After a successful dungeon dive, Elizabeth—now Ellie Leis—and the others emerge with the necessary supplies to create an antidote for the victims of the king poison slime...and with a little girl. Stranger still, the mysterious child they found inside the corpse of a fire drake considers Ellie her mother! Unwilling to cast her away, Ellie adopts her and names her Alice. Ellie wants to do right by the young girl and raise her properly, but the former aristocrat is unsure how to proceed because she didn’t have the most loving childhood. As she tries to navigate motherhood, Ellie discovers counterfeit money in the empire! She immediately attempts to trace it and finds it might have connections to the firm she used to own in the kingdom...