In This Life, I Will Be The Lord - Chapter 113

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This Life, I Will Become the Clan Head Episode 113

“Father!”

“Clan Head!”

People from here and there called out to Grandfather, surprised by his shocking statement.

However, Grandfather remained silent and just quietly stared at Biejie.

Like someone watching to see how the other person would react.

“Thank you, Father!”

Biejie clenched both fists tightly and answered vigorously.

“I won’t disappoint you as much as you’ve trusted me!”

Grandfather watched such Biejie quietly with unreadable eyes, then urged Estira.

“Now, I’m fine, so hurry and go treat Tia. Tia, just bear with it a little longer.”

Grandfather said while looking at me worriedly from afar.

Then, as if unsatisfied, he tried to get up from the bed entirely.

“This won’t do. I should go to the clinic together…”

“Please stay here, Grandfather. What if you fall again while walking?”

I shook my head firmly.

“But…”

“I’m not hurt anywhere except my shoulder. I can walk, so don’t worry.”

Saying that, I quickly got up from the chair to show him.

If I stayed still, he might really follow me.

Actually, besides my shoulder and arm which were hurt the most, everything hurt – my back and legs that I hit when I fell.

Ollier had carefully stopped the bleeding and bandaged me, but the throbbing pain remained the same.

If Grandfather hadn’t been here, I would have acted more hurt and even laid down dramatically to get sympathy.

It’s a bit disappointing.

“Let’s go, Estira.”

I left Grandfather’s bedroom, fully feeling the gazes of people piercing into my back.

One quiet set of footsteps followed behind me.

“Tia.”

It was Shannet.

Her face clearly showed her complicated feelings, but she was smiling at me.

“Let me come to the medical office with you too.”

Unfortunately, Father was also away on a business trip right now.

She probably couldn’t let me go alone when I was injured.

I nodded obediently.

Fortunately, it wasn’t very far from Grandfather’s bedroom to the medical office.

It was just a path across a small courtyard.

But even during that time, Shannet kept talking to me constantly.

“It must hurt a lot, but Tia is really mature.”

For Shannet, who was usually quiet, this was really talking without even breathing.

“When the twins were your age, they hurt their ankle while playing around. Do you remember how much Meylon cried then, Tia?”

“Yes, Giliou cried along with him so much that I got a headache too.”

“Right, that’s what happened.”

Shannet probably thought I was nervous about having my flesh stitched up.

Actually, I was nervous.

Although anesthesia techniques existed here too, they weren’t as perfect as modern medicine.

I had prepared myself mentally to some extent, but I couldn’t help feeling nervous.

Sure enough.

When we arrived at the medical office and started stitching up the torn flesh, I really felt like screaming.

“Ugh!”

“Please bear with it a little longer, Lady Pirenthia.”

Estira began to hurry as much as possible to shorten my pain, but naturally the pain became even more severe.

Since I knew it was just a little torn flesh, I felt no fear or terror.

However, the pain was unavoidable, so physiological tears began to fall drop by drop.

That’s when it happened.

There was a gentle touch that held my hand that was gripping my skirt tightly.

“Hold my hand.”

It was Shannet.

As I looked up at Shannet in surprise, the needle pierced into my flesh again at that moment.

“Ugh!”

Without realizing it, I gripped Shannet’s hand so tightly that my nails dug in, and surprised by that action, I hurriedly tried to let go of Shannet’s hand.

“It’s okay. It’s okay, Tia.”

But Shannet instead gripped my hand even tighter and wouldn’t let me go.

“Hold my hand.”

Shannet said gently while making eye contact with me.

“Th, thank…”

I could barely say the word “thank you” properly.

In the end, I held onto Shannet’s hand throughout the entire stitching process and barely endured it.

“It’s finished, Lady Pirenthia.”

“Huff, huff…”

At Estira’s words, I finally let out the breath I had been holding to avoid screaming and opened my tightly shut eyes.

“You really worked hard.”

Estira said while wiping the sweat from her forehead.

“Yes, Estira worked hard too… Ah…”

I saw drops of blood on the back of Shannet’s hand that I had been holding.

And that bright red blood was also under my fingernails.

I had gripped Shannet’s hand too tightly and ended up injuring the back of her hand.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t realize.”

I quickly apologized.

But Shannet smiled and shook her head.

“Don’t be sorry. Well done, Tia. You endured it well.”

Then she gently patted my head.

I knew well that Shannet wasn’t just a blunt person, but this was the first time I directly experienced this side of her.

“Then I’ll apply medicine to your other wounds too.”

It was quite a while later before I could apply medicine to all the wounds on my body, change out of my ruined clothes, and lie down on the bed in the medical office.

It was a kind of hospitalization.

“Ollier will be by the Clan Head’s side tonight, so I’ll take care of Lady Pirenthia here.”

“But Grandfather is…”

“The Clan Head just needs someone to watch over him in case of any unexpected situations. Right now, Lady Pirenthia is the one who needs more treatment immediately.”

Estira is firm at times like this too.

“Yes, rest well here today.”

Shannet also said while covering me with a thick blanket up to my neck.

Knock knock.

“May I come in?”

It was Grandfather who had come all the way to the medical office after all.

“Please come in, Clan Head.”

Estira answered instead.

The door opened and Grandfather, with a half-tearful expression, approached the bed where I was lying.

It was quite different from when he had spoken boldly in front of everyone just a moment ago.

“Tia… Oh my, child.”

Grandfather gently wiped my still-wet eyes with his fingers, then couldn’t take his eyes off my shoulder wrapped tightly in bandages.

Only after a long silence did Grandfather speak with a trembling voice.

“I’m sorry… This old man has caused you to…”

It seemed he was greatly blaming himself, thinking I had gotten hurt like this because of him.

Looking at Grandfather like that, I asked.

“Do you really feel sorry?”

“Yes… Because of me, you’ve become like this…”

“Then from now on, promise me that you’ll receive treatment properly and take the medicine Estira makes for you.”

I held out my pinky finger with a snap.

“Tia…”

Grandfather couldn’t continue his words, looked at the finger I held out, then soon nodded and hooked his finger with mine.

His hand was still trembling finely.

Then he hugged me carefully, avoiding my injured side so it wouldn’t hurt, and muttered several times.

“I’m sorry. This old man is sorry…”

I gently patted Grandfather’s back.

I’m glad Grandfather didn’t get seriously hurt like in my previous life.

I truly thought so.

* * *

The next morning.

Biejie entered the Head Family’s Office side by side, bringing his wife Ceral, along with Larane and Belesack.

As if to savor this moment, Biejie slowly approached the family head’s desk and sat down heavily in the chair with a laugh.

“Yes, this is the feeling!”

The moment he had longed for so much had come a little early.

It was a temporary position for a month, but that didn’t matter.

He was very satisfied to be able to taste in advance the position that would someday be his.

“Congratulations, honey.”

Ceral said, gently embracing Biejie’s shoulders.

“Father-in-law’s collapse has turned into a blessing in disguise like this?”

“That’s right. Heaven must be helping me.”

“Grandfather might retire permanently like this, right?”

Belesack slipped in and added his words.

Biejie seemed to glare at his son, but then smiled slightly and said.

“Well, there’s no law saying such a thing couldn’t happen. Father is quite old now, so it’s about time he’d want to spend his remaining years comfortably.”

Then Biejie noticed Larane, who had a somewhat displeased expression on her face.

She had occasionally grown close to Pirenthia since a few years ago, and lately she had been acting in ways he didn’t like at all.

“Well then, you two should go now.”

Not wanting to ruin this happy moment, Biejie spoke to Belesack and Larane.

Belesack, who was suddenly being kicked out, pouted, but since it was almost time for his sword instructor to arrive, he obediently left the study.

And he said with a sneer.

“That bitch Pirenthia got hurt pretty badly, right? Hah, serves her right.”

Ever since he had almost become bird food last time, Belesack had been grinding his teeth, vowing to get revenge on Pirenthia someday.

It was strange.

His fear of birds was definitely a secret that no one knew about.

How she had found that out.

He had been planning to find an opportunity to teach her a lesson and then extract that information first, when good news arrived.

Pirenthia had rolled down the stairs while trying to save Grandfather.

There were even rumors that there was so much blood that the maids cleaning up were crying loudly.

“I should have seen that sight myself!”

Such an entertaining thing had to happen on the day he was at the Imperial Palace.

Belesack smiled nastily.

“She won’t be able to move properly for a while, so it’s even better…”

“Belesack!”

Suddenly a loud voice burst out right next to him.

“S-sister?”

Belesack couldn’t believe that Larane, who had been walking beside him, had yelled at him, and his eyes widened.

“How can you say such things!”

Larane was clenching both fists and was angry enough that her face turned bright red.

Belesack swore it was the first time in his life he had seen this.

Larane was absolutely not someone who got angry like that.

“Even if you dislike Tia, still! Tia got hurt trying to save Grandfather!”

There were even some tears pooling in Larane’s eyes.

“I’m worried about how much pain she must be in right now! But you…!”

Larane raised her index finger and approached Belesack threateningly.

Belesack unconsciously stepped backward.

“While Tia is in pain, if you so much as go near Tia. Then you, Belesack…”

Larane narrowed her eyes and glared at Belesack as she spoke.

“I’ll never see you again.”

While Belesack was at a loss for words and stammering, Larane created a cold wind and went far away.

* * *

Bang!

“Lady Pirenthia! Lady Pirenthia, where are you!”

Along with the sound of the door opening violently, I heard Cleribane’s urgent voice looking for me.

“I’m here, Cleribane! In the bedroom!”

As soon as I answered, I heard footsteps, and then Cleribane appeared in the doorway.

“Lady Pirenthia!”

Cleribane’s face, who had rushed in even sweating, was pale as a sheet.

“You came?”

I raised my uninjured arm and waved at Cleribane in greeting.

“You came, brother? Young Lady, please have another piece of fruit.”

“Yes. Thank you, Loril.”

Cleribane, who had been watching my peaceful appearance as I crunched on the fruit Loril was cutting for me, approached and asked.

“Are you alright? I heard you rolled down the stairs trying to save the family head and came running…”

“Rolled down? I guess the story got exaggerated again.”

“Then, your injuries…”

“I did get hurt a bit. My right shoulder and some flesh got torn, so as you can see, I’m not very free to move.”

“Ah, as I thought…”

Cleribane made a tearful face and sat down heavily on the bed with a thud.

“But it’s not as serious as the rumors. Here, eat some fruit.”

I handed Cleribane a piece of fruit I had picked up with a fork.

After alternately looking at me and the fruit in his hand for a moment, Cleribane let out a small sigh and reluctantly took a bite of the fruit.

“What on earth happened, Lady Pirenthia.”

Perhaps because his tension had eased seeing that I was fine, Cleribane asked with a much better complexion.

“I was going down to have a meal with Grandfather…”

I briefly told him the story.

Cleribane, who had been listening quietly, nodded and said.

“Still, it’s fortunate. Lady Pirenthia didn’t get hurt more seriously, and it seems the family head’s illness was discovered early…”

“Aren’t you two worried at all?”

It was Loril, who was peeling fruit, who asked with a sigh-mixed voice.

“That Lord Biejie has become the acting clan head, and right now the clan members and employees are in complete chaos. So how can you two be so carefree?”

At Loril’s question, Cleribane and I looked at each other.

And Cleribane answered in a nonchalant voice.

“I actually think it’s fortunate that Biejie became the acting clan head.”

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