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Lelia was stunned at the sudden words.

She barely came to her senses and asked, "Well, what do you mean? So suddenly?"

Getting married to Kalix?

Then, Uncle Karius, who had been weeping all this time, wiped his eyes and said,

"I told my father. Said that you seem to like Kalix."

"..."

"If that's true, I was wondering if it would be better to marry Kalix. Of course, your opinion is the most important thing."

Lelia was stunned, and she didn't say anything. Kalix... He said that to her uncle? If Kalix was in front of her, she would have ripped his hair out right away.

"Yeah, I'm not sure if you're aware, but even a young man named Griffith made things strange..."

"What about Griffith?" Lelia asked in surprise at the sudden appearance of his name.

Aunt Atias was surprised as well.

"Don't you know yet?"

"What do you mean?"

It was Uncle Carius who gave her the answer.

"After you disappeared from the Imperial Palace, Griffith and Romeo were very fussy about looking for you. Then suddenly Griffith disappeared."

"..."

"Then suddenly we heard some strange news. It was rumored that the saint Griffith recognized was you, Lelia."

Lelia recalled conversations she had heard near the neutral zone. She paused for a moment when Griffith's name came up, and now the saint seemed to be herself.

"Anyway, upon hearing the news, he said he was taking you to the temple right now and acting like you are doing well. It's ridiculous how successful he was at it." Uncle Carius replied with an angry expression even though he had been crying.

This was the issue in a nutshell. There are a lot of people here and there who are aiming for Lelia like beasts, so she'd rather get married sooner rather than later, and make an excuse to stay in the Superion territory. Therefore, the best marriage partner was Kalix.

Oscar and Griffith were eliminated early on, and Romeo was part of the imperial family, so there were a lot of uneasy things. If she gets married to the royal family, she might need to move there. From the point of view of her family, although he is an imperial prince, they thought that Kalix, who was living alone without any connections after severing ties with the imperial family, would be appropriate. He'll let Lelia live comfortably in the Superion territory.

"Lelia, of course, this grandfather has no intention of forcing anything on you. However..."

"..."

"As a father who has lost his daughter once, I am afraid to send my granddaughter away."

Lelia could not answer easily. Her grandfather patted Lelia on the shoulder, telling her to think slowly. After that, everyone left and she sat there alone. Her mind was complicated. The reason why her mother isn't waking up, the great things Griffith has done, and Oscar who looked so sick. Everything was mixing together as she ruffled her hair. Lelia managed to get up and move on to her next step.

Whatever happens to her once she leaves, she has to go back to Oscar as she had asked Romeo earlier. Is he okay and not sick? Was he ill or injured? Just seeing him with her own two eyes seemed to make her heart more comfortable. She couldn't afford it. Her worries about her mother were not enough for her to feel at ease. Lelia went to Romeo to get things done quickly.