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“……”

The Association executives all burst into laughter, treating my words as a joke.

“How adorable.”

“Haha, thanks for the laugh, young lady.”

The junior Elementalists also covered their mouths, trying to suppress their laughter as they looked at me.

“I’m serious though, don’t you believe me, sirs?”

But I shrugged my shoulders with a puzzled expression, and some who realized I was being serious spoke with awkward smiles, trying to dissuade me.

“Well, Elemental Palace Lord. While His Majesty the Emperor grants the position of Elemental Palace Lord, to participate in the Elementalist Association’s decision-making body, you must pay substantial contribution fees.”

“Our Elemental Palace Lord is still young, isn’t she? Youth is good, but its drawback is lack of experience. If you support our Association with your resources, we experienced members will use that to support Albreon’s Elementalists.”

They were only trying to sweet-talk me while thinking of ways to extract money.

“Ah, perhaps we’re using terms that are too difficult for you to respond to. Well… don’t worry. If you just provide the funds through your butler, we’ll resolve all these complicated matters you’re concerned about.”

However, I hadn’t come here to give them money, nor did I intend to entertain them.

Placing my hand on my waist, I spoke with confidence.

“You know about the Association’s regulations that you arbitrarily revised five years ago, right? The voting rights in the Association’s decision-making are proportional to the contribution amount.”

In other words, the more contributions you make, the higher your decision-making authority becomes.

“So if my contributions are high enough, doesn’t that mean I can take over the Elementalist Association? Since I would have the most voting rights!”

At these words that even brought up internal regulations, several of the men’s faces hardened.

“Who… who told you about the Association’s regulations?”

“Could it be Felix…”

They must have finally grasped that I was serious.

Some men shot hostile glances at Felix, clearly regretting their careless words to me.

“…We can’t let this slide, you know.”

Felix had already been branded a traitor among them.

One of them twisted his lips and said to me.

“We understand your desire to participate actively in the Association by making large contributions. However, we have more affiliated Elementalists than you might think.”

“……”

The Association executives all burst into laughter, treating my words as a joke.

“How adorable.”

“Haha, thanks for the laugh, young lady.”

The junior Elementalists also covered their mouths, trying to suppress their laughter as they looked at me.

“I’m serious though, don’t you believe me, sirs?”

But I shrugged my shoulders with a puzzled expression, and some who realized I was being serious spoke with awkward smiles, trying to dissuade me.

“Well, Elemental Palace Lord. While His Majesty the Emperor grants the position of Elemental Palace Lord, to participate in the Elementalist Association’s decision-making body, you must pay substantial contribution fees.”

“Our Elemental Palace Lord is still young, isn’t she? Youth is good, but its drawback is lack of experience. If you support our Association with your resources, we experienced members will use that to support Albreon’s Elementalists.”

They were only trying to sweet-talk me while thinking of ways to extract money.

“Ah, perhaps we’re using terms that are too difficult for you to respond to. Well… don’t worry. If you just provide the funds through your butler, we’ll resolve all these complicated matters you’re concerned about.”

However, I hadn’t come here to give them money, nor did I intend to entertain them.

Placing my hand on my waist, I spoke with confidence:

“You know about the Association’s regulations that you arbitrarily revised five years ago, right? The voting rights in the Association’s decision-making are proportional to the contribution amount.”

In other words, the more contributions you make, the higher your decision-making authority becomes.

“So if my contributions are high enough, doesn’t that mean I can take over the Elementalist Association? Since I would have the most voting rights!”

At these words that even brought up internal regulations, several of the men’s faces hardened.

“Who… who told you about the Association’s regulations?”

“Could it be Felix…”

They must have realized I wasn’t joking.

Some men glared at Felix as if regretting having said unnecessary things to me.

“…We can’t let this slide, you know.”

Felix had already been branded a traitor among them.

One of them twisted his lips and said to me:

“We understand your desire to participate actively in the Association by making large contributions. However, we have more affiliated Elementalists than you might think.”

Even if I were to contribute 100,000 Brin (equivalent to 100 million in modern currency), I wouldn’t be able to swallow the entire Elementalist Association whole.

“They regularly pay contributions for the Association’s development.”

It’s a structure where tens of thousands of Elementalists in each region pay about 100 Brin monthly to provide salaries for the stagnant, vested-interest Elementalists in the Association.

Unless one continuously pours in a marquis family’s fortune, it’s impossible to buy decision-making power in the Elementalist Association through money.

Of course, my statement about taking over the Elementalist Association wasn’t made lightly.

“I have no intention of making any more contributions. I plan to compete with just the contributions I’m currently making.”

The Elementalists looked at each other with bewildered eyes at my words.

Yes, I clearly hadn’t been making any visible contributions.

“I don’t understand what you’re saying, young lady.”

“Well, there’s this clause in imperial law: The ownership of hot springs belongs to their developer. If the land is state-owned, ownership reverts to the empire, but the profit rights belong to the developer.”

The Elementalist Association’s artificial cave site was state-owned land.

“I don’t understand why you’re suddenly bringing this up…”

“…?”

These people wouldn’t know what I was talking about.

Felix, who had been standing silently behind me as I wore a faint smile, stepped forward.

“The Association’s hot springs were developed by the Elemental Palace Lord.”

At Felix’s words, the atmosphere instantly froze as if cold water had been poured over everyone.

They must know that Felix was present at that hot spring site.

And they say the hot springs, with their exorbitant fees, generated hundreds of thousands of Brin in profit in just about two weeks.

It was an enormous sum that accounted for about 40 percent of the Association’s monthly income.

“…?”

“What nonsense is this… Felix?”

“On the day of the Elementalist exam when the hot springs were discovered, when the Elemental Palace Lord used her elemental power on the ground in the cave, hot spring water burst forth from the floor. I didn’t mention it then because she asked me to keep it secret.”

Then he pulled out the paper with my signature from his pocket.

Along with my name, Arinel Mylar, written in cursive, it contained details about the day I took the exam.

Everyone was shocked.

“That’s impossible. What happened then couldn’t have been one person’s ability. It would require energy beyond the former Mylar Elemental Palace Lord’s capabilities!”

“Right! The hot springs belong to our Elementalist Association!”

“It just happened to be discovered at that time by coincidence, to suggest that such a child could use that level of elemental power is nonsense…”

Of course they wouldn’t believe it.

How absurd it must be – they excitedly opened the hot springs when they were discovered, only to find out there was a separate owner who held the profit rights.

And that the owner was a little kid like me.

I had expected this kind of reaction.

And even after hearing Briton’s words, I had contemplated quite a bit.

Since the Marquis family isn’t impoverished, perhaps I should just continue pretending not to know.

But the thought that I would do all the work, while these shameless, corrupt Elementalists would make all the money… I couldn’t accept it.

So… today, I plan to show them what I’m truly capable of.

“Would you please close the door properly?”

Since my goal is just to demonstrate, there’s no need to make a mess elsewhere.

At my words, Felix secured the door.

“It’s properly closed, Elemental Palace Lord.”

“Thank you, Felix.”

As the Elementalists grew anxious from the sudden door closing, I slowly raised my hand.

“You say the hot springs belong to you?”

And I gathered elemental power.

Whoosh-

As wind began to blow indoors, the Elementalists tensed up.

Clink- Clink-

The translucent glass windows made with alchemy began to crack.

The Elementalists shrank back in surprise, their eyes wide.

“Gasp!”

“What is this…!”

If they won’t believe me, I’ll have to show them.

Though not specifically for today, I had trained quite a bit to control my unstable elemental power.

While I still couldn’t control it perfectly, I could somewhat direct my elemental power while suppressing its wild nature.

“Wind…”

“…At least advanced level or higher.”

Using wind elementals, I levitated an enormous desk into the air.

Then I sent it flying toward them at high speed.

I could see the gathered Elementalists’ faces turn pale with shock as the desk suddenly appeared before them.

CRASH!

Finally, there was a loud thud as it hit the ground.

“Ughk!”

The Elementalists who had looked down on me stumbled backward in surprise.

‘Hmm… should I stop here or…’

After a brief consideration, I next created a massive fire. The large fireball that formed in my hand was protected by a ring of water.

Without the water ring, it would have exploded and turned this place into a sea of flames.

The Elementalists who witnessed my elemental magic stared at me with gaping mouths, looking like they might faint.

“This… can’t be…”

“Affinity with three elements…?”

“Fire, water, and wind!”

“This is beyond advanced Elementalist level…!”

“Did she inherit Grand Elementalist Marquis Mylar’s abilities?”

“But Marquis Mylar could handle all four elements!”

I brought the fire orb surrounded by water closer to the Elementalists in a threatening manner.

“Uwaagh!”

“Eek!”

Some fell backward, while others hastily retreated.

I flicked my hand to evaporate it all at once, then said with a smirk.

“You know what? I can use earth elemental magic too. But if I did that…”

I looked around the space we were in. From the ceiling to the corners, to the broken windows.

Then I spoke to the Elementalists again.

“You might end up permanently trapped under the building debris. Would that be okay?”

I looked around the space we were in. From the ceiling to the corners, to the broken windows.

Then I spoke to the Elementalists again:

“You might end up permanently trapped under the building debris. Would that be okay?”

“Hiiiek!!”

“…gasp…”

The Elementalists who had been dismissing me as a child just moments ago now looked shell-shocked.

Their eyes looked at me as if I were a monster.

The same fearful gaze nobles give to Duke Guermont.

‘Sigh, this is why I didn’t want to reveal it.’

Though this time, I had no choice.

“…Impossible.”

“Four powers… the qualities of a Grand Elementalist…”

Anyway, it was time for their answer, but they stood there dazed for a while, too shocked and scattered.

And then, the Elementalist Association Chairman appeared before us, opening the door.

“You are indeed Marquis Mylar’s rightful successor with his will. And seeing the elemental magic you’ve shown…”

His finger pointed toward the hot springs through one of the broken windows.

“The hot springs that became our Association’s new source of income must also be your power. Think about it – how could hot springs suddenly burst forth from land that had been dormant for hundreds of years? And precisely on the day the Elemental Palace Lord visited.”

No one could deny his words.

“Even if we take this to the Ministry of Justice, the outcome is obvious. Let’s not waste any more energy.”

I had proven my elemental power, and with Felix as a witness, it was the natural conclusion that I had created the hot springs.

“As the Elemental Palace Lord says, the profit rights to the hot springs belong to her. That already accounts for a large portion of our Association’s income.”

A deep silence fell.

An air of chaos surrounded everyone.

The Elementalists seemed weak-kneed but still appeared to be clinging to a thread of hope.

“But it’s not a majority…”

“Surely…”

Some greedy Elementalists broke the silence, unable to let go of their last attachment.

However, the Association Chairman spoke to them with a solemn face.

“Combined with my contributions, it becomes a majority.”

His substantial contributions were one of the reasons he was the Association Chairman.

Though it was largely a ceremonial position, it was contribution money he had paid to place minimal restrictions when the Association headed toward worst-case scenarios.

At those words, they listlessly stared at the Chairman, their strength seemingly drained.

Now that the Chairman had control of the Association, he could drive out these greedy individuals.

For instance, materialistic Elementalists like these only thought about extorting contribution fees from children like me.

Thump, several men sat down as if giving up.

“This can’t be…”

“The Elementalist Association was ours…”

It seems it’s time to pour out the water that has stagnated beyond repair.

I spoke to them with a pleased smile:

“I told you, didn’t I? When I said I would take over, it wasn’t a joke.”