The first breakfast yielded no meaningful results.

‘It’s ruined.’

Yes, ruined is the right word.

I wanted to give high marks for it being the ‘first’ breakfast, but the events from a few minutes ago combined with the bleak future ahead make it impossible to think positively.

I forcefully scheduled tomorrow’s meeting too…….

What if he tells me to leave as soon as he sees me tomorrow?

What if we spend the coming years in suffocating meals without a single normal conversation?

‘What can I do about it.’

If it’s the former, I’ll cling to his leg; if it’s the latter, he’ll just be a middle-aged man who spends time with us only in the mornings.

The Duke is only twenty, but anyway.

Anastasia’s built-in cuteness and lovability should eventually melt his heart, but father and daughter are still awkward with each other…….

‘Affection between family members should exist naturally.’

More than that, family love and attention shouldn’t have to be fought for—they should be enjoyed as a matter of course.

Even if the lady doesn’t smile from their first meeting, the Duke decided to bring her, so he should take responsibility.

I just want Anastasia to receive affection before she forms her sense of self.

“And I have so many things to ask that bastard……”

I pulled at my hair.

If today’s table atmosphere had improved, I planned to tactfully mention them.

From small event preparations like unlocking the library or adding guard personnel, to emotional exchanges like ‘spending time with the lady.’

Listing them out, I realized my requests were embarrassingly numerous, but if Duke Cromwell didn’t want to deal with this, he shouldn’t have brought the lady in the first place.

‘When will I ever get to ask all these things.’

If things continue like this, it will be extremely difficult.

“Good thing we’re still in the tutorial period.”

Thanks to resolving the money issue, I had a surprisingly large amount of free time.

The reason players work like crazy from the baby stage, when expenses are relatively low, is for the lady’s future.

Education costs are ridiculously high. If you don’t start earning from infancy, you’ll struggle.

Childcare is still hard, but at least reporting the head maid freed me from money worries and labor.

‘Taking care of a newborn while working was a game concession to begin with.’

Carrying a baby while plowing fields, knitting, picking fruit in the orchard, and so on.

I did those things because they happened in a game beyond the screen; if it had been reality, I would have quit with severance pay long ago.

By the way, what would Anastasia want to learn?

Every time, I only taught what I wanted to teach.

I wasn’t curious about the lady’s interests either.

“If you have something you like, let me know.”

I murmured while touching Anastasia’s soft cheek.

I wanted to savor this peaceful daily life, but peace would shatter with the end of the tutorial.

Thinking about the future makes me feel sick.

‘Why does happiness disappear in an instant?’

In Bling Bling ♡ Raising A Noble Lady, all sorts of commotion happens every season of every year.

Among them, the busiest season is the first spring.

The player must help prepare for the spring ball while preventing the ‘lady assassination event’ that occurs midway.

‘Oh……, just thinking about it is overwhelming.’

The assassination attempt on the lady is the game’s highest entry barrier.

In mid-spring, when players who completed the tutorial start to really enjoy the game, players can’t wander around at dawn.

The day ends when you fall asleep at midnight, and a new day begins when you wake up at seven in the morning.

The assassination event occurs during this mysterious dawn.

♡SYSTEM♡ The baby doesn’t wake up for a long time. But perhaps out of habit……, your eyes open in the dead of night.

♡: In, intruder……!

The event starts like this.

An intruder with a knife tries to assassinate the lady, and the player grabs her and runs away just before it happens.

In the cutscene, the nanny screams while running, and as the commotion wakes more servants, the assassin panics and retreats.

The intruder is killed by a mansion knight.

Depending on the escape route, different people k*ll them.

Most often it was the captain of the Cromwell family knights, and occasionally an unnamed extra knight.

Of course, this is the event you see when you successfully clear the ‘assassination event.’

However, escaping from the intruder is difficult with average control.

Deaths are numerous.

The reasons vary.

Choosing the wrong escape route, slipping up on controls, having insufficient health.

‘And of course there are no saves……’

One mistake means death.

Even in the first spring, an event like this unfolds. I need to prepare countermeasures, even if I don’t need to earn money.

‘What kind of lady doesn’t have even one guard?’

I may not know about other things, but I will definitely secure guard knights before spring arrives.

“Should I visit the library?”

The library was a place I focused on conquering when playing Bling Bling ♡ Raising A Noble Lady.

It’s a valuable place where you strengthen your relationship by reading books to the young lady, and it becomes a source of knowledge when she grows up.

‘I want to make the Duke read books too.’

Aren’t parents supposed to read books to their children before bedtime?

I had all sorts of requests in mind.

The plan was good. The plan.

‘But there’s something more important.’

Currently, I don’t need to go to the library to accumulate tremendous knowledge.

The reason I need to go to the library is……

Not for wisdom, but for a certain person who resides there.

Caligo Gaudium.

The mage of the Cromwell mansion.

I plan to ask him to cast protective magic.

✧ʚ .·:¨༺♡༻¨:·. ɞ✧

♡SYSTEM♡

Insufficient favorability with librarian ‘Roy Veros’!

Ding!

This notification appeared as I stepped into the library with various worries.

♡SYSTEM♡

Entry impossible due to insufficient favorability with ‘Roy Veros’!

This isn’t surprising since it was the same in Bling Bling ♡ Raising A Noble Lady.

Even when I wandered around the mansion looking for part-time work, this place was inaccessible.

But I need to enter.

Ignoring the system window and standing firmly in front of the entrance, the library door swung wide open.

“Who…… h, huh……!”

Dark green hair caught my eye. The man was startled as soon as he saw me.

“……Lorel, Lorelai Keith……!”

His expression was as if he’d seen a ghost.

He approached with large strides, pointing his finger at me.

♡PROFILE♡

Name: Roy Veros

Access Level: 3

Occupation: Librarian of the Cromwell ducal residence

Relationship: –

Favorability: Please raise your level to view favorability.

Special Notes: Please raise your level to view special notes.I’m not curious about the hidden content.

Roy Veros, who is now horrified at the sight of me, is one of the nanny’s romance targets.

The nanny’s love story is, in vulgar terms, boring as hell.

The game philosophy that human potential is limitless didn’t extend to the nanny.

♡KillCromwell: I don’t know what would have happened to me without you!

When I pushed the lady to the extreme hoping to see a massacre ending, she confessed to her father like this,

♡CromwellFU: The moment father saved me, I felt love……!

When I sent her to hunt demonic beasts to become a knight, she revealed her feelings for that Duke bastard with this nonsense.

♡Let’sDivorce: I want to marry you, Father!

The last part was always the same.

It’s natural that there are differences since the built narrative and process were different, but it’s impressive that they put this much effort into it.

Unlike the lady’s dialogue and situations that subtly change with each ending, in the nanny’s case, all scenarios were identical without the slightest deviation.

In other words, seeing the nanny’s romance once is enough.

‘I can’t even raise a child properly, what romance am I talking about.’

And Veros is the most prickly romance option among the nanny’s three potential targets.

♡Roy Veros: Th, this! This is the first edition of Akamis’s Black Sea! Are you giving this to me? Thank you.

(Favorability +1)

♡Roy Veros: As a token of gratitude, I’ll take charge of the lady’s education tomorrow.

I used to visit him often because I found it amusing how he took care of me while being grumpy.

Because of this, I’m already aware of the general content.

I can learn about favorability gradually, and the special note is that he wants the first edition of Black Sea.

Staying close to Veros accelerates the lady’s knowledge acquisition.

He looked very similar to the game.

A handsome appearance befitting the romance fantasy genre and his status as a player’s conquest target.

Veros adjusted his glasses and said,

“You promised never to visit again.”

“……”

I never made such a promise.

This is my first time seeing him since the transmigration.

Yet Veros treated me like someone he’d known for a long time. ‘Guarded against’ might be more accurate.

‘Does he know Lorelai Keith, not me?’

Is it because I always interacted with him after reaching level 3 in the game? This conversation is new to me.

♡Roy Veros: Please don’t tear books like before……. These are difficult to obtain.

There was such a line in the game, but are we really acquainted?

This is troublesome.

He shouldn’t notice that ‘Lorelai’ has changed.

“The budget is already reduced, so if books get damaged, it would be a disaster……”

But Veros seems too preoccupied to worry about such things.

“Haha. It’s been a while, Mr. Veros.”

“Yes, nice to see you. Please leave.”

“……”

This is the problem with time flowing realistically unlike in the game.

‘Normally, I would wait for the tutorial period to end, quickly level up, go to the village to find Black Sea, and then give it to Veros.’

The library would open with just one day’s investment.

‘And the level increases too slowly……’

As a Korean accustomed to speed, this pace is frustrating.

“I just want to look around…… Can’t I even enter?”

I asked desperately.

Even with insufficient favorability, couldn’t I enter with permission from the person in charge, like with the office?

“You said the exact same thing before, do you remember?”

“……”

“What did you do when I let you into the library then?”

“Th, that’s right.”

I wonder what Lorelai did in the library.

“What do you mean ‘that’s right’? You caused a scene.”

Veros smiled brightly.

It seems I’ve touched a sore spot.

“The library must always be quiet and clean.”

So Lorelai was noisy and dirtied books?

That’s why she’s blacklisted…….

Since there was mention of her tearing books in the game, it’s a plausible story.

Lorelai, what did you do?