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Chapter 177
I quietly stared at the elixir, a tiny thing the size of a fingernail. But I couldn’t let its small size fool me. Its value was so incredible that even if one had hundreds of gold nuggets the same size, they still wouldn't match its worth.
Thus, getting it as a gift left me feeling overwhelmed, especially because it was from Duke Atlante, which made the whole thing even more uncomfortable.
‘… Well, technically, Butler Bent might have prepared it.’
Eileen received a gift too, but the content was different. She got a bracelet she had always wanted, while this elixir was something Bent had wanted to acquire but couldn’t when I pretended to be sick back then.
It was unlikely the Duke paid enough attention to select gifts tailored to each of our tastes.
‘Besides, the Duke isn’t really the type to personally select gifts for people anyway.’
He would even probably tell Bent to handle the gifts for the King, wouldn’t he?
Even so…
