Isekai: Princess Marquess Becomes Entrepreneur of Tempe

Chapter 40. In-law Candidate

"Hey, what lies did you tell my sister, huh! Tell the truth! Tell me you're-"

*cubit*

"Aww!! Ow hell! Ouch!"

Stefan was aghast and grimaced in pain as soon as his wife pinched the side of his stomach. Stefan's grip on the collar of Art's clothes just slipped off, and he held onto the area of Iris' former pinch.

"Iris! What the hell are you?!" Stefan glared back angrily at the woman next to him. "You want to stand up for him, yeah, just because he's sepu-"

"You're wrong." Iris cut her husband's words.

"What do you mean I got the wrong guy? It's obviously her-"

"Who is the man." Iris cut again with an attitude that remained calm.

"But he's Arth-"

"Who are people! I said, wrong guy!" Iris insisted on her stance. Stefan looked at his wife in confusion. A moment later, the man caught his wife's unusual eyeball movements, like hinting at something.

"Let's go home! We'll talk later."

Iris moved her mouth without making a sound. At first Stefan looked at her in disbelief. But Iris's eyes were round, making Stefan unable to wiggle. If his wife is already angry, then the house can be spoiled poranda and Stefan can not be spoken to for months.

"My husband, we go home. Seems like the scorching sun makes you dizzy until you mistakenly recognize someone like this."

Iris turned her eyes to Art and Elona. "I apologize for my husband's actions. He's just tired. Elona, take her to the cabin for a second. I want to personally apologize to your friend."

"O-oh, i-iya Brother..." Elona answered with doubt and confusion in her heart. The girl still felt inexhaustible that her brother could do all that to his friend, a person he should not have known. Elona grabbed her brother's arm and took him to the cabin of the horse-drawn carriage.

*****

After making sure her husband and sister-in-law had moved away, Iris turned her eyes to Art who was still checking for the pain in her neck that had been choked a little earlier by Stefan.

Iris smiled meaningfully at the man. Noticing a strange look directed at her, Art lowered her head. And he still tries with his acting.

"Then, excuse me, Madam" said Art, and as soon as possible went from the front of Iris to her work area.

But the woman did not remain silent. He followed Art from behind while smiling seductively.

"Hoo? It is also fitting that you wear such a simple dress."

"What's the lady talking about? These are my everyday clothes. I'm just a poor man." replied Art stammered. Iris's smile grew even more.

"Oh, still dodging the looks? If you're not really the person I'm referring to, try to explain why they're all here now?"

Iris pointed towards the Eckart soldiers still helping Art work the land to this day. The number of soldiers was not as much as the time Art brought them to the ground the first time, but still Iris was able to recognize some of their faces.

The Eckart warriors themselves gasped to see a noble woman they knew coming over. Quickly, they all performed a gesture of respect.

"Greetings! Miss Iris Hilgard!" exclaim the soldiers. Iris chuckled at hearing that.

"Hey, my name has changed! Ahaha!"

"Oh, sorry. We forget. Greetings, Miss Iris Locke!"

"Greetings respectfully." Iris looked at Eckart's soldiers one by one and asked, "Are you forced by Arthur to farm like this?"

"Ti-no, ma'am"

"Sister Iris!" the sound of Elona's call coming over broke up the conversation.

Art approached Iris' ear, whispering slightly before Elona arrived, "Don't tell Elona the truth. I beg you."

Iris who heard that turned to her cousin in disbelief. Art who had been ignorant and would not listen to the words of others, was now pleading for the sake of a girl.

"Stefan won't just let you go. You better get ready." Iris whispered back.

"Sister Iris, Sister Stefan is waiting in the cabin" said Elona who had arrived in front of her sister-in-law.

"He looks really upset. Does he really recognize Art? Because I asked you a question, but he said I was asked to ask you directly." asked Elona curious.

Iris smiled and stroked her sister-in-law's head, "It's nothing, baby. He just misidentified someone, didn't he, Art the village youth?" tanya Iris confirmed to her cousin while holding back a laugh.

Art just shut up and nodded. He was afraid of speaking wrongly. He also did not dare to reply to Iris. In their extended family, Art aka Arthur Eckart is indeed famous as the most ignorant, but of all the family members who have been victims of his mischief, he can never prank Iris. His cousin was much smarter than him.

Because it can never be satisfied to prank Iris, then Stefan was the target of his mischief first. Mana knows that now she is in love with her sister.

Art has hit his own karma.

*****

Iris also said goodbye to Elona and her cousin. Once inside the carriage cabin, Stefan had already greeted him with a sullen face.

"You never said that that brat was close to Elona!!" Stefan immediately expressed his frustration to his wife.

"I don't know about that either. Arthur didn't say in his letter at the time that he was helping Elona work the land"

"What's? Mail...?" ask Stefan to investigate. Iris gasped and covered her mouth with the fan in her hand. The woman forgot that she kept Arthur's letter a secret for him a while back.

"What do you mean by letter? What letters?" Stefan interrogated his silent wife. But he's no less clever. Stefan was trying to dig up his memory, and his memory was drawn to a letter from Arthur to his wife, who he said asked about a brother.

Iris reflexively covered both her ears with her hands as soon as her husband started screaming.

"Technically, I'm not lying." Iris said as she took off her hands that covered her ears. "Elona is my brother. Brother-in-law, hehe."

Stefan snorted angrily at the actions of his wife who was now just smiling innocently like a child. "What did that brat ask about Elona?"

"Hey, his name is Arthur. And he didn't ask strangely, really. She's just wondering about Elona, like her favorite food, her favorite color, what her hobbies are, and also-"

"He asked all that?! And you told him everything??" Stefan interrupted again. Iris could only sigh.

"Right, I was wrong for not telling you, and I'm sorry for that. But I don't regret my actions that told her all about Elona."

"But why?! Do you want Elona to be bullied by him too? Your cousin does not care about others, as long as his satisfaction is fulfilled. He is naughty and selfish! He's-"

"Now no longer." this time it was Iris who interrupted her husband's words. "The contents of the letter show that he cares deeply for Elona. And it can be proved from his attitude after he read my reply first."

"What did you reply to?"

"I told you about Elona's psychological state, and you know what Arthur did? He remained faithful to be by Elona's side until this very second.

You know, if Elona doesn't have any friends? Arthur was at his side. He did not leave even though he knew everything. She became Elona's friend.

All the obstacles that Elona faced at Armelin was willing to help him. And you still think you're gonna separate Elona from her?"

Stefan was stunned in his sofa after listening to Iris lecture him. As much as he hated his wife's cousin, there was no way he could take the happiness of Elona, his only sister.

"But why would he lie about his identity? If until Elona finds out, let alone we know the truth and do not tell him, he could be very hit..."

Stefan lowered his head and held her in both hands. He did not dare to imagine what Elona would do once her sister was the truth.

"I don't understand either, but obviously, I'm sure Arthur has his own reasons for that. We just need to shut up and trust her." said Iris, then stroked her husband's head.

"But if he hurts my sister, I'll make him regret it for the rest of his life! If Elona cries for that brat, I'll make the Eckart family have no heir!"

Stefan gritted his teeth and clenched his hand. Iris, who had been trying to stay calm, was horrified when she imagined what her husband would do to her cousin later if it happened.

The Locke family was indeed just a marquess family, still one level away from the duke family. But when asked about the strength of the soldiers, Locke has the strongest army in the country. Iris did not dare to imagine if her husband was confused and really mobilized all the knights and soldiers to finish Arthur.

"Just calm down, she won't dare to do it" said Iris trying to calm her husband.

"After all, Arthur has now changed a lot, and that's thanks to Elona. He's not like he used to be, hahaha!" Iris laughed as she remembered about her cousin in the field earlier.

"Why?"

"Aren't you aware of that while on the ground?"

"What, the hell, do you mean?" stefan didn't understand.

"Arthur's in love with your sister, hohoho!" obviously Iris while laughing. Stefan rolled his eyes in shock.

"What?!"

"Here you go, I'm sure he can take good care of Elona. Just accept him as your future brother-in-law from now on!" chirps Iris.

Stefan stared in horror at his wife, "Candidate-in-law!! Nah! Nah! I don't want that bad boy to be Elona's husband! No!"

*****

Meanwhile, in the capital.

"Well, this soy milk is delicious! He said it doesn't make us fat!"

"Yes, I love chocolate!"

Kiara had just come out of a boutique when she heard girls her age come out from one of the branches of the One-Simple Cafe in the capital. The girl had indeed heard about the existence of a new drink menu at the famous cafe, but she did not know what.

For the nobles, it would be very lost trend if not try all the dishes served in the number one cafe throughout the country. Actually Kiara had invited Louis to accompany her to try the new drink, but the girl did not understand why Louis lately became more frequent urgency.

Upon hearing the names of the dishes that the girls passing by before him had just spoken, Kiara gasped.

Soy milk? Since when in the world there are such soy products?

Out of curiosity, Kiara tried to accidentally pass in front of one of the cafe windows and peeked into it a little. Seen a variety of packaging on display in the cafe's shelf storefront with the inscription 'Soybean Milk Powder Locke Armelin'.

Armelin Locke... Elona Locke's?

The antagonist? This can't be a coincidence, right? Means my thoughts all this time about him who is also from the earth are true?!

But why now?

Is he not the reincarnation of a baby like me, but only recently?

*****

...\=\= original writing by @author.ryby \=\=...

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