In This Life, I Will Be The Lord - Chapter 82

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This Life, I Will Become the Clan Head Episode 82

I stared at Cleribane, wondering if I had heard wrong.

“When I briefly stopped by the estate today, I heard such talk.”

“Who exactly did you hear that information from?”

“I heard it from… the Lombardi Guild leader.”

The Lombardi Guild leader would be Romasie Dillard, Cleribane’s father.

He’s absolutely not the type to tell nonsense, especially to his son.

Then it really means that Lombardi has also heard rumors about the Lira Mine.

I began to carefully go through my memories again.

But no matter how much I retraced my memories, the winning bid at that time was definitely 2000 gold.

“Lombardi spares no expense to maintain their monopoly on iron. So you might need to prepare more money than you think.”

Cleribane advised with a serious expression.

His words were right.

If Lombardi also knew about the iron ore, there was a strong possibility they would bid around 5000 gold to win the auction.

Could it be that some butterfly effect occurred due to something I did, causing Lombardi to suddenly participate in the auction?

But the gems buried beneath were worth buying even if it cost 5000 gold.

If I started moving now, it wouldn’t be impossible to prepare 5000 gold by the auction day.

And one thought occurred to me.

What if Lombardi had also participated in this auction in my previous life?

I felt like my mind was all tangled up as I fell into deep thought.

* * *

Plop.

Something was placed on top of my head.

“…What?”

When I touched the top of my head, I felt something light and soft.

I was seriously contemplating, so what is this?

Slightly annoyed, I removed the object from my head and found it was a flower crown made of woven white wildflowers.

“What is this…”

“I made it!”

A child’s characteristic cheerful voice flew into my ear.

“It looks really good on Tia!”

Creny shouted with a bright smile on his freckled face.

Ah, that’s right.

I was in the middle of flower viewing right now.

My thoughts had wandered elsewhere for a moment, recalling the conversation that took place in the Pellet Trading Company office a few days ago.

Still, flower viewing of all things.

Playing the role of an eleven-year-old was truly exhausting work.

“That’s right! It really suits Tia!”

Larane smiled while roughly brushing off Creny’s fern-like hands that were stained green with grass.

We were currently out in the field inside the Lombardi estate.

Around this time, small wildflowers bloom throughout the field, and we play by making flower crowns and flower rings with them.

It was one of the typical ways children of this era played when there wasn’t much else to do.

“Ah, this is tiring…”

Playing the role of a child.

Right now in my head, the Lira Mine, Angenas, and Lombardi were all tangled up in a mess.

And complex calculations about money, whether 2000 gold or 5000 gold.

But in reality, I’m sitting on grass playing with flowers.

The gap between my worries and reality is too large, making it painful.

“Yellow flowers suit you well too!”

“They really do.”

“Because Tia is pretty!”

Creny arbitrarily placed another flower crown on my head and clapped his hands, saying it looked good again.

“Of course everything looks good on her!”

“Creny really likes Tia.”

Larane said while stroking Creny’s red hair.

“Yes! I’m going to marry Sister Tia!”

“What?”

Larane looked at me with large, clear eyes, smiling.

Right now, is she asking me to react to those words?

Sigh.

I felt like letting out such a deep sigh that all the wildflowers here would lose their will to live and wither away on their own, but I had to protect a child’s innocence.

I replied in a voice that sounded somewhat mechanical even to myself.

“Wow, how wonderful.”

But excited Creny didn’t notice such things and ran around the field giggling, saying he would make a ring to give me.

“Tia, is something wrong?”

Larane asked while removing a small blade of grass from my cheek.

While I was still doing things appropriate for an eleven-year-old, Larane was purely taking care of Creny and me, playing with us.

Kind-hearted Larane.

“Hm? No. Nothing’s wrong.”

“You’ve looked a bit unwell for the past few days. If you have any worries… I probably can’t be much help though.”

Larane smiled gently.

Just then, wind blew across the field from far away, making Larane’s long, luxurious brown hair flutter.

Even though her neatly combed hair became disheveled, her face looked fresh as she turned toward the direction of the wind and smiled.

Yes, this was the kind of person Larane was.

My heart ached remembering Larane from that time, when she returned cold and lifeless, holding a bouquet of flowers to her chest.

I smiled and said to Larane.

“No, I’m fine right now. But if I do have worries, please listen to me then, Larane.”

“Of course, anytime.”

Larane was pleased by my words.

“Tia! Tia!”

Creny, who had gone far away, came running back with a flushed face.

“Let’s go give flower crowns to Giliou and Meylon too!”

“You made ones for the twins too! Good Creny. Their training should be over and they should be home by now, so shall we go see them?”

“Yes!”

Fortunately, where Shannet’s family and the twins live isn’t far from here.

I stood up following behind Larane and Creny.

Oh, my whole body aches.

After sitting and playing on the hard field for hours, my joints seem to hurt.

I’m still at a vigorous age, but still.

“I’ll clean Creny’s hands and then come. Take the flower crowns and go ahead.”

“Okay, got it.”

Larane and Creny walked away hand in hand, and I entered the twins’ drawing room alone.

“No one’s here…”

I pushed open the door and went in looking for the twins, when I heard a familiar voice from inside.

“…Lira Mine… whether things are proceeding as expected…”

Lira Mine?

I quickly held my breath and hid behind a pillar.

* * *

‘To think such a person is Angenas’s Durak Caravan Leader.’

Bestian inwardly sneered as he looked at the person sitting across from him.

Aside from being born into a good family, there wasn’t a single aspect where this person was better than Bestian himself.

The only thing this man had accomplished was truly nothing more than being born with the blood of the good family called Angenas.

And yet he was a caravan leader – it was truly an undeserved position.

Both Lombardy and Angenas.

They were all just overrated fools.

“It’s not that we don’t trust you…”

“Since it’s such an important matter, it’s only natural that those people would be concerned.”

Bestian spoke with a smile that evoked goodwill from people.

“The scheduled auction date is one week from today, as I mentioned before.”

“Fortunately, there are no changes. Then the auction bid amount is also…”

“No changes. Lombardy will bid 1600 gold as promised.”

Although his position would become somewhat difficult after this matter ended, Bestian wasn’t too worried.

After all, he was Rulak Lombardi’s one and only son-in-law.

Rulak had a soft side where he couldn’t abandon family members and would protect them to the end, so pretending to be in self-reflection for a few months would suffice.

That way, the Shultz family would obtain the mining rights for the Lira Mine, so it wouldn’t be such a great loss.

“Then our Durak should bid 1800 gold accordingly.”

“That’s correct. Everything is as we discussed beforehand.”

“Haha, well now.”

The Durak Caravan Leader scratched his temple while letting out a foolish laugh.

“I did come to check on your situation under orders, but this is embarrassing, embarrassing. When you’re proceeding with work so smoothly.”

“Haha, you flatter me. But as you said, it would be good if you could trust this Bestian Shultz a bit more.”

“R-right. I would too, of course.”

The Durak Caravan Leader slightly averted his gaze while habitually letting out a stupid laugh.

Then he spoke in a tone as if he was being quite generous.

“Don’t worry about the mining rights. As soon as we win the bid for the Lira Mine, it will go to the Shulsga as promised.”

Of course, that was the condition of the deal.

Bestian smiled brightly to avoid sneering at the Durak Caravan Leader’s behavior.

“I’ll trust only Angenas…”

Clatter.

A very small noise was heard.

Bestian immediately stopped speaking and began scanning the room thoroughly with hawk-like eyes.

His good-natured smile had already turned cold long ago.

Then, he saw the hem of a blue dress sticking out from behind a pillar near the entrance.

Step, step.

Bestian fiercely grabbed the shoulder of the small figure hiding behind the pillar.

What was dragged out by his strong hand was a brown-haired girl wearing a crude flower crown – Gallahan’s daughter.

“…You.”

Just as Bestian was about to interrogate her with a distorted face.

“Are Giliou and Meylon here? I came to give them flower crowns!”

Pirenthia smiled with a bright face, holding out two flower crowns in her hands.

* * *

Damn, was I caught.

It felt like the corners of my mouth, which I was forcing into a smile, were twitching.

I was definitely being quiet, so how did he know I was here.

His usual good-natured face was nowhere to be seen, and Bestian’s snake-like gleaming eyes glared at me.

Yes, this was your true nature.

“You, how long have you been here?”

“I just came a little while ago.”

“I didn’t hear the door?”

“The door was open so I just came in… I’m sorry…”

I shrank my shoulders, pretending to be as frightened as possible.

Then, my savior entered.

“Tia?”

It was Larane holding Creny’s hand.

“…What’s wrong?”

Sensing that the atmosphere was unusual, Larane’s face hardened.

“Well…”

“It’s nothing.”

Bestian released my shoulder that he had been gripping painfully and smiled.

“Oh my, there are many guests?”

Shannet appeared from the entrance on the opposite side of the drawing room.

“You were here too? I was going to give refreshments to Tia and the children. Then I should prepare some for you and your guest too…”

“No, no. We were just about to get up.”

Bestian, who had returned to his usual appearance, patted the Durak Caravan Leader’s shoulder and spoke.

“I’ll be late today. Don’t wait up and go to bed first.”

Bestian affectionately kissed Shannet’s cheek and immediately left the drawing room.

I watched that cowardly retreating figure and then looked at Shannet.

“The twins haven’t come yet…”

The tea set that the smiling Shannet was holding was only for two people, and tea leaves were scattered messily on the tray she was carrying.

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