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 melted his heart.”

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

eating, put down her salad fork

was killed by a barbarian in the

Your father was able

“Ahem!”

Countess wiped her mouth

would consider a Brumayer could be so useful? She resembles that crude dancer from head to toe. With her fulfilling the contract, we won’t have to return

reason other than to allow the Brumayers

right! She must be rotting in a

remained to the dukedom was an old villa in some corner of a mountain. Laritte had been sent there with no support. All she had to do now was die a

extremely happy.

the only stain on the otherwise happy Brumayer

sired an

than red hair and freckles, Laritte resembled her dancer of a mother with her pale skin and silver hair. And those were traits that any noble girl would envy at some point in

to that,

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

to get

talking about Laritte. But still, no one scolded her for her choice of words.

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

what a complete fool,

was heading to the mountains where trees were plenty, so

the very end. In truth, Rose was the one who

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

Laritte would be fighting the cold on her very first day in the mountains.

entered the house and lit

realized this fact when she

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

herbs had been useless weeds, but she couldn’t help it.

once, Laritte had gotten lost in

the cold. But one day,

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

“Phew…”

very dusty and had a spooky feeling. The furniture was old, so it would have been unsurprising if a ghost popped

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