In This Life, I Will Be The Lord - Chapter 117

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This Life, I Will Become the Clan Head Episode 117

The next day.

I went to find his bedroom early, carrying nutritional supplements and snacks for Grandfather.

“Oh my, our Tia has come!”

Grandfather welcomed me warmly as always.

“How are you feeling today, Grandfather?”

“This old man is perfectly fine. How are your injuries, Tia?”

“I’m much better now too. They said I can remove this brace in a few days.”

“That’s such a relief.”

Grandfather said while stroking my head.

“But what brings you here so early this morning?”

Although I had been visiting daily lately, I usually came around lunchtime, so Grandfather seemed worried that something might be wrong.

The reason I moved early in the morning was simple.

Last night, Cleribane had visited Shannet to teach her how to distinguish fake checks.

Given Shannet’s personality, I thought she wouldn’t delay such an important matter as forged checks any longer.

But I couldn’t say that.

I smiled brightly and said.

“I just wanted to see Grandfather early today!”

“Is that so? Hehehe.”

Grandfather broke into a warm smile again.

Just then, there was a knocking sound at the door from outside.

They’re here, finally.

I thought that and quickly ran to open the door.

“Who is… Huh?”

It wasn’t Shannet.

When I opened the door, there were about six men of various ages standing there.

“Hmm?”

They also seemed surprised to encounter me, their eyes widening.

“Young Lady Pirenthia… isn’t it?”

“Hello, clan heads.”

I politely held my skirt and greeted them.

The visitors were the heads of Lombardi’s vassal families.

I could see Romasie Dillard, Cleribane’s father, and the Head of the Heringga Family, Kaileus’s father.

But they all seemed to be carrying so much stuff that both their hands looked heavy with luggage.

Ah, social life really is tough.

With an encouraging spirit, I smiled and said to the clan heads.

“You’re working hard from early morning again today.”

“Ah, yes… Young Lady, you too…”

The Head of the Heringga Family, who had reflexively responded to my words, seemed to feel something was odd and scratched the back of his head.

“Come in.”

When Grandfather gestured and spoke, the clan heads entered, struggling to carry what they held in their hands.

“…What is all that?”

Grandfather, wearing a brown robe and sitting on the bed, asked as if bewildered.

“We each brought some things that are supposed to be good for your health.”

Romasie Dillard answered with an embarrassed smile.

“This is honey from Feltrosa. It’s very good for the respiratory system.”

“I brought a premium bedding set. If you’re going to keep lying in bed, bedding is very important, isn’t it?”

“I brought some rare fruits that are hard to obtain…”

The clan heads began competing to introduce what they had brought.

Grandfather, who had been staring at them intently, bluntly said.

“Seeing how you’ve all packed so much stuff, you must have something difficult to say.”

“…”

All the clan heads shut their mouths tightly as if hit right on target.

I looked at them and said to Grandfather.

“Then I’ll step out for a moment, Grandfather.”

“Oh, would you do that? This old man will finish the conversation quickly and call for you.”

“Yes, Grandfather.”

Pretending to tactfully step away, I greeted the clan heads again and left the bedroom.

I could feel their gazes following me until I quietly closed the door.

And just as the door was about to close completely, I blocked it with my toe.

Through the gap barely wide enough for a sheet of paper, the conversation from inside began to flow out.

“So, what’s the matter?”

Grandfather asked.

“Well, the thing is…”

Someone hesitated.

But the hesitation didn’t last long.

“We have something urgent to request of you, so we all came together with one mind.”

Ah, I recognize this voice.

Similar to Cleribane’s yet different, it was Romasie Dillard.

“The vassal family heads gathering together to make a request…”

Grandfather said with a slightly amused voice.

“Alright, I’ll listen with all sincerity. Go ahead.”

“…We would like you to reconsider your judgment.”

This time it was a slightly younger and deeper voice.

From the resonant quality, it seemed to be someone from the Brey family with a large build.

“Which judgment are you referring to?”

“…Please reconsider your decision to make Lord Biejie the deputy lord.”

A moment of silence fell in the room.

It wasn’t very long, but it probably felt like an eternity to the clan heads.

“Do you all think this way?”

Grandfather asked in a low voice.

“The other clan heads who couldn’t join us here share the same sentiment, my lord.”

“Since Lord Biejie became deputy lord, our workload has increased several times over. It’s the season when spring harvests are being moved throughout the Empire, so our logistics side is having too much difficulty, my lord.”

“Our Bilkeiga family is the same. Out of nowhere, he asked us to review moving the northern civil engineering project that was going well to the western region…”

The clan heads honestly aired their complaints without crossing the line.

Grandfather, who had been listening to their stories, asked.

“So what would you like me to do?”

“Until you return, my lord, we will handle things ourselves.”

“Each family will handle work autonomously?”

“…That would probably be better.”

These were words the clan heads couldn’t have said unless their dissatisfaction had built up considerably.

If people with such deep loyalty to Grandfather and Lombardi were speaking up like this, honestly, that said it all.

“What do you think, Grodic?”

“I am…”

While Grodic Brey from Lombardi Bank, suddenly called upon, hesitated, Grandfather asked once more.

“You must have suffered a lot mentally due to the inadequate handling of the forged checks.”

“You… knew?”

Grodic acknowledged it.

“Yes, actually, that incident made it clear to us. Lord Biejie does not have the capability to perform his duties as deputy lord.”

“…What would you have done to resolve this?”

“If I had the authority to decide….”

I was listening intently to Grodic Brey’s voice when it happened.

Tap tap.

Someone tapped my shoulder, startling me as I turned around.

“Why are you standing outside?”

It was Shannet.

“Oh, well….”

I quickly stepped away from the doorway as I answered.

“The heads of the vassal families have come. They’re having a discussion inside.”

“I see.”

She must have clearly seen me eavesdropping on the conversation.

But Shannet didn’t look at me with any particular disapproval.

“D-did you come to see Grandfather?”

“I had something to discuss with him briefly, but if the family heads have come….”

Shannet glanced into the room where voices could still be heard flowing out, then seemed to make up her mind as she spoke.

“Perhaps this might actually work out well.”

Knock knock.

Shannet knocked on the door, and simultaneously the voices flowing from the crack in the door stopped.

“Father, it’s me.”

“Shannet? Come in.”

Though it was disappointing, I couldn’t really join in on the adults’ conversation, so I took half a step back from the door.

But then Shannet turned to look at me and said.

“You come in too.”

“What? Me?”

“Yes, it would be helpful for you to hear this as well.”

Shannet said that and then went inside by herself.

It would be helpful for me to hear?

What did she mean by that?

Several questions arose in my mind, but I quietly followed Shannet into the bedroom for now.

“So many people have come to visit you early in the morning, Father. You must be pleased.”

Shannet stepped inside gracefully and spoke lightly.

“It’s been a long time, Lady Shannet.”

Several of the family heads greeted Shannet warmly.

The complexions that had been darkly dejected while thinking of Biejie just moments before came alive just from seeing Shannet.

Yet at the same time, they couldn’t help but feel regretful.

If only the person sitting in the deputy lord position was Shannet instead of Biejie.

They wouldn’t have had to suffer such mental anguish and commit the impropriety of coming to visit the bedridden family head.

“Didn’t you go to work today, Shannet?”

“Yes, the mining company people worked very hard to secure new mining rights in the Northern Region. So I decided to take a day off.”

At Shannet’s words, Romasie Dillard from the Lombardi Guild brightened and said.

“I heard about it. You secured mining rights to a very large coal mine this time, didn’t you?”

“I heard that the mining company has been thriving day after day since Lady Shannet returned. Please share that secret with us later!”

Shannet had been achieving success after success as if she had wings, making the years she had stepped back seem regrettable.

“I actually came because I have something to discuss with Father.”

“Something to discuss?”

“Yes, but before that.”

Shannet looked directly at Rulak and said.

“Could you call Biejie for a moment, Father?”

“…You must have your reasons for saying that. Very well.”

Rulak sent someone to the Head Family’s Office, and shortly after, Biejie came down to the bedroom.

“What’s the sudden reason for calling me….”

Biejie, who had just entered, saw the gathered family heads and Shannet and hardened his expression.

“I was wondering where everyone was instead of coming to report.”

Biejie said as he looked around at the faces of the standing family heads.

“What are you doing here, sister?”

He also spat out sarcastic words to Shannet.

“Biejie, watch your words.”

Rulak pressed his throbbing forehead firmly as he spoke, seeing his eldest son’s behavior.

But Biejie stubbornly spat out a few more words.

“Did you come running to tattle to Father? That you don’t like what I’m doing?”

At the same time, undisguisable displeasure crossed the family heads’ faces, but Biejie twisted his lips up even more.

“If you have something to say, you can say it directly to me, instead of ignoring my authority as deputy lord and doing this….”

“Biejie, enough!”

Rulak finally couldn’t stand it and shouted loudly.

“Shannet came because she has something to formally propose, and since she requested your attendance, I called you here! So you watch your words!”

Biejie pursed his lips for a moment, then asked in a still sullen voice.

“Something to formally propose?”

Biejie’s sharp gaze turned toward Shannet.

However, Shannet maintained her composed demeanor as if such things didn’t bother her.

She looked around at all the people gathered in the room, finally taking in Pirenthia with her eyes.

The clever young niece who was hiding her small body in the corner of the doorway, watching this entire situation unfold.

Then she looked at Rulak, who was sitting leaning against the bed, and spoke in her characteristically calm tone.

“I formally propose that Biejie be removed from the position of deputy lord as of today, and that I, Shannet Lombardi, be appointed as the new deputy lord.”

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