That day, Erin was waiting in front of Lucy’s room, ready since dawn as usual.

 

If Lucy woke up and Erin wasn’t there, she would find fault with her for days.

 

Ever since she got badly scolded that day, she made Lucy wait for about a minute, Erin would always come out early and wait in front of Lucy’s room.

 

For an hour, or two hours.

 

If she waited like this, she would hear a bell ring inside and go into the room at that time, but that day was different.

 

While Erin was waiting outside, Lucy suddenly opened the door and came out.

 

The moment she saw Lucy’s face, Erin thought this.

 

She didn’t hear Lucy ringing the ball.

 

That’s why she was angry.

 

Before Lucy could say anything, Erin bowed her head.

 

She apologized.

 

She hoped that her anger would subside even a little.

 

But Lucy didn’t scold her.

 

She just looked at Erin with a bewildered expression.

 

It was an unusual behaviour for Lucy Lucy’s eccentricities didn’t stop there.

 

That day, Lucy did many things she would never do normally.

 

She ate everything without finding fault with anything.

 

She lightly scolded the maids when they made a mistake and let it go.

 

She listened to the teacher’s lessons She locked herself in the library and read several books.

 

As these behaviours continued, the maids even started talking about whether or not Miss Lucy had a serious head injury.

 

However, no one thought Lucy had changed.

 

There was no way someone who had been acting like a rascal for over ten years would change in a day or two.

 

Erin thought so at first.

 

However, as Lucy’s change continued for a day, then two days, then three days, Erin began to tilt her head.

 

The other maids, who tried to avoid sewing Lucy as much as possible, said that Lucy was the same as before.

 

She was finding fault with them less than usual, but her characteristic arrogant attitude and tone were still the same.

 

But Erin, who was always by Lucy’s side, thought that Lucy had changed.

 

Unlike before, when she was impatient because she couldn’t put down everything around her, Lucy learned to be relaxed.

 

She scolded her less.

 

She got angry less.

 

She let Erin do what she did.

 

She started saying things that were close to compliments.

 

“Not bad, for a sloppy maid.”

 

Erin couldn’t forget that moment when Lucy, who always said something was wrong here and something she didn’t like there, smiled after combing her hair.

 

Because Lucy had piled up so much work, people didn’t believe her no matter how much Erin said that Lucy had changed.

 

Even if they did believe her, they were certain that the change wouldn’t last long.

 

However, Erin didn’t think so.

 

It was hard to explain the reason, but Erin still believed that Lucy’s change wouldn’t end in a day or two.

 

“Sloppy maid.”

 

Erin flinched at the voice of the young lady she had been thinking about just a moment ago.

 

“I’m thirty, bring me water and a towel”

 

“Misa Erin handed Lucy the water and towel that she had cooled with her only magic, ice magic.

 

Lucy frowned at the sudden coldness for a moment, but soon smiled faintly and wiped her face with the cold towel.

 

Erin liked this moment.

 

Lucy, who usually only had a pouty or squeaky expression, smiled slowly as if she was happy.

 

She was really pretty when she smiled like that.

 

“You sloppy girl, why are you smiling so disgustingly? it bothers me.”

 

“I’m sorry!”

 

But if you’re going to change, why don’t you change your tone as well?

 

Six days after I started running, Benedict came to me out of the blue.

 

It wasn’t unusual for a father to come see his daughter.

 

Benedict, who was doting father, had come to see me out of the blue a few times before.

 

“My daughter! it true that you ate all three elixirs in the warehouse?”

 

However, the words Benedict spoke as soon as he saw my face were problematic.

 

Did he really eat all the elixirs in the family?

 

Even if the Allen family was a large count family, the elixir would be a valuable item.

 

But what can I do?!

 

already poured it all into my mouth.

 

Now, I can’t spit out that which has already seeped into my body.

 

So, l nodded shamelessly, and Benedict opened his eyes wide.

 

“Really?”

 

“Yes”

 

“But what?”

 

When I nodded again, Benedict bent down and carefully examined my body.

 

“Does anything hurt? It must have hurt a lot when you took the elixir, but how did you endure it? And…”

 

At first, I thought he would scold me, but I was wrong, Benedict only said things that worried me.

 

What?

 

‘Aren’t you going to scold me?’

 

“Idiot father, didn’t you come to scold me?”

 

“Why should I scold you?”

 

“Because I drank all the elixir.”

 

“What’s the big deal about taking that little elixir! Rather, I’m proud of you for drinking it all! It must have been very painful, but you endured it”

 

“Then why are you here?”

 

“I came to check on my daughter in case something was wrong with her body”

 

He was a fool who lost his mind over his daughter’s love.

 

Who would have thought that he had monopolized all the estates elixirs and all he could say was praise and concern?

 

Benedict must have thought that I had taken the potion because I was feeling burdened by the Academy exam, so he grabbed me and nagged me with affection.

 

No matter how worried you were about the Academy exam, you shouldn’t overdo it.

 

it was okay if you failed the exam.

 

Your body was more important than that.

 

The nagging went on for more than ten minutes, thirty minutes, and soon it was almost an hour.

 

At that moment, I had to make a decision.

 

If I kept going like this, I thought I would be stuck with this troll all day.

 

‘Um, I understand, so can you stop?’

 

“Stupid father, It’s annoying Stop it”

 

Uh.

 

I didn’t mean to say that.

 

I looked at Benedict’s expression, flustered.

 

His face was from like a statue.

 

Even though he would laugh off comments like “stupid and sloppy, he seemed hurt by the word “annoying.”

 

Benedict soon hesitated and stepped back, then apologized and ran away somewhere like a wounded girl in the end, it turned out as I wanted.

 

but I’ll have to apologize later.

 

If Benedict gets upset, it’ll be difficult in many ways.

 

After that, I left the mansion and went to the training grounds of the Allen family as usual.

 

I started running around the outskirts of the training grounds with my mace and shield in hand.

 

At first, I started running to recreate my in-game build, but it was different recently.

 

I was enjoying running, in reality, it wasn’t easy to feel a change just by running for a day or two.

 

It was only after a month or two that I could guess that my stamina had increased.

 

However, it was different here.

 

Every day.

 

No, not even every day.

 

I could feel my stamina increasing after just running for a couple of hours.

 

Just like hunting monsters in a game gives you experience points and level up, running made me feel like my stamina level increased immediately.

 

The reason people are reluctant to exercise is because it’s hard, but it’s also hard to feel the changes, but since can feel the changes in real time, I couldn’t help but enjoy exercising.

 

After completing my goal of ten laps, I was taking a short break when the knight who helped me when collapsed approached me.

 

“Miss Lucy, you’re working hard today, too.”

 

Even after hearing my harsh answer, the knight continued to pay attention to me.

 

I was grateful for his consideration, but honestly, it was suspicious behaviour.

 

Why would he approach the countess Allen, who has a bed reputation, a bad personality, and who never once says thank you no matter the circumstances?

 

I felt this was impossible unless he had other intentions.

 

I guessed that there were two most likely possibilities.

 

Either this knight is hoping that Lucy, the Count’s only daughter, will like him and turn his life around.

 

Or this guy is just a crazy masochist who enjoys being beaten by a Mesugaki.

 

Common sense tells me that the latter is unlikely, so I had to assume that this guy is an ambitious man who wants to become a male version of Cinderella.

 

There was a very, very low possibility that this guy was just a noble knight, but I thought that was impossible.

 

An NPC who doesn’t even appear as a supporting character couldn’t possibly be a noble knight.

 

“You seem to have gained a lot of stamina as expected, you are the daughter of the Allen family.”

 

‘Thank you for the compliment.’

 

“You call that a compliment?”

 

The words that were meant to express gratitude turned into a quarrel, but I didn’t get angry because I was used to the distortion of language in the Mesugaki skill.

 

“Of course, how could I make fun of your passion?”

 

Despite that, the knight smiled coolly and accepted my quarrel.

 

He must have been spouting harsh words inside.

 

His facial expressions were no joke.

 

Is this the level you need to be to dream of turning your life around through marriage?

 

No matter how hard I try, I don’t plan on marrying you.

 

Shit.

 

Even if I become a Mesugaki, I don’t plan on dating a man, right?

 

It’s already frustrating enough to be a Mesugaki, but you want me to date a guy?

 

In that case, I’ll just bite my tongue and die.

 

Seriously.

 

The knight awkwardly smiled and brought up a different topic, perhaps because he saw my hostility in his gaze.

 

“Miss, do you know that the Knights will be entering the dungeon next week?”

 

“A dungeon?”

 

Dungeons are one of the central settings of Soul Academy.

 

The dungeon itself isn’t much different from other games.

 

It’s a place where monsters and treasures await.

 

They appear and disappear without any specific rules.

 

If you leave it alone for too long, the monsters inside will pop out, so you have to defeat them quickly.

 

They’re divided into several levels, and depending on the level, the size of the area and the enemies that appear will change.

 

If there’s one thing that’s different from other games, is that the subjects of the dungeon raid are the nobles?

 

In Soul Academy, dungeon raiding is the right and duty of the nobles.

 

Just as you have to protect your people from outside enemies, if a dungeon appears in your territory, the nobles who own the territory must subdue the dungeon.

 

Of course, they don’t deal with all dungeons themselves.

 

If the dungeon is low risk, the rewards that come out of it are mediocre, so they entrust the dungeon clearing to mercenaries called adventurers.

 

However, if the dungeon is large, it’s different.

 

If a dungeon larger than a certain size appears, the nobles of the territory will personally lead their own private soldiers and go on an expedition.

 

But this article just now said that the knights led by Benedict are going into the dungeon.

 

That means that a dangerous dungeon has appeared in the territory.

 

‘Is it really dangerous?’

 

“What kind of place is it? Is it big enough to make a sloppy knight tremble?”

 

“Hahaha, no. We don’t always go to dangerous places, such high-level dungeons don’t appear easily. This time, we’re going to a medium-sized dungeon to train.”

 

Somehow, even though they were going to the dungeon, they didn’t seem tense.

 

“Where are we going?”

 

“I don’t know if you know, but we’re going to a place called Evans, there’s a dungeon there that doesn’t disappear.”

 

‘Evans?’

 

“Evans?! You sloppy knight, are you serious?!”

 

I shouted as I abruptly stood up.

 

The knight nodded, bewildered.

 

There’s only one dungeon near Evans that doesn’t disappear.

 

But I know about the dungeon near Evans.

 

I can’t not know it.

 

A legendary mace is hidden there.