My Ex-Fiancée Is the Female Lead in the Romance Novel

14 – Action, action (3)

Lea slowly opened her closed eyes. Could it be because she tossed over in her sleep yesterday? Feeling her body heavy, she got out of bed.

The window in Seria’s room opens in the direction of the backyard, not the front door. She was a bit uncomfortable, so the Duke had said he would move her room several times, but Seria was familiar with this room for some reason.

The strong scent of flowers wafted up to Seria’s room on the second floor.

Seria quite liked the scent of flowers. The scent of most flowers, from common flowers such as roses to sea lanterns that were said to have been obtained from the east, cleared Seria’s head.

“It’s too dark…”

But for some reason, the strong scent of the flowers made her feel dizzy.

Too many flowers were mixed. Maybe it’s because I brought in other flowers recently and planted them? It felt more messy than before.

She hesitated for a moment. It was because the scent of a flower brought in from the East that she had brought in some time ago stung her head.

And she couldn’t help but recall the events of yesterday. What was the relationship between the Bereng Sangdan and Lombardi, so that Bereng helped Lombardi?

Seria is not bad in her own way. In some ways, she repeats her stupid blindness and mistakes, but with some evidence, you can infer the situation.

“Is Bereng a guild run by Lombardi?”

But common sense makes no sense. About nine years have passed since the Bereng Sangdan was created. Of course, it took less than five years for the name to be known in earnest, but at that time, Lombardi had just come up to the capital and was barely establishing itself with our help.

At that time, there was no way that the Marquis of Lombardi could have operated to the top. He would not have been a great man, nor would he have had the time.

“Could it be… Cesar?”

But soon Seria erased that possibility from her mind. At that time, Cesar was not even 13 years old at most. Although Cesar has been unusual since he was young, it is unreasonable that he has run the top from that age, and even if that is the case, there is no way he didn’t know about it.

Surely, Cesar’s face came into Seria’s mind. He was the one who naturally called himself Lia, but thinking about it, the thought that she hadn’t heard him call herself Lia since the Imperial Palace Ball came to Seria’s head.

Seria’s mother died when Seria was young. That’s why Seria never recalled being called by her nickname. Neither her brother nor her father called her by her nickname, so it was as if she had no nickname for her.

But she changed after meeting Cesar.

She didn’t stop César, who said that calling her by her first name would seem disinterested, and that she would call her by her nickname. Or rather, she was quite happy that the boy she had become friendly with called him by her nickname.

“Ria…” Seria muttered her own nickname to herself. Seria got a little depressed at the thought that she might not hear it for the rest of her life.

But she has to start the day.

Outside, I heard something break again and the maids screaming. Hearing that, Seria quickly figured out that her own father had thrown something at her again because something was wrong with her.

Her own face in her mirror beside her door looked a little distressed for some reason.

* * *

“Father! It’s a bit too much to leave today!”

Her fourth princess, Elysia, was in the mood to scream at her own father.

“Sia, don’t you know that there is nothing you can do about it?”

The Emperor let out a sigh as her Elysia showed her angry expression, then looked up at her and said.

The emperor is sitting in his office, but there are few papers in front of him. They were documents with little content that a spy in a foreign country could get nothing from by examining them in detail.

Those papers were scattered all over the place.

“But my father can delay the departure period long enough. I know everything. You don’t want to work hard for nothing.”

“If you live to this age…”

Elysia knew that her father was about to say something he didn’t want to hear, so she interrupted the emperor.

“All right.”

“I’ll give you the Flare Duke. He is young but loyal to me. He will be helpful to you.”

Elysia opened her eyes wide at the emperor’s unexpected words. Duke Flair, now in his thirties, is one of the few remaining loyal subjects of the emperor. By attaching him to herself, she means that she will give Elysia a cause to shake her succession plan.

The Flair family is quiet because the emperor is old and exhausted, but it is by no means a powerless family.

“hehehe… Abamama… Thank you.”

Elysia smiled brightly and was hugged by the emperor. She was infinitely generous in the face of power.

* * *

Seria escaped the mansion where the Duke was making all sorts of fuss and getting angry. If she stays like this, she will definitely tell her that she broke up because she has been dating other men.

“My lady, where are you going?”

“Well…”

Seria, who took one of her escort knights and one of her maids, wandered aimlessly around the capital.

Seria, who remembered that the large store at the Bereng Merchant was nearby, decided on her destination.

“Let’s go to the top of Bereng.”

“Yes? But…”Right now, the Argenta and Bereng upper ranks are bound to be uncomfortable with each other. But Seria didn’t care about her that much. She wasn’t going to meet the person in charge of the Bereng Merchant Merchant there, she was just going to see things, but Seria thought that there was no need to worry about their relationship.

“It’s okay. You don’t have to worry about it.”

“Is that so…?”

Ignoring her uneasy-looking maid’s answer, Seria headed for the two-story building in the middle of her shopping district.

* * *

“Danju. The fleet we sent last time has arrived… I think you should come and take a look.”

Since I have no intention of hiding that I am the sole owner of the Bereng Merchant Merchant, the people of the Bereng Merchant Merchant have started going back and forth between the marquis families. Originally, they would come through a secret passage hidden or communicated through letters, but from today, they decided to walk confidently through the front door.

That’s why the messenger sent from the upper Bereng could be in the Marquis family.

“Yes. Let’s go at once.”

I simply put on my clothes and left the mansion.

“By the way, the fleet isn’t coming at this time… but it arrived quite early.”

“I was able to sell all the goods faster than expected, so I said that I was on the voyage as soon as I got rid of everything.”

The waterway is not always open. Of course, it is our top ship with some power source, but it would have been possible to depart from the east only when the wind was favorable. Considering that, it seems that things sold out too quickly.

Originally, the fleet, which should have arrived in about two months, had arrived now, so it was quite possible to guess.

“It seems that the injured lord was actively running around.”

“Really? Is that person?”

The deputy leader of our corps is nominally known as the lord of the Bereng Merchant. In the past, after accompanying the fleet to the east for the first time, I headed for the upper deck, anticipating what kind of story the Sangju Danju, who had been to the east for the first time, would have brought.

* * *

Our top storehouse was near the trading port. However, it is customary to put basically important items in the basement safe of a store located in the center of the capital as soon as they are brought in.

Those who already know will know that I am the head of the upper house of Bereng, but I thought that I did not need to attract people’s attention now that there are various issues such as the break-up. Went into one first.

* * *

“Wow! Miss, look at this!”

When Seria saw the maid running around her store excitedly, she felt something gratifying. It was an emotion she could feel because she was a maid a little younger than Seria.

“What is it?”

It was a flower. Seeing that it is a flower she has never seen before, it seems that she is a flower newly obtained from the East. It was strange that the stem bent downward and the flower buds pointed downward.

But Seria had no choice but to take her eyes off the flower because of her deja vu.

“Ah.”

Although she has a familiar profile and wears a cape, Seria was easily recognizable.

Cesar.

“My lady? Why are you like that?”

The maid’s words had already gone unheard by Seria. Seria’s nerves were directed only to Cesar, who was wearing a black cloak.

‘Is he really right? Or what?’

But it seems that Seria’s desire to see Cesar was stronger and more important than preparing for such a contingency.

In the end, Seria turned to him who was wearing a black cloak as if she was possessed.