I Reincarnated as a Noble Girl Villainess But Why Did It Turn Out This Way?

Chapter 33

Since Earl Terejia's private army was assigned to the defense of the mansion, I had to summon thirty soldiers back from the village construction and take another twenty soldiers that still remained here. With this, I'll have the fifty soldiers I promised to that knight.

Together with Gunther's orders, the soldiers marched in tandem with me overlooking them while riding my horse. Since soldiers-in-training will be leading the reins for me, compared to my birthday celebration, it's a lot easier.

"I thought you weren't able to ride a horse......"

Claudia who was walking next to me muttered that under her breath. Since she had helped me ride part way on our return trip from the royal capital, she's gotten the impression that I'm unable to ride by myself.

"It's not that I can't ride, I just didn't have the strength to control a horse for that long."

"How weak. When we return, I'm going to instill some intensive training for physical fitness into you."

I staggered a little at Claudia's grandiose exaggeration and touched my temple as I felt a slight headache coming on. It's not that I'm all that weak, I just have the strength of a six year old still.

I went on without bothering to reply, and on my other side, Gunther arrived next to me. Claudia called out his name in such a bright voice.

"Gunther!"

"Yo, ojou-chan, and 'my lord.' The march is going well."

Agil was the one in charge of the overall marching, while Gunther commanded from the front. It seems that the longest serving soldiers have become a bit revved up, I nodded slightly at him, then tilted my head.

"......Um, what's with calling me my lord?"

"Ah? You don't think it's fitting?"

Of course it wouldn't be fitting when you suddenly change the way you address me. For the person who's always called me "brat" up until now to suddenly address me as "my lord," of course I'm going to have a hard time adjusting to it.

When I was living in the barracks with the other soldiers, at first they were calling me brat just like Gunther, but after they got used to me they were calling me Charlie for some reason, the same as Kamil. Gunther had stubbornly never changed his way of calling me, so that's why I'm so shocked now.

"You should be more happy like the brat you are that I've given you my recognition. Should I drop the honorifics?"

Gunther was laughing delightedly at his own sarcastic remark, while I furrowed my brows. It feels like those words have completely overturned the nature of our relationship up until now. So far I really haven't experienced what it's like to be a noble and the domain lord, just the relationship between adults and children, instructor and apprentice, those are the only types of attitudes that Gunther has taken with me up until now.

It's really so sudden, I suppose there's no changing Gunther's view of me now.

"You're really not honest with your feelings."

"That's so true."

"...... Well...... whatever, ...... fine. Besides that, there's something I want to talk about immediately. To have Agil be commanding up until now along the way, I wasn't...... informed of this."

Gunther's sarcasm with Claudia chiming in didn't sound all that bad at all. I tried to start a serious conversation immediately while Claudia was being relatively quiet for her. When the question was brought up to Gunther, he shrugged and laughed. He's not a very mature person.