I Shall Master This Family's
57

Chapter 57

Eyes with a strange light were staring at me and Perez.

Ugh, have I been found out?

That's frustrating.

Nobody should have known that Perez and I knew each other.

I immediately avoided the Emperor's eyes.

But I can feel it.

That tenacious gaze remained on me for a while longer.

But when I looked back again, the Emperor was talking to father and grandfather with the same face as before.

Did I see wrong?

There's a good chance I'm freaked out by the look Jovanes gave me without thinking.

Anyway, I tried not to stare at Perez anymore.

"Then, let's start by giving and enjoying the banquet."

Said Jovanes, guarding the gathered nobles.

Father, who was still holding my hand said softly as he stood near grandfather.

"Dad, I'll be back for a minute."

Although I was nervous enough to make my hands break out in cold sweat, I took care of myself first.

I kissed my father's cheek to comfort him.

With that alone, my father smiled widely as he was pampered.

Emperor Jovanes stood on the podium in front of the crowd, and the Emperor's attendants brought medals.

When I saw my father's back walking to the middle, everyone's eyes were fixed on the podium.

There was Perez, standing proudly as a member of the Imperial Family.

Astana, who was now completely in puberty, was also next to the Empress who was staring at Perez with a very stiff face.

Even as she grew older, Astana still could not manage her facial expression.

Then suddenly, I looked at Perez. He's still staring at me. 

The expressionless face, whose heart was not well understood, was suitable for the Royal Family 100 times better than Astana.

I smiled at him and turned my face back to the podium.

The appearance of the medal varies depending on the recipient, but the father's medal appears as a large necklace made of gold.

And another aide stood behind him.

Like a trophy, it is held in both hands.

"Gallahan Lombardy, come here."

Hearing the Emperor's words, my father knelt before him.

"I, Jovanes Canabon Lambrew Durelli, will present this Founder Medal to you."

Unlike when he laughed a while ago, a low and loud voice spoke as if solemnly proclaimed.

“You deserve this medal because you have contributed to your willingness to take care of the people of Lambrew Kingdom in an ingenious effort that no one ever thought of.”

A necklace with an imperial seal was hung on my father's neck.

“And your performance is very good, so I give a special gift to Gallahan Lombardy along with his medal.”

Special gift?

The waiting official for the second time came forward.

And it was a scroll made of old leather that was passed down into the hands of the Emperor.

Jovanes unfolded it, made it visible to everyone, and gave it to his father.

"From today, I declare that Gallahan Lombardy is the owner of the Cheshire region."

Hiik.

I'm not the only one who takes a quick breath.

Everyone in the banquet hall was dumbfounded except for the calm grandfather and the smiling Emperor.

Although the Founder Medal had a special meaning, the biggest prize awarded with a medal was a territory.

It was a kind of territory that would be returned to the imperial family when the person who received the medal died.

What does he mean by territory ?

And that scroll made of leather was a territory document no matter who saw it.

Moreover, the territory of Cheshire was not a land directly ruled by the Imperial Family.

Since the Nokta River, the second largest river in the Lambrew Empire, had been developed nearby, it had high grain production and a high population density...

"Mrs Sussew!"

Someone shouted in a small voice.

Behind the Emperor's left side, the gray-haired old woman remained indifferent to the concentration of people.

Beatrice Sussew's.

My grandmother, Natalia Sussew, was an elderly woman who served as the head of the Sussew household, a wealthy family from the Southern Empire.

The Cheshire region, the land of the Sussews, was passed down to my father.

That means this is the will of Beatrice Sussew.

Dad looked at the territory document in his hand with a blank face and said,

"Your Majesty, I will take good care of him."

The medal ceremony was short, but it felt really big and long.

"Come, sit down and rest for a while ...."

My father muttered, grasping the territory documents with both hands.

"Haha! You are too gentle, can you play the role of a God properly?"

Emperor Jovanes again raved and made fun of my father.

Yeah, that's good.

He just wanted to show off the territory to others.

Now Jovanes, who said he was going to enjoy the banquet, disappeared among the nobles, and I shook my father's side.

"Dad!"

"Tie..."

My father looked at me and smiled weakly.

"What should I do with such a big thing ...."

It was a face that had a feeling of burden and responsibility rather than the joy of owning territory.

"How can you say that? This Thank You. You just have to say thank you and live well."

"Auntie!"

Lady Beatrice Sussew was the one who approached.

She was the one who became my father's aunt.

Mrs Sussew is famous for her poor personal history.

She had two children, but both died in accidents, and her husband also left first.

Other family members had demanded that the Sussews give up her rights for years because she did not have a succession, but she ignored them all and held the power firmly.

But there is also something very famous, namely aesthetics and fashion sense.

Beatrice Sussew's influence was so strong that Empire's fashion trends began in the south.

Will all types of textile merchants be located on Sussew plantations?

Until the opening of the Gallahan Clothing Store, what people thought when they thought of 'clothing' was Sussew, not Lombardy.

I pretended to be fine, but I couldn't help but get a little nervous.

Sure oes.

Miss Sussew's gaze reached me.

"ah! This is my daughter, Florentia. She's a granny to you, Tia."

"Hello, Mrs Sussew. I'm Florentia Lombardy."

Mrs Sussew is proud of what she has achieved.

So I think it would be better to call an official title rather than a title between relatives.

Fortunately, Madam Sussew nodded with a faint smile, as if she liked it.

And he checked the clothes I was wearing.

Plain but sharp brown eyes sparkle with red beauty.

"Oh, you look great in your clothes."

“Thank you for the compliment, Miss Sussew. This is the outfit from Gallahan's clothing store."

"You're saying this is a ready-to-wear outfit that I can only hear with words?"

The old woman's eyes were round.

"That's a little too much to call ready-made. She wanted to wear the clothes I made for the banquet today, and my daughter was dressed up with various decorations, so this looks very different."

My father quickly explained, shaking his hand.

"This dress, this boy?"

Mrs Sussew looked at me.

"Do you like it, Madam?"

I asked impatiently.

"…Hmm. Okay. It's a very pretty dress.”

I was a little nervous, but it worked too.

In fact, the style of neatly inserting silk with colorful embroidery in the corner was very popular in his previous life.

But I'm not sure if it will work this time because it's three or four years from now.

But now that she couldn't take her eyes off my dress, she seemed to like it.

"Yes, if you wear ready-to-wear clothes this way, you can get a pretty diverse set of clothes."

Madame Sussew muttered, touching the cloth of the dress I was wearing without her noticing.

Before I knew it, my existence was something like a mannequin wearing clothes, but it didn't matter.

That's why I'm wearing this, so I should be grateful.

"Silk produced in Sussew can be very compatible with your ready-to-wear. What do you think, Gallahan?"

Mrs Sussew asked my father.

"Oh that......"

Dad was in the middle of picking a word for a while.

But another voice suddenly interrupted the conversation.

"The jewels on the clothes are ours, Mrs Sussew."

It was Jerome Ivan, a Lord Ivan whose long white beard was impressive.

"What happened to Lord Ivan to interrupt our conversation?"

"Mrs. Sussew from the south moved first, and it's no big deal I came."

"It's different from running on flat land and working across mountains and lakes."

A tense fight broke out between Lady Sussew and Lord Ivan.

“Everyone is here.”

This time the east side.

Except for the Angelas in the west, all the rich people from other regions gathered in one place.

Father was suffocated by the energy of the three people, and it seemed like he would choke at any moment, and the surrounding nobles walked around to hear the conversation come and go.

The Luman family that came last, directly asked my father.

"Yes, this time Gallahan's clothing store plans to create a branch that will extend from the center."

In recent times, Gallahan clothing stores have spread around the Empire and the plantations of Lombardy, the Imperial Capital, and the medium and large estates around them.

And this time, Gallahan's clothing store was looking for another province besides the capital, and rumors seemed to be pouring in.

“In this case, I am not the one who worked on it...”.

My father said while sweating.

"ah! Therehewas. Clerivans!"

Just in time, Clerivan approached this side and greeted politely.

His appearance wearing a indigo silk tunic matched a beautiful banquet.

"It's Clerivan's Pellet."

My father introduced Clerivan to two Gods.

“I am still inexperienced and only take care of outside work, and this Mr. Clerivan is in charge of the actual work of the clothing store, so the question should be asked to him...”.

Actually, to be exact, the people who worked on it were me and Clerivan.

Since people didn't know where I was, Clerivan's stock price went up.

"Hoh, so. Hey, let's go over there and have a glass of wine with me......."

"I have a very good rose wine that I bring directly from Luman."

Lord Ivan and Lord Luman rushed to Clerivan.

Business meetings begin on the spot.

More details on what happened, Clerivan will tell me later.

As the Sovereign of each region advanced, the upper middle class owners who attended the banquet intended for my father could not even give their business cards.

From a distance, they only drank alcohol with dissatisfied faces.

However, Mrs Sussew is not bound to Clerivan.

Instead, he approached my father and me, and said.

"How about we talk about the land of Cheshire, Gallahan?"

It was the smile of the winner who had already scored good numbers.