Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 789 The Unexpected Guest

Exhausted, Katarina collapsed onto an extremely beautiful, enormous fur coat, muttering to herself... as if she were the one who had lost.

In reality, it took Pearl and Persephone taking turns to barely manage to answer the questions correctly for the Swift Wolf.

Katarina, as expected of a Gale Wolf raised among dragons, exhibits behavior patterns very much like a five-colored dragon.

Crucially, she also possesses the cunning and treachery of a wolf, as well as a great deal of caution.

Every surprise attack was spectacular.

Armies almost helped Pearl several times, but thankfully he held back in the end.

After all, the generous treatment Pearl is receiving now is entirely due to Persephone's kindness.

But if she herself cannot gain a foothold at the entrance to the underworld, Persephone cannot possibly abandon her own affairs to help her.

Even if the ghosts of the Hamilton family were willing to abandon the leisurely, joyful, and lively days in the City of Death to help her on that desolate plain, the main tasks still had to be completed by Pearl herself.

Perhaps because he always regarded Pearl as a weakened version of Persephone who had lost her memory, the impression of Pearl in Armies' mind was actually very shallow.

After all, all his kindness towards his sister was because she was Persephone.

Greek gods, except for twins, don't value sibling relationships.

Even if they share the same father and mother.

Those with slightly better relationships are usually mothers who have a strong sense of responsibility and maternal love.

In Greece, the mother is the center of the family, determining whether the family is united or torn apart.

Much of what Armies and Persephone did for Pearl was because of the Countess.

If Pearl still doesn't grow enough despite all the efforts, then in the end she will have to be abandoned.

A person whose appearance suggests they can only live near the main body and cannot even perform the simplest guard duty cannot exist for long.
Sooner or later, Persephone will naturally take it back.

The gods have plenty of time to wait.

Countess, there will come a day when you can’t tell the difference between Pearl and the Pearl played by Persephone.

However, Pearl seems to have grown a lot.

Armies made Pearl and Katharina compile statistics not just for the sake of the accuracy of those numbers.

Rather, it was to train Pearl's ability to handle things.

Katarina is ruthless and shameless, with countless tricks up her sleeve and a big, cooperative tail... If you're not careful, she can swindle a lot of money from you.

Money itself is not important.

The fact that a cunning man like Armies could have such a lively and engaging discussion with Lori is because he himself didn't take these warehouses seriously.

He has been walking among the stars for hundreds of thousands of years!
Although it can only be opened later, his secret treasure trove has as many as thirty-six chambers.

Even though he knew in his heart that he should ask for more, and had behaved very well in the past, when facing someone like Lori who knew the truth and whose status was comparable, Armies subconsciously wanted to maintain Olympia's image.

Therefore, the focus these past few days has been on Pearl's attitude and performance.

If she finds haggling with Katharina too tiring and troublesome, and turns to the Countess for help, then there's no need to look at her performance anymore.

Whether she can persevere to the end depends on how far she can go.

After all, given Pearl's abilities, it would be difficult for her to see through Katarina's little tricks.

She had to keep track of her own resources while also remembering how much Katarina had taken.
They even had to record the dimensions of the mountain of gems... any extra piece would be immediately noticeable.

This is really difficult.

It was a huge test of Pearl's physical strength, endurance, and willpower.

Four days is an unbelievably long time.

But if Pearl were to deplete her own energy and mental strength and rely on herself to persevere to the very end, that wouldn't work either.

The task of the face is never to defeat an enemy that even the main body cannot defeat.

You must call for help immediately when you need to.

Pearl performed her assessment almost perfectly.

The girl lying on the Countess's body with a blank expression... was actually completely blank as well.

Both consciousnesses actually chose to desert at the last minute, neither wanting to continue working... Now, this treasure vault is the worse one.

Persephone is indeed Persephone!
Almes looked at the eyes that slowly brightened because of his mother's caring greeting and smiled slightly.

Sure enough, only Pearl came out.

Who told her to love this mother more!

Katarina suddenly sat up: "In the next treasure vault, will Lori's be in the same proportions as before?"

“Of course.” Armies looked at her with a strange expression. “The value of the Starry Night Mask is not to the point that Lori would include the unknown.”

The true value of this warehouse lies beyond the treasure itself.

Chista's mask was a pleasant surprise. What kind of aesthetic sense could a demigod like Amannata possibly possess besides gold as one of his subordinates?

If this place contained a warehouse full of rare magical materials, Lori would never have backed down so readily.

Of course, Almes could understand why Katharina said she was in unbearable pain.

After all, it's a dragon.

Although the mage's talent gave him absolute rationality, allowing him to make the most appropriate decision.

But the dragon's blood will inevitably boil because of the gold mountain that it voluntarily gave up.

Lowry was truly the most self-controlled dragon he had ever met.

Katarina gave Pearl a disapproving look: "Do I have to make your troublesome sister do the statistics with me?"

“If Pearl is causing you trouble, then she’s doing a really good job,” Armand replied honestly. “I’ll only encourage her to keep it up.”

"But she's too slow!" Katarina said irritably, rubbing the white fur beneath her with her front paws. "She doesn't know how to coordinate between the two of them, and she's always a bit dumbfounded every time we switch!"

This is too much trouble... Can't one person do the calculations outside and the other inside?

Armies asked hesitantly, "Katarina, you don't think I didn't know that when they were confused for a moment, they were comparing the totals with the previous ones, do you?"

The one that comes out is the most reliable.

The receptionist was actually confused by Katarina's 'flying around'.

The new one needs to put back the things that Katarina took away as soon as possible; otherwise, after this part, Katarina will never admit to the previous problems.

Although she was the one who was always dragging things out, Katarina could always say with a straight face, "My time is time too."

Katarina lazily lay back down: "I just wanted to see if your attitude was proper."

What nonsense?
Armies shook his head helplessly and looked at the time-keeping funnel he had been using: "Our time limit for staying in this treasure vault is almost up. Katarina, can we leave now?"
We can't wait until the last second.

Bowen immediately stood up and began to inspect the treasure vault, which had been thoroughly cleaned, and then tried to peel off the gold patterns on the walls with his hands.

Unfortunately, the golden patterns only signify that this treasure trove belongs to the retinue of the sun god, and are not an external inlay.

Bowen regretfully let go: "I wonder if the next one will be just as magnificent."

"Most likely not," Armes replied slowly as he helped his mother and sister onto the swan boat. "The more powerful a being is, the less likely it is to keep its gold and jewels in a noisy, empty vault."

Only the weak would do such troublesome things.

Katarina retracted her fur cushion, pressed her left front paw against the gunwale, and asked casually, "Put it in the demiplane like Lori?"

"Lorraine's demiplane fragment is quite large!" Armies exclaimed before replying, "More or less!"
After all, Lowry doesn't need to worry about anyone checking what's in his demiplane.

No one could force him to open his demiplane.

Katarina tilted her head, somewhat confused: "The ancestor of the Lily family?"

This was the first time Armes had heard someone consider Tiamat and Amannatta to be the same kind of beings, but upon reflection, they did seem to be quite similar.

“Then Lily’s ancestor was still stronger.” Armies also chose to address her from the heart, “She only acted unreasonably within her own clan and in front of strong individuals she could defeat.”

Amannatta treats everyone the same.

“I understand.” Katarina suddenly realized, “Although they are both bullies who prey on the weak and fear the strong, but that…”

It's good to know, but I won't say it out loud.

If one day Tiamat learns that she has a great-granddaughter named Lily, she can trace back to this conversation from the history related to dragons.

It would be better if Katarina used fewer of her abundant adjectives.

The Gale Wolf blinked: "Wow~ That's amazing!"

She could understand that Lori told her to avoid calling the gods by their names after she went out, but she never expected that it would still be brought up from the annals of history after all these years.

That five-colored dragon queen was so strong it was almost frightening.

"Are you all seated?" Katarina wasn't going to make things difficult for herself and immediately got back to business. "The Katarina Swan Ship is about to set sail again!"

“Alright,” Ezra replied after checking Bowen’s safety devices again.

Looking back, Armies said firmly, "Then I'll leave it to you again, Katarina."

The adamantine key shone brightly in mid-air.

"Out...? Huh?" Katarina's cheerful voice came to an abrupt halt.

The people on the swan ship, including Armies, were in great pain because of the sudden stop of the space jump.

He even gagged, completely oblivious to what was happening.

"Guest, guest..." Only Katarina spoke cautiously, "Excuse me, who are you looking for?"
The Katalina warmly welcomes you!

"Looking for you... the mage behind you, your world is called Nature Mage, right?"

A faint, ethereal voice surrounded her, and Katarina nervously looked around, but unfortunately, she couldn't see anything.

(End of this chapter)