Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival [WN] - Chapter 126.1

Everyday Life of a Girl with Peach Blonde Hair Part 2

The assassination of Crown Prince Ervan and the kidnapping of Princess Elena by the Noble Faction ended in an attempt, and two months have passed, and the season has turned to spring.

The noble families involved in that incident and some of the knight families of the Second Order were secretly disposed of by the royalist faction and have now been replaced by another noble family.

Simply put, the noble houses of the noble faction were eliminated, and the royalist nobles who were elevated to their positions settled in. The only thing that would be familiar about that matter would be the fact that a territorial baron in a certain area was promoted and became a viscount, moving from a small estate to a larger estate.

I met this former baron once when I was adopted by Sera. He was a royalist nobleman, a gentle man who had worked diligently for many years. But that was not the main point. The quasi-barons of Layton, who managed one of the cities in that barony, were also promoted to barons and became the lords of that area because of this incident.

In other words, Sera went from being a quasi-baroness of a lower-class noble to a baroness, a middle-class noble with a fiefdom, and I also changed my title from a quasi-baroness to a baroness.

“This is a hassle…”

“Eh, don’t you like it, why?”

Theo, who had been accompanying me in my leg recovery training, suddenly stopped with a curious look on his face at my muttering.

“Yes, but first, you are showing a gap.”

“Whoa.”

I brushed up against Theo with just a step without swinging the hem of my long skirt, kicked him lightly in the back of the knee causing him to tumble, caught off guard, head first, to the training ground. Well, Theo was still a Rank 3, so I doubt he would get hurt from something like this.

My leg, which had suffered nerve damage due to my recklessness, had recovered enough to be able to fight after two weeks or so. I was happy to see that it was healed, but the therapist told me to rest for a month and then train in regaining mobility, just to be safe.

I thought that the injury was the same as when I used the “Original Combat Skill” before it was recognized as Iron Rose. However, considering that my agility value suddenly increased by 2 during the last battle, it seemed that I may have undergone a physical transformation as well.

I could have done the training in the academy, but since I often went to Capital to check on the repair of my armor and adjust new equipment that I ordered from Gelf, I borrowed the Adventurer’s Guild’s training facility in Royal Capital for combat training that involved weapons.

Theo heard about this from somewhere (probably from Sera) and offered to be my training partner.

Theo, who was technically my brother and a dark knight who would be my colleague on this mission, would be someone I would have no problem showing my skills to. Especially since Sera asked me to train him, mercilessly, so I didn’t have to worry about him.

For serious combat training, it would have to be Sera or Viro who would be my instructor, but for functional recovery training, Theo would be just the right partner. I thought about asking Feld for serious training, but Gelf, with his head in his hands, told me it would be better not to do so for a while.

To tell you the truth, I felt bad asking him to go with me to Royal Capital for this level of training, but it would seem that Theo needed a reason to approach Elena’s mansion since the target of his protection was different from mine, and Theo, who was worried about me, went as far as to accompany me on his days off to accommodate my training.

As I recalled… that strange girl who was there last time was Theo’s escort target.

“Don’t get distracted. You will die if you are careless, especially if you’re alone and surrounded by ogres.”

“No, no, no, if you’re alone and surrounded by multiple ogres, you’ll usually die!?”

I helped the fallen Theo to his feet, and he puffed out his cheeks in frustration as he complained. But looking at the frustrated Theo, I began to wonder if this was how it felt to have a little brother.

Still, losing to [his sister] must have something to do with it, and Theo, who was almost eye-to-eye with me, was trying to get fired up and asked to continue the training filled with determination.

“By the way, why do you think it’s a hassle? Isn’t it easier to guard Her Highness as a baroness than as a quasi-baroness?”

I exhaled lightly as Theo asked me curiously while brushing the dust off my thighs.

“Since we, a lower-class noble, are now a middle-class noble with a fiefdom, the chances of us getting entangled with many things would be much higher.”

I had been entangled with the senior nobles as well, because a person like me who was the closest person to Elena, the princess, was a lower-class noble.

Still, because I also served as an attendant, even those who did not know I was an escort could tolerate me to a certain extent, but if I suddenly became a middle-class noble, I would probably receive a lot of scorn from lower and middle-class nobles who assumed that I was promoted because of the princess’s authority. It was not a good idea to make more enemies when we did not even know who our enemies were.

Besides, even if I was Sera’s adopted daughter, it would be easier to leave the family after my work was done if I was a lower-class noble, but if I was a middle-class noble, even if I was only an adopted daughter left, it could become a blemish on the Baroness Layton’s reputation.

Furthermore, Elena told me that now that I was serving her and became a daughter of a middle-class noble, there was a possibility that other middle-class and above noble families who wanted to establish a connection with the princess would ask for my hand in marriage.

I heard that Elena will protect me if I get in trouble, but depending on the noble families involved, there was a possibility that Elena and Sera might also get into trouble.

Furthermore, although I could not make it public, this promotion was a direct reward from His Majesty the King to me for protecting the Crown Prince and the Princess, which made it even more difficult for me to quit my position as a noble.

“I don’t want Aria to be engaged to another noble!”

“From the very beginning, I have no intention of doing so.”

I would be able to turn down a middle-class noble, and no senior noble would probably want me, a former orphan, to be part of their family unless they really needed to, even if I was adopted into nobility. Not to mention that Theo would still be the proper heir, which would also complicate a lot of things.

When the fourth bell rang and it was around 4 p.m., I used [Purification] to myself and Theo and left the guild’s training grounds.

Our attire now was the usual school uniform for me, and Theo was wearing the boys’ uniform, even though he was not a student.

It didn’t matter if we were wearing our regular clothes or adventurer’s gear, but as I often fought in uniform, I wore it on a regular basis to get used to it, and Theo matched me, saying it was to get used to the uniform as he will when he becomes a student next year.

Unlike the local adventurers’ guilds, most of the adventurers in Royal Capital’s guilds were skilled, having dealt with wealthy people such as dungeon hunters and merchants. In terms of rank, they were at least in the upper ranks of Rank 2…in other words, they were as good as Theo.

Since they were all such strong individuals, they seldom used the training grounds for the price of a single silver coin, and the use of the training grounds was almost monopolized by us.

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