The Isolated Marchioness Just Wants to Make a Living - Chapter 155

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Chapter 155

Then Alpheus tilted his head.

“But I wasn’t even invited? You can only attend such private gatherings if you’re invited. Isn’t that why we’ve been struggling with all this until now?”

I looked at his clueless face and said a word.

“Sister Delmia is different. Have you forgotten that she had no trouble at all coming to this reception room?”

Etiquette, after all, was meant to show respect for others and gain enough favor to make them want to be with you.

In that sense, Delmia’s face was etiquette itself.

No matter how private the gathering, if Delmia just said, “I’m sorry, but I’d like to come too…,” the elderly ladies would obviously compete to make room for her.

“If sister helps us, all this tedious business could end very quickly.”

I said, turning my gaze away from Delmia.

“Perhaps tomorrow might be the last time Alpheus has to escort anyone.”

“Es-es-es-escort?”

Delmia’s face turned red as if it would burst.

“I-I-I also want Mar-Mar-Marquis Sears’s es-es-escort…”

While she was rambling incoherently, Isabela personally brought tea.

“Ha.”

Alpheus pressed his forehead.

“Again this time… I’m the only one who wasn’t helpful. I’m the only one doing nothing…”

His face looked extremely pained.

I grabbed his arm and whispered sincerely for once.

“No. You really provided crucial help.”

“Me? How?”

“Well… probably with your face?”

That was all I could say among three strangely unsociable adults.

I really didn’t want to be caught between my clueless elder brother and two women who were a complete disaster. So I quickly changed the subject.

“Oh, if you’re bored doing nothing here, I have a favor to ask.”

“What is it?”

“Could you send a visit letter to the Magic Tower, and if permission is granted, go there for me?”

It had been almost a year since I sent Dahlia to the Magic Tower.

But there was no news from the Magic Tower Master who said he would analyze the results and inform me immediately.

I had sent two more people from the Northern Region, but there was no word from them either.

“I’m curious about how the investigation is progressing.”

I didn’t particularly intend to pressure them, but I thought I should check on it at least once.

“That’s not difficult! I hope I can make new friends at the Magic Tower!”

The mages probably wouldn’t be interested in a friend like Alpheus…

Not wanting to pour cold water on Alpheus’s hopeless optimism, I turned around and said.

“Then I’ll go write a letter to Leopold. He’s probably curious about the progress too.”

* * *

The Western Magic Library.

“Damn it, Leo.”

Harrison said while stretching.

“What don’t you have? Even this fantastic space belongs to you…”

Leopold answered while elegantly moving his quill pen.

“To be precise, it belongs to my maternal uncle. Silvia will inherit it later.”

In front of him were piles of documents stacked like mountains.

“The Magic Library is managed by Baron Forman’s house.”

His maternal grandfather, Baron Forman’s son and his maternal uncle, was the director of the Western Magic Library. This was also why Baron Forman held his title despite his advanced age.

“Anyway, it belongs to the ‘Western Region.’ It must be really nice not having to make pathetic requests to places like the Magic Tower just to see some recent papers.”

In front of Harrison, who said this, were also stacks of books related to dark magic.

Harrison had always studied dark magic for the purpose of dispelling it, even at the Academy.

But after graduation, he couldn’t use the Academy Library, and he couldn’t go to the Magic Tower Library for fear of being dragged away. So after a very long time, he was filling himself with knowledge to his heart’s content.

“Leo, can I ask you just one thing? Honestly and openly.”

“No.”

Leopold said while reading reports from information agents.

“To have an honest and open conversation, we should at least be close enough to use nicknames.”

“But I always call you by your nickname?”

“Don’t you think that includes criticism?”

The reason Harrison was with Leopold was simple. They couldn’t trust his loose tongue, so someone had to stick with him.

So after directly handing over the dark mage from the Northern Region to the Magic Tower, he moved together with Leopold.

“You’ve already perfectly handled and arrested two people… Don’t you want to join the Magic Tower?”

Of course, there had been a major crisis at the Magic Tower.

“Absolutely not.”

The Magic Tower Master was very disappointed. Based on that disappointment, Harrison did manage to obtain something.

“Instead, if you acknowledge my contributions so far and give me investigative authority over the Magic Tower, I think I could be of more help.”

Actually, it was something Brisa had instructed him to do.

He looked into the Magic Tower Master’s eyes and whined.

“In the Northern Region, I could definitely sense dark magic energy, but since I had no investigative authority, it took quite a while to set traps.”

“Hmm, since it’s a crisis situation in many ways, I can grant you that much. But if you abuse it, I’ll revoke it immediately. And you must follow official procedures when investigating.”

With logic, evidence, and a bit of ‘charm,’ Harrison safely obtained what he wanted and was able to join Leopold.

And there was one more reason Leopold took charge of him.

“Anyway, I’m asking honestly and openly, Leo, are you really never going to get engaged to Brisa again?”

Leopold frowned, looked up from his documents, and stared at Harrison.

“You really don’t listen to a word I say.”

“If you’re not going to get engaged to Brisa, can I send her a marriage proposal? I’m thinking of doing something called filial piety for my parents.”

“Close your book and come out, let’s duel.”

He said indifferently.

“Since you’re going to die by Marquis Sears anyway, I’ll end it quickly and cleanly out of old friendship.”

“See? You’ve always been grumpy with me since the Academy. Just because I was a bit close to Brisa.”

Harrison said with his chin propped up.

“Are you worried about being rejected? Don’t worry about that. Brisa likes you.”

“If you’re going to babble to me about Brisa’s feelings, you’d better get a power of attorney first. When Brisa finds out about this conversation later, she’ll sue you immediately.”

“At least the grounds for the lawsuit wouldn’t be spreading false information. Every time she was my partner at Academy banquets, she kept glancing at you and Silvia.”

“…”

“At least for this Imperial Banquet, you’ll ask Brisa to be your partner, right?”

“I’m going with Silvia. Brisa will go with Marquis Sears.”

“At this point, shouldn’t you pay Silvia some money?”

Harrison snorted as if it was ridiculous.

“She’s being used brilliantly as your scandal shield just because she’s your female cousin.”

“I’ve already paid the price.”

Leopold shrugged.

“So you don’t need to worry about our cousin relationship.”

And he raised his eyebrows and secretly glanced toward the other side of the study.

Harrison didn’t notice, but Silvia was pacing around with a letter, all dressed up.

After breaking up with Matthias in a wishy-washy way, Silvia had recently fallen for Harrison, who had newly appeared in the Western Region.

Leopold thought it was probably because she hadn’t had a proper conversation with him yet.

‘Or it might simply be because of charm.’

Whether that was the case or not, it wasn’t Leopold’s concern.

Thanks to this, Leopold was able to bring Harrison here and in return ask him to be his partner at the Imperial Banquet, and he was satisfied with that.

‘Looking at her, she’ll never be able to talk to him for the rest of her life.’

Silvia just kept stealing glances, not knowing what to do.

‘Since he can’t have a proper conversation with her, he’ll probably keep liking her like this.’

With Harrison, you’d only realize the packaging is all that’s decent once you try talking to him.

That’s when it happened. Harrison suddenly spoke up.

“I may be ignorant, Leo. But can I give you one piece of advice?”

“No.”

“If you’re not going to live like this with Brisa for the rest of your life, then make a decision.”

“….”

“You say you let Brisa go, but you keep hovering around her. If you can’t accept Brisa’s feelings, it’s better to make her give up. You should get engaged to another woman or something.”

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