This Time, I Became the Fiance of a Duke’s Daughter. But She is Rumored to have Bad Personality, and Ten Years Older

"I'm sorry I showed you the ugly part"

"No, never mind"

Jared responds modestly to Therese Alway, Konrat's mother, who wipes tears with a handkerchief.

Jared and his family sat back in the chair they had prepared and watched the meditating Konrat.

The Duke is not here because a hasty knight has appeared and been taken.

Dealing with the wife of the first Duke's family, she couldn't even say her attentive words, and Jared continued to endure silence, but breathed relief when Therese, who stopped crying, opened her mouth.

"Lord Murphy, thank you very much this time for my son. Thank you again."

"I was interested in Konrat myself, so it would be helpful if you didn't care too much"

"It would be helpful if you could say that. So, I'd like to ask you, how about a contort from Lord Murphy?

"As I told you earlier, I have a talent as a fire attribute mage. I had other sorceries used to look into the possibilities of composite sorcery, but it's still a fire attribute. In detail, you should grow up as a user of release magic and convergence magic."

If not Jared's mistake, Konrat specializes in convergence in particular.

When I told Therese about it, she rejoiced like me.

"Being specialized doesn't mean it's a very good way to put it, but can I assume it's outstanding?

"Right...... I'm sure it does deviate from the average we commonly call magicians when it comes to convergence. It's up to you, Konrat, to use your talent or kill it."

"How can I capitalize on the talents of Konrat?

To a really difficult question, Jared bothered his head.

Of course, it is desirable to have an ideal magician if you can. Everyone must learn and get used to witchcraft by hand in the beginning. There's nothing I can't learn by being single, but there's just one person who can lead me, and the results change. Sometimes it is desirable to have someone who will point out the mistakes strictly.

Tellese suddenly bowed her head deeply when she conveyed Jared's thoughts.

"- Hey, what!?

"Lord Murphy. Would you please be the master of the contort?

"The Duke also asked me to consider that, but I can't give you that sudden answer. No, keep your head up before you do. Please!

Ask him to come in and get his head up somehow.

Jared should never have thought he had a reason to be restrained. The Duke told me I could trust myself, but that alone did not convince me of Therese's attitude.

"The Duke does ask for it, too. I can understand your desire to entrust Konrat to a trusted magician, and I know that Konrat admires me. But what makes you so obsessed with people like me?

"It's..."

Therese shakes her anxious eyes and asks for a contort.

But Konrat kept meditating as if he didn't know about this noise or something.

"Konrat, you are not hearing us. Let me guide you so you can meditate deeply, would you please talk to me?

"If possible, I'd like you not to speak to Konrat."

"I promise."

Therese slowly opens her mouth.

"I married the Duke of Alway's house as a side room through my husband and close brother. But I am from the Viscount, and I am by no means in a good position because I was the least of the side chambers and the last."

Continue the words, as Therese, sadly laying down her eyes, will miss.

"I just came to the mansion, and they harassed me all the time. He was also seen lightly by the mansion's humans, mourning his wife. My husband took care of me like that, but I'm sure that thing applauded him. Harassment of me has gotten worse. That's when Hannellone helped us."

"Huh?"

I didn't think Hannellone would come, Jared, and I would raise my voice.

Shit, and when I hurriedly blocked my mouth with my hand, Therese smiles.

"Never mind. Because we know Lord Murphy is living with Master Hannellone as Olivier's fiancée. I'm sure you'd understand if we lived together, but you'd be nice, wouldn't you?

"What do you say, it's already"

"Ha-ha-ha, I'm relieved it doesn't seem to make much difference. I spent my days inspired by Master Hannellone like that. Thankfully, I have been blessed with a boy, and I can still remember that Master Hannellone was as happy as I was when I gave birth to the Konrat. I've had that history, and nature and Konrat nostalgic for Master Olivier. Sometimes my son calls Lord Murphy his brother, and I'm sure he wants to be close to Olivier again."

One more thing I could find out about the Oliviers.

Nevertheless, he says it is the duty of the aristocracy to have a side chamber, but he opens up wondering whether this is also difficult when the title rises, being harassed like Therese or being targeted for life like Hannellone.

"Neither do I. Conrad doesn't want a housekeeper either. Of course I can help for the Duke of Alway family, but it doesn't mean I can't do anything without being the heir to my husband. But the other side rooms don't seem to think so, and everyone is letting their children compete to succeed them."

"Do you know the Duke?

"Yeah, I know. My husband seems to be having a lot of difficulty as well, but everyone is jumping on his own child because his real wife, Lady Hannellone, doesn't have a son. There was still no successor dispute when Master Hannellone still needed him at the mansion. Some of the mansion's humans even voiced that the good Olivier should succeed the housekeeper. But..."

"Hannellone and Olivier have moved to a different house."

"That's right. Before that, I knew someone was trying to harm Master Hannellone. Because of that, I was heartbroken that Master Olivier had become a suspicious ghost and even kept the contort away."

Therese seemed to know Hannellone was being targeted.

No, I know and it's natural, I recap. The fact that the Duke's main room is being targeted by the side chamber is a major incident, but it is never uncommon if history is unraveled.

You don't know you're just about to take your life until you hire a Vault Toyfel or an adventurer, but I guess there's more information for Therese than living in a mansion.

"I don't know who's up to that. But I can assure you it's not me. Swear to my beloved son, I am not trying to harm my benefactor, Lady Hannellone."

"Yeah, I know"

The Duke also knows, which is why he made Konrat see himself.

"Thank you. I wish Lord Murphy, Lord Olivier's fiancée, had believed me. I am still in a weak position and have an unwanted struggle with the Konrat. My child is also the only one desperate to learn the sword according to her husband. I can't even do it. If it were to be a trace of the Duke's house, it would be better for you to learn to run your territory than a sword. The other side rooms and kids actually do that. Some of them make fools of the contorts obsessed with swords that their husbands are desperate to like."

"... that's too"

Terrible, he hesitated to speak. I don't know who's asking where.

It's also possible that Olivier and the others will be bothered because of what he said.

"Of course, Konrat admires her husband, and he adores Konrat. But I enjoy swordsmanship purely. I'm sure you're having a hard time even where I don't know. In that fold, I found it magical. But I was honestly confused as to whether that was a good thing."

"Is it the jealousy of the others?

"Yes. No child has magic in the house of the Duke of Alway today. I was very pleased because my husband had no magic either. But I guess the rest of us seemed to have an advantage with the fact that Konrat got magic. Harassment has become worse and more radical."

Indeed, humans with magic are rare. It's not uncommon to be drawn in if you're not noble.

But just because you have magic doesn't mean you're superior. There must be a lot more that we need to do to become the Duke's head.

Even Jared, the outsider, knows this extent. And yet, I couldn't understand why the side rooms and the other kids would be jealous of Konrat just because they had magic.

I'm sure Jared doesn't know the feelings of those who don't, either, because he's a man of magic.

"I don't mind harassment, but I was pitiful of the painful contort because I had magic. But let the magicians at the mansion tell you, they don't have talent, and you can't want them as magicians. Then, now it's the end of being ridiculed for being a treasure rotter. I regretted it. But Konrat didn't give up wanting to be a magician."

"So, to me?

"Not a few magicians in this mansion have the breath of other side rooms. If you were ordered to say you have no talent beforehand, you would be right. So I asked my husband to look for a magician I could trust."