The Isolated Marchioness Just Wants to Make a Living - Chapter 85

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Chapter 85

Earlier, due to circumstances, he hadn’t insisted on coming to Sears together, but in truth, Alpheus had roughly guessed.

That the farmers of Seldoche Plains would be reluctant to part with Brisa.

He thought there was a possibility that Brisa, unable to bear it, might say ‘Alright, alright. I’ll stay until the harvest.’

Harrison had said he was coming to the mansion with a request, but strictly speaking, it was Alpheus’s invitation, so Brisa didn’t necessarily have to attend.

‘After the sowing… won’t she stay in the Western Region again, saying she needs to solve something else?’

With such thoughts, he had been waiting anxiously the entire time.

So when Brisa arrived in Sears Territory, he couldn’t help but rush to confirm it immediately.

It was when he had run that long distance and arrived breathlessly at Jezel Street.

“B, Br… huff, where’s Brisa?”

“Ah, Young Lady Brisa?”

Fortunately, it wasn’t a false rumor, as the merchants kindly informed him.

“She went to take a ship! To the Upper Erenta River!”

“A ship?”

He remembered recently agreeing that they couldn’t rely solely on Warp and should develop new distribution routes.

Alpheus ran to the dock once again. However, the ship had already departed.

“Ah, that platinum-haired noble young lady?”

The dock manager pointed to a ship leisurely cutting through the river. It was quite far.

“She boarded that ship!”

At those words, Alpheus smiled brightly.

“Aha, I’m not too late. Thank goodness.”

“…What? You are too late.”

“I said I’m not too late. I can swim that distance!”

And without hesitation, he jumped into the river with a splash.

As he swam closer, he could see Brisa leaning against the railing.

Thus, Alpheus swam frantically through the river and began climbing up the hull of the nearby ship.

But…

His excellent hearing didn’t miss the conversation between Brisa and Leopold.

So right now, Brisa was having her life threatened by the Dark Mages of Sebon.

He hadn’t known this fact at all, but Leopold had known…

“When did you find out?”

Alpheus asked blankly, looking at the surprised Brisa.

“That the Dark Mages of Sebon are targeting you. When exactly did you find out?”

“Not long ago.”

Brisa sighed once and answered clearly.

“When I briefly went to the Western Region with Uncle after you left, that’s when I found out. A Dark Mage spoke to me thinking I was Dahlia Hawin. That’s how I found out, but I still don’t know why they’re looking for me.”

Then it wasn’t even something she had just learned.

For quite a long time, meaning from when Alpheus reunited with Brisa, she had known that her life was being threatened.

“Since it happened in the Western Region, it’s a matter that needs to be investigated in the west, so I just asked Leopold for help. No one else besides Leopold knows. Leopold said he’d investigate, but there haven’t been any significant results yet.”

Leopold remained silent, watching them, perhaps thinking this wasn’t something he should interfere with.

Of course, recognizing the gravity of the situation, the boy’s golden eyes had darkened considerably.

“Probably… Dahlia’s incident is also connected to this matter. The Dark Mages will likely continue targeting those around me.”

Brisa’s explanation was finished. A moment of silence passed.

“…Why didn’t you tell me?”

Alpheus asked, suppressing his emotions.

Countless words swirled in his chest.

I’m someone who even concluded the Northern Region’s civil war.

Did you think I couldn’t protect you from those Dark Mage groups?

Did I… did I seem that unreliable to you?

However, he held back and held back, thinking it would look like he was scolding the child.

Meanwhile, Brisa slowly shook her head.

While she had spoken without hesitation when explaining the situation, when asked for her reasons, her pupils trembled faintly.

Alpheus clenched his fists tightly.

He thought they had been getting along quite well recently.

Whenever Brisa said something, he would grab a shovel and run faster than anyone else. He did so because he wanted to build even a few memories with his sister.

If Brisa asked, he would run anywhere, whether west or east.

But wasn’t that enough?

“Why didn’t you… tell me, Brisa?”

Did she think there was no need to tell him since he didn’t have the great wealth, vast lands, and tremendous information network of the Western Region?

It was when his heart was gradually being colored with misery.

“…I was afraid you’d hate me…”

Brisa averted her gaze and muttered.

Alpheus frowned for a moment, thinking he had misheard.

Brisa’s words continued.

“…Me…”

Her voice grew smaller and mixed with tears.

“Me… that you’d… find me troublesome…”

Her small body trembled violently.

Neither Alpheus nor Leopold could say anything in that moment.

“F-Father always said that to Mother… that she just needed to be ordinary, but she couldn’t even do something so simple…”

Because they could feel the raw sorrow of a young child who must have suppressed her fears so tightly.

“She just needed to be an ordinary wife who didn’t require attention… but since she was already family, he couldn’t throw her away anywhere, and she was bothersome and annoying…”

Brisa’s past, unknown to the two of them, came flowing out.

“She just needed to keep the door closed at night, but even that irritated him…”

Finally, tears began falling from Brisa’s eyes.

Her voice, unable even to sob, only trembled.

“A sister who’s being targeted by Sebon’s Dark Mages… how troublesome would that be…”

Alpheus had seen that expression before.

It was the day he returned to the territory.

“I, I was just a proxy while you were gone. I know better than anyone that I’m not the real owner of this marquis territory, and that I’m not really above Langsi and Philip. So you really don’t need to worry about it.”

The child who had been so confident all this time quickly glanced around nervously.

I tried hard to persuade her, thinking this wasn’t something to scold her for.

“Don’t worry too much about it. I’ll do whatever you tell me to do for the next engagement. I won’t resist much no matter who you pair me with, so you don’t need to worry in advance.”

When she said such things, I tried being stern and even getting angry.

But that wasn’t enough to change a child who had been hurt for so long.

This child who had quietly grown up alone, turning away from her own heart for so long…

Tears flowed endlessly down Brisa’s pale cheeks.

Just watching her like that made my heart break.

It hurt so much that I thought I would never forget this moment for a long time.

The trembling of the child who couldn’t even make a sound, only letting tears stream down…

The essential fear that my young sister, who always wore an expressionless face and only spoke cynical words, had been hiding so carefully…

Why on earth had the world been so meticulously cruel to this child?

The child moved her lips and continued speaking.

“The territory has no money, the knight order is busy, and your future is uncertain… and I can’t even be that ‘ordinary little sister’ who doesn’t require attention…”

At that moment, Alpheus felt resentful toward his father whom he had seen in the coffin at the funeral.

He had been far too cruel to this child.

In fact, since he had no memories with his father, he wasn’t sad or anything about his death.

He only felt a little regretful that he had apparently longed for and searched for him so much while alive. Even so, he couldn’t refute Langsi’s words about this.

“No, if he wandered around searching for his son like that… shouldn’t he have saved some money for that son’s sake? Why was he so addicted to gambling?”

Langsi clicked his tongue while looking at the financial records. It wasn’t management that considered the heir at all.

“Maybe wandering around searching for his son was similar to gambling? Isn’t gambling usually about not seeing what’s precious around you and only betting your life on things with no possibility? The harder it gets, the more obsessed you become?”

To be honest, while the former marquis was said to have wandered searching for Alpheus, he hadn’t searched very diligently.

It was only after Alpheus became a war hero and made a name for himself that someone came looking after hearing rumors.

If he had done his best, he could have found him much earlier.

He might have just been going around shouting with his mouth, ‘I’m looking for my son and I’ll give him everything.’

And Alpheus looked exactly like that man.

The same was true for Brisa, but in any case, she couldn’t help but think of Father when looking at him.

‘Brisa…’

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