「I haven’t..... The people who came to meet me, everyone is so wonderful, however I still don’t have any consideration for a marriage......」 (Lis)
Hearing Liese’s answer, Nelson smiled and nodded while saying “is that so.”
「Well, a good man that will please you will appear before long. If there is a man you take a liking to, even if it not a noble but a commoner, I won’t mind about it. However, I will personally be drilling everything about Istelle House to him.」[25](Nelson)
‘Aren’t you now drilling Isaac for the marriage?’ grumbled Liese inside her heart, but Liese made a smile as if saying ‘Thank you very much.’
For Liese, it doesn’t matter if it was commoner nor there any concern, just like if she marries with the other noble.
If she was another noble’s daughter, she wouldn’t have any choice other than being in forced marriage with the person their parents arbitrarily choose. Liese was thankful she wasn’t in that situation, but if it possible, she wanted to marry with a rich person or another noble.
It didn’t mean that Liese lived a life of poverty until now, but if compared with the other nobles or royal family, her life was obviously lacking colorfulness. Anyhow it was a complex feeling.
The clothes she wore in private, the guest room for visitor from another fief, were comparatively gorgeous, however she lived a life were she needed to suppress the expenses to the best of her ability.
As it is, House of Istelle, since the war with Balveil some ten odd years ago, their financial situation was deteriorated and for that reason there was a need to be frugal without exception. So to live a refined life was a dream within a dream.
About 4 years ago, when she was taken by her father who went to the Royal Capital to attend the Feudal Lords Conference, for the first time she witnessed the elegant lifestyle of royal family and other nobles. She received a large shock.
On the capital, even if she just still 10 years old, Liese’s beauty had already been noticed, a lot of nobles called out and greeted her.
Furthermore, the people conviction that Liese would blossomed into a beautiful girl left quite an impression on her. She received a lot of wonderful gifts like beautiful clothes or jewels.
Afterwards, for some reason Nelson stopped taking Liese along to the Royal Capital, however that strong impression still stayed inside Liese’s heart. It then turned into dissatisfaction when she realized she unable to live in the same elegant lifestyle as the other nobles.
「However, you should select your marriage partner carefully. Although high social status or family influence is not important, I think that it will be absolutely wonderful if you find a reliable and kind person. Afterwards you just need to successfully educate your husband to supplement the lacking parts.」(Zirconia)
To her Mother who gave an advice while smiling, Liese replied “Yes” with a smile, but inside her mind she had a complex emotion.
Her mother name is Zirconia.
She is still 26 years old, just before the war with Balveil begun, or about 10 years ago, her father conducted his second marriage to her. Her parent was a soldier and she was a commoner girl.
Zirconia’s silver hair extended until it hung on her shoulders, her body did not have any excess fats, her gentle drooping eyes[26] were impressive.
Though it was not to the extent of Liese’s beauty, she was a woman[27] who carried a friendly atmosphere.
Liese’s biological mother, passed away from illness when she was just 3 years old. So until she turned to 5 years old, she didn’t have a mother.
For that reason, when Zirconia first arrived, the shy Liese didn’t open her heart to her new mother. Zirconia took a proactive approach to get along with Liese. The two of them then became friendly to each other.
However, 1 year after Liese went to Royal Capital, for the first time Liese felt annoyed with one action that Zirconia took.
Liese heard from his maid Ayla, that Zirconia personally screened the people who wanted to meet with Liese.
Though there are a lot of nobles or wealthy merchants that wanted to meet with Liese after hearing the rumors of her beauty, only the one who had been granted permission from Zirconia could meet with Liese.
There was even a time when Zirconia didn’t give permission to a great noble from capital, on top of that even for the neighboring great noble Dias Gregorn[28].
Of course, Zirconia didn’t personally reject them, with lies she said this and that to Nelson so he would reject them. For that, Liese wanted to scream: it’s not your business!
From the start, Istelle House is a great noble, by its many achievements in the war with Balveil, it became influential and powerful. The nobles who had been rejected to meet with Liese couldn’t do anything with their power, so in the end they reluctantly gave up.