"We only thought that Lady Nice was organizing Her Majesty the queen's belongings."
At that moment, Lady Nice, whose clothes were about to be taken off, suddenly started shouting. "How dare you treat your master like this?"
Daddy almost laughed in anger when he heard this. "I had no idea. Since when did a mere deputy head maid become the mistress of the queen's palace?"
Seeing this, Lady Nice hurriedly tried to explain. "No, Your Majesty. It's just that all these things were gifts from Her Majesty the queen."
Hearing this, brother was furious. "This woman is insufferable. We should have finished her off back then."
With that, brother immediately cast an anti-magic spell on Lady Nice. At last, the maids were able to smoothly remove the queen's accessories. Daddy immediately took back the crown.
"This crown has been handed down through the royal family to each successive queen, and you actually dared to wear it on your head so casually. And that gown you're wearing is the very dress the queen wore at her wedding. You say she gave these to you. Do you think that sounds remotely reasonable?"
Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, Lady Nice suddenly grew agitated. "But Your Majesty, Her Majesty the queen personally entrusted me with taking good care of the two children. Now that she's gone, you should be making me queen instead."
The girl was almost driven mad with anger when she heard this. Her mother had treated her so well. Yet this woman only ever wanted to take her mother's place.
Just then, a red system pop-up suddenly appeared. Item X-ray Eyes has produced a side effect. While using X-ray Eyes to monitor a specific location within three hundred metres for five minutes, random side effects such as dry eye, rhinitis, etc. may occur.
The next second, the girl's eyes started tearing up uncontrollably. It seemed she had triggered the dry eye side effect. Since there were no eye drops here, the girl could only keep rubbing her eyes non-stop.
But in the eyes of everyone else, this scene turned into a huge misunderstanding. First, Miranda suddenly felt a sharp pang of conscience. After all, the girl had ended up like this all because of her aunt. Then daddy and brother rushed over to the girl's side and began frantically comforting her. In the end, all the maid sisters glared viciously at Lady Nice.
Lady Nice was startled by the looks they gave her. Then Miranda suddenly dropped to her knees with a thud. "Your Majesty, please allow me to be punished together with my aunt."
For the past four years, her aunt had been freely using Her Majesty the queen's belongings. She had even transferred the queen's palace budget and valuables into her own name. "You only need to check the assets under my name, because my aunt used the names of other relatives."
Hearing this, the girl fell into thoughtful silence. In fact, she had known all this long ago. Back when she first gained the ability to hear Miranda's inner voice, she had already sent the head attendant to gather evidence.
Seeing the evidence that the head attendant had handed over right on cue, daddy was confused. "So you knew about this long ago?"
When the head attendant heard this, he hurriedly explained. "Not at all, Your Majesty. It was Her Highness the princess who found Lady Nice's clothes overly luxurious and grew suspicious. Only then did she order me to investigate. I am truly ashamed that we discovered this so late."
Miranda was moved to tears when she heard this. "As expected of Her Highness the princess. You had noticed long ago. You were just waiting for me to come forward and confess on my own, weren't you? I really have no face to see you."
Daddy also gave high praise to the girl's intelligence and wisdom, which made the girl smug for quite a while.
Then daddy ordered people to drag Lady Nice out to be executed and to confiscate all assets under her name. Lady Nice was so terrified that she kept begging for mercy.
Just when the girl thought everything was finally about to end, the system suddenly sent a new quest. It actually wanted the girl to save Lady Nice. Did this woman still have some use in the future?
Although it was troublesome not to be able to eliminate the problem at the root, it probably wouldn't end well if she went against the system's quest. On top of that, seeing that she still hadn't responded, the system immediately stated that this sudden quest came with intermediate compensation. This finally shook the girl's resolve. She could only pretend to be troubled by her conscience and beg daddy not to kill Lady Nice.
And as a doting father obsessed with his daughter, daddy naturally couldn't bear to refuse the girl's request.
Lady Nice never expected the girl to suddenly plead on her behalf. But thinking about it more closely, it actually made sense. After all, the girl was still so young. She must see her as a kind of mother figure. Only when she caught sight of the girl's cold smile did she realize she had been played. She was so furious that she kept loudly cursing the girl as a little devil.
Hearing this, brother wished he could cut her down on the spot, but the girl had already interceded for her. Even so, daddy still decided to give her a proper lesson.
After Lady Nice was dragged away, it was time to deal with Miranda. Although she was an accomplice, she had voluntarily confessed for the girl's sake and produced the evidence. So the girl decided to grant her a special pardon. However, Miranda would no longer be allowed to remain in the palace.
Miranda never expected the girl to treat her so kindly. She thanked her profusely on the spot. Then she resolutely left the palace.
Seeing that the girl could be so kind-hearted, the maid sisters couldn't help but have tears in their eyes as well. But how could someone this gentle possibly survive in such a treacherous world? The girl, however, felt deeply embarrassed by this. Right now, she just felt very tired.
In the blink of an eye, the girl was almost seven years old. One day, she dreamed of past memories about the demon king. Back then, when he was still in human form, he had once confessed his love to her with deep feeling.
The girl was furious when she heard that confession. She felt that saying such things now sounded just like last words. The demon king was both amused and helpless when he heard that, and immediately said, "Then I'll wait until after we capture the demon king to confess again."
In truth, at that time he really had been looking forward to a beautiful future for the two of them. He just never imagined it would ultimately turn into such a tragedy.
Thinking of this, the girl jolted awake. Right after that, she received a strange quest issued by the system. The completion condition was to eliminate a traitor. Could the traitor this time also be the demon king? If so, she would never let him off so easily again.
Because she hadn't slept well, the girl came to the table yawning. And because she kept spacing out while eating, daddy was worried sick. But since the girl insisted she was fine, daddy could only let it go. He changed the subject to the girl's upcoming seventh birthday.
Daddy wanted to give the girl a castle named after her. Brother wanted to inlay that castle all over with gold. Hearing this, the girl was exasperated. Honestly, were this father and son pair completely out of their minds? Even though the two of them had done many similar things in the past, why did they have to inlay precious gold into a castle?
Soon after, the girl understood why her brother could be so lavish. It turned out that as the empire's only prince, he not only owned three gold mines, but also several silver mines. And previously, Achilles's gold mine had also been reassigned under brother's name. So in fact, brother owned four gold mines.
This instantly made the girl wildly excited. She was especially thrilled to hear daddy say that after her seventh birthday, she would also have a gold mine of her own. This made her even more excited. She wished she could grow up right away.