The Reincarnated Count’s Daughter Is the Strongest as She Is Loved by the Spirits, Though She Is Only Wishing for Regular Romance! - Chapter 23.1
Chapter 23 : Hawaiians
Today is the long-awaited day for an outing in town. Finally, I can step outside the castle!
While I wasn’t under house arrest, I did go out of the castle when explaining about the spirits to other territories within the domain. However, I was just passing through my own town.
“Never leave Brad and Gemma’s side. Once you get off the carriage, shrink the spirit beast and leave it out the whole time. Understood ?”
“Yes.”
“Leave the shopping payments to the two of them. Don’t follow people you don’t know.”
I was afraid that if I complained, Father would change his mind and ban me from going out, so I just nodded my head. It seems a young lady doesn’t pay her own bills. Also, snacking during shopping is prohibited. Boring.
The carriage I rode in today was small, with minimal decoration, making Velisario’s emblem stand out even more.
“The Margrave family is popular with the people of the territory, and it is also well known that all members of the family have spirits of all attributes, so this is safer than hiding them.”
Our family hasn’t turned into one of those intimidating yakuza families that people don’t want to get close to, right?
I wonder if it was a mistake to speed through the highway several times in the floating carriage.
“Are you two the only escorts?”
High-ranking nobles, castle guests, and emergency carriages use a different gate than the commoners. The gatekeeper who noticed me seemed extremely worried.
Even though there are only two people accompanying me, it seems that there are many people who are discreetly hiding and guarding me. In addition, the new bodyguard and maid, Gemma, was originally a military mage and possesses three elemental spirits, of which fire and earth are spirit beasts. Brad is a reliable ex-adventurer butler, and then add to that my spirit beasts, and we’re pretty good when it comes to defense.
“Take care of yourself. Please be careful not to fall down.”
“…I am already a proper lady, so I won’t fall down, okay?”
“Oh, I apologize for that. Have a safe trip.”
“I’m going now !”
After waving, I turned around and looked inside the carriage. Gemma was sitting next to me, and Brad was sitting in front of me, watching the current exchange with a smile on his face.
“Why is everyone warning me not to fall? Do I fall that often?”
“I don’t know. I don’t remember seeing you fall.”
“Ah, when I first became a butler, I saw the young lady roll on the lawn several times.”
That was when I was still four years old, right?
Even my older brothers and parents still warn me every day not to fall.
How many times do they think I’m going to fall?
“Since you’re the youngest, people probably always see you with that small image in mind.”
Despite the fact that I’ve grown in height and matured to some extent. I feel like I’ll keep hearing, ‘You used to be a child who often stumbled,’ for the rest of my life…
The carriage left the gate and headed down the hill. At first, the road was empty, and the carriages we occasionally passed were all luxurious.
As I looked outside, enjoying the faint sea breeze mixed in the wind, we soon merged onto the road leading to the main gate where regular carriages pass.
Apparently this place experiences heavy traffic during the morning and evening, and even now, there are carriages loaded with luggage coming and going all the time. The surroundings suddenly became lively with the voices of people, the neighing of horses, and the sound of wheels.
“It feels like the city is thriving when it’s bustling like this.”
“The city is thriving, you know. The economy has been stable recently.”
As we go down the hill, the cityscape gets closer, which has become much cleaner over the past few years due to strict instructions from the military police not to litter. If a tourist spot is dirty, they might not want to visit it again.
As the city became cleaner, the people who lived there began to pay a little more attention to their appearance. Then came the economic boom of the past two years. More people wear beautiful clothes, and more women wear bracelets and hair ornaments.
Girls tend to feel a bit better when they wear their favorite accessories. Even just getting their bangs set well can give them a little motivation. That’s why I hope there will be more shops selling cheap and cute accessories. I’d like to buy some too.
A while ago, when I mentioned to Father that I wanted a hairpin, I was worried about what I should do when he called a jeweler.
If he called them, doesn’t that mean I have to buy something? But I’m only six—is that okay? I was so nervous that I couldn’t touch the jewelry because I felt bad if I put my fingerprints on it.
It’s impossible for commoners like me.
In my previous life, I bought earrings at a 100 yen shop.
“Ah, the person with black hair.”
I said in surprise as I watched the person pass by the carriage.
“Have you not seen them before? There are immigrants and merchants from Luftanen, so it’s not that unusual.”
“Eh ?! This is the first time I’ve encountered them. There’s no one like that in the castle, right ?”
“Is that so?”
Placing her hand on her cheek and tilting her head, Gemma looks elegant and kind. She doesn’t appear at all like someone who could blow away men with magic. A well-known mage in the military, I was surprised when I heard she would become my maid. When I found out that she was the daughter of a viscount, I was even more surprised. While some of her colleagues cried because they thought they had a different social status. It’s because she’s so beautiful.
“There were some mixed-race people in the military, but now that you mention it, I don’t think there were any with black hair.”
“Luftanen has a lot of people with strong magical abilities, so it might not be common for them to have black hair.”
“Huh? Does the color of hair depend on the strength of magical power?”
In my previous life, darker colors were a dominant gene.
Does it mean, in here that color came from the parent with lower magical power ?
Ohh, if the world is different, things like that will also be different.
“There are other factors as well. It seems that people of the central ethnic group will always have children with red hair, regardless of the hair color of their partner.”
“Like Her Majesty.”
“Yes, that ethnic group tends to have hair colors ranging from red to orange.”
Our country is a multi-ethnic nation. Centered around Her Majesty’s ethnic group in the central region, there are people from various ethnicities living here. To them, the people of Velisario territory, who often have platinum or silver hair, are a different race. The robust and tall peoples in Norland are also likely from another ethnicity.
That’s why I’m paying extra attention to the Margrave’s movements. Because it could lead to independence.
“There used to be a noble who, out of a desire for magical power, married a woman from Luftanen as his second wife.”
“Why a second wife?”
“Because our side has a larger country, he probably looked down on her. Also, there were rumors that the family lacked magical power, so he took a wife to increase the magical power of his children.”
Nobility seems like such a hassle, right ? But if strange rumors circulate, it seems the power dynamics can change drastically. Scary, right ? My mouth is so spiteful that I feel like I won’t be able to talk anymore.
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Translated by : Cutae30