1) Let’s Prevent the End of the World
The man hesitantly stepped back due to Diana who was pointing at him with a smile.
“That, wh-what are you saying Miss! What do you mean I’m a fraud? I don’t know what misunderstanding you have, but you shouldn’t accuse people like tha— Aack!”
Thud!
Diana threw another pile of paper that she was holding at the legs of the man who was lying.
Tuk. Tuk.
The papers that spread out on the floor was—
“T-This, how did you!?”
An investigation document containing the details of the man’s fraud.
[Jay, a fraud who was active in the South Zone, hides his appearance?]
[The possibility of fraud, Jay’s new area of activity is near the Capital….]
It was a collection of exclusive newspaper articles that tracked the man’s identity…
“Eit! Damn!”
Aware that the plan had gone wrong, Jay, the fraud, tried to run away quickly.
At that moment.
Something hit the back of Jay’s head.
“EUAAAACK!”
His sight became dark in an instant.
Did Garbiel Cartier use his hand…?
“Da-damn it…. This….”
However, right before he lost his consciousness, the last thing that came into the eyes of the fraud was not Gabriel’s cold face, but—
“You bad guy! Did you think I’d let you run away!”
It was Diana Cartier’s chubby cheeks….
***
Great! That was perfect rock throwing!
No, it was throwing a cookie jar!
Throwing a cookie jar (which was only the size of my fist) right to the head of the fraud who was trying to run away, made me proud.
“Older Brother! Since he’s a really bad guy, don’t just send him to the Capital. Rather, please interrogate him yourself!”
Because he brainwashed Older Brother El and made him have a seizure…
Later, Older Brother’s eyes…
‘It’s okay. I blocked that worst future first!’
I shook my head as I dismissed my scary thoughts, then I paused.
“Older Brother?”
“….”
Older Brother Gabriel stared at me with an unfamiliar look in his eyes.
How should I say this? Uhm…. That look in Older Brother’s eyes was….
‘It felt a little like when a person found out that their house’s baby was actually the leader of the neighborhood gangsters?’
…Was I too harsh?
‘No matter how much of a hurry I was in, it seems like I shouldn’t have thrown the cookie jar…’
Seeing the fraud lying on the floor, the scattered paper, and the crushed cookie jar, I opened my mouth.
“Uhm. Older Brother Gabriel. I’m sorry for making a fus—”
“Don’t meddle in for nothing.”
I’m sorry for making a fuss, but he’s really a bad guy!!!
Before I could say so, Older Brother Gabriel continued.
“You little thing! Do you not understand how scary things work. And why are you, a troublemaker, behaving uncontrollably? If you get seriously injured—”
“….”
My eyes were wide open.
I waited quietly for the continuation of Older Brother El’s words.
Maybe at this rate, some words that show his worry about me would follow…
“…The household became noisy for nothing.”
Yup, as expected, I knew that it wouldn’t be such words like that.
Since our Oldest Brother had a dishonest personality.
“Just what is a kid like you thinking about these days that you do such dangerous actions without care—”
The moment Older Brother Gabriel tried to say something to me who was pleased with the fact that my guess was right.
“Ughh….”
Wriggle. Wriggle.
Jay, the fraud, who was lying on the floor, wriggled.
‘Gasp, it seems like he’s regaining his consciousness.’
The moment I was about to grab the cookie jar that I threw earlier.
Press!
Older Brother Gabriel, stepped on the man’s back with his feet and pressed him down before looking at me.
Eyes that shone like blue flames stared directly at me.
“Diana Cartier.”
He said in a cold voice which was even colder than those eyes.
“Go back to your room.”
“…Yes.”
It’s a relief I can leave it to Older Brother after this.
When I nodded, he somehow frowned.
Older Brother Gabriel quickly turned around and muttered something to the fraud.
“Because of you, I had to talk like I was angry at that kid for no reason….”
He coldly told me to leave because he doesn’t want to show me his interrogating figure right?
‘Phew. As expected, Older Brother El is always worried about me.’
Shrugging my shoulders, I left the office.
***
After I returned to my room.
‘First of all, I handled Bad Guy 1 well.’
I was very satisfied with today’s result.
However, stopping Bad Guy 1 didn’t solve everything.
Even so, I was able to avoid starting on the wrong foot.
‘So, the next thing to do is—’
Tok. Tok.
At the sound of knocking on the door, I came to my senses.
“Young Miss, may I go in?”
A voice with a slight dialect was heard over the door.
“Yup! Come in.”
It was Masha, my exclusive maid, who opened the door and came in.
In her hand she was holding a tray of cookies and children’s tea for tea time.
‘Ah! It’s today’s snack!’
Masha put the tray down in front of me, who was clearly excited, and glanced at me.
“Young Miss. Um… About you breaking in when Young Master Gabriel was having a conversation with an important guest earlier…. Ah! Breaking in means intervening.”
“Hehe.” I laughed as Masha looked at me and explained the fairly difficult word for a 10-year-old.
“Yeah, that’s right. I broke in and made a mess.”
“…A-a mess?”
“Yup! But, it’s okay. That guy, he was a fraud, you know? A bad fraud.”
“YES?! The candidate for the management deputy who came to sign the contract was a fraud?!”
“Yup, yeah.”
“Oh my goodness.”
Masha, who opened her mouth wide, looked at with admiring eyes.
I said while eating cookies. Nyam nyam.
“That’s why Older Brother Gabriel won’t be angry about my behavior today. You don’t have to worry about me being scolded, Masha.”
“Y-Young Miss.”
Masha’s eyes opened roundly as if she was surprised by what I said. Her eyes became teary.
‘Phew. It’s natural for her to be surprised like this.’
Because not too long ago (before I remembered my past life), if Masha was worried about me…
“Don’t treat me like a kid!”
Or.
“Who do you think is an idiot!? How arrogant of you for a maid!”
As I screamed like this, I also threw things, you know.
What was even worse was…
“I don’t want to wear the clothes you made for me!”
I even tore the clothes that Masha, who was skilled with her hands, personally made for me with care.
‘Pheww, you stupid self.’
That time, the expensive glass lamp I broke and the high-quality ceramics I had, just how much was it all….
As the calculator in my head started working, I felt like I was going to cry.
Fortunately, now that I’ve come to my senses, no, I’ve got to know both my past life and the future at the same time.
‘From now on, I’m not going to squander money! I’ll make money and feed everyone instead!’
If things followed the original, after the fraud entered, our house gradually became poorer and poorer.
To the point where we couldn’t even pay our employees back.
That’s why, one by one, they left our house, but…
“…Young Miss, why are you looking at me like that?”
Masha, who was in front of me, tried to take care of me until the end.
If Masha hadn’t been hit in the eye by the desk clock I threw.
And if she hadn’t gone blind—
Wouldn’t she have stayed by my side until the end?
“Young Miss?”
I smiled at Masha, who was still looking at me with a strange expression.
“You were surprised because I did something unexpected earlier, right? Sorry for making you worry.”
“Yes?! Young Miss is, a-apologizing to me?!”
Surprised as if she had just caused a game to go bad, Masha soon realized her mistake and shook her head.
“N-No! Young Miss, I’m alright. However, if Young Miss gets on the wrong side of Young Master Gabriel…”
“It’s okay, Masha.”
I knew what Masha was worried about.
‘She’s probably worried because us three siblings don’t seem to be on good terms on the outside, right?’
In the old days (= me before knowing my past life and future) I actually hated my two older brothers.
I was jealous of them who were special because of their jewel eyes, totally different from me.
‘What’s so important about changing eye colors that I even used poison and deceived people about the color of my eyes?’
At her Coming-of-Age Ceremony, the original Diana Cartier’s eye color doesn’t change.
So she changed the color of her eyes with a paralytic drug, ready to die.
She changed them to purple eyes, a token of being loved by everyone.
‘It’s enough if my family loves me, but what else did she want?’
What a fool.
I shook my head, recalling what I did in the original work.
Of course, I pledge that I would never do such a thing.
“Are you really alright, Young Miss?”
Masha was still worried about me.
I smiled brightly.
“Yup. Since Older Brother is not a person who will abandon me just because our mothers are different.”
“…Young Miss.”
Masha’s eyes became teary at the thought of it.
‘It must be because in Masha’s head now, I’m the young Young Miss who is in a different state than usual because I suddenly had an accident, right?’
Phew, anyway.
It’s because Masha is too nice.
“If there is anything difficult, I want to be of help even if I lack the skills. Young Miss.”
Masha was carefully reading my mood.
“I’m really okay.”
Her worries weren’t just because Gabriel and I seemed to have a bad relationship.
“Well, what can I do with a person who gave birth to me and left me alone.”
In fact, Diana of the original work was not twisted from the beginning.
The reason why I went off tangent was—
‘It was because of the incident where my mother, whose real name and identity were unknown, disappeared as soon as she gave birth to a newborn baby.’
That’s why, there were all sorts of rumors. Diana Cartier was of low blood, her biological mother was murdered, etc.
‘How could a 10-year-old not be shocked when she found out about such things?’
I still get angry when I think about it, even though I already know everything.
Still, I was able to calm down quickly.
Because…
“I have Older Brothers with me, and there is Masha and other people too.”
At what I said, Marsha gasped and her eyes glowed.
“Oh my gosh! When did our Young Miss become so mature like this…!?”
Ah, but it’s a little burdensome if you say it like that.
“Hm, hm. Anyway, don’t worry too much. I’m okay, Masha.”
“…Yes, Young Miss!”
After laughing at Masha, who looked happy.
I took a sip of cold tea.
‘Um, it’s not good!’
As always, the tea made by our butler was the worst.
I hurriedly ate the remaining cookies, savoring the taste that made me feel rejuvenated.
I said to Masha, who looked at me happily.
“By the way, Masha, prepare me a carriage. I have to go out.”
“What? You’re going out? Suddenly, where to?”
Marsha was worried because I recently went out a lot to prepare to drive out the fraud.
‘I also want to take a rest since I’ve done something big today….’
But I couldn’t be like that because my work was not completely finished yet.
“Yup. Since I need to get someone to sell the magic stones for me.”