The Isolated Marchioness Just Wants to Make a Living - Chapter 90

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Chapter 90

I let out a hollow laugh and said irritably.

“Harrison, I’ll pack you plenty of Awakening Herb, so stuff it in the Second Prince’s mouth and drag him here. I solved it the same way in the Eastern Region.”

“That won’t work.”

“It will work. The Magic Tower promised to sell me Awakening Herb at a bargain price.”

“That sounds great. But it won’t work.”

Harrison firmly shook his head.

“I don’t know exactly what happened in the Eastern Region, but it’s clearly a completely different phenomenon from the forest under the ‘Curse of Sleep.'”

He explained with a somewhat stern expression.

“I told you. Everyone who enters that forest falls asleep. Anyone would fall asleep before they could even deliver the Awakening Herb to the Second Prince. No one is an exception.”

I narrowed my eyes and fell into thought.

Come to think of it, in the Eastern Region, only the Second Prince and humans fell asleep, and in the original story, it was described that Alpheus ‘almost fell asleep but briefly came to his senses due to a monster’s attack.’

On the other hand, in the Southern Region, all living creatures fell asleep without being able to attack or defend.

“The people in the Southern Region are all buying Awakening Herb without exception. But it doesn’t have much effect.”

It was certainly a bit different from what happened in the Eastern Region.

“I see.”

Leopold said indifferently.

“It’s fortunate that the Second Prince is safe.”

But Alpheus didn’t seem to agree.

“No, no. Wait a minute. He’s sleeping there, so how is that all well and good? He’s not safe at all.”

Alpheus asked with a worried face.

“Then is there no way to save the Second Prince?”

“There is. It’s just a hypothesis for now, though.”

Harrison shrugged his shoulders.

“What is it? What kind?”

“Before that, I’d like to make a personal request.”

Here it comes.

‘Looking at him, it doesn’t seem like it’s about money, but surely he’s not planning to stick around here, is he?’

Seeing how he appeared looking like a beggar, I wondered if he had rebelled against Big Sister and left home.

As I looked at him with suspicious eyes, Harrison continued speaking.

“Actually, I’m quite popular. People of all ages and genders are easily captivated by my appearance.”

I couldn’t hold back and immediately rebuked him.

“Excuse me, did anyone here ask about Harrison’s self-esteem?”

Leopold also chimed in.

“Good question, Brisa. It was so out of the blue that I wondered if I missed something in the conversation.”

But even as the two of us launched our fierce attack, Harrison didn’t back down.

“However, there was someone whose pupils didn’t waver even a bit from the moment they saw me. That was you, Brisa.”

It didn’t seem like particularly important information, so I shrugged my shoulders.

Leopold also elegantly lifted his teacup, as if he had no interest in this topic either.

“At first, I mistakenly thought it was because Brisa really liked Leopold a lot. Leopold is certainly a wonderful fiancé, after all.”

Leopold went “Cough!” and spat out his tea.

“But seeing Elder Brother Alpheus, I understand. It wasn’t that Brisa was indifferent to me because she liked Leopold.”

“What?”

While Leopold was getting indignant, Harrison continued speaking nonchalantly.

“Elder Brother Alpheus is exactly the same as Brisa. He just looks at me with eyes like he’s looking at a person.”

Alpheus shook his head.

“No. I think you’re really sparkling and pretty.”

“Usually it doesn’t stop at just thinking. It gets expressed through glazed eyes.”

Harrison seriously objected.

“Surprisingly, Leopold also sometimes looks at me with those eyes when he’s off guard.”

Then Leopold looked at Harrison with a disgusted expression.

“Can I challenge you to a duel?”

“No.”

Harrison answered immediately.

“Because that would mean you’re going to kill me legally.”

Having objectively predicted the outcome, he patted Leopold’s shoulder.

“Anyway, you don’t even realize it happens in an instant, so don’t worry. Among people excluding Brisa and Elder Brother Alpheus, you snap out of it the fastest. Your mental strength seems remarkable.”

After that, Harrison looked at Alpheus and continued speaking.

“The only people who show not even the slightest wavering are Elder Brother Alpheus and Brisa… I thought it was really strange from the first time I met Elder Brother Alpheus.”

I recalled Alpheus and Harrison’s first meeting.

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

Back then, I just thought Harrison was spouting nonsense as usual.

But he had really been muttering in shock.

“And it’s the same now. You look more pleased when you hear ‘Elder Brother Alpheus’ than when you look at my face.”

“…Um, what’s so special about your face?”

Alpheus tilted his head.

“To be honest, objectively speaking, Nogen Vice Duke is more handsome, isn’t he?”

That’s how it looked to me too.

And that’s how it looked to others as well.

But the phenomenon that appeared as a result was not like that.

When Harrison appeared at the tomato field, everyone looked at him with enchanted eyes.

Harrison looked at Alpheus with curious eyes and said.

“You know that the lost special ability of the Southern Region was originally 【Charm】, right?”

I rolled my eyes for a moment.

Even though the special ability had disappeared, if remnants of 【Charm】 remained in the Naisar Marquis House…

Then this situation where everyone was easily enchanted by Harrison could be explained.

“Think about it carefully.”

Harrison raised his eyebrows.

“For generations, all the people of Nogen House have been excellent warriors. Considering that 【Air Strike】 is an offensive Special Ability, isn’t that natural?”

“That could be.”

I agreed.

Harrison nodded his head greatly.

“But Elder Brother Alpheus and you see me as just an ordinarily handsome boy. Could it be related to Sears Special Ability, 【Taming】?”

“That’s a decent hypothesis. Taming someone means, in any case, not being swayed by the other party.”

“Right?”

As my opinions continued to align with his, Harrison seemed somewhat excited.

“That’s what I’m saying. I’ve thought a lot about this topic.”

Even so, he kept sighing deeply, looking somewhat troubled.

A moment of silence passed.

We quietly waited for Harrison to continue hesitating.

Quite a bit of silent time passed after that as well.

A considerable time went by like that.

Just as Leopold, unable to bear it any longer, began to move his lips, Harrison slowly opened his mouth.

“This is really, a secret, but…”

He lowered his voice.

Then he spoke in a deeply troubled voice.

“Do you think there could exist such vicious entities that are neither Monster nor human…?”

In that moment, I opened my eyes wide.

Something came to mind.

“Have you ever seen a monster? What I’m talking about is a real monster. Neither human nor Monster…”

Gillab had definitely said that.

Harrison slowly continued speaking.

“Our Little Sister… transforms into such an existence.”

I opened my eyes wide.

It was an unbelievable thing, but Alpheus had already formed such a hypothesis before.

“So Brisa, are you saying that Second Son transforms into a monster?”

At that time, I had scoffed and dismissed it as ridiculous and crude imagination.

I bit my lower lip with a feeling of regret.

‘Even if it seemed foolish, it was the protagonist’s intuition! I shouldn’t have just dismissed it!’

So both Divostan’s Second Son and Harrison’s Little Sister transform into such strange existences?

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