A Deal With The Frigid Wizard - Chapter 48

Chapter 48

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[ “Really, I barely got permission. If you don’t want your one and only son to die of old age alone, please be really, really nice to Jaeha. If not for this man, then the whole family, all right? Let’s pretend we can’t win, so I can get married sooner. This is what I have been thinking… father, mother, can you do that?” ]

“Alright, alright. Okay. I thought your father was the world’s number one fool, but there is another one here.”

“K-hmm, hmm.”

Marquis Ephesion coughed and shook his head slightly. The meaning of that gesture was that ‘his son’ was not inferior to himself. Anyway, they were a great father and son.

Marchioness Ephesion, who communicated with Hisran through a telecommunication device, was a lady with a girlish vibe, even though she already had an adult son.

The public cited the reason why the Marchioness looked young despite her age was Marquis Ephesion’s eccentric love for his wife. No one in the Kainus Empire’s social circles was not envious of her.

[ “Hey, what did I do?” ]

The Marchioness tried to recite what Hisran had said about Jaeha, one by one, but instead, she smiled softly. Perhaps, it was because he was good-looking and his magic skills are outstanding.

His self-confident and quite arrogant son was stingy in praising anyone. Even when others were good at something, he often took it for granted or ignored it altogether. That was why the red tower wizards under him were grinding their teeth.

It was amazing when she heard words of praise for Jaeha come out of Hisran’s mouth for the first time.

“Do you know how fascinating the black is? If you look at Jaeha, you will know that her eyes and hair look like in the novels, which look like they were made out of a part of the night sky.”

‘Black is fine, but the prettiest color is gold.’

Marquis Ephresion, who had heard his son’s words, also expressed his own opinion. For reference, the Marchioness has blonde hair that seems to have been made by melting gold.

“How pretty is Jaeha? Princess Seireas, who was called the flower of the social world? That Princess does not even reach her toes.”

“Don’t say things like that outside. You could be charged with contempt towards the Imperial Family.”

“I was just telling the truth. And, since I am the Master of the Red Tower, where are they going to lock me up?”

“This punk?”

Did he want Marquisate Ephesion to fight the Imperial Family? Princess Seireas was not only in the Cainus Empire but also a continentally famous beauty.

“How smart is our Jaeha. She already speaks, reads, and writes to some extent in the imperial language?”

“She indeed is a smart woman, though I have one question. You two, you haven’t even gotten married yet, so how can you say ‘our’?”

“…Next to Jaeha will only be me or ashes”

…In a nutshell, he says he would burn anyone who wasn’t him.

The Marquis pondered whether he should inform Jaeha of the fact through a letter as he furrowed his brow. Meanwhile, the Marchioness wondered what the young lady would look like when she saw her husband and her son sitting face to face and arguing like this.

This weekend, when she could meet her son’s first and last lover, was something highly anticipated.

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A tense day had arrived.

Jaeha was usually droopy like a lazy cat in the morning, but today she couldn’t. She woke up early and sipped a strong coffee to calm herself down, and she picked up clothes that looked neat. Because she was bothered, she also worked hard on makeup, which she seldom does.

…It was no big deal, it would be fine.

Even after making those suggestions several times, her nerves stood tall. Noticing her state, Hisran stopped wandering around her in the morning and came to pick up Jaeha only at the appointed time.

“You are so pretty today.”

He said as he kissed her forehead.

They planned to move with Hisran’s teleportation magic after buying a bouquet of flowers downtown as a gift when visiting the Marquis’ residence.

“If you mix it like this, it will harmonize the colors, right?”

“Yes, good.”

Hisran’s mother was said to have a girly vibe even though she was middle-aged, so Jaeha chose pastel-colored flowers, like pink and pale purple. She also asked the owner of the florist to wrap them up nicely.

Holding a large bouquet of flowers, they arrived in front of Marquis Ephesion’s residence in the blink of an eye.

“Welcome to Marquis Ephesion’s residence.”

“…It’s rather cool?”

She vaguely guessed that it would be a large mansion, though Marquis Ephesion’s residence that she actually saw boasted a greater scale and majesty than she expected. The buildings made of special bricks and colored in red were beautiful, and in front of the golden front door, a stout knight and privates stood guard.

It really was more like a mansion in a foreign movie.

As soon as the people near the front door saw Hisran, they greeted him with an angled posture. Among them, there was also a man wearing a black butler’s robe.

The man opened his mouth.

“Greetings, Young Master. And, it is an honor to meet you, Miss Jaeha. My name is Taylor, the butler of Marquis Ephesion’s residence.”

“Hello, I am Yoon Jaeha.”

“I have been ordered to escort you to the main building. His Excellency and Madam are there.”

It was probably not because Hisran didn’t know the way to his house that the butler came to meet him.

Jaeha realized once again that he was the only son of a noble, a high-ranking Marquis.

Their pace was neither slow nor fast. Thanks to this, she was able to take a rough look at the Marquis’ residence’s garden. Hisran said that one of his mother’s hobbies was gardening, and the garden was beautifully arranged even by her standards, who was not well versed in the topic.

She bit her lip in a slightly deeper tension.

A pair of men and women stood in the entrance hall of the main building. Like Hisran, the man with red hair and golden eyes could be deduced as his father even without hearing an introduction. When Hisran grew old and reached middle age, it seemed that he would look just like that.

‘Middle-aged…! So dignified and handsome. I can look forward to Hisran’s middle-aged appearance.’

The woman presumed to be Hisran’s mother, with vivid blonde hair, green eyes, and a slender build, aroused a protective instinct.

‘Huh…? She had an appearance similar to that of Lady Count Gloria.’

After meeting Hisran’s mother, she seemed to know where the image of Hisran’s ideal woman came from. At that time, as Jaeha recalled the incident, she became embarrassed and wriggled her toes in her shoes.

“He-hello. I’m called Yoon Jaeha. It’s nice to see you.”

Couldn’t there have been a more natural greeting? Jaeha regretted it as soon as she uttered it. Contrary to her promise to act calmly, her body was more than 200% tense than usual.

“It’s nice to see Jaeha too. I am Heisen Ephesion. This is my wife, Velita Ephesion.”

“Thank you for your welcome. You look a lot like Hisran.”

When she heard the story of his family, the Marquis and Hisran seemed to have a good relationship.

“I hear that often.”

‘Maybe 99 times out of 100.’

Jaeha, who responded with a smile, turned her gaze to the Marchioness.

“Well, mother—no, Madam, was said to like flowers, so I picked out a few.”

Jaeha’s cheeks warmed slightly as she carefully handed the bouquet to the Marchioness. It was because she had practiced several times yet still accidentally called her mother by Korean custom, not Madam.

The Marquis Ephesion couple admired the fact that Jaeha, who looked quite different from the people of Kainus, spoke the imperial language quite well. At the same time, Hisran seemed to have fallen in love with her shy appearance anew.

“Thank you, Jaeha. The flowers are really beautiful. Jaeha’s heart, who gave me this flower, is even more beautiful.”

The Marchioness accepted the bouquet with a happy face.

“If-if it’s okay with Miss Jaeha, you can call us ‘mother’ or ‘father’?”

“…Yes?”

“Miss Jaeha is someone who is important to His, so you are also important to us as well. I want to be called something friendly.”

“Uh, that’s…”

“Velita, I know your feelings well, although if you say that first, Miss Jaeha will be embarrassed.”

“Oh, did I put more pressure on Miss Jaeha? I’m sorry.”

“No! In fact, where I lived, I called my acquaintances or a lover’s parents by mother and father… It’s not a pressure, it’s a consideration. Thank you.”

Hearing Jaeha’s reply, Hisran raised his thumb from behind her to his parents, and the Marchioness responded with a soft smile.

The chief handmaid who stood politely behind the Marquis couple grinned inside, knowing the nature of the Marchioness and the Young Master. As she watched, the Young Master had fallen in love with his lover, and the Marchioness seemed to have been impressed by her son’s lover.