MPBAGS Chapter 9

I'm now an awesome transmigrator who can even read letters.

Since I can read letters, it's time to go through Evangeline's diary. While I'm at it, I'll also look for summoning spells and try summoning spirits or dragons to become an overpowered character!

I got into position, but Pudding quickly sat on my lap. With Pudding, I opened the diary with a neat and reverent heart.

March 9th, Year 370.
I met Count Rohanson.

It's been a while since I've seen a diary that doesn't start on January 1st. Come to think of it, what year is it now?

"What year is it this year?"

"It's year 392 by Imperial calendar."

I asked Hanna, who I'd gotten quite close with lately, about the year. It would be reasonable for her to find her employer pathetic, but Hanna answered kindly.

Year 392? I looked at the date again. That's more than twenty years ago. Then this wasn't Evangeline's diary. I got it wrong.

August 9th, Year 370.
That man asked me to marry him.

It seemed the diary's owner was Evangeline's mother. There was also talk about just getting married to Count Rohanson. She wasn't the type to write long entries, so the content wasn't long and the dates jumped ahead quickly too.

August 19th, Year 370.
Father issued a house arrest order. He's certain that man proposed marriage targeting the ducal family. Papa has never even met him directly? He said he really loves me. That even without money, it would be okay.

Evangeline's mother seemed to be the third child of a ducal family. Unfortunately, the exact family name wasn't written.

Anyway, it was a story about a daughter of a wealthy ducal family who fell in love with a count she met by chance, married him despite her family's opposition, and was disowned by her family.

April 2nd, Year 371.
I should have listened to Papa. I want to go back to the ducal family.

However, Count Rohanson's purpose was money, and after swallowing up the dowry that Evangeline's mother brought, their relationship became distant. As soon as I saw it, I thought, ah, this is a cliché.

Now it's about clinging to the estranged maternal family instead of Count Rohanson. The maternal grandfather actually loves his daughter and sees his dead daughter overlapping with his granddaughter, that kind of thing.

But... isn't that a child-rearing story? Evangeline was too old for a child-rearing story. It seems too late to fall into the child-rearing route. Damn, if I had transmigrated just a few years earlier!

The diary got longer as the days passed. Since there was no one to confide in, she seemed to have written her inner thoughts in the diary.

The handwriting became increasingly strange, and perhaps because of that, there were strangely some letters I couldn't read. It seemed like the content of the writing was changing...

The important thing is the summoning spell...

[Method to summon □□]

[Stand on □

Defile the ground with the □□ of □□□

Draw a circle with your □ hands

Humbly beseech and long for □

Make grapes ripen on thorns

And make figs bear fruit on thistles

□□ and □□

Welcome the □□ of □□ who will turn the earth and descend to the ground]

Excuse me? The translator is malfunctioning? I should have figured this out from when the translation patch took so long!

It seems the patch isn't complete. I guess it's somewhat good that I can see letters at all.

Let me try reading only what's visible. So... defile the ground and draw a circle with my hands? What's this about thorns and grapes? Does it mean planting beans but getting red beans instead? What is this saying!

What are we summoning? The letters are already broken and the content is uselessly difficult, so I don't understand any of it.

This is why star tutors make good money. If they just organized it clearly with numbers like 1. Draw a circle 2. Summon, how nice would that be.

My head hurts. Time out for a moment. I'll have to let this sit until the translation gets patched. Paper doesn't run away.

'Where did it go?'

It ran away.

The paper I left on the desk disappeared without a trace. The diary was fine, but only the paper was gone. I searched the entire room but couldn't find it.

"Hanna, did you happen to see the paper that was on the desk?"

"No..."

I was only in the room all day, so when did it disappear? The only time I left the room was when I took a walk yesterday. Don't tell me someone cleaned while I wasn't in the room and threw it away thinking it was trash?

I haven't even interpreted it yet! I haven't even tried summoning yet! This is why you shouldn't live lazily!

First I need to find out who cleaned. Then I can ask about the paper's whereabouts. I grabbed a passing servant.

"Who entered my room yesterday?"

"Ye, yesterday? If it's yesterday, it would be Do, Donau."

"Where is he now?"

"Well... Donau didn't come in today..."

Don't tell me this is the hit-and-run I've only heard about?

Come to think of it, because of the translator error, it might have looked strange only to me, and to other people's eyes it might have looked normal. While cleaning my room, he saw an awesome summoning method and just stole it and took it with him.

If he had thrown it away thinking it was trash, there would be no reason for him to be absent without leave today!

"...Did Donau perhaps do something?"

"He did. I think he stole something of mine."

Evangeline was a villainess but had a setting of being somewhat bullied. I didn't want to slap people and pull rank, so I just let it be, but even if not slapping, I should have fired him long ago. There's nothing else to steal, so he stole my other-world overpowered route?

"From now on, tell everyone that whoever touches my things, no matter who it is, I'll cut their head off."

Everyone's heads are forfeit! I'll abuse my personnel authority freely.

I went straight to the butler and got Donau's home address. I didn't know I'd be making my first outing after transmigration for such a regrettable reason.

Because I didn't know the geography well, Hanna, who lived nearby, accompanied me. Thinking we were going for a walk, Pudding also tagged along.

When I told the coachman the address, he dropped us off in the outskirts, quite far from the mansion. From then on, Hanna guided the way.

"Here it is."

Finally we arrived! You thief, wait for me. I'll get back my other-world overpowered route.

Forget knocking, I just kicked the door down.