Episode 121. A Small, Typhoon-Like Woman
I had no reason to protect those two maids, so rather than protecting them, it seemed better for me to quietly send them away and maintain discipline in this household.
“Do so. Lady Olga.”
Lady Olga left.
As time passed, it became more and more amazing.
The pride and self-esteem of the Kydel family members for their family were sky-high. In this atmosphere, it was natural for Prince Kydel to grow up to be extremely arrogant and arrogant.
But how did he grow into the person he is now?
Will I be able to stay here long enough to fully get to know the amazing man called Locard Kydel?
“I could hear the knights’ screams from the training ground, Locard.”
Duke Kydel showed his displeasure at Locard, who had been training his vassals harshly since dawn. However, Locard was calm.
“It’s just a passing process, Father.”
“That little girl passing by is making a commotion like a typhoon.”
“Because she’s like a typhoon.”
Duke Kydel’s eyebrows furrowed even more at his proud answer.
“While that girl was insulting and swearing at my vassals, what did you do?”
“Um...”
Locard said, his forehead slightly furrowed as he looked up at the ceiling.
“I stood behind and cheered her on.”
Duke Kydel opened his mouth in bewilderment but made no sound.
“When His Highness Grayon often called you a crazy kid, I thought it was a nickname. But now I’m worried, Locard.”
Locard finally wiped his smile away and looked at his father.
“I incited her. I told her that we should quickly sort this out and help His Highness Grayon. She understood what I meant and willingly acted.”
“Is that the only course of action you had?”
“Father, I climbed the cliffs of the Tunbar Mountains because of His Highness Grayon. I robbed the house of the chieftain of the Amata tribe. It turns out that I am also quite talented at stealing.”
Locard spoke with a genuinely distressed expression, quite different from when he spoke of Lorisha.
“I climbed over Ankart’s wall and stole the ‘Red Tears.’ His Highness Grayon takes pleasure in making me steal.”
Duke Kydel drooled and covered his forehead.
“I, the honorable successor of the Kydel family, do such a dirty thing. But no one curses me for it. It’s just that my honor is more solid because no rumors have spread.”
“...”
“But Lorisha is not like that. Because she is an illegitimate child, all of her actions are never subject to criticism. Compared to what I have done so far, Lorisha’s curses are nothing.”
Duke Kydel stood facing out the window with a heavy sigh. His breath was mixed with discomfort.
“I did not betroth you earlier because I believed that you would be truly happy if you chose your partner with your own hands, just as I did.”
“I think my father was right. And I think Count Loire was right.”
The Duke had no answer. Locard stared at his father’s back, feeling ominous.
Finally, the Duke asked,
“What do you plan to do with Lorisha Loire?”
Locard looked straight at him and answered,
“Lorisha Kydel, my father.”
Duke Kydel was lost in thought for a long time, and Locard was silent.
Finally, the Duke gave the order.
“Call Lorisha.”
When I had finished getting dressed, Madame Olga came to call me.
“The Duke calls you, little madam. The Prince, please come in too.”
“Thank you.”
I sighed, thinking that it had come.
There was no way that yesterday could be buried. Duke Kydel would naturally be on the knights' side.
'If we get divorced after only a week of marriage, would that be the shortest marriage in the Empire?'
I headed to the Duke's office with an empty heart. With each step, a completely different kind of shame swept over me than when I had the accident at the Count's residence.
How pitiful would the Duke think of the Count?
However, I tried my best to maintain a calm demeanor. I had no intention of acting shameless in front of Duke Kydel. It wasn't because Prince Kydel, who was inside right now, was embarrassed to see me.
It was simply because I couldn't deny that it was me who was acting wild like this.
I don’t know how much it would be, but Duke Kydel was my family in name only. It seemed polite to show him that I was just this much.
So if the Duke wanted to send me out sooner, I would gladly do whatever he wanted.
I took a deep breath and knocked on the office door.
“Lorisha, Duke.”
When I went inside, the Duke was standing by the window behind the desk.
“Duke.”
“Sit down, Lorisha.”
I had no reason to protect those two maids, so rather than protecting them, it seemed better for me to quietly send them away and maintain discipline in this household.
“Do so. Lady Olga.”
Lady Olga left.
As time passed, it became more and more amazing.
The pride and self-esteem of the Kydel family members for their family were sky-high. In this atmosphere, it was natural for Prince Kydel to grow up to be extremely arrogant and arrogant.
But how did he grow into the person he is now?
Will I be able to stay here long enough to fully get to know the amazing man called Locard Kydel?
***
“I could hear the knights’ screams from the training ground, Locard.”
Duke Kydel showed his displeasure at Locard, who had been training his vassals harshly since dawn. However, Locard was calm.
“It’s just a passing process, Father.”
“That little girl passing by is making a commotion like a typhoon.”
“Because she’s like a typhoon.”
Duke Kydel’s eyebrows furrowed even more at his proud answer.
“While that girl was insulting and swearing at my vassals, what did you do?”
“Um...”
Locard said, his forehead slightly furrowed as he looked up at the ceiling.
“I stood behind and cheered her on.”
Duke Kydel opened his mouth in bewilderment but made no sound.
“When His Highness Grayon often called you a crazy kid, I thought it was a nickname. But now I’m worried, Locard.”
Locard finally wiped his smile away and looked at his father.
“I incited her. I told her that we should quickly sort this out and help His Highness Grayon. She understood what I meant and willingly acted.”
“Is that the only course of action you had?”
“Father, I climbed the cliffs of the Tunbar Mountains because of His Highness Grayon. I robbed the house of the chieftain of the Amata tribe. It turns out that I am also quite talented at stealing.”
Locard spoke with a genuinely distressed expression, quite different from when he spoke of Lorisha.
“I climbed over Ankart’s wall and stole the ‘Red Tears.’ His Highness Grayon takes pleasure in making me steal.”
Duke Kydel drooled and covered his forehead.
“I, the honorable successor of the Kydel family, do such a dirty thing. But no one curses me for it. It’s just that my honor is more solid because no rumors have spread.”
“...”
“But Lorisha is not like that. Because she is an illegitimate child, all of her actions are never subject to criticism. Compared to what I have done so far, Lorisha’s curses are nothing.”
Duke Kydel stood facing out the window with a heavy sigh. His breath was mixed with discomfort.
“I did not betroth you earlier because I believed that you would be truly happy if you chose your partner with your own hands, just as I did.”
“I think my father was right. And I think Count Loire was right.”
The Duke had no answer. Locard stared at his father’s back, feeling ominous.
Finally, the Duke asked,
“What do you plan to do with Lorisha Loire?”
Locard looked straight at him and answered,
“Lorisha Kydel, my father.”
Duke Kydel was lost in thought for a long time, and Locard was silent.
Finally, the Duke gave the order.
“Call Lorisha.”
***
When I had finished getting dressed, Madame Olga came to call me.
“The Duke calls you, little madam. The Prince, please come in too.”
“Thank you.”
I sighed, thinking that it had come.
There was no way that yesterday could be buried. Duke Kydel would naturally be on the knights' side.
'If we get divorced after only a week of marriage, would that be the shortest marriage in the Empire?'
I headed to the Duke's office with an empty heart. With each step, a completely different kind of shame swept over me than when I had the accident at the Count's residence.
How pitiful would the Duke think of the Count?
However, I tried my best to maintain a calm demeanor. I had no intention of acting shameless in front of Duke Kydel. It wasn't because Prince Kydel, who was inside right now, was embarrassed to see me.
It was simply because I couldn't deny that it was me who was acting wild like this.
I don’t know how much it would be, but Duke Kydel was my family in name only. It seemed polite to show him that I was just this much.
So if the Duke wanted to send me out sooner, I would gladly do whatever he wanted.
I took a deep breath and knocked on the office door.
“Lorisha, Duke.”
When I went inside, the Duke was standing by the window behind the desk.
“Duke.”
“Sit down, Lorisha.”
As I entered, Duke Kydel got up and pulled out a chair for me.
“You didn’t have to do that!”
I sat down, smiling awkwardly and nervously.
“You swore at my knights, didn’t you?”
“Hiccup!”
I swear that was the first time in my life that I had ever done that. I hiccupped in surprise at the Duke’s direct question.
“That was my fault. Duke! Hiccup!”
“Tsk.”
The Duke clicked his tongue, and I desperately tried to stop the hiccup.
Then Prince Kydel came up to me and whispered a warning in my ear.
“Kydel does not bow his head so easily, Lorisha.”
“But!”
I shouted with my whole face, but Prince Kydel shook his head with a frown.
I couldn’t help but choke up and say,
“But I am not proud of my actions!”
Then Duke Kydel turned to me expressionlessly.
“Are you admitting that you did something you are not proud of?”
I swallowed hard and said,
“Yes, Duke. My actions were inappropriate and there is no excuse for them.”
“In this absurd situation, it would be polite to make an excuse.”
I straightened my back and said, feeling a sting.
“Sir Derrickson had no intention of fighting a fair fight.”
“A fair fight?”
“He tried to scare me with his size when he had no eyes to see, and when that didn’t work, he tried to pressure me and the Duke by increasing his numbers. Sometimes, a coward like that deserves a similar response...”
I looked at the Duke’s expression.
“I had no intention of insulting the Duke’s vassal...”
But the Duke waved his hand lightly.
“Continue.”
“There are times when I have to show that I can fight as dirty as you. Especially in battles where seizing the initiative is important.”
“No young lady of any family would choose such an undignified option.”
“That’s exactly why I did that. If I had thought of myself as the noble Lady Kydel at that time, all I could do was shout, ‘I’ll tell my husband!’...”
I sighed softly and continued.
“I didn’t want to bother the little Duke anymore. I couldn’t hide behind the busy little Duke’s back every time.”
“...”
“The villain in that place should have been me, not the Duke who brought a wife like me into the family. I didn’t want to see the Duke fighting them because of me.”
As I spoke, I felt miserable for no reason.
I lowered my eyes and half-sighed. I thought that perhaps half of my blood was too noble for me.
When I was angry, I would swear or curse without hesitation, but I couldn’t be shameless until the end and felt ashamed...
The Duke was silent for a long time. Prince Kydel was the same.
I gradually felt suffocated by the air in this room.
After a while, the Duke nodded at the pile of papers on the desk and said,
“Take this, Lorisha.”
“...Huh?”
“Since the Duchess is away, the Kydel household is yours to manage. If you need help, ask Madame Olga.”
“...”
I held onto the armrests of my chair tightly, trying to hold back the urge to scratch my earholes.
‘The Duke is punishing me right now!’
When I turned around, my mind was set on a conspiratorial smile, and Prince Kydel was smiling broadly.
But what was there for me to say? I was grateful that I was not immediately kicked out and that Count Loire’s honor would be dealt a fatal blow.
I immediately got up, scooped up all the documents, and said,
“I will do my best!”
I ran back to my room and slammed the documents on the table.
“Ugh!”
My momentum must have been too much, because the folders slid off the table and several of them fell to the floor.
I quickly got up and picked up the folders that had fallen to the floor and examined them.
“I don’t know!”
It was the Kydel mansion management ledger.
“Do you usually leave this to a fake daughter-in-law? There’s also the Kydel family security issue?”
As I muttered in disbelief, Prince Kydel came in.
“What?”
“No, no!”
He glanced at the file I was looking at for a moment and snickered.
“I don’t know much about this either, so ask Madame Olga.”
I picked up another file and opened it, trembling.
“I also run the Knights Templar?”
My voice cracked unintentionally. Prince Kydel frowned slightly and said,
“Feeding and clothing the Knights Templar is originally the mistress’s job... but my father left that to you? Oh, oh.”
His ‘oh, oh’ was the most pretentious and indifferent ‘oh, oh’ I’ve ever heard in my life.
“Oh, oh? Did you just say ‘oh, oh’?”
I jumped up and walked over to Prince Kydel. My voice was trembling.
“You didn’t have to do that!”
I sat down, smiling awkwardly and nervously.
“You swore at my knights, didn’t you?”
“Hiccup!”
I swear that was the first time in my life that I had ever done that. I hiccupped in surprise at the Duke’s direct question.
“That was my fault. Duke! Hiccup!”
“Tsk.”
The Duke clicked his tongue, and I desperately tried to stop the hiccup.
Then Prince Kydel came up to me and whispered a warning in my ear.
“Kydel does not bow his head so easily, Lorisha.”
“But!”
I shouted with my whole face, but Prince Kydel shook his head with a frown.
I couldn’t help but choke up and say,
“But I am not proud of my actions!”
Then Duke Kydel turned to me expressionlessly.
“Are you admitting that you did something you are not proud of?”
I swallowed hard and said,
“Yes, Duke. My actions were inappropriate and there is no excuse for them.”
“In this absurd situation, it would be polite to make an excuse.”
I straightened my back and said, feeling a sting.
“Sir Derrickson had no intention of fighting a fair fight.”
“A fair fight?”
“He tried to scare me with his size when he had no eyes to see, and when that didn’t work, he tried to pressure me and the Duke by increasing his numbers. Sometimes, a coward like that deserves a similar response...”
I looked at the Duke’s expression.
“I had no intention of insulting the Duke’s vassal...”
But the Duke waved his hand lightly.
“Continue.”
“There are times when I have to show that I can fight as dirty as you. Especially in battles where seizing the initiative is important.”
“No young lady of any family would choose such an undignified option.”
“That’s exactly why I did that. If I had thought of myself as the noble Lady Kydel at that time, all I could do was shout, ‘I’ll tell my husband!’...”
I sighed softly and continued.
“I didn’t want to bother the little Duke anymore. I couldn’t hide behind the busy little Duke’s back every time.”
“...”
“The villain in that place should have been me, not the Duke who brought a wife like me into the family. I didn’t want to see the Duke fighting them because of me.”
As I spoke, I felt miserable for no reason.
I lowered my eyes and half-sighed. I thought that perhaps half of my blood was too noble for me.
When I was angry, I would swear or curse without hesitation, but I couldn’t be shameless until the end and felt ashamed...
The Duke was silent for a long time. Prince Kydel was the same.
I gradually felt suffocated by the air in this room.
After a while, the Duke nodded at the pile of papers on the desk and said,
“Take this, Lorisha.”
“...Huh?”
“Since the Duchess is away, the Kydel household is yours to manage. If you need help, ask Madame Olga.”
“...”
I held onto the armrests of my chair tightly, trying to hold back the urge to scratch my earholes.
‘The Duke is punishing me right now!’
When I turned around, my mind was set on a conspiratorial smile, and Prince Kydel was smiling broadly.
But what was there for me to say? I was grateful that I was not immediately kicked out and that Count Loire’s honor would be dealt a fatal blow.
I immediately got up, scooped up all the documents, and said,
“I will do my best!”
I ran back to my room and slammed the documents on the table.
“Ugh!”
My momentum must have been too much, because the folders slid off the table and several of them fell to the floor.
I quickly got up and picked up the folders that had fallen to the floor and examined them.
“I don’t know!”
It was the Kydel mansion management ledger.
“Do you usually leave this to a fake daughter-in-law? There’s also the Kydel family security issue?”
As I muttered in disbelief, Prince Kydel came in.
“What?”
“No, no!”
He glanced at the file I was looking at for a moment and snickered.
“I don’t know much about this either, so ask Madame Olga.”
I picked up another file and opened it, trembling.
“I also run the Knights Templar?”
My voice cracked unintentionally. Prince Kydel frowned slightly and said,
“Feeding and clothing the Knights Templar is originally the mistress’s job... but my father left that to you? Oh, oh.”
His ‘oh, oh’ was the most pretentious and indifferent ‘oh, oh’ I’ve ever heard in my life.
“Oh, oh? Did you just say ‘oh, oh’?”
I jumped up and walked over to Prince Kydel. My voice was trembling.
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