Episode 4
He says.
“Why did you do that?”
“What?”
The Marquis’ eyebrows twitch.
I wonder how he feels now.
I wonder if he thinks I’m being cheeky, sipping the tomato juice in my hand without even getting up from my seat.
“Can’t you show respect to your master!!”
My second mother, the Marchioness, was screaming at me from the side, but I just pretended not to hear her.
Where is the dog barking?
however.
“You’ve come such a long way, why don’t you go inside? Are you just going to talk here?”
The Marquis silently glares at me as I sit down on the chair and leisurely sip my juice again.
Then suddenly he started to gain momentum.
This isn’t like we’re trying to fight or anything.
He chuckled and surrendered himself to the Marquis’ mana.
I put the tomato juice down on the armrest, with the thought of counterattacking immediately if this mana threatened my life.
The Marquis’ mana searches through my body.
I guess I’m trying to check if I’ve created a mana heart or not.
Soon the Marquis’ expression changed subtly.
He realized it.
That there is no mana heart in my body right now.
The Marquis’s mana drains away like an ebb tide, and his subtle expression changes to one of incomprehension.
Seeing that expression makes me feel good for some reason.
“What did you have talent for?”
“As you see.”
“But why didn’t you reveal it until now?”
How should I answer?
It’s just annoying to say that you’ve regressed, so let’s just put out a model answer.
“Just like that.”
Wiggle-
“This… … insolent bastard!! Blood of a lowly bitch!!”
When the second mother was about to go crazy, the Marquis raised his hand.
“I thought he was a useless guy, but he surprisingly has some useful aspects.”
Useful… … .
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Even though the political arena is already rife with trickery, it felt almost comical to hear the words usefulness and such coming from the mouth of the Marquis, of all people.
Oh, really.
“If it’s useless, isn’t it even a child?”
The Marquis seemed rather interested in my monologue.
“Do you want to be recognized as a child?”
“What do you mean by recognition now? I don’t care about that kind of thing.”
The Marquis stared at me for a moment, then turned away.
What the heck? If that’s the case, why did you come here?
“That’s right. Second mother.”
At my words, the knights, including my father, and the Marchioness turned their heads.
“Your wrinkles have gotten deeper. You need to get some care.”
“This… … arrogant… … .”
“Well, it’s only natural since the second one is like that. You said he has a fear of water? I don’t know how he’ll drink water. Should I knock him out and feed him?”
As I chuckled, the Marchioness approached me with a blushing face.
It looks like he’s going to slap me in the face.
The Marquis stopped him, and this time he stared at me for a moment.
I didn’t avoid that gaze.
Then the Marquis turned around again, but the Marchioness next to him did not take her eyes off me as if she was going to kill me.
I’m not a pervert, but I feel strangely good when I’m being stared at like that.
however.
“Why are you looking at me like that? Can I get you some water?”
As he spoke with a wry smile, the Marchioness’s eyebrows twisted into a wicked grimace.
“This mongrel… … ! How dare… … !!”
Because it’s a mongrel… … .
Come to think of it, I guess mongrel is also an appropriate expression.
In my previous life, I was treated as if I was not human, but almost a different species.
Anyway, I smiled brightly and waved goodbye to the Marchioness.
The Marchioness gave me a wait-and-see look and then turned away, which I couldn’t help but find amusing.
Ah, what a harmonious family this is.
* * *
I thought I could just let it go like this, but that was just an illusion.
It had been barely ten minutes since the Marquis had left the rose garden when Ron brought me some news.
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“A letter has arrived saying that Jack Valantie, the third son who has caused a commotion within the family, is sentenced to 20 days of solitary confinement… …
I burst out laughing.
“What a funny family. I’ve been beaten up by my second child more than once or twice, but he just lets it go, and now I’m sent straight to solitary confinement?”
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The rose garden, which had not been able to raise even one power in its vicinity, already had the character of exile, but now it is called solitary confinement.
But I don’t know what solitary confinement is.
Is it because I haven’t lived in the Marquisate for long?
In a way, couldn’t you say that living in this rose garden is a form of solitary confinement?
But they’re saying they’ll sentence me to solitary confinement?
Are you just preventing me from going out?
Anyway, it’s a really fun family to watch again.
“There’s less than a month left until the academy’s vacation, and yet you’re in solitary confinement? Your Majesty, what on earth happened while I was at the main building to get supplies?”
I tried to smile and accept Ron’s concerns as usual, but this time I couldn’t.
Because a new topic called the Academy has emerged.
Honestly, I had forgotten.
I am 14 years old now.
That means he’s attending the Kingdom’s National Academy.
‘It’s the Academy… … .’
All children of nobles in the Kingdom of Teslan must enter the Academy.
This is a duty and a law of the land, and no one can escape it unless they are brain dead or have amputated limbs and are unable to move independently.
For reference, the total period of formal education is 4 years.
The admission age is 14, so I am currently a first-year student at the academy.
Especially now that we are transitioning from summer to fall.
That is, I am a student who has finished the first semester of my first year and is on vacation.
and.
‘I’m a student.’
He sipped his juice and laughed heartily.
If you think about it, there are more than just the academy and things I have to do.
First, I have to find my master and regain my former strength.
But are you wasting time like this engaging in meaningless arguments with the Marquis?
You can just take your time and do that kind of nonsense later.
Then, like a flash of lightning, a roadmap of what I needed to do next began to form in my head.
Even if you can skip everything else, you can’t skip the teacher.
And the Master has a very close relationship with the ‘National Academy of the Teslan Kingdom’.
okay.
That’s enough.
“I have to go. To the Academy.”
Then Ron’s words linger in my mind.
-There’s less than a month left until the academy’s vacation period, and I’m in a single room.
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vacation.
Out of the one and a half month vacation period, I now have a total of 27 days left.
But you want me to spend 20 of those 27 days in solitary confinement?
It wasn’t the end.
It takes about 4 days to get from this Marquisate to the Academy if you’re fast, or 5 to 6 days if you’re slow.
In other words, as soon as you come out of solitary confinement, you are to go straight to the academy.
“How did I ever live with something like this?”
Even though it’s my past, it’s so incomprehensible.
I should say that it is to the extent that it feels like an excessively large gap.
No.
Honestly, it’s no big deal.
That means I’ve changed that much.
Here’s something really interesting: the Academy’s vacation is actually not a break for the children of noble families, but rather an extension of another task.
You could tell just by looking at Peyron Valanti.
In his case, after the vacation, he attends social parties almost every day, becomes friendly with other nobles, and takes care of the vassals who support him.
But they aren’t even giving me that chance.
If you look at the situation, you could almost say that I was an abandoned child, and honestly, that’s not wrong.
It’s just that this whole saga was talking to me.
You have no place here, he said.
I’m not just talking about this moment, it’s been like this ever since I was born.
Of course, I didn’t say anything, but I’m not interested in the title of Marquis.
That was the case when I was 5, when I was 10, and even when I was 17, the age when I ran away from home with this writer in my previous life, I never paid any attention to him.
No kidding, I wouldn’t take it even if you gave it to me.
Not that kind of thing.
“But where is that solitary cell?”
Ron was speechless for a moment at my words.
“Why can’t you speak? What is this solitary confinement?”
“… … Young Master. There is only one place in the family that can be called a solitary confinement cell. It is where criminals who have committed crimes within the territory are held.”
no way.
“prison?”
“……yes.”
“Wow, man… this is awesome?”
I’m speechless.
I took that solitary confinement to mean I was just stuck in a corner of my room in the rose garden and not allowed to go outside, but was that the solitary confinement in prison?
“So? How long do I have to go?”
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“You are requested to appear voluntarily by 3 p.m. today.”
“And if not?”
“The knights of the family are here to escort… … .”
I ended up holding my stomach and bursting out laughing.
* * *
I just showed up voluntarily before the knights even arrived.
Ron’s tearful appearance was truly, indescribably pitiful, but that’s that and this is this.
So my situation now was simple.
A situation where you are locked in solitary confinement, your back against the wall of the cell, and looking up at the ceiling.
“hmm.”
A rough stone wall, and a fairly quiet cell.
In addition, it seems that they put some thought into it because there is a bed and a bathroom in this closed space.
Thankfully, they provide three meals a day without fail.
The problem was that there were unidentifiable stains on the bed and the food that was regularly served was almost like filth that only the poor could eat. But I have a broad mind.
To this extent, we can just let it go.
I spent a day in solitary confinement thinking deeply.
It took me about a minute to figure out what was going on and about three hours to plan what I needed to do next.
Actually, I don’t really need to use my head to figure out the current situation, but I think there are a few things I should touch on.
In this kingdom with its well-organized military system, the Marquis of Valanti and other nobles who own land can punish the people of their territory under a separate law called Territory Law, not the Kingdom Law, but only within the territory they are in charge of.
That is, it means that one can enjoy powers similar to a king only in the territory.
It goes without saying that crimes, especially, should be dealt with strictly regardless of the laws of the kingdom or the land.
But the lord’s family, even though he is almost abandoned, is still his son.
Blood-related children.
But you’re putting that son in jail?
It wasn’t even a rebellion.
If you were just locking yourself in a room, that would be fine, but prison?
Even if the author’s child goes to prison, they desperately try to prevent it, regardless of whether it is a direct or collateral line.
