Record of Wortenia War: Volume 15 by Ryota Hori

Author:Ryota Hori [Hori, Ryota]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2022-07-04T00:00:00+00:00

Later that night, Lady Yulia went to the Mystel Company to report the outcome of her meeting with Ryoma.

Zack Mystel, her father and the estate’s owner, listened to her account, then smiled in satisfaction. “I see. A novel and fascinating idea. He knows what to focus on. I would love to accept him into my family as a son; he would surely help the company grow. A pity, really. He has such talent as a merchant too. Truly regrettable.”

Coming from a man who’d built up his company into a lucrative business, this was the greatest compliment of all. Yet he’d said it to the one person who wouldn’t overlook his meaning.

“Father!” Lady Yulia shouted, her fair brows rising. It was an unusual gesture for her; she always kept her emotions well hidden.

Zack’s comment was inappropriate and almost disrespectful to Ryoma Mikoshiba. This world’s class system wasn’t as strict as Japan’s was in the Edo period, but knights, royalty, and nobility still stood at the top. Zack’s lament might have sounded like he was claiming Ryoma had no talent as a governor.

Lady Yulia was perhaps being overly cautious, but considering her current position, her concerns weren’t unfounded.

Besides, accepting him as your son would mean...

Lady Yulia was undeniably beautiful, but Ryoma wasn’t even twenty years old yet. Lady Yulia was over thirty, so their age gap was substantial. But even if she wasn’t fit to be his legal wife, she could be his concubine. Moreover, their age gap wasn’t all that shocking in this world. In most cases, men spent a long time setting up their fortune and career, so they could be in their forties or so when they started looking for a bride in her teens. It wasn’t unheard of for women of high social standing to search for younger grooms either. It was perfectly possible that Lady Yulia, with her innocent yet alluring charm, could enter into an arrangement.

Nonetheless, her father’s implication that she should be sent to Ryoma was crude. After all, it hadn’t been long since her husband passed away.

I didn’t love him, and Ryoma is talented enough that I could entrust our futures with him, but...

A widow couldn’t marry her husband’s killer; it would look incriminating. Plus, Lady Yulia was already infamous among Rhoadseria’s nobility for being a foul woman and an evil wife. There were instances where a noblewoman married the victor of war to preserve the family line, but that was only in times of emergency. Lady Yulia’s new lord didn’t need to draw that kind of attention to himself, so her concern was understandable.

Zack merely stared at her, amused. “I was joking, my dear,” he said, waving a hand dismissively. “No need to take my words so seriously.”

All too quickly, the smile vanished from his features.

“Or maybe you should take them seriously,” he murmured, leveling a probing glance at his daughter. “I’ve asked you to take on difficult tasks for me for years now. If there’s anything I could do for you, I’d do it.

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