I Won’t Pick Up The T*ash I Threw Away Again - Chapter 46

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#46

Hm? Why is that woman’s name suddenly coming up?

Tail made a puzzled expression. The other advisors also looked confused.

On the other hand, Fillen continued speaking with a serious face.

“She hates mages.”

“…Excuse me?”

“When she was a princess before, she apparently had a terrible experience being deceived by an evil mage.”

Haha, so what you’re saying is.

It wasn’t that they canceled hiring mages due to budget issues, but simply because that woman hates them so they didn’t hire any mages?

It was truly an absurd reason. Tail barely swallowed a hollow laugh and continued speaking.

“The young lady’s circumstances are pitiful, but if you’re thinking of the domain, you should hire mages.”

Fillen’s eyebrows furrowed.

“What if Sisly sees a mage, gets shocked, and miscarries the child?”

Tail, left speechless by the question that came back, closed his mouth.

“We’ll hire mages after Sisly gives birth to the child, and for now we’ll deploy the landfolk as an urgent measure.”

One advisor gasped at Fillen’s decision and responded.

“Right now the landfolk are in quite a difficult situation due to flood damage.”

Most of the landfolk had lost their homes, and there were also landfolk who had lost family members or been injured.

“But to make them restore the farmland, that won’t do.”

“That’s the landfolk’s job. There’s nothing wrong with it.”

“That may be so, but as I mentioned, the landfolk’s current situation is not very good.”

“The landfolk’s resentment could grow.”

Tail and the other advisors stepped forward to recommend hiring mages rather than using the landfolk, but Fillen’s opinion was firm.

“Deploy the landfolk to restore the farmland.”

Fillen pushed aside the documents he had been looking at and stood up from his seat.

Tail and the other advisors all stood up in unison.

“If there are any who resist, they’re daring to disobey the orders of me, their lord, so throw them all in the underground prison. That’s all, the meeting ends here.”

* * *

Housing prices in the capital were more expensive than I had thought.

If you went to the outskirts, the prices were cheaper, but the security there wasn’t good. It was dangerous for two women to live there.

But if we went to a place with good security, we didn’t have much money, so I was worried, but to receive help like this.

‘His Majesty the Emperor is truly a good person.’

From what I’d heard in rumors, he seemed like a wicked villain who enjoyed slaughter and had a twisted personality, but that wasn’t true.

He was an extremely kind and good person. Unlike Fillen, he also knew how to consider others.

But for such rumors to spread. Someone must have been jealous of Kalian and spread false rumors.

“We have arrived.”

The carriage stopped, and I got out of the carriage with Baron Delrond’s escort.

As soon as I got out of the carriage, I could see a clean two-story house. There was also a small garden.

This is where I’ll be living from now on.

I would have been grateful even if he had lent me a shabby hut, but to lend me such a nice manor.

“His Majesty the Emperor is truly a good person.”

“Excuse me?”

Baron Delrond looked at me in shock at my sincere words that slipped out carelessly.

“To say His Majesty the Emperor is a good person. Do you truly think so?”

“Don’t you think so, Baron?”

“Of course not! First of all, that person has a terrible personality! It’s so terrible that he gets angry at the slightest thing that doesn’t please him!

Baron Delrond even raised the veins in his neck as he refuted my words.

“Is that all? His heart is so narrow that he holds onto grudges and takes revenge several times over later!”

…This person has a lot of pent-up feelings.

“Ahem, let’s stop this conversation here.”

After cursing for a while, Baron Delrond cleared his throat with reddened earlobes, perhaps feeling embarrassed.

Then he took out a red key from his pocket and held it out to me.

“This is the key to this house. It’s the only key, and if you lose it, we’ll have to replace the entire door, so be careful not to lose it.”

“Yes.”

I carefully kept the key just like the identification pass.

“Then shall we open it and go in to take a look?”

“Would that be alright?”

“Of course. It’s the house the Princess will be living in from now on.”

The house I’ll be living in.

It wasn’t particularly special words, but strangely I felt good.

I opened the door and went inside to look around the house.

The first floor had 3 rooms including the drawing room. There were also separate kitchen and storage warehouse.

I immediately went up to the second floor and looked around.

“As you can see, all the basic furniture is provided.”

Baron Delrond said as he followed behind me.

“From here to the Imperial Palace takes about 10 minutes on horseback. Oh, come to think of it, you don’t have a horse. I’ll send you a horse as soon as I return to the Imperial Palace.”

“Um, I’m sorry to say this, but I don’t know how to ride a horse.”

I could feel Baron Delrond, who had been diligently following behind, stop in his tracks.

When I turned around, I saw Baron Delrond looking at me with eyes full of the question ‘why?’

…I should probably learn horseback riding quickly.

Horseback riding was a basic accomplishment that all nobles, regardless of age or gender, learned.

However, when noble ladies actually went out, they rarely rode horses. Most of the time they took carriages.

So I thought there wouldn’t be any particular problem if I didn’t learn horseback riding, but that was my arrogance.

“I’m sorry. I’ll learn horseback riding quickly.”

“Ah, I wasn’t looking at you with that meaning.”

Baron Delrond placed his hand on his chest and bowed his head politely.

“Please forgive my rudeness, Princess.”

“Not at all. I was also thinking that I should learn horseback riding.”

“I also recommend that you learn. When doing advisor duties, you’ll often need to travel on horseback.”

If that’s the case, I definitely need to learn.

I nodded, resolving to look for a horseback riding instructor right away.

“Then let’s discuss this part again later.”

I said I would start work tomorrow right away, but Kalian gave me a week’s grace period.

Not only would it take that long for the uniform to be made, but it was also consideration for me to slowly adapt to the capital.

He really does seem like a good person, so why does everyone say he’s not?

“By any chance, when you came over from the Williot Estate, did you bring a maid with you?”

“Yes. I brought one with me.”

“One person alone will have a hard time managing the house and garden and attending to the Princess. If you can afford it, I recommend hiring one more.”

That was something I agreed with as well.

“Then let’s fill out the documents now.”

Baron Delrond took out a document folder from his bag and showed it to me.

“These are the manor rental documents. Please review them and let me know if there are any problems or questions.”

“Do I need to look at them and respond right now?”

It would take some time to read through everything.

If it were one page, I could read through it quickly, but there were more than 6 pages.

“No. You’ll need time to review them, so you can give me the documents next time. We’ll finish filling them out then.”

“Yes.”

“Well then, I’ll be going now. I have a lot of work to do. I’m also uneasy about leaving everything to that Emperor fellow.”

I feel like I just heard something I shouldn’t have, but I must have misheard.

“I’ll see you next time, Princess.”

“I’ll see you out.”

After seeing Baron Delrond off, I looked around the manor again.

Whether it had been well-maintained all this time, the manor was spotlessly clean without a speck of dust.

The modest garden was also well-maintained without a single weed. The climbing roses blooming along the fence were particularly beautiful.

“Good.”

It was good that my worries about the house were gone, and it was good that I would be living in such a nice place.

Sara would surely love it when she sees it.

Eager to see Sara’s delighted expression, I set aside all other matters and went to fetch Sara first.

* * *

“Are we really going to live here from now on?”

“That’s right. It’s a manor bestowed by His Majesty the Emperor.”

Technically it was lent to me, but there was no need to mention that detail.

At my words, Sara clasped her hands together like a girl and her eyes sparkled.

“When I only heard rumors, I thought he was a scary person, but he turned out to be a good person.”

“I think so too.”

It was a great honor to serve such a person as my superior and lord.

“Will you be using the second floor, Miss?”

“Most likely.”

I had already planned out in my head how to use the second floor.

The largest room as a study, the middle room as a bedroom. I planned to use the smallest room as a warehouse to store miscellaneous items.

“Oh, it seems like it would be difficult for you to manage this entire manor by yourself, Sara. How about hiring one more maid?”

“Is that alright? Well…”

Sara couldn’t finish her sentence, but I could guess what she was trying to say.

She was probably worried about money. Indeed, my circumstances weren’t comfortable enough to employ two maids.

Things might change once I start receiving a salary, but for now my financial situation wouldn’t be very generous.

It seems like hiring a new maid for the time being wouldn’t work out.

“I’m sorry. If you had stayed at the duchy mansion, you wouldn’t have had to struggle like this.”

“Oh, no!”

Sara waved her hands frantically in surprise.

“I’m happy just being by your side, Miss! Really!”

There was no falsehood visible in her transparently sparkling eyes.

While I felt good that Sara truly trusted and followed me, my apologetic feelings also grew.

I firmly grasped Sara’s hands and said words that wouldn’t be enough no matter how many times I repeated them.

“Thank you so much, Sara.”

* * *

Contrary to Ber’s expectations, Kalian was working diligently.

That was strange in its own way, so Ber looked at Kalian with suspicious eyes.

“Do you have a complaint about me?”

Kalian tossed the words at Ber while keeping his gaze fixed on the documents.

“Of course not.”

Ber quickly smiled brightly and clasped his hands together tightly.

“I’m just very pleased that His Majesty the Emperor finally seems to have developed the will to work.”

“I have to work.”

Kalian stamped the imperial seal at the bottom of the document.

“Otherwise, someone will keep making snide remarks.”

“I don’t know who that is, but I feel like bowing deeply to that person.”

Ber replied cheekily and shared the information he had gathered.

“Oh, I heard that Princess Leilah Tebesa and Duke Williot have broken off their engagement.”

Kalian’s hand, which had been reaching for the next document, paused.

His brilliantly blue eyes turned toward Ber.

“What did you just say?”

“I said that Princess Leilah Tebesa and Duke Williot have broken off their engagement.”

Ah. So that’s why she had that expression when I asked if something had happened with Duke Williot.

“Well, but it doesn’t seem to be official.”

“What do you mean by that?”

“According to rumors, Princess Tebesa declared the engagement broken, but Duke Williot is still continuing with the wedding preparations.”

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