I Don’t Need a Dad Like This! - Chapter 62

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<Chapter 62>

 

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[If the notes stopped here, this would be the third regression. I’m about to write news that my past self would be satisfied with.

 

Having successfully hidden my illegitimate status, I married Emilia.

 

I love her.

 

Her smiling face. Her crying face. Even her occasional sulking face—I want to possess all of it completely.

 

At the wedding, I had a hard time suppressing the urge to hold her and run out of the ceremony hall.

 

Because I didn’t like how her nape was exposed when she wore her hair up.

 

It was white and beautiful.

 

So much so that I was even wary of the people blessing us.

 

After marriage, we combined our rooms, and I immediately dismissed the servants who looked down on Emilia for being from the Birdwell Barony.

 

And a child who resembled her was born.

 

Her name is Rie.

 

She had silver hair and blue eyes, and I was truly grateful she didn’t resemble me.

 

Watching Emilia holding the child, I realized that I had regressed and regressed again for this very moment.

 

But happiness didn’t last long.

 

Because Rie was determined to be powerless.

 

Everyone was watching us.

 

There was an uproar saying I should quickly divorce and find another woman. That I needed to produce a time ability user.

 

I briefly considered turning back time.

 

If I turned time back to before the wedding, wouldn’t a different child be born instead of Rie?

 

Then perhaps a time ability user might be born.

 

But Rie is my everything.

 

If the child disappeared, there would be no meaning to how far I had endured.

 

In the end, I turned back time.

 

To right after Emilia gave birth to the child.

 

I brought up the contract marriage and got angry, saying I never loved her in the first place.

 

So that she would want the divorce first, I didn’t spare a single glance for the child or her.

 

Proposing the contract marriage was to give a justification so that Emilia and Rie could live in the best conditions possible after divorce.

 

I will have a contract marriage with another woman.

 

I’ll divorce immediately once a time ability user is born.

 

And I will watch over Emilia from an unseen place.

 

I thought that was for the best.]

 

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Patter, pitter-patter.

 

Rain suddenly began falling from the clear sky.

 

“Welcome back, Lady Emilia!”

 

“Yes. Where’s Rie?”

 

“She said she wanted to draw by herself and is in her room. Usually she waits in advance to greet Lady Emilia at this time… but today she seems absorbed in her drawing, so there’s been no sign of her.”

 

“Don’t tell me… our Rie is becoming a genius artist?”

 

“Hahaha!”

 

Even with the sound of their laughter echoing, Rie didn’t come out of her room.

 

She sat there blankly, holding the notebook.

 

“…Kami. Father said he loved Mother. He loved Rie too.”

 

“I know.”

 

“Should I tell Mother and the Duke? But Rie… likes living like this with Mother. Living in the Duke’s Castle again… is really, really scary.”

 

Naturally, Kami comforted Rie.

 

No, he tried to comfort her.

 

But reading the Duke’s notebook, the pain and heaviness he must have felt was conveyed entirely, making his heart feel bitter for no reason.

 

‘Wait a minute. Why am I sympathizing with that bastard?’

 

Kami had hated Duke Casselik from the moment he was born.

 

He didn’t know the reason.

 

It was just that after meeting Rie, when he gained a concrete excuse to hate Casselik, he had followed the child around dreaming of revenge.

 

But an undeniable emotion began to engulf the crow’s entire body.

 

‘Why is this happening? What, what is this!’

 

Kami shook his head vigorously and moved his beak with difficulty.

 

“Then just live like this. Don’t tell the Duke.”

 

“Mmm. I know…! Rie will just live happily like now!”

 

“…Of course. Little one.”

 

This was right.

 

But seeing Rie with her heart’s door firmly closed, an inexplicably frustrated feeling gripped his reason.

 

‘This won’t do. I should be alone instead.’

 

“Little one. I’m going for a walk.”

 

“But it’s night now?”

 

“How wonderful is a moonlit walk? You’re still too young to do it, little one.”

 

“Eeeh! Kami, I hate you! When Rie turns seven, I’ll take night walks too!”

 

The crow who had teased the innocent child disappeared with complicated feelings.

 

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Despite various incidents, the Theodore Ducal House’s northern expansion proceeded smoothly.

 

The newspapers featured the trade process between the south and north as the first headline, and merchants and travelers from each region gathered in the duchy to use the bridge.

 

But what high society was paying attention to wasn’t Theodore but Birdwell.

 

Duke Casselik’s success story sounded like a clichéd repertoire, like fairy tales read in childhood.

 

But the success of a humble barony without even territory? Not only nobles but even commoners became interested.

 

[Birdwell Barony joins hands with Theodore Ducal House. Will they rise to become the south’s greatest agricultural family?]

 

The newspapers also began writing about the Birdwell Barony day after day with phrases people would like.

 

“The Birdwell Barony expanded their orchard land even more.”

 

“This time they’re hiring a large number of staff too?”

 

“My goodness… Until now, Nelson Yeongshik worked alone? That’s amazing.”

 

“By the way, Lord Nelson has reached marriageable age, but isn’t he interested in marriage?”

 

Starting with one young lady’s question, the ladies’ gazes began to change.

 

Currently, the Birdwell Barony had three unmarried children.

 

First, Nelson Yeongshik who brought prosperity to the Birdwell family.

 

Second, naval knight Ethan.

 

Third, even Emilia who divorced Duke Theodore.

 

Naturally, marriage proposals began pouring in toward these candidates for ‘good marriage partners,’ especially from marquis and count houses.

 

Because they were perfect marriage material for high nobles who had lineage but no money.

 

At that moment.

 

Casselik and Philip, who were each working hard in their offices, came across articles about the Birdwell family through the newspapers.

 

Among the various articles, the content about [Emilia’s next marriage partner] stood out the most.

 

“…Marriage proposals?”

 

Reading that, Casselik furrowed his brow sharply.

 

“Marriage proposals… That’s right, they could come. Since she’s unmarried.”

 

Philip, who had been smiling brightly at first, gradually saw his smile fade.

 

The two men thought.

 

A man appearing by Emilia’s side?

 

That was annoying in its own way, but Emilia’s daughter Rie getting a stepfather?

 

“…Prepare the carriage, immediately.”

 

Casselik stood up without hesitation.

 

“…I’m not even Rie’s father, so why am I upset?”

 

Hahaha.

 

Philip let out a bitter laugh, but his body was already putting on his jacket.

 

The two men who boarded the carriage headed toward the Birdwell Barony.

 

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Emilia was dumbfounded by the situation that had changed overnight like flipping the palm of her hand.

 

Even the owner of the embroidery shop where she worked handed her an elegant-looking marriage proposal.

 

“Oh my… I’m so embarrassed. I told them Emilia wasn’t interested, but they insisted I deliver it. You can throw it away, just please accept it for now.”

 

She was Countess Lillian, the benefactor who had readily called Emilia to work at the embroidery shop when she was looking for a job.

 

“A marriage proposal… for me? But I’m divorced.”

 

There was no law preventing a divorced woman from remarrying, but in reality, it wasn’t common unless one was a high-ranking noble.

 

“Yes. The world is really ridiculous, isn’t it?”

 

Countess Lillian snorted.

 

“When they were gossiping about you being abandoned by the Duke, that was one thing, but now that the situation has improved, they’re going on about you being ‘former Duchess’ and noble and whatnot. Really!”

 

“Haha…”

 

“But who knows? When you go home now, there will probably be an incredible pile of marriage proposals waiting. If there’s a decent person among them, try meeting them. You never know what the future holds, right?”

 

Well. She had no thoughts of marriage.

 

“I understand for now. I’ll head home from work!”

 

“Yes. Get home safely!”

 

When she opened the mansion entrance with a confused heart, Rie jumped out with both arms spread wide as always.

 

“Mother!”

 

“My baby, were you waiting for Mother?”

 

“Don’t come in!”

 

But the reason the child stretched out both arms wasn’t to hug her.

 

Rather, it was to block entry to the manor.

 

“You can’t come in now! There are dangerous things everywhere!”

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