Mobuseka Volume 12 Chapter 13

This is MTL. So, I cannot guarantee that the translation 100% contextually accurate or appropriate.

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Chapter 13 "Qualities of the Capture Targets"

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Part 1

At the school, where Leon, Ange and the others, and Marie were no longer in sight, the five idiots were sitting around a table with serious expressions on their faces.

Time is a lunch break.

After finishing lunch at the student cafeteria, the five of them are still discussing the issue face to face.

Julius mutters with a troubled look on his face.

"It's been a few days since Marie skipped school."

Jilk put his hand on his chest and looked up at the ceiling.

"The days without seeing Marie-san are becoming much more faded. Even though it's only for a few days, it feels much longer."

Greg's muscles were pumped up, expressing how much he missed seeing Marie.

"Kuh! I wanted Marie to see my backside after I retrained it!"

Chris was quietly listening to everyone with his arms crossed, but he'd taken off his school uniform jacket and was wearing his happi coat.

"She said she was headed to the dungeon, but why didn't she call out to us?"

Brad feeds his pets, Rose and Marie, a dove and a rabbit.

Fuuh, letting out a sigh that sounded like an act.

"I wish she had at least called out to us. Things are getting a little dangerous these days, and I wanted to be the one to protect Marie for her safety."

The five people looked sad not to see Marie, but at the same time, they were concerned about Leon and the others.

Julius is angry.

Actually, he feels like yelling, but he can't take his anger out on the other party in their absence.

At the same time, he understood that he was in no position to be angry.

This is why they have complicated expressions.

"Speaking of problems, Leon is the same. I thought he broke off his engagement to Angelica and the others, but I hear he's on his way somewhere else."

Jilk shrugs his shoulders and condemns Leon's actions.

"To break off the engagement for no reason and make a woman cry, Leon-kun, what a horrible person he is."

Jilk's words were right, but the four people present could not accept them.

Greg and Chris are talking to each other in a hushed whisper.

"How can this guy blame Leon?"

"I am almost envious that he has such a thick skin. ——I don't think I would ever try to learn from him."

Jilk pretended to be unaware of their conversation.

Brad, in dismay, also talks about Ange and others.

"But what really happens? They haven't come to the school, and Marie doesn't seem to know what's going on. We can't even prepare an airship to go out looking for them, so we can't make any moves."

Without Leon, they cannot arrange even a single airship.

If they forced their way, they would be able to prepare it, but it was unclear where Marie was in the first place.

Julius summarizes the conversation.

"——I have heard that Marie rented the airship from Leon's big brother. I hear he is still staying in the royal capital, so how about we go talk to him after school?"

The four nodded that it was a good idea, but then a student rushed into the cafeteria.

Julius and his group sensed the danger in the expressions of the students, who were pale and out of breath.

When everyone turned their gaze to the entrance, the students who rushed in shouted.

"T-The Empire has declared war!"

The information brought to the cafeteria causes the students to make a fuss.

Julius makes a troubled expression.

"——The rumors were true. Is the reason Leon hasn't shown his face for a while related to the Empire?"

Jilk shakes his head.

"It's very likely, but there's no way to know for sure right now. Instead, let's go to Marie's place immediately to rescue her. We should skip this afternoon's class and head straight for the Roseblade family mansion."

The five of them got up from their seats and went out into the hallway, and at that moment Marie returned.

Her eyes were tear-stained and her hair was shaggy.

Seeing Marie, who was not with Kara and was walking with a sluggish step, the five of them jumped out.

"What happened, Marie!"

Marie raises her head and looks at Julius' face and says.

"——Please. Please help my big brother."

"Eh? Marie's big brother?"

The five looked at each other in bewilderment at Marie's tearful wish.

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Part 2

After leaving the place, Marie and her friends came to the tea ceremony room to talk.

This was the result of choosing a less popular location because she did not want anyone to hear her story.

As Julius and the others take their seats, Marie stands and looks down —— clutching the hem of her skirt with both hands.

"I've fooled everyone all this time."

The five listen to Marie's words and apparently do not intend to interrupt.

So Marie told them everything.

——That she is a reincarnated person.

——What she has done in her previous life.

——And that she approached the five people to make herself happy.

——Lastly, that she had cornered her big brother from her previous life.

When Marie finishes telling the whole story, she gets down on her knees in front of the five of them.

"I am so sorry. Still, I beg you. Please help aniki —— onii-chan."

It was in Marie's own sincere way that she told the truth.

Since they will be risking their lives to help Leon, so she'll have to face it sincerely as well.

——If it failed, it didn't matter.

She just wanted to help Leon in any way she could.

Marie, on her knees and in tears, waits for the five of them to shout abuse at her.

They will probably curse at her.

It can't be helped. Because she had deceived them.

When people think she is a lovely young maiden, she actually has a previous life on the inside.

Plus, approaching them with an ulterior motive would be the most disgusting act for the five of them.

She was willing to accept whatever they would say.

It's no wonder that they would abandon her and tell her that they would not help Leon.

——It was a much better course of action than to continue to fool them into a fight.

But no matter how long she waited, she heard no cursing from the five.

They don't look stunned or disappointed.

Wouldn't they despise her? Thinking so, she was too afraid to raise her face.

It was Julius who first opened his mouth.

"I've always thought it was strange. ——But I never expected that Leon was your big brother in a previous life."

At the sound of Julius' calm and gentle voice, Marie looks up in surprise.

"Why——why are you all——laughing?"

The five smiled somewhat troubled and looked at Marie.

When Greg approaches Marie, he makes her stop kneeling on the ground and stand her up.

"I'm surprised at the crazy story. But still, Marie is Marie, right? Because you are still the Marie we love."

"Greg?"

Chris was a little embarrassed and pretended to correct the position of his glasses.

"To tell the truth, I don't really feel it when you say reincarnation. But if Marie says it, I think it is true. I believe it. I'll believe it, and I'll lend a hand."

"Why? I was deceiving you."

Although she was happy to be accepted, but Marie couldn't convince herself.

She was prepared to be abused and even beaten up.

That's how much she was aware of what she had done.

And yet, even after hearing Marie's story, Chris says he'll accept her request.

Brad has his usual cringey attitude, but today he seems to be really sparkling, even to Marie.

"Indeed, the encounter may have been a lie. But I can assure you since I have been with you from then on. There was no lie in your behavior. You may have had ulterior motives, but I have the capacity to forgive you for that."

Marie is so happy that tears welled up in her eyes.

She was so happy that they accepted her.

Jilk offered a handkerchief to Marie, who was shedding tears.

"I would like to correct one thing, we are not going to help Leon-kun because Marie-san asked us to do so. We would have lent a hand without being told."

"How can you risk your life? It's really dangerous."

Although she was happy that they were willing to help, she could not believe that five people were willing to risk their lives for him.

It is Julius who answers Marie's question.

"I don't know what Leon thinks about it, but we consider him a friend."

"You think of aniki like that?"

When Marie looked around at the five, Greg was rubbing his finger under his nose.

"I still have the urge to pay him back, but I'm not hating him."

Chris shrugged his shoulders.

"I have a grudge, but I owe him just as much."

Brad is playing with his hair and looking a little frustrated.

"I've been through a painful experience many times. Well, I can't hate him, I guess."

Jilk smiled and put his hand on his chest.

"I'm going to have to pay him back what was done to me. And for that reason, I can't have Leon-kun fall down here."

The five looked like very wonderful men to Marie now.

"Everyone——"

(Maybe I've been overlooking something important all along.)

Marie wipes away her tears and smiles with tear-stained eyes.

"——Thank you. I think I'm going to fall in love with you all over again."

Marie sincerely feels happy to be with these five people.

Julius blushes a little red in the cheeks.

Then he changes his expression.

"Let us go over the details of the situation. And then we need someone to tell us where Leon is."