Isekai: Princess Marquess Becomes Entrepreneur of Tempe

Chapter 54. Getting to Know Closer

A few moments before.

"Uncle, you know where Miss Elona Locke is?"

An aide asked one of the workers in the field. For days his master, Louis Vandyke, was drifting on a ship from the capital to Armelin. A journey so exhausting.

Arriving at Armelin, Louis immediately found out Locke's residence, which turned out to be located in the northern part of the city, almost bordering the forest. But the servants said that the owner of the house was not in his place at the moment.

And the servants, who did not know who Louis was and how he behaved to his former young lady, pointed out the direction to Elona's soybean fields and factories. They were simply afraid of the noble attributes worn by Louis and thought he was a friend of his master. When Mai who was busy in the kitchen knew this, she immediately got angry with the other servants and told him everything.

Louis arrived at the farm a short time later. His eyes searched the entire area, the figure of a fat bright brown haired girl dressed in noble clothes. However, the result is nil. There was not a single fat person he could find in the fields.

"Oh, Miss Elona? That, that's the way there!" said one of the workers, and Louis turned his gaze in the designated direction.

There, Louis did see a girl who was better dressed than the surrounding workers, but it was just a neat ordinary outfit, not the attire of a noble lady. Although the girl had the same bright brown hair as Elona, but her body was slim, unlike her former fiance.

"Which one, Uncle?" now it was Louis's turn to ask. His eyes were still searching for the person the middle-aged worker meant.

"That, that young girl, that's in that direction! Now she was again walking towards the edge of the field, apparently followed by Art." the worker's index finger moved while a slim young girl whom Louis had seen had gone towards the edge of the forest. And the man was immediately surprised.

"That one?? That slim one?!" tanyanya seraya. The farm worker chuckled.

"Hehe, Miss Elona is already very beautiful with a beautiful body! She's been successful with her diet, and we're so proud of her hard-working self!"

Seen from a distance, the slim Elona was walking quickly to the edge of the field that had many trees. The girl seemed to be followed by a young man dressed in a simple tunic with a cloth cover on his head. His white, clean and handsome face looked very incompatible with ordinary folk clothes like that.

The young man seemed to be chasing after Elona and the two of them disappeared behind the trees. Louis' instincts tell him that he must follow the couple quickly.

"Thank you, Uncle!"

Half-running Louis followed behind, and found that the young man was about to do something to Elona that made his heart unwilling.

*****

At present.

"Louis?! Are you here??"

Elona was very surprised by the presence of his former fiancee. The distance from the capital to Armelin is not close. Elona guessed that there was something very important that Louis wanted to convey until the man had to approach her all the way like this.

Louis, who had been staring intently at Art, turned his gaze to Elona. Then, he quickly grabbed the girl's right arm.

"Come with me. There's something I want to talk to you about." Louis said suddenly, then pulled Elona's arm.

"Eh?! But where?"

"Follow it. It's important!" Louis pulls on Elona's arm, making the girl drag along with him.

"Louis! No need to pull me! It hurts!"

"Hoy!!"

Art bellowed furiously, making Louis turn around in surprise. The body of Elona who almost fell was held swiftly by Art. The man held Elona's left arm.

"Can't you, you're not being rude to women, huh?!"

Art was so angry to see the behavior of Elona's former fiancee. The man pulls Elona to his side, and sets the body in front of Vandyke's son.

Louis glared back angrily at Art, "It's none of your business, village boy! Who are you!"

Amidst the feud, Art laughed a little inwardly as he realized that Louis did not recognize his face. In fact, several times they attended royal banquets together as invited guests in the past, even though they did not greet each other.

Apparently, by covering his golden hair with the cloth, and by the fact that he settled in his residence in Rudiyart City instead of the capital like other nobles, made him not very recognizable to his people. Indeed, only Rudiyart residents can recognize his face even though his golden hair has been closed.

"Elona's business is my business. I'll turn that question around. Who are you?!!" sahut Art will not lose.

"I'm Elona's fiancee, so don't be like-ma-"

"former!!" cut Art with a triumphant tone. "Eat him, read the newspaper! The news of your breakup with Elona has been spread everywhere!"

Art smiled sneering and belittling. In fact, Art himself rarely and never even touched the newspaper. News of Elona's engagement she wouldn't have known if she hadn't gotten her info from Iris and David.

Now, he could have sneered at Louis to read the newspaper. Really childish. But Art didn't care, the important thing was that he already felt like he had won a fight against Louis.

Seeing the village youth in front of him sneering and mocking him, Louis immediately boarded the apoplexy. He looks so furious. Clenched both hands, like preparing to hit something.

"How dare you...!!"

"Stop!! Enough of you two!" Elona shouted in annoyance. The two feuding men instantly fell silent and turned towards him.

"Ah, I'm sorry, Elona." said Art, then raised Elona's arm that had been pulled by Louis.

"You're okay? Your arm hurt, huh?" art asked so attentively, and it made Louis sick. Art pulled her arm until she moved away from Elona.

"Keep you away from Elona, the villager! You're just a stranger!" said Louis.

Arthur Eckart, the man who will not budge in physical combat or fighting. His parents' advice alone was often contradicted and answered back. Especially with Louis now, which even the words of his own father did not dare to fight him, although not according to his own wishes.

"What did you say?!!"

"Say stop!!" yelled Elona once more. The girl was quite upset that her order to stop fighting was not being pushed at all. He glared angrily at Art and Louis.

"If you fight one more time, I will ask the farm workers to drive you both out of here!"

"Well, forgive us.." the two young men answered almost simultaneously.

Elona took a breath and exhaled slowly. Then the girl looked towards Art.

"Let me follow Louis first. I wonder what he wants all the way here from the capital." Elona said as she pointed at the black-haired man before her. Louis just looked at it.

"But, Elona-"

"I'll be right back, take it easy." said the girl. Then, his eyes now looked at Louis.

"I'll go with you, but not in a drawn-out manner like that. You better realize that this is in Armelin and not the capital. And I, Elona Locke, am the leader of this region. Once you've been disrespectful to me, all the townspeople can call you to stone you and drive you out of this town! Understand?!!"

Elona stared firmly at Louis, making the man shudder in horror. He had to admit that this was not Elona who used to only give in and be quiet when treated disrespectfully by Louis. The girl before him had changed, not only physically but mentally. In Louis's eyes, Elona was seen as an authoritative leader at this time.

"Well, I'm sorry." said Louis pleading. Elona also nodded.

"alright. Let's talk."

*****

"I'm here to apologize to you."

Louis pleaded, lowering his head. The man invites Elona to speak at a small cafe in the suburbs not far from the girl's soybean fields.

Elona frowned and said, "We didn't forgive each other when I came to your house to break off our engagement?"

"Not an apology like that!" Louis refuted. "At that time, we forgave to end our engagement. But now, I apologize so that I can get a chance to improve my treatment of you in the past. And also so that I may know you more closely."

"Uh? Why do you need to know me more closely? We're just friends now." said Elona did not understand.

"I'm going to correct it a little: we're ex-fiancees." Louis rectified it and admitted it lazily that the words of the village youth had a point as well.

"We are ex-fiancees because of my mistake of ignoring you. But honestly, after you left, I kept thinking about you..." Louis said softly as he looked at Elona fixedly.

"Thinking me? What about Kiara? If you act like this, it means you've repeated the same mistake!"

"That's why!" sela Louis's. "Because I don't want to repeat the same mistake, then I came here to apologize to you and ask permission to recognize you more closely. So that I may know whose heart this is for and where to go."

Elona gave an inexhaustible grunt to the man before her. Then the girl said with a cry. "Just give your heart to Kiara. After all, it looks like he really loves you."

"Please, let me decide that myself!" louis said with an earnest face.

"Then, if it turns out that your heart chose me and not Kiara, what would you do? I don't want to take you back, do I?!"

Louis was silent and gulped. He was faced with the most frightening question of his.

Louis sighed for a moment, then replied, "If that were to happen, I want you to decide whether to be with me back or not. But, if you don't want to, I'll walk away from your life and also live Kiara forever."

"Are you sure of your decision?"

"That's sure."

"All right..." Elona breathed again. He knew very well, if Louis already had a desire, then it was very difficult to be broken, except by his father.

"I forgive you for what happened before. I earnestly. After all, I've been so busy right now, that I don't have time to be able to think about the past. So, you don't have to worry anymore" said Elona.

Louis smiled as his request was granted. "Thank you, Elona!"

"Then, what do you want now? You said you wanted to get to know me better?" ask Elona again.

Louis nodded. "Allow me to get to know you by following your activities."

Elona laughed when she heard it. "You said so like a member of the royal watchdog team alone, hahaha!"

Louis was stunned to see Elona's laughter. Never did he expect that his heart would admire the cheerful face of his former fiancee, who now looks so beautiful.

Elona looked at Louis for a moment and thought. After a while, the girl said, "Alright, if that's what you want. Early tomorrow at about 6 o'clock, come to my farm. Dress the usual. I'll meet you there."

*****

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

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