The Female Lead Takes Care of Everything - Chapter 101

“I take responsibility for my subordinates until the end. Ali and Rubens aren’t bad. I know that well, so it’s okay. We’re still friends!”

Kaleo hugged Nivellia tightly, as if she were admirable.

“As expected, our daughter is a magnanimous leader.”

“Magnanimous?”

“It means having a broad mind and being able to forgive your subordinates’ small mistakes.”

“Hehe!”

Nivellia smiled brightly.

“Then, will you punish Rima?”

“Punish?”

“If you want to punish her, Daddy will punish her.”

“Uuuh.”

Nivellia shook her head, telling him not to.

Kaleo stared at her, seemingly surprised, and Nivellia replied.

“Daddy is scary when he’s angry.”

“Ah.”

Kaleo, reminded of that time, smiled awkwardly.

“Was I that scary?”

“Yes.”

Actually, Kaleo’s immense anger was more memorable than the frustration and unfairness she felt because of Rima.

And she didn’t want to worry about Rima anymore. She didn’t care.

“I won’t play with her. Aref said he doesn’t want to play with her either. Letty said she’s going to rip her hair out if she meets her again.”

“Oh my, we can’t let Letty get her hands bloody.”

“That’s right. Then she’ll have to go to jail and live there for a long time, so no!”

“Haha, I understand. Then, shall we just leave her alone?”

“Yes. Just as long as she doesn’t come to our house.”

After sending Nivellia away again, he immediately wrote a reply.

Common and boring sentences, stating that the friendship between the two families was important and that he would show leniency because it was a child’s mistake, were quickly completed.

Kaleo sent the reply to the Deigladis family.

“Hoo…”

However, there was still one letter left unaddressed on the desk.

It was another letter sent by Duke Kallaroff de Gladius.

“Ralph.”

Caleo’s voice, calling his friend’s name, was full of fatigue.

“Hang in there.”

He earnestly hoped that his support would reach his friend.

–

After being chased out of the Deiamor family like that.

Rima locked herself in her room for days. The sound of sobbing could be heard through the slightly open door.

But no one dared to approach and comfort her.

“Poor Miss Rima.”

“What’s so poor about her?”

“She’s so young, but so cruel. How could she say such outrageous things.”

Even among the Deigladis employees, this commotion came as a great shock and confusion.

And it caused division among the employees.

Gradually, the evaluation of Rima began to diverge slightly.

“Isn’t there a secret we don’t know? Maybe the Duke’s family treated Rima like an orphan.”

Whenever someone tried to take Rima’s side.

“A Deiamor employee heard it directly. Didn’t you know that the Deiamor Marquis even sent a letter of protest?”

“But a child made a mistake.”

“Even if it’s a mistake, she shouldn’t have done that!”

“Besides, the Deiamor Marquis’s daughter is even younger!”

Like this, voices expressing dissatisfaction with Rima emerged.

The mistake she made against the Deiamor Marquis’s daughter unleashed the complaints that had been suppressed all along.

“Remember? When she got lost in the plaza back then.”

“Everyone worked hard to find her, but she even lied and blamed Comen, who liked her, for being wrong.”

“She’s no ordinary person.”

“She’s not a fox, she’s a viper. How can she only pick out such wicked things to do?”

Eventually, the butler and the head maid stepped in to mediate.

“Everyone, be quiet!”

The head maid’s voice was heavy, as if shaking the ground.

The butler standing next to her also had a sharper expression than usual.

Only then did the employees shut their mouths and look around cautiously.

“This is the master’s order. From now on, do not carelessly bring up stories related to the ‘protégé’ within this mansion.”

“So everyone, be careful with your words and actions.”

A warning was even issued that the moment they disobeyed the order, they would be kicked out without a letter of recommendation.

The employees shrank their necks and answered that they understood.

‘The head maid.’

‘She called that child a protégé.’

The person who cherished Rima more than anyone else was the head maid.

But the head maid’s expression just now was unusual.

It was not easy to describe what emotion caused that expression.

One thing was clear, though, that she would never cherish Rima as much as she had before.

Definitely.

Meanwhile.

“Sniff, sob.”

“…”

Duke Kallaroff de Gladius was alone with Rima.

He went to Rima’s room and silently watched the child, who only cried without eating, waiting for her to stop crying.

Rima’s room, which was quite large for a guest room.

Two chairs where an adult and a child sat facing each other.

Kallaroff de Gladius quietly moved his eyes.

A bookshelf within reach of the child’s hand, a bed installed on a wall without windows, and a luxurious carpet covering the cold floor.

‘Carpet, bed, bookshelf, chair, drawer.’

He muttered incomprehensible words to himself for a long time.

“D, Duke.”

Rima finally opened her mouth.

Her panting voice made the listener’s heart ache.

“Rima, Rima didn’t do it on purpose.”

“Is that so.”

“Yes, really?”

Rima, wiping her wet eyes with the back of her hand, glanced at Kallaroff de Gladius.

Kallaroff , who met her eyes, slowly released the strength in his shoulders.

“You must be upset.”

“Yes!”

Rima answered hastily, as if that was exactly it.

‘As expected, it’s Daddy!’

Rima was convinced. She hadn’t realized that he was her daughter yet, but she knew instinctively. That’s why he understood her unfairness!

Rima clasped her hands together near her chest as if she had met a savior.

Then Kallaroff said the words Rima wanted to hear the most.

“You don’t have to apologize against your will.”

“R, really?”

“Yes.”

“Duke, it was really a misunderstanding. I wanted to get along with Nini. Because I’m her older sister.”

Kallaroff listened quietly to Rima’s account of what happened at the time.

“But suddenly Nini got angry and cursed at me, telling me not to be friends with Aref.”

“Cursed?”

“Ah, th, that I was a bad girl, a scammer.”

“That’s disappointing.”

“But no one believed my unfairness.”

Rima, judging that she had done enough, glanced up at Kallaroff .

Her purple eyes, moistened with tears, sparkled like jewels.

Was that why they were so dazzling?

Kallaroff closed his eyes tightly.

Rima watched Kallaroff like that and slowly blushed. She thought he was suffering because he was worried about her.

In fact, he seemed to be holding something back.

“As I said before.”

Kallaroff , who opened his eyes again, said.

“You don’t have to apologize.”

Rima nodded as if it were natural.

“But I want to get along. I want to clear up the misunderstanding. My sincerity will surely be conveyed.”

“That will be difficult.”

“Yes?”

“The Deiamor family has banned you from entering.”

It was like a bolt out of the blue.

Rima, flustered, could only stammer with her lips without saying anything.

But Kallaroff did not consider such Rima.

“The Deiamor Marquis sent a letter of protest, and I replied that I would not give up on you. Because you are still a young child.”

It was a tremendous statement that the de Gladius Duke protected a protégé from a commoner background.

If there were other people here, especially nobles, they would have fainted in surprise.

But at this moment, Rima didn’t hear any of that.

Because it was natural for him to protect her, and Kalarov’s following words were completely unexpected.

“Also, he said that he would not allow you to contact the Deiamor children. And I accepted that.”

“Why?!”

To Rima, who was about to ask why he did that, Kallaroff said this.

“He said he would accuse you of insulting the nobility if I didn’t.”

“…”

“It was a choice to protect you. You are a very important existence to us.”

Still, at the words that it was a choice for her, Rima barely suppressed the anger she was about to unleash.

But this was by no means a good situation.

‘The point of contact with Le■ is completely disappearing!’

The male lead candidate who lives right next door, and the real male lead who ends up with the female lead!

‘Damn it, should I apologize first, even though it’s X-like?’

While she was worrying about what to do, Kallaroff said.

“And that child’s name is Aref.”

“No. The name Le■ that I gave him.”

“Aref was granted a title by the Emperor with a new name.”

Title?

Rima thought she had misheard something.

“T, title?”

Why?

“Because the Deiamor children discovered the mana stone mine that was announced a while ago. Their contribution is so great that they were granted a single-rank title.”

Rima despaired.

‘No! It can’t be!’

That’s not the content of the novel I wrote!

Even in the novel Rima wrote in her previous life, Le■ receives a title at a relatively young age.

That too, the title of Marquis.

The reason why he could suddenly become a Marquis at a young age was because he defeated the monsters that appeared without warning.

The appearance of monsters, which were known to be extinct, caused great commotion throughout the empire.

‘And that’s when the Deiamor family disappears.’

Everyone in the Deiamor Marquis family, except for Nivellia, is annihilated after that incident.

Nivellia thinks that Le■ took away her family’s title and awakens as a perfect villainess.

‘Monster.’

So, Rima thought.

‘Monsters.’

Monsters have to reappear.

For the world to return to normal, monsters have to appear quickly.

Nivellia, who became a cheerful five-year-old, pondered.

“What can a five-year-old do?”

“You can become six years old, right?”

“Wow!”

She spread one hand wide, then stuck her other thumb to it.

“A six-year-old can count their age with both hands!”

“Isn’t that cool?”

“How old is Deter? Can you count with your fingers?”

“No. I have to use all my toes.”

At those words, Nivellia was startled.

“Are you that old?”

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