Chapter 180

It seems that we have found a secret document hidden by the family that was here before it became the Duke’s territory.

‘Then maybe there is an answer here?’

With a flash of thought, I quickly checked the documents.

But sadly, because these documents are too old, most of them were either too dry or on the verge of being powder, or the ink had evaporated.

However, there was one that was particularly well kept.

It was parchment paper with special treatment, not plain paper.

It seemed like something important.

‘…… What was written?’

But I couldn’t read, so I just frowned.

There were sparsely written characters that looked like the kingdom language, but the other characters were things I had never seen before.

Then Maya came and saw it and muttered.

“I think this is an ancient language/”

“Is that true?”

“Yes. I can’t read it either, but I think it looks similar.”

Maya’s words made me depressed.

‘Ancient language! What to do? There can be no one in this castle who can read it.’

It was obvious that linguists would know about ancient languages, but ordinary people would not know about ancient languages.

But in the very next moment, Maya said that there was a way.

“Come to think of it, I think there was a dictionary of ancient languages ​​in the library where we were before.”

“…… !”

“Let’s go back to the library and try to interpret this. I think it will be fun.”

There was no way I could refuse Maya’s words that exactly matched my will.

“Great!”

* * *

After a while.

Seeing the two of us returning with an unidentified parchment, the other children scrambled to ask questions.

“Mir! I was surprised that you suddenly disappeared…….”

“Where did you two go?”

“Miss Emir! What is that paper?”

I told the children what had happened earlier in the study next to the office.

“You found this in a secret space?”

“Then why did you go to that study?”

To answer that question, I had no choice but to talk about the coldness in the Duke’s Castle that started a year ago.

But, as I am not the owner of this castle, can I speak up?

After a moment of hesitation, luckily Maya came along and explained to the other children.

“Is that real? How amazing. So it’s never been this cold before.”

Together, we decided to try to interpret the parchment.

Fortunately, there was only one chapter, and it wasn’t very long.

Maya pulled out several ancient language dictionaries from the bookshelf.

We were seated at the table.

A blank sheet of paper and parchment were placed in the middle, and each started working with the dictionary open one by one.

‘I feel like we’re doing something great.’

In fact, it was a simple and time-consuming task to search through the dictionary one by one to find the letters that had the same shape as those written on the parchment.

But when we all worked together, it went faster than expected.

“I found it! I think this is a character that means ‘stone’.”

“I found it too! It means ‘bury in the ground’.”

Suddenly, the sky outside the library was dyed orange.

But we were busy flipping through the dictionary without noticing it.

As the number of words found increased, it felt like the outline of the document was getting more and more defined.

‘As expected, this was about the Duke’s territory.’

My thoughts became more and more clear.

Finally, just before the sun went down, after hours of hard work, we managed to interpret the document.

* * *

How to deal with the Duke’s territory’s cold weather was easier than I thought.

It would have been nice if we had found this paper a little earlier, I regret it.

‘Yes, my guess was right.’

I remembered the vacant lot where we had a fish barbecue last night.

The pits that were dug up to remove stones and level the ground, and piles of stones piled up like garbage on one side.

It was no wonder why the Duke’s territory’s weather got this cold.

It was because they had dug up one of the stones on which the magic to protect this land was cast.

It was said that five colored stones were buried deep in the vacant lot from a very long time ago.

However, it was written that if even one stone disappeared, the balance would be disturbed and the order of the Duke’s territory would be disturbed.

‘So, we have to find the dug-out stone and bury it again in the same place.’

Fortunately, it wasn’t difficult as there were detailed explanations on where to bury it.

It probably wouldn’t be difficult to find the stone.

Looking inside the piled up piles of stones, it was clear that they would e out.

We were about to head outside.

However, we were blocked by employees including the butler.

“Young Master. The sun is setting, are you going out? With your friends too. No. It is dangerous.”

“Butler, we found something important. Take a look at this.”

Maya quickly explained to the butler in a louder-than-usual voice.

“My, my God! Goodness, Young Master! How do you…….”

It was such shocking news that even the butler, whose eyes had been dimmed, widened after a while.

Around us, the employees of the Duke’s castle gathered one by one.

“What’s going on?”

“I don’t know. The master and his friends said they found something important.”