In the office devoid of his father, Darphy, who was montarily stunned, collected himself and stood up from his chair.
「H-hold on, please wait. Father!」
Darphy who watched as Dante leave the room happy about his retirent, chased after him upon regaining himself.
Retirent? Change of heads? What is Father saying? Darphy was followed Dante while still trying to fully untangle his thoughts.
The docunt handed by Pri Minister Balza was a docunt for a change of head to be submitted to the House of Lords? Eh, ? Succeeding the territory?
Darphy couldn’t wrap his head around the unexpected developnt.
「Minimal clothing and underwear should be fine. Wait, maybe I should bring Freesia’s ou
When Darphy caught up to Dante and entered his parents’ bedroom, there he found his father muttering to himself as he packed.
「Father!」
「Hm? Oh, Darphy, what’s the matter?」
「Don’t what’s the matter ! What do you an by change of heads!?」
「Even if you ask , that’s really all there is to it.」
Contrary to Darphy’s agitation, Dante’s calm response only exasperated Darphy even more.
「No way, the reason you are abandoning this territory isn’t because you want to be by Sister’s child’s side, is it?」
「Darphy, it’s not sister’s child. Address her properly as Etoile.」
「No, that’s not the problem!」
「Don’t yell, Darphy. You’ll go bald.」
「I will not go bald!」
Where did his strict, taciturn, father go? Ever since his grandson was born, he beca a totally different jolly person, and that left Darphy confused, frustrated, and irritated, an utter ss of emotions.
「Darphy, His Excellency the Pri Minister has shown forethought and taken asures to smoothen the succession of the House to ensure Freesia’s and my presence in the Sanctuary to increase the connections our nation has with the Sanctuary. This was their decision. It can not be overturned.」
「M-my position in the order is……」
「Hmm, of course, you’re leaving it, are you not?」
Darphy fell to his knees in despair at surging developnts and change of head after his return.
「Don’t worry, Darphy. I won’t leave for the Sanctuary tomorrow or the next day. You can learn from about the territory until I do.」
「……when do you plan on departing?」
「Hmm, I would like to leave within ten days at most.」
「Two days or ten days, that’s not much of a difference! At the very least, watch over until I am capable of managing the territory by myself!」
Even though Dante returned just today, he said he would leave for the Sanctuary again within ten days at most, so expectably, Darphy couldn’t agree with this. ℝ
「Impossible.」
「Eh!?」
「I’m saying it’s impossible.」
「No, you have a responsibility as the head of the family, Father……」
「You are the head of the family already, Darphy.」
「Well, that may be so, but Father, it is you who developed this land. You must have so attachnt towards it, are you not worried whether I would be able to manage it well?」
「Worried? My worry at this mont is whether or not Etoile has already forgotten my face!」
「It is impossible for a child who was just barely born would rember your face, Father!」
What a foolish remark from a doting grandfather. Every foolish remark Dante yelled, Darphy returned with his own yell.
「Fufu, listen, Darphy. You’re looking down on your own niece. Etoile is a prodigy. Surely she rember her gramp’s face.」
「Gr
Because he was an Elf, Dante looked young, but witnessing him happily call himself “gramps” truly made Darphy wonder if his father really was a different person.
How Darphy saw his father ever since he was young was serious and taciturn. If anything, he thought his father was a humorless man.
His mother Freesia was a calm and graceful mother, but when his sister disappeared after the war, she rarely smiled. Ever since Sophia returned to their territory with a human male, she returned to being the calm and graceful mother, but Dante was still a serious and ordinary lord of a small territory.
That was………
「I should send Sanctuary wine I brought with to Lord Balza, His Majesty, and the Knight Commander as a souvenir. I’m sure they would be pleased. Ah, right! I should buy hair accessories for Etoile.」
「……I believe hair ornants are too early for babies.」
All Darphy could do was make quips as Dante humd happily as he packed.
It’s a matter of succession for the Chevalier family, but if the Pri Minister and Knight Commandeer acknowledge it and the current head of the family wanted it, there was nothing that Darphy could do.
And so, Darphy was forced to agree.
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