“It's hereーーー!”

Li accidentally let her true self slip out.

Seeing that reaction, her father’s eyes widened in surprise.

“Amazing! Li-chan!”

Mother and daughter high-fived and spun around in place as if dancing.

“Ahem.”

Their father deliberately cleared his throat.

“Veronica, Li, calm down a little.”

The similar parent and child suddenly snapped back to themselves and looked at each other.

“Sorry.”

They both apologized honestly and sat down.

There was nothing written on the cover of the book that had come out of the magical tool.

To begin with, it was not a magical tool.

Nor was it a magic book.

The three of them leaned close together and flipped through the pages.

Although it was written in an old language, the contents seemed to be nothing more than an ordinary diary.

Hmm? Li thought.

‘A diary? Why? Was there another secret hidden somewhere? No, there had to be.’

Convinced of that, Li decided to summon Trismegistus.

“Father, Mother, I’m going to summon Tori-chan for a moment!”

As soon as she said it, Trismegistus appeared from the magic circle.

“Tori-chan, please analyze this book.”

“Understood. Leave it to me!”

It was the authority of Trismegistus.

It could duplicate the book itself into the Omniversal Archive Heaven’s Library that was connected to it.

And once the book was duplicated, Trismegistus could read the entire contents instantly.

“Master, the contents are just an ordinary diary. There are no particularly strange parts...”

“That cannot be right!”

Just as Li raised her voice, both of her parents had been looking at the original book and her father suddenly spoke.

“I think... I might understand.”

“Father!”

“As expected of you, Slan!”

Receiving sparkling looks from both his wife and daughter, Slan’s face stiffened slightly.

“The page numbers here are wrong.”

That was right.

Even though it was a diary, the book had page numbers.

Slan, who was meticulous by nature, had carefully checked the numbers.

It was also something like an occupational habit.

As the head of foreign affairs, he had developed the habit of examining documents thoroughly and carefully.

“Look. The previous page is six but this one is five. If that is correct, there should be others.”

This was exactly the moment for Trismegistus.

For some reason Li was reminded of a computer.

“Tori-chan, run a search!”

“That is my specialty!”

The jewel of Trismegistus glowed.

“There are fourteen pages where the numbers are wrong. I also figured out the meaning.”

“What is it?”

“From the beginning of each incorrect page, I connected the characters specified by the incorrect numbers. The result is: In the dungeon lies my house.”

It was more powerful than a computer.

Li reevaluated Trismegistus just a little.

But she did not say it out loud.

Because it would get carried away immediately.

“Honestly, what a tease!”

Her mother puffed out her cheeks.

That expression resembled her younger sister Sonia.

No, rather Sonia resembled their mother.

“Well, this cannot be helped. We will have to postpone it again.”

“Grr...”

Li ground her teeth.

It felt just like an old video game.

At one point in her life, Li had become deeply obsessed with retro games after she had grown older.

When she was a child they had been far too expensive.

But by the time she had grown up, cheap reissued versions had appeared.

Those memories of games came back to her.

Until you obtained the target item, you were forced to run countless errands.

In the worst cases you were sent back and forth so many times that you ended up thinking, what was the original objective again?

That was right.

Li had built up a resistance to such games.

Even so, for something called a reward, this was quite a roundabout method.

Because of that she could not help but feel her expectations rising.

If it was hidden this carefully, perhaps something truly incredible was waiting there.