In This Life, I Will Be The Lord - Chapter 302

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This Life, I Will Become the Clan Head

Side Story Episode 44

“Wait a moment. If it’s Lombardi, then that’s the one you mentioned before…”

“Yes, that’s right. That clan with power that even the Imperial Palace can’t handle!”

Abane Rofili nodded her head, seeming even more excited than Shan herself.

“Meeting a member of Lombardi is actually like plucking stars from the sky, but since Shan clearly said she met him in her dream, it must be possible!”

Shan unconsciously covered her mouth.

It felt like all the pieces were falling into place.

“Gallahan, Gallahan Lombardi.”

She didn’t think for even a moment that it might just be someone with the same name.

Her intuition was telling her.

That this was his name.

“Um, Shan. I was actually going to tell you this anyway.”

Abane Rofili carefully spoke to Shan, who was quietly mulling over that name.

“I’ll probably be leaving the forest soon. I’m finishing up my research.”

“Ah…”

Unmistakable disappointment appeared on Shan’s face.

At first, their connection had started with simple curiosity about an outsider.

But through their long conversations, the two had naturally become friends.

And now she was leaving the village.

Shan couldn’t hide the emptiness she already felt.

“Your research is being completed – that’s something to celebrate, right?”

Still, she couldn’t make the departing person feel uncomfortable, so Shan forced a smile.

And Abane Rofili grasped Shan’s hand firmly and asked.

“Would you like to come outside with me?”

“With you, Professor Abane… together?”

“It would be much safer than Shan moving alone. And more than anything, if Gallahan Lombardi really is Shan’s destined partner, shouldn’t you meet him at least once?”

Meeting that man, Gallahan Lombardi, in person.

Just imagining it made her heart start beating rapidly.

She remembered his warm gaze and smile when looking at the children.

Would he smile at me like that too?

A blush appeared on Shan’s cheeks.

But she couldn’t immediately give an answer saying she would do so.

Realizing that something was making Shan’s deliberation longer, Abane Rofili hastily added.

“If I made too burdensome a proposal…”

“No! It’s not that! But there are some things I need to think about.”

After hesitating for a moment, Shan finally explained with a small sigh.

“There are two rules of the Chara Tribe that Professor Abane doesn’t know about yet.”

“What are they?”

“Once someone leaves the forest, they can never return.”

“…What did you say?”

“And people who go outside cannot speak about the Chara Tribe’s special powers. If you leave this place, you have to bury everything in your heart.”

“Such rules…”

Abane Rofili, who seemed shocked and couldn’t continue speaking, soon realized something was strange.

“But Soura allowed me to research the Chara Tribe and publish a book about it.”

“That’s right. Mother thinks the Chara Tribe should now step out into the world.”

When Soura first showed this intention by bringing Abane into the forest, how surprised the villagers had been.

Shan smiled brightly as she recalled that time.

“Professor Abane’s book is probably like Mother’s first step toward the outside world.”

Shan was very proud of such a mother.

Until she suddenly forbade meeting with Abane Rofili.

“That’s why I can’t understand it. How could someone like that get so angry about her own daughter getting close to Professor Abane?”

And if that wasn’t enough, if her only daughter said she wanted to leave the forest.

“But maybe it’s actually a good thing.”

Soon Shan clenched both fists tightly.

“I could be the catalyst, couldn’t I?”

The first person to freely travel between the forest and the outside.

There was no one more suitable for this than herself, the current chief’s daughter and practically designated as the next chief.

“If I explain what I saw in my dreams well, Mother will agree too. She definitely will.”

Shan believed this.

“Especially if I’m not going alone but Professor Abane is coming with me.”

Shan grasped Abane’s hand firmly and promised.

“I’ll talk with Mother and definitely bring you good news!”

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The Elder Council meeting wouldn’t end until sunset.

Until then, Shan wandered around the forest looking for something Soura would like.

She needed to put her in a good mood before starting their serious conversation.

Her steps eventually led her to the grassland on the village outskirts.

“It’s the Bomnia Flower Field.”

Red flowers were blooming abundantly across the wide field.

“This will do.”

Tea made from Bomnia petals had a subtle sweetness and was one of Soura’s favorite things.

Shan began carefully picking flowers while humming.

Bomnia flowers quickly piled up on the outer garment she had taken off to use as a bundle.

After a while, Shan patted her back and lay down on the field.

“Oh, I’m tired.”

Though she said that, Shan was smiling.

In fact, she hadn’t even noticed she was tired.

She was only thinking about wanting to talk with her mother soon.

So falling asleep was completely unintentional.

“Shan, could you wake up for a moment?”

A gentle voice could be heard.

On a warm, sunny bed, she rubbed her face against the comfortable bedding.

Then a pleasant low laugh rang out from above her head.

When she slowly opened her eyes, she met warm green eyes.

“Mmm, Galli.”

When she playfully called him by his nickname, a shy expression crossed his pale face.

“I wanted to let you sleep a little longer, but Tia keeps looking for Shan.”

At Gallahan’s words, Shan’s gaze moved.

What he was holding preciously in his arms was a very small baby who seemed only a few days old.

The moment she saw the baby’s fair face, Shan knew.

This child was the fruit of love that she and Gallahan had created.

“Hello, Tia.”

Shan quickly took the baby.

The baby was still so small that it seemed like it would get hurt with just a little force.

Yet it was amazing and admirable how it breathed hard and wriggled its arms and legs.

Something seemed to displease the baby, as its brow was deeply furrowed with both eyes tightly shut.

“Our Tia must have wanted to see mommy.”

Shan whispered softly so as not to startle the child.

Then, as if by magic, a gentle smile bloomed across the small face.

Shan thought someone had stolen her breath away.

There was no other way her chest could feel so overwhelmed.

Whether the baby knew of its mother’s happiness or not, it simply smiled with its red mouth open, its face resembling both Shan and Gallahan little by little.

Shan carefully raised her index finger to stroke the child’s cheek.

And the moment she touched the fingertips with tiny crescent-shaped nails attached.

“Ah…”

The baby’s small hand tightly grasped Shan’s finger.

As if telling her not to go anywhere.

Her vision wavered hotly with rising tears.

As she slowly lifted her head, Gallahan pressed his lips to Shan’s forehead.

It was a very careful kiss, like flower petals settling down.

Shan opened her eyes at the sensation of something tickling her forehead.

Startled, she reached out her hand, and a red bomnia flower came with it.

Only then realizing she had fallen asleep, Shan sat up abruptly and muttered.

“Oh, a baby…”

Her face flushed red like bomnia tea.

“I, with that person…”

The baby who was still making newborn gestures came to mind.

The fingertip that the small hand had grasped ached piercingly.

As if that warmth had been stolen away.

Shan jumped up from her spot.

She hurriedly gathered the bomnia flowers too.

After arriving home, she became even busier.

She spread the pile of bomnia flowers carefully in a sunny spot where the sun shone well, and swept and cleaned the house.

She watered the vegetable garden in the backyard and prepared dinner with the fresh ingredients she had picked.

But she didn’t even notice the hard work.

Even when she sweated a little, she only felt refreshed.

Yet she didn’t know how many times she looked out the window.

She wanted to quickly share the contents of the dream she had just had with Mother.

“She’ll be so delighted.”

Father had passed away early, and their family had always been just Soura and Shan.

Although finding a spouse within the forest wasn’t the case, she knew well that if she had a granddaughter, Soura would cherish her more than anyone.

“Tia. So you were Pirenthia.”

Shan nodded her head and smiled broadly.

That’s when it happened.

Soura’s figure appeared on the path in front of the house.

Shan rushed to the front door and quickly opened it wide to welcome her.

“Welcome home!”

“…Something good must have happened.”

Soura’s lips, which had been firmly set throughout the long meeting, relaxed.

Even Soura couldn’t help herself in front of her daughter’s bright appearance that she hadn’t seen in a long time.

“I’ve prepared everything, Mother. Please sit here first. Would you like to eat dinner?”

“I have no desire to get indigestion from your impatience while eating. Tell me what you want to say first.”

“Um, well.”

Originally, she had planned to bring up the topic in a good atmosphere while eating.

Can’t be helped.

Shan cleared her throat once and opened her mouth.

“Teacher Abane’s research will be finished soon, Mother.”

“The progress seems much faster than what he initially said. That’s good.”

“Right? So, about that. When Teacher Abane leaves the forest, how about I go with him?”

“…What?”

Though she hesitated momentarily at the colder reaction than expected, Shan gathered courage and continued speaking.

“Mother, you’ve always said that isolation from the outside world should end now. So I thought maybe I could make that beginning. Actually, I’ve been having dreams lately…”

“No.”

Scrape.

The chair roughly scraped the floor as Soura stood up from her seat.

“Please listen a little more, Mother. There’s news you’ll like too.”

“Stop! If I say no, then you should know it means no!”

Finally, Soura shouted.

“You must never leave this forest!”

“…Why?”

It was a question that didn’t expect an answer.

She had asked several times before, but it had been useless.

“You won’t tell me this time either, will you. You’ll just tell me to accept it as it is…”

“If you leave this forest, you’ll die, Shan.”

“…What did you say?”

“That’s the reason you can’t leave.”

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