A young girl in a village without protection - Chapter 24
Translator: Darling | Editor: Coming soon…
Selesina stayed in the house in the city of Harmil very often but she did also go back to her house in the Royal Capital. Today she had returned to her house in order to report something to her father.
“Lady Sele, it seems that it will take a little over 2 hours for Lord Bethel to return.”
Hisui informed her while pouring tea and Selesina nodded silently.
She was sitting on the sofa lightly as she took the teacup in her hand. She looked exhausted as if she could fall asleep at any moment.
“……..How about you go to sleep for today?”
“Thank you Hisui. But I have something that I need to urgently report to father……..”
“Is it about that girl Lady Meria?”
Even Hisui who wasn’t well versed in etiquette seemed to think terrible of Meria. It would be only natural to report that to father who was the Lord of the territory.
Selesina looked up at Hisui with soft eyes.
“I won’t report it to father.”
If she told him then he would certainly contact Meria’s family. Perhaps, if she told him then he would even ask Selesina to return back home.
He would probably tell her that since something like that has happened then come back home, stop managing the village and prepare to become the Queen.
Even if Selesina wasn’t the lord of the village, the future was still guaranteed.
‘I would certainly want to forgive this.’
If father intervenes then Meria would certainly be rejected but that shouldn’t be done.
‘The heroine is destined to be with Lord Soratek, it’ll turn into a bad end otherwise.’
If that happens, then Selesina dies as well.
She definitely wanted to avoid that that’s why she decides to keep it a secret.
“……….Then what work do you have with Lord Bethel.”
“Of course it’s about the Selin village. I want to register the name. Once we do that we can trade within the territory.”
Once her father approves it, they will be able to trade freely within the Rinklat territories. In order to trade with the other territories, they would require the approval from the King.
That’s why Selesina wanted to quickly let him know that they had decided on a name for the village. That way they would not only be able to trade but the 7th district would also have a name.
Seeing Selesina speak so happily, Hisui also relaxed.
“I was a little worried about the thing with Lady Meria but it seems fine.”
“It was surely a surprise that she came without notice but………it would have been fine if she had given prior notice.”
That’s right.”
Selesina and Hisui both smiled cheerfully.
The horse-drawn carriage started to move slowly once Bethel boarded it in front of the Royal castle. He wanted to return home early since he heard the Selesina was back but it took him more time than he had imagined.
Bethel removed the reports from inside his bag and looked over them.
The documents were related to Selesina. What she was doing as she acting Lord of the land he had had a subordinate report to him secretly every day.
“I’m surprised that the great tree…….is growing well.”
There were also reports that the soil was sparkling and that they had made some mysterious cuisine with potatoes. She was liked by the villagers as well, everything seemed to be fine.
The daughter that Bethel thought he had to protect closely had grown up more than he had imagined.
But there was a point of concern.
“Saltimal house’s Lady Meria………”
She had paid a visit to Selesina without any prior notice suddenly. Selesina and Meria seemed to have spoken and then Meria returned home…..
“She also seems close to Prince Soratek, should I do something in order to help Selesina out…………..?”
Bethel was wondering what to do.
However, Selesina was the future Queen of this country.
He believed that she needed to be able to handle such things on her own. Once she became Queen, some people would come close to her and some would be hostile to her. Learning how to handle Meria would be a good lesson for Selesina to remember.
“First I’ll deal what Selesina wishes to discusses…….”
Bethel reached the mansion and decided to speak to Selesina who had been waiting for him but—-
“………We’re able to collect honey now and we harvested potatoes for the first time. We also decided on the name of the village.”
“Is that so.”
Selesina didn’t voice out even the ‘Me’ in Meria’s name.
Bethel noticed this and smiled internally. Selesina had probably already thought about what would happen if she were to tell him.
She probably thought that he would tell her that to come back to the mansion and prepare to become the Queen instead of dealing with her.
“I have something that I want to request of you, father.”
“Unn?”
“Can you please approve of Selin as soon as possible?
We want to use the potatoes we harvested to do some business.”
Right now the village of Selin had no income.
For that reason, she quickly wanted to able to trade with other places. Honestly speaking, Selesina was too busy to think about Meria.
Bethel heard his daughter’s request and nodded.
“Alright, I know that you are doing your best every day. I’ll complete the procedure during the day tomorrow and you should be able to move freely by the day after tomorrow.”
“Thank you, father.”
Bethel watched Selesina break into a big smile Bethel also loosened up.
Until now his daughter was always at the mansion and never left the house and he didn’t really like that.
He was really glad that he gave her the position of the acting Lord.
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He is a good father 🙂