Chapter 33
Shouldn’t I be the one wearing the startled expression? Why is he here?
Agenor stared at me with an expression that was more than just sparkling; it was now tinged with obsession, just like when I last saw him.
“I saw you coming down on a palanquin.”
“A palanquin?”
Agenor nodded.
“You’ve already made subordinates in your class?”
The Luga and Luba twins aren’t exactly subordinates.
But since I’m the boss of that class and it’s roughly similar, I didn’t correct him.
“Why are you here?”
“I came here.”
“I’m not asking because I don’t know that.”
I’m asking why a person who should be in the intermediate institution is here.
“By any chance, I have something I’m curious about.”
“What is it?”
“What number subordinate am I?”
“*Cough*, what?”
“Can’t you make me the first one?”
Eyes that were excessively sparkling turned toward me.
I even flinched at those blue eyes.
“If not, what do I have to do to be the first? Ah, by any chance, do I just have to knock down the kids ahead of me?”
“Do you have no conscience right now?”
How many years younger are the kids you’re trying to fight?
Recalling the age of Luga and Luba, I was appalled.
Then Agenor quickly changed his expression.
“Um, so you’re saying don’t bully them, right?”
“If you bully them, you die by my hand.”
“Gasp, then something I want to try…”
“Do you want to be kicked out?”
“No. It was a joke!”
I seriously wondered for a moment if he was always this kind of guy…
Then I concluded that he was indeed always this kind of guy.
I didn’t know he would reveal his true nature this quickly.
Thinking about it again, it was absurd.
I thought having this kind of conversation with my third brother would happen only after I had settled down in the intermediate institution.
“So, why did you come here?”
Even though the intermediate and elementary institutions were adjacent, they weren’t that close.
If for no other reason, it was because they kept a distance to prevent the intermediate kids from bullying the elementary kids as much as possible.
“You’re going to see Master.”
Agenor lowered his voice. I don’t know why he lowered it, but I nodded for now.
“Right?”
“The meeting time is the same anyway.”
“And?”
Agenor smiled beautifully and brightly.
This face alone was enough to look like a normal child’s.
“I’m going with you.”
“Specifically?”
But I must be dry. I couldn’t understand what this guy’s ulterior motive was at all.
Why can’t we just go separately?
Regardless, since he did come here, I decided to go to the carriage for now.
***
“Ah, that’s probably because the successors they follow are different.”
Surprisingly, Agenor personally cleared up a minor worry I was thinking about.
It wasn’t a very serious worry, though.
Something like the reason why the killer whale kids in the class suddenly split into two.
This also came up while Agenor was asking me this and that.
‘The servant seemed very surprised to see Agenor appear with me, didn’t he?’
There was a reason why I didn’t eventually kick Agenor out.
There was no reason to kick out a person who went out of his way to visit.
‘I wonder if this will reach Grandmother’s ears too.’
Because it’s news I want to reach Grandmother’s ears.
Since it’s famous that my three brothers each live for themselves and don’t cooperate with each other, it will probably be a fresh development.
Furthermore, the servant witnessed enough of Agenor whining by my side, so that says it all.
“I know one side follows Bayan. The other side must be Sorte, right?”
“That’s right.”
Bayan is the eldest uncle’s first son. Sorte is the younger uncle’s first son.
The guys were bitter rivals.
‘In my eyes, they’re much of a muchness.’
Indeed, the cunning Sorte might be better by a fin’s breadth than Bayan, who is just cruel and only bullies the weak.
But Sorte was never of the caliber to become a leader.
“The family meeting is coming up soon.”
Agenor spoke lightly, saying the intermediate institution had a similar atmosphere.
“What are you going to do? What time are you going?”
“What?”
“Huh? Aren’t you going to the family meeting?”
I was a bit taken aback.
Agenor had a face that assumed I would be going to the family meeting. He seemed to have not a shred of doubt.
“Even if I go, it’s my first time participating, you know?”
“Ah, I see. You need an introduction, then?”
Look at this. This time, he has eyes saying the introduction will proceed without a problem.
……I really can’t get used to this.
“More importantly, I have something I’m curious about too. Did many prospects disappear right before the family meeting?”
“Um, well.”
I asked him about what Laila had told me.
It’s not that I didn’t know, but the information I knew was mostly information I encountered after becoming the Head of the Family.
Since this situation was a first, I was asking to confirm.
“If you’re asking if there were many guys who disappeared before the family meeting, then yes.”
“Then why do you sound like that?”
“But if they’re the type to disappear, weren’t they not prospects to begin with?”
Agenor tilted his head.
“To begin with, for me, the first brother, and the second brother, there were always many guys who challenged us before the family meeting. But we participated without a problem.”
I nodded slowly.
“Well, that’s true too.”
“Right?”
Agenor giggled.
“As expected, I can talk to you, Little Sister. And don’t worry.”
Agenor’s hand came up over my head.
I frowned at the unfamiliar feeling.
“You’re going to work me hard, aren’t you?”
“…….”
“You definitely have to work me hard.”
His glistening eyes were full of impulse.
As if proving that despite being a pretty boy, this guy was also a killer whale who enjoyed fighting.
I frowned and at the same time grabbed Agenor’s hand and twisted it.
“Don’t climb over me.”
“Ouch, ouch, ouch, surrender, surrender!”
***
Laila gave me her own advice, but I realized through the conversation with Agenor.
That there was no need to worry much.
Like that, I went to the educational institution and after school, I went to see Dad and received training.
A few days passed peacefully.
I realized something new once again.
‘I said there was no need to worry…… but that didn’t mean I shouldn’t worry at all.’
Looking at the people who appeared before me, I pondered hard on what to do.
“The, there. That is exactly the new Princess!”
To explain the situation unfolding before my eyes, I have to go back ten minutes.
Today, as on any other day, I had just finished my education and come down the stairs with the help of the twins.
Since I told Agenor a few days ago that he was bothersome and not to visit anymore, he wasn’t visiting.
The moment I was saying goodbye to the twins and parting ways, black shadows swarmed in and surrounded me and the twins.
I quickly hid the twins behind me, but were these twins of a size that could be hidden by me?
I narrowed my eyes.
And it was now.
Among those shadows was Karon, whom I hadn’t seen at all lately.
Furthermore, it wasn’t just Karon.
“Uh…… Ye, yes! It’s that brat!”
“It’s her! It’s her!”
There were two more familiar faces.
At first, I didn’t recognize them and tilted my head, but then I barely remembered.
“How could the Head of the Family have acknowledged her? Surely, leaving her alive will be an obstacle to Lord Bayan’s future path.”
It was definitely the two branch family guys who had come to the place where I lived and tried to kill me.
And finally.
I stared at the guy standing proudly at the very front.
‘Hoh, to think I’d see this guy already.’
He certainly had a massive build all on his own.
Furthermore, smooth hair that symbolized being of the direct line. Although he had relatively little silver hair, the white spot near the crown of his head was vivid.
However, unlike me, his eye color was pitch black.
That guy was the first son of the eldest uncle. Currently the most likely candidate for successor. Bayan.
“That’s her?”
Bayan did not hide his look of contempt as he looked at me.
“Hah, are you telling me you lot were defeated by this tiny runt?”
I replied while looking at Bayan indifferently.
“If you’re talking about a runt, say that to the one hanging between your legs. Where are you thrusting that land-stink? You fellow whose brain is worse than a jellyfish’s.”
“Huh?”
A short laugh passed over Bayan’s face.
“Wow. I couldn’t tell just by hearing about it…… indeed.”
A cruel expression gradually settled over Bayan’s face.
Like a killer whale that toys with a leopard even without eating it. Like a cat that toys with a mouse.
“Interesting. You know how to talk.”
An expression looking at something contemptible.
“It means Grandmother didn’t take an interest for nothing, doesn’t it?”
At that same time, I lightly dodged the hand flying toward me and conversely grabbed it and twisted it with all my might.
“If it were just words, would Grandmother have taken an interest? You idiot.”
Bayan shook me off with violent strength.
Bayan’s wrist had already turned red.
“Lo, Lord Bayan!”
“Lord Bayan! Oh dear, are you alright?!”
The guy wasn’t saying anything, but the branch family members next to him were making a damn fuss.
It wasn’t even funny, so only a hollow laugh came out.
‘To think I’d see this scene this early?’
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