The Tamed Heiress

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Dalgak.
Dalgak. 

He leaned his head obliquely over his fist-clenched hand with his elbow on the window frame.
Black and long bangs shook and tickled near his eyes. 

Although it was not scheduled to return so soon, as soon as Grand Duke Leon Teratius finished his work in the capital, he hurried to his estate as if he didn’t want to stay overnight.

The Emperor, his aides, and the nobles were very anxious to marry Leon with his family.
He introduced all kinds of women, made them dance at the banquet, and didn’t let them go for a moment. 

Then, his father, Duke Owen Teratius, called him to find a woman with a ‘special relationship’ with her family and urged him to marry her. 

‘The old man is still fair.’ 

The father and son of the Teratius family supported the different prince, and eventually, the prince supported by the son Leon became Emperor.

The Emperor unconsciously granted the title of “Grand Duke” to his subjects and relatives who played a decisive role in his ascension, Leon Teratius, then count.
Now he was the only Grand Duke in the Hashel Empire. 

As a result, even though his father was a duke, his son became a Grand Duke. 

‘She’s only a daughter of the merchant family.
Are you still checking my political position, father?’

His tired red eyes slipped out and casually looked out of the window.
When he found something that was blinking slowly, he stopped for a while and put strength around his eyes.
He pulled Mana up and brightened his eyes at night. 

He usually had brighter eyes than the general public, but he wanted to check more properly because he saw strange signs. 

‘What is that?’ 

A person’s shadow wiggles behind a tree on the street.
The scene of quickly disappearing under the mountain was clearly visible to his eyes. 

‘Are the bandits ambushing?’ 

He knocked lightly on the wall of the carriage.
Then the horseman who heard the sound immediately stopped the carriage. 

“What’s the matter, Grand Duke Teratius.” 

The horseman opened the door and politely bowed his head in front of him.

“Stay here for a while.” 

Leon slipped his hand on the handle of the sword with his waist and jumped lightly from the carriage.
The horseman shook his head for a while looking at him with a worried look.
And he answered as he was told. 

“Yes, your highness.
I’ll be here.”