Episode 22
Allen couldn’t understand the news he had just heard.
“Baron Farn escaped from the imprisoned room?”
“yes! It’s very noisy even among the maids right now.”
Linbell answered, blinking her twinkling purple eyes to see if the bed was comfortable.
Looking at Enelia, she also quietly nodded in agreement. They had no reason to lie to themselves.
Even more so if it’s a lie that will be discovered so quickly.
“No, ha. no way.”
It was said that when I was too surprised, words would not come out, but now it is.
The place where he was imprisoned is in the annex, which is located away from the main building.
Baron Farne was supposed to be imprisoned there until he was tried directly by his father, the Count’s master.
By the way.
The paralyzed Baron Faren.
In a solitary room with no sunlight.
Defeat the soldier guarding the door.
not to be noticed by anyone.
Avoiding the eyes of the servants and maids that fill the mansion.
“Did you run away?”
I laughed out loud because it was ridiculous.
Was the security level in the mansion that low?
Because they had not yet been properly educated, their behavior was awkward, but it was faster than changing each time alone.
“I have to go to my father.”
Allen took a deep breath.
Anyway, I could have guessed that my father’s hand must have touched this. So acting emotionally is poison.
I calmed my mind for a moment in front of the door and raised my hand.
Contrary to his hasty heart, Allen knocked on the door with a touch of noble elegance.
“Father, this is Allen. Is it okay if I go in?”
Gaiel, as always, accepted his visit with a stern tone.
shudder-
The father stared at him with the cold face he had often seen. Allen asked him, struggling to contain the doubts that were welling up within him.
“Father, I have heard that Baron Farne has escaped.”
“Yeah, I got a report this morning too.”
His expression did not change as if he had already heard it. Allen told him his purpose straight-forward, without needing to say anything else.
“I will form a pursuit team to pursue him.”
“You don’t have to.”
“father.”
“We have already sent a pursuit. So you don’t have to worry about that any more.”
The father answered his question without hesitation, as if he had expected it. Allen had a hard time understanding what he wanted.
What the hell are you thinking? Everything in this mansion is under my father.
But no one has ever seen Baron Farn escape?
no, in the first place.
“… So, where is Fridal? He could have caught him right away if he had been there.”
Is it possible to escape safely from the detection range of the 5th rank wizard?
Even if they had been lucky enough to escape, they would have been able to catch him right away.
Didn’t he return to the mansion with Julius?
Surely you saw Francisca going to meet him?
“If he had been in the mansion, he wouldn’t have noticed.”
“Frindal-sama had an urgent matter right after returning home and left with Miss Francisca.”
“… Is that so?”
It’s a really unfortunate situation.
On the night Baron Farne tried to escape, the 5th rank wizard, who could recognize it faster than anyone else, had an urgent matter and left the city?
What is Baron Farren’s true identity, and what is his father up to? No, is this really what your father made up?
An unknown feeling of incongruity wrapped around his body. It made her feel stuffy, as if she were walking through her fog.
At this time, neither the Black Book nor the memories before the return were useless.
What do you do when you know the future?
Allen and Julius, that only the biased information they remember.
However, it was impossible to read information about the distant future from a book, so the frustration came back doubled.
‘Insufficient information.’
took a deep breath.
After all, my father has no intention of revealing the truth.
Isn’t it obvious just by doing things like this?
It was the same when my younger brother changed, will it change now?
rather… .
‘If you can’t find out about Baron Faren.’
“Swear by Mana, Father.”
Gaiel was still staring quietly with deep eyes.
“I will sweetly pay the price for the disrespect I have committed. please.”
Her straight eyes met his eyes.
Dad always did. before, now, and in the future.
“Swear to me that you were not involved in Baron Farn’s escape.”
How long have they been looking into each other’s eyes?
Just when the clock ticked exactly 30 times in the quiet room, my father opened his mouth.
“Now, I know you were rude.”
I know, I know.
Only the heir forcing the Count’s headmaster to swear an oath? But I couldn’t help but check this.
“I.”
Was this all a coincidence or the will of the father, or if not, someone behind the scenes was in control of all this. If not, see if something else is involved.
“I will take responsibility.”
I definitely needed to know.
Therefore, Allen committed a rude behavior that was not normally conceivable.
The behavior that he usually hated, not aristocratic. Acting recklessly without logic or reason.
I felt uncomfortable, but I couldn’t help it.
I have no answer other than this.
Gaiel stared at Allen for a while, then opened his mouth quietly. He then continued his speech slowly.
“I never helped Baron Farn escape. I swear by Mana.”
I could see the mana swirling around his body, swirling around him.
“Are you satisfied now?”
Nothing happened.
Gaiel spoke to him with a calm face.
“This time, Allen, I will accept it as an aberration that you made in fear that Julius’ ball might be tarnished because of the escape of the baron you lost.”
Allen knew the meaning of those words.
“Everyone in the mansion knows your character, who cares deeply for your younger brother, so I’m sure they will understand.”
that this is a justification.
My father would do it for me, so I had nothing to do with the intention of quietly retreating.
“So, calmly relax in your room. Do you understand?”
“… Yes, I understand.”
Allen quietly nodded at the sound.
Anyway, the action just made a decision on who led the work and who assisted with the work.
When Allen came out of the office with a weak stride, Linbell, who was waiting in front of the office, whispered softly, probably worried about Allen, who had entered the office with a firm expression.
“Are you okay, Confucius?”
“How about taking a little break?”
Allen shook his head at Enelia’s words. There was no time to quietly rest in the room. Even though he couldn’t pursue Baron Farne, he had more work to do.
“Go to your mother. To introduce you guys, I have to say hello after a long time.”
While doing the work I had planned, I thought it would be better to entrust them with education about the maids.
It was painful not to know about Baron Farne, but it was comforting if it was comforting to be able to get some information by talking to my father.
Allen led them to the outdoor terrace of the mansion’s main building, where her mother often went.
She has shiny purple hair and a youthful look that doesn’t match her age. With extraordinary dignity and dignity, she was Eliza, the Count’s mistress and Allen’s mother.
“Allen, I’m so sorry I haven’t seen you lately.”
She smiled brightly until Allen came to her, then changed her expression in an instant and rolled her eyes in disappointment.
“haha… . I will visit you more often from now on.”
“how many.”
“Aren’t you supposed to come 4 or 3 times a week?”
Allen smiled as if in trouble and nodded. Because it was clear that she couldn’t refuse her mother’s stubborn personality.
“… Yes, I will definitely visit you four times a week.”
When Allen answered reluctantly, Eliza smiled brightly again and sat him across from him.
“Yeah, that’s right. He followed me around until he was a kid. Mom, aren’t you feeling so sad these days? Both you and Julius. How lonely he is because he is so engrossed in his work.”
The mother was jokingly speaking, but it was clear that she was sincere.
I was such a person.
“But those two… .”
His mother, who had been talking about her story for a long time, turned to him.
Linbell nodded her head to see if her poison had been resolved, and Enelia was quietly trying to wake up Linbell.
“Are you the new maid?”
“When I said that I was going to pick one myself, I refused, and suddenly I thought of something.”
“… I do not know. Isn’t it funny to walk around without a maid at this age?”
She let out a small laugh and asked him if he was serious.
“I don’t know… . You don’t know what other nobles will see? Perhaps, you would be ridiculed for the degrading behavior you said so?”
Allen smiled bitterly at her, who deliberately used the drug-like language.
Surely she was right.
What was the reason for not having a maid before returning?
Since I do not have any money?
right.
But, if he really wanted it, wouldn’t the family get a maid for him?
Whether it’s a young girl from a small aristocratic family with no real estate, or a top-class slave who has been thoroughly educated.
He could have had it if he wanted to.
But he didn’t do that in his previous life.
‘Because I didn’t think the handmaiden thus obtained was suitable for the count.’
Although the Reinhardt family is in decline now, it is a huge family that governs the counties.
Would it be okay for him to take his humble maid with him?
I thought so.
“Do I really need to care what other people think?”
not now
“Oh? Allen You would say so. Did you go through many things at Hibel?”
“Yeah, what. It was not enough to change my values. But it gave me a chance to change my behavior.”
Because Julius was more important to him than the gaze of others.
It’s an opportunity to recruit both talented people who might become one of the top eight on the continent in the future, as well as those who show off their demigods even for a moment.
Do other people’s opinions matter?
“That’s fine, I’ve always wanted you to have a maid. By the way… .”
The mother quietly put her finger on her lips as if she had seen something funny, and then poked her finger into Linbell’s supple cheek.
“Wow!”
She raised her head in surprise, saw her mother, and stopped acting.
Mother opened her mouth, fiddling with her soft cheeks as if she was cute.
“He is cute. I haven’t even lost my breasts yet.”
Linbell stood still and was teased by her hand.
“There was a reason why my son chose me. I haven’t ridden it yet. mm.”
Inelia looked at Linbell with earnest eyes from the moment she was held by her mother’s hand.
In the end, Allen could not overcome her sorrowful eyes and opened his mouth.
“… Mother, why don’t you stop? Aren’t you tense and hardened?”
“Because you’re my son’s maid, you should listen. I can’t help it. therefore… .”
Mother, who returned to her seat after fiddling with her cheeks for a while, narrowed her eyes.
“What is the real reason you came?”
“Of course, I miss my mother’s face… .”
“Are you here to entrust the education of those two?”
As if she knew everything, she turned to Linbell and Enelia.
“No… .”
“No, I don’t think Allen would take care of you like that.”
How many years have you grown Eliza turned her eyes away, ignoring Allen’s awkward smile.
And in an instant, the mood changed.
“The way they walk is different, and they are dozing off the subject of being a maid. I can’t even understand the owner’s intentions properly. At first, you thought Allen was your plaything, didn’t you?”
Eliza laughed cynically. Then she narrowed her eyes and looked at them.
Linbell remained stiff, realizing that she had made a mistake, and Enelia was restless with a puzzled expression on her face.
‘Even in the midst of being downgraded, you don’t show any rebellion, and you don’t hide your feelings. This is an advantage, but… .’
Eliza looked at them slowly and evaluated them.
‘The skin is so elastic that it is hard to believe that it is a commoner, is it mixed race? It doesn’t look bad, but… .’
She took a few more words at them and figured it out.
Allen was accustomed to seeing a mother like that, so she didn’t feel much emotion.
However, one question could not be helped.
‘Is this a thorough mother didn’t know that Julius had changed?’
In fact, Allen was the most disbelieving that his mother had been indulging in luxury more than his father’s change.
He was the person in charge of housekeeping in the mansion by helping out part of his father’s business, and it was surprising and always surprising to see such a sudden change.
“still… They both seem to be fine. Because I don’t think they’re bad kids.”
After looking at them for a while, she smiled brightly again, and Linbell and Enelia sighed in relief.
“But, it seems that it is not enough to train you yet, so let me train you for a few days. Did you come here thinking about it anyway?”
Eliza looked at him with a knowing look and smiled.
Allen nodded as if he had lifted both hands and feet at the sound that pierced his intentions.
“Yes, that’s right. But it is also true that she was worried when she heard that her mother was upset.”
“Is he too? Of course you know.”
The mother nodded her head as if for sure, and said to him.
“You have a habit of pulling your chin slightly when telling the truth, so be careful.”
Allen smiled bitterly as they opened their mouths in surprise.
“Yeah, don’t forget to visit us 4 times a week?”
Allen went to the mansion, ignoring Linbell’s gaze at him.
Because I had a place to go.
While they were being educated, they needed to be prepared to get it.