Chapter 460 – Meeting
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Caria got into her prepared carriage and headed to her manor house. Entering Lord Ramona’s huge mansion… The direction of the carriage changes.
The carriage was heading somewhere other than the main building seen in front.
Nobles value courtesy.
I thought I might have said hello to the landlord first… But that didn’t seem to be the case.
“Originally, I should have said hello to Lord Ramona first, but I can’t help it now because she is unwell.”
Did he even understand my doubts?
Caria answered that question.
“I see.”
Whether the lord was sick or not was none of my business.
Rather, I thought it was good because there were less troublesome things.
After walking along the well-manicured tree-lined road for about a minute, an outbuilding appeared.
Even if it was a separate building, it was several times larger than the house I live in now.
A middle-aged man who looks like a butler comes out to the front door and welcomes us politely.
Following his guidance, we were able to enter the reception room with a front window.
The girl who was sitting at the table drinking tea elegantly stands up and politely bows her head to me.
“Nice to meet you, Lord Bark. My name is Saren Ramona.”
It’s not flashy, but it’s a neat and luxurious dress.
The girl, with her long dark purple hair and amber eyes, greeted me with the appearance of a well-groomed noblewoman.
“Nice to meet you… So.”
Out of habit, I almost spoke informally without realizing it.
“I found your duel impressive.”
Saren seems to have seen my duel with the Homan mercenaries in the arena.
I caught a glimpse of quite a few nobles coming to watch. I think she was there at that time too.
The most important thing is that she is a beauty.
There was nothing lacking in my blind date.
Behind her, a young male knight and a female knight, who appeared to be guards, stood expressionlessly left and right.
The man had a face that a woman would quite like, and the woman had an ordinary face with no flaws.
I sat down across from Saren.
“What did you call me for?”
“… I need your help.”
“Help? What help?”
“Oh, excuse me. I forgot you were from outside. Do you have no idea about the current situation of the Ramona family?”
Is it famous?
There was no way I, who had just arrived here, would know the circumstances of the noble family.
Should I have done some research in advance?
You also have to make an elixir.
I didn’t have time to do that because I was also training the servants.
Even if I had had time, I don’t think I would have investigated a nobleman I wasn’t curious about.
“I don’t know.”
“… Currently, the Ramona family is fighting over the successor.
“Fight over successor?”
“Yes, it is a fight between my older brother Cyrus and my younger brother Simon over the successor.”
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I felt like, ‘So what should I do?’
To put it bluntly, it was none of my business.
And isn’t it the same for Saren?
Most daughters of nobles leave for other places through arranged marriages. Perhaps the competition for her successor is not something she cares about.
“If it’s a competition between the eldest son and the second son to be the successor, it’s none of your business.”
I still couldn’t figure out why she brought up this story.
Saren, seeing my sullen expression, sighed and opened her mouth.
“My younger brother Simon is now 2 years old.”
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Saren told her story about her own family history.
Originally, the principle was that the lordship was inherited by the eldest son.
But a problem arose.
The eldest son is a complete idiot.
The eldest son, Cyrus, was fine when he was young, but now he is said to be completely crazy.
Murder, rape, kidnapping, gambling… Etc…
All sorts of scandals about Cyrus were brewing in the estate.
After hearing Saren’s story, I looked at Hilda who was standing next to me.
Hilda is known to be a Ramona native.
I wondered if you would know if it was a rumor of this magnitude.
Hilda looked at me and nodded her head quietly.
Saren’s story seemed to be true.
“Just as my father’s worries were getting worse… Fortunately, Simon was born.”
Lord Ramona got to see her late baby.
It seems that the lord knew that if he entrusted the territory to his eldest son Cyrus, he would be ruined.
So when Simon was born, I was relieved.
The lord was a person with extremely normal thoughts, and it is said that she chose Simon, who still seemed fine, as her next successor for the sake of the family’s development.
He ruled the territory himself, and if his second son, Simon, grew up well, he seemed to have planned to raise him as his successor.
But he became sick.
It is said that he is now in a coma.
If Lord Ramona dies like this, Cyrus will naturally ascend to the position of Lord.
There is no evidence that the lord’s coma was the work of Cyrus.
There was only heartache.
“If Cyrus ascends to the throne like this, the only path to ruin for the realm will be.”
… The situation was unfortunate, but it had nothing to do with me.
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I told Saren I would think about it.
I don’t really like giving space, but… I can’t help it.
If you flatly refuse and try to do it like Lord So, Crea, just because you feel bad, it will be a pain in the ass.
The elixir has not been completed yet.
It was an ambiguous situation that brought up Ramona.
She felt the need to buy time.
Saren seems to want to make her sister a lord. She or she says she controls her little brother like a puppet behind his back.
If she were a man, she would have aimed for a lord as well, but unfortunately she can’t.
Perhaps because it is the Middle Ages, women are not treated that well.
Whether noble or commoner, a daughter usually marries a man of her father’s choice and lives on her husband’s property.
To get out of it, she has no choice but to prove her abilities as a wizard or knight.
Perhaps she thought that if a guy named Cyrus ascended to the position of lord, Saren would not see her in good stead.
That’s why it seems like she’s on her younger brother Simon’s side.
When I finished my blind date with Saren, a knight was waiting in front of her villa.
It was Emerson.
“Lord Bark. The Little Lord is waiting.”
“…”
She thought about pretending she had forgotten and just going home… But it seemed she couldn’t get out.
I had no choice but to meet a guy named Youngju Cyrus.
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“You cannot bring anyone else to Lord So’s audience.”
Unlike Saren, it seemed like I was the only one who could meet Youngju So.
Youngju So was waiting for me in what appeared to be her room, accompanied by one of her escorts.
Youngju So’s first impression of Cyrus could be expressed in one word.
A ruined person.
Cyrus was a very gloomy-looking man with deep dark circles.
I couldn’t even focus my eyes properly.
To me, it looked like it was spicy.
I could see at a glance why the lord wanted his second son as his successor rather than this guy.
Looking at it this way, the small lord of Crea looks like a fairy.
‘I thought he was a strange guy too… But maybe that was normal?’
“Are you… Lord Bark? I have accepted the words of my loyalists… And decided to have you as my knight. You can join the Black Bear Knights, Ramona’s elite… Knights. “Aren’t you… Happy?”
This is an expected proposal.
Is it a proposal?
Cyrus didn’t seem to think that I would refuse.
“Haha… Wouldn’t it be a great honor to swear loyalty to me, the lord?”
The guy already thought of himself as a lord.
‘Is it this guy’s true intention to recruit me?’
If you look at those dynamic eyes, it doesn’t look like he even has those thoughts.
I wonder if they just called me because someone wanted to recruit them.
Little Lord Cyrus was only saying what she wanted to say.
And why is her pronunciation so muffled? .
It’s like a drunk person.
There is no smell of alcohol.
‘… Is this guy doing drugs?’
No matter how I looked at it, I could only think of it that way.
“I’ll think about that suggestion.”
“… Thoughts? Huh… Are you saying that you, the lord, are rejecting my offer?!”
Cyrus’ face, which had been laughing up until now, suddenly distorted.
“Whew… I’m saying I’ll think about it.”
I engraved in my heart the idea of ’endurance’, which means that even murder can be avoided.
“Huh… How dare you, a wandering knight… Refuse my offer as the lord… Don’t you know that you need my permission to sleep with your legs stretched out in this Ramona?”
Even threats.
As Saren said, he was crazy.
I glanced at the face of the escort driver standing next to him.
It seemed like they had no intention of stopping him.
Rather, when they look at me, they look like they are asking what to do.
What? These guys.
I took such a valuable step and was treated like this.
“… I won’t do it, you bastard.”
“… What?”
“Fuck. Did you stick a dick in your ear hole? When I licked Saren’s asshole, I licked it. It won’t go under you.”
“… Huh?”
Youngju So had a blank expression on my face.
Have you ever heard an insult like this in your life?
“Rude! What kind of verbal abuse is that to Cyrus!”
The escort driver yells.
‘This guy’s face… I feel like I’ve seen it somewhere before…’
Maybe it’s because I’m a guy, but I don’t remember much.
Anyway, I punched the guy.
He seemed like a knight and tried to avoid it, but it was obvious that he was at the level of a knight from a remote rural fiefdom.
My fist predicted even that and hit the guy’s chin.
-Right!
The knight rolled his eyes and collapsed.
I finally remembered.
This escort driver was the one who came to me before and shouted at me, then got hit and fell down.
“What, what, what are you doing!!”
As the guard fell, Cyrus’ arrogant face changed to that of a frightened rat.
“S-Saren… Did that dirty bitch instigate the assassination? Hey… Ugh!”
My fist got stuck in Cyrus’ face as he tried to call someone. The guy fell backwards and lost his mind.
“Huh… It’s finally quieter…”
In the end, I committed it.
This is why I didn’t want to meet a nobleman.
Still, I felt relieved.
I looked at the two people lying on the floor.
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Is this… Fucked?
