In This Life, I Will Be The Lord - Chapter 8

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This Life, I Will Become the Clan Head Episode 8

The clan head’s order was to have Pirenthia participate in the lessons. However, Cleribane’s own doubts were too great to simply follow the command without verifying it himself.

A seven-year-old child reading such books? Does even that utterly cold-hearted gentleman become a protective mother hedgehog in front of his granddaughter?

Cleribane thought as he knocked on the door of the room Gallahan and Pirenthia were using.

After receiving a startled greeting from Gallahan and entering, he could see Pirenthia reading a book in one corner of the drawing room.

The child was conspicuously reading “The Southern People” with its green cover.

‘There’s no way she’s actually reading it.’

Cleribane hadn’t believed Rulak’s words from the beginning. He didn’t want to ruin the carefully maintained atmosphere of his lessons by bringing in another clueless seven-year-old child. Today, he planned to confirm that Pirenthia was just looking at the book like a picture book and then persuade the clan head.

“Tia, come here.”

At Gallahan’s call, Pirenthia closed her book and walked over. She was a striking child with curly brown hair tied with a ribbon and pale, rosy cheeks glowing with the vitality characteristic of young children.

But aside from that, Pirenthia still looked far too young. Especially when she sat on her father’s lap.

However, there was just one thing that shook Cleribane’s confident assumptions. The intelligence that filled her bright green eyes, which were exactly like her father Gallahan’s.

How many seven-year-old children would face a deliberately staring stranger without avoiding their gaze, meeting it with a bright, smiling face?

“…Indeed.”

It was understandable that the clan head would say this child had strongly inherited his blood after seeing her.

Certainly, Pirenthia seemed closer to her grandfather Rulak’s personality than her father Gallahan’s.

But she was still just a young child.

Even if she might show spirited and bold behavior in the future, that was a completely different story from the hypothesis that she had the genius intellect to read and understand professional texts at age seven.

However, Cleribane’s thoughts were shattered as he began conversing with Pirenthia.

“I’ve only read a little so far, but there are amazing people living together in the forests of the empire’s south. This book tells stories about those people.”

The child was surprisingly grasping the book’s content accurately.

She might have heard this much from someone else.

Cleribane tried not to be shaken, thinking this way.

“What is the name of the author who wrote this book?”

“It says ‘Rofili’ right there on the cover, doesn’t it?”

“What was the content of Chapter 1?”

“That person called Rofili was talking about how she came to hear rumors about the southern people.”

“Hmm…”

But as Pirenthia continued to answer his questions without hesitation, he found himself at a loss for words.

Was this child really understanding everything as she read?

Cleribane’s confusion didn’t end there.

“Rofili isn’t ‘he.’ She’s ‘she.'”

“Pardon?”

“It says so in the preface at the beginning. Her full name is Abane Rofili. She’s a female scholar.”

To be corrected by little Pirenthia!

Though “The Southern People” was a book he had read long ago, not knowing that Rofili, the author and narrator, was a woman was his mistake.

It was the result of thoughtlessly assuming that someone who published such a famous research text would be male.

Realizing his error before Pirenthia’s bright eyes, Cleribane’s face reddened with embarrassment.

“You said you’d already read it. You must have read it carelessly.”

In the end, he was even teased by a young child.

The moment he thought that smiling expression with just the corners of her mouth turned up looked very familiar, Cleribane frowned.

This child really did resemble the clan head.

Even that infuriating smile was an exact copy.

“Please have her participate in lessons starting from the sixth day of next week.”

However, Cleribane was smiling as he left Gallahan’s room.

“I was thinking the position of education supervisor was so boring I should change jobs. Maybe I’ll try a little longer.”

That child might actually be worth teaching.

Having regained his motivation after a long time, Cleribane hurried back to his study to prepare for lessons.

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“Since the sun is out for the first time in a while, shall we go on a picnic to the front garden?”

Father made an unexpected proposal while we were spending a leisurely afternoon.

“Let’s pack lots of delicious cake and cookies that Tia likes and get some sunlight. Oh, it would be good to stop by Doctor Omari’s briefly before that.”

Aha.

Father’s intention was clear at a glance. Thinking I would hate going to the hospital, he was trying to entice me with a picnic full of delicious things.

The week Doctor Omari mentioned has already passed. I nodded, thinking time was flowing very quickly. Father smiled brightly and moved quickly before I could change my mind. Seeing that a picnic basket was already prepared, it seemed to be something he had planned in advance.

He really does have cute sides.

And so I took Father’s hand and headed to Doctor Omari’s hospital. Inside the examination room that opened with a creak, there was Doctor Omari and one other person.

“Oh?”

The blonde woman who appeared to be in her early twenties was nodding while listening to something, as if receiving instructions from the doctor.

“You’ve arrived.”

Even as Doctor Omari greeted us, my eyes didn’t leave that woman. When Father, noticing my gaze, asked who she was, the woman answered in a thin voice, as if startled.

“I, I’m Estira, Doctor Omari’s student.”

She doesn’t look that timid. She seemed surprised by the sudden situation of the clan head’s son speaking to her.

“Well then, shall we take a look at your wrist?”

Doctor Omari approached me with a smile. But I turned my body into Father’s embrace, avoiding the doctor’s touch.

“Tia?”

“Haha, it seems the young lady is suddenly being shy.”

Father seemed flustered by my uncharacteristic behavior.

“Why is our Tia acting like this? Are you scared?”

I shook my head vigorously and then spoke.

“That sister…”

“Hmm? Say it again, Tia.”

“Please have that sister do it.”

My words flustered all three people. It was Doctor Omari who broke the awkward silence that followed.

“It seems Estira has caught the young lady’s fancy. Then let’s have Estira conduct today’s examination.”

“But still…”

“Estira is an outstanding student among my pupils, so don’t worry. I’ll be right beside her as well. That much is alright, isn’t it, Miss Pirenthia?”

I nodded and approached Estira, extending my injured wrist.

“Ah… Th, then for a moment…”

Estira, her face red with apparent confusion, carefully unwrapped the bandage around my wrist. She was so nervous that I could see her fingertips trembling. Feeling sorry for creating this situation, I spoke first to help distract her.

“Is your name Estira, sister?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“My name is Pirenthia, and my father’s name is Gallahan.”

“I, is that so…”

Since she works at Lombardy, she would naturally know our names. But introducing ourselves once more isn’t bad either. So that Estira can remember us more clearly.

“What are you learning from the doctor, sister?”

“I’m studying herbalism.”

“Wow. Then are you trying to become a doctor too, sister?”

“Yes, though I still have a long way to go.”

Perhaps because I was chattering away, Estira’s tension seemed to ease considerably.

“The swelling has gone down a lot, so I think we can change the medicine, Master.”

“Hmm. I see. Go and bring the sacos grass extract.”

At Doctor Omari’s words, I frowned. I wasn’t worried about the medicine since they would surely use something good, but I was deeply concerned about the taste.

Sure enough, the light green liquid Estira brought looked very bitter at first glance.

“Drink this, Tia.”

Father held out a cookie from the picnic basket as if he had been waiting. I stuck my hand in and pulled out three large cookies, holding them in one hand.

Gulp.

I swallowed the bitter medicine that made my whole body tremble in one gulp and quickly put a cookie in my mouth. Then I held out one of the two remaining cookies to Doctor Omari.

“Oh, thank you, Miss!”

The doctor was greatly pleased and popped the cookie into his mouth in one bite.

And the remaining one.

“Sister, eat this.”

Estira’s eyes widened at the cookie suddenly thrust in front of her.

“I, I…”

“You treated me. It’s delicious.”

After hesitating for a moment, Estira finally accepted the cookie with both hands.

“Well then, shall we go?”

Father said cheerfully as he picked me up.

“Take care.”

I greeted Doctor Omari while being held by Father. In my receding view, I could see Estira quietly looking down at the cookie I had given her.

“Sister, goodbye!”

When I called out, she startled and bowed her waist toward me. I kept waving my hand. Next time, maybe I should specifically ask for Estira to come.

I need to keep seeing her and become friends with her.

* * *

“Hmm-. Hmhm.”

Resting my arms on the window and feeling the cool breeze, I found myself humming naturally.

“You seem to be in a particularly good mood today. Are you excited about taking your first lesson tomorrow?”

Well, there’s a bit of that too.

When I looked at Father and smiled, Father smiled back at me. Then he soon returned to his work and busily moved his hands, drawing something.

I looked out the window again. As if the rain that had been falling continuously until yesterday was a lie, the sky had cleared beautifully. The air felt much cleaner too. I greedily breathed in the gusting wind as if I would drink it all.

And at the end of that long breath, I saw a carriage bearing a merchant guild’s flag entering the manor.

I curled up the corners of my mouth and muttered quietly.

“They’re here.”

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