CH 126

Walter Schneiver POV*

I could always see what other people had shining. Especially the more the owner cherishes it, the more wonderful it shines.

That’s why I want it.

I have a brother who is four years younger than me. His name is Ursch. Ursch has a lovely fiancée, and he cares about her very much. For Ursch, his fiancée Isabella seems to be his only ‘treasure’.

For some reason, my family, the ‘Schneiver Family’, has many people who are unusually obsessed with the ‘treasure’, which was once defined as ‘the only one’. ‘Treasure’ is not necessarily ‘Things’. For example, ‘person’, ‘action’, ‘concept’.

It is said that my great-grandfather’s ‘the only one’ was ‘treasure hunt’. It seems that he spent his life searching for ‘The Cemetery of the Imperial Family of the Benogeden Empire’ and ‘The Hidden Treasure of the Linley bandits who were annihilated 500 years ago.’

My grandfather’s ‘the only one’ is currently under investigation. I’m curious about people’s treasures.

My mother’s ‘the only one’ is ‘beautiful girls or beautiful boys under 10 years old’. Beautiful boys are forced to dress up as women, so I think it’s okay to judge that she likes ‘beautiful girls under 10 years old’.

Because of such a mother, I was dressed as a woman when i was a child. It’s an annoying ‘the only thing’ really. Well, I was a beautiful boy, so it can’t be helped. I can say it myself, but I have a well-organized face.

By the way, my father is an adopted son-in-law, so he doesn’t have this property.

It doesn’t matter if you are obsessed with the ‘treasure’ of this ‘Schneiver Family’ and want to get it, they are unforgiving to those who disturb it or try to take it away. In addition, my family is called ‘Fafnir’s family’ behind the scenes because they were troubled by the fact that we were making a lot of money by expanding the power of the ‘Company’.

I’m wondering if I can make a ‘treasure’ that I want someday, but I don’t feel like I can make a ‘treasure’ so far.

Rather than that, I’m curious about the ‘treasure’ that people have, and I can’t help but want it.

Right now, what I’m interested in and want is my brother Ursch’s fiancée, ‘Isabella-ojousama’. It’s just that, she has the position of a duke’s daughter, so I can’t handle it carelessly. She’s already Ursch’s ‘the only one’, so it’s hard to touch it because I don’t know what Ursch will do when I try to take it away.

Also, another thing I’m interested in and want is ‘Ursch’, which Isabella is looking up at with glittering eyes. Well, he’s my younger brother.

At first, I didn’t understand why my brother Ursch was so cherished by his fiancée. His eyes are thin and I don’t know if they’re open or not. The hair is fluffy and messy, and it’s not cohesive, and it sways every time he moves. He talks in a prolonged way that makes me lose my strength. He is indifferent to his surroundings. His sleeping position is so bad that’s it’s impossible for him to sleep well. It’s no wonder what kind of dreams you have when you’re in a sleeping position like that, as if you failed to turn back over.

However, Isabella-ojousama said that she likes Ursch and said he was wonderful, so she cherished him carefully and looked at him with sparkling eyes, so my younger brother seemed to be something very nice and good. It’s shining. He’s cherished that much, so there’s no difference between good things. I want it~.

Is it okay to get it as a set of two people? Isabella-ojousama is a duke’s daughter, so I can’t get my hands on her ‘now’, but when she becomes Ursch’s wife, she’s no longer a duke’s daughter and becomes the wife of a merchant, so the obstacles around her will be reduced.

In order to do that, I have to clean up the things that are likely to be obstacles.

While looking out the window, I called out to my youngest brother, who was standing diagonally behind me while wearing a black and white lolita dress.

“Wesley. What happened to what you were asked for?”

In response, my younger brother, who will soon turn nine years old, answered clearly while playing with his hair wrapped in a ringlet.

“At the moment, neither father nor grandfather has noticed it. Both of them are wary of Walter-oniisama, so it’s easy to move and it’s helpful. But the former Hyde Company staff and Paul’s guard are solid. I still don’t know where father’s ‘that’ is.”

“What about mother?”

“I wonder if it’s okay. She’s still turning into a little girl with medicine and having a tea party around the girl. Mother’s heart is forever in ‘Neverland’, and she doesn’t care about what’s outside. I’m sure she’s not aware of anything.”

I looked away from the window and faced my younger brother Wesley.

“Is there anything else you found out?”

When asked, Wesley turned over the silver ringlet with his gloved hand and grinned while narrowing his crimson eyes.

I think grandfather’s ‘the only one’ is confirmed by ‘that’. When great-grandfather was doing a ‘treasure hunt’, he entrusted ‘that’ to grandfather. I just don’t know where grandfather is hiding it. In addition, it seems like Paul, when he was calling himself the phantom thief ‘Invisible Phantom’, was aiming for ‘that’ when he was captured by grandfather.”

“So grandfather has the last one of the ‘that’ that father has collected around each country.”

“I don’t think he’s worried because Walter-oniisama is making suspicious movements while father and grandfather are restraining each other. By the way, can I get the reward for getting the information so far? Oniisama?”

“Of course. I got the scales of the sea serpent ‘Crystal Snake’ that was subdued in the Republic of Karaka six months ago. The transparent blue scales change the appearance of the surface color depending on how the light hits. Is that alright for the reward this time?”

“Well!! That’s wonderful!! I’m so happy, oniisama!! If you find other ‘beautiful monster material’, please get if!! Also, I’m running out of specimen boxes for the collection. There was a glass case that looked like a picture frame hanging on the wall, right? I want more of that too!!”

“Okay. I’ll have it ready. The scales of Crystal Snake were left to Grandpa Tao, so please get them.”

“Thank you, Walter-oniisama!! I love you!!”

Saying that, Wesley ran out of the room with joy.

It seems that my younger brother, Wesley, is currently addicted to ‘Collecting beautiful monster materials’. At the age of nine, he has a collection room. Specimen boxes are piled up according to the type of monster on shelves lined up like a library. There will soon be no place to put the specimen boxes. However, it’s not his ‘the only one’, it seems to be a hobby. What on earth will be Wesley’s ‘the only one’ in the future?

Putting that aside, let’s think about the information Wesley brought this time.

The information that Wesley brought is almost the same as the information I got and the other information I asked for.

A ‘mysterious jewel that seems to be a magic jewel’ that my great-grandfather bought from a treasure hunter he met while searching for ‘the hidden treasure of the Linley bandits’. It seems that grandfather inherited it and protected it carefully as a ‘treasure’ until now.

My grandfather seems to be wary of me, who has a similar personality to my father, and after his death, my grandfather seems to want to entrust the jewel to my younger brother Ursch, not to me, the heir. However, it seems that my father is aiming for the jewel, which is troublesome.

It would be really troublesome if Ursch took over the magic jewel that my father was aiming for. My father, who is aiming for magical jewels, gets in the way of the future design that I want, ‘Get my younger brother and his wife, and confine them, two blessings at once’.

So, I’ll snatch all those magic jewels from the side and get them.

Because the name of the jewel is also perfect for me, isn’t it?

‘Fragment of the Looting King, Walefor’. A magic jewel that is divided into five parts and looks like a three-dimensional puzzle.

I don’t know if it’s a lie or the truth, but it’s one of the ten divisions of the ‘Demon King’ who was on another continent a long time ago.

According to the old story I heard, seven out of the ten pieces got a human body, and in the middle of the journey, they got tired and started living as a person in their favorite land. But two of the ten were so powerful that they couldn’t get a human body. That’s why they usually have a spirit in the magic stone, and instead of helping the owner of the magic jewel, they sometimes borrow the body of the owner and enjoy the human world. Was it?

Among them, those who were afraid of the power of the magic jewels sealed one of the two magic jewels and divided one into five and scattered it all over the continent.

I don’t know how true it is, but it’s amazing that all five of the jewels that seem to be the magic jewel ‘Fragment of the Looting King’ that should have fallen apart, are in the Schneiver family.

What’s amazing is my father who traveled all around the continent and collected four. Thank you for your hard work.

I’m sorry that you tried your best to collect it, but I’ll take it.

Also, I will take care of the last piece that my grandfather is trying to entrust to Ursch for the rest of my life. Rest assured that I will cherish it.

Well, it’s the beginning of the ‘Treasure Hunting Game in the Schneiver Family’~.