In This Life, I Will Be The Lord - Chapter 275

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This Life, I Will Become the Clan Head

 

Side Story Episode 18

 

After hurriedly washing and finishing my preparations, the ship was just entering the harbor.

 

“It really is Ruman.”

 

I muttered while gripping the deck railing.

 

I couldn’t believe that Ruman, the eastern region’s center that I had only heard about through reports and other people’s stories, was unfolding before my eyes.

 

“It’s beautiful.”

 

It was exactly as Avinox had once described to me.

 

White buildings topped with blue and red roofs, people dressed in colorfully patterned clothes, and narrow alleys tangled like spider webs all harmonized together like a single painting.

 

And there was something that made the scene even more perfect.

 

It was the cheerful singing of the harbor workers waiting to unload the cruise’s cargo.

 

Splash, splash

 

Is it the sound of waves or the sound of rowing?

 

Is it the footsteps of my beloved returning from afar?

 

It was just as Avinox had said – it was an eastern tradition to play music and sing on the shore while waiting for family members who had gone out to sea to return.

 

The eastern folk song, cheerful yet somehow melancholic, felt familiar and heartwarming even though I was hearing it for the first time.

 

As I found myself unconsciously humming along to the song, Peres approached my side and briefly exclaimed in admiration.

 

“It’s incomparable to how it was a few years ago.”

 

“That means it’s prospered that much, right?”

 

“Yeah. If it weren’t a cruise destination, I might have thought we dropped anchor at the wrong city.”

 

What did Ruman look like before eastern trade began?

 

Was it a much quieter and more beautiful small seaside city than now?

 

I suddenly became curious.

 

As if reading my thoughts, Peres embraced me tightly from behind and kissed the top of my head while explaining.

 

“There weren’t several large docks like now. There were only a couple for trade with the eastern continent. That area where the warehouses are concentrated used to be a rocky wasteland. Quite a few restaurants have opened near the harbor too.”

 

“Then what about that big building up there? It looks kind of new?”

 

“Hmm. That whole area used to be residential. It’s changed a lot.”

 

“Wow, that’s really amazing.”

 

“It looks like many restaurants and inns have opened along the harbor. How about we have a meal there before departing, Tia?”

 

There are usually good restaurants near stations and harbors.

 

I quickly nodded my head.

 

“Let’s eat and then find the Pellet Company’s Ruman branch at the harbor. From there, we’ll take a carriage and travel for a few more hours.”

 

Although we had arrived in Ruman, our journey wasn’t over yet.

 

We had a different real destination.

 

Peres, who had been quietly listening to my explanation, smiled and replied.

 

“Wherever you’re going, Tia, I’ll go anywhere.”

 

* * *

 

After filling our stomachs at a restaurant we happened upon, we headed to the Pellet Company.

 

Coincidentally, the big building I had pointed to earlier from the cruise was exactly the Pellet Company’s branch.

 

“Welcome! What brings you here?”

 

As soon as we stepped into the trading house, a lively voice asked me.

 

“Hello. I came to see Store Manager Brady Roc.”

 

Brady was a man with notably pale skin and reddish-brown hair who had worked with Violet since the very beginning when Gallahan Clothing Store was first established.

 

It was about a year and a half ago that Brady Roc was appointed as the manager of this Ruman branch, one of the most important regions.

 

It was a personnel change that occurred when I became the head of Lombardi and Violet became the head of Pellet Company.

 

“The manager is upstairs, but…”

 

The manager of Pellet Company wasn’t someone you could meet just by saying you wanted to.

 

“Did you perhaps make an appointment…”

 

Just as the employee was carefully broaching the subject, seeming troubled about how to explain this well.

 

“Master!”

 

With some clattering noise, a man in his mid-thirties came running down the stairs from the upper floor.

 

“Y-you’ve arrived!”

 

It seemed Violet had already given Brady Roc advance notice.

 

“It’s been a while, Brady. How have you been?”

 

“Yes! Of course! Thanks to you, Master, and the Lombardi Family… Gasp! Th-then this person is…”

 

Brady, who belatedly noticed Peres standing beside me, trembled and bowed his head.

 

“I-it’s an honor to greet you like this, Your Majesty!”

 

“Eek!”

 

At the strange sound like air leaking, I turned around to see the employee who had greeted us earlier standing there with a pale face.

 

“Lom… bardi… Y-Your Majesty?!”

 

I hadn’t planned to reveal who we were here, but it didn’t matter much.

 

We had already arrived in the eastern region, and even if Chanton Sersheu belatedly found out that I had moved first with Peres, there was nothing he could do.

 

Ruman was, in many ways, friendly territory to Lombardi.

 

I smiled slightly at the employee who looked like he’d been struck by lightning, then asked Brady.

 

“I’d like to have tea together, but there’s someone waiting for us. Can we get on a carriage right now, Brady?”

 

“Of course! I’ve prepared everything! Please give me your luggage!”

 

The manager of Pellet Company himself took the bag from Peres’s hands like a porter.

 

The carriage was prepared right in front of the branch’s side door.

 

Since the road ahead was somewhat rough, it was a carriage that had been fully prepared.

 

“This carriage will take you both to that place. I’ve also arranged for a very skilled coachman.”

 

“Thank you, Brady. Then I’ll see you at the wedding in a few days.”

 

“Yes! Please travel safely to your destination!”

 

Brady Roc didn’t straighten his bent back until our carriage was no longer visible.

 

I could see passersby who recognized the Pellet Company manager whispering among themselves.

 

At this rate, rumors will spread quickly.

 

I shook my head and laughed, then yawned softly.

 

“Are you tired?”

 

Peres, who had been looking out the window and sightseeing Ruman’s streets, noticed like a ghost and asked.

 

“Mmm, a little?”

 

“You’re not sick, are you, Tia? It seems like your stamina has gotten too weak.”

 

“It’s not that my stamina is weak, it’s that I used too much stamina…!”

 

I should stop talking.

 

Peres laughed at how I stopped mid-sentence and quickly turned my head away.

 

He knew everything and was just teasing me.

 

Let’s see you suffer for once.

 

I changed my mind about leaning against the carriage wall to sleep and instead lay down using Peres’s legs as a pillow.

 

“We’ll have to travel for about three hours. Wake me when we arrive.”

 

Even someone as strong as steel like Peres would get numb legs after giving me a lap pillow for three hours.

 

I pretended not to know and closed my eyes.

 

Of course, I didn’t really intend to make Peres suffer for hours.

 

I was going to pretend to sleep for a while and then get up.

 

Rustle, rustle.

 

A large hand began stroking my head.

 

Ah, this won’t do.

 

I’m really going to fall asleep.

 

I thought this as I tried to get up, but my vision was already starting to blur.

 

Before I completely fell asleep, I looked up to see Peres gazing at me with the most peaceful smile I’d ever seen.

 

“Sleep well, Tia.”

 

* * *

 

“…Are you really okay?”

 

“Yeah.”

 

“Really not numb at all?”

 

How is that even possible for a person?

 

At my continued questioning, Peres just tilted his head as if he didn’t understand what the problem was.

 

“It was only a few hours.”

 

“Usually even one hour is difficult, Peres.”

 

“Is that so.”

 

Peres shrugged his shoulders with a relaxed expression, as if he didn’t really understand.

 

“I think I could handle ten hours from now on.”

 

“…I feel like I’ve lost somehow.”

 

I had momentarily forgotten that Peres’s body, which constantly produced aura, was very different from ordinary people.

 

“Are you tired? Want to sleep more?”

 

“No.”

 

I shook my head.

 

It wasn’t out of stubbornness.

 

“We’re almost there now.”

 

“The destination is… here?”

 

The place I had arrived at, so enraged by Chanton Sersheu’s counterattack that I had hidden my identity and rushed the journey by several days.

 

It would be hard to understand that such an important place was in the middle of farmland with nothing around.

 

Just then, the carriage was gradually coming to a stop.

 

I opened the carriage door wide first and said to Peres.

 

“Let’s go, they’ll be waiting for us.”

 

My steps leading the way were a bit faster than usual.

 

I couldn’t help it with my excited heart.

 

“Tia, you’ll trip at that pace.”

 

“You worry too much, Peres.”

 

Of course, this was my first time here too.

 

But the map of this place, which I had seen countless times from the day it was created until now, was clear in my mind.

 

A straight road cutting through plains so vast you could barely see the end.

 

On both sides, golden ripe crops swayed in the wind.

 

And on that road stood someone I had wanted to see for a long time.

 

“Larane!”

 

At my call, Larane, wearing Ruman’s characteristic flowing dress, turned around.

 

Wearing a large hat that shaded her from the sunlight, Larane smiled more brightly than ever against the backdrop of this golden field.

 

“Tia!”

 

Could this really be the same frail Larane who could barely go back and forth from the manor to the greenhouse?

 

Larane, who had run over in one breath, embraced me tightly.

 

“It’s been so long! Have you been well?”

 

“Of course! You look very healthy too, Larane!”

 

We spent quite a while checking on each other’s wellbeing like that.

 

“Oh my, look at me. Have you been well, Your Majesty?”

 

“It’s been a while, Larane.”

 

Peres also exchanged warm greetings with Larane.

 

But he still didn’t look like his questions had been answered.

 

After all, this was supposed to be the eastern trip we had planned to attend Larane and Avinox’s wedding.

 

His expression showed he didn’t understand why I had left Lombardy several days early.

 

I approached such a Peres and asked.

 

“Still don’t understand?”

 

I took his hand and led him to the field beside the road.

 

Whoooosh—.

 

Just then, a long wind swept across the field.

 

Peres casually cast his gaze toward it.

 

That was the moment.

 

His red eyes shook greatly once.

 

“Now you understand, right? The reason I asked you to accompany me.”

 

“Tia, this is….”

 

Peres reached out toward the crops as if he couldn’t believe it.

 

But the tickling sensation brushing against his palm was real and wouldn’t disappear.

 

“That’s right. It’s wheat, Peres.”

 

Whoooosh—.

 

In the wind rolling in like waves, the ripe wheat danced in unison.

 

“Now the eastern region produces wheat too.”

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