I Reincarnated as a Noble Girl Villainess But Why Did It Turn Out This Way? Ch 22

The sunlight was streaming down at the end of spring, on a neatly arranged assortnt of sweets on the garden table, but I only listened to the female noble in front of while occasionally responding to her.

Sitting across from , chattering away for the last hour was Senior Viscountess Daniela Felhi-Berendorf, aunt to Senior Baron Felhi, a financial minister of the palace, and she was a domain lord from the Artsbelf region northwest of the royal palace.

“Anyways, that knight really couldn’t read the mood! Choosing sothing like earrings to give a woman, he really lacks consideration!”

Since Earl Terejia was currently boating on the pond with the other male nobles, and other than the servants, only this woman was left with , but her topics weren’t really sothing that would be ant for a six year old. I wonder if she’s actually saying all this to Kamil standing behind who was being so still all this ti like a statue.

At nineteen years old, she was actually younger than her nephew Baron Felhi, she had gotten married at sixteen and beca a widow last year when her husband passed away, and she was only interested in the romance gossip between n and won at the royal palace.

Since her husband had passed away, she inherited his position and beca the Viscountess of a small domain near the royal capital, but she left its managent almost entirely up to her head steward, and it seems that she lives here in the royal capital instead.

Having her dumped on as my conversation partner without taking into consideration the difference between our ages, of course this had to be an episode from my entrance into the florid noble society. She started from which young noblen were nice and handso, and continued with who seed to getting along with each other and who danced with who. And currently, she’s getting heated up after she reached the topic of recalling about various unfortunate n.

“Ahh…… Is it that bad to give won earrings as a present?”

“It’s common sense for western nobles. Earrings should given from a woman to the man they love. For n, they usually only gift them to other n as a sign of true friendship.”

“I understand, so that’s how it was.”

What’s with this custom. A man giving another man an accessory as a sign of true friendship, seems like such a mysterious custom to , so I replied reflexively with a perfunctory answer.

“It’s a venerable tradition. In the ancient story about Ugaria’s knights, two n who shared an earring each would protect each other’s backs on the battlefield.”

What’s with this, I wonder if this was a roundabout way of expressing homosexuality back in the day for them?

Two n sending accessories to each other, no matter how I look at it, I can’t see it as simply declaring true friendship to each other. When I nonchalantly checked Kamil’s expression as he stood behind , he seed slightly uncomfortable, and he didn’t really seem convinced either. It seems that my sense was most likely accurate.

However, if there really are records of the country that ca before the Holy Ar Xia Kingdom, Ugaria, then it does make sense that such a custom is present in western Arxia.

Western Arxia has a strong sense for preserving traditions and customs from the Ugarian era. Since the Jugfena region has its own customs left by ancient tis, probably the entirety of Arxia is like that as well.

“That’s why, for a man to give a woman earrings as a present, is like declaring he doesn’t see her as a woman. If only he had ever been to the royal capital, of course he should have known!”

As Viscountess Berendorf got even more heated up while rembering that man, I just replied is that so, and pretended to be taking her seriously. Right now, Earl Terejia is probably speaking to her nephew Baron Felhi about the main issue, and I was only speaking with her just in case.

When the nobles returned from their boating trip, today’s tea party changed locations to a different house for dinner.

Today’s goal was to get as much financial assistance from the kingdom as possible from the financial minister Baron Felhi and his noble colleagues, and since the earl had already contacted them about the issue via pigeon before, today we’re here to greet them as a matter of courtesy.

In fact, it seems that we’re staying here for an extra day in the royal capital specially so that I can make so connections with the nobles in the royal capital. Since we had accounted for an extra day’s ti while visiting the royal capital, this is no problem.

“What happened?”

“There’s no problem. Originally, I had loaned money to their fathers several tis before as well.”

Earl Terejia unceremoniously returned with a nonchalant tone of voice. This earl, he didn’t simply have connections, he used debts from their parents’ generation to choose collaborators to work with this ti, eh. Even I felt slightly chilly at his outstanding competence and abilities.

For sothing he did a generation ago to still have such a large impact, noble society must be indeed completely interconnected. When I thought about how he managed to increase the budget for financial support from the kingdom for the refugees to 1.5 tis its original amount, I carved how important these types of things were into my mory.

The tea party during the day had been at Viscount Avon’s older sister’s house, and when we hurriedly joined the private dinner at Earl Trada’s house, we received a rather strange level of welco for just Earl Terejia.

Well, after all, Earl Terejia is the younger brother of Marquis Rittergau, who is the pri minister as well as the Terejia family head. While he’s in the countryside now, there’s still probably many people that want a good relation with him simply because of who his older brother is.

As if to prove right, Earl Terejia was imdiately surrounded by people, while Kamil and I went around greeting the important nobles courteously, then Claudia joined us for so reason, and the three of us quietly had so food in a corner of this venue.

“W, why isn’t Charlie wearing a dress and you’re in knight attire instead?”

“There’s no ti or money to get a complete set of dresses or accessories. Besides, in the House of Lords it’s been determined that the proper wear for minors should be knight attire.”

As we enjoyed the beef braised in red wine, I answered Kamil who seed to be smirking for so reason with today’s excuse.

In Arxia, males have priority for succession to the peerage, so there wasn’t even a precedent where an underage girl has succeeded to the peerage before. Normally there would be more relatives. In my case, since my father had done his best to eradicate all his own relatives apart from his children, I was in the unusual situation of ending up being the only person with inheritance rights. Co to think of it, although he’s my father, that person might end up in the history books as one of the most evil villains ever.

So because of that, birthday celebrations for nobles with peerage had only rules for boys, and their formal wear was supposed to be knight attire for the sa reason. And since I feel that wearing dresses is troubleso, it’s actually sothing I welco.

“How nice, Elise-dono. I’d also like to be in knight attire rather than my dress.”

“My na’s not Elise, it’s Eliza.”

This ti Claudia had mixed up my na with Elise’s, and she was wearing a sky blue dress. She’s tall and slender with a good sense of style, she’s quite an eye-catching beauty. Since she usually liked to dress in n’s shirts and shorts to move about easier, today’s was a rare appearance for her. However, just like usual she had a mountain of food on her plates, and there was nothing ladylike about her.

And so, we spent so ti chatting and having light-hearted fun, but Kamil who had been laughing suddenly fixed his line of sight on soone.

“……Ah, he saw us, Charlie. Over there.”

“Hm?”

I looked over at the direction he indicated. Soone unexpected was standing there, what’s this, I turned around reflexively, he noticed looking at him as well, and he smiled mysteriously just like before.

It was Margrave Molton.

His beautiful silver hair was shining brilliantly under the light of the chandelier.