Chapter 01: A Fateful eting
Volu 1 — The Temporary Snow Country Life of the Northern Nobleman and the Raptor Wife
※This is a work of fiction. Nas, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
The ball in the foreign country that I’m invited to once a year.
It is also a place where n and won search for marriage candidates.
The hall’s atmosphere was sowhat buoyant. It couldn’t be helped. There are not many occasions where n and won can socialise.
Leaning my back on the wall with my friend, I made eye contact with the lady in front of .
Her blonde hair was tied up properly and her skin that was showing between the rosy pink dress was shining brightly. I presud as I please that she would be in her mid-teens because of her ineptitude at the ball.
She was still young, but her body was already rather voluptuous. I unconsciously set my eyes on her breasts, but when I turned my sight up looking at her face and smiled her cheeks quickly dyed deep red.
— I can do this!!
It’s a aningless boast, but I have absolute confidence in my looks
My long silver-white hair, rare throughout the world, was braided and hanging down my left chest. The deep blue eyes only appear in our people, too, so although my personality may be questionable I often received praise that my eyes were the most beautiful even amongst our people.
Thus my looks were quite distinct at the ball, so just from my smile won are drawn. Next to , I hear my friend telling , “That’s enough,” but I could not care less.
It’s an opportunity that cos only once a year. I can’t afford let this just pass by.
But nothing in the world goes as one wants.
The lady-in-waiting behind her whispered sothing. Then the lady who was holding her cheeks in embarrassnt quickly left.
“Ah~”
“It’s not ‘Ah~’.”
“But her bust was large.”
“You idiot! If you are looking for a bride do it more sincerely!
“I am being sincere.”
“What part of you!?”
I stare dejectedly at the back of the leaving lady.
As to why this happened, it is because of the rumours that spread during the ten years I attended the ball.
I have beco friendly with ladies here and sotis even got engaged. However, when I take them back to my holand, they refuse, saying, “let us pretend that this talk did not happen”.
“You, you should search for a shrewd wife.”
“I don’t like such won.”
While we were talking, suddenly so cries of won were heard.
When I turned my head toward the origin of the sound, there was one officer striding through the door.
Even without doing anything, that officer was soon surrounded by admiring won.
“Heh~ that’s rare.”
“Who’s that?”
“The [Crimson Eagle]”
According to my friend’s information, the person hogging the lilight was one of the more famous officers of this country. Since the war was over last year, the officer ca to find a partner. Since the officer rarely appeared at balls, the won were excited.
“What, a man? I’m not int……!”
While I was staring at the [Crimson Eagle], we accidentally made eye contact.
That sharp piercing gaze reminded of raptors.
When I made eye contact, I was convinced. That that person is a woman.
“O, oi, Richard!?” (Note: Ritsuharudo in raw, I couldn’t really find a corresponding na. Sothing Germanic I guess.)
Ignoring my friend’s call, I manoeuvred through the ladies like an insect drunk on honey.
The crowd surrounding that one officer was heated up.
“Sieg-sama, is it true that you are marrying!?”
“No!! Please marry !!”
“No, what are you saying!?”
“Hey, don’t push.”
“Out of the way! I can’t see Sieg-sama!”
About twenty won were pressing into each other trying to get closer to the [Crimson Eagle].
So much that they did not realise a man like myself waded through into the crowd.
More like, this country’s won are rather tall. Also because they were wearing high-heels, they were only slightly shorter than .
Even amongst them, the officer was quite tall.
Cutting through the crowd, I calmly stared the [Crimson Eagle] to talk to her.
Even up close, her attitude was impeccable.
Her vermilion hair was cut short and cleanly straightened up. Her dark grey eyes were looking at one uncommonly beautiful lady nearby. Military decorations adorned the uniform as proof of battles. That stature could only be described as gallant.
“Sieg-sama, please marry !”
“You can’t do that! I’m going to be happy with Sieg-sama!”
“Sieg-sama, if you co to my place there won’t be any hardships.”
To the simultaneous outburst of proposals, I also joined in.
“Um, please marry !!”
“What are you saying…… huh?”
The commotion quickly died down.
It must have been the voice of a man that put them off.
“——Ugh, it’s the Snowman of the borderlands (Lappland)!!”
With that as the signal, the surrounding ladies quickly scattered and took shelter behind the officer.
“Why is the Snowman of the borderlands (Lappland) here!?”
“……”
That’s a bit harsh, calling the Snowman of the borderlands (Lappland).
Amidst the chaos, only the [Crimson Eagle] kept her cool.
“Hildegard, who is he?”
“He is a foreign count, milady.”
“Pleased to et you!”
As I cheerfully greeted her, she narrowed her eyes at . Of course, as a display of vigilance.
“……Well, pleased to et you too, hm?”
“Indeed. Pleased to et you, [Crimson Eagle]-sama!”
One of ladies hiding behind the officer scread again. I also heard so one insult that it was rude for the Snowman of the borderlands (Lappland).
‘The Snowman of the borderlands (Lappland)’ is a derogatory term pointing to my uncommon silver-white hair and my holand.
My holand, the County of Levantret, is a barren land covered in snow half the year.
There weren’t any won who would move to such a territory. Already there are many cases where the fiancées I brought by saying that it is a good place ran away.
The sun never rises in winter, and it is still slightly cold in sumr. There is no entertainnt, and the population decreases every year.
It was not that there weren’t any young n in my city. There’s another reason for searching for brides in this foreign land.
Long ti ago, our people were nomads leading reindeers around, marrying within the clan. However, because of that, the life expectancy shortened and there were more sickly children, that not many people could bear children.
Realising that, we recently started introducing foreign blood, half a century ago.
As the only child of the Count’s family, I too needed to make more children so I was searching for a bride here.
Then, as I brought ladies back ho and showed them my holand, I gained the nickna ‘the Snowman of the borderlands (Lappland)’.
“Was it Yukiotoko?” (Note: lit. snowman)
“N, no. My na is Richard Salonen Levantret.”
“Excuse . My na is Sieglinde von Wattin.”
——N, no way, her na is so wonderful as well.
To her dazzling beauty, my eyes felt as if they were blinded.
Sieglinde was a woman full of vigour. I thought my heart was already hers from that sharp shine in her eyes that I did not have.
I don’t know how long we stared at each other, but I cam to from a nearby yell.
“Get away from Sieg-sama you pervert snowman!”
“!?”
Before I knew it, so lady was approaching with her wine glass leaning as if to pour it on .
“Kyaa!”
“……”
A shrill scream resounded from that lady.
A red stain seeped through her dress.
Because I had grabbed her wrist to stop her, the liquid spilled on to her instead of .
Voices of denunciation ca like a ferocious barrage. Of course, I was receiving all the criticism instead of that lady.
“Oh my!”
“How dare he soil a lady’s dress!?”
“Sieg-sama, get away from him!”
“He’s dangerous!”
“……”
The lady whose dress was stained was already wailing. I also wanted to cry.
To that teary-eyed lady, Sieg gently reached her hand out for her. After she whispered sothing to soone who looks like a servant, and soon a maid ca and took the lady away.
While I was thinking how quick she was, she also reached her hand out to !!
Sieg-sama, to be so kind to soone who soiled a lady’s dress, I am moved.
However, only icy cold words ca from her mouth.
“—Shall we talk more in another room.”
“!”
……Uh oh, am I not being treated in a businesslike manner, or rather, isn’t it more like I’m being treated as a reserve solider who committed a cri!?
Glared at with the eyes of a raptor, I silently followed Sieglinde like a livestock about to be sold at a market.
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