The Isolated Marchioness Just Wants to Make a Living - Chapter 49

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Chapter 49

“It’s proper etiquette.”

However, Brisa still obliviously took her fiancé’s side.

“In many ways, it was an engagement that would be disadvantageous to them. But sending the annulment letter on the night it was decided that I wouldn’t become the heir was practically announcing to high society that my only ‘problem’ was not becoming the heir.”

“…What?”

Alpheus couldn’t understand at all.

Brisa explained patiently.

“There were too many variables anyway, so it would have been difficult for us to make it safely to marriage. I still have 8 years left until I come of age. But if we had broken off the engagement at a different time, other people would definitely have whispered, ‘There must be some problem.'”

“Problem? What kind of problem could there possibly be? My little sister is so smart and clever and bright and intelligent and wise and has such a good character, what prob…!”

“A genetic problem.”

“…Huh?”

“The rumor that our mother had madness, Alpheus.”

A moment of silence flowed between the three people.

Brisa spoke calmly.

“You probably realize by now that it wasn’t actually a false rumor.”

Leopold remained silent throughout.

Alpheus also had no choice but to keep his mouth shut, not knowing what to say in response.

“Right now, everyone is simply thinking, ‘Brisa got her engagement broken off because she can no longer inherit the Marquis House.’ They’re just letting it pass. In other words… it was the optimal timing to ensure that my marriage prospects as the ‘Young Lady of Sears’ wouldn’t be tainted at all.”

But even so, Alpheus wanted to argue back. He couldn’t stand not being able to somehow curse that fiancé bastard.

“B-but isn’t the meaning of engagement to say you’ll marry safely if nothing goes wrong? If there were so many variables from the start, why make the engagement so early? What kind of idiot proceeded with such an engagement?”

“Exactly. Mother’s greed was excessive.”

Alpheus shut his mouth again. He couldn’t count how many times he had unknowingly insulted Brisa’s mother.

“Marriages between the First Five Families must be cautious. They should only happen once every few generations.”

“Uh, huh?”

“Think about it carefully. If we marry among ourselves just because our status matches, incestuous marriages will appear within a single generation. Incest should naturally be excluded for genetic diversity. This isn’t something that needs debate, is it?”

For a moment, Alpheus recalled his first conversation with Brisa.

That first conversation where they almost had a debate about livestock reproduction and development…

Then that leaves three families.

He had already met boys from two of those families.

“The First Five Families? Don’t tell me that… Gillab? You were engaged to a guy like that? That kind of guy is your fiancé?”

The person who answered slowly to those words was Leopold.

“Brisa, your brother really seems to hate me.”

The boy who had been silent the whole time ran his hand through his hair and sighed.

“I’m being compared to Gillab right now, aren’t I? How utterly humiliating.”

…Huh?

Wait.

This… this… what does this mean?

“Exactly. We haven’t known each other long, so I didn’t really know if Alpheus would dislike someone like you. Anyway, I got a good sense of a war hero’s boldness. It was truly spirited behavior I hadn’t seen in a long time.”

Brisa replied coldly.

That damn broken engagement partner was then…

“Who would have thought he’d threaten to beat the soles of your feet right in front of the person involved.”

This boy right in front of me?

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