Reincarnated as a Farmer Gamer: Rising to the Top with the Evolution of the Weakest Job that Only I Know About!? - 40.2

“My three older brothers weren’t born from the same mother. Originally, my father had a legal wife, but she died of an incurable disease. I’ve never met her. Then my mother and father got married, and my mother became the legal wife, and I was born. That’s why my brothers hate us.”

“Oh, that’s why they’ve never shown up.”

“Yes. And my brothers are all busy working in the royal capital. Well… It’s probably because they don’t want to see me or my mother for about five years.”

“But the current legal wife is Lady, and it’s a fact that Miss is her daughter, isn’t it?”

“Right. But… because my mother… was a former maid… I haven’t been well accepted by others. I was raised just to marry into a family with good relations with our home…”

“…Even though raised as a noble, merely a pawn in a political marriage without the ‘will’ like Madam?”

“Hey! Beryl! That’s too disrespectful to the young lady!”

Lynn was upset.

“Lynn, it’s fine. It’s the truth… That’s why. It’d be easier for Beryl to understand my true role, especially now that we’re entering school life.”

Things that didn’t quite make sense fell into place like a puzzle.

The lord saw the young lady only as a doll, devoid of any affection, which drove her into such a state.

“Huh? By the way, the young lady’s the only child of Madam, right?”

“Yeah. After giving birth to me, Mother couldn’t bear any more children.”

Ah~ That’s why she never knew when she would be abandoned and was always wary of the lord’s mood. Once she realized her daughter was being raised as a tool, she began to see the young lady as a tool too. That’s what it was.

“The young lady has a tough life.”

“Not everything you get is something you really want… But now that Beryl has become a princess knight, I’m glad I was born as Father and Mother’s daughter.”

“You were quite spoiled before.”

“T-That was in the past!”

The young lady blushed and made various excuses, but she had already accepted the truth. So there’s no point in saying anything.

“By the way, why was I chosen as the young lady’s princess knight?”

“I don’t know either.”

Even the young lady doesn’t know.

At that moment, Lynn raised her hand.

“If that’s what you’re wondering… I know a bit about it.”

“Lynn? Why?”

“A boy from a remote village in the east defeated a pack of black wolves and even drove away the chief alone. So the lord was planning to put him in the escort unit.”

“He planned to put me in, ignoring my will.”

“That’s right. Because he’s the lord.”

“That’s right.”

“But because the boy happened to be the same age as the young lady and came from a rural village, it was expected he wouldn’t do anything strange. So the lord went all the way there just to make him a candidate for princess knight. It was something the lord could never do.”

Oh yeah, the lord himself ordered me there.

“The problem is, the country boy… He made a mess of things and it was hard. It’s ongoing.”

“Hahaha! I’m happy to hear that!”

“Sigh… Beryl has a good personality. Thanks to that, I’m in a lot of trouble too.”

“Isn’t it fine? It’s more fun to be next to the young lady than to be there all the time.”

“That’s true.”

“Hmm… So that’s why Beryl became my princess knight.”

If he had come from a rural village, he would have understood…? Indeed, if he had been an ordinary boy, he might have just carried out the mission of protecting the young lady without being intimidated.

But the lord’s eyes just couldn’t see my true nature (?). It feels like a lesson.

By the way… a tool…?

“World of Liberty” was actually quite a dark and serious story?

I thought the selling point was to become strong and defeat strong enemies! Let’s enjoy the world leisurely!

Huh… I should have cleared the story seriously.

“Hey. Beryl… Do you still hate being my princess knight?”

“If I hated it, there wouldn’t be any interest in the young lady’s current situation.”

The young lady smiled without saying a word.

After that, we enjoyed our twenty-day journey without any irregular incidents, passing through towns along the way.