The Isolated Marchioness Just Wants to Make a Living - Chapter 40

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Chapter 40

 

I felt the high sky and refreshing wind.

 

“Where on earth are we?”

 

Just as Alpheus picked me up and took a defensive stance.

 

“…What is the meaning of this?”

 

A bewildered voice was heard.

 

I blinked slowly while being held by Alpheus.

 

Standing in the tomato field with an incredulous expression was Leopold. He was dressed in armor, apparently having brought the Knight Order with him.

 

Looking around, I could see endless fields stretching beyond the warp.

 

One thing was certain.

 

This wasn’t Baron Forman’s Estate. It was quite a secluded agricultural land.

 

“You… what business do you have here? And where is this place?”

 

Baron Forman asked while looking around.

 

Leopold answered slowly.

 

“The Eastern Region.”

 

Good heavens, it wasn’t even the Western Region.

 

We were all flustered by the unexpected situation.

 

‘Has the warp really gone haywire? Already, all the way to the Western Region?’

 

But looking around, something was definitely strange.

 

The tomatoes planted in rows across the vast field were withering. Given the season, they should have been ripening red since it was harvest time.

 

Leopold sighed and explained.

 

“There was a problem with the field, and they requested support saying monsters seemed to have appeared… but after checking, there don’t seem to be any monsters.”

 

He looked at us with suspicion and said.

 

“This is quite a curious situation again. All of us meeting in the Eastern Region.”

 

* * *

 

Baron Forman explained the whole story. He had invited us to his estate, but the warp brought us here instead.

 

“Perhaps you entered the wrong coordinates? This warp has coordinate values similar to the warp in the cave in front of Nogen Magic Library.”

 

Leopold narrowed his eyes after hearing the situation.

 

“Since this is the Eastern Region.”

 

This land was, to be precise, the Divostan Duchy in the Eastern Region.

 

“I’ve entered those coordinates hundreds of times throughout my life.”

 

Baron Forman denied it as if he felt wronged.

 

“I’ve never made such a mistake even once.”

 

Wendy whispered quietly to me.

 

“He’s usually quite absent-minded though… We shouldn’t have left the coordinate input to him.”

 

She had now become my escort knight. Not only was she skilled, but she was also extremely loyal to me.

 

“Wendy immediately submits to those she acknowledges as superior to herself, but it’s not easy to make her submit in the first place. I also brought her under me after sparring with her. How exactly did our Brisa earn Wendy’s loyalty? Hmm? Like how the sun, not the wind, removed the traveler’s coat, did you win her over with gentleness and warmth?”

 

“I didn’t win her over.”

 

I answered Alpheus’s question truthfully.

 

“I starved her.”

 

The potato ban had been as effective as sparring. Nothing beats hunger, after all.

 

“What removes the traveler’s coat isn’t the wind or sunlight, but just a stronger wind.”

 

Alpheus was shocked by this child’s reinterpretation of the fairy tale.

 

“Alpheus, put me down.”

 

I whispered to Alpheus, and he glanced at me before setting me down.

 

I narrowed my eyes and looked around. The vast tomato field was deserted. It was midsummer now, when tomatoes should be in full harvest.

 

“Leo, why did you come here?”

 

When Baron Forman asked, Leopold sighed with a weary expression.

 

“Gillab requested help quite urgently.”

 

Gillab was the third son of the Divostan Duke House in the Eastern Region. He was also our Academy classmate.

 

For Leopold to use the word ‘urgently’… that meant he had really made a fuss and caused quite a commotion.

 

“He said the tomato field suddenly became strange, asking if it might be monsters from the Western Region.”

 

“What nonsense is that?”

 

Baron Forman snorted as if it was absurd.

 

“Why ask the Western Region about Eastern Region affairs, and why summon the Western Region’s Grand Duke heir for that matter?”

 

Just then, the warp we had come through glowed, and soon a pale-faced boy appeared.

 

“Because it’s not just the Eastern Region’s problem?”

 

A boy with silver hair and violet eyes appeared with an arrogant expression, accompanied by a servant.

 

It was Gillab Divostan.

 

“Originally, monsters don’t appear in the Eastern Region’s plains. The only monsters that appear in the plains are those from the Western Region.”

 

The boy dressed in fancy clothes walked briskly and stood before Baron Forman.

 

“If the tomato field became like this overnight, there’s a high probability that monsters are involved. But if monsters appeared now in midsummer, the premise that the monster wave stopped might be wrong. Wasn’t it an unprecedented phenomenon to begin with?”

 

Gillab raised his eyebrows and arrogantly crossed his arms.

 

“So this is worthy of Nogen Vice Duke from the Western Region taking a look, since you’ve dealt with Western Region monsters the most.”

 

“What the…”

 

I sighed and muttered.

 

“Gillab is just being Gillab.”

 

Since we were all Academy classmates, I knew Gillab well too.

 

He was an extremely arrogant and haughty boy who thought everything should revolve around him.

 

On top of that, he was prone to exaggeration and cowardice. So he was startled by this phenomenon and even called Leopold.

 

From the Western Region’s perspective, having proposed talks to gather information, they couldn’t ignore such a request.

 

“Yeah, that’s right. That’s exactly it.”

 

Leopold calmly agreed.

 

“Gillab did what Gillab does.”

 

“What does that mean?”

 

Gillab glared at us, so we both shrugged our shoulders at the same time.

 

As Gillab started fuming, I blinked and asked back.

 

“Then is Gillab not Gillab?”

 

“….”

 

Anyway, shutting him up was easy.

 

Leopold and I leisurely continued our conversation.

 

“Well, at the entrance ceremony banquet, he said the green soup was poison….”

 

“That was broccoli soup.”

 

“One day during class, he ran to the infirmary saying an unfamiliar bee had flown in….”

 

“Claiming he needed to prepare for possible unknown flower pollen allergies that the bee might have brought.”

 

“Oh, and when he scraped his knee falling during PE class, he even got a tetanus test….”

 

“On a green grass field with no metal in sight.”

 

Finally, Gillab burst out shouting.

 

“What are you talking about! That grass field was under construction three years ago! There could have been metal left in the grass!”

 

“Right, Gillab.”

 

Leopold sighed.

 

“Similar to those incidents… you probably judged there might be monsters here too.”

 

“But this is strange!”

 

Gillab gestured toward the tomato field and jumped up and down.

 

I crossed my arms and looked around the problematic tomato field. Indeed, the coloring was uneven with patches of blue tint.

 

“These tomatoes were ripening perfectly red. They changed like this overnight.”

 

Gillab pointed to the color of the nearest tomato as he spoke.

 

“How is this not serious? What if monsters come down to the flatlands!”

 

I answered very seriously.

 

“Then the tomatoes would be ruined.”

 

“Are tomatoes the problem right now?”

 

As Gillab got angry, Leopold sighed and made a comment.

 

“Your head is also a problem.”

 

I objected to that statement with a serious expression.

 

“But that’s always been broken. It’s a meaningless observation at this point.”

 

Gillab ignored our words and shouted sharply.

 

“They could advance all the way to the Duke’s Estate! It would break the precedent that monsters outside the Western Region only appear on hills!”

 

Gillab shouted sharply.

 

In his imagination, it seemed hordes of monsters were already invading his bedroom and more.

 

I looked around the empty tomato field and asked.

 

“Then what about the farmers of this field? Where did they all go?”

 

“I evacuated them all as soon as I got the report! How could I leave our territory residents here? This is the land Father said he would pass down to me!”

 

Indeed, there was a reason why Gillab had come personally.

 

As the third son, he couldn’t inherit the title. Instead, he was supposed to receive part of the Eastern Region’s territory, and this seemed to be that place.

 

“How would you know what kind of monsters will appear and how? This is definitely a crisis situation!”

 

Hearing those words, Leopold responded leisurely.

 

“You’ll really become a good lord who takes care of your people well, Gillab.”

 

That was an elegant criticism meaning ‘you don’t care about outsiders at all.’ Then he looked around and added calmly.

 

“First of all, there are no monsters around here. And I’ll say it again, unless monsters suddenly gain human-level intelligence and start using Warp on their own, Western Region monsters cannot come to the Eastern Region.”

 

Then Gillab looked at Leopold with suspicious eyes.

 

“Are you sure? You didn’t investigate carelessly because it’s not your land, did you?”

 

And only then did he turn to look at me as if he had suddenly remembered.

 

“But why are you here, Brisa?”

 

I answered reluctantly.

 

“I don’t really want to talk about it.”

 

“I know well that you’re not the kind of rude person who would set foot on someone else’s land without an invitation.”

 

As Gillab said, this was the Eastern Region. Since I had come here, it meant I had to explain why I came, even if I didn’t want to.

 

“Answer me. I asked why you came to the Eastern Region, Brisa.”

 

I had no choice.

 

I eventually sighed and said.

 

“The Warp malfunctioned. I didn’t intend to set these coordinates for this Warp.”

 

Then Gillab jumped up in shock.

 

“See! See! I told you so! I knew this would happen!”

 

His face was already covered with panic.

 

“Even when the Magic Tower said everything was over, I didn’t believe those words! How could the Magic Tower properly understand something that happened for the first time in the Empire’s history? The disaster isn’t over! The Warp is in this state, so there must be problems with the monsters too…!”

 

“Just the reaction I imagined.”

 

I shrugged my shoulders.

 

“This is why I didn’t want to talk about it.”

 

It was really a situation where Gillab was being Gillab.

 

I walked step by step into the middle of the field. Then I bent down, grabbed a tomato, and looked at it slowly.

 

‘They didn’t look good overnight…’

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