Vol 16 Chapter 318 (1/2)

Brides of the Walt House

Waking up in the mansion of the Walt House, I looked over my own room

The room I had once been confined had been hoht, that they were once there was a fact, but now there were none

Once I was driven out of the house, it sees were disposed of There was a bed, and the bookshelf that occupied one of the room’s walls was empty

I reached ht

According to Baldoir, the Walt house still had reserve forces To prevent an attack from behind while ere busy with Celes, he recommended I head here first

His true intent was likely to give h the surrounding territories, utilizing the Jewel’s new ability… a so similar to my father’s Skill to dispel Celes’ charm as ent around

But it’s not as if all would rejoice on their release

I felt quite conflicted as well

As I thought, a knock came from the door

“Chicken dickwad, people are gathering fro territories one after the next”

Rising up off the bed, I asked Monica for a report on the situation

“The surrounding territories, eh? What about the mansion?”

Monica shrugged her shoulders

“There areto kill themselves And we’ve received reports that some of their families outside the mansion have killed themselves as well They’ve sent in testahter’s malpractices”

She reported it all without hiding a thing But that was how it should be

“Tell theive no permission for suicide That I’ve no particular punish manipulated by Celes’ ability”

The treatment they had offered me… there were some who tried to end it with that in mind And that was a surprise to me

I hated how release wasn’t a safe end to it

Monica looked over at me

“I talked with Miranda-san as well, but are you sure it wouldn’t be better to just punish them? You’ll be able to prevent those who choose rash action driven by their thoughts of self-condemnation”

I heard out her opinion

“… This really is a pain”

I had returned, but I couldn’t find any soothing for my heart The mansion that had once welcomed me so warmly, even when I released Celes’ curse, it didn’t look like it would ever return

Looking at reality like this, I realized just how etic sentilad

“Perhaps my return wasn’t for the best”

There, Monica looked at ether twice

“So what shall we do with the people who’ve dropped by?”

I covered ht hand

“I can’t just go about not o off to Baldoir’s hometown as well”

Thinking of how busy it was even if I’d returned, I took a coat in hand, and draped it overthe room

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… Shannon took a walk through the Walt House mansion

It was a vast estate To add to that, there were so many children in the Fifth’s time that a second annex mansion for child-use had been constructed After that, it had been used whenever guests were invited

Walking through the annex, Shannon listened to the words of Elza walking behind her

“… It’s soant than our palace back home”

Shannon recalled what she had heard from Miranda

“It seeger than so it? Ah, there it is”

Shannon arrived at a certain room she had set as her walk’s destination

It was a roouest use, and a rooeneration’s House Head Brod had kept as it was

Shannon held up the key, and once she opened the door, she saw the guns lining the walls

It was the room Milleia used

One shot guns, which would require a new shell loaded after every shot What’s un barrels There were a number of them around, but as none had been looked after as of late, they were coated in rust

Elza looked at them

“So un But it doesn’t look like any of them are usable”

Froood condition She searched and took it in hand

“Yeah~, you think I should take this one horandmothers, so it’s practically mine”

Elza turned to Shannon

“Oh, so you’re related?”

Shannon lifted up the heavy gun

“My great grandmother was from the Walt House The Circry Hosue still had relations to the Walts up to the previous generation, it seems”

Elza nodded in understanding

“I think I’ll take it back and have it fixed up I don’t think it’s bad to have at least one of them around”

As Shannon said that, she continued to look around the room with Elza There was dust piled up, and it seemed evident it hadn’t been cleaned for a number of years

She had tried asking one of the mansion’s personnel It see it and planned to turn it into a guest rooh rooms, so there was no need to hurry to convert it, and before it had come to anyone’s attention, it had simply become a room that no one would enter

Shannon looked at the room

“It’s as if it’s been forgotten; a lonely room”

She said…

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Porter’s loading tray

Sitting on the bench, I talked to Miranda sitting besidefurthest away, out of pleasant conversational range

It was clear fro me But it wasn’t as if she didn’t listen to what I had to say

Whatever the case, a sense of distance the word dubious was insufficient to describe had formed between us

“Lyle, are you listening?”

“Eh, oh… I was not listening”

When I gave an honest apology, Miranda breathed a sigh Sitting on the bench, she changed over her crossed legs and folded her hands on her lap

“I was asked quite a few things over there, and one of the us What’sabout the Walt House’s precepts and such I’d heard about them before, but were those precepts seriously preserved?”

The Walt House precepts were a lie the Firth had spouted through his drink They were carried down generation after generation, and remained as our precepts

“… I was still a child when I heard of the the a talented person as a bride, right? Rather, don’t you think those precepts are unnecessary at this… erk!?”

As ere talking, Nove to discard the precepts our founder left behind, she seemed extremely sorrowful

Miranda did appear to notice, but the purposely pretended not to

“I doubt it does you any harm to keep them I mean, I clear them, so does it really matter?”