In This Life, I Will Be The Lord - Chapter 247

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This Life, I Will Become the Clan Head Episode 247

Even knowing she would die.

Those words pierced my heart like a sharp stab.

“When Shan left the tribe, I tried to stop her. I said she could just avoid the bad future. But that child smiled brightly and said, ‘I love my husband and child I haven’t met yet so much that I can’t help but go.'”

Mother had met Father knowing what would happen to her after giving birth to me.

“‘I’ve decided to love my fate,’ I think it was. Those were the last words that child left behind.”

It seemed like a very painful memory for Grandmother.

“I still vividly remember the day Shan left. A mother can never forget the day her daughter leaves.”

The face full of traces of time looked at me.

“Just once, when you were in her womb, she sent a letter to the village. Do you know what Shan said then?”

I shook my head slightly.

Grandmother spoke in a quiet voice.

“‘My daughter will live brilliant lives.'”

“Ha.”

I made a sound like a deflating balloon.

“That’s why I came to see you today, when you would be happiest. Shan’s daughter.”

My mind felt completely tangled, but at the same time I seemed to understand clearly.

Mother really was a person with powerful abilities.

And perhaps my regression was destined fate.

“Shan loved her fate, Pirenthia. She sacrificed her life to bring you into this world. So don’t waste that life.”

Waste?

My life, both in my previous life and this life, was far from being called a waste.

I had always lived by giving my all.

“No, you’re living a complacent life right now.”

“No, you’re saying that without knowing me. I’m not someone who wastes time.”

I found myself retorting reflexively.

Along with words that belittled my affection for Lombardy, I couldn’t tolerate such statements.

“I’m telling you not to live a complacent life.”

“I’m not living complacently either.”

“Then why are you talking about your next life?”

“…What?”

“Aren’t you boasting that you’ll be satisfied once you become the head of Lombardy in this life? Saying the rest can be achieved in your next life.”

“That’s…”

“Can you say that’s not true?”

I couldn’t refute it.

It was true that I had occasionally thought that way.

There were times when I convinced myself to only think about becoming the head of Lombardy in this life.

“As if you naturally have the opportunity of a next life. Right?”

Cloudy eyes looked at me sternly.

“You’re Half-Baked. There is no next life for you who has escaped the shackles, Pirenthia.”

A life that leaves regrets as if I could regress once more.

A life that doesn’t even try to achieve everything I want.

That would indeed be a complacent life.

“So move. Because this life is your last life.”

Last life.

As soon as I heard those words, only one person came to mind.

“Um, I suddenly have somewhere I need to go.”

My heart became urgent.

To the point where I understood what it meant to stamp one’s feet impatiently.

And as fast as my urgent heart, a plan unfolded in my mind.

A plan to have everything I want in this life.

“…Yes, you should hurry and go.”

Again, Grandmother smiled knowingly as if she had read my thoughts.

“If it’s alright, please stay at the Lombardy Estate. There’s a lot I want to know, Grandmother.”

“Hmm.”

After thinking for a moment, Grandmother nodded.

“I’ll try to persuade Onta for a few days.”

Onta was the name of that gruff-faced red-haired man.

Then, behind Onta and Anai, I saw a familiar face.

Father’s face, looking at Grandmother and me, not knowing what to do.

“And there seems to be one more person over there who wants to talk with Grandmother?”

“…It’s Gallahan.”

Even though he probably couldn’t see well, Grandmother looked precisely toward where Father was and spoke quietly.

Father, receiving her gaze, flinched in surprise for a moment, then immediately bowed his head deeply in greeting.

“Well then, I’ll be back!”

I hurriedly moved my steps.

I happened to see a coachman organizing the family head’s carriage in front of the main building.

I opened the carriage door and climbed in without hesitation, shouting.

“To the Imperial Palace!”

* * *

Having come straight to the Imperial Palace, I only regained some rationality when it was time to get off the carriage.

“The timing is awkward now.”

It was still midday with the sun hanging high above.

It was a time when Peres would be busy handling his duties.

“I don’t want to interrupt his work.”

He was so busy that he hadn’t even been able to come to the three-day-and-night continuous banquet celebrating my becoming family head.

I had received a letter this morning saying he had finally managed to make time for this evening.

“Should I go back and wait for now?”

While riding in the carriage, my impulsive plan had gained various details.

The things I needed to do to avoid leaving regrets were piling up neatly according to that plan.

A way to maintain my position as head of Lombardy while not giving up on Peres at the same time.

It wouldn’t be easy.

No, under current law, it was impossible.

But.

“If it can’t be done, I’ll make it possible.”

Who am I, after all.

But there’s an order to everything.

The first thing I needed to do was talk with Peres.

Just then, Peres walked out of the Central Palace building where I was standing.

“Huh? Peres?”

Forgetting about the guards and attendants passing by around us, I unconsciously called his name.

“…Tia?”

Peres also looked extremely surprised to see me, his eyes widening.

“Why are you here…”

“Wait, talk with me for a moment.”

I grabbed Peres’s sleeve firmly as I spoke.

“I was originally going to wait until you came to the estate this evening. But since we’ve met, let’s get this done.”

I absolutely hate just waiting around anxiously.

“Isn’t there somewhere with no people around?”

At my question, Peres thought for a moment before answering.

“I know a suitable place.”

* * *

“Hmm, yes. There definitely won’t be anyone here.”

It seems like I can’t escape the forest today.

The place Peres brought me to was the forest near the pavilion where Peres used to live.

“This is where we first met, right?”

I said, pointing to a small round thicket a little distance away.

“You were grazing on grass over there, Peres.”

“Yes, no one will disturb us here.”

Peres nodded with satisfaction as he spoke.

What a strange guy.

I let out a laugh without realizing it.

Peres stared intently at my laughing face from close up and said.

“Actually, there’s something I want to show Tia.”

“Something you want to show me?”

Then Peres extended his hand toward me and said.

“Shall we walk a little?”

“This hand is…”

Is he asking to hold hands?

When I looked closely at Peres’s hand extended toward me, I could see the tips trembling just slightly.

He’s nervous.

So I grabbed his hand firmly.

“T-Tia?”

Instead, I saw Peres looking flustered.

He probably didn’t expect me to grab it without hesitation as if I’d been waiting.

Once I’ve made up my mind, I don’t hesitate anymore.

“Why? What?”

I lifted my chin a bit brazenly and walked ahead.

Though Peres, with his red ears, quickly caught up with a few long strides of his long legs.

“Ahem.”

Holding hands was more awkward than I expected.

My heart was pounding, and only the sounds of the two of us could be heard in the forest.

When I fidgeted with our joined hands from the suffocating feeling, Peres’s large hand firmly enveloped mine.

Is it because it’s cold today?

Peres’s hand had become as cold as my own tense hand.

The place Peres led me to was the ruins where he used to live.

No, there were no more ruins.

There was only a modest pavilion that had been properly built.

“You rebuilt it like this in just a few weeks?”

Peres nodded at my question.

“It’s no longer a place I want to forget. Rather, I want to keep it in my memory for a long time.”

“As expected.”

Money and power are the best.

Though he hasn’t received the Crown Prince appointment yet, he’s practically the Crown Prince.

“The workers must have had a hard time.”

I took a moment of silence thinking about the workers who labored in this cold winter.

But I was also genuinely happy.

“It’s a good idea, Peres.”

I patted Peres on the back.

This pavilion was practically a symbol of the darkest and most miserable day in Peres’s life.

The fact that he magnificently rebuilt this pavilion that had remained abandoned even after Peres left this place might mean that his wounds had healed somewhat.

I had that vague thought.

“So you wanted to come here to show me this…!”

I turned to look at Peres with a smile but couldn’t finish my sentence.

“What are you doing right now, Peres?”

Peres, who had gently released my hand, took a step back.

Then he looked at me and slowly knelt on one knee.

“Don’t tell me you’re now…”

Then, Peres took something out from his chest.

It was a neatly folded piece of paper.

He handed it to me.

“What is this?”

When I hurriedly opened it, the Emperor’s seal was stamped prominently on the paper.

And below it, clear letters were written in poor handwriting.

[I, Yobanes, Emperor of the Lambru Empire, hereby grant the following by imperial decree.

First, maintenance of the Empress’s family succession rights and inheritance rights.

Second, maintenance of the Empress’s birth surname.

Third, maintenance of independent property and authority originating and derived from the Empress’s family.

This is my will, so the Empire’s officials and nobles shall not raise objections.]

The Emperor’s will.

It was like a testament left while alive, an absolute command that no one could defy.

“Peres, you… how did you get this.”

My voice was trembling.

It was a terrible voice that sounded choked.

However, my surprise didn’t end there.

“Tia.”

Peres called my name.

It was when our gazes met reflexively with his red eyes.

At that moment, I realized what Peres looked like right now.

Eyes kneeling on one knee, looking only at me.

Instinctively realizing what was about to happen, my heart began beating even faster.

Then, Peres slowly pulled and held one of my hands and asked in a low voice.

“Pirenthia Lombardi, Head of the Family, will you marry me?”

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