The Isolated Marchioness Just Wants to Make a Living - Chapter 79

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Chapter 79

“That’s a bit excessive.”

When Leopold grumbled with displeasure, Harrison shrugged his shoulders.

“The benefits are amazing, right? It’s no use regretting now and begging that you should have been my partner instead, Leopold.”

Harrison replied smugly to Leopold, quickly wrote up the report, then immediately bound Dahlia and sent her to the Magic Tower.

“I won’t have to worry about being kidnapped by the Magic Tower anymore.”

He smiled brightly, his beautiful red hair fluttering in the wind.

“That means I can show off to my heart’s content!”

“Oh, how surprising.”

I exclaimed in admiration.

“To think you weren’t showing off all this time.”

During his Academy days, Harrison did hide his power, but he didn’t hide the fact that he was hiding something.

In other words, he said this every day at the Academy.

“My grades might not be good, but I have tremendous abilities. Everyone just doesn’t recognize it yet.”

Then the girls who were smitten with him would say in unison.

“No, everyone recognizes it.”

“It’s impossible not to notice.”

The teachers would say this.

“Right, his grades are bad but his self-esteem is high, so it’s nice to see.”

Anyway, but now he’s even going to show off…

Leopold crossed his arms and summarized the situation in the field.

“Well then, everything’s finished now. We’ve figured out about the dark magic, so the Magic Tower will investigate it on their own. Everyone disperse from here.”

It was a farewell greeting made just 5 minutes after meeting Harrison.

“I’m going to the Grand Duke’s Residence, Harrison to the Southern Region, and Brisa will follow the Marquis to Sears Marquis Territory. Sorry, but I have urgent business that requires me to get to the Grand Duke’s Residence quickly.”

That’s right, Leopold said he had ‘business’ starting tomorrow.

“Ah, um… okay. Take care.”

Since the lord of the Western Region said so, there was nothing to say.

Now all that remained was harvesting the summer wheat in about two weeks. Since he said he’d send half to Sears, all we had to do was trust and wait.

Our territory had also worked hard for self-sufficiency, so winter was no longer frightening.

Anyway, it seemed worthwhile to have come to the Western Region.

“If you’re busy, go ahead first. I have more business with Harrison.”

Then Leopold blinked his eyes.

“What business?”

“Ah. I was going to ask Harrison to take a look at Dahlia.”

Dahlia had wailed and eventually fainted.

Alpheus had tied up her collapsed form securely.

When I pointed at Dahlia and said that, Leopold looked back and forth between Harrison and me with an incredulous expression.

“…What?”

“Harrison knows dark magic well.”

At the Academy Library, Harrison was always looking up books about dark magic. That didn’t mean he was a dark mage though.

“I just want to study this kind of thing. You know the situation in the Southern Region.”

The Southern Region had been suffering from the ‘Curse of Sleep’ for a long time.

“I thought it might be dark magic….”

I knew well his sincere intentions for studying alone without going to the Magic Tower.

He had started studying to help the Southern Region from the beginning.

Since he hadn’t become a mage purely out of love for magic, he had no intention of going to the Magic Tower.

“I don’t think the Duchess of Dibosthan would have just abandoned Dahlia. She must have prepared some groundwork to cut ties cleanly, don’t you think?”

Leopold’s eyes narrowed at my words.

“How do you know that? I was Harrison’s roommate but I didn’t even know he was good at magic.”

Then Harrison put his hand on my shoulder and said cheerfully.

“Because we were closer than you think?”

Well, rather than close….</

It would be more accurate to say Harrison unilaterally felt comfortable with me.

“When I talk seriously, everyone just stares at my face, you know? But you listen to what I’m saying without looking at my face, so I like that.”

“You’re seriously delusional. Haven’t you considered that I’m neither looking at your face nor listening to what you’re saying?”

“Right. This is exactly it. The fact that a girl can speak so coldly to me is amazing in itself.”

Of course, it wasn’t that Harrison liked me. He originally had a light and easygoing personality like a feather.

“Anyway, leaving it to me is a good idea. As you said, they probably already took all the basic precautions, right?”

And before I could say anything, he jumped up and placed his hand on unconscious Dahlia’s forehead.

Simultaneously, a black magic circle covered Dahlia’s skin.

“Tsk, as expected.”

Harrison clicked his tongue.

“They’re vicious. If we had left it like this, she would have died before being transported to the Magic Tower.”

“What is all this?”

“They set it up so her life would gradually be cut short. I’ll undo the magic formula for now, but… there will be side effects. Still, it’s better than dying.”

Harrison muttered spells, and the black magic circle covering Dahlia turned to smoke and disappeared.

“Ugh, how vicious. A tremendously skilled person must have been involved.”

He shuddered once and then suggested.

“There’s a nearby Warp, right? I need to get him to the Magic Tower quickly. It would be better in many ways if I go myself and explain the situation.”

That’s when it happened.

“Huh?”

Someone came running from far away through the Warp. It was a servant from the Sears Marquis Territory.

“Marquis!”

He ran toward Alpheus, who was holding the mint leaf sack.

“An extremely important letter has arrived! Langsi is frantically excited and making a fuss, saying to bring you back right now!”

I frowned for a moment.

Who would be sending Alpheus a letter at this point in time?

Alpheus didn’t have connections with such important people!

But Alpheus brightened up and said.

“Ah, has the Second Prince finally returned from the Southern Region? Seeing how frantically excited Langsi is, money must have arrived!”

“Ah.”

At those words, Harrison scratched the back of his head.

“That’s… probably not it.”

“Hmm?”

“I’m saying the Second Prince definitely hasn’t returned. No one has ever escaped from the Sleep Cursed Forest so far…”

Alpheus stared at Harrison with an expression that said ‘Who are you to dampen the mood with such pessimistic words?’

I realized then that I hadn’t introduced Alpheus and Harrison to each other.

Alpheus probably thought Harrison was a wandering mage. Because Harrison was dressed in shabby clothes that didn’t inspire trust in anyone who saw him.

“Ah, this is Harrison from the Naisar Marquis House.”

I hurriedly introduced Harrison to Alpheus.

“So what he said about the Second Prince is probably right. He came from the Southern Region.”

And I also introduced Alpheus to Harrison.

“As you might have guessed, this is Alpheus Sears. The new Marquis Sears.”

“Ah, I’ve heard a lot about you. Please take care of me.”

Harrison greeted him first with a friendly face.

“I was very close with Brisa during our Academy days.”

Then Alpheus unexpectedly showed a suspicious expression.

“There’s no way Brisa would have friends.”

I looked at Alpheus in shock.

When did he get to know me so well?

“Actually, not quite friends, but Harrison is still a close classmate who came running all the way to the Western Region at my word.”

“What? You’re that close?”

Alpheus cried out.

“…Mages are frail, so they’re not good as a match for my sister. They seem short-lived. If it’s a man who makes magic his profession, he’d have to be about five years younger than my sister for me to barely consider it…”

“What kind of nonsense is that? If you’re going to say that, you should say he needs to be about ten years younger. And add that if his proportions are better than 5-head ratio, it’s a major deduction.”

I smacked Alpheus’s arm.

Harrison looked into Alpheus’s eyes and smiled brightly.

“The idea that mages are frail is a prejudice, Marquis.”

He spoke with a smile as pretty as a flower.

“Look at me closely. Don’t I seem sturdy enough?”

Alpheus narrowed his eyes and carefully looked Harrison over from head to toe. Then he shrugged his shoulders once.

“Well, you’re all still young anyway. It seems I was looking at others from the perspective of being overprotective of my sister. I apologize, Young Master Naisar.”

It was quite a reasonable and proper response.

“Hm?”

But Harrison muttered in shock.

“My charm technique… doesn’t work at all?”

He looked back and forth between me and Alpheus in a daze.

“There’s another person like Brisa Sears…?”

I really envied Harrison at times like this.

Because even when he talked complete nonsense, no one would whisper behind him saying ‘Is he crazy?’

“Well, anyway, you said you need to get to the Magic Tower quickly. To investigate Dahlia.”

I pushed Harrison’s back. I was also curious about the letter that Alpheus had received.

“Then please take good care of Dahlia. I’m really grateful, and if there’s anything I can help you with, just let me know anytime. Except money.”

Actually, what Harrison wanted from me was obvious.

‘He’ll probably ask me to be his partner later when there are banquets and such. Because he hates it when women fight.’

So this was like throwing out a promissory note for the distant future.

Alpheus also stepped forward, not to be outdone.

“Please come visit the Sears Marquis Estate anytime. Anyone connected to Brisa is always welcome.”

Honestly, it was just polite conversation.

But surprisingly, Harrison’s eyes were serious.

“Then there is something I’d like to ask of you. I’ll come to the Sears Marquis Estate right after delivering this experimental subject to the Magic Tower.”

…So suddenly?

I looked at Harrison in surprise. I couldn’t even guess what he was going to ask for.

“What is it?”

“It’s a long story. I’ll talk about it when I get there.”

“No, then at least tell me the category. I’m anxious because you’re not moving as expected.”

Harrison rolled his eyes for a moment. Then he sighed and said.

“Do you know about the ancient curse of the Original Four Families?”

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