In This Life, I Will Be The Lord - Chapter 42

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This Life, I Will Become the Clan Head Episode 42

When the servant Rulak sent had just found Biejie, Biejie happened to be getting into a carriage to return to the manor.

He had been at a social gathering outside when he heard something absurd and was heading to the Head Family’s Office to confirm it.

“Father is looking for me?”

“Yes, that’s correct….”

But the complexion of the servant delivering the message was strange.

The way he avoided eye contact and trailed off his words suggested something had definitely happened.

“I had something to ask anyway, so this works out well.”

Biejie muttered inside the carriage heading to the manor.

Arriving in front of the study, Biejie first hid his uncomfortable feelings, knocked, and then entered the study.

“Father, I heard you were looking for….”

Biejie, who had been greeting him, discovered his son Belesack standing alone in front of the head’s desk.

“Belesack? Why is your arm….”

His son’s arm, which had been fine when he left the manor that morning, was wrapped tightly in white bandages, with a splint sticking out below his hand.

“Father, what happened here?”

“Sit down.”

Rulak answered the question with a command.

When Biejie sat in the chair placed next to Belesack, Rulak spoke in a stern voice.

“Belesack, do you understand your wrongdoing?”

“….”

Belesack only hung his head low without saying anything.

It was stubbornness, refusing to acknowledge his mistake.

Rulak clicked his tongue at his grandson’s appearance.

And looking at Biejie, he said.

“Belesack struck Pirenthia with a wooden sword. Thanks to that, the child had a nosebleed, fainted, and is now lying in the clinic. As his father, you tell me what you think.”

Having roughly grasped the situation with Belesack’s bandaged arm, Biejie answered without any sign of remorse.

“What happened to Belesack’s arm?”

“It was done by Shannet’s twins who were protecting Pirenthia.”

“Then where are those brats now? Since they made Belesack’s arm like that, shouldn’t they be here apologizing to Belesack as well?”

His tone of indignant protest was quite different from usual.

Biejie’s voice, which couldn’t even talk back to his father before, was filled with resentment.

Rulak was left speechless at that sight.

Even his motivation to scold disappeared.

He had some expectations.

No matter how selfish Biejie was, he thought he would at least know how to sternly teach his son about his wrongdoings.

But Rulak was disappointed again this time.

Rather than worrying about his son, he couldn’t find any such sign in his fuming appearance, as if he was determined to punish the twins.

Looking at his eldest son with coldly cooled eyes, Rulak spoke to Belesack, who was standing between his father and grandfather, reading the mood.

“What you did today is absolutely unacceptable, Belesack. Whatever you may think, Pirenthia is your cousin and a member of this Lombardy. And in Lombardy, my word is law.”

Belesack’s shoulders, which had been tense, flinched.

He thought about saying that he never hit her with a wooden sword like the twins claimed, and only hit her face with a leather ball, but he kept his mouth shut again.

He felt that making such an argument now would only get him scolded more.

“Last time, I told you to stop ignoring or bullying Pirenthia. Do you remember?”

“…Yes.”

Belesack’s voice became even smaller.

At least there wasn’t the same sense of injustice as his father had, which was fortunate.

The anger in Rulak’s eyes slightly subsided.

“Because of your actions in disobeying my words, your father will have to pay enormous compensation to Pirenthia today.”

“…Father!”

Biejie shouted in frustration, but Rulak didn’t even look in his direction.

“Also, Belesack, you are forbidden from approaching Pirenthia from now on. Until I give you different orders.”

“An approach ban just because children had a little fight!”

Biejie raised his voice.

“Are you questioning my judgment right now?”

Rulak’s voice lowered.

Only then realizing his mistake, he closed his mouth, but his eyes were still full of dissatisfaction.

“You may leave.”

Rulak issued an order for Belesack to leave.

Belesack, shoulders drooping, glanced at Biejie once and left the study weakly.

The quiet corridor had no servants coming and going.

The further he got from the study, the more his dejected mood gradually disappeared, and Belesack felt anger.

“This is unfair!”

That girl only had a little nosebleed!

But my arm is broken!

Belesack clenched his fist.

He kept remembering his grandfather’s eyes looking at him coldly.

“This is all because of that girl. Because of that girl… Ugh!”

Belesack, who was just turning a corner, tripped over something that suddenly appeared and fell.

Crash!

As he fell, his broken arm hit the wall, and Belesack was in too much pain to even scream.

“Oh my, how unfortunate. That must hurt.”

A voice dripping with amusement was heard.

“Well, you don’t really look like you’re in much pain.”

Standing in front of Belesack, who was sitting on the floor, were Giliou and Meylon.

“Hey, Belesack. Does the broken part hurt a lot?”

Belesack was so frightened he couldn’t answer and only nodded his head.

Then, the wooden sword Meylon was holding suddenly thrust under Belesack’s neck.

“Eek!”

At the cold sensation touching under his chin, Belesack shrank his shoulders.

“If breaking one arm hurts that much, what about a leg with thicker bones?”

As Giliou leaned down and whispered, Meylon’s wooden sword moved smoothly to Belesack’s shin.

“Don’t, don’t do it! I, I was wrong!”

“Why are you apologizing to us?”

“Right. The one you should apologize to is Tia, isn’t it?”

The twins looked ready to grab Belesack by the collar and drag him to Pirenthia right away.

Belesack trembled and said.

“Grandfather told me not to approach that gi-, I mean Pirenthia anymore! So I can’t even go to ap-, apologize….”

It was a very clumsy excuse, but the twins’ faces brightened.

They were pleased that Belesack couldn’t come near Pirenthia.

“Well, that’s good news.”

“Don’t even come near our Tia.”

“Listen well to what Grandfather says.”

The twins giggled among themselves as if they had heard an amusing joke.

But that was only for a moment.

Meylon tapped Belesack’s shin with the tip of his wooden sword and said.

“If you don’t listen to Grandfather, next time it’s here.”

“And I’ll take here.”

Giliou tapped the opposite shin with his toe and said.

“Ah, I understand….”

Belesack quickly nodded his head.

“Then get well soon, cousin?”

Giliou deliberately patted Belesack’s injured arm while greeting him.

“Ugh!”

Belesack’s startled groans of pain mixed with the twins’ laughter in the quiet corridor.

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At the same time, inside the Head Family’s Office.

After Belesack left, the interior was enveloped in silence.

Rulak had already begun flipping through documents as if Biejie didn’t exist in this space, and this behavior made Biejie feel even more humiliated.

Biejie, whose fists were trembling behind his back, shook his head and said

“Not only are you punishing me, but you’re even punishing my son?”

Rulak’s eyebrow twitched once as he was about to sign.

“What do you mean by that.”

“I know everything. You changed the Lombardi Scholarship meeting to the day I’m supposed to enter the palace with Belesack.”

That news was exactly why Biejie had been trying to return to the manor.

Rulak didn’t deny it.

At this, Biejie’s voice began to gain strength.

“You shouldn’t disregard me like this. Doesn’t this diminish my standing as the eldest son? The same goes for Gallahan’s matter.”

“Gallahan?”

At the unexpected mention of his third son’s name, Rulak raised one eyebrow.

“Didn’t you support that ridiculous clothing business? Even ordering clothes for unnecessary servants.”

“A ridiculous clothing business. Is that how it looked to you?”

“It’s just a clothing business dealing with commoners. Anyone could do something like that. Yet Father took Gallahan’s side. I know you’re doing this to punish me.”

His tone suggested ‘so you can stop now.’

Rulak let out a laugh of disbelief and said.

“If it’s such an easy task, then you try it too, Biejie. Step outside this family’s protection and show me results like Gallahan’s, achievements that are entirely your own.”

Biejie trembled at the words that blatantly compared him to Gallahan.

“This is really too much, Father. To do this just because I displeased you. Do you hate it so much that I maintain close relations with the Imperial Court?”

“Biejie.”

“Since Father won’t support me as the eldest son, I’m trying to borrow the Imperial Court’s power instead!”

Now he was even blaming Rulak for his reasons for getting close to the Empress.

Rulak, who had been quietly listening to his son’s pathetic story, put down his quill and said.

“Tell me clearly. Has Yobanes ever called you aside for even a drink? You’re not maintaining close relations with the Imperial Court, you’re getting close to Angenas.”

“That, that’s…”

“And that is your greatest sin.”

Rulak’s index finger was pointing at Biejie.

His voice grew lower, and the surrounding air seemed to become twice as heavy.

“Your sin is allowing those Angenas bastards to dare show interest in our Lombardi affairs.”

Biejie, who had been arguing confidently just moments before, suddenly felt cold sweat running down his back.

He realized that his father was in a state of extreme rage.

“How dare, those Angenas bastards.”

Rulak glared at Biejie.

In this moment, Biejie was not his son.

He was merely a foolish member of Lombardi who had damaged the family’s honor.

Biejie unconsciously stepped back about half a step.

“Those beggars who wandered around the barren western regions, obsessed only with bloodlines, before they slyly devoured the Brown Family’s lands like foxes.”

“Fa, Father…”

Biejie tried to apologize.

He wanted to kneel down and beg with both hands to appease his father’s anger.

But his body froze awkwardly, and even that wouldn’t work as he wished.

Rulak, who had been radiating terrifying fury, called to Biejie.

“Biejie.”

“Yes, Fa, Father.”

“Don’t make me take away even what you currently hold in your hands.”

Biejie’s heart sank harder than ever before.

Although he was the eldest son of the family head, everything currently given to Biejie had been bestowed by his father.

The one who could take everything away from him with a single word at any time.

The one who could banish him from Lombardy with just a gesture was none other than Family Head Rulak Lombardi.

“Also, this Lombardi Scholarship Banquet is your choice. You only need to send your wife and Belesack to the Imperial Palace. Whether you enter the palace or come to the banquet, you choose.”

Biejie’s pupils wavered.

The Empress already expected him to bring Belesack.

If he betrayed her expectations and attended Lombardy’s banquet instead, everything he had built up might crumble.

But at the same time, his father’s words seemed to have an underlying meaning.

After hesitating in place for a moment, Biejie bowed and left the office.

Rulak, who seemed to continue reading documents without paying attention, let out a deep sigh when he heard the door close and put down his papers.

The angry appearance that had been pressuring Biejie moments before was gone.

He gazed at the door his son had exited through with complicated eyes.

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