The Isolated Marchioness Just Wants to Make a Living - Chapter 56
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Chapter 56
“He died before we could conduct a proper interrogation.”
Leopold spoke slowly.
Even if the Dark Mages came to take her life, Brisa would make that same expression.
Unable to ask anyone for help, simply accepting fear all alone with that expression.
He never wanted to see that face again.
“But I sent people to Sebon. The Information Network will bring back information. Just wait a little longer. I told you I’d somehow let you know the circumstances.”
Leopold spoke in a low voice.
“I promise on Nogen’s glory and my honor. Please believe me.”
“I do trust your promises.”
Brisa answered with a shrug.
“You did your best with your engagement too.”
It was effective at lightening the mood.
Leopold played along as well.
“That’s true. I also did my best with the broken engagement. Give me credit for that.”
“I’m well aware. You chose the flowers well too.”
A moment of silence passed.
Brisa let out a deep sigh. Then she muttered self-deprecatingly.
“The situation really is bad. Bad enough that our engagement and broken engagement are being used as joke material to lighten the mood.”
“Indeed. I completely agree.”
Leopold also shook his head slightly.
“Let’s try changing the mood in a different direction instead. Just say something meaninglessly funny.”
Then Brisa replied coldly.
“‘I promise on Nogen’s glory and my honor. Please believe me.'”
“What?”
“That was the funniest thing I’ve heard recently.”
Brisa shrugged once.
“I thought I was receiving a Knight’s Oath or something. Why would you stake Nogen’s glory and your honor on someone like me who’s nothing? It’s literally the most foolish thing to say.”
She rolled her eyes for a moment, then added seriously.
“Don’t feel burdened. We’re strangers to each other. I have no desire to cause you trouble.”
“Wow, Brisa.”
Leopold jeered.
“You really changed the mood well. Thanks to that, our trust in each other has increased and our bond has grown so much stronger, right? At this rate we’ll end up agreeing on your tombstone inscription.”
“Is there anything to agree on? Just write that this death has nothing to do with Nogen’s glory or your honor.”
Brisa didn’t back down from a single word until the end.
That was truly a strange thing.
Leopold thought it would have been better if he had simply pitied her instead.
‘If I had just felt sympathy, looking at her with the heart of someone watching a pitiful younger sister, everything would have been easy.’
We hadn’t intended it, but we’d become complexly entangled due to each other’s family circumstances, and had barely managed to untangle that…
If it had been simply one-sided kindness driven by guilt, it would have been very simple.
But somehow, conversing with Brisa… strangely brought him pleasure.
‘That’s the problem.’
She was certainly a pitiful child, and it wasn’t that she didn’t acknowledge it herself, yet she was calm and dignified.
That cynical reaction made him curious, making him want to say just one more word to her.
Whatever he talked about, she would respond with an expressionless face and unexpected replies.
‘But it’s not good for conversations to drag on like this.’
He had to be wary of becoming too intimate this way.
They were, after all, a couple who had broken off their engagement, and becoming friends didn’t make sense either.
Just peers from the First Five Families, Academy classmates – that kind of relationship was appropriate. Brisa knew this too, which was probably why she kept repeating ‘my danger has nothing to do with you all.’
Having organized his thoughts to that point, Leopold slowly turned his head toward Brisa.
“Anyway, I also have something to ask you.”
“What is it?”
“Do you know someone called ‘El’?”
“…Huh?”
“The author of the research paper you recommended to me.”
The paper Brisa had mentioned when telling him to look into Southern Wheat.
【Characteristics and Considerations of Southern Wheat Varieties】.
Learning about ‘El’, the author, had been by chance.
The title of the paper Leopold had focused on was as follows.
【Conceptual Comparison and Suggestions Regarding Livestock and Monsters】.
It was short and concise, but a paper with an incredibly fresh perspective.
[Initially, Afron Pigs were classified as monsters. This was because they had high aggression and appeared during monster wave periods.
However, it was discovered that during non-monster wave periods, they lived in underground burrows, and humans gradually domesticated the Afron Pigs.
After that, Afron Pigs became livestock raised in the current Central Region.
Among those currently classified as monsters, there would exist species that could be domesticated, and based on analysis through bestiaries, the following species show possibility…]
After reading that paper, Leopold tried hard to find similar papers.
There was another similar one written by ‘El’.
【On Domestication and Feed】.
That one also gave examples of animals that people had judged to be violent beasts being turned into livestock through feed. It even included a hypothesis that certain animals could be tamed into gentle temperaments through specific feeds.
He wanted to see more papers with similar content.
If so, couldn’t even beasts that don’t understand human speech and are driven by instinct coexist with humans for certain periods through training…
Ten days every three months. The transformation dates that began on the 1st every three months according to the Imperial calendar were amazingly precise.
So starting tomorrow, the time for transformation would arrive.
But at least he wouldn’t be turning into a monster. He just wouldn’t be human either.
So couldn’t he look into ‘El’s’ methodology a bit more?
He hadn’t expected that El would have written a research paper on Southern Wheat, but either way, ‘El’ obviously had insight into this problem.
“Huh? Um.”
Brisa blinked her eyes.
“That… person? Why? Why are you looking for them?”
“I’m interested in the research papers that person wrote.”
“They probably didn’t write just one or two, right?”
“That’s the problem. I can’t even search for them. Do you know how many people have ‘El’ in their name?”
“I suppose so…?”
Brisa smiled awkwardly.
“But which research papers among those are you interested in?”
“There are papers related to livestock. But I want to look into more.”
“What… exactly do you want? Do you want to find out about all the livestock-related research papers that ‘El’ wrote?”
“For now.”
When Leopold answered decisively, Brisa let out a deep sigh. Then she muttered seriously.
“I never thought Alpheus and you would both be interested in livestock at the same time… Do you two secretly have compatible souls?”
“I wonder, Brisa.”
Leopold, who firmly denied it, raised his eyebrows and asked.
“But is Marquis Sears also very interested in livestock?”
“Not at all.”
Brisa shrugged her shoulders once.
“He just said he wanted to become friends with me. It’s easier to become close if you have matching interests. Well, anyway, just wait a moment. I’ll find only the livestock-related research papers and give them to you.”
“Huh?”
Leopold was actually surprised by Brisa’s response to his request.
“That’s possible?”
“There’s nothing impossible about it, right?”
“I told you. It would be difficult to search for them.”
“Who said anything about searching?”
“Then how will you find them? Are you going to ask directly or something?”
“Well… something like that?”
At Brisa’s vague answer, Leopold’s eyes widened.
“You… know that person?”
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