In This Life, I Will Be The Lord - Chapter 92

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This Life, I Will Become the Clan Head Episode 92

“Grandfather! Father!”

I ran to Father and Grandfather and greeted them warmly.

I knew in advance that both of them were scheduled to come here today.

That’s why I brought Maria Patron here.

“If you had told us beforehand, Father and Grandfather would have hurried here even faster….”

Father said while stroking my head.

“I wasn’t planning on it either, but I suddenly ended up coming.”

As I said that and glanced back, I could see Maria Patron and the young ladies in a commotion.

Gallahan Lombardi, the owner of Gallahan Clothing Store spread throughout the Empire, and Rulak Lombardi, the head of the Lombardi family.

They were whispering among themselves.

Father looked at those young ladies and asked me.

“Those people… are they Tia’s companions?”

Their ages didn’t match at all for being with me.

Naturally, questions arose on Father’s and Grandfather’s faces.

Then Maria Patron and the young ladies cautiously approached.

I naturally pointed to Maria Patron and said.

“I spilled juice on Lady Patron’s dress. So I invited her along with her friends to buy her a new dress. That’s okay, isn’t it, Father?”

Father looked a bit surprised and examined Maria Patron’s dress as he spoke.

“Of course. It’s naturally fine. Oh my, the dress is completely ruined….”

Father’s words stopped.

His gaze was fixed on Maria Patron’s necklace.

He kept looking at the necklace with wavering eyes, as if wondering whether he was seeing it wrong.

“It was a dress I cherished, so I’m a bit upset, but it’s fine….”

Even as Maria Patron was saying this, Father couldn’t easily open his mouth.

He probably wasn’t certain.

The necklace belonged to Shannet, after all.

Finally, when Maria Patron said that and was about to turn back toward the premium dresses.

“You there, young lady.”

Grandfather called out to Maria Patron in a low voice.

“Come here for a moment.”

Grandfather’s gaze was fixed precisely on one spot.

“Let me take a look at that necklace you’re wearing.”

Rulak Lombardi carefully looked over the young lady standing before him.

The dress she was wearing was a mess with juice stains, but her posture with her chin slightly raised was quite bold.

But even so, her eyes couldn’t properly meet his and kept glancing away.

She was already afraid of Rulak.

She wanted to act confident, but ultimately didn’t have a strong character.

It was a common type.

Rulak asked in a calm voice.

“My granddaughter spilled a drink on your dress?”

“Yes, there was such a small incident.”

“I apologize on her behalf for that.”

“You don’t need to go that far. You’ve already compensated for the dress like this….”

At Maria Patron’s words, Rulak nodded.

“Good, that’s fortunate. Then will you answer my next question honestly?”

“What kind of question….”

“You, what is your relationship with my son-in-law?”

“…Excuse me?”

Maria Patron’s voice trembled greatly.

It was as if her secret had already been discovered.

“I’ll consider it a momentary mistake and give you a chance.”

“I, I don’t quite understand what you’re saying….”

“No, think again.”

Rulak looked intently at Maria Patron’s face as he spoke.

“I asked you about your relationship with my son-in-law Bestian Shultz, and you need to give a much better answer than just clumsily making excuses.”

“Ugh….”

Now Maria Patron was completely overwhelmed by Rulak’s presence.

Her body was trembling, and her feet were hesitating as if she wanted to run away right now.

However, Rulak showed no sign of sympathy for her.

The moment Maria Patron came close, Rulak knew.

The fact that the necklace she was wearing belonged to his daughter Shannet.

And the next moment, what immediately came to mind was Bestian.

Specifically, the two people who had greeted each other as fellow countrymen at the Pellet Trading Company’s banquet.

“That necklace is a relic of my wife. Now it belongs to my eldest daughter Shannet.”

“That, that can’t be! You must be mistaken!”

At Maria Patron’s words, Rulak shook his head.

“I don’t know how whoever gave you that necklace explained it, but it is indeed my wife’s relic. My wife Natalia Lombardi’s initials are engraved on the back.”

Maria Patron turned the necklace over with trembling hands.

It was just as Rulak said.

Small initials that you wouldn’t notice unless you looked carefully were engraved there.

“If it’s difficult, I’ll give you choices. Will you become a thief who invaded Lombardi and stole the necklace and be handed over to the Imperial Guard?”

At the mention of the guard, Maria Patron’s heart sank.

“Or will you confess about your relationship with Bestian Shultz?”

“That, that’s….”

Maria Patron was biting her lower lip tightly.

She had always heard Bestian call him ‘old man’ or ‘geezer’ and speak dismissively of Rulak Lombardi.

So Maria Patron had always looked down on the Lombardi family head.

A stupid old man who didn’t even know that Bestian and she were stealing money right under his nose.

But Maria Patron realized that she was the one who had been stupid.

Rulak Lombardi was a frightening person.

The overwhelming presence that was making her unable to breathe was telling her so.

What on earth have I done?

And against Lombardi at that.

She regretted it, but it was already too late.

Maria Patron squeezed her eyes shut and trembled.

“If it’s hard to say everything here and now, just answer one thing. The one who gave you that necklace, was it Bestian Shultz?”

At Rulak’s question, Maria Patron slowly nodded her head.

“Gallahan.”

Rulak Lombardi called to his son, whose face was hardened with anger.

“Take care of Tia. Let’s return to the manor. Of course, you’re coming too.”

At the last words, Maria Patron’s body flinched greatly.

“I’m, I’m sorry! Please forgive me….”

Looking down coldly at her as she bowed her head in fear, Rulak said.

“If you hadn’t been caught, you wouldn’t be sorry either. Come along while I’m being nice about it.”

Maria Patron looked back at the young ladies who had come with her, grasping at straws.

However, having roughly grasped the context of the story from the conversation, they were looking at Maria Patron with contempt.

“Let’s go.”

Rulak said that and left the Gallahan Clothing Store.

In the end, Maria Patron had no choice but to follow behind and board the carriage heading to the Lombardi Estate.

* * *

When the sky was growing dark.

Shannet stood in front of a house in the Imperial Capital.

It was the kind of house suitable for wealthy commoners rather than nobles.

It had only been a few hours since the woman her father and younger brother had brought suddenly knelt before her.

That woman who claimed to be from the Schulz Estate.

And she was wearing around her neck the keepsake of her mother that the woman had been so desperately seeking.

“Bestian Shultz gave it to me. He said it was something passed down through generations in the Shulsga family…”

The woman spoke in a tearful voice.

“I continued meeting him even knowing he was a man with a wife and family. I’m truly sorry.”

Shannet had to forcibly suppress the scream that was about to burst out.

“How long… how long has it been?”

“For the past 7 years…”

Seven years.

At that terrible number, Shannet squeezed her eyes shut.

Then with a hardened face, she knocked on the door of the house that Bestian had supposedly prepared for the woman.

After a moment, the door opened with a small sound.

“Maria, where did you go and why are you just coming back now…”

Bestian, already changed into comfortable clothes for wearing at home, casually opened the door but stopped speaking.

Upon discovering Shannet standing at the front door, his face gradually turned pale.

“H-how did you get here…”

Shannet quietly stared at Bestian.

“W-well, this is… This is a friend’s house… The situation is, Shannet.”

Bestian was trying to spin another lie.

And finally, he showed an awkward smile and said.

“I understand this looks like a situation that could cause misunderstanding. Shannet, you trust me, don’t you?”

With that face she had once fallen in love with.

However, at that moment, Shannet could clearly understand.

This man was no longer the person she had promised to spend her lifetime with.

Shannet slapped Bestian’s cheek with all her strength.

Smack-!

A loud friction sound echoed through the quiet residential street.

“Bestian Shultz.”

Shannet spoke in a cold voice that Bestian had never heard before.

“You no longer have a home to return to.”

She turned around and walked without hesitation to the carriage parked nearby.

Without looking back even once.

Bestian, who had been standing holding his struck cheek, finally came to his senses and hurriedly tried to follow her.

“Damn it! Of all times, why now!”

The 8000 gold borrowed from Lombardi Bank was making Bestian’s mind go blank.

Just as he was about to chase after Shannet and exit the alley with a deeply furrowed brow.

Thud.

Two people blocked Bestian’s path.

“Giliou? Meylon? H-how did you two get here…”

It was the twins, who had grown to be nearly eye-level with their father.

“Move aside for a moment. Your mother and I have things to discuss…”

“Don’t come.”

Giliou pressed his hand against Bestian’s chest to block him and said.

“If you bother Mother any more, we won’t let it slide.”

Meylon said through gritted teeth.

The twins looked at Bestian with cold warning eyes, then turned around when they heard the sound of the carriage departing.

Like Shannet, the two didn’t look back as they swiftly mounted their horses.

And slowly rode their horses.

Clop, clop.

The twins rode as escorts behind the carriage emblazoned with the golden Lombardi crest, disappearing into the distance.

Bestian and Shannet divorced.

However, unlike the previous life, the bad person was punished.

Bestian and Maria Patron were imprisoned after it was revealed they had been embezzling Lombardi’s money.

Even after serving their sentence and getting out, the debt of 8000 gold borrowed from Lombardi Bank plus interest would be waiting for Bestian.

The Schultz Family was naturally destroyed as well.

Grandfather had stepped in to make it happen.

When all the support funds and investments given so far were recovered, nothing remained for the Schultz Family.

And Grandfather pressured the Nobility Council to erase the name Schultz from the noble registry.

I heard they gave up their territory and went somewhere to relatives, but that’s not my concern.

What I was worried about was Shannet.

It had already been a month since that day, and she had been staying secluded without coming outside.

I had been showing my face daily using the twins as an excuse, but I hadn’t been able to see Shannet.

“Sigh…”

I was cursing that vermin Bestian when I was about to open the door to the twins’ house.

“Oh my, it’s Tia.”

Shannet, who happened to be opening the door from inside, saw me and smiled brightly.

“Uh…”

I was so surprised for a moment that I stammered before asking.

“Where are you going?”

“I’m on my way to work.”

“To work?”

“Starting today, I’ve decided to run Lombardi Mining Company myself. I need to take on the family work that I had been neglecting.”

Shannet’s face seemed to glow as she said this.

It wasn’t an awkwardly forced fake smile.

Shannet looked somehow relieved.

“The twins are inside, so go play with them.”

“Yes…”

Shannet, who smiled gently and patted my head one last time, walked down the corridor.

Though it was the back view of someone walking alone, she looked bigger than ever before.

She kept her back straight and didn’t mind anyone’s gaze.

It was the most Shannet-like appearance.

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