In This Life, I Will Be The Lord - Chapter 301

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This Life, I Will Become the Clan Head

Side Story Episode 43

“Oh, Mother…”

Shan smiled awkwardly while still holding the door handle of the room.

“You’re back?”

She tried to act cute in her own way, but it had no effect at all.

“Shan.”

“…Yes, Mother.”

“Haven’t I told you countless times? Don’t interact with outsiders anymore.”

“You did… say that.”

Soura hadn’t forbidden Shan and Abane’s meetings from the beginning.

Rather, she was secretly proud of Shan for showing interest in outsiders, unlike the other villagers.

In fact, it was Soura who had encouraged her to go and have conversations with them.

Her attitude changed about three months ago.

Suddenly, one day, Soura completely reversed her attitude toward Abane Rofili.

“I don’t understand at all, Mother. Why do you only say it’s not allowed?”

Finally, Shan honestly spoke her thoughts.

“At first, I thought Mother had seen something about Abane Rofili. That perhaps she might be someone different on the inside than the outside.”

So Shan had also been wary of her for a while.

“But Abane Rofili is a good person. She’s so full of passion for research that there’s no room for other thoughts to squeeze in. So… if there’s a problem, it must be with me, not her.”

Shan stared intently at Soura’s face as she spoke.

“What exactly did you see, Mother?”

And Shan saw it.

Just before turning her head away as if avoiding her gaze, Soura’s expressionless eyes wavered once.

“Don’t talk nonsense, Shan.”

Soura clicked her tongue and said.

“You are my daughter, but before that, you are a member of this Chara Tribe. You just need to follow my words.”

“Don’t ask questions, don’t argue, just follow Mother’s orders?”

Anger began to seep into Shan’s voice as well.

“To follow unconditionally. That’s not like Soura, who is said to be the wisest leader who has ever led the Chara Tribe.”

Thud!

Finally, Soura struck the floor hard with the staff she was holding.

And she turned toward Shan and shouted loudly.

“You want to know the reason? I’ll tell you! You are the child who will succeed me and lead this tribe in the future. Do you know what the Elder Council is saying about you getting deeply involved with outsiders?”

Soura’s cloudy eyes blazed with anger.

“If this continues, your future could be in jeopardy!”

Silence flowed.

Shan slowly lowered her head.

It looked as if she was reflecting.

But a moment later, when her daughter raised her head again with a frowning face, Soura realized her guess was wrong.

“That’s not it.”

Shan said quietly.

“Now you’re lying.”

Lying.

At those words, Soura’s hand gripping the staff flinched.

“The leader’s position is inherited by the one with the strongest and most outstanding abilities of their generation. And there’s no one who can surpass my ability to see the future. The Elder Council knows this very well, so they can’t dare rebel against Mother. Because I, Mother’s daughter, will be the tribe’s next leader.”

Shan looked straight at Soura.

“I am Mother’s daughter before I am a member of this tribe. I know Mother better than anyone else.”

“…Shan.”

“Tell me the real reason.”

Once Soura made up her mind, she never bent.

However, Shan was also her daughter who had inherited exactly that personality from Soura.

“If you don’t tell me, I won’t listen to Mother’s words.”

Shan said stubbornly.

But no answer came back.

“…”

Soura hesitated for a moment, then only shook her head.

And Shan, who had been watching that sight with disappointed eyes, quietly turned and went into her room.

* * *

All around was bustling with the voices of people wearing strange clothes.

It was the first time in her life she had seen so many people at once.

Shan looked down at where she was standing.

It wasn’t the village ground made of packed fine soil.

On the floor where rough, hard stones were laid without gaps, it seemed not even a blade of grass could grow.

This time she raised her head and looked around.

Instead of the trees visible everywhere in the village, large buildings towered high.

She began walking along the long, straight road.

It was a fascinating world full of things she had never seen before.

The stone road, not soft soil, hurt her feet.

But Shan kept walking, looking only ahead.

As if she were someone with a destination.

And at the end of that road, an open square appeared.

In its center, she could see something huge that shot water upward.

Could this be the fountain Abane had mentioned?

She stopped walking for a moment.

Was she trying to admire the scenery of the square from afar?

But her gaze didn’t turn toward the fountain.

She was looking at a man sitting beneath it.

Whenever the wind blew, his long robe and brown hair swayed gently.

Absorbed in drawing something, he looked up at the sound of children’s cheerful laughter.

Warmth was evident in his eyes as he smiled gently at the little ones running right in front of him.

Then suddenly, the man’s eyes turned this way.

At first, the man seemed to just be looking at the street, but before long he was looking at Shan.

He seemed to freeze in place, not even blinking.

Though there was quite a distance between them, the two were connected by their gazes for a moment.

Shan began to move her steps again.

Toward the man.

And when she finally stood in front of him, the man was looking up at Shan in a daze.

“Hello.”

Shan greeted him with laughter in her voice.

“What’s your name?”

His gentle eyes, slightly drooping at the corners, blinked widely.

“…Gallahan.”

He answered in a slightly trembling voice.

“My name is Gallahan.”

Shan’s eyes sparkled brightly.

“Gallahan….”

Her heart, which had just awakened from sleep, was beating loudly and frantically.

Slowly sitting up, she remained there in a daze for a moment.

Today, there was no need to hurriedly unfold her notebook to record the dream’s contents.

She would never forget this dream.

“So that person’s name was Gallahan.”

The man whose face she had only recently been able to see, despite dreaming of him many times.

She finally knew his name.

Moreover.

“I spoke with that man.”

In the future she saw in her dream, she had left the village.

She didn’t know exactly where she had met the man, but considering the terrain and climate, it was certainly a place very far from the jungle.

The dream’s message was clear.

“I’m… going to leave this place?”

Shan couldn’t think of anything for a moment.

It was something she had never even imagined.

Leaving the tribe.

Shan swallowed hard.

And she gauged the time.

Though it was still early, outside her room was quiet.

Today was the day when the elder council would convene at sunrise.

Shan jumped up from her bed, quickly changed clothes, and half-ran out of the house.

Her quick steps echoed through the quiet village road.

“Oh, oh, Shan! Shan sister!”

Four-year-old little Onta, who had been playing in the dirt in front of his house since morning, waved happily when he saw Shan.

“Hello, Onta. Good morning.”

“Hehe, good mowning!”

Onta was exceptionally cheerful and affectionate.

He was so adorable in appearance that even though he was still a small child who hadn’t manifested his abilities yet, there were already more than a few families who had marked him as a future son-in-law.

“Don’t wun! You’ll go thump and get owies!”

To Onta, who was worried she might fall, Shan waved her hand widely.

“Sister is strong, so I’m fine! Have fun playing, Onta!”

“Okay!”

Onta waved back with a beaming smile filling his tiny face.

In the end, Shan arrived in front of Abane’s house in less than half her usual time.

“Hah, whew, Teacher Abane! Are you awake?”

“Hmm? What brings you here so early in the morning, Shan. Come on in.”

Fortunately, Abane, who had just been having breakfast, welcomed Shan warmly.

“You haven’t had breakfast yet, have you? I was feeling lonely eating alone, so sit here.”

Eventually, a bowl of white, sweet grain porridge was placed for Shan.

But even after picking up the spoon out of politeness, Abane watched Shan barely touching her food and finally burst into laughter.

“It seems like something good happened. What is it?”

“Well… I had a dream. About some… man.”

“Oh my, a man?”

Abane even put down the spoon she was holding and her eyes sparkled.

“Then did you perhaps dream about your future husband? You said Shan’s dreams are never wrong!”

“N-no! A husband, you say….”

Shan’s face turned bright red.

“I just dreamed of meeting some man, that’s all.”

Abane Rofili deliberately smiled more and asked.

“How was it? Did you see his face?”

“Yes.”

“Was he handsome?”

“…Yes.”

She couldn’t lie, after all.

Shan comforted herself that way.

“He looked kind and, cu-cute….”

“Kyaah, I can’t handle this!”

In the end, even Abane stamped her feet.

“Then now that you know his face, you’ll be able to meet him soon, right?”

“Ah….”

Shan’s complexion darkened instantly.

“Probably, that won’t happen.”

“Why not?”

“Because.”

A sigh mixed into Shan’s voice.

“He’s not from our tribe. He seemed like someone from outside.”

“Someone from… outside?”

Abane Rofili asked in surprise.

“It was some big city. There was even a fountain. I met the man beneath it.”

Even now, quite some time after waking from the dream, her memory was so vivid she could describe every detail of the dream’s contents.

“But since I won’t leave this forest, there won’t be a chance to meet him.”

“Ah, I see….”

After watching Shan’s expression for a moment, Abane carefully spoke up.

“I don’t know much about it, but it’s not easy for someone from the tribe to leave the forest, is it?”

“Yes, I suppose so.”

“But if that person really is Shan’s destined man….”

The conversation between the two was interrupted for a moment.

At the end of the heavy silence, Shan asked Abane a question.

“Is the name ‘Gallahan’ a common name outside?”

“Gallahan? Hmm.”

Abane tilted her head.

“It’s actually quite a rare name, Shan. Among the people I know, there isn’t a single person with the name ‘Gallahan.'”

All she knew was the appearance of the town square where she would meet him and the name ‘Gallahan.’

Could she really find that person with just this much?

Of course, that was only if she could leave this forest.

“Sigh.”

It probably wouldn’t work out.

Just as Shan was thinking that and letting out a sigh.

Abane clapped her hands once and said, “Ah!”

“Come to think of it, the third son of the Lombardi family’s name is exactly ‘Gallahan’!”

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