The Isolated Marchioness Just Wants to Make a Living - Chapter 119

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Chapter 119

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Hilberry was restless, biting his nails.

“No, why isn’t he coming?”

It was well past midnight.

During the height of winter’s monster wave subjugation, the content of Leopold’s last letter was as follows:

[The monster wave in the Western Region is being dealt with smoothly. Once it’s roughly finished, I’ll go to the Southern Region to deliver information to Brisa.

I’ll transform soon, and in that form, I should be able to reach the Southern Region quickly.

I plan to just deliver the message, get some clothes, and leave the Southern Region.

After that, as soon as I become human, I’ll return to the Grand Duke’s Residence through warp.]

Of course, Leopold’s original plan was completely disrupted the moment Brisa entered the Forest of Sleep and received Maximus’s marriage proposal. He simply couldn’t just deliver the message and return.

Unaware of these circumstances, Hilberry had no choice but to trust his grandson’s words and wait.

‘Why on earth isn’t this kid keeping his word? He wasn’t originally like this! Is this really because of adolescence?’

The arrival time had long passed.

‘What if he got hurt somewhere? What if he got hunted down on the way!’

Hilberry anxiously kept tapping the floor with his prosthetic leg before suddenly standing up.

‘This brat, after causing all that trouble by not keeping time last time too!’

Despite everything, he was Nogen’s one and only heir.

‘Don’t tell me he couldn’t find clothes and is hiding naked in some corner of a warp somewhere?’

Just imagining it made him worry about Nogen’s future.

Eventually, unable to bear the restlessness, he put Leopold’s clothes in a bag and went alone to the warp in front of the Grand Duke’s Residence.

However, no matter how long he waited in front of the warp, Leopold didn’t come.

Finally, when dawn was breaking.

‘Ah, I don’t know! They say the Southern Region warp is a mess, but let me at least go nearby! I’ll go and search around!’

Frustrated, Hilberry took the warp to near Marquis Naisar’s Estate and…

‘Huh, what? It’s working?’

Contrary to his expectations, the warp operated so normally that he ended up standing in front of the marquis estate.

But then…

“Ahhhhh!”

In front of that warp, he encountered unexpected people. They were maids and knights carrying various crops.

Among them was the red-haired bob-cut escort knight that Brisa had brought from the Western Region.

She recognized Hilberry immediately.

“Isn’t that Grand Duke!”

Thinking Hilberry’s flustered expression was because he didn’t recognize her, she immediately bowed and shouted.

“Ah, I’m Knight Wendy Haight from Sears Marquis Territory. I’ve met Grand Duke several times as Young Lady Brisa’s escort!”

Ah, no, I know that…

“Why is Grand Duke here from dawn…”

It was when Hilberry was hesitating in bewilderment.

“Aha! Grand Duke has also come to celebrate Young Lady Brisa’s birthday.”

The mercenary-turned-knight didn’t know the etiquette that one shouldn’t speak so casually to a grand duke.

Moreover, unlike his usual dignified self, Hilberry, who had rushed over, was wearing plain indoor clothes without decorations, giving off the atmosphere of a comfortable grandfather.

“Our marquis, in his caring heart for the young lady, must have meddlesome invited you!”

Wendy’s eyes sparkled brightly.

“Ah, no… I, I, I didn’t receive an invitation…”

“Then you really came purely to celebrate the young lady’s birthday? My goodness! As expected of the Western Region’s information network!”

Hilberry’s pupils shook wildly.

“Well, Grand Duke has always cared for the young lady a lot. My goodness, how happy the young lady will be.”

Meanwhile, the knights standing behind cheered and applauded.

“How did you know that our young lady doesn’t have a grandfather, and came so humbly! Grand Duke! Our Potato Team will escort you!”

Even the maids were crying while constantly wiping their tears.

“My goodness, Grand Duke Nogen personally for the young lady’s birthday… How happy Princess would be in the afterlife.”

Hilberry absolutely couldn’t say ‘I didn’t even know today was Brisa Sears’s birthday, so let me go find my missing dog first.’

‘Right, since it’s come to this, let me ask Brisa where the wolf-dog was yesterday evening.’

Thus, Hilberry ended up going to the marquis manor surrounded by the servants of Sears Marquis Territory.

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He had definitely been having a nightmare.

But at some point, as the surroundings became warm, he seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep.

His long-fatigued body seemed to have finally gotten sufficient rest. His consciousness slowly awakened to the morning sunlight pouring through the window.

Everything was cozy. The not-dry air characteristic of the Southern Region was comfortable, the cushion texture felt behind his back was soft, and the softness of the long hair wrapped around his fingers was nice…

Wait.

Fingers? Hair?

Leopold’s eyes snapped open.

At the same time, he barely swallowed the scream that was about to escape.

‘This can’t be!’

He had become human!

He definitely thought it was tomorrow!

‘I calculated the date so carefully though?’

In fact, a full day had passed when he entered the Forest of Sleep, but Leopold, who had fallen asleep immediately upon entering, didn’t know this.

When he entered and when he came out, Harrison and Cheria outside the forest were wearing the same clothes.

Leopold, a dignified noble from an affluent region, couldn’t understand that people could wear the same clothes for two days.

He had noticed the Southern Region’s poverty, but having no experience with being poor, he couldn’t connect it that far.

Moreover, with people who had been asleep for 10 years, people who had been asleep for three months, and so on, everyone’s time was all mixed up.

So talk like ‘a day passed in the forest after the Sears siblings entered’ wasn’t particularly noteworthy, so no one talked about it.

Since there was no one to specifically tell the dog today’s date, Leopold alone ended up not knowing that a day had passed.

‘This is all because of Maximus.’

Leopold, in panic, directed his resentment toward the most annoying person.

‘I was going to leave safely about a day early, but I stayed to observe that human more…’

Fortunately, Brisa was asleep.

He carefully withdrew the arm that had been holding her.

He looked around, but there couldn’t be any clothes. The only thing that could cover his body was the blanket draped over Brisa’s bed.

He even held his breath as he climbed onto the bed.

That’s when it happened. Brisa suddenly sat up without a sound.

“…”

“…”

Leopold, who had hastily barely covered his body with the blanket, and Brisa’s eyes met.

Brisa slowly opened her mouth.

“This is indeed a memorable birthday gift that will stay in my memory until I die, but please, assuming you don’t reverse-transform, couldn’t you give me something like this in 7 years?”

Of course, while her tone was calm, it was clear that she too was very flustered.

But at that moment…

“So, someone’s coming!”

Leopold, who noticed the presence of people approaching from far away, whispered in horror.

“They’re coming in a group…”

“Good heavens.”

Brisa jumped up.

“Hide right now. Before Alpheus kills you. But wait, where did the wolf-dog go?”

“Ah, that’s me.”

Leopold blurted it out hastily and then groaned self-deprecatingly.

He had expected to make a very solemn confession eventually.

To end up saying it so hastily and carelessly, pushed by the situation like this.

Brisa looked around and answered as if it was no big deal.

“I see.”

A moment of silence passed.

Only after some time had passed did Brisa ask back in surprise.

“What?”

That’s when it happened. A maid knocked carefully.

“Young Lady, are you awake?”

Then a voice whispering frantically could be heard from outside.

“Do we really have to wake her up? Wouldn’t it be better if we just sang for her as soon as she opens her eyes?”

“Are you crazy? Does it make any sense for us to see the Young Lady in her pajamas?”

“Oh, right. Absolutely not. I’ll gouge out the eyes of anyone who dares to look at Bri-bri in her pajamas without permission. But I want to start the party quickly! I want to see Bri-bri’s confused face as she rubs her eyes!”

Alpheus boldly called his sister ‘Bri-bri’ from behind.

“Then since it’s winter, I’ll just put a cardigan on her.”

At the maid’s following words, Leopold and Brisa’s eyes met urgently.

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