Chapter 32 (2/2)

However, a knight had delivered the message that someone from the Tulip family would visit soon. So, Tulip Castle had sent servants to wait at the port. They picked up the visitors and directed them to a manor so that they did not need to stay in the dirty city.

After dinner, Liszt took a bath and went to bed.

He was somewhat seasick.

He was more used to planes and trains in his home world. Thankfully, his former self was a good swimmer, which soothed his nausea.

“As an islander, you are seasick, Liszt. I have to say that you are an embarrassment to the Tulips. I thought you had grown up, but you are just as despicable and stupid as before.” Lvera entered Liszt’s room at some point without knocking.

Liszt was shocked, because he was reading his misty words to check for updates.

But he soon calmed down, because Lvera apparently did not see them. His secret was safe.

“You forgot to knock.”

“Did I? It’s not important.” Lvera gazed at Liszt with disdain.

“It’s important to me. You do not respect my privacy. Also, it’s not expected of a lady. Nobles like ladies, dear sister.”

“I don’t need to change myself to please any nobles! Besides, Liszt, when do I ever need your opinion? If we were not on Red Crab Island, I would teach you a good lesson about how useless you are even though you became an earth knight!”

Lvera had been mean to Liszt since childhood.

He believed that it was because Lvera was jealous of his face, which was prettier than most females’.

“You’re not here to tell me that I’m still weak, are you?”

“I’m just here to see how seasickness makes a fool of you.”

“You have seen it. Can you go now?”

Lvera glared at him and left. Liszt locked the door. She was only a capricious nineteen-year-old girl.

He was not bothered. Lvera had always been a careless, if not frivolous, person.

The earl often remarked that Liszt and Lvera should swap personalities.

He was shyer than a girl, and she was brasher than a boy.

After lying down again, Liszt couldn’t fall asleep. He could only think about boring things. I came to Taro Castle five months ago for a new year visit. Marquis Merlin was still the commander of the royal fleet back then. It’s been five years since we last met.

Because nobles practiced monogamy, their families were often not large.

Marquis Merlin had one son and two daughters. His younger daughter had died, and his second daughter was married to Roland Pineapple, a viscount and a follower of the marquis. His son, Mesiro Taro, had an only son named Mayop Taro.

Cousin Mayop is almost 25 and still unmarried. I’m told that he’s been pursuing Archduke Sapphire’s daughter? That princess is said to be a social butterfly.

The highest ruler of an archduchy was the archduke, who technically was not a king. So, their daughters were not supposed to be called princesses. Besides, the title of the current Archduke Sapphire had been reduced to duke because he couldn’t become a dragon knight.

In the noble system, prince, archduke and duke were titles on the same level, but only when they became knights could they be proclaimed princes or archdukes. Otherwise, they would remain dukes.

However, rules were only rules. Within Archduchy Sapphire, all the nobles called the ruler archduke, and his daughter was treated like a princess.

Liszt thought jokingly, If Mayop ever marries the princess, he will likely get a child whose father is someone else… Hehe.