In This Life, I Will Be The Lord - Chapter 193

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This Life, I Will Become the Clan Head Episode 193

Click.

Peres’s three classmates pushed each other’s backs as they hurriedly rushed out, and the door closed.

“Phew.”

I looked at Peres while trying to transform my rising anger into a deep sigh.

In just one day, dark circles had formed under his eyes and his cheeks had become gaunt.

This gave him a certain decadent beauty, but I didn’t like it at all.

“Peres.”

When I called his name quietly, his red eyes obediently looked up at me.

“A contract engagement is still a contract. So who decided to break off the engagement on their own?”

After a moment of silence, Peres spoke with a seemingly expressionless face.

“I’m scared something might happen to you, Tia.”

It was said quite plainly, but I knew well that it was his true feelings.

“If you break off our engagement now, your position will become extremely difficult, won’t it? All the plans we’ve set up will become worthless scraps of paper.”

“I know.”

Peres answered calmly.

“But it’s better than you getting hurt.”

“So you’re really worried only because something might happen to me?”

Peres nodded.

I let out a small sigh.

Then I approached the sitting Peres’s face closely and looked straight into his eyes as I asked.

“Do you think I’m a joke?”

An extremely ominous voice flowed out without me realizing it.

Since he was injured, I wouldn’t grab him by the collar, but I was literally furious to the top of my head.

“Why are you making me into someone who hides just because they’re scared of the Empress?”

Because Beit, who had obtained the information, moved immediately, because Lombardi knights found me and Peres in that vast grassland, we were barely able to survive.

If we had been unlucky, Peres and I would have died in that grassland without anyone knowing.

To be honest, I was scared.

When I was losing consciousness due to the poison, I was afraid whether I would be able to open my eyes again.

But even so, nothing changes.

“The day we first met in the Imperial Palace forest. I told you, ‘I will help you.'”

“…I remember.”

“Then answer me, Peres. If it were you, would you let go of my hand for such a trivial reason?”

At my question, his red eyes trembled slightly.

“…No.”

“It’s the same for me.”

I straightened his disheveled shirt and swept his hair back as I spoke.

“So don’t make me into someone who breaks promises just because they’re scared of the Empress.”

Through this incident, I came to understand somewhat what it meant to have someone target my life, and what kind of feelings Peres must have lived with all this time.

My resolve became even firmer.

“I have no intention of leaving you alone in this muddy situation while I escape by myself.”

Peres’s brow furrowed.

He slowly reached out and embraced my waist.

His firm forehead touched my stomach.

From that action where he couldn’t even hold me tightly, I felt a mixture of apology, gratitude, and affection.

His broad back in the wrinkled shirt looked so lonely that I hugged him as tightly as I could.

“I need to hug you for a bit, so bear with it even if it hurts.”

At my words, the vibration of Peres’s low laughter spread through my entire body.

Last time when I held him like this on horseback, I had to feel the gushing blood directly with my fingertips.

I slightly opened my eyes to confirm that nothing was staining my hands now.

I hugged him even tighter, as much as the relief filling my heart.

Then Peres spoke in an uncharacteristically half-petulant way.

“If something happens to you, I’ll destroy everything.”

“Why are you making such a murderous joke?”

I laughed and messed up Peres’s hair completely.

But he didn’t answer and pulled me closer, rubbing his face against me like he was acting spoiled.

* * *

Just as Empress Lavinia was finishing her hair arrangement, a palace maid came running to inform her.

“Gallahan Lombardi has visited the Imperial Palace.”

“My preparations aren’t finished yet, so tell him to wait.”

Lavinia said leisurely while looking in the mirror.

“What a rude man. He doesn’t properly reply to the letter I sent and just comes to the Imperial Palace without notice.”

Empress Lavinia had also heard the news that Gallahan Lombardi had returned from Chesayu to the Lombardi estate.

She had immediately sent a letter inviting him to the Empress’ quarters, but there had been no proper reply yet, so she was about to send someone again.

“Of all times, that child had to get caught up in it.”

Pirenthia happening to be with Peres was an accidental occurrence.

Since the Lombardi family head still hadn’t said anything, it seemed the secret was being maintained, but her father Gallahan might know.

“Gallahan is a timid man, so he’ll be fine if I just coax him appropriately.”

As Lavinia was muttering leisurely like this, the maid said carefully.

“Um, Gallahan Lombardi didn’t go to the Empress’ quarters but entered the Imperial Palace, Your Majesty.”

“What… did you just say?”

“Ga-Gallahan Lombardi is now in the Imperial Palace gardens having a meal…”

Empress Lavinia shot up from where she was sitting.

A bad premonition ran down her spine.

“Dress, bring me a dress immediately!”

Hurriedly putting on a dress and heading to the Imperial Palace, Lavinia trembled with déjà vu.

Something like this had happened before.

The day when Rulak suddenly visited the Imperial Palace, became the Second Prince’s guardian, and many things began to go awry.

Sure enough.

As she approached the Imperial Palace gardens, loud laughter could be heard.

“Haha! Gallahan, I didn’t know you were such a smooth talker!”

“How could saying that Chesayu’s prosperity is all thanks to Your Majesty be smooth talking, hahaha!”

Even this was exactly the same as that day.

Forgetting when they had been distant, like people who had lived as close brothers their whole lives.

Gallahan and Emperor Yobanes were having a friendly conversation.

Empress Lavinia gritted her teeth.

Gallahan is not Rulak.

After standing behind the corner and reassuring herself several times like this, Lavinia entered the gardens with a bright smile.

“Your Majesty, so you were here. I came running as soon as I heard news of a welcome guest.”

“Oh, the Empress has come.”

Emperor Yobanes said with a somewhat less cheerful expression.

The Empress’s appearance wasn’t very welcome.

Gallahan rose from where he was sitting.

“It’s been a long time. Nice to see you, Lord Gallahan.”

The Empress extended one hand with a smiling face.

It was to receive a courteous greeting from Gallahan.

It was to receive a courteous greeting from Gallaghan.

But Gallahan did not take that hand.

With eyes that had turned coldly indifferent, completely different from his smiling face, he briefly looked at Empress Lavinia’s white hand before simply saying with a smile.

“Yes. It’s been a long time, Your Majesty the Empress.”

It was an insult.

He had not shown the proper respect that should be given to an empress.

But Gallahan still stood quietly with a smiling face.

His attitude seemed to say, go ahead and get angry if you want to.

Empress Lavinia’s long eyelashes trembled with anger, but the Emperor was not on the Empress’s side.

Yobanes patted Gallahan’s shoulder affectionately and said.

“Gallahan, didn’t you say you were busy and needed to get going?”

Before answering, Gallahan secretly took a breath.

Then he smiled as if he had no choice and delivered the words he had prepared.

“Yes, I have to take care of affairs for both Chesayu and Lombardi, so every single day feels insufficient.”

As expected, Yobanes reacted to those words.

“Chesayu is understandable, but do you need to worry about Lombardi too?”

“Don’t I need to show my face to the Lombardi retainers now?”

The meaning of Gallahan’s words was clear.

Yobanes asked in surprise.

“Hmm? Has the Lombardi family head made a decision about succession?”

“Nothing has been officially announced yet.”

Gallahan shook his head.

Lombardi does not make succession announcements until internal discussions are finished and everything is perfectly decided.

However, the Empress and Emperor didn’t know this well, and Gallahan intended to exploit that gap.

He planned to serve as a shield, even briefly, until Tia established herself as the successor.

“But it’s also true that there’s no suitable successor other than me.”

Yobanes nodded at Gallahan’s words.

“That’s true. I heard Biejie was practically expelled from the family.”

As Yobanes said this, his gaze flicked toward Empress Lavinia.

It was well-known public knowledge that the Empress had supported the eldest son, Biejie.

“Then I’ll take my leave now, Your Majesty the Emperor.”

Gallahan bowed politely to Yobanes.

Then he turned and stood before the Empress.

“I received the letter you sent, Your Majesty the Empress.”

“Is that so. I was worried the letter might have gone to the wrong place since no reply came.”

Empress Lavinia said with a forced smile on her stiff face.

“As I mentioned, I’ve been extremely busy lately. But I’ll make sure to reply to Your Majesty the Empress’s letters, so if you have any questions for me in the future, please summon me directly.”

“What do you mean by that…”

“And leave my daughter alone.”

Gallahan quietly curled up the corners of his mouth as he added.

It was a warning about what had happened in the Lombardi grasslands.

Having finished what he wanted to say, Gallahan gave a light bow to Empress Lavinia and brushed past her.

“Ah, Gallahan, I also have business outside the palace, so let’s go together!”

Emperor Yobanes also followed after him.

Empress Lavinia, left alone in the Imperial Palace gardens, couldn’t move from that spot for a long time.

* * *

The end of autumn.

The hunting competition hosted by the Lombardi family was approaching.

The trio of Peres’s classmates staying at Poirak Palace were also excited with anticipation for the hunting competition.

“I heard this Lombardi hunting competition is incomparably grand and magnificent compared to others!”

“Then we’ll get to see that Lombardi young lady from last time?”

“Wow, that young lady really… She’s the first person I’ve seen who’s scarier than His Highness.”

At Tedro’s question, Steeli shuddered.

He remembered how she had commanded them to “all get out” with that cold face.

“Well, she’s the kind of person who can treat our Highness like some docile wolf dog…”

“Ahem.”

Tedro poked Steeli’s side.

Right next to them, Peres was checking the edge of a sword he had personally sharpened.

But even though he must have heard the words “wolf dog,” Peres didn’t seem to mind much.

His calm gaze remained focused only on the sword blade.

Knowing that such behavior was actually what Peres showed when he was in a good mood, Steeli felt relieved and threw out a topic that might interest Peres.

“About Your Highness’s inadequate half-brother. I heard he’s entering over ten of his cronies in this hunting competition?”

“What? Ten people?”

Lignite asked in surprise.

“Yeah. So he’s been bragging about it at every banquet he goes to. That he’ll defeat our Highness and win at this Lombardi hunting competition. What do you think about that, Your Highness?”

Steeli asked Peres with a mischievous smile.

Then Peres answered with an expressionless face.

“By the time this hunting competition ends, no one will be curious about who won, so what does it matter.”

“Ah, that’s true.”

The academy trio exchanged glances and giggled.

Shring, click.

Peres, who had sheathed his sword, stood up and said.

“Let’s go.”

Peres took the lead with the trio following behind him.

Their destination was the location of this Lombardi family hunting competition.

It was the “Forest of the Mad,” an area where monsters frequently appeared.

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