The Isolated Marchioness Just Wants to Make a Living - Chapter 120

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Chapter 120

Brisa looked around the narrow room and suddenly opened the wardrobe, quickly pulling out all her clothes.

Leopold went into the wardrobe with a blanket without anyone saying anything.

“I should have at least put some clothes on Wolf-dog.”

Brisa regretted it.

Leopold grumpily agreed.

“Yeah. It’s a bit cold since it’s winter.”

The moment she closed the wardrobe door, there was a creaking sound as a maid entered.

“Young Lady? Oh my, you’re awake!”

“Huh? Oh!”

Brisa exclaimed in surprise.

“Y-yes, I’m awake!”

The Marquis Manor maid entered with a natural expression.

Leopold held his breath nervously in the dark wardrobe, listening to the conversation outside.

“Oh my, but why are all your clothes out here like this…?”

“I don’t want to sleep here anymore. I’m going to change rooms. So I took everything out to take the clothes with me.”

Brisa replied calmly.

“F-first, let me help you change into this…”

However, as the maid put a cardigan on her, the door burst open.

“Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to…”

Alpheus’s booming voice could be heard along with people rushing in.

But the song that should have continued was cut short.

“Hm? Is someone in the wardrobe?”

Leopold’s heart dropped.

Brisa hastily shouted.

“That’s Wolf-dog!”

Her voice rang out in a high tone.

“Wolf-dog is angry right now and doesn’t want to see my face. Don’t bother him. I told him to come out on his own when I make him feel better first.”

“Huh? But it’s Brisa’s birthday, so Wolf-dog should celebrate together…”

“He has every right to be angry. This is really my fault.”

Brisa said desperately.

“I threatened to neuter him when his heat cycle comes.”

“…What?”

“You don’t want me to talk about animal mating and breeding in more detail in front of all these people, do you? If you want to discuss it, read all 17 volumes of <Understanding Livestock> first.”

“Ah, I haven’t even finished Volume 1 yet…”

Alpheus muttered in a voice that sounded very guilty. Still, he didn’t give up and added.

“Really? Then should I comfort him as a fellow male?”

“Are you saying you’re going to comfort Wolf-dog on my birthday?”

When Brisa asked sharply, Alpheus immediately panicked.

“B-b-but… But Wolf-dog! Are you really okay? No, is Wolf-dog really in there?”

In the end, Leopold had no choice but to sigh and mutter.

“Grrrrrr…”

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It was truly tearful acting.

I said hastily with tears in my eyes.

“See? I told you not to come!”

And I sighed and pointed to the cake Alpheus had brought.

“Is the song over now?”

“No way!”

Alpheus was holding a large cake while wearing a party hat.

Meanwhile, Philip and Langsi were pushing colorful balloons into my room.

While Alpheus sang the birthday song, I took deep breaths and rolled my eyes.

“Young Lady, are you on some stage? The Marquis is doing all the singing, so why are you so nervous?”

When Langsi, who was holding a banner that read [Congratulations on Brisa Sears’s Thirteenth Birthday], tilted her head, Philip shouted magnificently.

“Because on the stage called the world, Young Lady is always the protagonist! She perfectly mastered five languages at age 7 and entered the Academy as valedictorian!”

Masa hastily whispered from the side.

“You forgot about being invited to the Empress Dowager’s banquet at age 10!”

At that timing, Alpheus’s birthday song ended.

“Brisaaa! Congratulations on turning thirteen!”

Alpheus shouted magnificently and lifted me up.

It seemed the room was too small for everyone to enter, as people were crowding in the corridor.

Seeing my stunned face, Masa blinked.

“My goodness… This is the first time I’ve seen Young Lady this nervous…”

She smiled broadly while looking at my stiff face.

“Actually, I thought you would have noticed this kind of surprise party beforehand and hate it terribly, saying it was embarrassing.”

The maid who had watched me for a long time was accurate.

“Young Lady seems really flustered, you really had no idea about the party!”

I said with shaking pupils.

“Yeah. Something I really couldn’t have imagined happened from this morning, so I don’t know what to say.”

Masa was moved.

“My goodness, you must be so happy that you’re speechless! The Marquis was right!”

I should have thanked Leopold by saying ‘Thanks to you, the long-standing conflict in the Marquis Manor has been resolved.’

Alpheus proudly held the large cake in front of me.

“Come on, blow! Congratulations on Brisa’s thirteenth birthday! Waaaah!”

Amid the applause and cheers, I blew out the candles while still in a state of panic.

Alpheus shouted with an enthusiastic voice.

“Now it’s gift presentation time!”

“Um, Alpheus?”

I said hastily.

“Why do I have to do all this as soon as I open my eyes? Isn’t there still a lot of time left in my birthday?”

“Because I don’t want to make my little sister wait.”

Alpheus said unnecessarily solemnly.

“When I was young, on my birthday I would wait continuously from when I woke up until I went to sleep. Wondering if someone would notice it was my birthday and congratulate me, maybe I’d receive even a small gift, perhaps something good would happen because it was my birthday… After waiting and waiting like that, when I fell asleep past midnight, tears would somehow come.”

I rolled my eyes round and round.

“So I want my little sister to receive all the congratulations as soon as she wakes up, and be happy from the moment she opens her eyes until she closes them on her birthday, filled to the brim without waiting for anything.”

Even I couldn’t say ‘That’s enough, give me the gifts later’ here.

“Now then, let’s begin the gift presentation ceremony! Here’s my gift!”

Alpheus’s gift box contained a dagger along with a densely written, elaborate birthday card.

“Brisa, it’s time for you to learn some basic self-defense. I’ll teach you myself.”

After that, people began lining up to give me gifts.

As I had glimpsed earlier, since people were crowding in the corridor, the line was quite long.

Gift presentation also had to be done starting with the highest-ranking person.

First, Maximus, the highest-ranking person, gave his gift.

“Y-Yeonae… In many ways… Well, please take care of me in the future. Actually, I didn’t know it was your birthday, so at least this…”

What Maximus gave was a brooch that had been attached to his clothes.

“It’s for men, but if you have it re-crafted, it should be quite useful.”

I looked at the large gem on the brooch with sparkling eyes. I was thinking of selling it immediately to buy land.

“Thank you very much, Your Highness.”

After that, people from Marquis Naisar House gave gifts.

The Former Marquis Naisar Couple gave a bracelet, and Cheria gave a hairpin.

Harrison gave me a music box as a gift.

“I scraped together what little money I had to buy it. Brother Alpheus kept emphasizing your birthday. Happy birthday, Brisa.”

And he also gave me an incredibly large basket of strawberries.

“This is something the southern farmers urgently asked me to deliver yesterday when they heard it was your birthday. They said they were relieved that you like strawberries.”

Really, even knowing I was their benefactor, I felt so embarrassed from the morning.

“Oh, thank you. Please tell them I’ll really enjoy eating them. I haven’t even taken care of your birthday, Harrison, yet here I am at someone else’s house…”

Delmia also approached, constantly glancing at Alpheus as she spoke.

“I prepared this hastily, so it’s only something like this… It’s a handkerchief I embroidered all night. I included verses from theological texts. Happy birthday, my master. Sorry. That last part was my inner demon speaking.”

I confirmed that demon was terribly disobedient and thought I shouldn’t summon it unless absolutely necessary.

“Thank you, sister. I’ll always carry it with me.”

That’s when it happened.

“Wait a moment! Wait a moment!”

Wendy’s booming voice could be heard from the end of that corridor.

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