In This Life, I Will Be The Lord - Chapter 246

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This Life, I Will Become the Clan Head Episode 246

An elderly woman and a young man and woman, three people who didn’t quite blend in with the surrounding scenery, were slowly strolling through the banquet hall set up in the Lombardi Garden.

They wore clothes completely different from the rich and elaborate attire of the Empire’s nobles.

Their clothing, which primarily used intense primary colors of red, blue, and yellow, had a linear beauty with little empty space, yet uniquely, the women’s skirts dragged long on the ground.

Moreover, wearing accessories carved from wood rather than jewels, they instantly captured people’s attention.

However, the parties themselves seemed oblivious to such gazes, taking slow steps as if they were on a sightseeing tour, instead observing the banquet hall and nobles.

“Wow, this is amazing.”

Said a man with dark skin and exceptionally red hair.

“They said the Empire is completely different from us. Indeed, seeing it in person is different from just reading about it in books!”

The man, who kept exclaiming in admiration at the white cloth covering the tables, the beautifully maintained evergreen trees, and even the magnificent mustache of a passing gentleman, spoke to the elderly woman walking at the front.

“Chief, how are you feeling?”

Though his tone was casual, his eyes looking at the elder called ‘Chief’ were filled with deep affection.

“I’m fine.”

“You can’t just keep saying you’re fine. I’m supposedly your dedicated physician, Chief. How would I face the tribe members if something happened?”

The grumbling physician picked up a glass of fruit juice from a nearby table.

Then a subtle light, barely visible to the eye, swirled through the juice once before disappearing.

“Yes, it’s safe. Please drink, Chief.”

“Thank you, Onta.”

While the elderly woman drank the juice, the young woman standing guard behind her constantly surveyed the surroundings.

Silent, with an expressionless face and no unnecessary movements, she reminded one of a straight-grown tree.

“You were right, Onta.”

“About what, Chief?”

“About the Empire being very different from our tribe.”

“Right? I don’t understand it.”

Onta glanced at the nobles in their splendid attire passing by and frowned with displeasure.

“What reason is there to be so greedy? They’d be happier if they shared everything with others.”

“Everyone has their own way of living.”

“But look, Chief. Among all these people here, how many are truly joyful and happy?”

As Onta pointed at the crowd with dissatisfaction, the elder raised her wrinkled eyes and carefully observed them.

It was a typical outdoor banquet scene, but as if she could see something invisible to others.

The elder watched them for a long time.

“You’re right again this time, Onta.”

“See?”

Onta replied grumpily.

“It’s nice to see the Empire, but it doesn’t seem like a place to stay long. Let’s finish our business quickly and return to the village, Chief.”

“This journey is not decided by your preferences, Onta.”

Finally scolded by the woman who had been standing guard, Onta pouted and replied.

“I know, Anai. But staying in such a cold region for long isn’t good for the Chief’s health either.”

“Hmm.”

Even Anai, who had maintained an expressionless face, wavered at the mention of the Chief’s health.

“We informed the butler that we’ve arrived, so we’ll know if we wait a moment.”

“Sigh, I’ll just wander around nearby a bit…”

“There’s no need.”

The Chief pointed toward the large building.

“She’s coming.”

Anai and Onta’s heads turned in that direction simultaneously.

A woman in a red dress was walking briskly toward them, her brown hair flowing.

“It’s Shan’s child.”

Her wrinkled lips curved into a smile as she spoke.

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“Grandmother, so suddenly.”

I could feel my heart beating rapidly as I walked toward the place the butler had indicated.

“Does Father know?”

That thought suddenly crossed my mind.

But I soon concluded that probably wasn’t the case.

If he had known, he would have told me in advance.

“He said the garden.”

I left the main building and walked toward the garden.

It was in the direction where I had to cross the wide outdoor banquet hall.

“Lord Lombardi!”

“Greetings!”

“Congratulations!”

Various nobles greeted me as they saw me, making it quite hectic, but I nodded once to each and continued walking.

“Ah.”

And when I reached the edge of the banquet hall, I could see three people in the distance.

There was no time to wonder if those were the people.

They had such distinctive appearances.

The elder with long white hair tied up in a bun – my grandmother – met my eyes.

Without breaking eye contact, I stood before her.

“Hello. It’s my first time meeting you.”

I slowly bowed my head in greeting.

Then a voice filled with warm energy replied.

“Nice to meet you, Shan’s child.”

Shan’s child.

It was accurate, but a somewhat unique way of addressing me.

But I liked that aspect.

Especially my grandmother’s confident attitude of not caring at all that I was the Lord of Lombardi, and her eyes that didn’t avoid my gaze – these were even more appealing points.

“Let’s have a conversation for a moment.”

Having said that, Grandmother, as if further pleasantries were cumbersome, took the lead and walked into the evergreen forest.

What a unique person.

I thought that as I quietly followed behind her.

When Grandmother and I reached the middle of the forest, at some point the other two people had stopped following.

Crunch, crunch.

When only the sound of soil being stepped on could be heard, Grandmother spoke first.

“Shan’s child. Your name is… Pirenthia, wasn’t it?”

“Yes, that’s correct. May I know your name, Grandmother?”

When I called her ‘Grandmother,’ she seemed a bit surprised and widened her eyes, then soon laughed with apparent joy.

“My name is Sowrada. In our tribal language, it means ‘snow.'”

“Tribe… you say?”

“The 【Chara】 tribe that I lead lives in the jungle region at the very southern tip where it meets the sea. Do you know about us?”

“Ah… perhaps…”

It was content from a book called 【Southern People】 that I had read right after my regression.

That tribe discovered by a scholar named Rofili.

“I didn’t know Mother was from that tribe.”

“Hehe. We don’t often talk about the tribe outside our village. It tends to cause troublesome situations.”

Grandmother said with a small laugh.

“Then you must also know that we have special abilities.”

“I remember reading in books that there’s a power called magic.”

“Oh, yes. You must have read the books written by Rofili. That’s right. It’s an ability that passes only through bloodlines.”

But even while hearing the explanation directly, doubt raised its head in a corner of my heart.

Does such power really exist?

“How interesting that you doubt it when you know it best of all.”

“…What?”

“Haven’t you already experienced the power of magic once? Pirenthia, who is living the past again.”

I got goosebumps.

“How do you…”

“That is the power I possess.”

Eyes that were somewhat cloudy looked at me as she spoke.

“I see things that others cannot see. Sometimes it’s the past, sometimes it’s someone’s thoughts. Very occasionally, I see the future through dreams.”

I couldn’t say anything.

I didn’t even know what to say.

How should I act in front of someone who knows that I’ve regressed? My mind went completely blank.

Grandmother, who had been staring at me like that, spoke as if it was nothing special.

“Anyone from the Chara Tribe has at least one special power. Onta over there has the ability to heal people and create medicine from water.”

Grandmother pointed to the man waiting in the distance.

“And Anai moves like the wind. She also has the strength of ten people combined.”

“Then what you’re saying is… my ability…”

“You probably had the ability to turn back time.”

What kind of superhero-like ability is that.

“Th-then what about Mother?”

“Shan’s ability was… seeing the future. From the color of flowers she would pick tomorrow to floods that would kill many people. She could see everything in advance. Shan’s ability was so powerful that everyone thought she would succeed me as chief.”

Having suddenly heard a kind of birth secret, my head felt dazed.

To me in that state, Grandmother said.

“But you are only half. Only half the blood of the Chara Tribe flows through you.”

“What?”

It was something I had heard far too often in my previous life.

Half-Baked.

The mockery that no matter how hard I tried, I could only become a half-baked Lombardi.

Even hearing it after so long makes me emotional.

When I said nothing, Grandmother chuckled again and said.

“Don’t take it badly. It’s actually a good thing.”

“A good thing?”

“The abilities of the Chara Tribe come with a price.”

Grandmother pointed to the man once more as she spoke.

“Onta has the magic power to save even dying people, but he cannot smile. He cannot feel joy.”

Next, she pointed to Anai.

“Anai is faster and stronger than anyone, but she cannot feel pain. Even if her stomach is pierced in battle, she doesn’t know until she bleeds enough to die, and because she cannot empathize with others’ pain, she has committed the sin of hurting many people since childhood.”

“Then are you alright, Grandmother?”

“I am…”

Grandmother smiled bitterly.

“As you can see, I can barely see. And I lost what was most precious to me.”

What was most precious to Grandmother would be.

“The price for eyes that can see many things was my daughter Shan. The stronger the ability, the more precious what you lose.”

Grandmother had said earlier.

Mother’s ability was incredibly powerful.

“Then Mother was…”

“Lifespan. The price Shan had to pay was her own lifespan.”

Having answered thus, Grandmother approached and looked up at me with cloudy eyes as she spoke.

“So Pirenthia, don’t be sad about being half-baked. Thanks to that, you seem to have escaped the shackles of Chara.”

An indescribable loneliness crossed Grandmother’s face as she said this.

“Th-thank goodness…”

I was about to sigh in relief when a question arose.

Is it okay to ask this?

To me who was hesitating, Grandmother said.

“You must have many questions. Ask away.”

“I’m sorry. I don’t understand well. Didn’t you just say that Mother was someone who could see the future?”

“That’s right. That was Shan’s ability.”

“But if that’s the case… why did Mother give birth to me? She must have already known.”

Mother passed away about a hundred days after giving birth to me.

If she had seen such a future for herself, then why me.

“Shan knew her own future. Of course, she knew of your existence too, Pirenthia.”

“That means…”

“Shan chose to give birth to you, Pirenthia. She left the tribe and family in the forest and departed for the Empire with Rofili, who had finished her research. And she came to Lombardy Territory and met Your Father.”

Grandmother’s cloudy eyes became even more blurred.

“Even knowing that she would die.”

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