The Grand Duchess of the North Is Obsessed With Me

20 – Grand Duchess’ Birthday Party (2)

I remembered that it was Elencia’s birthday.

But it wasn’t my fault for not remembering it. Until last year, Illencia’s birthday party hadn’t been held so loudly as to make it a torch.

Since it was a modest birthday party, I didn’t expect it to be with such a fuss.

“Looks like it opens a little wider this time.”

“Illencia is also 11 years old now. From this birthday, it will become a full-fledged social occasion.”

“… Hmm.”

So that means it’s not going to be a small birthday party like before, but it’s going to be really grand like a party.

The moment I heard that, I couldn’t help but let out a sigh.

“Cain, you will be visiting as the representative of Balenciaga, so you must be prepared.”

“Oh, I’m surprised.”

“… I feel sad for some reason.”

My father, who was sitting at the top table in the restaurant, opened his mouth.

Since he didn’t have the original body’s presence, I was unknowingly surprised and my father said with an embarrassed expression.

I handed an apology to my father, who has black eyes and dark hair like mine, and smiled vaguely.

“By the way, am I going as the family representative?”

“Then your name was written on the invitation from the Grand Duchess.”

Usually, in such a social arena, it was most appropriate for the person who represented the family, that is, the person who would be the successor of the family to go.

It is ambiguous to say that it is right, but it was a general case anyway.

But our family was just a mediocre family that had no interest in central power in the first place.

Besides, in this case, the grand duke’s family specifically invited ‘me’, so it was strange for someone else from the family to go.

“… That would be natural.”

What is the reason for the grand duke’s family in the north to send an invitation to our baron’s family?

When you become the grand duke’s family, you don’t have to send invitations, everyone will come on their own.

It was just a superficial reason.

Valencia Male It’s probably just to invite ‘me’, not an artist, to her birthday party.

“So, you should go well prepared. On the surface, it’s a family that was invited.”

“…… Saying that makes me feel like a gift.”

“Well, wouldn’t it be similar?”

Ha ha ha.

I scratched my head as I looked at my father, who burst into a hearty laugh, with cold eyes.

It’s a joke too.

Thinking so, I turned my gaze to her mother, who avoided my gaze and covered her mouth and smiled.

… You’re kidding, right?

Say yes please.

Feeling chills for some reason, the meal where I couldn’t laugh alone was coming to an end.

#

“Go carefully.”

“… Yes, Father.”

After bowing my head and exchanging greetings with my father, I grabbed my cumbersome clothes and got on the carriage.

My mother was already sitting in the carriage, and I took a small breath as I climbed next to her.

It was a luxuriously decorated carriage, but to others, it was not that fancy, only letting people know that it was a carriage ridden by a nobleman.

Still, for a baron like us, he probably paid quite a bit of attention.

“… Mom, you still have a long way to go, so relax a little.”

Flinch!

I spoke to my mother, who was seated gracefully, lamenting my condition of not being able to untie these uncomfortable clothes even though I was sitting in the carriage.

My mother, who had been holding her posture rigidly due to tension, flinched and trembled at my words, relaxed her strength, and sat down comfortably.

… The clothes are too uncomfortable. But if I loosen it, I can’t fix it again….

This was obviously a huge and weighty concern.

The clothes are too uncomfortable, but I can’t fix it. I want to stay still, but the clothes are too uncomfortable.

Actually, the clothes I wore were just made by improving my family’s uniform a little, and it wasn’t too cumbersome.

However, as I said in my previous life, I was just a factory worker and had very little outside activity, so I had never worn a uniform like this.

Moreover, since there was no such thing in this life, the uniform worn for the first time changed the arc of discomfort.

“… Whew.”

But if I thought about it, what would I do? I just sighed and gave up, staring blankly out the window.

The sky is blue again today.

Just like that day.

Fire!

The kiss of Elencia that happened that day? When I think of , my face turns red again for some reason.

Resting on her chin and frowning, I naturally thought of Illencia with a smile or something.

A white face and beautifully flowing black hair.

Red eyes and long eyelashes curved like a beautiful crescent moon. Beautifully high nose and rosy cheeks. And the soft, bright red lips that touched her cheeks.

Even the beautiful flower garden behind her could not tarnish her beauty.

It was just a background that made Elencia’s beauty shine.

“Really… A fox is right.”

I smiled softly while muttering as if lamenting the memory of that time that came to my mind again.

That small whisper that my mother, who looks at me in wonder, won’t hear.

Illencia, this is what I want.

#

The biggest place in the North.

There are no two suns in the empire, but it is a mansion so large that those who do not know the circumstances will mistakenly wonder why the imperial palace is located in the northern part of the country.

Some say that it is excessively decorated, while others say that it is worthy of its dignity, but they do not open their mouths about the people who live in it.

Archduke Atrian Khan Derdamius.

Owner of the Grand Duchy of Dedamius, who is respected and overwhelmingly supported by the northerners both in name and reality.

Archduke Atrian looked at the busy servants through the window with a satisfied face.

The cold-blooded Archduke Atrian was in a pretty good mood these days, to be exact.

It was a symptom of the daughter’s emotions, which she considered useless at all, rising again.

Speaking for a moment, Archduke Atrian was a being who had everything.

Power? He was the grand duke of the north, said to be the second strongest in the empire after the emperor.

Having no intention of taking more than that, he was content with that power.

Money? He is the Grand Duke who rules the North. The amount of money he spends a year is enormous, but he had so much money that it was barely noticeable.

Trust? Strangely, the most deified and divine being in the North was not the emperor, but the grand duke.

It was natural for the people to support the grand duke, who always took the lead in fighting the barbarians in the cold north rather than the emperor who ruled the empire in the safest and warmest land far away in the empire.

There was nothing lacking in him who had many other things.

Grand Duchess Derdamius could only have one child in her lifetime, which was both a curse and a blessing.

Curse for parents who don’t see many children.

It was a blessing for the grand duchess who had to safely rule the north by conserving their strength.

Born that way, Ilensia Khan Derdamius was a child that Atrian liked.

Cold, unfeeling, cold.

He thought he had a very suitable personality as the next head of the grand duchy.

Yes, I thought ‘I did’.

That’s why he didn’t like his wife who was trying in every way to change her daughter’s character.

Since ancient times, the personality of a ruler had to be like that.

[I’ll leave it to the mother when it comes to children, Your Excellency the Grand Duke.]

However, he just let it go at the words of his wife, who was talking to him with a cold face he had never seen before.

Because his daughter wouldn’t change anyway.

Atrian, who thought so, had no choice but to correct his thoughts.

Gradually walking around the Baron of Valencia and watching Ilencia change, I felt a bit uneasy at first.

For some reason, it felt like her daughter, the heir to the grand duchy, had been taken away.

How are you now?

Alright, I’m so happy.

I resent my past self so much that if I go back to the past, I won’t die… No, I wanted to beat him right before he died.

Elencia smiling? So beautiful!

Shy Elencia? So cute!

Of course, it’s only gotten better than before, but there are still few expressions and emotional expressions are rare.

Atrian, who had always looked at the expressionless Illensia, could notice subtle changes in her expression.

Lovely, cute, pretty… He gained another happiness by finally understanding the feelings of her father raising her daughter.

“Your Excellency the Grand Duke.”

“… Are the preparations going well?”

Atrian, who had been smirking as he recalled the image of her Illencia, hurriedly changed her expression at the sound of her voice beside her and asked.

Behind him, the butler couldn’t check his expression because Atrian had his back.

“Yes, everything is being prepared without a hitch.”

“Although it has been delayed for a year, it is the official first birthday party for Grand Duchess Illencia, so prepare without any flaws.”

“Okay.”

Erasing the image of the butler walking away from his mind, Atrian snorted strongly.

My beloved daughter’s first official birthday party.

The Crown Prince said that he would prepare to the extent that he would never be pushed back by the Crown Princess.

He promised again and again.