In This Life, I Will Be The Lord - Chapter 124

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This Life, I Will Become the Clan Head Episode 124

A grand banquet unprecedented in recent years was held today at the Lombardi estate.

It was none other than Pirenthia Lombardi’s eighteenth birthday party, celebrating her coming of age.

Originally, the direct descendants of Lombardi always held grand banquets for their birthdays, but this time was on a different level.

Rumors had been circulating in aristocratic circles since six months before the birthday.

That Gallahan Lombardi was preparing a tremendous banquet for his only daughter’s coming-of-age ceremony.

Moreover, there were also rumors that Shannet Lombardi, who was mentioned as a candidate for the next head of the Lombardi family despite being a woman and was once a legend in aristocratic circles, was helping Gallahan.

And when the banquet invitations arrived, the nobles were once again turned upside down.

It was because of a single piece of paper that came with the banquet invitation.

It was a ‘Gallahan Clothing Store Premium Dress Exchange Voucher’.

Regardless of whether they attended the banquet or not, they could receive an expensive dress by visiting the clothing store with the voucher!

It was a moment where one could truly feel Gallahan Lombardi’s extreme love for his daughter as well as the truly enormous scale of his assets.

And at the end of the invitation, it was written like this:

[Those who attend the banquet will receive a gift voucher worth 10 gold that can be used at ‘Pellet Home & Interior’ as a return gift.]

‘Pellet Home & Interior’ was a luxury decorative goods store that Pellet Trading Company had recently opened extensively in the central part of the Empire.

With 10 gold, one could buy a very good quality vase or teapot there.

Of course, it was Tia’s new business promotional strategy to make them spend more money than that while browsing the store after going to use the 10 gold voucher, but they didn’t know that much.

They just thought, ‘Since he’s been Cleribane Pellet’s student from a very young age, they must be close enough for him to spend such a large sum on a birthday!’

And so the day of the banquet arrived.

Naturally, the attendance rate was very high.

Due to the carriages lined up in a long queue waiting their turn, one had to wait over an hour to enter the banquet hall.

“The banquet hall is so beautiful it’s enchanting!”

“How much could this have cost!”

“They say she’s the granddaughter most favored by the head of the Lombardi family, my goodness…”

Everyone entering the banquet hall couldn’t close their mouths for a while.

There was a common exclamation that all of them uttered.

“How very Lombardi!”

The banquet hall was lavishly decorated with gold.

Especially the curtains and tablecloths made of gold thread sparkled even more brilliantly as they caught the light from the huge diamond chandelier hanging in the center of the banquet hall.

Even the window frames were specially gilded for today, adding extreme splendor.

That wasn’t all.

Finely crushed gold leaf floated in the champagne carried by the servants.

It was all an overwhelming display of wealth that only the Lombardi family could pull off, impossible for anyone else to even imitate.

“What kind of dress do you think Lady Pirenthia Lombardi is wearing today?”

“I should take a good look at the dress Lady Lombardi is wearing and commission my dress designer.”

The noble ladies who had finished touring the banquet hall stretched their necks long looking for Pirenthia.

“Ah, there she is!”

One woman spotted Pirenthia standing near the food table and gestured.

And a brief silence fell among them.

“…How can it be so classic yet so new?”

“The slashes on the arms and the slightly low neckline are gorgeous yet so alluring!”

It was completely different from the previously popular styles, but strangely there was no sense of rejection.

That was the reason the Empire’s aristocratic circles paid attention to Pirenthia Lombardi.

“Um, the dress is one thing, but doesn’t Lady Lombardi look particularly beautiful today?”

Everyone nodded at someone’s comment.

“I was just thinking the same thing… She’s always had pretty features, but seeing her today, she’s truly beautiful.”

“Especially those big, kind eyes and white skin make even me, a woman, stare blankly?”

“And she has a unique atmosphere. Though she’s a young lady, there’s something that makes her not easily approachable…”

Everyone agreed with that statement.

“Looking at her cousins standing next to her now, it seems to be a characteristic of the Lombardi family.”

A light silence fell again.

All the noble ladies gathered in one place were staring blankly at Pirenthia.

Then, perhaps sensing their gazes from afar, Pirenthia looked back at them and smiled slightly.

“Ah…”

It was such a pretty smile that it made them forget they had been caught peeking.

After Pirenthia briefly smiled and returned to her conversation with her cousins, one young noble lady who had been staring at her blankly lifted her heavy dress hem and said.

“This won’t do. I need to get closer and examine the dress.”

Then the other women who were a step behind also hurriedly followed her, saying.

“I’ll come too!”

“What are you doing, Tia? Who are you smiling at?”

“Is there someone you know over there?”

The twins stretched their necks to look at where I had been looking.

“No, just. I felt someone’s gaze.”

Image management, you could say?

The two nodded and understood at my answer.

“Tia is too kind.”

“Right. To think that such a Tia is already an adult. Our worries these days are no small matter.”

“…Why are you two worried?”

“Now all those guys… no, all those people will start following Tia around saying they like her.”

“Then we’ll have to chase away those annoying flies, but we’ve been getting busier lately, so we’re worried.”

The twins simultaneously let out small sighs as they spoke.

The two, now twenty-one years old, had proudly received their knighthood the year before last and joined the Lombardi Knights.

With this, they became official members of the Lombardi family as knights, beyond just their status as direct descendants of Lombardi.

It was a completely different path from their previous life when they returned to Shuls, changed their surnames upon coming of age.

Moreover, the twins, who seemed like they would stick together everywhere, were divided into the 1st and 3rd Knight Orders respectively.

They said it was what they wanted.

“If there’s any kid bothering you, you must tell us, Tia?”

Giliou earnestly urged.

Meylon also nodded enthusiastically beside him.

If even a rumor spread that someone liked me, they would probably rush over immediately with fierce expressions and grab them by the collar.

Considering the two’s personalities, it was entirely possible.

I smiled and subtly changed the subject.

“How’s the knight order? Didn’t you take the promotion exam recently?”

“Of course we passed.”

“Now our bottom-rung life is over.”

“They say we’re the first to get promoted this quickly in almost ten years.”

Giliou and Meylon spoke with great pride.

Well, they had reason to be proud.

The Lombardi Knights wasn’t such a lax place that they would let someone join just because they were direct descendants of Lombardi and pass promotion exams easily.

You could tell just by looking at how Astaliou was a perpetual trainee even after joining late in his previous life.

“Amazing, you two.”

At my words, the twins’ shoulders rose proudly once more.

“Sister, sister. Me too!”

Creny, who had been standing next to Giliou and Meylon, took a step closer and called to me.

As expected, Creny had grown tall.

Now that he was fifteen, his height had already surpassed mine and he was eagerly catching up to the twins.

“I passed the Academy entrance exam!”

Unlike Peres who had a free pass because he was a prince, Creny had to take the Academy entrance exam.

But I had never been worried.

Creny was naturally smart, and I had been giving him intensive early education since he was young.

But I couldn’t ignore Creny whose eyes were sparkling as if asking for praise.

I gently patted the head of Creny, who was now taller than me.

“Well done. You worked hard, Creny.”

“Hehe. It’s all thanks to you, sister.”

Oh my, what a sweet thing to say.

“If you need any help preparing for the Academy, just let me know, Creny.”

Of course, even if he doesn’t say anything, I’m planning to generously provide everything from the finest luggage to plenty of spending money.

But Creny seemed to really need something as he spoke hesitantly.

“Well, then. Perhaps the textbooks that His Highness the Second Prince used to use… No, even just shaking hands and receiving some good energy would be nice…”

His particularly pale face turned red as he scratched his cheek in embarrassment.

“Peres? Why Peres?”

“He was top of both civil and military classes and even graduated early. When I was young, I didn’t know he was such an amazing person…”

Here’s another fan of Peres.

“Alright, then. He’s supposed to come to today’s banquet. I don’t know about textbooks, but I’ll introduce you to him. Ask him if you have any questions then.”

“Really? Thank you, sister!”

Creny smiled brightly and stamped his feet excitedly.

Then the twins, who had been grinning alongside him, suddenly frowned deeply.

“Ah, here she comes.”

I glanced in the direction the two were looking.

The person I found most troublesome to deal with these days was walking toward me with a bunch of attendants.

It was Empress Lavinia, who hadn’t aged a day as if she’d been sprayed with preservatives.

Despite clearly being middle-aged, her skin was still flawless without a single blemish, which was almost unsettling.

To think I have to see that face even on my birthday.

“It’s going to get troublesome, so you two go over there.”

I told the twins.

The Empress had harbored a kind of rivalry toward Shannet, who was her peer, and the Lombardi family since childhood.

So whenever she happened to encounter Shannet at banquets, they would clash over every little thing.

This had gotten even worse after Shannet pushed out Biejie and became Deputy Lord.

The twins, who had grown up watching this, would shudder at the mention of Empress Lavinia.

“Creny, you follow your brothers too.”

Left alone, I sighed quietly and drank the beverage I was holding.

And not long after, a voice that was pretty but somehow unpleasant spoke to me.

“Congratulations on coming of age, Pirenthia.”

It was a gentle yet coquettish voice that thoroughly concealed her true feelings.

I can’t lose either.

I greeted her with the bright diplomatic smile I had been using ever since entering aristocratic society.

“For you to personally attend my birthday banquet like this. I’m so grateful I don’t know what to do with myself, Your Majesty the Empress.”

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