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-Multilateral, multifaceted.

“…”

Harnier is looking down from inside the carriage.

Now, as before, Karssein’s head was resting on her thigh.

“Phew. And how did this happen?”

Placing her hand on her shocked chest, she briefly thinks back to the situation from before.

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.

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Where is Karssein?

What questions should I ask him when I meet him?

Would it be a good idea to ask if you didn’t eat properly or if you slept properly?

I was worried.

As I heard from Mina, Harnier, who attended the birthday party, walked into the party with a slightly complicated mind.

However, from the moment I found Carcein and saw what happened there, my heart began to ache.

Karssein came to celebrate his younger brother’s birthday, not his own.

He was a person who came to grace this occasion as a family member.

Just to celebrate, he left behind his busy schedule at the Eastern Noble Meeting and came here.

however.

I ended up seeing a very cruel truth here.

Karssein was under absurd suspicion that he was running away because he did not prepare a gift even for his family.

I heard that you definitely don’t have a good relationship with your family.

I’ve heard the story a few times. But it was very different from what I heard.

In the past, Harnier also had a similar experience.

At a birthday party that was quite different from that of his eldest son, Belian, he had a very bad experience of being ridiculed by society and nobles alike.

So, after the party, I planned to go see him and ask him if he was okay. Because you must be going through a lot of trouble on top of everything else.

however.

That reaction… I couldn’t get over it.

How can someone be so calm?

All humans have emotions. However, at that time, there was an absurd arsenic hanging over Karssein’s face.

Yes. He was smiling as if he had gone cold.

It’s absolutely not normal to be laughing in that situation.

Karssein, who left the scene without a change in his expression as if nothing had happened, was clearly broken.

So, I grabbed Carcein, who was trying to return to Shatren alone, and hugged him, trying to persuade him.

If it hurts, you have to say it hurts.

If it’s hard, you have to express that it’s hard.

Putting emotions into action like that is… wrong.

I said that as if to suffocate the man who kept trying to break down.

however.

-Sigh.

“Ka, Karsein?”

At some point, Carcein’s body, which was buried in my chest, tilted this way.

“Now, wait a minute. If you lean on it like this, it’s heavy…!”

The arms he had been clenching tightly to avoid letting go became heavy, and Karssein was completely leaning on him.

The whole body is in close contact.

The skin touches, and each other’s curved parts press against each other.

It’s a rather embarrassing situation.

If the man in front of me was a man who lusted after women, he would have immediately used the power of the jewel he wore every day to cast a spell. But that won’t happen. He is Karssein.

Rather, the problem is actually the other side.

Now, the feelings I have for Karsein, which arose at some point, have not yet been sorted out.

Harnier tried to push Karssein away, not knowing how to react to him suddenly approaching her like this.

When she hesitated and tried to take a step back and say goodbye.

Harnier noticed something and became scared.

‘Why are you so… cold?’

What came from Karssein was not a playful action to avoid this situation or a push to get out, but a cold chill.

no way.

“Carsein, Carsein?”

“…”

I held on to his heavy body and shook his shoulders, but he didn’t wake up.

There was no playful behavior or anything like that.

As usual, he didn’t say a single word that seemed oddly teasing, and it didn’t seem like he was coming out with any force.

That means…

It means that something is wrong with his body.

When I loosen my clenched arms and look at his face, my eyes are closed.

“Wake up! Karssein!”

“…”

“You can’t sleep here!”

Even in those moments filled with worry, I can clearly remember what I need to do.

There have been times before when Karsein’s body suddenly became cold.

Pollux said, a constitution that is covered by the sudden cold that arises when mana is awakened. He suffered from Dipheshan syndrome.

I don’t know why, but this disease recurred.

This cold body has no choice but to make that judgment.

There is one thing to do here.

It was something that somehow raised the dropping body temperature.

“The location is…”

However, the place where the two people are now is not even inside the building, but far outside.

I had to choose a place where I could maintain the body temperature I was losing here.

Harnier, looking around, spots a carriage and immediately moves on.

‘If it were there…!’

There is no blanket, but you can cover his body with a dress.

You can directly transmit your body temperature just like before.

“Queunnng…!”

She grunted and moved while supporting Karssein’s body.

The slender woman’s two arms would not have been enough to carry the sturdy man to the carriage, but when he gritted his teeth and moved with the thought that he might die, she succeeded in reaching the front of the carriage.

And then…

“You really…!”

-Sureuk.

With a bright red face, he lowered his collar.

As the time passed by sharing each other’s body heat, Karsein’s body temperature, which had been extremely cold, returned to normal.

Just then, Mina came back and asked, “ lady, are you back? ” I was startled and got dressed. He placed his head on her thigh and replied that he could go back to Chatlaine.

And then back to the present.

Harnier blushed again as he recalled everything that happened at that time.

“Really. How many times are you going to put me through this embarrassing experience? Yes?”

-Pinch.

Feeling upset for no reason, she complains while lightly pinching the cheek of Karssein, who is sleeping soundly.

However, my shocked heart still did not calm down.

How can you make people worry like this?

My heart is still pounding because of that.

“…Don’t make people worry. Why do you make me so anxious?”

Harnier overlapped her fingers on the back of Karssein’s hand with a voice full of worry.

Pollux was right.

From now on, we will have to stick together and monitor them.

If I wasn’t even confident while falling down like this… I don’t even want to imagine that.

“Be prepared. Because I’m going to nag you a lot.”

Harnier’s white hand wrapped around the back of his hand, and there was some strength.

***

“…”

The moment when Karssein had completely left the birthday party.

A man silently watches the carriage as it leaves.

The man reaps the magical power of the artifact.

His appearance, which looked like a well-dressed nobleman with a neat suit, suddenly changed into a rugged figure.

He looks like a westerner without fail.

As it was a birthday party attended by nobles of the Peselos Empire, no matter how you looked at it, he did not belong here.

If you had the eyes to see, there might be someone hurriedly approaching and yelling at you to get out of here.

However, he was officially invited.

To Claire and no one else.

As a result, I came to see it after receiving a woman’s earnest request and a close friend’s persistent recommendation. Talpon gained one piece of information at this location.

“…He was an abandoned child.”

Even if I only watched the incident with my own eyes, I could have known.

Karssein is the eldest princess of the Bagland duchy. I was under suspicion from Arina.

That means that Karssein is not on equal footing among them.

If you thought of him as family, you wouldn’t have any doubts about him making excuses for not bringing you a birthday present.

Therefore, an abandoned child.

A child who is not related by blood.

A situation like that can only happen if you are in that situation.

As if to prove that this guess was correct, the nobles harshly criticized Karssein, who had left.

Starting with the term ‘low-class people’, to saying that an undeserving half-penny is a nobleman, to saying that it is a stain on the Duke of Bagland. All kinds of criticism and fingers were pointed at him.

There was no one to protect me.

Even his family did not support him, but rather became suspicious of him.

In this place.

At this birthday party.

No matter what Karssein did, he was an uninvited guest.

Considering that…

“Really, Carcein may have been framed as she said.”

“Hmm? Chief, what did you just say?”

“It’s nothing. I’ll just go back now.”

He silently looked at the spot where the carriage passed, then changed his mind a little and turned around.

Along with the sound of footsteps, Talpon’s conversation with Claire lingered in his mind.

-It’s your fault, not your younger brother Karssein’s?

-…is it so. These are all problems that were caused by me.

-That’s funny. Does it mean that the rumor that a person who cares so much for his younger brother disciplines him by hitting him personally reaches the West?

When I laughed like that.

Claire did not deny it.

-Are you not denying it?

-…Because it’s my crime. It’s true. so…

And, as a Westerner, I bowed my head and earnestly asked.

-Please. Won’t you meet Karssein and judge him just once?

Tuk.

“Chief?”

“I stopped by just one place before returning to Lilpeten. You should go back first.”

-Tiring!

▶Intimacy with certain characters has increased.◀

[Talphone]

[Intimacy: -15%]

***

“Ssotcha.”

“Be careful, be careful. This way!”

“Confirmed. Uncle!”

Bags of grain piled up.

At the same time, well-maintained farm equipment is also transferred from wagon to cart.

The person handing over the goods was Ruthmeier’s peddler.

The recipient was a cart from the Chatrene estate.

“Thank you so much. How can I be thankful for this…!”

The residents of the Shatren territory join hands to express their gratitude.

Currently, Shatlaine had somehow solved the food problem, but most of the farming equipment was having problems.

Chatelaine strawberries and Chatelaine grapes were crops that were as demanding as they were luxurious.

This crop, which cannot even germinate in moderate soils even if the environment or vegetation changes slightly, easily weakens farm equipment, and this harvest season was particularly prone to damage to farm equipment.

I never imagined that more farm equipment would be needed.

With the funds that were insufficient to purchase fertilizer, it was not possible to purchase better quality farming equipment.

At that time, as if there was a ray of light, support came from Ruthmeyer.

“Youngju went to the birthday party without knowing our situation, right?”

“Geo. this person. Why are you bringing that up here?”

“Does the fact change just because you say it? After all, it was Ruthmire who helped our territory right before it was destroyed.”

The leader of the action, Marf, shakes his shoulders sarcastically.

He continued to criticize Karssein.

“Not long ago, they restricted our farming methods, saying they were wrong. This time, we went out to play without even knowing that there was a shortage of farm equipment. Does it look like you don’t swear?”

“That’s right, that’s right.”

“We are on the verge of starvation.”

“This is because he is a nobleman. Sheesh!”

The residents agree with Maf’s words.

Seeing this, Kiyan, who had come from Rusmire, was about to leave with his teeth in his mouth.

-Sigh.

“…Uncle Barak?”

Barak shakes his head in silence.

He whispered quietly in Kiyan’s ear.

“If we step forward, only the lord, Master Karssein, will be in trouble. Kiyan.”

“…but.”

“You have to endure it. It is true that we also misunderstood you. It’s the same with these people.”

Until then, when I emphasized that they should just endure until the misunderstanding is resolved, Kiyan was only then able to suppress his anger a little.

“I’ll just go.”

“Thank you!”

“Thank you so much.”

“When the time comes, we will repay this debt in a big way!”

Ruthmeyer’s side leaves with Chatren’s enthusiastic cheering.

But their mood was subdued.

‘Hey, aren’t you talking too harshly to our lord?’

‘In fact, this was also something that Master Karssein had figured out in advance and ordered.’

‘I’m only holding back because Chief Brem said he was sorry at the end, but it doesn’t seem like his true feelings are… tsk.’

Karssein is nothing short of Rusmire’s savior.

For Ruthmeier, it was difficult to tolerate the insulting remarks.

Even then, if Karsein had not given an order not to respond in any way, anyone might have come forward and shouted.

“Everyone calm down. Today, I’m going to give it a quick post. Got it?”

““Yes. Chief Barak.””

▶The trigger has been activated as the conditions have been met.◀

▶Soon, the residents of Ruthmire will become aware of the true situation in Chatrene!◀