold coins!”COI
Pba“Uncle…”d4L
fekBPhgThe duke lifted his hand with a confident shout but little did he know that that made him look even worse.lNOTb
6QBI can’t beat him with money though…m3bQm82
24kB5No matter how much money Marie had, she was still nothing but the next in line to the empire. Competing against the emperor himself with money would be a foolish move.1dwVpXC
NrmhX8d“Fufu. Looks like there are no more bidders. So I—”OMf
GLPaiR“Dear. What are you doing here?”GQZ1F
xi83SUB“Hahp!”TZVg
BfCvThat was when an unexpected someone entered the auditorium.NVLhmNp
61siTraElencia Dunareff – the queen of the empire.5ENo
lgEotpUThe Duchess of the Dunareff Dukedom was here to stop her husband.K9CVSlo
ec87u69“H, honey…! I thought you were going to Marie’s Exhibition with the kids!”7CqUN
NpdrL“I came here for a look because I heard our Korin was going to be auctioned. But I wasn’t expecting to see you here though.”4ets
Ui2zUrEDuke Marde froze stiff as if he were in front of the god of death. It didn’t matter whether he was the Potato Emperor or not.PniYT
pF98y“Don’t tell me you’re trying to interfere with Marie’s date. Are you?”G662
n1tInd“Ahhkk…! H, honey…!”Rejowg
oUC5aRTo Elencia, he was nothing but a husband.FHzliy
ZU8“What an embarrassment! The kids are all waiting for you! Come here!”PRb2
qa2G0z3“Honeyy…!”iKP3C
xWPb6lmDuke Marde cried like a beast being forced into the slaughterhouse as Elencia pulled him by the ear. He was a renowned mage and the emperor of the Potato Empire, but couldn’t do anything before his wife, who used to be a high-ranked knight in the past.BTyQ
wgRnJq“Son-in-law Korin~. Let’s have a family meal together sometime soon~”R2Fp
szkm“I, I will see you later, Mother.”dQT
FPCR“Don’t call her ‘Mother’! Alright?! She’s not your mother! KUAAAHK…!”hBveTw
Lk5After the duke was pulled away by the duchess, silence returned to the auditorium, and Isabelle carefully raised her hand back up.eTmbH95
BXtnj“…1,001 gold coins.”8oeIsR
Am7It ended up being much higher than expected, but this was still within the acceptable realm. As expected, no one apart from Duke Marde was invested enough to call a higher number than that.YyhdY
3CqVKorin heaved a deep sigh and waited for the bid to go through but…6eVGG
Z6E6DIt was then.zaxYuyq
5vmHD“2,000 gold coins~”6rUna
YfwA4– What?BZO
SO93– T, two…?k7Ck4q
wNZmTru– Two thousand?!”dqwaav
DeojOdDThe appearance of another unexpected bidder surprised everyone in the audience including Isabelle who was astonished after confirming who it was.VBsqy6J
HlRm“Korin-dongsaeng~”g5jD
fDOXtA returning 3rd year student, and the Saintess of the Order who was supposed to be at the Chapel of Zeon right now… Estelle was waving her hand at Korin with a smile on her face.m6iZH7
i3ZG“Why are you here?!”ohO2L
6h1GCKorin was confused. If she wanted to have a meal together, why didn’t she just come any other time? Why bother using so much money to…Zehl
DIxF“T, two thousand and one gold coins…”Hgk0gk
ibEr6s“Three thousand! I just finished my match.”ceb7
GpBcr92– ‘Match’? Is she talking about the Tournament? I thought the quarter-finals began 30 minutes ago?e4vp
1tAbA– Did she just beat her quarter-final opponent in a flash or something?mH9
2ELFT3WEveryone in the auction was appalled and so was Isabelle, who was starting to feel nauseous.IU0v3D
NN5pIShe was increasing the bid by one gold coin, while the opponent was raising it up in thousands. A thousand gold coins was a massive leap. One gold coin amounted to a month’s expenses of a four-person family and yet… a thousand of them?SvIVtv5
9wP3There were rumors these days about how the Saintess had gone crazy and it seemed that those rumors had been true all along.V4f
497“Ms. Junior Isabelle~. I know who asked you to come here, but are you sure you’re alright? That’s not your money, is it~?”YbX5S
j4H0UvSaintess Estelle. The beauty with adorable pink hair was someone who couldn’t resist not having what she wanted to obtain.ymWoPO
xt7jse“Mhmm…”vRcB
wMKBIsabelle lamented and hesitated before the biggest religious leader of the entire continent.Z1CdlW
fA2qPPMOf course, Estelle was far from being a direct rival of the Dunareff in terms of financial power. In the end, she was a Saintess and a religious leader of the Order, and not a businessman making a profit from business models.4UnBe
bWjThere wouldn’t have been any problems had Estelle been “nothing but a Saintess”.LV1E
gj8UsTXEstelle Hadassa El Rath. She was one of the only two heirs to the throne in this country and had recently confiscated the material possession of the traitor pope and the cardinals.Zkbyld
MKxiS2VA faithful saintess would have gladly used that money for the Order, but Estelle no longer fell in that category.35r
r14WThe unfaithful believer, who discarded the fake god and found a new faith along with a big aspiration of becoming the Goddess of the Earth herself, swallowed the entirety of their wealth for herself and confiscated an amount that even the Dunareff wouldn’t be able to scoff at.WpXm
sIfPV0Naturally, it was impossible for Isabelle to know the ins and outs of everything happening, but regardless, she did not have the guts to compete against the Saintess in this war of attrition.MiGoXW5
96bmxqMarie said she didn’t care about the amount of money required but…zGR5ctM
juvuFrom what Isabelle knew, Marie received dozens of thousands of gold coins every month as an allowance directly from Duke Marde. That didn’t include the profit she made from her mines, lands, and farms.KfSni1j
TtnAShe was certainly super rich, and could definitely spend 100,000 gold coins in a single day and say to herself, “Ah. Let’s be a little bit more frugal next month.”JENS8e
i9Ea0oEven the Saintess wouldn’t be able to keep up with that, but it was different in this case because Isabelle was the one who had to spend the money.nK9
KZ1r“Ugh…”b6q
fNwtIsabelle had a very average sense of money. She was a normal person who was afraid of hundreds of gold coins being spent at once let alone thousands.85L0v
5WW83bH– A, a, a, a, a, any more bids…? T, then that will be it.Bfj9L
UgEwAEven the host, Rondon, couldn’t speak properly due to the astronomical amounts of money being thrown around. That was nothing strange because 3,000 gold coins… 30 white gold coins were around what normal guardians would be able to make during their entire lifetime.ynuJhv
wf9uMT1Using that much money for a single meal was astounding, to say the least.Sgo
6nHVAAR“Well! He’ll be mine for the whole day then~”cpC
XOEsVjIEstelle hopped onto the stage with light steps which was unthinkable for someone who just spent 3,000 gold coins. She wrapped her arm around Korin’s waist and blatantly declared to the whole auditorium.Gc0
aKk“He is mine after all.”akw
tWdoWEveryone was speechless at the face of her confident show of obsession.hJC
lDW……hGFEb
yywf…HyIHldz
XOWIMfImmediately after the auction was over, Marie looked for Isabelle with excitement in her eyes.VBazZ
VkX“Isabelle~. How did the auction go? Where is Korin?”uN6o
8k7P2k“Umm… Marie. You see.”OGsFAN
fj8Marie was looking for the boy who wasn’t anywhere near them with a bright smile on her face. There was not a sliver of doubt in her golden eyes.Chq
TEOn“Isabelle?”Mej41
agqc“T, the thing is…”Ua6qE9l
Nuy8q0aIsabelle began to explain what happened, starting from the sudden interruption of Duke Marde and how Estelle took the final bid with 3,000 gold coins.Dd8lT
jcKB“W, why? I, I told you you can use as much money as you want…”Vw0gh
uvhkLA“Spending that much money for a single meal just doesn’t make sense… And besides, you can have a meal with Korin whenever you want to.”OMH3
R9o14g“T, that’s not the important part! I mean! Of course, it is important but…!”XzKk
CS9eGeThat wasn’t the problem here. What was important was to win, without giving anyone else an opportunity to even get near him.LGR9
uRdE“Even a million would have been fine!”uwcAO
YhPghdd“What?! What’s wrong with you!? Wake up!!”NwQUHWA
bQrFIsabelle started to feel afraid because Marie was, in fact, rich enough to spend that much for a single meal.Igdh7k
5y6h2f***IcDGHg
D3VrA suite room of a fancy hotel in the city was quickly being filled with dishes. It seemed that Estelle had made the orders beforehand as if she had never even considered defeat.H1tiRx4
4vceVFancy steaks and century-old wines were being placed on the table and yet the table was surrounded by silence instead of a merry and romantic atmosphere.0q4C7
aUGQNI5“…”gujqX
DapN7kN“…”htff7
kZxsUNThe reason for that was because Korin had been quietly staring at Estelle for a while without saying a word.BXa0
khS8His eyes did not contain the kindness that they used to.GsrlZ
MiSfAO9“U, uhh… Dongsaeng?”SJJo
pkIC“Don’t call me that.”2FvF51
xub3q“Hiing…”TFNE
hjbxd“And close your mouth.”saWC
sTda“Mhmm… Are you, mad?”OKD
CUrcWEstelle shrank back after sensing the anger concealed in his voice. On a scale of 0 to 10 in terms of anger, he appeared to be around a 6. It was hard to say if it was on a serious level or not, but it was important because this was Estelle’s first time seeing him reach a 6 in the first place.ROvS
t7QO“I really feel like punching you, but I will hold myself back in case you get hurt.”LrbT
Mv5t“Whyy…?”UueH
TR7RvVa“Do you really not know why?”0TheSNP
ObS“I really don’t…”WiHD
4iDShe looked puzzled and clueless, and that only served to increase Korin’s anger by another level.63fqM
GMOlj“You think 3,000 gold coins is a joke? Both Senior Marie and you, Saintess. I wasn’t expecting you to be so reckless.”cez8Ty
ZEbad“I, it’s not that big a money though…”URuQONs
cHI“It is, and it’s certainly not something you should be throwing away like that.”XNgl
WaO“Then what…! Should I have just watched Ms. Junior Isabelle buy you? If it was Duke Marde, it might have been fine, but…”xZB0fd
fnedX“Like, that’s not important—”S7Zt
S2vbq“It is to me.”fYSM
Qa39jEstelle looked straight into his eyes. She too was just as serious as Korin.kClvsT
qrj9tG“3,000 gold coins? It was a donation anyway. A large amount of money? Sure, it’s not a small amount of money, but I used it in a meaningful way and I am very satisfied by it.”efpPkQQ
vOLhqfJShe said with a bright smile without a sliver of regret, but that only made Korin uncomfortable.ehcz
FcXfMav“There should be a limit though,” Korin said with a sigh, “The last thing I wanted was this whole thing looking like you were buying ribbons with your money.”BMZP
KdlnXKorin’s goal was to hit the highest price and get a golden ribbon. His plan was to bid on himself through Ren and was expecting 2~30 gold coins to be the maximum price.12Jj3I
urWCFAnd he was going to fairly distribute those ribbons to the people who liked him to display his gratitude.bzbEvcu
V2WCHe couldn’t accept how the contest turned into the girls competing to buy their own ribbon.UzVG
o90rMHer face stiffened and turned serious after hearing his words.yNz
uvJUq“Buying ribbons with our money?”Sfn
k9wA“…That’s how it looks like now.”M7j2h
vUy3GEstelle grabbed him by one of his arms and brought it to her face so that he could touch her cheek with his large hand.ivkI
fEm“Right. It might seem that way but both Ms. Junior Marie and I would probably do the same thing regardless.”Yml
Eec“…”1G45k
Yt8jEo“What we were trying to do has nothing to do with buying ribbons. We were stopping you from being sold.”5xUSo
ljRThere was no longer even a hint of mischievousness in her eyes. She knew it might seem unsightly, but she did not regret it nor was she ashamed of it in any way.3y2
rhl“I know why you were in the Auction Contest, and how you are attending multiple contests at once. I do get that we gave you a burden.Q8f
PdHM“But at the same time, I’m happy to see you pushing yourself. I love your seriousness and responsibility. I know. You are not someone money can buy, and money is not a way to obtain you. However…”bw1MZx
6Ca8yV4In her eyes were scorching flames of jealousy, envy, obsession, and her wish to possess… All those emotions were in relation to one person.Opdt
mRlQhz“I cannot allow it. The thought of you officially belonging to someone apart from me even for a split second… is very, very unpleasant.”We4dkr
CDGyLdt“You are assigning too much meaning into this.”ng8
BHW“Everyone has a different perspective.”v0xmJ
jJnlyvEstelle retracted her burning eyes and floated a smile.4nT
Dxn“At least it means a lot to me.”Ssf8z
6a8nWhy did she like him so much? Korin could not comprehend the fanatical obsession she had toward him.KQc9
6KrqEven before the regression, she did seem fond of him but it was within the realms of normality.bx4hq
eLR7MvNow…5uG2WR
WPCQTMaybe it had something to do with her turning away from her faith. The Saintess, who sang praises to the Lord, seemed to have now shifted the target of her faith to him.i6A
glqyV4“Haa… Please be careful later on. Unlike you, Noonim, I am a coward.”NgoYV0
g3N“Hehe, I will! Oh right! The food’s getting cold. Do you want me to cut the steak for you?”YkF4vCZ
v4zGnt“I’m fine.”pP5l
yKllEstelle poured the wine with a smile blooming on her face.XqBMmuM
2TkJhqKorin decided to look at it from a positive perspective. He finally got to drink alcohol again, so he was about to bring his hands to the glass but…5wH
ToWSDg– Swoosh.NvE9
ZXsnqgThat was when something crawled up from his ankle to his calf. He couldn’t tell what it was due to his long trousers obscuring his sense of touch, but knew logically that there was only one thing underneath the table that could be touching him.Tad
ijSVp“You know, Dongsaeng.”dZ4
80kWith her chin resting on her hands, Estelle floated a seductive smile.t8HMci8
myUMxn“Should we do something naughty together?”Ay33mF
gHYHer smile was ever so charming and captivating.VlQexw0
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