Can We Become a Family? - Chapter 33

Wood was resting in his room when he was told he had to keep his mana running smoothly for a few days.

“Young Master! Lady Vivian has been cured of her incurable disease!”

The news from the servants was deafening.

He kept trying to recall the memories he had forgotten.

Strangely enough, the animalistic senses rang sharply.

‘I definitely remember holding the low-life by the neck.’

When he tried to recall more memories, he felt goosebumps all over his body and his heart jumped.

In addition, he almost died because of a mana explosion, but apparently, Navia was perfectly fine.

“Aak! So annoying!”

He threw stuff in his room out of frustration.

At that time, someone knocked on the door.

“Young Master, the maid who was dedicated to Lady Navia is asking to see you, what shall I do?”

Navia?

Wood was about to shout, but he stopped.

He had a strange hunch.

“Tell her to come in.”

Charlotte was demoted from a maid dedicated to serving a princess to a laundry maid, but she came into his room with an immaculate appearance.

As soon as she saw Wood, she boiled her knees to the floor.

“Thank you for allowing me to meet you, Young Master.”

The servile appearance made Wood feel good.

“Yes, what do you have to say?”

Charlotte spoke solemnly.

“I have something to tell you about Lady Navia. I’m sorry, but I’d like it to be private.”

Wood knew intuitively that she was trying to say something against Navia and quickly cleared the servants away.

“Don’t be around here, everyone go down for a while.”

“We accept your orders.”

Charlotte spoke when everyone went out and the surroundings were quiet.

“Lady Navia is actually a commoner.”

As soon as she spoke, the truth that came out shocked Wood.

She’s not even a lowly noble but a commoner? How dare such a terrible worm water itself for days!

‘I’m going go to kill that bug right now!’

At that time, Charlotte spoke as if she were reading.

“This is strictly confidential to the Master, and it will be bad if this gets to the outside world, Young Master.”

“…Hm, I know at least that too.”

“As expected, you are clever.”

Wood quelled his anger. If he disobeyed his father again, he would really be scolded this time.

“This is not what is important, Young Master. At this rate, Lady Navia will be sent to Duke Eseled.”

“What? No way!”

“If Lady Navia become the heir, she will be on par with the Young Master…”

“Nonsense!”

It’s a terrible disaster that should never happen!

“On top of that, the Young Master may have to marry Lady Navia.”

Wood was shocked as if he had been hit in the back of the head several times in a row.

The most terrible part was none other than having to marry a commoner.

Wood even had a crush on someone already.

“Did father say that? Is that true!?”

Wood strongly suspected Charlotte because the story was so unbelievable.

“There is a way to confirm if it’s true. You can ask the Duke right when he comes back.”

Charlotte’s confidence was beyond description.

“But by then, Master must have already taken care of the work to make Lady Navia the successor to the Eseled Duchy.”

That meant that the marriage arrangement was already in course.

Wood was young, but he wasn’t ignorant about politics.

On the contrary, whether it was about marriage or not, he was rather precocious in terms of relationships between men and women, thanks to his poor friends.

Charlotte lamented bitterly and brought out words to provoke Wood.

“Wouldn’t it be better for the Young Master to have someone you love as your wife?”

Of course that would be the best, but it won’t be possible as long as Nikan continued as the head of the family.

The woman he had in his heart was Princess Lucia, and he wasn’t in a position where he could control the government.

“How could Father do that to me…”

Charlotte, who was watching Wood’s disappointment, spoke with a soft smile but with cold eyes.

“I have a good idea.”

Wood raised his head.

“What is it?”

“That…”

Slam!

The door suddenly opened without a knock before Charlotte could speak.

The two looked curiously at the door.

It was none other than Philippa who came in.

“Young Master!”

Philippa had been trapped in prison, so her eyes were quaking in a sinister atmosphere.

“Young Master! Please help me, I’ve been wronged…!”

Philippa saw Charlotte while trying to complain about her injustice. Her voice snapped with incredible anger.

“You, you dirty b*tch, why, why are you here?”

Wood’s eyebrows wrinkled.

It was because he was interrupted in the middle of an important conversation.

On top of that, he heard that the nanny was in prison for a crime, so why was she able to come in his room?

Charlotte spoke with a cold look.

“Why did you come into Young Master’s room without permission, Philippa? Don’t you know that this is a big disrespect?”

Philippa turned towards Charlotte from her attitude of not using ‘Miss’ to call out Philippa.

“You f*cking b*tch…! Just whose fault is this!”

Philippa grabbed Charlotte by her hair.

“Kyak! Let go!”

“You pest! You’re the only one who needs to be gone!”

Wood smacked Philippa, knocking her back with magic.

“Aaak!”

Philippa fell back to the floor and raised her upper body.

Her expression showed incredible shock.

“Young Master…?”

Wood looked down at Philippa with disgust in his eyes.

“If you commit a crime, you have to be in jail quietly. What are you doing?”

Those were eyes Philippa knew quite well.

It was the eyes that looked at Navia!

When she realized that, Philippa’s eyes twitched.

“H-how could you, I, I, I raised the Young Master…”

“Ah, so loud.”

“!”

“Just how did the nanny get out? Father went to the Palace.”

Then, it occurred to him that there was another person who had the authority to do this.

“Vivian, that idiot…”

Lyndon and the knights gasped as they got to the room when Wood was dragging his tongue with a disapproving expression.

They came to check on Philippa just in case, because they were wondering what she would do.

Wood spoke irritably.

“Lock the nanny up again. Whatever Vivian says, don’t ever let her out!”

“We take your orders.”

Philippa, with a blank expression, was dragged away by the knights.

Wood glanced at Philippa with dirty eyes and turned around coldly.

The useless nanny was no longer a concern.

Then he spoke to Charlotte.

“So? Let’s finish what we were talking about earlier.”

***

Navia went back to her room and arranged her belongings while Charlotte took care of what she had ordered.

She called in an accountant and asked him to exchange all the items from Ansier Boutique with money first. The accountant asked what she was going to do with a strange look.

Navia said she wanted to buy gifts for her family, so she was exchanging them for money and going out.

Navia had never been out so far.

They didn’t say no, but it was an implicit rule.

But Navia had a good excuse.

“Today is the day Vivian got better. I’m sure there will be a big dinner. I want to give a present for my family’s health and happiness…”

So the accountant accepted, thinking that a child won’t be able to buy much.

Navia thanked him with a smile.

The accountant gave the money and shook his head helplessly with a shy smile.

He was a person weak to children.

Navia kept the money and waited for Charlotte to leave Wood’s room.

And then Charlotte came out.

“I did as you asked, Miss.”

Charlotte got goosebumps all over her body throughout Navia’s whole scheming story.

It was because she had finally seen the whole picture that Navia was painting so clearly.

‘Eseled’s heir…’

She was the foster daughter of one family and then she’s moving on to another?

Just who in the world can come up with such an unconventional idea!

‘However, the Eseled family is being called a garbage camp.’

What is she trying to do there?

“Here.”

Navia handed over the money she received from the accountant to Charlotte.

“Pay the penalty today and then run away. It would be safe to set up a coffee house in the harbor and make money.”

“…Thank you.”

“Go now.”

Charlotte hesitated for a little and then left the room with the money.

Navia remained alone in the room and looked out the window.

Shwaaa-!

Finally, a rainstorm began to pour from the muddy cloud.