Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 101

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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 101

 

 

 

59. Then You’ll Have to Come With Us

 

 

Blood is thicker than water.

I was experiencing that firsthand.

The same rose-colored hair as Leila.

Though dressed as a traveler, his radiant features couldn’t be hidden at all.

His tall stature and the glimpse of solid arm muscles.

This was Delword Termion, the younger son of Duke Termion House I’d only heard about.

“Little Brother, right…?”

Leila’s voice trembled with tears.

From what I heard, this was their first meeting in several years, so it was truly a family reunion.

It was a bit strange that he emerged from the grass field in the garden, but a reunion was still a reunion.

“You’ve grown so much in just a few years. You’ve gotten prettier…”

But that atmosphere was immediately shattered.

“Do you want to die?”

“Ugh!”

Leila created not one but two mana bullets I had taught her and fired them at Little Brother, then rushed over and started pounding his back.

“How! Much! I! Worried! How! Could! You! Not! Contact! Me! Once!”

“S-sorry! Ow, it hurts!”

“It hurts? Then keep hurting!”

I quietly turned my head away.

Hmm.

I’d probably do the same.

If a brother you’d been desperately missing showed up now after no contact all this time, you’d be both happy and angry.

“Do you want to die? Isn’t this really too much!”

“I’m sorry! I’m really sorry! It’s not that I didn’t want to contact you…”

“What! I waited years just for news of you! At least Big Brother went east and sends letters!”

Eventually I stepped in to pull Leila away.

But her anger wasn’t easily cooled, as Leila was still fuming.

“Ow ow… Your hands pack quite a punch. You’ve been training hard, haven’t you?”

Delword was still smiling gently as he spoke. Rather than being oblivious, he seemed to be trying his best to calm Leila down.

Leila crossed her arms and glared at her little brother.

“Talk. Where were you and what were you doing that you’re only coming now?”

Leila looked ready to charge at him again if he didn’t answer. Delword finally scratched the back of his head and—

“I was in the Drenik Empire.”

He said something completely unexpected, leaving both me and Leila stunned.

 

 

We moved to a different spot.

Of course, we didn’t leave the garden.

It’s just that where we were was a path people frequently used, so instead we went to a secluded bench in the garden to continue our conversation.

“Hmm, Dane Sogress? I thought so. I noticed your striking silver hair. How long have you been friends with Leila?”

I told him about first meeting Leila at my 7th birthday party.

“Ah, I see. Our youngest, I’m counting on you to take care of her. Not many people approach our family with pure intentions. Even kids come around wondering if there’s something to gain.”

Well, it is Duke Termion House after all.

“Actually, I heard rumors about you a few days ago when I was entering the capital. That an incredible talent had entered the Academy.”

Delword spoke casually and added,

“Of course, I heard about our youngest too. Haha.”

“…”

That wasn’t going to suddenly improve Leila’s mood.

“Stop talking about useless things and just answer. What happened?”

Leila was now looking at him with icy eyes that turned cold at every glance.

However, that ice was very thin.

It seemed like just a little touch would crack it and the hidden tears would pour out.

“…”

Delword finally slowly opened his mouth.

“I really wanted to contact you… I was actually in the Drenik Empire.”

“…!”

For a moment, I was more shocked than Leila.

I never expected my previous life’s homeland to come up here.

“The Drenik… Empire? Why did you go there? To such a dangerous place!”

“That’s why I couldn’t contact you. The ceasefire hasn’t been that long, and if my identity was discovered by mistake, I’d be captured immediately.”

“…”

“I’m sorry. I really wanted to contact you too. But I had no choice.”

Delword said he had been in the Drenik Empire, the enemy nation of the Alteon Empire—my previous life’s homeland.

“I’m really sorry, Leila.”

“…Fine.”

Leila wiped away the remaining tear stains, took a deep breath, and asked,

“Sigh… Then why exactly? It’s been almost 5 years. Was there some reason you had to go right after graduating from the Academy?”

At Leila’s question, Delword hesitated for a moment before speaking.

“Well, coincidentally… the timing was a bit bad.”

“Timing?”

“Right. Timing. Originally I thought it would be quick. I was young then. But as I kept going, I ended up flowing all the way to the Drenik Empire. I wanted to contact you beforehand, but I didn’t have time. The illegal entry was arranged quite urgently.”

“Hah…”

So let me summarize.

Leila’s little brother, Delword Termion, left home years ago to live as a wanderer.

According to Leila, he was living as a free knight, but that wasn’t true—he had actually been in the Drenik Empire for years.

And now he had returned.

But the important fact hadn’t come out yet.

“So, why did you go…?”

Why he went all the way there.

Depending on the reason, this could escalate into a major political issue.

Because it’s no ordinary matter for the younger son of Duke Termion House to have stayed in the Drenik Empire for years.

Leila seemed to recognize the seriousness as she gulped nervously.

But an unexpected reason flowed from Delword’s mouth.

“To find a way to cure Mother’s illness.”

Mother’s illness.

The Duchess is currently ill.

So that’s why…

“…Why, why? Couldn’t we look together? Why did you have to go personally? Huh? You could have sent people! Why did you have to go dangerously…”

Delword wore a faint smile.

“I had no choice. The opportunity presented itself that way. But hey, I returned safely, didn’t I? Look. I’m perfectly fin… Agh!”

Leila’s smash exploded against his back.

It must hurt terribly.

He definitely seems to have lost some mana too.

“…Th-there’s going to be handprints left on your back.”

Seeing how he won’t stop joking, I wonder if he got off lightly.

Well, it’s not really something for me to judge, so I’ve just been quietly watching the situation without saying much.

“…That was really too much. You were bad!”

“I’m sorry. I really am.”

Delward then knelt on one knee in front of Leila and took her hands.

“I’m really sorry for leaving you alone.”

“…”

Leila’s shoulders trembled.

Delward, looking troubled by this sight, was silently mouthing words to me, asking if there was any way to console her. I shrugged. How would I know?

In the end, Delward had no choice but to comfort Leila until she stopped crying.

“There, that’s enough now. Okay?”

“…Alright.”

“Good girl, our youngest.”

The way he patted her head was exactly like our sisters.

The conversation returned to the main topic.

“So you’re completely back now?”

“Uh, well. Not exactly… Le-Leila. Please hear me out to the end.”

“Go ahead and speak.”

If he says he’s going back into the Drenik Empire again, she looks ready to break his legs to stop him.

Delward swallowed nervously with a genuinely frightened expression and continued.

“…I found a clue. I also discovered what materials are needed to cure the illness. But those materials don’t exist in the Drenik Empire, so I came back.”

That means-

“They’re in the Alteon Empire?”

“Yes. But I only have clues, and I need to find them one by one. That’s why I came back.”

Delward then shared some rather shocking information.

“According to what I barely managed to find in the Drenik Empire, the illness Mother is suffering from is a kind of curse.”

“A…curse?”

“Yes. The symptoms match. Complete lack of energy, trembling hands and feet, frequent dizziness with coughing up blood, and purple spots appearing on the back.”

Silence fell over us.

As far as I knew, the Duchess had been bedridden for quite a long time.

But the reason for that was… a curse.

“This can’t be…”

Leila collapsed with a thud.

I comforted Leila.

Delward gave Leila a moment to calm down before continuing.

“I couldn’t believe it when I first found out either. Curses don’t occur naturally. In the end, someone… cast a curse on our mother.”

It was shocking news.

“How… how did you find out?”

“I met someone in the Drenik Empire who was suffering from the same illness. That person knew why they were in such a state. I was able to get the answer that they were cursed.”

This was completely unexpected.

“I’m not sure about grudges. Honestly, our family has quite a few enemies, right?”

Quite a few indeed.

Just being the capital’s greatest noble family alone provides countless reasons to earn resentment.

“But that can be revealed later. What’s important now is curing the illness.”

“Did you find a way?”

“Yes. As I said, I found out about the materials and the method of the ritual too.”

Leila let out a sigh of relief.

Looking at just this situation, it’s good news.

They found the cause of the illness and discovered how to cure it.

Then the conclusion is simple.

They’ll set out on the road again to obtain those materials.

“Fortunately, some of them shouldn’t be too difficult to obtain. Even if they’re expensive, it’s not like we can’t get them. I’ll get those first, then go after the most important material.”

“The most important material?”

“Yes. The most important… Roxinna’s Tears.”

Roxinna’s Tears.

I recall what Big Sister told me.

A dreamlike magic material that’s effective against almost all curses that exist in the world.

But it’s extremely difficult to obtain.

“Roxinna’s Tears are said to be in the Havaroks Mountain Range between the empires.”

“What? ‘Said to be?'”

“…It’s definitely there. In a place that’s difficult to approach. According to the information I gathered, it’s in ruins guarded by some ancient being…”

An ancient being.

Ruins.

This smells fishy.

Delward stated his conclusion amidst all this.

“I’m going to go find it.”

“But the Havaroks Mountain Range is an incredibly dangerous place!”

I added as well.

“It’s a place full of all kinds of monsters and traps. You’d have to avoid the eyes of rangers from both empires, and you might have to fight the Abur Tribe that lives in the mountain range.”

Delward looked at me with wide eyes.

“You’re quite knowledgeable? Just like Leila’s friend should be.”

“I know a bit.”

Hmm. Leila’s Little Brother seems like a good person.

“Ah, Brother! Dane!”

We returned to the main topic at Leila’s sharp call.

Delward reluctantly tried to calm Leila.

“You know. If I go there, who knows how many will return alive. It’s actually safer if I go alone. I didn’t just find evidence in the Drenik Empire.”

Delward then rolled up his sleeve.

Something was attached over his sturdy arm.

It was a complex mechanical device.

The thing covering his entire right arm was something I knew well.

“This is a Combat Arm, isn’t it?”

“Huh? You know this?”

Know it indeed.

If the Alteon Empire has Magic Engineering, then the Drenik Empire has Mechanical Engineering.

An academic field so excellent it’s hard to determine which is superior.

In the case of the Drenik Empire, my homeland from my previous life, mechanical devices are highly developed and used in this way – attached to parts of the body to house weapons or enhance physical strength.

And what Delward is wearing now is quite good quality.

“I saw it in books. I also heard about it from merchants who travel between empires.”

“You really are knowledgeable. That’s right. This is a mechanical device, a Combat Arm. It’s easy to conceal and much more useful than you’d think, so I’ve grown fond of using it.”

Click, click.

If I listen carefully, I can hear the very faint sound of gears moving.

To think I’d see that again in the Alteon Empire.

For reference, I didn’t use one in my previous life.

To use something like that, you first need an enormous amount of money, and while I in my previous life had nothing to spend my salary on, I didn’t earn enough money to use something like that.

Still, I have some related knowledge.

That’s why I recognized it immediately.

“Most importantly, to live in the Drenik Empire, I had to get used to things like this. Well, thanks to that, I now have skill equivalent to five cores even with just four. Though I’ll have to hide my status here.”

Delward winked.

“You know? It’s a secret here.”

Then he covered his forearm again and continued speaking.

“Most importantly, if the Knight Order heads to the mountain range, war clouds might gather again between the empires.”

In the end, it meant he had to go alone for complicated reasons.

But that was too dangerous a thought.

“Even so, how can we let you go alone, brother…”

Leila started tearing up again, and Delward panicked. I wonder if my sisters would make that same panicked expression if I started crying.

“It’s, it’s okay. I’m absolutely not going recklessly! I need to investigate the area first, and I need to gather other materials in advance, so it’ll take time…”

Delward hastily added.

“And I managed to obtain medicine that can delay Mother’s illness. With this, we’ll have plenty of time to prepare.”

It was fortunate news to hear, but Leila was firm.

“That’s good news, but that’s not the problem!”

Just as Leila was about to get angry again—

I spoke up, recalling the keywords of ancient beings and ruins that Delward had mentioned.

“Then we’ll have to go with you.”

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