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The room became so cold that a chill came in.
As expected, the vassals shut their mouths one after another, perhaps noting the vicious aura.
“Doesn’t there seem to be quite a few people who are dissatisfied with Adelaide’s appearance today?”
“No, there has been a misunderstanding. No complaints. Absolutely not.”
Meanwhile, I could see those who were already here.
I saw Lexit and Harris, who seemed to naturally be here.
The two of them, who seemed to be eating this up, somehow looked at us with a slightly more relaxed expression than before.
They looked a bit embarrassed at the fact that their mother had arrived, but they pretended that nothing was wrong.
“I don’t like it in many ways.”
“So these days, my dream has been to change my vassals.”
We were laughing and talking, but it was so easy to recognize that it wasn’t because we were laughing over the fact that we were happy.
“My, my. The vassals always move for the sake of the Grand Duke. Is there anyone else we can change?”
It was the Marquis who added those words like a wild serpent. He smirked and intervened between us as if he had been waiting for this moment.
“In such a case, the first person to say no is the most suspicious person.”
“No way, haha. Rather, could you explain who that woman is?”
Knowing that my mother was the blonde, gold-eyed woman who looked exactly like me, he rubbed his lips and looked at my mother uncomfortably.
“Other people have not been allowed to come here.”
“Yes, the Marquis is right. People who are not related to the Grand Duke are not allowed to enter. However, Adelaide will no longer just be ‘a person’.”
“That means…”
The Marquis had an uncomfortable aura, knowing that the Grand Duke was busy introducing my mother to them
“Adelaide is the one who will be my wife.”
“Huh?”
“No, I mean…”
Each of them sighed and bowed. Some of them, who had already expected it to some extent from the time my mother came in, only nodded their heads heavily, but those who were usually attached to the Marquis expressed their reluctance.
In an instant, the atmosphere of the room changed. Perhaps I was being obvious, but Allen grabbed my hand.
“Don’t be afraid. Your brother will protect you.”
He was acting cute and showing off. I didn’t hate it, so I held Allen’s hand tightly.
“Okay.”
In the meantime, all the vassals opened their mouths, whether it was planned or not.
“You’re going to put that woman… in the empty seat of the Grand Duchess.”
As if it had hardened coldly, Lexit’s face also hardened as he held Harris’s hand.
I thought he would refute right away, but Lexit was so surprised that he couldn’t speak.
“Of course. Wasn’t this what you wanted? I thought it was this. Didn’t we talk about it last time? After that, you continued to say that I couldn’t leave the Grand Duchess’s seat vacant like this. So I did what the vassals wanted, but what’s the problem this time?”
As if he had something to say, the Marquis and some of his vassals opened their mouths,
“From generation to generation, the seat of the Grand Duchess was from one of the vassals’s families!”
“Well, I think Ellinson wasn’t.”
“That’s… Anyway, not this time because she wasn’t from one of the vassals’s families.”
The nobleman, who was saying whatever, noticed his mistake and bit his lips in a hurry.
“Uh, anyway.”
“Let’s try again, Viscount Leopil.”
“Oh, no. I think I was talking nonsense.”
He quickly shook his head from side to side, but the Grand Duke’s face had already hardened.
“It’s a relief that you know you were speaking nonsense… but you must think that Ellinson was attacked because she wasn’t from one of the vassals’s families.”
They waved quickly, but that didn’t make the situation go away.
“Oh no!”
“I’ll have to wait a little longer to see if that’s really the case or not.”
The air in the room had gotten so tense to the point that it felt cold. The anger didn’t come from the Grand Duke. It was a force emanating from Lexit, who was holding Harris’s hand. It was weaker than Allen’s, but it was a bit more refined.
“But Your Highness, we don’t even know which family that woman came from. It could be a spy who came to harm the Grand Duke.”
“It might be like that.”
At his unexpected words, my mother, Allen, myself and everyone else looked at the Grand Duke.