The Villainous Family Loves Me Too Much!

Lucian woke up a few hours later.

“Ah… Where am I now?”

“You’re almost at Viscount Litua Castle.”

Lucian, who was sitting up with his hand on his forehead, looked at the soundly sleeping Viscount and frowned.

“This is so uncomfortable. I should have left you in the middle of the magical beast forest.”

Judging from his tone and demeanor, this was definitely Lucian Felosite, the Archduke of Felosite.

“Hey, Lucian.”

I called his name, and when he looked at me, he pressed his temple as if he had a headache.

“Why are you calling?”

Seeing as he lowered his hand when I called his name, it seemed that he didn’t want to show any signs of pain.

“Could it be… Do you remember?”

“Why? Did something happen while I was asleep?”

Surprisingly, Lucian believed that he had been sleeping. Well, he wouldn’t have known until we told him that I used my ability to enter the ‘space-time rift.’

“Because you seemed to be in a lot of pain while you were asleep.”

“Me?”

He didn’t even remember the pain he had gone through.

“No, maybe I saw it wrong.”

“Don’t worry about it and get some rest. I’ll take care of it.”

Seriously, what’s the use of worrying about this guy? Doesn’t he know how to rest when he can’t sleep?

I, who hadn’t been able to sleep the whole time, fell asleep right away, and after that, I regretted falling asleep so easily.

* * *

“Are you awake, Your Highness?”

When I opened my eyes to the sound of someone’s voice, we had already reached our destination.

“Ale… xi? Why am I here… !”

When I opened my eyes, I was on the bed.

As soon as I realized that, I immediately got up.

“Oh, I’m sorry!”

I was about to throw the blanket off and get out of bed, but someone’s strong grip held onto my arm.

“Just rest for a while.”

Lucian glanced at me as if he didn’t quite like it. He casually pushed me back onto the bed and pulled the blanket over me.

“But I came here to work, and if I just lie around…”

“Such words sound too bitter, Your Highness.”

Alexi said affectionately as she sat down beside me.

“Weren’t we friends before we had this business relationship?”

I couldn’t help it. If she said that with such a warm expression, I couldn’t really retort.

“Besides, you used your abilities quite extensively all at once.”

A man’s voice I hadn’t heard before. There was a strange warmth in the sharp words.

“By any chance…”

Short orange hair, a warm face, not as tall as Lucian but still quite tall. Manners exuding from his body.

“Your Highness, this is my fiance, Marquis Hughes Lloyd.”

“I greet Her Highness the princess, the glory of Castien.”

He delivered the polite Castien-style greeting with an elite demeanor.

Marquis Lloyd was, in every sense, a perfect nobleman of the Empire, with no flaws.

“But using abilities like that?”

I pretended not to understand and glanced at him discreetly.

Even if he was a noble, could a mere aristocratic young lord know that I had ‘used my abilities extensively all at once’? Lucian, the Archduke himself, hadn’t even realized it.

“It might be better to introduce myself again, Your Highness.”

Suddenly, the Marquis knelt down, raised his arm, and drew a magic circle to prove that he was a high-ranking magician, which was a method high-ranking magicians used to prove their identity to the imperial nobility.

‘Perhaps…?’

Short orange hair, a warm face. He was a magician who had reached the highest rank among high-ranking magicians.

“Magic tower lord Tenziyon, I am honored to meet you, Your Highness.”

Marquis Lloyd is Tenziyon, the Master of the Magic Tower?!

I was so shocked that I didn’t even have time to react, and I instinctively stood up to cast light onto his magic circle. This was an imperial protocol.

“Please omit that today, Your Highness. To endure in Felosite, you must save your abilities.”

* * *

After the surprising encounter with the Marquis, the lord of the Magic Tower, I fell asleep again against my will, and I ended up sleeping through the entire day.

‘Oh, no! The wedding is just a few days away! I’ve wasted so much time like this.’

The next day, the four of us had breakfast together and then decided to brief each other on the wedding plans.

“Do I really not need to be here anymore?”

“That’s right. I don’t know why you’re still here when you’re not helping at all, Your Highness.”

“I have to stay a bit longer. It seems that keeping my wife together with someone like the lord of the Magic Tower isn’t ideal.”

The lord of the Magic Tower and the Archduke didn’t seem to be on good terms with each other, befitting a relationship in which they fought with magical powers.

They didn’t appear to be openly hostile, either.

“Now, let’s start the briefing for the wedding of Marquis Hughes Lloyd and Lady Alexi Litua, the Viscount’s daughter.”

I presented the ‘Sweet Wedding Concept’ that I had previously proposed in front of Chef Phil, Sylonne, and Nox.

Fortunately, both of them were impressed with all the ideas I had suggested and willingly accepted them.

“And the expenses for the wedding will be covered by the Marquis family’s generous donation of 150,000 Tium.”

Lucian had won 400,000 Tium from the game with Viscount Litua.

However, the wedding expenses thankfully didn’t exceed 150,000 Tium.

Therefore, Lucian and I decided to use the remaining 250,000 Tium to pay off the Viscount family’s debt and allocate the remaining 50,000 Tium for Viscount Litua’s alcohol addiction treatment.

“Thank you so much.”

“Don’t misunderstand. We’re doing this because we don’t want your children to bear that debt, that’s all.”

“If I hear that you’ve spent the money from the Felosite nobility on gambling again, you’ll be in serious trouble.”

As we discussed and solved each issue, someone caught my eye.

“Cough, Your Highness, cough, Lady, cough, I…”

Larry, Alexi’s younger brother.

He suffered from an unknown respiratory illness, and it seemed that he hadn’t been outside for a long time. He looked quite frail.

“I don’t think Larry will be able to attend the wedding that day.”

“Ah, no, I’ll go, sister, cough!”

Sitting in a wheelchair, Larry tried to speak but ended up coughing up blood.

“You’ve been out for too long. Let’s go inside, Larry.”

Due to the difficult circumstances of the Viscount’s family, they couldn’t afford to hire many servants. Therefore, there were only two maids, and Alexi and the housekeeper took turns taking care of Larry.

“It was nice to meet you, Larry.”

As Larry went inside the house, Alexi’s expression suddenly darkened.

“Can I be this happy, Your Highness?”

“Alexi’s happiness will make Larry even happier. So don’t feel guilty.”

Whether or not my words provided any comfort, Alexi showed a smile.

“Thank you, Your Imperial Highness.”

* * *

To properly carry out Alexi and Lloyd’s ‘Sweet Wedding’, an ample supply of cream was more important than anything else.

Especially since Alexi loved white, I thought it would be great if the atmosphere could be created with a snowy feeling.

For that, a sufficient amount of milk was essential.

My grandmother, Countess Kenoch, and my cousin Jonathan volunteered to take care of that task, and so far, things have been going quite smoothly.

The milk cows Lucian brought were of good quality.

The only problem is that Countess Kenochi’s estate is located in a remote rural area even within Felosite, and communication stones don’t work there. So, I had to go there myself to check the supply situation.

Visiting family and working wasn’t all that bad.

But today, things turned out very differently from what I had expected at Countess Kenoch’s estate. No, I could even say it was the worst situation I’ve encountered while preparing for this wedding. 

“What’s all this about!”

Lucian’s gift of thousands of cows… they all had fallen ill due to an epidemic.

“A few days ago, livestock on the farm caught an epidemic. Chickens and ducks died, but I thought cows would be fine as they are not poultry, but this morning…”

“Is there any way? What about a veterinarian?”

“Madam called one, but she said there’s no other way except for culling and disposal.”

It was a despairing answer.