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The Reincarnated Thirty-Something Woman’s Otherworldly Reform Life

[Encountering the Daughter of Count Mobuno in the Territorial Capital]

Translated by: ME

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「Sebastian-shan, you're shurpwisingly sharp, aren't you. We're jusht going for worship, shopping, and a little shightseeing, that's all.」

「Come now~. You have some kind of idea in mind, don't you?」

Lily said with a wry smile. Magnolia pouted slightly.

Sebastian had checked with Claude, hoping he would at least oppose it, but he could only elicit the words, "It should be fine for her to go."

...Going to worship is rather praiseworthy. Furthermore, restricting even that level of activity seemed no different from her life of confinement at her parents' home.

Claude and Servas wanted to grant at least modest wishes to Magnolia, who hadn't lived a life typical of a marquess's daughter.

...That said, Sebastian's concerns were understandable.

Magnolia, possessing the memories and knowledge of an adult from another world, simply didn't fit within the scope of a young lady of this world. If they weren't careful, she might take a running start and leap off in some unexpected direction, so it was worrying unless someone always held the reins...

However.

She had been out all day yesterday, and her father (grandfather) was absent. And worship meant that that Count's daughter would likely come, seeing it as a chance...

Recalling the young lady who rattled off loud, incomprehensible words, Claude felt weary.

Even though he had told her countless times that he would neither engage nor marry her, he didn't know how to explain it so she would understand.

Since he no longer thought she would ever understand no matter how he explained, he had given up and left her be.

(Won't she hurry up and marry someone somewhere else...)

With all that considered.

Weighing various factors, Claude earnestly instructed Magnolia, reminded the maid and escort knight, and decided to send them off.

Inside the four-seater carriage were Magnolia, Lily, Dean, and the escort knight.

Sebastian seemed torn about whether to go too, but unfortunately, he had a visitor he couldn't miss, and Plum had also intended to go but was immobilized by her chronic back pain.

Conveniently, today was Sunday.

Heaven was on Magnolia's side.

「...Milady. You're just going for worship, right...?」

The young man selected as the escort knight spoke timidly.

「Yesh. Alsho, if posshible, I want to go buy cloth for shewing, and I want to see the soup kitchen jusht a little for future weference, and I want to know about Azenda, sho I jusht want to see the farming villages a little on the way back...」

The escort knight succumbed to her specialty innocent eyes (※according to our company's comparison) and the pleading pressure from the maid and footman.

There probably wouldn't be any danger in buying cloth.

...The soup kitchen was a joint effort between the church and the knight order. There was no danger there either; in fact, it was their home ground.

The farming villages were extremely peaceful. If he had to warn them about something, it would be to watch out for insect bites and not to fall into a manure pit.

「It's really just that, right?」

「Really.」

Magnolia smiled sweetly with her lovely face at the escort knight who pressed for confirmation.

When someone emphasizes "just a little," it usually doesn't end up being just a little.

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The carriage stopped slowly near the church with the triangular roof she had just seen yesterday.

Many people seemed to have come for worship, and the area in front of the main entrance was crowded with people up to the nearby plaza.

A group of ladies who seemed to be wealthy wives dressed up, a group of noble men and attendants who seemed to be members of a gentlemen's club. Families dressed simply. Children running around. People walking straight through the doors...

As they approached the church, Dean was restlessly looking out the window.

After a while, he turned to face Magnolia and Lily with a serious expression.

「...I think it's probably okay, but a strange young lady might come and hassle us.」

「「Strange young lady?」」

The escort knight made a complicated face as if to say "Ah," and Lily and Magnolia looked at each other while harmonizing their question.

...When they got off.

「Oh my, who are you? Where is Lord Claude!?」

In front of them stood a young lady with slanted eyes wearing a yellow frilly dress, standing with her feet apart like a Nio guardian statue.

((If she's the strange young lady, it's definitely this guy (this person)...))

Lily and Magnolia looked with distant eyes at the belligerent young lady who suddenly appeared.

The young lady stared at Lily, then glanced at Magnolia, and turned away with a snort, "Hmph."

「What kind of idea is it for mere servants to come riding in the master's carriage!? Truly brazen. Poor Lord Claude~!」

Although she had told the escort knight otherwise, Magnolia had a purpose and had come out wearing simple clothes from the Gilmore house (her parents' home) today. Therefore, in the young lady's eyes, she probably looked like a servant's child.

...The moment she saw an escort knight carrying a sword riding with them, a perceptive person might think there might be someone related to the ruling family... but for someone so quick to point out discourtesy, she seemed to think nothing of that.

「...Are you an acquaintance of Lord Claude?」

When Magnolia asked while looking up, she raised a loud voice, saying "My!"

「For a servant to speak without permission! Listen here? You speak after a superior gives permission! Well, since you're a child, I'll reluctantly forgive you. At least learn that much properly!!」

She waved the fan in her hand in front of Magnolia's face in time with her words.

Behind Magnolia, Dean and the escort knight shook their heads at high speed.

(Wrong, wrong! That person in front of you is the highest-ranking unmarried woman in the Ascald Kingdom!!!!)

「Besides, I am not an acquaintance, but Lord Claude's fiancée!」

Looking triumphant, she turned her head away with a tsun!

(Ehhhh!! Fiancée!?)

When Magnolia dared to call him "Lord" instead of "Big Brother" to see the reaction, she really judged her as a servant and started saying something astounding!

When Lily checked with the escort knight with her gaze, he was shaking his head at super high speed.

That must be so, that must be so.

No matter how much it was a political marriage, he was of a status where he could take his pick.

He wouldn't get engaged to a young lady who responded so strangely. It would be too dangerous to entrust the house to her.

The only person who would willingly choose such a gamble partner would be Gerald.

Thinking that Gerald in the Royal Capital was probably about to sneeze, she watched as the lady left with a tsun!

「...What was that, I wonder.」

Lily asked Magnolia, having missed the chance to get angry because it was so sudden.

Magnolia also tilted her head.

「Who knows? She sheems to be Big Bwother's fiancée?」

「She is not! That is the daughter of Count Mobuno. She's a fan of Lord Claude and pops up everywhere Lord Claude is likely to be...!」

When Dean hurriedly explained, the escort knight nodded in agreement and spoke.

「Due to family standing, she was apparently listed as a fiancée candidate once. It fell through in the end, but ever since then, she goes around proclaiming it and hassling people like that, it's trouble...」

(Oh my! He's been locked onto by a troublesome one...)

「It's tough when a handsome man is too handsome, isn't it.」

「Tell me about it.」

Since Lily said it with deep feeling, Magnolia unintentionally replied in the tone of her past life.

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