Magic revolution of a Young Noblewoman Starting Over ~ The Executed Villainess restores her Ruined Family ~ Restraint? Prudence? I'm more interested in magic tools than that! - Chapter 16
Family gathering
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And then, for the next 10 days.
While making progress on the parts’ detailed design with intense fervour, I kept coming and going between the Royal Capital Workshop and the mansion.
The Royal Capital Workshop, putting in some serious effort, rapidly went about its work, and the materials for manufacturing came in one after the other.
They used their own connections from long ago, and gathered materials with tempestuous force.
And it wasn’t just the bare minimum materials needed.
Take the lumber, for example, which they’d sent with various special characteristics for comparison.
Furthermore, they even began rough processing of the materials of their own initiative, based on the general diagram.
I was already completely the bottleneck for this process.
As things continued in this state———
”Hey, Ojou-sama. Got the drawings yet?”
When Jack, who came to the mansion’s laboratory to urge me for the diagrams,
”Just wait a minuuuute!?”
I screamed while heading over to the drawing board.
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”Fi-, finished…”
I crumbled down into a chair.
”Thanks! Got the diagram. Later!!”
Seeming delighted while carrying the diagrams, Jack left the laboratory.
”I reeeally wish, this was just someone else’s problem…”
Unconsciously, a grumble escaped my lips.
At that moment, an invigorating scent drifted from the kitchen.
”Thanks for the hard work, Ojou-sama.”
I threw my arms around my attendant, who smiled gently as she placed a cup of black tea on the desk.
”Annaaaa. You’re the only one who appreciates meeee.”
”There there, you’ve done well!”
Anna patted my head.
Why is it so soothing to have her tell me [there, there]?
And as I was being replenished by Anna to my heart’s content,
Knock knock,
Someone came knocking on the door.
By any chance, did Jack leave something behind?
”Come in.”
As I called out, a gentle male voice that sounded familiar from somewhere said [Yeah, excuse me], and opened the door.
Standing there was a grey-haired young man with an intellectual appearance due to his glasses.
The moment I saw his figure,
”Hugh-nii-sama!!”
”Hey-, wai-, hol-”
Thud
I rushed over to my brother, whose face I hadn’t seen in half a year, and embraced him with great force.
My second eldest brother, Hubert, is three years older than me.[1]
He went to the royal capital’s academy in spring this year, and was now studying diligently while living in the dormitories.
”Letty. I’d heard that you wouldn’t wake up the whole time since you collapsed at the castle, so is your condition alright?”
Having hugged for a while, he separated himself from me and worriedly asked me so.
”Sorry for worrying you. I could only drink soup for two days after waking up, but it looks like I’m able to properly eat normal food now. My physical strength is back too, so I think I’m probably fine.”
”I see. I really should’ve come to visit sooner, but in order not to burden you after you’d just fallen ill, brother suggested I wait a few days. But, well…”
There, he stopped speaking, and glanced behind me.
I was also lured into looking behind me.
”Ah…”
Diagrams were messily spread all over the desk.
Furthermore, scattered about the drawing board were pages of scrapped Parts Diagrams, to the point of having nowhere to walk.
”By the looks of things, you seem fine.”
Hugh-nii-sama smiled wryly.
”Geez! Onii-sama, you’re being mean!!”
I puffed out my cheeks with all my might.
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That night.
At dinner time, besides myself, Father[2] and Hugh, there was one other man at the dining table.
”Letty. I’m really glad nothing serious happened.”
Dressed in the uniform of the Heilland[3] Kingdom’s Second Knight Order, the burly man with dark grey hair who said this while smiling… was my eldest brother, six years older than me[4], Graham.
”Graham-nii-sama. Sorry for worrying you. Thankfully, as you can see, I’ve recovered enough to not have any difficulties going about my daily life.”
Graham-nii-sama nodded at my words.
”If you can hurl yourself at me with such vigour, then you should be fine.”
Older brother laughed wryly.
Of course, he also received my baptism by hug attack when we reunited.
”Aah, that happened to me too, huh. I’m not trained like Aniki, so she bounced on my tummy.”
Hubert-nii-sama smirked.
”Muuu… it’s just an expression of love.”
I put on a pouty face, and Graham laughed, saying [Got it].
A calm atmosphere.
A gentle time.
But then, trouble happened.
”M-, me too…”
Otou-sama, who’d been silently watching up till then, opened his mouth… tightly grasping his knife and fork.
”I got hugged by Letty the other day too.”
Nodding his head [uh huh], father made such a confession.
Stop it, it’s embarrassing.
However, when my brothers saw Otou-sama like that,———
””Huh…””
They froze splendidly.
As if saying, no way.
That father, who was like an unfriendly and solemn lump, would join in this brother-sister messing around!!
My brothers were frozen, staring with wide eyes as if they’d [seen something they shouldn’t have seen].
However, Otou-sama’s merciless monologue continued.
”That time, if I remember correctly, Letty’s tummy was growling, and so I carried her to bed just like that!”
Nooooooooo!?
Stop it, it’s embarrassiiiiiiiing!!
I screamed in my head.
Clang clang, the sound of knives and forks falling onto plates.
This time, my brothers were frozen with their mouths wide open.
””……””
No, stop it! This mood!
I can’t endure it any longer!!
I frantically searched for the words to get this frozen moment to move.
”O-, Otou-sama. It’s embarrassing to be told that again…”
”R-, right. Sorry, sorry.”
Father stiffly apologised.
Ehm, do you understand?
”But that time, Letty was so admirably[5] cute…”
”Uwaaaaaaaahh!!”
I hurriedly stood up from my seat and held down my father’s mouth.
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A short while after the dinnertime tragedy.
We moved to the living room, and were enjoying a calm after-meal tea.
”Anyhow, I’m glad Letty has recovered.”
My brothers nodded at father’s words.
Thanks to what happened a little while ago, the gap between my father and brothers was closing at a surprising rate.
”By the way, Chichi-ue[6], what happened at the royal castle?”
Hugh-nii-sama asked father that with a somewhat serious face.
”I heard from Aniki[7] that Letty’s getting engaged to the second prince.”
”Uh, uh…”
Father mumbled with unusual discomfort.
Looking at the two of them, it appears that Otou-sama still hasn’t spoken to Hubert-nii-sama about the engagement.
After Hugh-nii-sama, Graham-nii-sama also spoke up.
”I’d like to know about that in detail too. And then the reason for the engagement too. The letter I got from Chichi-ue only said [A proposal came from the king].”
”Uh, uh…”
Father mumbled more and more.
I can’t believe he’s this bad at speaking, huh.
It can’t be helped. Let me rather explain.
I told my brothers the things that I knew.
TL Notes:
[1]I believe this puts him at 15? ↩
[2]I’m tired of using “father” and “dad”. I’ll just use the romanized versions from now on, since I’m doing so for other titles anyways, such as Ojou-sama. ↩
[3]I’m realising now that I’ve probably misspelt this. Any suggestions? It should sound something like “High+El+Land”, but make it cool, you know? Otherwise, I’m thinking of just going ahead with Heielland (sounds kinda German?) ↩
[4]so supposedly 18 years old ↩
[5]even autocorrect thinks this should be adorably, not admirably, but that’s what the raws said… ↩
[6]means respectable father, or something like that ↩
[7]means elder brother ↩
I’m kinda confused that Graham didn’t get a nickname… but oh well.
Putting that aside, I recently saw that, if I understood correctly, this story is getting a manga and light novel!At the time of writing this, it’s also ranked 3rd on Sousetsuka Ni Narou’s monthly ranking for fantasy novels. As such, I’d like to take this chance to ask everyone to rate this story on Novel Updates, and if you’ve got a Sousetsuka Ni Narou account, to rate it there as well. I know my updates aren’t the most punctual, and my translation hasn’t been the most fluent, but don’t let that hold back the ratings. That’s on me, not the story. Thanks