When The Count’s Illegitimate Daughter Gets Married

Chapter 2

1. Laritte and the new house

620 years ago, the Iyasa continent unified and the Empire was born.

The Brumayer family supported the Imperial family in their rise to power and accumulated enough accomplishments to be considered a founding contributor to the Empire.

However, the current generation of Brumayers lacked power, as seen in their current status of Count.

But now, with a daughter married to Duke Reinhardt, a man second in power only to the Imperial family, the Brumayers hoped to see the light once more.

‘…That’s what I thought.’

Count Brumayer felt regret when he thought of the current situation over dinner.

On the table was the family chef’s ‘Beef Steak’, magnificent enough to be called one of a kind. It shone brightly yet he couldn’t bring himself to lay his hands on it.

Rose, too, felt depressed about their situation.

Everytime she closed her eyes, she could see Duke Reinhardt’s shimmering form, just like how he had appeared to her three years ago.

When the continent of Iyasa had unified for the first time in history, the Empire prided itself so highly that it kept the name.

In the heart of the palace laid the first banquet hall.

The ceiling in the corridor leading to the banquet hall towered above the banquet goers. The intricate carvings on the ceiling was, in royal fashion, decorated brilliantly with gold.

Below that ceiling, Rose encountered the Duke for the first time.

‘…Ah!’

His hair was so black it seemed to absorb all the light, standing out in that bright corridor. Beneath his hair were the world’s purest gold eyes, appearing aloof and detached. Though his eyes were narrow, their masculine beauty matched well with the finely tanned muscles outlined by his shirt.

“I can’t believe such a Duke passed away…”

Rose lamented and tormented the steak with her fork.

Although there were some women who had never seen the Duke, it was said that all women who’d met him would fall in love with him.

The few swordmasters in the Empire were nicknamed ‘the murderers’, but the Duke did not care for such things as others did.

confident I could have melted his

We should not even be

who had been quietly eating, put down

of this makes sense? He was killed by a barbarian in the western sea! Plus, the war

him go. Your father was able to

“Ahem!”

Countess wiped her

could be so useful? She resembles that crude dancer from head to toe. With her fulfilling the contract,

been sent to the Reinhardt dukedom for no reason other than to allow

rotting

an old villa in some corner of a mountain. Laritte had been

was extremely happy.

only stain on the otherwise

an

her dancer of a mother with her pale skin and silver hair.

to that,

eyes. It was that cold look, as if she were looking down on you! That expression had been the reason why

wait to get

scolded her for her choice of

was: firewood to fight off the chill

a complete fool,

what Rose told her as she was leaving. Rose was aware that she was heading to the mountains where trees

In truth, Rose was the one who didn’t know

it often drizzled. If Laritte were to pick a branch off the ground, even the

Laritte would be fighting the cold on her very

and already this cold…’, Laritte thought as she entered the

this fact when she

had to pick herbs from the

of the herbs had been useless weeds, but she couldn’t help it. The alternative was to be home,

once, just once, Laritte had gotten lost in the

girl she’d somehow managed to gather enough branches to survive the cold. But one day, a violent storm wet the

in lighting them and starting a fire only when she was on

“Phew…”

been distracted by her old memories, looked around. The inside of the villa was very dusty and had a spooky feeling. The furniture was old,

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