The Isolated Marchioness Just Wants to Make a Living - Chapter 122

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Chapter 122

“Happy birthday, Brisa.”

That’s when it happened. Leopold walked over, accompanied by Hilberry who looked ten years older.

When Alpheus blatantly stared at Leopold’s empty hands, Leopold said with some embarrassment.

“I’ll send a gift soon. It’s… still being made.”

“No.”

I immediately shot back.

“Take about seven more years to carefully prepare it before sending. I hope you’ll do your absolute best in making it. If I don’t like it, I’ll reject it immediately.”

Even so, I breathed a sigh of relief that the matter that had been bothering me since earlier was finally resolved.

After the noisy birthday party ended earlier, Hilberry carefully whispered to me.

“Where is he?”

“Over there…”

When I pointed to the wardrobe, Hilberry groaned.

After that, I said ‘I want to move rooms, can I go to the main building?’ and dragged everyone out of the room, leaving only Hilberry behind.

What happened next, even I didn’t know.

I figured Hilberry roughly gave Leopold clothes from inside the wardrobe, then he managed to sneak out secretly on his own. Fortunately, there weren’t many people in the annex.

“Ah, Young Duke, you’ve come too! What a shame that you missed this morning’s amazing party.”

Alpheus said cheerfully.

“But what about the wolf-dog? I heard he’s a bit upset with Brisa right now!”

“Ah.”

Leopold replied, raising his eyebrows.

“I sent the wolf-dog back to the Grand Duke’s residence.”

“What? You sent him away again without consulting us?”

Alpheus immediately became indignant.

“Even if the wolf-dog’s owner is the Young Duke, you should have at least given us time to say goodbye! Of course, I’m grateful you came to celebrate Brisa’s birthday! But the wolf-dog likes Brisa so much, and now he has to leave without even saying goodbye…”

Surprisingly, Maximus hastily intervened.

“Ahaha, why are you being like this… The wolf-dog might not have wanted to say goodbye. He might still be upset about the neutering threat. He’s quite a strong-willed dog, isn’t he?”

It seemed he wanted to make a good impression on the Western people.

‘Of course he would.’

If the West got upset and sided with the Crown Prince, noble society’s opinion would surely shift greatly.

So even if the West didn’t side with him, he definitely didn’t want to be disliked at minimum.

Leopold smiled faintly and answered elegantly.

“That could be.”

Maximus, who didn’t know the Western dialect well, might let it pass, but that meant ‘nonsense’ in Western dialect.

‘Well, of course. He openly cursed him as a monster to his face.’

Though it probably wasn’t intentional.

“Marquis Sears.”

Hilberry said, looking at Alpheus.

“I’d like to have a talk.”

“Ah, yes! Of course!”

Alpheus said cheerfully.

“I also like conversation… Ack!”

I stepped firmly on his foot and whispered.

“He means privately. Just follow him.”

Hilberry smiled slightly as if familiar with this, and disappeared far away with Alpheus.

In the end, only Maximus, Leopold, and I remained in that spot.

I blinked as I looked at Leopold, who appeared no different from usual.

It was definitely the clothes Hilberry had brought, but could he really look so perfectly neat?

Truly, this morning when he confessed expressionlessly that he was the wolf-dog felt like a dream.

In fact, it was still not easy to accept.

‘Is this also a curse? A person transforming into a huge wolf? But seeing how he returned to human form on his own, it’s different from Delmia, isn’t it? What exactly is it?’

I felt like talking with Leopold alone would help organize things in my head.

But at the same time, I wanted more time. Because I couldn’t remember anything about the demonic wolf form at all.

‘Actually, I can’t even remember my name from my previous life…’

Now when I faced Leopold, I would have to explain everything. The dark mage of Sebon and the story of another world, everything.

Then it was obvious how the conversation would flow.

“Alpheus hit him, and when I looked into his eyes and told him to calm down, Delmia came to his senses. But his demonic appearance remained the same. The curse of sleep remained too.”

“Ah, that’s exactly my current state. But how did you return to normal?”

“I called out his true name. I think I’m the only one who knows it here.”

“Really? Then please call out mine too.”

In the end, I would have to answer that hopeful face like this.

“But I can’t remember your true name. Honestly, I might never remember it.”

“…What?”

“When I saw Delmia, I remembered immediately because he looked so unique. But you looked like such an ordinary wolf. So even though I bit, sucked, hugged, and touched you all this time, I still can’t remember.”

Then comforting would be my job too, but only one consoling thing came to mind.

“Don’t be too disappointed. You can’t say you’ve returned completely to normal. There’s… a side effect where you’ll call me master.”

“I see, I’d rather just spend a few days as a dog then.”

…Would that actually be okay?

While I sighed in confusion.

“Ah.”

Maximus looked back and forth between me and Leopold, then grinned.

“I hope the tragedy of being left alone doesn’t happen to me. Isn’t the situation between you two a bit ambiguous?”

Leopold looked at him and answered slowly.

“I’ve been wanting to see you, Prince.”

Though it was his usual elegant and refined tone, having spent a long time with Leopold, I could fully sense the subtle aggression and coldness hidden within.

Though he wore a faint smile, his eyes weren’t smiling at all as he slowly added.

“There was something I wanted to tell you, Prince.”

Then Maximus showed his most good-natured smile and quickly responded.

“I’m also glad to meet Nogen’s heir privately like this.”

Without realizing at all that he had insulted the person as a ‘brat’ right to the heir’s face, Maximus began working on his connections.

“Western people don’t visit the capital often, so we haven’t had chances to meet like this before. Since this is fate, I hope we can exchange visits and get along well in the future.”

I thought to myself that Maximus should be the one turning into a dog.

‘The way he’s wagging his tail like that…’

Of course, he was currently at a dead end.

If he didn’t become Emperor, an ending where he and his mother would die together awaited. So he knew well that he couldn’t afford to care about pride.

‘Well, in a way, it’s clever.’

It was just typical Maximus behavior.

Leopold quietly looked at Maximus, then replied.

“Prince, then I’ll ask directly.”

I was slightly startled by Leopold’s serious face, where even his forced smile had completely disappeared.

“I’ve obtained information that you secretly mutter to yourself ‘I’m on the protagonist’s side.'”

At those words, Maximus flinched in surprise.

“I’d like you to explain that part.”

I was also extremely surprised.

‘Protagonist’?

Now… wasn’t he obviously referring to Alpheus as the protagonist!

Leopold pressed the much taller Maximus with an uncharacteristically firm tone.

“If you deny it, I’ll take it as disregarding the West’s intelligence network.”

I also gaped at Leopold’s hard-line attitude in shock.

Wasn’t ‘never’ making enemies the West’s basic stance?

Especially Leopold had written his own name next to the Second Prince’s name with his own hand at the Sears Marquis Estate.

But judging by the attitude he was showing toward him now, it was almost tantamount to a declaration of war.

“If you cannot provide a convincing explanation regarding this matter, it will be difficult for the Western Region to trust any words Your Highness speaks in the future.”

That meant ‘If you don’t explain properly, I’ll do my best to bring about your downfall.’

It was an extreme measure that only the heir of Nogen, who had possessed everything since birth, could take.

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