Anyway, for me there isn’t much of love or attachment towards my parents, siblings and the Baumeister household.
Reincarnating as Wendelin at the age of six, my only memory from before was the knowledge I saw in the dream. Thereafter there wasn’t much of a contact or should I rather say that I was obviously neglected.
It’s not like I was treated particularly bad.
It would have been fine even if I didn’t do something like helping the household and just spent my time studying and practicing magic. As result of that I was able to bring an amount of hunted prey to the table as food.
If you talk about it frankly, that level of relationship wasn’t something that could be seen by the surroundings either, I guess.
Since they were aware of me being able to use magic, I think it had that tendency all the more.
For the southernmost remote, poor Knight household it is necessary to have as cooperative relationship in this somewhat insular community for the relatives and fief’s populace.
Therefore my real intention was to become independent as fast as possible.
“At this late hour, even if it’s greetings…” (Wendelin)
“Ano, I want to introduce myself to Father-in-law-sama and mother-in-law.” (Elise)
“Me as well.” (Ina)
“Me too, as third wife.” (Luise)
I can can quite well understand the three that they want to extend their greetings since they are my fiancées, but that alone can be deemed to be a completely disagreeable development for Kurt-ani and so on.
Different from father who has a mistress, there isn’t any other wife but Amelie-sister-in-law-san for Kurt-ani.
Or perhaps I should call it the envy of men. Since the number of wives is a barometer for the economical strength, it is equal to telling the other party “You are poor.”
Actually I’ve heard this also became the cause of bloodshed amongst nobles.
Therefore I don’t want to do something like greetings.
“Publicly, the boy and Artur are vassals of the same lord.” (Burkhart)
I guess we will stay parent and child for eternity due to our blood relationship, but from the public standpoint we are fellow vassals of Margrave Breithilde.
Furthermore, it has resulted in us being at the same situation given that both of us are officially His Majesty’s retainers and likewise fellow nobles.
But in reality there is no way that a Duke and a Knight have the same position.
Since there is even a difference in size of territory and economical strength, it is normal for most of the Dukes to act self-importantly.
And, I am a Baron while father is no more than a Knight.
Even the economical strength, I guess we don’t have to talk about that one.
Such an awkward feeling is a first for me.
I end up remembering my middle-aged section chief from my previous life fretting about 『Now the temporarily retired director of the department will re-employed as my subordinate. What shall I do?』
“How troublesome…” (Wendelin)
And presently this is a family having a strangely reversed phenomena of the father being a Knight and the child being a Baron.
Of course it’s about myself.
“Give up, it’s work after all.” (Burkhart)
“Understood.” (Wendelin)
Because it is as Burkhart-san has said, I knock on the door of the mansion.
It is pretty much called the mansion of a noble, but with the Baumeister household being an insignificant noble as usual, the size of the house was no more than at the level of a wealthy farmer’s house.
“Yes, who is it?” (Maid)
It was my family’s home after approximately three years, but the maid opening the door didn’t change.
Although she is called a maid, given that she is simply an old woman coming to help out from the neighboring farm family, you couldn’t visibly see her grow old if it’s around three years.
By the way, she doesn’t even wear maid clothes.
Because she was an old woman with an age beyond 70 years, I didn’t think that I wanted to see her in a maid uniform too much either.