Became the Hated Illegitimate Son of the Duke in Romance Fantasy

13 – Episode 13

Gorgeous banquet hall.

Many men and women are holding hands and dancing among them.

Invited musicians play magnificent yet cheerful music to add to the excitement.

On the walls of the building, pot-bellied people talked about business, knights with strong bodies talked about honor, and beautiful women eating snacks and drinking tea talked about love.

And I, who doesn’t belong anywhere, was watching Xenia from a distance, alone.

After being escorted by the duke, they walk to the middle of the banquet hall and dance a simple dance.

I wonder where the usual Xenia, who used to be active and ran amok, with her graceful smile as she dances a waltz that goes round and round to the rhythm of her three quarters.

The blunt duke looked at Xenia’s face and was happy with a smile on her eyes dripping with honey.

Only the back of the Duchess could be seen from the back to see if she was having a conversation with others.

I’m not sure how the banquet started.

The Duchess said she would make no sense for me to come in with her, so she asked me to wait an hour or so.

It must have been splendid.

Otherwise the atmosphere wouldn’t be so full of heat.

Xenia wanted to see her triumphant face and her appearance in her venue.

What is Ella doing?

She would have stayed by her side all day and helped her decorate, so she might be tired and resting.

Perhaps you are leaning against the window sill, looking at the gorgeous banquet hall.

I heard that the crown prince of this country also came, but I don’t know where he is.

Maybe if they had met the main character, they would have met for the first time in the garden.

I am not very interested.

If Xenia does nonsense later on, I’m a person who will order my head, no, all the people belonging to this family, to be cut off, but that’s okay.

Perhaps, he looks much better than the villain portrayed in the novel.

How could anyone look at her and point her finger at Xenia?

The one who is more beautiful than anyone else in the banquet hall and shines more than anyone else.

I don’t even know when my birthday is, to the point where I can’t even compare myself to me who doesn’t have a special day.

“Hmm, I don’t think I’ve ever seen her dressed up, but she’s really beautiful.

If it’s a woman, she has to be jealous to the extent that she can’t help it.

“Miss Louise?”

“Why, Eric. Are you surprised? A commoner teacher came into the banquet hall?”

“You’d be surprised, there’s no way those knights standing in front would let you in.”

The teacher came next to me with a slightly reddened face, holding a half-filled glass of wine in one hand, she said.

Wearing a short skirt that came down to her knees and a thin top that showed off her collarbone was quite impressive.

For the past few years, whenever he taught me to study, he was always wearing a suit-like suit covering his whole body.

“Looking at it like this, it’s prettier than I thought, isn’t it?

Even if you usually walk around modestly, women become so beautiful when they dress up.”

As she said that, everyone lit the wine she was holding.

The drink began to leak slightly from the corners of her mouth, so she took out a handkerchief and wiped it off.

“So how did you get here?”

“The successor of the Breslau family is finally showing her face, but there is no family that won’t send someone there.”

Did she say she was stripped of her last name? She

She said that she came to teach me because she was excommunicated from her family and the way to live was difficult.

Maybe it was a lottery.

“A year ago, she became Louise Visconti, not Louise.”

“So, do I have to change my title now?”

“It’s enough if you’re a teacher, but now that I have the same thing in my head, I can’t help it if I don’t want to be called.

Ask me if you have any questions, Master Eric.”

“Not really.”

Anyway, if that’s the case, shouldn’t we go to a place where people gather?

Rather than sipping a drink in a corner like this.

“Boss, don’t you feel unfair?

You’re always going to live your whole life in a dingy place like this. How old are you this year?”

“Sixteen, maybe seventeen.”

“Soon Lady Xenia will be entering the academy.

And high-ranking people like Lady Xenia take people with good blood, but who are classified as commoners, and illegitimate children like the young master.

Even if you take a maid, leave it in the dormitory, because you can’t always take it with you.”

What could be the reason the Duchess left me alone in the first place?

What is the meaning of the words you said to me that day in the rose garden?

For that reason, he must have been saved and brought back to study.

And when it’s over?

I don’t know what will happen.

“I know.”

“Usually, I would treat you like a little brother and treat you like a family member from the same family, but I don’t know.

If you go to the academy, how long can you do that?”

The way I always used to talk to me in class has disappeared.

Rather than imparting knowledge, he throws his personal opinion at me as if mocking.

But even if you say things that everyone knows in a sarcastic way.

“Until yesterday, he was definitely a teacher who just said what he had to say.”

“She was Louise until yesterday, an idiot who was excommunicated from the family and has only head knowledge.

Her lady, who had run away from her home, came in as a tutor to the duke’s family after just one day, unable to endure hunger.”

I guess so.

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen someone I liked so much while eating on the day we first met.

“So you’ve been reinstated, but won’t you go back to your family?”

“I want to go back because I’m missing something. The monthly salary I get from sitting here is better than my monthly allowance.”

It’s good that this place is good.

How nice it is that even though they beat you, they feed you, put you to sleep, and teach you to study.

It’s much better than the stupid slums.

I don’t know why you’re whining about starving for a day.

The music stopped.

And applause fills the venue.

Since everyone was clapping, it was awkward for me to just stand there, so I pretended to clap my hands.

And then Xenia and the duke lightly bowed their heads in the middle of it and then retreated from their seats.

Then the maids began to move the table with all kinds of sumptuous and beautiful food to the middle.

The atmosphere starts to relax slightly while being distracted, and the music starts playing light, but comfortable and upbeat music that you won’t be able to hear unless you concentrate.

“And then I found a new job.

I’ll see you in a month. Goodbye.”

After saying that, Louise put her lips on my cheek and started walking away.

Then she meets someone, hugs her, and starts talking.

I wouldn’t be able to talk to someone I don’t know so comfortably from the start, so maybe it’s a family I haven’t seen in a while.

It’s been a month, Academy.

I guess so.

My cheeks were slightly moist, I ran my palms down.

There was a lot of red on the gloved hand, whether it was the lipstick or the wine I had just drank that wet my lips.

Xenia, who can be seen even from a distance thanks to her fancy dress, is being greeted by countless people.

I don’t know where the phrase that said, “Keep away all the people who approach you and don’t let them come near you”, But seeing them greet each and every one and even shake hands is very new to me.

Because it seems that there is no such thing as death.

Then Xenia meets her eyes and smiles brightly and waves her hand.

To avoid being distracted, she moved to the garden outside the venue.

When I turned my back, I caught a glimpse of a puzzled look on my face, but what can I do?

Everyone here except you must hate me.

There were a lot of rustling bushes in the garden filled with large trees and well-maintained plants.

If you climb on top of a building and look out the window, you’ll see everything, but those humans don’t know.

Or maybe the wind is really blowing.

If it was here, no one would see it.

I just sat down on the sidewalk.

If you’re a little discouraged, it might be because you’re depressed.

The floor was cold and the weather was cool.

I suddenly looked up and saw the moon floating in the sky laughing at me with its mouth raised.

Looking at that made her feel bad, so she lowered her head.

“Hey, you’ll catch a cold if you sit here.”

Someone talked to me.

I don’t want to answer, I don’t want to raise my head, so I just stay still.

“Hey.”

“Just go.”

“…… Do whatever you want, even though I was worried about you.”

Then the woman I thought she was going to sit down next to me.

“Look, it’s cold as expected.”

I was embarrassed and asked in an aggressive tone without knowing it.

Without raising his head, of course.

“What are you doing?”

“I came out of the banquet hall because I was frustrated, but I saw a person who gave off a look of melancholy.

Ah! Shall we introduce ourselves?

My name is Misty, Misty. What about that one?”

Only then do I lift my face.

To confirm the face of the human being, the protagonist of this world.

“Um, did you get anything on my face?”

After staring at it for a while, I got up and decided to go back to the banquet hall.

There is nothing good about being entangled.

The so-called high-ranking people, that is to say, those who are higher than the duchy and humans will be seduced by this woman.

“Hey, where are you going all of a sudden!”

As I tried to escape from the main character and return to the banquet hall, a familiar girl stood in front of me.

“Eric?”