The Beloved Daughter of the Crime Family, Even After Reincarnation Became the Young Lady of a Gangst

The Two at the Centre of Attention

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Under the night with a waning moon, a large amount of important foreign guests were coming to attend the party organized by Marquis Savini.

If a normal person saw the lineup of the distinguished guests coming here, they would have lost the colour on their faces.

After all, each and every one of them were bigshots and each and every one of them held the kind of influence and power that could affect the very economy of the countries they hailed from.

Traders that managed the sea routes across the entire continent, owners of some of the biggest plantations that provided food across the entire continent, were talking to each other, with a wine glass in one hand.

And beside each of these men was a beautiful prostitute assigned by the Ranieri family to take care of their needs.

The ladies were graceful like flowers, and were adorned in a colourful dresses.

They were just beautiful in terms of looks, each of them had been trained in the art of conversation, and were extremely knowledgeable about worldly matters, and were well equipped to keep their guests thoroughly entertained.

But even among those, one pair was catching a lot of extra attention, for he was one the heads of the 5 great families.

“We must give our thanks to Lord Savini. Who would’ve thought that we’d be able to make an audience with head of the Aldini family himself.”

“Seriously, I’m so glad I came here today! What a great day it is!”

“By the way, who’s the lady that is accompanying Lord Aldini…..?”

One of the guests whispered the last line to the woman who was beside him.

“Oh dear, you mustn’t raise your hopes milord. That girl belongs exclusively to Lord Aldini and him alone.”

“Is that so? But you can at least tell me her name, no?”

“fufu, I can’t okay? I’ll go and check and make sure that Lord Aldini didn’t hear what you said just now, alright?”

The lady winked, and then boldly began to walk through the crowd in the hall. A bunch of men looked towards her but, the lady unhesitatingly walked towards the crowd of people as she fluttered the hem of her dress.

In the centre of the crowd were two people, who seemed quite young in comparison to the rest here.

The man with jet black hair was Leonardo Valentino Aldini.”

A beautiful man with delicate features, but in contrast his attitude was like that of a brave lion, and he seemed to attract the eyes of everyone in the room just by standing there and doing nothing.

And beside him, as if he was protecting her preciously, was a girl who was clearly not used to an event like this.

“Oh my, you look so nervous. How adorable.”

The lady looked at the girl, and chuckled.

The red haired girl was wearing a blue coloured dress, matching the colour of her eyes.

The hem of her dress drew an elegant line, before spreading apart like a flower blooming on the surface of a lake, giving her a refreshing appearance quite befitting her age.

Up top, the dress was designed to boldly reveal her shoulders, her nape, and a little bit of cleavage but, it had been just appropriately covered with a choker and accessories to keep it from feeling too revealing.

It had the right mix of adult-like charm and innocence, which suited her greatly.

The organizers of the party, the Savinis often used the lapis lazuli to enunciate their décor. Wearing a dress that matched and harmonized with the blue decorations of the hall made her really stand out even more.

If not for Leonardo standing beside her and protecting her, she would have been surrounded by a bunch of men by now.

While thinking of such things, the lady called out to the red haired girl while grinning.

“—–Francesca-chan!”

“!”

When she did, the girl’s expression brightened as she too waved her hand towards her.

***

“Siste…….Isabella-san!”

Standing beside Leonardo, Francesca felt relieved as she saw Isabella come up towards her.

Surrounded by a bunch of unknown men, she had been feeling a bit nervous. Just as she tried to walk towards Isabella as well, her shoulders were grabbed and dragged back towards where she originally was.

“Francesca.”

The one stopped her was of course, Leonardo.

“You mustn’t. You can’t leave my side.”

“B-but..”

He whispered in a quiet voice, and she too objected in a similar small voice.

“I’m not going towards any of the other men, that’s a lady that works for Sofia-san though?”

“Even so, you cannot. Did you forget? Right now, you are my personal girl.”

While keeping the other men around them in check, Leonardo looked towards Francesca and smiled.

“——if you want to go undercover and act like a prostitute, you promised you would always stick with me, didn’t you?”

“uguu……”

It was indeed as Leonardo had said.

Tonight Francesca had not come here as the daughter of the Calvino household, and neither was she here as a student of the academy.

[I will act like a prostitute, and attend the party with Leonardo. Since this isn’t a party where you could escort your fiancée or your wife, this is the only way for me, a girl, to also enter it, right?]

When Francesca said that, she had to go through a lot of twists and turns before she managed to convince Leonardo to go along with it.

She did consider cross-dressing as well but she knew it’d be too hard to improvise so suddenly and act like a man without getting other suspicious. In that case, it’d be easier for her to try and pretend to be a prostitute instead.

In the end, the conditions Leonardo set to relent to following her plan were quite strict.

And even now, while he hugged her by her shoulders, and looked down at her face with a teasing smile, he reminded her.

“You must always stay at a distance where I can always directly touch you like this. If you get even a little away from me, you’ll instantly get surrounded by these men trying to flirt with you.”

“Surely you’re exaggerating, right!?!”