The Isolated Marchioness Just Wants to Make a Living - Chapter 118

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Chapter 118

Then Delmia answered hesitantly.

“Ah, I also… think it’s a bit strange. But… that strange demon inside me recognizes you as ‘Master’.”

“I see.”

I calmly nodded and asked.

“Then can I just command ‘no more of that title’ right now?”

“Uh, huh?”

Delmia hesitated.

“It, it, seems confused… Do you want to speak directly? It’ll probably come out if you call it.”

It seemed I hadn’t actually defeated that dream demon.

To be precise, it was sealed in Delmia’s body, but I appeared to have subjugated it.

“So you are the master after all…”

Delmia said while fidgeting with her fingers.

“And, and I heard you made a double agent proposal to my sister. If you want, you can use the demon inside me.”

I stared at Delmia intently and said.

“But your sister said she hated it.”

“Uh, huh?”

“Your sister said so. That she really, really hated it.”

Then tears welled up in Delmia’s eyes.

Watching her quietly dab away her tears, I sighed.

I felt like I understood that feeling well.

I too really hated it when strange memories flooded into my head.

Now I see it seems related to Riente’s bloodline rather than madness, but it was still unpleasant.

Having other memories in my head that I couldn’t control, that weren’t mine, was an unpleasant thing.

‘I hate sharing a brain, but sharing a body… that would really be awful.’

I looked at her and continued speaking.

“So you don’t have to do things you hate.”

If I used a curse from another world that had devoured someone’s body for my own convenience… I’d end up no different from the Crown Prince.

“Of course, when I really need it, I’ll ask. But whether you listen to that request or not is entirely up to you, sister.”

“Sob, sob, you, you don’t have to go, go that far for me, sob, sob…”

“I’m sorry. Up until now I was just packaging it to look cool, but actually it was for my sake.”

I said firmly.

“I absolutely cannot stand seeing that demon in those revealing clothes calling me master and acting cute.”

Delmia rolled her eyes and started hiccupping.

“But I’ll ask just one other favor, sister. Could you keep it secret from others that the demon was sealed when I called its name?”

It wasn’t information that would be good to spread around.

Maximus was annoying, but still, as in his original plan, it was safer in many ways to announce publicly that Alpheus was the one who broke the Curse of Sleep.

It could raise Alpheus’s legitimacy as Marquis Sears, and it was a move that could completely destroy the Crown Prince’s long-term plans from the ground up.

“Just, let’s say Alpheus broke the curse… Actually, it’s true that sister got beaten up badly by Alpheus, right?”

After saying that, I realized I hadn’t asked for Alpheus’s opinion.

Of course, it wasn’t a serious problem at all and only pricked my conscience slightly, but even that was easy to ignore.

“What should I do?”

Then Delmia said in surprise.

“I already told… At the very beginning, I was so shocked and panicked…”

“Who did you tell?”

“Cheria and…”

“Ah, then it’s fine.”

If it was Cheria, it was really okay. Rather, if she thought Delmia was in my hands, it was obvious she could never betray me even while communicating with enemies.

But the next words were devastating.

“Harrison…”

“Ah.”

Of course Harrison was a good kid. But his brain and mouth were loose. Then there was only one option.

I said with a devastated heart.

“Then since we need to keep watch… we’ll keep Harrison with us continuously.”

We were fated to be forced together until the secret was no longer a secret.

Delmia muttered with a dazed expression.

“My goodness, to think such a thing would happen in life… I made a mistake but received a reward.”

“Well, it’s fine.”

I shrugged my shoulders.

“Harrison earns his keep. When we go to restaurants together, we get so much service.”

Everyone was forgetting, but Harrison had magical talent. If a dark mage targeted me or something, he could quickly detect that energy.

‘Plus he has the advantage of being too stupid to ever betray me.’

At that moment Alpheus appeared.

“Ahahaha, Brisaaa! Here, the report Langsi told me to deliver!”

The marquis was running errands for his adjutant. From the look of it, Langsi seemed to be blowing up balloons or something.

“Well then Brisa, shall we go to bed now? It’s getting late, isn’t it?”

I awkwardly nodded reluctantly at Alpheus who was acting awkwardly.

‘Tomorrow’s party is ruined.’

It felt more burdensome than ever.

‘I don’t think I’ll be able to pretend to be surprised and happy.’

Seeing those sparkling eyes already full of anticipation made my heart heavy.

‘Playing the role of the only young sister in the territory is really hard.’

It was the weight of blood ties.

“Tadaaa! Bri-bri-bri-bri-bri! Happy thirteenth birthday! Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, dear Bri-bri, happy birthday to youuuu!”

“Marquis, if you whisper like that, won’t your voice give out? Try shouting more.”

“No loud singing in other people’s houses. Ah, please no disappointed expressions either. Wait, wait! How can you do this when I’ve been looking forward to today so much – no wailing about that either!”

If I acted as I pleased like usual, I had no idea how much Alpheus would whine.

As I arrived back at my room in the annex, dreading tomorrow like that.

As soon as I opened the door, I heard groaning sounds – “groan, ugh.”

“Woof?”

I ran to Wolf-dog in surprise.

“Woof!”

Then the maid hurried over, examined Wolf-dog, and said.

“He just seems to be having a nightmare. Our dog does this sometimes too.”

“Oh, really?”

I had shared a room with Wolf-dog for a long time, but I had never seen Wolf-dog suffering like this.

“Should we wake him up gently? Then let him go back to sleep.”

But no matter how much the maid and I shook his body, Wolf-dog wouldn’t wake up. He seemed to have accumulated a lot of fatigue.

Come to think of it, how hard must it have been coming all the way to the Southern Region. Maybe he had run non-stop without even sleeping to match the timing.

“Never mind, let’s just let him sleep.”

Until I bathed and changed into pajamas, Wolf-dog continued groaning with a pained expression.

“Sleep well.”

Soon the maid turned off the lights and left.

But I couldn’t easily fall asleep. I was worried about Wolf-dog who was suffering from nightmares.

Eventually I got up with a worried expression and went down under the bed.

If Wolf-dog had been small like when we first met, I would have slept together on my bed, but now Wolf-dog was too big.

‘So I should have held him when he was young.’

I always wanted to sleep in the same bed as Wolf-dog, but Wolf-dog extremely refused.

Even sleeping in the same room seemed awkward for him, as he always curled up in the spot farthest from my bed.

‘When did he grow so big…’

I petted Wolf-dog’s head, then lay down beside him and hugged him tightly. The cushion was large and soft enough for both of us to lie down comfortably.

“It’s okay, Woof… It’s okay.”

As I whispered while stroking the whimpering Wolf-dog, his rough breathing gradually became more regular.

“Are you having nightmares about being locked in the warehouse again? Leopold was… well, he was too harsh on you.”

As I held Wolf-dog close, my own worries about tomorrow faded away and sleepiness came over me.

I fell asleep like that, embracing Wolf-dog who was no longer whimpering.

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