“What have you done ! ! !”
That day.
In the Earl Cresta Family’s residence, a loud jeer resounded –.
Speaking of “Earl Cresta Family” in the Elgrand Kingdom, there was no one that didn’t know among the nobility.
“Controlling evil within the kingdom, sovereign of the underworld” – that was the second name given to them.
The Cresta Family had been granted a peerage for about 300 years. From that time, They continued their crimes all the time without anyone being able to grab their tail, built up enourmous wealth. Their personal connections and modus operandi had been inherited even after the change of generation, and now their roots were spreading throughout the whole kingdom.
Even if someone was rarely able to grab their tail luckily, for them it was merely a “tail”. If they cut it, there would not be any harm , and the darkness of the main body would never come out to light.
If someone moved unskillfully, the harm would come back to them. For those who fulfilled justice, they were an existence that only remembered hatred.
That was, the Earl Cresta Family –.
To the utmost, those were “rumors”.
“In the first place, didn’t something like this happen because you are so unreliable? Of all things, to go to the Royal Palace at this time! Isn’t it exactly the time for you to use that pointlessly intimidating face of yours ?!! ”
“Sorry, Ellie. I will explain! I will explain so please put down that vase …!”
“Mother, please calm down!”
The ones performing that undeniable scene of carnage, were a man and woman in their prime life. A young man entered to stop that with a pale face, It was exactly a scene suitable to be called a domestic dispute .
The outfits of the three people were of fine quality, their demeanor were also elegant (what they were doing right now was not included). At a glance, One would know that they were from the upper class society. In fact, they were actually so.
The current Earl Cresta, Dalis Cresta, his wife, Elizabeth Cresta, and his eldest son, Edward Cresta.
They were exactly that ill repute, “Earl Cresta” family.
“Let me go, Edward! This time I can not forgive it! If it is another matter than I can still tolerate it, but of all things for that child to !”
“It is natural to be angry, but if you hit with that thing Father will !”
“I do not care! Even if I kill him he still has a face that looks like he won’t die anyway!”
“Just because the face looks like that, there is no guarantee that he won’t die ….”
Even though he said that, Edward muttered in his heart, (He indeed looks like he won’t die …). Darlis, who grasped such sign sensitively, raised a miserable voice while hiding under the desk, “Ed, you traitor -!” No matter how he was viewed, that appearance did not seem to be “the sovereign of evil”.
Yes, the Earl Cresta Family “controlling the evil within the kingdom” was merely a rumor. In reality he was a devoted husband, a good father who loved his children, and a wonderful feudal lord admired by the citizen. There was nobody who knew his true nature would connect him with the word “evil”.
Just alas, for rumors to spread, there was a basis for that. that is–.
“That, face, of, yours! Which mouth would say ‘I have carelessly done it’ with that heinous, inhuman, cold-blooded person face of yours !!”
… This was it.
Although it could only be called as a mistery of genes, for generations, many people born in the Earl Cresta Family would be born with evil-looking face that could only be expressed as “villainess face”. Rather, they were mostly born with such a face. No matter how virtuous-looking face the wife possessed, the blood of the Cresta Family seemed to win and a person with evil-looking face was born.
The current head of the family was exactly a good example of that. The husband Dalis possessed an extremely heinous, inhuman, cold-blooded person face that was rare even in the Cresta Family’s history. By no means it was grim, rather it belonged to the handsome category. However, that appearance could only be described with the words such as “ice-like”, “cold-blooded”, “doesn’t lift an eyebrow even when faced with brutality”. It was expresionless by default, If he smiled occasionally, that smile was famous as being the smile of devil, to put it simply, he was a “there’s no way that face belongs to an ordinary person” kind of person.
Such a man ended up with a love marriage (this was important) after much wrangling. Elizabeth, the mother that was the daughter of Viscount Riara at that time, was a beautiful yong lady that had blond hair shining like the sun, blue eyes like the sea, a graceful smile and a gentle facial feature. Not to mention about virtuous-looking face, if she lined up with Dalis, they could only be seen as Demon King and the princess that was given as a sacrifice. In fact, the wedding ceremony was filled with such talk.
The surroundings were worried whether Lady Ellie was alright and was not treated badly by the Demon King. They were originally having love marriage so the relationship between the two of them would not go bad, after a year Elizabeth gave birth to the eldest son, Edward. The moment he was born, Elizabeth realized the defeat of her gene.
“Mother, let’s calm down for now, if we don’t sit down first, we can not discuss the matter that should be discussed.”
The one who tried to calm down the mother with much carefulness so as not to stimulate as much as possible, was the eldest son Edward who had grown up into a 22 years old young man. He had glossy chestnut-colored hair and emerald eyes, the pigment was derived from the father, somewhat gentle facial feature was derived from the mother. If it was only this, Elizabeth didn’t need to feel defeated.
The problem was.
“Oniisama, even if you said something like that, with that face, I can only think you are going to seduce and trick her.”
“Don’t say something so obvious now ! I am also desperate with this face!”
The older brother reised a sorrowful voice to his sister ‘s calm retort.
The genes of the Cresta Family could even reconstruct the genes of Elizabeth who was praised as an angel into a “villainess face”. If it was part by part of the face, Edward should have resembled Elizabeth, but if it was seen as a whole, It was looked like “to seduce women with that gentle smile and thoroughly make use of them then easily throw them away.” Since it was looked like that the moment he was born, Elizabeth’s sense of defeat was quite reasonable.
Elizabeth and Dalis who finally had a vase got closer until 30 centimeters above his head, noticed that their daughter had came into the room. They stopped their movement and turned to look at the person who had just spoke. Her parents finally noticed herself, the daughter sweetly smiled.
“Otousama, Okaasama, I have prepared the tea. Breaking Otousama’s head with a vase can be done later, for now, would you like to have a tea?”
“Breaking the head should be postponed forever!”
Dalis who had been told a scary thing, nevertheless still cheerfully sat down on the sofa. Elizabeth also put the vase back into its place and sat down next to him. Edward tilted his head while sitting in front of them.
“You are the one who prepare the tea? What happened to Rita?”
“In this desperation scene, you want her to serve? All servants in the mansion are frightened, you know !”
“……I see”
“I like to prepare a tea, so while at it, I offered to take it over.”
“I understood well … … Thank you, Diana.”
The girl that Edward looked at with gentle eyes was actually the cause of Elizabeth’s fury earlier. The eldest daughter of the Cresta Family, who was 17 years old this year, the Earl Daughter Diana Cresta. For Edward, she was the only younger sister, and for Dalis and Elizabeth, she was the only daughter they had. In this situation she should have been pampered, but the Cresta Family’s genes didn’t even allow such simple thing.
“Yes, please, I have blended it with a little lavender so that your feeling could calm down.”
“Oh, Diana!”
Suddenly Elizabeth sorrowfully burst into tears.
“Even though you grew up to be such a gentle daughter with lovely nature, please forgive your mother who has lost to the blood of Cresta !”
“… Please calm down, Okaasama. I am not particularly dissatisfied with this face, I am grateful you give birth to me with a beautiful face.”
“Diana ~!”
… … It was useless.
Diana exchanged a glance with her older brother and gave up in calming down their mother. Although she didn’t break down seriously, when it came to the matter of Diana’s face, Elizabeth would not rise for a while . If she left her alone she would return back to normal, so Diana decided to get into the main topic.
“So why is Okaasama filled with such anger?”
“Um, about that, Diana, I want you to calm down and listen …”
With the next words of her father, Diana opened her clear eyes wide up to the limit.
“There had been a notification that ordered for you to become the concubine of His Majesty Juke ….”
– The season is spring.
That was a certain incident that happened in the early afternoon of the quiet season.
Tl Note :
Hello, I haven’t read ahead yet but it seems interesting, so I decided to translate this. To be honest, translating this chapter was quite difficult, especially the part where it describes about their face. Um, it’s not that I didn’t understand the meaning, but I have difficulty to find a suitable sentence for it. Well, English is not my native language. So if you have any correction, feel free to notice me.