Chapter 8: Bertia(12 Years Old) (2)

In the end after that, I managed to send Bertia home. She was too embarrassed to have a proper conversation though, so I couldn’t have a thorough talk with her.

From what I understand from what she told me, Originaly marchioness Nochesse was already dead at this time, thus there should be no way that a she would have a brother. But since now she is pregnant with him, there will be a big change to the [scenario].

Thus that made her very worried about the future.

“I told her that there is a possibility of it being another daughter… a male heir is splendidly born. It should be a happy occasion but because of that Bertia’s anxiety reached it’s climax.”(Cecil)

“I’m pretty sure she’s crying herself to sleep right now” (Zeno)

“Well it’s bertia we’re talking about you know. It might take time but let’s hear her out. Who knows just listening to her might clear up her anxiety too.

“Did lady bertia didn’t mention anything about it in the letter she sent to you?”(Zeno)

“She did write something there, but her explanation revolves around [conquerable target],[event],[cool-dere],[flags]… It doesn’t make any sense right? Nevertheless, since I can’t make any moves since I don’t know the gender of the soon to be born baby, I put off writing anything important by telling her [I’ll be visiting you soon, let’s talk when we meet]. If I wrote something bad and she rampaged again it won’t be funny you know?

When the letter announcing that the baby boy was born from the Nochesse family, A new letter from bertia came. It seems she is perplexed because she was happy and worried at the same time.

To be honest, deciphering it was a real pain. Rather than writing a reply to ask her about things that doesn’t make sense, I thought it would be better to visit her using my status as a fiancée to congratulate the new born nochessse heir as a pretense.

………… it’s also to prevent her from rushing into the boy’s dorm again.

The matter that time was somehow forcefully settled by emphasizing that we are a lovey-dovy engaged couple and she rampages there because she was too happy that she will get a sibling soon.

If she repeatedly does that, there would be a very big trouble.

Furthermore, what put me off the most is the people that surrounds me usually would give me [what a passionate lover] looks and I want to prevent that if possible.

“Observing her is fun, though her unpredictable actions do bring troubles here and there”(Cecil)

“Oh… I thought you liked it very much?”(Zeno)

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“Only as a means to pass time though”(Cecil)

Heaving a sight, I can see Zeno smiling.

Right at this moment, the carriage stop, signaling that we have arrived in Nochesse mansion.

“Your highness Cecil, thank you for coming all this way to congratulate the birth of our son”(douglas)

Marquis Nochesse, having been prior informed of our arrival greeted us. After giving the gift, I finally met my future brother in law Arnest and marchioness Nochesse.

Marchioness Nochesse, like Bertia has a crimson red and she looked like a very gentle woman. Having just giving childbirth, she apologizes for her misproper dress and light makeup, but she is still a very pretty lady.

And in Bertia’s unaccustomed hand was the new born baby —- arnest he’s a [normal] cute baby.

It’s not my first time to look at a baby since I have siblings.

I don’t hate kids, and I think they’re very cute.

But, witnessing bertia’s rampage all this time, made me think that the new born baby was not a normal boy. Thanks for reading on ManaNovel!

If I think about it carefully, he being born is because bertia made changes to the [scenario].

In the first place, I still don’t know how much I should believe that the [scenario] actually exist.

The epidemic certainly did happen, but with just a little work it was easily neutralized.

Maybe this time it’s the same as that time, and I felt that she shouldn’t worry about it too much.

“Your highness, this is my brother arnest. He’s cute isn’t it? His cheeks is plump and his hand is also soft. If I just touch him a bit he’ll hold on to me you know? He’s really cute……… what should I do?”(Bertia)

Being considerate to the sleepy brother, bertia spoke in a voice gentler than usual and dote on her brother.

She looks happy while looking at him with a warm gaze.

But the warm gaze that looked happy, soon turned to a pleading eyes that ask for help.

Maybe it’s because she’s infront of her brother so she didn’t cry like zeno predicted her, but I’m pretty sure her heart is full of anxiety now

……… It can’t be helping.

“Miss bertia, isn’t it about time for your brother to be resting?”(Cecil)

Hinting that his eyes are slowly closing, marchioness Nochesse gently took over the baby.

The marquis stands at the side while smiling happily.

“emm, then do you want to have tea while arnest is still sleeping your highness?”(Bertia)

Understanding my hints, bertia passes her brother to the marchiness and invited me to a tea.

“Yeah, lets have a tea on our proud garden…” (Douglas)

“Father, could you please don’t interrupt my long awaited meeting with my fiancé? How unbecoming”(Bertia)

The marquis who wanted to have tea together with us was quickly turned down by Bertia.

I feel sorry for the marquis but the talk wouldn’t proceed if there are other people.

Startled by bertia’s word, the marquis was stunned. Without realizing, kuro went beside him and hit his feet with it’s tail as if to tell him [Can’t you read the mood?].

“But still…”(Douglas)

He looked at me with a reluctant gaze and shook his head to regain his composure.

Even by pretense, I did came to [congratulate the Nochesse family for their new born heir]

By right it should be marquis Nochesse himself that accommodate the guest as the head of the family. Even if bertia is my fiancée, leaving it all to her gives him a bad taste.

“I also haven’t talked with lady Bertia in a long time, Can I have a little time for just the two of us?” (Cecil)

Since I gave marquis Nochesse the approval, he felt relieved and nodded his head.

Leaving a young boy-girl that has done their social debut is bad usually, but since we are engaged and there is her maid and zeno behind us, there should be no problem. Not to forget kuro is also there with us.

Also marquis and I also talked a lot about bertia, thus he should have trust on me. If I gave him the approval there is no reason for him to refuse.

“Then, lets heed to my room” (Bertia)

“Bertia, the door” (Douglas)

“I’ll make sure to leave some openings” (Bertia)

Looking startled at bertia crossing arm with me, marquis nochesse’s expression stiffened and gave her a warning. She seemed annoyed by it and brought me to her room.

Marquis nochesse, there is a feeling of trust between us right? It’s not like you’re doubting me right?

And bertia, why don’t you doubt me a little as a man?

Suddenly inviting to your room, a teenager…… even a child growing up, as a lady that finishes her social debut, it is still somewhat inappropriate you know?

Even if you’re inviting, try to show a little bit of wary.

Well I’m quite interested at your room and since you gave me the permission I’ll come inside though……

Bertia’s room has that cute atmosphere in it, and it is tidy contrary to my expectations.

The light yellow paint on the wall and the white laced curtain.

The dark blue carpet that looks like a night sky.

The furniture that’s mixed between white and dark brown color are somehow balanced perfectly

There are lots of cute dolls and statues with laces and it made you think that it’s a girl’s room.

Come to think of it, Bertia likes to wear light yellow or dark blue clothes, does she like this color?

…… There’s no way that it’s because it’s my color right? 8

The possibilities that unintentionally came at the back of my head made me unable to look at her directly.

“Your highness, I’m really sorry about my brother” (Bertia)

Bertia bows her head deep after her maid prepared tea and left the place.

But, I don’t remember she doing something that she should apologize for.

“Bertia, please raise your head. I don’t understand why you’re apologizing. That’s why first please tell me what’s worrying you.”(Cecil)

“your highness”(Bertia)

Raising her head, with tears that slightly appear on her face, she began to talk.

I asked a lot of questions while she tak to confirm the details and finally I could [Understand] her story.

…… In the end I could only [understand], there are a lots of place where I want to retort.

“In short, in the original [scenario], only having one daughter and having no chance to have a heir, the marquis selected a talented person from the branch family and adopted him. That guy is one of the [conquerable target] but since now your mother gave birth to a son, the [scenario] is completely broken

“That’s right. Originaly, gulgan.dress.nochesse should have been adopted by our family. Having the support of nobles as backing, he couldn’t run away and was abused by father in the name of education. And he would then with your highness attend the halm academy as a second year. He is also incredibly gifted and would serve you as one of your close aides.

I see, since a heir has been born, the chance of him being adopted to this family would be 0.

Thus, even if he’s from the branch family of nochesse, without a proper rank in court and monetary problems, there is no way he would enter Halm academy.

If he is really as talented as she speak him to be, it would be such a waste.

“Then if we proceed as the [scenario] goes, mr. Gulgan would eventually fall in love with the [heroine]. But being educated to be the heir of the nochesse family, he inherited some of the dark side. The serious him couldn’t defy fathers order because his family was taken as hostage. Being conflicted and not knowing what to do, the least he could do is to let go of the pure [heroine] that he admire as to not let her get corrupted too.” (Bertia)

“I see…… By the way bertia, last time you said that I’m the one who’s going to be tied the [heroine] right? Why is there another [heroine] tied [conquering target] appearing now?”(Cecil)

A single woman being tied with 2 guys.

What a weird situation.

If it’s the opposite though, if it’s a royalty trying to preserve his blood line, it should be easily approved.

“oh.. it’s my mistake. Did I forgot to mention that there are multiple [conquerable targets] and the [heroine] would be tied to the one she’s closest with?”(Bertia)

“……… yeah, I haven’t heard it at all. But wait, then if so there’s no need for you to be a [villainess] and for me to [break our engagement] right? She should just choose other people”(Cecil)

How could you ever forgot such an important things.

“I-i won’t allow it! Since nochesse family would also fall to ruin in other routes, if that’s the case, I wanted to make my fiancé, you at least be happy by my sacrifice. That is the pride of a first class flowers of veil!”(Bertia)

I think a normal flowers of evil, would never choose to sacrifice herself for the sake of her fiancé though.

“Besides if that didn’t go like that…”(Bertia)

“Bertia?”(Cecil)

“No there is nothing!! A-Anyways, you need to become better than everyone else, surpass every other conquerable target and be happy with the [heroine]. I hate reverse harem so if possible I wanted to avoid that at any cost!” (Bertia)

Just now she averted her eyes right…?

What is she trying to hide? Is it something that she doesn’t want to say? Then I shouldn’t pry too deep into it…… but I’m very curious.

“Fuunn, so I should just surpass all my other rival and go out with that [heroine] right?”(Cecil)

Honestly speaking, I don’t have any interest to other woman after having bertia as my fiancée.

I don’t want to be such un-loyal man you know bertia.

But if I tell her that here, I bet she will rampage around again…… Thus I’ll just refrain from saying anything and try to change the topic.

“Then, who else is the conquerable targets?”(Cecil)

“All of your loyal retainers”(Bertia)

“All?”(Cecil)

“Yeah, all. If I have to give names, then it would be the heir of the current knight captain, Bard Nokins, The second son of duke Charles Leonel, The heir of the current ministry of affairs nert gram, then at the end was the prime minister’s son gulgan. Then including your brother, the second prince Shaun turquoise(?) alfostor.” (Bertia)

I was a little bit surprised.

Other than gulgan who has the same age with miss bertia and haven’t entered the school and my brother Shaun, the others were all the people I’m close with at the Halm academy.

“In this case it’s because [scenario]’s [compelling force] created [proper path], when the time comes, there will be a forced [event] and all of you would admire the [heroine]. “(Bertia)

Slightly excited, bertia started talking about unknown things again.

“but.. but… the route for gulgan, deteriorate into unfixable situation and the [ scenario] would also break. If the [compelling force], forces him to enter our house as an adopted son, then I fear something bad would happen to arnest”(Bertia)

Her tension lowered, her body started to shake and beads tears started appearing in her eyes.

In no time, she started to cry.

“If the [compelling force] didn’t activate, then in your highness’s route and the reverse harem route, you would lose your talented [shadow] that would help you uncover the corruption made by nochesse family.”(Bertia)

Leaving aside her brother arnest that may have something bad happened to him, and me losing my talented [shadow] – someone who provides information. Isn’t [helping my family fall into ruins] is far a tad grieving situation?

No but, if what she says about the role is all true, then I could use this……

“Bertia, in short, as long as that gul-whatever guy to enter the halm academy and become one of my close aides, then there would be no problem right?”(Cecil)

“eeh? I think that should be the case…… it’s only a possibility though”(Bertia)

“I see, then I have a great plan”(Cecil)

“Eh?”(Bertia)

“To sum it up, we should just let him be adopted by other family and enter the halm academy. He becoming my close aides would depends on his abilities. But if he is as talented as you say he is, then there should be no problem.”(Cecil)

“That might be possible, but…” (Bertia)

“I have an good idea, just leave it to me” (Cecil)

“Really?”(Bertia)

“Yeah so please stop crying.”(Cecil)

“Your highness”(Bertia)

There is coincidently a good candidate.

One of the family that was the target of the spy activity of marquis nochesse have been communicating with a troublesome ones.

That house, as far as I know, shouldn’t have any heir at the moment. I should just request marquis Nochesse to adopt him to the family as a spy cum bodyguard and have him infiltrate the house.

To make sure that there is no real harm to his family, I could even order the royal families spies to pose as their family or assign a guard to them or have marquis nochesse took them as a hostage to protect them.

At that time I should just improvise in accordance to his wish.

To be our spies as a condition of course we would support him, and if he is really talented [shadow] I will reward him appropriately.

Nevertheless it’s still if he and his family wishes for it. I want to make this a good relationship with him just in case this works perfectly.

Yeah that should solve everything.

“By the way bertia, I’ve been wondering since earlier. What is [Reverse harem]?”(cecil

After reaching a solution to her problems, I started asking about the word that I’ve been ignoring since the start of our conversation.

“[Reverse harem] is a situation where a single girl with a number of guys…… having a relationship at the same time.”(Bertia)

“That’s how it is, for me I think that loving a single person wholeheartedly has that kind of beauty so I don’t really like it, but there is certainly a [route] that leads to that.”(Bertia)

“Impossible”(Cecil)

To have a single girl having relationship with multiple guys and further to share it between them is just impossible.

Furthermore if all of the people sharing, is my close aides—the one that would govern the country from in the future.

If there is such a thing, all kinds and scandals, and succession problems would come like a wave.

In the first place, having relationship with other people after entering the court as the king or crown prince’s partner…… That in itself is already lese majeste.

In the worst case, the next crown prince won’t have the royal bloodline anymore.

Besides, counting 100 steps back, I don’t like that kind of loose woman.

There is not even a shred of loyalty within her.

Don’t even mention as the queen, the thought of having her as the concubine is already preposterous.

“Including me, I don’t think all of my friends would have a good impression on girl that would have multiple relationship at the same time.” (Cecil)

“Even so, because they loved each other and can’t bear to separate, thus choose to share it between them. That kind of [routes] also existed.” (Bertia)

“That’s why I said that’s impossible. We are not that idiotic.”(Cecil)

“hmmm at this kind settings there usually are some cases where [charm magic had been used], but it’s impossible. If so, then it should be that the [heroine]’s charm is too strong and you can’t defy it? In reality, you won’t know until you have already experienced it.”(Bertia)

“[Charming magic]?”(Cecil)

“It’s a mental interference type of magic. It has the effect of increasing the individual’s charms. But that kind of thing doesn’t exist in this world so there is no way the she could use it.”(Bertia)

“Eh?? But magic exist you know?”(Cecil)9

“I know right, there is no way it exist”(Bertia)

“That’s what I’ve been saying, it exist you know?”(Cecil)

“What exactly exist?” (Bertia)

“Magic exist… well to be exact it’s borrowing the power of the spirit, you could do something similar to the magic you see in the books. But since the spirits always do as they pleases, it’s a rare case that they would make a contract with anyone. Usually they would just make mimicry of things or turn invisible, even being able to be able to look at their figures are very rare and only happens to a small amount of people. That’s why to prevent needless disorder and also to prevent idiots from catching spirits to be able to use magic, only a small amount of high ranked nobles knew about the existence of a spirit. Oh by the way, marquis nochesse also knew about it.”

Hearing me, bertia stood there and opened her eyes widely.