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.

I could have

We should not even be using that traitor’s title!”

who had been quietly eating, put down her salad fork as

makes sense? He was killed by a barbarian in the western

go. Your father was able to circumvent the marriage contract

“Ahem!”

Countess wiped her

so useful? She resembles that crude dancer from head

the Reinhardt dukedom for no reason other than to allow the Brumayers keep the Duke’s

must be rotting in a ditch

was an old villa in some corner of a mountain. Laritte had been sent there with no support. All she had to

extremely happy.

only stain on the otherwise

her father who sired an illegitimate child, but she loathed Laritte even more.

characteristics. Rather than red hair and freckles, Laritte resembled her dancer of a mother with her pale skin

to that, her

eyes resembled the ocean, yet they felt so similar to Duke Reinhardt’s golden eyes. It was that cold look, as if she were

get rid

about Laritte. But still, no one scolded

thing this abandoned house needed was: firewood to fight off the chill

complete fool,

was leaving. Rose was aware that she was heading to the mountains

very end. In truth, Rose was the one who didn’t know what the outside

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

would be fighting the cold on her

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

when

living with her birth mother, Laritte had to pick herbs from the mountains in order to

useless weeds, but she couldn’t help it.

once, Laritte had gotten lost

branches to survive the cold. But one day, a violent storm wet the branches. They could no longer catch

clung to those branches for dear life, succeeding in lighting them and starting a fire only when she was

“Phew…”

and had a spooky feeling. The furniture was old, so

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