Because I’ve Been Reincarnated As A Girl I Just Want To Do Yuri Things, But Things Aren’t Going Well

Chapter 404

“You have a guest, Master Flora,” Kanbee said.

“Huh?” I said.

He said that as he came in while I was cleaning up paperwork in the office. A guest for me? Who in the hell is it? An acquaintance from the royal capital…? If the royal family is coming, they should have contacted me in advance… Well, if we meet, I’ll understand. Anyway, recently I’ve had a lot of work taken away from me, so I have plenty of time. It doesn’t matter if you stop for a while.

“Are they in the drawing room?” I asked.

“No, Lady Katharina guided this guest to your private quarters, Master Flora,” Kanbee replied.

My quarters? If it’s normal matters, a business relationship, or a work-subordinate relationship, there’s no way they’ll go to my private quarters. Although it’s not a bedroom, it’s a living room or something like that, I think it’s only Margarete and Eleonore who have been sent to such a place recently… If it’s those two, the letter should definitely come in advance…

Even if I think about it, I don’t know what to do, so I head to my quarters for the time being. When I entered the room, there was…

“Flora! Long time no see!”

“Christa!”

I saw Christa talking with Katharina in the room. Come to think of it, I completely forgot to contact Christa. I also thought that if I went to school at the time of the school exam anyway, we would meet her. Christa greeted me with a smile at first, but also approached me and started puffing out her cheeks.

“Geeze! If you were back in the royal capital, why didn’t you contact me?” she said.

“Uhm… I’m sorry…” I said.

I honestly can’t say I forgot. If you say something like, “It’s fine because we’re going to meet at school anyway,” she’ll seriously be pissed off. At times like this, the best thing to do is apologize.

“I know you’re busy, Flora… But please worry about me a little bit. After all, we’re friends, right?” Christa said.

I was overwhelmed. As expected of Christa…. too good of a girl. Isn’t Christa a waste for Helmut after all? Even now, I’m thinking about scratching that off. Christa would be happier if she married Helmut, who loves Christa alone, rather than me, who has five wives already, but…

“Sorry, Christa,” I said.

“Let’s make some tea,” Katharina said. “Please sit down.”

As a regular maid, she doesn’t talk like that. It is likely that she is now in private contact with Christa as a sister-in-law. Katharina successfully mediated between me and her, so Christa and I also took our seats. After enjoying the aroma of the brewed tea, we check the taste.

“As always, the tea that Katharina brews is the best,” Christa said.

“Thank you, Big Sister,” Katharina said. 1

“B-Big Sister…” I said, shocked.

No, it’s correct, isn’t it? It’s right? But… it’s kind of a shock. Katharina doesn’t call me anything so familiar. And yet Christa is already being called her big sister…

No, as I said earlier, isn’t that correct? In fact, she’s her brother’s wife, so she’s a big sister-in-law. It’s the right thing to call her. But for some reason, I’m really shocked by that. I am jealous of Christa.

“Ka-Katharina, for a little test, could you call me ‘Big Sister’ as well?” I said.

“What? Huh? That’s fine, but…” Katharina said, making a strange face.

It’s inevitable. I don’t even know what I’m talking about. But I really want Katharina to call me that.

“Big Sister Flora”

“Hauu!”

I reacted with a bikun, as if something struck me. My body stretched up as I stiffened. Good! So good! I don’t know what it is but like this… No, I can’t explain it well, but it’s really good!

“Katharina……, how about calling me that from now on when we’re alone together?”

“I prefer to call you Miss Flora…but if Miss Flora says so, I have no objection.”

Hmmm… It’s different… It’s not like that… More like this… naturally… That’s right… For example, when I look at Louisa and say ‘Big Sister Lousia’ or when I look at Claudia and say ‘Big Sister Claudia’… I like that kind of natural feeling. There’s something different about giving orders and having them say something despite how natural it would be.

“Fufu! You and your loved ones always seem to be on good terms and I envy you,” Christa said.

No, it’s not as bad as Christa’s loved one, is it? Always flirting with Helmut, flirting, you two are flirting to the extent that you’re on such good terms, aren’t you?

“I’m no match for you and Helmut,” I said.

“Huh~? That may be true, but… Flora, you’re also quite flirty,” Christa said.

Don’t you deny that!? When I said that Christa and Helmut were more flirting, She affirmed as if it was natural while blushing and wriggling!? It’s fine, but…

“So… what business do you have today?” I asked.

“Oh, my? Was it wrong to just want to visit your friends?” Christa asked, slumping her shoulders.

I’m just joking right now, but it’s natural to think that something would happen if Christa came by without an appointment.

“It’s more convenient to say that I’m going to visit a friend’s house without making an appointment just because they’re in the royal capital…” Christa said, suddenly serious.

Does that mean there’s some business after all?

I guess so. Even Christa isn’t someone who suddenly visits without any promise or contact. If you have a normal business, you can send a letter, send someone to deliver it, or in the worst case, contact me through Helmut. It’s really strange that she suddenly came without saying anything.

“Recently… the Bayen Faction seems to be moving again,” Christa said.

“Ahh……”

I’ve certainly heard that rumor, too. It seems that not only the Bayen Faction, but also the Nassam-Siegen Faction has been actively doing something lately, but even our intelligence department hasn’t grasped the exact details yet.

They’re originally hostile to us, and we’ve had a lot of problems before, so we’re on guard, but even so, the opponent is a faction of a ducal family recognized by the kingdom. I can’t do a forcible investigation just because something is suspicious. In the unlikely event that we are found out doing an illegal act and investigation, we will be accused and attacked. It is necessary to proceed in a way that there is no fault here.

In that case, it would be impossible to sneak into the other party’s mansion or take such forcible measures.

In fact, it’s not uncommon for factions and friendly nobles to hold meetings and parties, and both Bayen and Nassam have made various mistakes, so in order to make up for it, they’re trying to rebuild by getting closer to the nobles here and there. If you say that we are in the middle of it, we have no choice but to accept it.

It would be nice if I could find definitive evidence that they were trying to do something illegal, but they weren’t stupid either, so there was no way they would show their tails so easily. We are investigating and monitoring as much as possible, but at the moment it is impossible for us to intervene.

“And what this is about is exposing my family’s shame… my elder brother has been won over by the Bayen Faction. I try to persuade him, but he won’t listen… Recently, the relationship between my father and him has completely cooled to ice, as well.”

“Ah… so is that what it was…?” I asked.

I know how Christa feels. I also had an older brother named Friedrich who gave me a headache… No, I think he’s still alive, right? I think he’s still alive after being exiled to an island, but I don’t know the details. It’s possible that he’s being exiled to an island and secretly getting rid of him behind the scenes, but that’s nothing to do with me.

Christa’s parents, Karl and Marianne, are already in the Bayen Faction. Even if you belong to a faction, you will be treated like a lower class, and you will only be forced to do dirty work, and if things come to light, you will only be held accountable.

Judging from the results of the investigation into the fraud case, it seems that the Rheingen Marquisate was not in a very good state. However, they are made to do hard work, made directly responsible for criminal acts, and most of the profits are taken up by Duke Bayen. In this case, there is almost no advantage because it is just a crime.

If the incident came to light, Duke Bayen would probably have intended to push all the responsibility onto the Houses of the perpetrators. I should have thought that their position would not be crushed so easily because it was a dukedom. Apparently, they thought they could escape if they cut off a few people from their faction like cutting a lizard’s tail.

However, in the fraud case, the King thoroughly investigated the case and clarified the relationships. As a result, House Bayen’s naive idea was shattered, and the houses of the low-level perpetrators got a lighter sentence for the crime, while House Bayen, who thought they could get away with it without even suspicion, became even more guilty.

As for the Rheingen Marquisate, they were able to have their crimes lightened, and it should have been a good opportunity to distance themselves from the Bayen Faction, which forced them to do nothing but commit crimes. In fact, Karl must have thought so and tried to keep his distance.

If they want to use our House for that purpose, let them. Even at our House, it would be profitable for the Bayen Faction to weaken and for those close to me to create a faction. If you want to rely on House Caan and Carruthers to cut ties with the Bayen Faction, we will not hesitate to provide assistance and support.

But… I guess the idiotic son didn’t understand that. No, I don’t have a direct acquaintance with Christa’s brother, do I? I just know what her brother is probably thinking.

It’s a faction my parents belonged to since I was a child, no, since I was born. If you have been in contact with them since birth, you will naturally accept them, and it will become natural for you to belong there. Even if the Bayen Faction goes downhill, no, because it is going downhill, you have to support it yourself and do something about it! People tend to think about things like that.

Even though he was forced to commit criminal acts by the Duke of Bayen, their crimes were blamed on him, and most of the profits were taken away, he still tried to serve his master. He had been raised in that faction since childhood, and if he was surrounded by people who had grown up in the same way, it would be unavoidable for him to grow up like that.

Whether it’s faith or loyalty, if you’ve been in contact with anything like that since you were a child, and if you’re surrounded by people like that, you’ll end up doing the same.

I think it’s only natural to be loyal to the master’s house even if only the profit is taken away and the sin is put on your shoulders.

It would be ungrateful to leave the faction now that the master is going downhill. I think that when the master’s family is suffering, I have to do my best for the master’s family.

I don’t think it’s just her older brother’s fault. You can’t say that Karl and Marianne have no fault, having raised him like that. There will also be problems in the surroundings that make it like that.

However… even if we continue to devote ourselves to the Bayen Faction, there is no future for the Rheingen Marquisate. Above all, there is a high possibility that House Caan will have a hostile relationship with them. Duke Bayen must hold a considerable grudge against me. I don’t think I’m going to keep quiet and withdraw.

If Duke Bayen tries to take revenge on me, then naturally I will show no mercy. Even before, if the King hadn’t stopped, he could have gone as far as destroying the Bayen Duchy. If the Duke’s House or a large faction collapsed, the balance of power among the nobles would collapse and the country would become unstable, so the King and Prime Minister didn’t want that and only caused some damage.

But if you do something to me next time, I won’t forgive you that time. Even if the King tries to stop me, I will crush them. At that time, I had no intention of pardoning Marquis Rheingen or whoever else was on their side.

“Next time, I’m not going to forgive them,” I said, staring straight at Christa.

She’s not glaring at me. However, even if it’s Helmut’s wife’s parents’ House, his in-laws, I can’t forgive hostilities to me twice over. If I don’t make that intention clear, we won’t be able to rely on Helmut’s word and have suspicions clouding over him.

“Yes. I know that. I and my parents are no longer able to stop him. I am prepared for that moment,” Christa said, staring straight back at me.

She confirmed her will in those eyes. In the worst case, even if her brother became an enemy, Christa had a strong will to fulfill her duties as Helmut’s wife.

If possible, I would like the Marquis of Rheingen to stay away from the Bayen Faction by using their relationship with Helmut. But if her older brother, who became the House Head after Karl was forced to retire, sticks to the Bayen Faction no matter what…, it’s a pity, but there’s no choice but to deal with it accordingly.