In This Life, I Will Be The Lord - Chapter 307

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This Life, I Will Become the Clan Head

Side Story Episode 49

“Excuse me? Gallahan?”

Shan gently waved her hand in front of Gallahan, who was standing there blankly.

Only then did focus return to his bright green eyes.

“Ah, yes. I just arrived as well.”

“Really? That’s a relief. Shall we go eat then?”

“We’re not eating here?”

Gallahan tilted his head.

He couldn’t quite understand why she would want to go somewhere else when they had met at the dining hall around lunchtime.

As far as he knew, this place ‘Blue Wave’ was a fairly well-known restaurant.

But Shan was firm.

“I have a restaurant I’ve been keeping an eye on. Let’s go there.”

“But…”

Gallahan hesitated, glancing at the still frantically busy owner of ‘Blue Wave’.

But that was only for a moment.

When Shan tugged at his sleeve, Gallahan obediently began following her.

The place they arrived at was an alley quite far from the commercial district.

In that alley filled only with houses, a small restaurant stood alone with its doors open.

The shabby eatery that looked like it had been there for a long time was surprisingly as crowded as ‘Blue Wave’.

“Ah, I’m hungry. Let’s go in quickly!”

Shan, who had been holding onto Gallahan’s sleeve the entire way there, let go and said this before heading inside first.

Gallahan, who had been staring down at the sleeve Shan had been holding just moments before, finally looked around.

‘Was there a place like this in Lombardy?’

Since becoming old enough to go outside the manor, Gallahan had wandered around Lombardi City like it was his front yard.

So he thought he knew every corner of the city inside and out.

But this place, reached by winding through small alleys, was somewhere even he had never been before.

Whether it was because of the delicious smell wafting from inside, or because he had discovered a new side of Lombardy.

Gallahan also entered with a somewhat excited heart.

“Over here, Gallahan!”

Shan, who had already secured a seat by the window, waved her hand vigorously at him.

“I already ordered the food. You have to eat the stew when you come here.”

Finding it difficult to look directly at Shan’s brightly smiling face, Gallahan fixed his gaze somewhere on the table and just nodded.

“Have you been here before?”

“No. This is my first time in this alley too.”

Success!

Shan spoke without hiding her joy.

“I did some research to find a real hidden gem. The food at ‘Blue Wave’ is really delicious too, but I didn’t want to spend time on my day off at a place where I work.”

“A place where you… work?”

“Oh, I didn’t tell you. I work at ‘Blue Wave’. I even sleep there! Actually, I haven’t been in Lombardy long, so I don’t really have a proper place to stay.”

Even as she said this, her eyes sparkled prettily as she looked at the food that had already been served to the next table.

“And since this is my first meal with a friend, I couldn’t just take you anywhere.”

“Ah…”

Gallahan blinked at Shan’s playful words.

Then he quietly replied.

“Someone like Shan would probably make friends to eat with like this in no time. It doesn’t have to be me.”

Though this was only the second time they were meeting face to face, he could tell at a glance how bright and charming she was.

She might not know anyone in Lombardy now, but soon others would recognize Shan’s good qualities too.

It would certainly be good for her, but Gallahan found himself unconsciously frowning a little.

But Shan, who interpreted his expression differently, asked cautiously.

“Am I… bothering you, Gallahan?”

“What? No! That’s not it!”

He was so startled that his jumping movement made the spoons and forks on the table clatter.

“I absolutely didn’t mean that. I just meant that Shan is such a good person that you’ll make lots of friends soon…”

As Gallahan hurriedly explained, warmth returned to Shan’s face that had stiffened momentarily.

“That’s a relief…”

Shan patted her chest.

Though she didn’t show it outwardly, she was honestly quite tense.

Anyone would be, wouldn’t they?

Though she had practically begged him to be friends and arranged this meeting, Gallahan wasn’t just any friend.

He was her future husband.

Whatever happened in their distant future, Shan wanted to get to know Gallahan smoothly.

And from what she had seen so far, her future husband was definitely not an easy target to win over.

The brief silence that had inevitably fallen was broken when two bowls of steaming stew were placed on the table.

Gallahan carefully picked up his spoon and tasted it.

“How is it?”

“It’s delicious, really.”

The stew packed with meat was exactly to Gallahan’s taste.

“Right? After we finish this, we have to have dessert too.”

“They serve dessert too?”

“Yes. Their apple pie is really delicious. It’s your favorite dessert, isn’t it? Apple pie that’s just the right amount of tart and sweet.”

She knew he would like it, but confirming his reaction right in front of her was a different story.

Just as Shan was feeling relieved and about to take her first spoonful.

“How did you… know?”

“Know what?”

“That I like apple pie.”

Oh, a mistake.

And it was a fatal mistake at that.

I saw you eating several slices of apple pie by yourself through my prophetic dreams.

She couldn’t say that.

A cold sweat ran down her back.

She was so flustered that her mind seemed to freeze up too.

Shan had no choice but to blurt out whatever came to mind.

“Well, you just look like it somehow. Like you have the face of someone who would like apple pie?”

“A face that likes… apple pie?”

“Fair, handsome, and cute people generally tend to like apple pie.”

What on earth am I saying?

Even as she spoke, she felt dizzy.

He would obviously think she was some weirdo spouting nonsense.

Should she just laugh really hard and pretend it was a joke?

Just as Shan was pondering this.

“Pfft.”

At the small sound from across the table, she looked up.

“…Gallahan?”

Gallahan was laughing.

He was covering his mouth with one hand, his shoulders shaking slightly as he tried to hold back his laughter.

“A face that likes apple pie, where would such a thing exist?”

His round eyes that drooped slightly at the ends crinkled beautifully, and color returned to his usually pale complexion.

It was a smile that seemed to sparkle with light.

Shan watched that smiling face for a moment.

‘Now I can finally feel at ease.’

Though her heart fluttered because of her handsome future husband’s smile, above all else, she felt relieved.

In the brief glimpse of the future she had seen, Gallahan was someone who smiled often.

Especially in front of her.

Shan put down the spoon she was holding and suddenly grasped Gallahan’s hand.

It was quite an impulsive action.

“…Shan?”

“I’ll make you smile a lot from now on, Gallahan.”

So that later, you’ll become someone who suits a smiling face better than a gloomy one.

“Oh, the food will get cold. Let’s eat quickly.”

Shan gave Gallahan’s hand a final pat, then took a big spoonful of stew.

Cough.

When she heard a small coughing sound and looked over, Gallahan’s face was slightly red.

“The stew… is a little spicy.”

He lowered his head and added in a small voice.

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Gallahan boarded the carriage that had been waiting for him at the appointed time.

It was a familiar route home, but today was different.

Perhaps because he had spent all day wandering around Lombardy with Shan, laughing and chatting, his heart felt more at ease than ever before.

After spending the entire day together like that, the two had parted with plans to meet again tomorrow afternoon.

When he recalled Shan waving her hand enthusiastically at him in front of ‘Blue Wave’ just moments ago, a smile spread across Gallahan’s face.

But that was only for a moment.

Soon he fell into quite serious contemplation.

“We’re friends, aren’t we?”

“See you again tomorrow, friend!”

“Friend…”

Every time Shan said those words, he flinched several times.

He couldn’t help it.

“I think I…”

Like Shan.

His heart was flowing rapidly, making his past when books and paintings made his heart flutter more than the opposite sex seem meaningless.

It was as if he had completely fallen for the person called Shan.

“…Shan.”

In the quiet carriage, Gallahan called out her name aloud.

Thump, thump.

His heart, which began to flutter again just from that, was telling him.

That at least for him, she could never be just a simple friend.

Gallahan opened the window to cool his flushed face and cautiously murmured.

“Would it be wrong to be a little more greedy?”

Soon a light sigh followed at the end of his words.

Still, it wasn’t completely hopeless.

They had enjoyed a pleasant time until sunset, and they had agreed to meet again tomorrow when Shan finished her work.

Gallahan looked up at the sky where stars were beginning to appear one by one and let out a light sigh.

Tonight seemed like it would be very long.

“We have arrived.”

The carriage stopped in front of the manor with the coachman’s announcement.

Gallahan was moving his legs, which were a bit stiff from walking around all day, heading toward his room.

“Gallahan.”

Until he heard the low, stern voice calling his name.

“Where have you been all day?”

It was Gallahan’s father, Rulak Lombardi.

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