In This Life, I Will Be The Lord - Chapter 106

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This Life, I Will Become the Clan Head Episode 106

“If I become a cavaliere, won’t that cause trouble for Tia?”

This was the first question Peres asked when the Impigra Housekeeper visited Poirak Palace to propose the cavaliere arrangement.

“Pardon…?”

The Impigra Housekeeper blinked her wrinkled eyes in momentary confusion.

It was an unexpected response to her words about ‘avoiding the Empress and Crown Prince’s interference while making a good impression on the nobles.’

However, the Impigra Housekeeper quickly regained her composure and asked in a calm voice.

“I apologize, Your Highness. I did not understand your words clearly, so could you please repeat them?”

“When I became her escort, there was an incident where my position nearly caused trouble for Tia.”

Peres spoke in a rather composed voice.

“I understand that becoming her cavaliere would be good for me, but if it’s something that would put Tia in a difficult position again because of my selfishness, I won’t do it.”

The Impigra Housekeeper paused to choose her words before speaking.

“You two must be very good friends indeed.”

“….”

Peres did not respond to those words.

Instead, he asked a different question.

“If you select me as cavaliere, your position will become difficult. Why are you giving me this opportunity?”

The Impigra Housekeeper flinched, then let out a small sigh and shook her head.

“It seems the servants have been telling you unnecessary things.”

“I may not have a mother or maternal relatives to support me, but I’m not without eyes and ears.”

“Hmm….”

The wrinkles on the Impigra Housekeeper’s face deepened as she let out a low murmur.

“I am an old woman whose only skill is managing the palace household, but the Imperial Debutante Ball remains entirely within my authority. Your Highness need not worry.”

“But….”

Peres looked at the Impigra Housekeeper with unreadable red eyes.

Just then, the sunset shone through the window, tinting Peres’s eyes an even deeper red.

At that sight, Impigra unconsciously recalled someone.

“Second Prince truly resembles the Previous Emperor.”

“…I have been told that before.”

Rulak Lombardi had said it once.

That Peres resembled the Previous Emperor more than his father, Emperor Yobanes.

The Impigra Housekeeper looked at Peres with a longing expression for a moment before speaking.

“I believe there will be no new gossip about Lavinia Angenas, who is already an escort, and Your Highness becoming partners at the debut ball. What will you do?”

Peres pondered for a moment, then nodded.

“I’ll do it, as cavaliere.”

Saying this, Peres smiled at the corners of his mouth for the first time.

The Impigra Housekeeper recalled that day’s events as she put down her pen and closed her work journal.

Then someone knocked on the study door.

“The Empress summons you.”

It was one of the Empress’ Quarters’ maids, who had once been one of the children the Impigra Housekeeper cherished.

“…Yes, let’s go.”

The Impigra Housekeeper raised her weary body.

The distance from the Imperial Palace where her study was located to the Empress’ Quarters was too much for her current health condition to walk.

The intention of the Empress’ Quarters maid, who knew this but didn’t prepare a carriage in advance, was obvious.

The Impigra Housekeeper tried not to show her difficulty, but when she arrived at the Empress’ Quarters, her pale complexion and cold sweat could not be hidden.

“Welcome, Impigra Housekeeper.”

Even seeing the hand holding the cane trembling, the Empress did not offer her a seat.

“I know you’re busy preparing for the Debutante Ball, but I called you because I have a suggestion.”

“…Please speak.”

“Change the Second Prince to be Lady Camporia’s cavaliere.”

The Impigra Housekeeper quietly wiped the cold sweat running down her cheek with a handkerchief.

The Empress was a very beautiful and ambitious person.

But blinded by that ambition, she harbored poison.

“That cannot be done.”

Impigra firmly shook her head.

She could clearly see the Second Prince calling Lavinia Angenas ‘Tia’ and treating her preciously.

Though it was just a feeling, she thought that if he couldn’t become Lavinia Angenas’s cavaliere, the Debutante Ball would have no meaning for the Second Prince.

“The Imperial Debutante Ball is the exclusive authority of this Fonta Impigra….”

“You collapsed in your study recently and had a physician visit, didn’t you?”

The Empress said with a sly smile.

“If His Majesty learns of this fact, this year will be your last Debutante Ball. Is that still alright with you?”

The Impigra Housekeeper was like a grandmother to the Emperor.

It was clear as day that if Yobanes knew such a housekeeper’s health was deteriorating daily, he would immediately order her to retire and recuperate.

“If you retire, you won’t be able to stay in the Imperial Palace anymore….”

The Imperial Palace was the Impigra Housekeeper’s only home.

Knowing this well, the Empress waited for surrender with a relaxed mind.

However, the housekeeper’s next words distorted the Empress’s beautiful face.

“Then I must put even more effort into this year’s Debutante Ball. Since it will be my last Debutante Ball. Now, I shall take my leave.”

“Wait, Impigra Housekeeper!”

The Empress, who hadn’t expected the housekeeper to give up her position so easily, stood up and raised her voice.

However, the Impigra Housekeeper looked at such an Empress with pitying eyes and said.

“Everything is reaped as it is sown, Your Majesty. Please remember that.”

“How insolent…!”

The Empress shouted something, but the Impigra Housekeeper did not stop walking.

If this was going to be her last Debutante Ball anyway, there was nothing left to fear.

* * *

Gallahan Clothing Shop Main Branch located in Heselot Market in the Imperial Capital.

In that place, which had put up a special closure sign for the day, Gallahan sat alone, letting out nervous sighs.

“Whew…. Will Tia like it?”

Gallahan’s gaze reached the dress hanging on one side.

It was a green dress made of the finest silk, obtained through a request to Mrs. Seo-Seo-u.

It was something Gallahan had designed while staying up all night after Tia’s social debut was decided.

A unique dress that came into the world solely for his daughter.

Originally, he had planned to make it in consultation with Tia down to every piece of lace, but he wanted to give at least one surprise gift as a father to his daughter who handled everything on her own.

“I should have asked….”

But now Gallahan was regretting his past self.

He was suddenly frightened by the thought ‘What if she doesn’t like it?’

Gallahan, who had been nervously rubbing his face due to tension, suddenly thought of his beloved wife Shan.

‘Tia in a green dress…. She’ll be really beautiful.’

These were words Shan had said while holding Tia, who was just reaching her hundredth day, after giving birth and growing weaker day by day.

Shan was a very mysterious woman.

The woman who walked toward him looking straight at him on the day they first met.

As if she knew that their relationship would begin at that place on that day.

Besides that, Shan sometimes said strange things as if she could see the future.

The ‘green dress’ was one of those words.

That word, which he had completely forgotten about all this time, came back to him in his sleep, and Gallahan chose a deep green color for Tia’s debutante dress.

And as if enchanted, he stayed up all night drawing the design.

As if it had been in his mind for a long time already, his hands moved without rest, and the dress design was completed as the sun rose.

And until today, Gallahan had been incredibly busy creating the dress without a moment to spare.

In Gallahan’s mind, this dress was the perfect dress that suited Tia perfectly.

The delicate flowers densely embroidered with gold thread along the hem, sleeves, and neckline by a craftsman.

The small, charming white pearls attached here and there among the abundant pleats gathered at the chest and shoulders.

Everything was Gallahan’s gift for Tia, the most precious person in the world.

“But if Tia doesn’t like it…”

It would be meaningless!

Just then, the sound of a carriage was heard from outside, and Tia and Loril entered.

“Dad!”

Gallahan’s face, which had been tearful, brightened completely as if nothing had happened when he saw his daughter running toward him with all her might.

“Tia!”

As he tightly embraced Tia, who came running and jumped into his arms, Gallahan felt his heart fill up completely.

From the day those small hands tightly grasped his fingers, Tia had been everything in the world to Gallahan.

For this child, he wouldn’t hesitate to give his life a hundred times, a thousand times.

Every time he held Tia in his arms, Gallahan thought this way.

“Wow, is this my dress?”

Tia stood in front of the dress hanging on the wall.

Gallahan’s heart began to beat rapidly.

And after a moment.

“Kyaa! I love it so much! Thank you, Dad!”

Tia jumped into Gallahan’s arms once again.

“Th-thank goodness…”

Gallahan gently patted his daughter’s back and let out a sigh of relief.

“I’ll go put it on right away and come out!”

After Tia went into the dressing room with Loril, taking the dress with her, Gallahan felt like he was facing the next test.

It should suit her well, it seems like it would suit her well, but will it suit her well?

The brief moment felt incredibly long.

“Dad! How do I look?”

Tia walked out of the dressing room and shouted loudly.

Gallahan, who had been looking down nervously, smiled.

He thought he would raise both hands and cheer when he saw his pretty daughter.

“It seems perfect for me!”

Looking back, there were nothing but things to be sorry about to Tia.

Before his daughter even turned one year old, Shan had drawn her last breath, and Gallahan, left alone, was an inexperienced father.

Moreover, seeing Tia grow up and inherit his timid personality made him feel like everything was his fault, so Gallahan was just sorry and sorry again.

Tia was too good a daughter for such an inadequate father.

“Thank you, Dad!”

Tia turned to look at Gallahan and smiled brightly.

The child who had been so small, wrapped in soft swaddling clothes and small enough to fit in one arm, had grown up so much that the day had come for her to wear a debutante dress.

“I should look at myself properly in the big mirror!”

Tia walked briskly toward the mirror standing against the wall.

Gallahan quietly covered his mouth.

Plop.

One heavy teardrop fell down and flowed along Gallahan’s hand.

Ah, this child is truly too good for me.

I haven’t done enough good deeds to deserve being the father of such a lovely child.

The voice chattering excitedly with Loril was so precious.

‘You were right.’

Gallahan smiled gently without taking his eyes off his daughter.

‘Our daughter in a green dress is so beautiful.’

It seemed like he could hear Shan’s laughter, which had been like a cool stream of water under the hot summer sky.

Gallahan called out the beloved name without taking his eyes off Tia, trying to remember everything about this moment.

‘Shan, are you watching?’

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