If I Were Reborn, I Wouldn’t Marry You - Chapter 74

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Chapter 74

After the long, long journey, we finally arrived at the lodging where we would stay in Orbis Estate, and I let out a cheer as I got off the carriage.

“Ahhh. We finally made it!”

A week-long carriage journey was an enormous strain on an 8-year-old’s stamina.

From sitting for so long, my bottom and back ached, and I felt nauseous.

Even Leonhardt, who had built up considerable stamina over the past 2 years, looked tired with a stiff expression.

The maids and knights who came with us smiled slightly as they watched us.

They seemed able to endure it since they were adults in both mind and body.

‘How enviable.’

As I was pouting for no reason, the servants attached to the rental villa where we’d stay for a week came out at the sound of the carriage and greeted us.

“Welcome. Miss Miela, Young Master Leon.”

“Such lovely guests have arrived, just as we heard.”

Orbis was a small coastal estate, mainly visited by people from nearby territories for leisure—essentially a hidden little tourist destination.

Given this, if Miela and Leonhardt’s true identities were revealed, it would obviously be difficult to move around freely in Orbis Estate.

For the sake of free activity, we decided to temporarily borrow the identities of children from vassal families.

“Hello. I’m Miela Norken, and this is my younger brother Leon Norken. Please take good care of us for a week.”

I smiled brightly and greeted them on behalf of the taciturn Leonhardt.

“We’ll take good care of you too.”

The warmly smiling maids guided us inside the villa.

“Oh my, since it’s just young masters traveling, many knights have accompanied you. The knights should come this way.”

“Maids, please follow me.”

As the accompanying maids and knights scattered to receive their room assignments and hear explanations about life here, the villa’s maids began chatting in earnest.

It was definitely a modest estate, so even the servants were informal.

They seemed to feel more comfortable dealing with us, who were younger than the escort knights or maids.

“We heard you’re from the capital, so you must have had a hard time coming all the way to Orbis Estate.”

“It was quite far. So from now on, we decided to travel to closer places. Maybe just the backyard?”

The maids burst out laughing at whatever was so funny about my words.

“Home is the best.”

“This place takes a whole week by carriage.”

“But you two don’t look much alike for siblings. If it weren’t for your similar eye color, I wouldn’t have thought you were siblings at all.”

Well, we’re not real siblings after all…

Still, thanks to the artifact Leon wore to hide his red eyes, I was relieved that we gave the impression of being unusually dissimilar siblings who at least had similar eye colors.

“Hahaha, we hear that often. I take after Mother and Leon takes after Father.”

After their father, meaning the Emperor?

Flustered by the sudden direct hit, I responded awkwardly, so the oldest maid stepped in to smooth things over.

“Oh my, what are you saying? We’re being a bit too nosy, aren’t we? Still, we can tell your parents are handsome and beautiful.”

“Hahaha.”

After brushing it off with laughter, thinking we shouldn’t continue this topic any further, one maid carefully asked.

“Would you like to tour the villa first?”

“You could also look around the garden first. The gardener here is quite skilled.”

I briefly exchanged glances with Leonhardt.

‘Let’s rest first.’

‘Yes.’

We quickly reached an agreement.

“Mm, that sounds good too, but first I’d like to wash up and sleep.”

“Oh my, we weren’t being considerate of the young miss and young master. We’ll prepare bath water right away.”

Although we slept at high-class inns every night, we were too tired and went to bed early, so we couldn’t leisurely enjoy baths.

I planned to rest well for about a day and really spend time like tourists.

Since we had arrived two days earlier than the day the accident would happen, just in case there might be some error in Leonhardt’s memory, we had time to spare.

Leonhardt’s memory was accurate this time too, and we spent that leisure time well.

On the day we arrived, we started taking a nap after our bath and woke up the next morning.

‘Was that really a nap…?’

Still, after sleeping soundly, my travel fatigue was gone and my condition improved quite a bit.

Though my face was slightly swollen from sleeping so much. After changing clothes and washing up, I left the villa with Leonhardt.

It was to check the accident site of the Windermere Baronial Family, where Windermere would awaken.

‘The plan is to tie them down so they won’t go anywhere near the accident site, but just in case.’

After confirming the carriage door was properly closed, I lowered my voice and asked.

“That’s the mountain we’re going to, right?”

After thinking for a moment, Leonhardt carefully nodded.

“That place fits the conditions best.”

Leonhardt had very good memory, but he couldn’t remember things he didn’t know.

So the information about this incident was based on things he had heard when meeting Windermere at social gatherings sometime.

Since Windermere had a personality that loved to brag, Leonhardt knew quite detailed information, but there were some gaps here and there.

‘Like where they stayed in Orbis or the exact accident location.’

Thanks to that, we had some legwork to do.

Fortunately, the mountain we suspected as the accident site was a low hill on the border of Orbis Estate, a place where locals often went for picnics.

We had also come out using a picnic as an excuse.

“This should be enough.”

After arriving at the middle of the mountain, I activated the elemental mana detector artifact I had bought with the intention of helping Merlin’s awakening.

The result was, of course, as we expected.

“That’s right, it’s yellow. The mana surrounding this entire mountain has earth attributes.”

The stronger the elemental mana, the more vivid the light the artifact emitted, and it was very bright yellow.

‘If it had been water attribute, I would have brought Merlin right away.’

It was slightly disappointing, but our confirmation was complete.

I turned toward Leonhardt and asked.

“Should we go down now?”

We could make up some excuse for going back before even spreading out the picnic mat.

‘I should go down and check if the Windermere Baronial Family has arrived yet.’

The accident date we knew was slightly inaccurate.

It was only that it happened on the third day after the Windermere Baronial Family arrived in Orbis, so to know the exact date, we absolutely had to confirm their arrival date.

As I was about to open the carriage window to suggest going back, Leonhardt asked as if puzzled.

“Already?”

“Isn’t everything we needed to do finished?”

The picnic was just an excuse to come to this mountain.

Rather than waste time here, it would be more efficient to go back and check whether the Windermere Baronial Family had arrived.

However, Leonhardt seemed to think differently.

“What we need to do includes enjoying the picnic.”

I smiled a little at Leonhardt’s words.

“You’ve changed a bit.”

Originally, in the first round, Leonhardt would have been the first to suggest going down.

Perhaps from the sunlight streaming down on him, his earlobes were flushed as Leonhardt whispered softly.

“You gave me the chance to change.”

Leonhardt looked at me with a tense face like a child having homework checked.

Isn’t it more because of the regression than because of me?

However, I, who should have been grading, just casually brushed off Leonhardt’s words.

The next day too, after only confirming that the Windermere Baronial Family hadn’t arrived, Leonhardt suggested going to see the seaside.

“The sea?”

“Yes, we were both born in the capital, so we rarely had chances to see the ocean.”

That was true.

Counting both the first and second rounds, my experiences seeing the ocean could be counted on one hand.

Today I had planned to finalize my strategy for approaching the Windermere Baronial Family, but hearing about the sea made me want to go see it.

‘They say that while Orbis is remote, the ocean scenery is more magnificent than the Empire’s famous resorts.’

The villa maids’ words came to mind, stirring my curiosity.

‘A few hours should be fine, shouldn’t it?’

After hesitating for a moment, I eventually gave in to temptation and nodded.

“Alright!”

Leonhardt smiled softly and extended his hand for me to take.

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