I Regressed to My Ruined Family – 109

 #I returned, and my family was ruined (110)

Ise-ra was shocked.

But only for a moment.

She calmly asked back.

“What do you mean?”

Her face was hidden by a thick robe.

It wasn’t difficult to hide her gender with just her voice. The duke immediately replied with a natural answer.

“You’re just as good at denying things as the Marquis of Turian.” “The Marquis of Turian?”

“He was known as one of the seven spirit masters. Were you hiding your superhuman abilities?”

“…”

At this point, it was ridiculous to deny it anymore.

“How did you find me?”

“Didn’t you see it then?”

“…Then?”

“Your inner city.”

“…!”

Iserra was shocked.

A week ago, when she had infiltrated the inner city.

She thought it was just a coincidence that he had looked in the direction she was hiding.

“Could it be that…”

“The way you hid was exactly the same as the marquis.”

She was surprised.

A mere 7th-rank knight had discovered a superhuman who was deliberately hiding?

It was something that no one in the world would easily believe.

However, the duke was now showing it to her with his own eyes.

“How did you reach that level…”

“What you see isn’t everything. Isn’t that true for you too?”

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At those words, Isera stared intently at Ethan.

“What you see isn’t everything. Then I wonder what the whole picture is.”

Her eyes began to sparkle.

What appeared in her eyes was a desire to win.

That was when it happened.

The duke held out his hand and said,

“Give it to me.”

“Oh, that lump of liquid?”

“Yes.”

“Sure.”

A black lump popped out of Isera’s pocket.

Palwan.

Ethan took it and blew mana into the liquid.

Sluk.

It began to be absorbed into his body very naturally.

“What is this?”

Ise-ra tilted her head.

The moment the liquid was absorbed.

It was because the duke’s mana had decreased significantly from a moment ago.

“What a strange thing.”

That was when.

The duke stood up from his seat without saying a word and immediately started to leave the tavern.

“Hey? Wait a minute…”

Before anyone could say anything,

ding!

The duke opened the door and stepped outside.

Ise-ra’s expression turned pale.

“Ha…”

The most beautiful woman in the kingdom.

That was one of the nicknames she had been given when she first attended a ball at the age of fifteen.

However, due to an accident at that time, she was locked in a secret training room and could count the number of times she went out on one hand.

Instead, her reputation skyrocketed.

Even the most eligible men in the kingdom were desperate to say a single word to her.

Eighteen.

During those years, no one had ever stood up before her.

Except for the duke she had just met today.

“…Has he not heard the rumors about me?”

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Her pride as a woman.

That was the moment it was shattered.

Should she follow him or not?

It was a moment of indecision.

Ise-ra pondered over and over again.

“I have to participate in the card tournament…”

How excited she was after advancing to the finals!

She had been looking forward to the tournament every day.

And now she had just started…

“Oh, no!”

Ise-ra jumped up from her seat and rushed out of the tavern.

The duke was already a distant speck, disappearing into the distance.

The moment she channeled her mana into her body.

Iseara’s figure disappeared.

She reappeared right in front of the duke.

“Hey, Duke.”

The duke stared at Iseara. His eyes asked why she was chasing after him.

He then asked abruptly.

“Card tournament. Want to play?” “That’s not the problem right now…”

“Then what?”

“Huh. I guess you don’t know much about me…”

She didn’t want to go this far, but now she had no choice.

She pulled up the hood covering her head. Her hidden face was revealed through the hood.

“I’m Lee Se-ra.”

“So?”

“Lee Se-ra! The eldest daughter of the Fractal Marquis! You’ve heard of me, right?”

“Is that important?”

“Of course it is! There are so many men in the world!”

“What does that have to do with me?”

“Of course it matters. Didn’t your father tell you? He said that if you do well, you could become my husband.”

“…What?”

“You’ve already arranged our marriage, and now you’re acting like this? I see. Are you trying to pick a fight with me? Are you trying to gain the upper hand?”

“I think there’s been some misunderstanding.”

“Misunderstanding?”

Ise-ra tilted her head.

What misunderstanding could there be?

It was then that the duke brought up a ridiculous story.

“I clearly remember rejecting the marriage proposal.”

“…What?”

“I clearly told the viscount that I was rejecting it.”

“Wait, what? You said you refused?”

“Are you hard of hearing?”

“……”

The life slowly drained from Lee Se-ra’s face.

What is this…

She remembered the marquis’s words clearly.

“Lee Se-ra. Your marriage has been arranged.”

“All you have to do is give one item to the man who will become your husband.”

Of course, she thought her father and the duke had already settled the matter.

Her father had made the proposal, and the duke had agreed.

That was why her father had spoken so firmly about her marriage and her husband.

“…You really refused?”

“Why would I lie?”

“No… My father clearly told me to give an item to the man who would become my husband… That’s why I came here…”

Ethan chuckled at her words.

He thought he understood how the situation had unfolded.

“The marquis was quite delusional.”

“…”

“I have no intention of becoming your husband. Do you understand?”

Iseara’s face slowly turned red.

“What… what is this?”

What a ridiculous misunderstanding!

Because of that misunderstanding, she had been humiliated.

And it was a man she had thought was quite nice.

Had she ever felt such shame in her life?

Definitely not.

If she could, she wanted to hide in a mouse hole and avoid the duke’s gaze.

“Have a good time in the city.”

With that, the duke began to walk away.

Ise-ra stared blankly at the duke’s retreating back with a distraught look on her face.

* * *

“The eldest daughter of the marquis.”

Ise-ra.

It was a name she had heard many times in her past life.

Not only was she a spirit master who could control water spirits at an advanced level and solve droughts,

She was also a spirit master who had gained great fame for flooding the sea and cutting off the main passageway when the dragon clan invaded.

A spirit master who had reached the realm of transcendence. In her previous life, she was remembered as one of the transcendents who had been killed by the dragon lord.

“Her talent hasn’t gone anywhere.”

Eighteen.

Judging by his achievement of superhuman abilities at that age, his talent remained intact.

“But his personality seems to have changed quite a bit.”

Spirit masters tended to take on the personality traits of the spirits they primarily controlled.

Those who primarily controlled water spirits tended to be calm and composed.

However, the Ise I saw today was quite different from her previous life as the goddess of water.

“Did her main attribute change to wind?”

A wild foal running freely.

Those who handled wind spirits tended to be like that.

“I don’t think so…”

I first discovered her when I was selecting knights for training in the inner castle.

She was hiding very secretly through a wind spirit.

However, if her main attribute had been wind, she would not have been caught by my senses.

Her skill in handling wind spirits was quite immature.

That is why she was caught by my senses, just like her father.

From that moment on, I kept her under surveillance.

Through a letter sent by the Turian Marquis, I learned that she was a messenger for the Eight.

I wondered what she was doing in the city, since she hadn’t come for so long.

I never thought she would be so absorbed in card games that she would forget to deliver the message for the Eight, just like my father.

That’s why I decided to take action myself.

“Now there are four Palhans.”

It had been nine months since he arrived here.

He had gathered half of the scattered Palhans.

He would find the remaining four later…

Lost in thought, he looked ahead.

It was a familiar face.

“I thought the story was over.”

“No, it’s not over for me.”

Ise-ra.

Once again, the woman blocking his way was exuding a powerful aura. It was an emotional current that couldn’t even be compared to the arrogance she had shown when they first met.

Ethan asked bluntly.

“What do you want?”

“Come to think of it, I feel a little wronged.”

“What is it?”

“We’ve never met before, have we?”

“No, we haven’t.”

“You rejected me without even looking at me… Don’t I have the right to reject you too?”

“Then reject me.”

“No. I can’t reject you so easily. I have high standards.”

“Standards?”

“Yes, my standards. My standards are very simple. I don’t treat anyone who is weaker than me as a man.”

“So?”

“I thought about it carefully… and I found the Duke to be ambiguous. It’s hard to say that he’s weak… and it’s even harder to say that he’s stronger than me…”

Ise-ra, who had been twirling her hair, looked at Ethan and smiled brightly.

“So, I think I need to test you. If I do that, I’ll be able to reject you in a way that won’t hurt your feelings, right?”

“You want to fight?”

“Yes.”

She had never really thought about the consequences of her actions before.

her opponent was someone her father was trying to persuade, and he was a duke.

Attacking him without verification would be a burden for her. That was why she had formally requested a duel.

That was when it happened.

“Why me?”

“…What?”

“Why do I have to fight you?”

“…Did you hear me correctly?”

“Isn’t it to satisfy you that I’m accepting the duel? The marquis raised you too much.”

“…”

Ise-ra’s mouth shut tightly.

To be honest, that was exactly what he meant.

“Do you think a duke is so idle that he would listen to your whining?”

His tone was bitterly cold.

Ise-ra flinched.

“You’ve wasted my time. I’m leaving.”

The moment Edan turned away, Ise-ra hurriedly said,

“If it’s a proposal that benefits not only me but also the duke?”

“Benefits?”

“If you defeat me in this duel, I will grant you one wish. How about that?”

Ethan stopped in his tracks at her words.

This time, Lee Sera was offering a deal.

“Anything?”

“Yes, anything.”

Ise-ra.

She was a spirit summoner who had once reached the level of a transcendent being. She had considerable talent.

“She’ll be very useful.”

The Seven Families of the Kingdom.

He could use this woman as a stepping stone to completely shake them up.

Ise-ra agreed readily and looked at the duke.

If she were a generation older, it might be different, but among her peers, there was no one who could match her power.

“There’s no way I can lose.”

That was why she nodded without hesitation when the duke asked her again.

“Follow me.”

The duke led her to one of the secret training grounds inside the inner castle.

Ise-ra took out her cane and looked at Ethan as she spoke.

“Let’s begin.”

“Go ahead.”

Smack!

The sound of applause echoed throughout the area. The scenery began to distort, and soon it turned into a sea of flames.

[This is my domain. Are you feeling hot? No?]

Inside the domain.

Before he knew it, Isera’s entire body had turned into fire, and she was staring intently at Ethan.

The eldest daughter of the Fractal Marquis.

He realized it as soon as he saw her.

“She has the attribute of fire.”

Ignis, the highest-ranking spirit of fire.

Right now, Ignis had descended directly into her body.

The fire burned hotly.

The fire possessed such intense power that no one could control it.

And no one knew where it would spread next.

“That’s why her personality is completely different from her previous life.”

Soon, the two pairs of eyes met.

“Is this all you’ve got?”

Even a 7th-rank knight could feel the heat, but Ethan’s expression didn’t change at all.

[I guess this is nothing to you. Shall I raise the temperature a little more?]

Crack!

Not only had he reached the level of a superhuman, but the power of the spirit master who had summoned the highest-ranked spirit was tremendous.

The ground began to glow in an instant.

A brilliantly burning area.

The heat in that area rose to a temperature that even a 9th-rank knight, who was beyond 8th rank and called a superhuman, could hardly withstand.

Iseira had no intention of raising the temperature this high.

He just wanted to fight a fair fight, not kill the duke.

However, he continued to raise the temperature because the duke was withstanding the heat as if it were nothing.

Ethan, who had drawn his divine sword, looked at Isera.

A mere colt who knows only how to heat things up but has no understanding of the true nature of fire.

That was Isera.

“You’re useless.”

[…What?]

“This is how you handle fire.”

The moment he gestured.

[What… What is this!]

Isera was horrified.

The realm of fire.

All of its control had been sucked into Ethan’s hands.