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Stoen City, capital of East Chester County, Loen Kingdom.
A sunny Sunday afternoon.
After leaving the manor and returning to the castle, Audrey finished socializing with the young nobles there and sent a servant to Bavart Bank to withdraw some cash.
Now, she no longer needed to worry about anything. She could easily repay the 2,000 pounds she owed Mr. Fool's Believer and pay Mr. World the 1,800 pounds for the Psychiatrist characteristic.
A quarter of an hour later, Audrey opened her bedroom door, glanced at Annie, her lady's maid, who was supervising the servants nearby, and lowered her head to look at the Golden Retriever waiting by the wall. Smiling, she lowered her voice and said with sparkling eyes:
"Susie, you'll be getting a present in a little while. Are you looking forward to it?"
She had asked Susie earlier and learned that she had completely digested her potion this Wednesday.
The old Audrey would certainly have said, "Susie, your present is here!" That would have let the Golden Retriever discover that she could receive physical objects inside her room, which could easily lead Susie, who had recently been studying the fundamentals of mysticism diligently, to guess that ritualistic magic was involved.
With a change in wording, it became a case of Audrey receiving a mysterious letter or message in her bedroom confirming that the present would arrive soon, leaving far too many possibilities.
Susie read Audrey's heartfelt joy and sincerity. Instinctively, she was about to open her mouth, vibrate the air, and ask what the present was, but she keenly noticed Annie, Audrey's lady's maid, approaching and warily abandoned her original intention.
She reverted to behaving like an ordinary dog, slowly wagging her tail to express her happiness and anticipation.
After deliberately finding an excuse to take