The Isolated Marchioness Just Wants to Make a Living - Chapter 95

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Chapter 95

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Ten days later.

Leopold sighed as he got up from bed and put on his clothes.

Now that there was a hideout, he no longer had to be confined to the warehouse.

Even when he transformed into a wolf-dog, he could stay comfortably and secretly with Hilberry.

And last night, Hilberry had secretly moved the wolf-dog to Leopold’s room.

‘Brisa must have already departed for the Southern Region.’

Thinking about this transformation only made him sigh.

Originally, he had gone to share information since Harrison had mentioned the ancient curse of the Original Four Families.

But Harrison had a more careless personality than expected. So he just blurted out everything in front of Leopold.

Leopold didn’t even have a chance to interject and say ‘I’m also under that curse.’

“Does it make sense that your desire to blabber comes before keeping family secrets?”

“It makes sense to me.”

In fact, revealing the truth in front of Harrison, who wasn’t tight-lipped at all, didn’t seem like a wise attitude either. Not only Leopold’s future was at stake, but the Western Region’s as well.

Moreover… truthfully, Leopold himself had felt great frustration at that time.

“Yeah, we held onto hope for about 5 years too.”

It had been 4 years since the curse manifested.

So was he still holding onto hope?

“If I dare to evaluate now that 10 years have passed, we suffered as much from hope as we did from despair.”

Everything Harrison had said felt like his own future.

“For 10 years now, we’ve been waiting, enduring, and bearing with our beloved Little Sister… But it’s gotten progressively worse, and now we can no longer tolerate it.”

Eventually, those around him would also change like Harrison.

“It took us 10 years to realize that ‘that thing’ is an existence that torments those closest to you first.”

Should he have died immediately like Father instead?

Though it would have been sad, at least it wouldn’t have put his family through the misfortune of coming to hate someone they loved.

“I just, I just want to end it all. We’re… exhausted. It’s been too long.”

I couldn’t fathom what state of mind had led me to harbor such hope.

Just because I had retained my reason when existing as Wolf-dog….

Even rationalizing that it might be okay since Brisa cherished Wolf-dog….

To be honest, I had even harbored hope that I could live well.

‘I thought breaking the curse was related to the Sears family… but it was just a request to be killed.’

But reality was cruel.

Even family couldn’t embrace a monster forever.

In fact, he couldn’t even chase after Harrison to the Southern Region to help with that reckless plan he was talking about. He was scheduled to transform into a wolf-dog in just a few minutes.

In the end, he had just sat there in a daze, listening to Harrison’s confession, before rushing out a few minutes before midnight.

Belatedly, all he could say was ‘look into her eyes.’

Because he remembered that when he had transformed into Wolf-dog, he had been completely without reason until he looked into Brisa’s eyes and calmed down.

From what Harrison had said, his Little Sister seemed to become something completely unrelated to wolves.

She didn’t even seem to transform periodically like he did.

‘Harrison used the expression half-human, half-demon. That’s an apt description.’

A form mixing human and demon – that was pretty good naming for Harrison.

In any case, that night was truly sorrowful for him.

The night road he ran down in haste, fearing his transformation might be discovered, was utterly miserable.

Actually, if he hadn’t met Hilberry, it would have been even more troublesome.

But….

“Because I have to be hundredth in line.”

The moment he heard those words from Brisa, he felt his hair stand on end.

“That’s cheating, Brisa.”

He wasn’t sure exactly what was cheating, but anyway.

This kind of lifting people up and dropping them down couldn’t be the rules of normal human relationships.

As he sighed and grabbed the bed rail to stand up.

Crack – the rail broke.

“…Hm?”

A chill ran down his spine.

He drew the curtains to see the sunlight.

He pulled with his usual strength, but the curtain rod fell with a thud.

“This is….”

Cold sweat broke out instantly.

Harrison’s Little Sister had also grown stronger in her Charm power this way.

Harrison had also described it as ‘demonic power’ growing stronger….

‘Am I now being affected even when I’m human?’

He suddenly became afraid of his own hands.

As he looked around anxiously, he saw documents on the desk. The Information Agent had brought them during the ten days he was absent.

Just then, the door opened and Hilberry entered.

“You’re back, Leo.”

Hilberry looked quite exhausted.

He looked at the documents in Leopold’s hands and let out a groan.

“…Marquis Naisar… Hmm. Things are taking a turn for the worse.”

Leopold sensed an ominous atmosphere and spoke in a low voice.

“Excuse me, but I haven’t read it yet. Let me read it for a moment.”

His golden eyes quickly scanned through the documents.

The former Marquis Naisar and his wife had three daughters and a youngest son.

The first daughter was Cheria.

The second daughter was Delmia.

The third daughter was Shania.

The youngest son was Harrison.

Originally, the former Marquis Naisar had drawn a clear line with the Crown Prince. This was because the Crown Prince had continuously coveted Delmia, who was famous for her beauty since childhood.

Even though Delmia refused, the Crown Prince persistently pursued her and harassed her at every public occasion.

Delmia was fourteen years old at that time.

“Our Delmia is insufficient to enter the Imperial Family. Moreover… she is too young.”

In reality, Delmia was interested in theology and wanted to become a priest.

The former Marquis Naisar and his wife, respecting their daughter’s decision, searched for a temple for Delmia to enter.

It was during this time that the ‘Curse of Sleep’ began in the Southern Region.

The ‘Curse of Sleep’ gradually expanded, and the Southern Region began to falter.

A year and a half ago, even the former Marquis Naisar and his wife were swept up in the ‘Curse of Sleep’ and went missing.

After that, the eldest daughter Cheria inherited the marquis title.

Up to this point, Leopold was well aware of the content.

However, the problem was what happened recently.

“The Crown Prince… sent a letter to Marquis Naisar.”

The content of the letter was extremely rude.

It was asking for her third younger sister, Shania, to become his concubine.

“It seems the Duchess of Dibosthan had a hand in this. Since she ruined the matter with Dahlia Hawin, she probably wanted to make up for it in another way.”

Leopold unconsciously clicked his tongue.

The Crown Prince’s official concubines alone numbered more than seven. His unofficial mistresses were countless.

If it were Cheria, who cherished her family, she should have naturally jumped up and refused. However, surprisingly, she wasn’t giving any answer. This was despite Shania already having a fiancé.

Even though Warp wasn’t functioning in the Southern Region, it was well past the time when a letter of refusal should have reached the Imperial Palace.

In other words, Marquis Naisar was deliberating.

“Is she trying to send her third younger sister to the Imperial Family and ultimately side with the Crown Prince?”

Leopold, having finished reading the documents, muttered with a troubled expression.

Last year, the Naisar Marquis House family he saw at the Academy looked happy. This was despite the ‘Curse of Sleep’ progressing.

Cheria’s bold personality was also vivid in his memory.

She was a young marquis who loved the Southern Region and her family, and seemed to have a strong sense of responsibility.

But she sent Harrison away without giving him a single penny, and now she’s trying to send Shania as the Crown Prince’s concubine.

“The Eastern Region is already on the Crown Prince’s side.”

Hilberry sighed.

“If the Southern Region falls too, we won’t be able to avoid the pressure anymore.”

The new law the Crown Prince was pushing forward – treating anyone with even a drop of commoner blood as a commoner.

It was the only way to push his destined rival, the Second Prince, out of his position in the royal family in one fell swoop.

“Wait a moment.”

Leopold frowned.

“Isn’t it possible that Marquis Naisar is already on His Highness the Crown Prince’s side?”

“Looking at that child’s temperament, I don’t think that’s the case… but she’s probably conflicted at least.”

Hilberry pressed his forehead as if he had a headache.

“Do you remember when the Southern Wheat was handed over to the dark mages last time?”

There was no way he could forget. He had been continuously entangled with Brisa because of the research paper on that ‘Southern Wheat.’

“When the previous Marquis Naisar was alive, the dark mages couldn’t even trade with the Southern Region. But looking at what’s happening now… the situation is definitely very different from before.”

Even Hilberry was vulnerable when it came to information from the Southern Region.

First of all, warp didn’t work there, and information agents frequently went missing due to the Curse of Sleep.

Therefore, it was a region where sending information agents was discouraged.

Moreover, the Southern Region had long maintained a reasonable neutrality. So they hadn’t planted many information agents there to begin with.

Leopold asked cautiously.

“Harrison obviously doesn’t know, right?”

“Usually a responsible eldest daughter doesn’t tell such things to the youngest who left home. Especially since that family’s son is handsome but has absolutely no sense of caution, right?”

At Hilberry’s answer, Leopold unconsciously let out a groan.

Right now, Alpheus and Brisa were heading to the Southern Region with pure intentions to help Harrison.

‘But what if that Southern Region has already fallen to the enemy?’

Wouldn’t it be the same as Alpheus and Brisa obediently walking into the hands of the Crown Prince who was targeting Sears?

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