It was finally time for my birthday celebration, right when my fatigue had reached its peak from preparing for it every day. Starting from today, for the next three days it’ll be hellishly busy until I can finally take a break.
“……Stop laughing constantly.”
Among the heavily exhausted mood in the air, there was one bastard who was cheerfully laughing. It was Kamil. He was holding his stomach, laughing at my outfit. It’s so annoying, I can’t stand it.
“But! ……Ha, hehehehe……”
What a terrible bastard. So annoying. His voice is infuriating, and even covering up the sound of my own thoughts. Because I’m so tired, even the small things are annoying.
But, the reason why Kamil was laughing so hard was because of the irritating outfit I had to wear. Everyone thinks that I look ridiculous so I’m in a bad mood. I wasn’t able to choose my own outfit for the celebration, it was something the earl had picked out for me.
My hair was coiled in a bun on top of my head, with casual accessories and I was in elaborate, formal knight wear and a mantle. No matter how you look at it, it’s an outfit for boys. Originally, as a respectable girl, I should have been wearing a circlet and bliaud.
“There’s no helping it. It’s the custom.”
Earl Terejia who was next to me said so in a subdued voice. The domain lord had to personally tour the domain while he or she was still a minor for the birthday celebrations. And, for the celebration, the Arxian custom for nobles is to wear formal knight attire. If he hadn’t been dead, my father probably would have been wearing this.
Up until now no young girls had ever inherited the domain lord’s position, so unfortunately I have become the first ever example. Earl Terejia still dressed me in the customary knightly formal attire…… I guess this means that my birthday celebration will be done as if I were a boy.
It’s finally time for me to get on horseback and lead the marching troops. Indeed as Mrs. Marshan had said so before, leading an army really wasn’t for women. Also, riding a horse in a dress would be disastrous.
With this taken into consideration, I really don’t see why Kamil had been laughing so hard up until now. He doesn’t think that this formal attire for boys is unfitting for me. Rather, it’s something more like it’s too fitting.
“It, it’s perfect on you…… Hehehe…… Charlie isn’t cute at all…… Hehe.”
……It’s reversed. It looked much better on me than expected. Is that really so funny? Well, there’s hardly any differences between boys and girls when they’re six years old, shouldn’t it not matter that much what they wear? I feel like I’ll never understand in my life just what is it that this guy finds funny.
Our parade that had left early in the morning passed slowly through the villages. The people were quite different from the last time I had seen them, when they were filled with eyes that had wanted to kill my father and his retainers. Although they still seemed quite poor, it was a longs ways off from the unimaginable time when they were nothing but skin and bones with empty eyes. They’ve improved thanks to the earl.
However, the number of villagers that seemed joyed at seeing me were rather limited in number, I saw quite a few people who didn’t even try to conceal how much hatred was in their eyes directed at me.
I guess they still can’t forgive the fact that I’m a Kaldia.
I didn’t let it affect the smile on my face, and continued leading the parade as I had practiced in training. No matter which village we moved on to, there was a complicated mix of feelings directed at me.
I thought back to when the earl had just constructed the barracks. Now, the soldiers’ murderous intent towards me had faded, their attitudes toward me had gradually eased up from the point of seeming to want to tear me apart with their eyes.
Much like that time, the people are taking out their hatred of my father through me. The eyes say what the mouth doesn’t, is a phrase I suddenly remembered. Everyone’s bitter expressions testified to the veracity of that phrase, as they couldn’t forgive me for being the daughter of that cruel, unforgivable domain lord.
However, at the same time, they also seemed to be at a loss for what to do, and had expectations. After all, it was unmistakeable that my guardian Earl Terejia had been the people’s savior. Therefore, the domain’s people saw not only my father in me, but also the earl. And, because two opposites overlapped, they were lost.
For the domain’s soldiers to finally look out for me, it had taken three months before they got used to me. I wonder how long it’ll be for my domain’s people.
They can’t see the work that’s being done in the domain lord’s mansion. I wonder how long it’ll take for my people to approve of me as the domain lord.
Although on the surface it appeared to be glamorous, joyful revelry, on the inside everyone was actually fully tensed up. There was nobody else who was going to relieve the tension. Otherwise, there wouldn’t have been a point to the earl’s preparing this birthday celebration. I’m a bit amazed at my own wishful thinking, but I still think it’s something worth doing.
The final village we were visiting, Cyril village, had a strange kind of tension to it as expected, just like all the other villages. No…… The atmosphere seemed to be heavier in this village, to the point where I could feel like murderous intentions were stabbing at me through the air.
Because Cyril village is the village that’s the farthest away from the area under direct control, reconstruction has been the slowest here. In other words, the benevolent influence that the earl had was very limited.
Although the villagers had made a sparse runway of flowers along the parade’s path, their expressions seemed more like they were cursing rather than celebrating, it was severely depressing. With the hostility of the villagers, I felt so tense that it gnawed away at me. To them, their hatred towards my father is not merely a thing of the past. It’s to the point where it’s like a lump lodged in their chests.
“……You alright?”
Kamil beside me was worried about me and asked how I was in a low voice, but I only shook my head slightly in reply. Even though the temperature was still chilly, I had a bad feeling about things and sweat was trickling down along my cheeks to my chin.
“I’ll report to the earl. We need to take a break after leaving this village.”
“Sorry about this.”
Even though my response was an apology, Kamil ignored my ambiguous reply and headed for the soldier ranks in the front where the earl was. I was slightly relieved that Kamil had showed some concern for me, and my breathing had improved without my realizing it from the shallow breaths I was taking earlier.
At that moment, there was a sudden commotion from the people lined up towards the right. Right when I thought something had happened and turned to look, half of my vision turned black from a shadow hurtling towards me.
“Uu!!”
Along with a dull thud, pain ran along my forehead from the shock of the impact. At dealing with something unexpected, my body swayed, and I unconsciously grabbed onto the reins.
Ah, when I remembered it was already too late. Since I had suddenly pulled on the reins, my horse neighed and stood up on its hind legs. I was being shaken about so quickly that I couldn’t see clearly, and soon, my body was midair.
My back slammed into the ground, knocking my breath out of me. I couldn’t breathe due to the impact, and along with a strong ringing in my ears, my consciousness was fading.
A large number of people were shouting something. In my blurry vision, I saw lots of metallic silver from the soldiers glittering around me.
What had happened. A rock had been thrown at me.
Who threw it. The villagers. Someone from Cyril village.
Due to a lack of oxygen, I was panting. The soldiers had drawn their swords. The strained tension from earlier had been completely cut. Both soldiers and villagers were panicking.
Don’t kill them, is what I tried saying. Since I was out of breath, my voice wouldn’t come out. I dug into the dirt with my nails out of impatience.
Don’t kill. Don’t kill anyone. If someone is killed now, a grudge shall remain. I could hear the earl’s voice repeating this many times, although it was muffled and distant.
That’s right. Don’t kill anyone. If anyone is killed here today, all the work that’s been accomplished over the past four years will be destroyed in an instant.
Did my voice come out or not. I don’t know anything else that happened, as I just kept saying don’t kill them over and over again in my mind with my consciousness fading.
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Thanks~
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For the chapt~
It’s just pure bad luck that she was the only one they can take their anger out to
~(•w•)~
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I’m not sure poisoning your family counts as “pure bad luck”. Not saying she was wrong, but she was the one who set all this in motion. Can’t exactly chalk it up to luck.
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It would be really funny if what people heard her say was “kill them”
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In Japanese, wouldn’t it be 殺すな korosuna,therefore I don’t think that would happen but…Yeah.That’s true.
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tag capa’n
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still find it weird how shes not old enough to take over the earls job but shes old enough to fight a war
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Well, I think it has more to do with competence than age.
Fighting in a battle can be done at any age (after all, child soldiers are a thing) and I don’t think she would exactly be on the front lines, but running and maintaining the precarious state of political and economic affairs of a province is not something you would want to leave in the hands of a child (although considering who had it before, it would probably be preferable).
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well tell that to children trained to kill in some parts of the world. bigger army diplomacy works even if the bigger army has children in it.
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If I had to say, depending on who the opposing army is, having children in your army is more effective.
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*having children in your army can be more effective.
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Thanks for the chapter!
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Thank you for the chapter. Great work!
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Waaaah!! The drama~~ But… I see a friend for life in the works?! Thanks so much for all your hard work imperfectluck!!!
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No plz no. I hate Kamil. Really irritating character~
Why? I dont know, but I dont like him.
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I… wasn’t talking about Kamil!!! I think her destiny will become linked with whoever threw the stone!!! Also, Kamil is suspicious….
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Lol, yes, that sounds reasonable.
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Thank you for the chapter!
Poor kid
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Dear Diary,
Today is my first birthday celebration, and the first present i received is a rock to the face, and then I passed out for the rest of the day.
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thank you
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I really dont like this Kamil character. He is pretty annoying, so I wish him an early death in the LN~
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Thanks 4 the chapter!
I’m thinking that the one who threw the rock is a kid.
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Thank you for the chapter, things are slow but interesting so far!
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I wonder if there is a conspiracy here.
Let’s have the tragic princess order her soldier to kill her subject. Let’s fan the distrust among the people against the tyrannical ruler. After all, the nobility is corrupt, something like that.
The event feel like foreshadowing of something like that to me.
Thanks for the chapter ^^
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Thank you very much.
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Thank u always for ur great work…
^^…
A twist at last…
:3…
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I am starting to think that the earl is trying to pretend that she is actually a man. Perhaps to reduce unrest at the moment. Or perhaps, he intend to do it seroously but thinks she is too long to understand it.
You know, I wonder why these stories spend so much time in preteens?
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Maybe the idea is that childhood is formative so it’s really important to establish a character’s foundation before really getting into the plot?
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She’s a reincarnated person.That combined with the first few chapters should be more than enough to establish a “character’s foundation”.
Thinking about it some more I think I figured it out. Basically, since it’s an otome game, the high school period is probably the “end game” so they want to delay that as much as possible.
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This is really interesting so far ^^ thanks for translating it!
Btw, is it just me or does anybody else think Kamil will be one of the otome game capture targets?
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Nope, I think he is not.
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Why not? I mean, he seems to have a lot of capture target qualities about him already.
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Too old for school for a game setting I guess.
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This is an amazing story! It’s great to finally see a reincarnation story where the protagonist not only uses their past knowledge, but is also a “regular” person.
Please keep translating, I’m on the edge of my seat with anticipation!
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I don’t think she is regular at all. Someone who at only 2 years old (Who only came to this other world 2 years) to plan to murder her own family and do it successfully. That something with the iron heart person can do. She is special with the heart not the knowledge from our own world though.
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Such harshness poor little Eliza
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thanks a lot!
lol, kamil laughing because the knightly clothes look so good on eliza!ahaha!
ah—! how dare! who dares?! hit eliza with a rock?! she’s innocent!how dare—!!
and yet, what she cares about is the soldiers not killing anyone.
because she knows. She knows that a grudge will then exist, if that were to happen, and it would take a long time for it to heal, if ever.
feels, my feels—-! -rolls around in feels-
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It’s interesting how even while she was passing out, she was yelling to not kill anybody, because of how it’d wipe out all the hard work until now. Even though she rarely narrates having to work hard, she must have worked very hard as well, to care about the work accomplished even more than her own state of health.
Since she heard the Earl’s voice, did he tell her not to kill anyone before she left? Is it an imaginary voice speaking, or did the Earl really feel like he needed to warn a 6 years-old kid not to kill people whenever she goes out? Must be stressful for him to raise kids. xD “Don’t forget your lunch box! And don’t kill anybody on your way out!”
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The way I understood it, the Earl was telling that(not killing anyone) to the soldiers, not to the half-passed out Eliza.
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Kill them all muahaha!!!
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I understand the villagers’ hate towards her father for his evill deed. I hate him too. No one deserves to be treated like they had been treated. But to harm an innocent six year old girl just because she has the same bloodline of the evil you hate, which is something she can’t choose herself, didn’t make you any better than that evil at all. Really, if you have a heart to harm a little child, your morality is mess up real bad.
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