How to Replace Your Dad - Chapter 136

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How to Replace Your Dad

Chapter 136

[Rohan>Yustea]

Designer of the Dark Curtain 【Rohan Andres】

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‘…What.’

Yustea’s affection level displays normally.

‘But why am I…’

While Stella was flustered, Count Andres turned his gaze to Yustea and the Marchioness.

“What’s the matter.”

“What do you mean. It’s not strange for your child to come to the Andres Estate.”

Stella gripped her skirt hem tightly.

‘Father’s child…’

When did that stop being the case.

They were the ones who coldly rejected her even when she reached out her hand.

But when they need something, they transform her into their child.

It was shameless.

Count Andres looked at Yustea.

Yustea spoke.

“I came to collect the things I left behind.”

Yustea’s voice had no inflection, but it wasn’t the cold attitude from before.

Enough to make the Marchioness feel secretly relieved.

She asked in a subtle voice.

“Whatever the reason, since you’re already here, why don’t you at least have a meal before leaving.”

“I…”

“You say they were yours in the past, but strictly speaking, those items are Andres property. Since we’re giving you such things, you could at least have a meal, couldn’t you.”

“…”

The Marchioness pressed firmly.

Yustea pondered for a moment.

‘I came to find Cesar anyway. The deeper I go inside, the better.’

Since she was infiltrating Andres, communication was impossible.

No, even without infiltrating, ignoring personal contact was supposedly his specialty.

If she missed this opportunity, she might have to give up on bringing Cesar to the Family Tournament.

“I’ll do that.”

The Marchioness’s face brightened.

“Tell the restaurant to prepare Yustea’s meal as well. No wait. I should go personally and look over the menu. You make sure to keep a close eye on Yustea.”

“Yes.”

The Marchioness headed to the restaurant.

Count Andres also glanced at Yustea briefly and soon moved away.

The butler spoke to Yustea.

“We’ve redecorated the garden. May I show you around?”

“If it’s to kill time, I’ll do it while collecting my things. It’s not like I don’t know Andres, and there’s no need to follow me around.”

That’s when it happened.

“That’s not quite right, is it?”

Stella spoke up.

Yustea’s gaze turned to Stella.

Stella strode toward Yustea.

“You’re a person of Esgaroth. How could we leave you alone not knowing what you might do?”

“…”

“Also, the timing is quite coincidental. Coming to our manor right before the Family Tournament.”

“…”

“Did you come to spy on us?”

“…Why would I?”

“What?”

Yustea said with an incredulous expression.

“If I really wanted to spy, I would have gone somewhere else.”

“Is there anyone who doesn’t know that you and I will face each other in the preliminaries? So you came to check my strategy…”

“Do you have a strategy?”

“…!”

“Do you even choose the knights who will compete with your own hands?”

“What are you saying…!”

“See, you don’t know anything.”

Yustea stared at her intently.

“Andres’s advisors will devise strategies and share them with you in advance. Since the notice came down yesterday afternoon, you probably haven’t received it yet.”

“…”

“So what strategy spying are you talking about.”

“…Why do you always look down on me like that?”

Her voice grew louder.

Passing employees glanced over.

Yustea sighed.

“I have nothing more to say. If you’re really concerned, I’ll keep a butler nearby.”

Just as Yustea was about to move.

Stella grabbed her wrist and pulled.

“Even now you’re looking down on me.”

“I’m telling you the reality.”

“Why do you always try to teach me?”

“Stella.”

“It was like that from the beginning. Ever since the moment I entered this manor.”

“I don’t want to cause a commotion. If you want to talk, schedule it for later—”

“I was always in pain. I was smiling, but my heart was always like hell. Because you always looked down on me. Back then you were with your mother. Still, I always tried to get along well.”

Yustea’s expression changed in an instant.

It was a fierce face beyond measure.

Stella flinched but soon gathered herself.

‘Did I say something wrong?’

It wasn’t only Yustea who looked down on her and tried to teach her.

Dia did too.

“If you’re going out, it would be better to change your clothes.”

“Those children seem to want something other than friendship from you. It would be better not to associate with them.”

“If you’re going to live as Andres’s daughter, you should distance yourself from your mother.”

Yustea looked at Stella coldly.

“Do you think you were the only one who tried?”

“What?”

“Can you understand my mother’s heart seeing her husband’s illegitimate child?”

“That’s not my fault. I was just born…!”

“Right. That’s why Mother tried not to hate you.”

“…”

“She tried to be a parent to you just as she was to me. After you entered the manor, Mother couldn’t sleep at night, but she didn’t show it in front of you.”

“You call preventing me from meeting my mother trying? That attempt to sever blood ties!”

“Because she wasn’t a good parent. Because she thought that disgusting victim mentality, the same as yours, would corrupt you.”

“Don’t talk about Mother like that!”

Yustea stepped closer to Stella.

“Remember? How you always locked yourself away crying after meeting your mother.”

“Of course I did.”

“Normal parents don’t hold onto their child and lament their own situation.”

“Are you saying my mother is abnormal?”

“Yes. She stole her benefactor’s man and believes she became the most unfortunate woman in the world.”

“What are you saying…!”

“The one who trampled doesn’t resent the one who was trampled.”

Yustea shouted fiercely.

“Do you understand Mother’s efforts? Don’t make me laugh!”

“…”

“Just because she’s your birth mother, Mother had to take care of your mother in case it would harm you.”

“…”

“Can you understand even a bit of that feeling? Having to take care of the livelihood of someone who betrayed you after you trusted and helped them as a friend?”

“…”

“That’s how much Mother thought of you. Is it a parent’s role to understand everything and let you do whatever you want? No, Mother worked hard to let you live as the Noble Lady of Andres!”

“…”

Stella’s eyes wavered.

This was the first time she’d seen Yustea this excited.

Yustea grabbed Stella’s wrist as she tried to back away and said.

“But what did you do?”

“I…”

“Did you ever look through the books Mother gave you? Did you even read the materials I stayed up all night organizing for you?”

“It wasn’t something that matched my values…”

“Then you shouldn’t have wanted the same things as me. I did my best to blend into noble society.”

Stella bit her lip.

“I tried too. I’ve lived my whole life at odds with noble society, but…!”

“Have you ever tried as much as me?”

“…”

“There was a gap of over 10 years? You didn’t even make the minimum effort to bridge that gap!”

Yustea’s eyes blazed with anger.

“If you really thought I was 10 years ahead of you, you should have made the same effort as me at least after entering the manor. But did you?”

“I, I also…”

“Should I tell you what you did?”

“…”

“Resenting Mother, resenting me. Going out to play. Turning away from difficult tasks with the excuse that they don’t match your values.”

Stella’s face turned pale.

Yustea spoke coldly.

“Rights come with duties.”

“…”

“If you’re going to consider duty as misfortune and feel sorry for yourself, don’t desire rights.”

“…”

“Disgusting.”

“…That’s too much…”

Round tears dripped down from Stella’s eyes.

Yustea let go of Stella’s wrist as if throwing it away.

She turned her gaze to the butler and said.

“Where is my luggage?”

“…It’s in the Young Lady’s room.”

“I’m leaving. Follow me if you want to come.”

“Yes…”

Yustea strode up the stairs.

There was a familiar face on the stairs.

‘GM.’

As she passed by GM, he whispered.

“I like you even when you’re angry.”

Yustea glanced at him.

“Don’t talk to me. Preferably for life.”

“That’s unfortunate. It’s a request I can’t fulfill.”

“It’s not a request, it’s an order.”

She passed by GM just like that.

Stella cried endlessly at the bottom of the stairs.

GM groaned and thought.

‘Tempering won’t be very useful.’

Well, if she had the material to become steel through tempering, things wouldn’t have become this difficult.

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I sighed as I entered my room that I used at Andres.

[Are you feeling bad.]

Yuise’s voice came through the ear cuff on my ear.

“Huh?”

[For making Stella cry.]

“Why would that be?”

[You sighed.]

“My throat hurts…”

Yuise chuckled.

[When you can’t even shout.]

That’s when it happened.

A knock was heard.

When I opened the door, an unfamiliar servant lightly bowed his head toward me.

“I came to serve the Young Lady on the Butler’s orders.”

‘Hmm, he ran away in case he got caught in the crossfire.’

The Butler was the one I had threatened when Andres’s servants picked a fight with me last time.

A person who prioritizes his career above all else.

Someone who runs away immediately when things seem dangerous.

I opened the door wide to let the servant come inside.

“Could you prepare a bag or box?”

“Yes.”

“A small one since I don’t have much luggage. …Cesar.”

As I spoke, a startled sound came from the ear cuff.

[What?]

The servant’s face hardened coldly.

Soon after, a sigh flowed from his mouth.

Then a thick black liquid flowed down from his body as if dissolving into it.

And the appearance that was revealed was…

‘Wow.’

White hair and golden eyes.

A tall height comparable to Father’s and a solid body.

He was a handsome man with an impressive straight nose.

If Yuise was beautiful, he was a man who suited the word magnificent.

“How exactly do you recognize me?”

“This is my real appearance, not a mechanical doll?”

“Answer the question I asked.”

“There aren’t many people among Andres’s employees that I don’t know.”

I shrugged my shoulders.

“Besides, most of them have bad blood with me, so even if the Butler ordered it, no one would want to come to me.”

“That’s true.”

“Also, you had a big fight with Stella, didn’t you?”

Even if they didn’t have bad blood with me, they wouldn’t want to go.

They’d be afraid of getting on the bad side of the Young Lady who receives everyone’s love if they got involved wrongly.

“If you were sent to that extent, you must be someone who came in recently and couldn’t refuse the order.”

“….”

“Besides, if it was Cesar, I thought you’d approach me after hearing I came.”

I smiled brightly.

“You probably wouldn’t think I just came to Andres to retrieve my luggage. Because you’re wise.”

Cesar frowned.

He sighed, held his waist, and bowed his head.

“So?”

“Hm?”

“I’m asking why you came.”

“I have a favor to ask.”

The conversation I had with Cesar before.

And what I felt from seeing his expression today.

Considering everything together, this type would rather feel aversion if I beat around the bush with my request.

I put my hands together and said.

“Won’t you come out to the Family Tournament with me?”

“…Ha.”

Cesar looked at me with drooping eyebrows and let out a chuckle.

He stared at me intently.

But soon he walked with big steps and sat in a nearby chair, saying.

“I don’t fight battles I’ll lose.”

“Hm?”

“That means this Family Tournament is a certain defeat.”

…A certain defeat?

“I’m going out with the Irregulars’ elites. Yuise and Antonio, and also a very strong person named Abel.”

“There’s someone who can’t be beaten even if all three of them fight together.”

“…What did you say?”

There’s such a person?

It’s not even Father, so who on earth….

I tilted my head.

“Such a person… ah, don’t tell me.”

As my expression hardened, Cesar’s lips curved up.

“The executives of the Reconstruction Council.”

“…!!”

“Oscar is included among them too. And….”

Cesar rested his chin on his hand and smiled broadly.

“Me too.”

“You’re also an executive of the Reconstruction Council?!”

When I shouted, Cesar made an incredulous expression.

“I’m a scout.”

Cesar is going in too.

Right, thinking about it, it was strange.

Noble families like Andres don’t carelessly hire employees.

‘So that’s why they took Cesar as an employee.’

Oscar, Cesar, and GM….

It really is a roster for certain defeat.

While I was getting nervous, Cesar continued speaking.

“Why should I join an organization that opposes the Clan Leader?”

…He really likes Father.

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