I Won't Go Back To My Family Who Abandon Me novel Chapter 70

The Rose Velvet ore flourished day after day among the nobles, allowing Marquis Leroy to return to the mansion only today.

After entering the office, he frowned for a moment at the letter beautifully placed on his desk. Judging from the seal, it was clear that it was from the Achilles family.

After generously looking at the letter, Marquis Leroy threw it on the floor. He was displeased that a duke in name only had the audacity to invite him.

Who would go to such a shabby party, why were they even sending out invitations?

He was about to click his tongue when he heard a knock on his door. Emil opened the door and approached him.

“It’s good that you arrived, I was about to call you.”

Marquis Leroy greeted Emil with a friendly smile. He thought he’d shown up to tell him that he’d passed his exam.

However, Emil’s expression was unusual. Marquis Leroy had a bad feeling about something, because he didn’t answer readily.

He thought he was about to say that he’d had a hard time passing the exam.

“I’m sorry, father.”

Emil said something different than expected.

The Marquis looked at him firmly, thinking that he’d misheard. However, Emil just dropped his head in shame.

‘No way…’

He could feel his hands and feet freezing, and his lips were stiffening.

“There’s nothing to be sorry about. You would have done as well as you usually do.”

“….”

Unbelievably, Marquis Leroy denied it, and turned a blind eye to the truth. Emil’s continued silence returned him to reality.

‘What the heck.’

He thought only good things would happen if he kicked out that useless first child. It was rather upsetting to see the bad things kept coming at him, as if they were laying in wait.

Didn’t the youngest tarnish his reputation by cheating; the fourth lost to a random woman off the street, placing second in a Swordsmanship tournament; and the second was all over the place, without being able to do anything.

Marquis Leroy had the highest expectations for his third child, the most skilled of them all. He felt a sense of betrayal at the news.

“Were you lacking in something and that’s why you failed the exam?”

No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t understand. It was hard to believe that he’d failed the Imperial Civil Service exam, even though he’d never missed placing first in his academy classes. It was also painful to hear that he failed the final, most important test.

Emil sighed with an awkward look on his face.

“Father, that’s not the problem right now.”

“What’s more important than this?”

Marquis Leroy raised his voice at the sight of Emil, who showed no sign of reflection.

However, his following words shocked him greatly.

“Irene left the house.”

“What? Who’s leaving the house?”

While listening, he couldn’t believe it, and Marquis Leroy stammered without realizing it. When he accepted the words as truth, Emil nodded silently.

“Why did she leave the house?”

The Marquis tensed up at Emil’s news that his quiet and calm youngest daughter had left the house.

“She left the academy and went somewhere?”

“It seems like she dropped out of the academy too.”

“What…?”

He couldn’t believe that she’d dropped out and ran away from home.

Marquis Leroy collapsed into a chair with a blue face. His mind had emptied from this unacceptable reality.

“The child… Where did she go…?”

Irene, who only knew this house or the academy. His youngest daughter, who listened better than anyone else, had left the house.

There was no time to be sitting blankly in shock. Just then, his wife walked into the room. As soon as he made eye contact with Marquess Leroy, he jumped up from his seat and raised his voice.

“Wife, what were you doing?!”

He didn’t understand why this happened while he was away. He was angry that the house became like this just because he wasn’t there.

“What were you doing when Irene left the house?”

“Are you blaming me?”

Marquess Leroy yelled at him without backing down to the Marquis’ anger. Emil was about to stop the two because it was likely to turn into a bigger fight.

“Father, mother, my uncle is here.”

Xavier said this as he entered the room, and looked at the three people with a strange expression.

The Marquis and Marquess, who were staring at each other fiercely, were forced to go walk to the drawing room. Someone was already sitting there, leisurely sipping tea.

It was Marquess Leroy’s older brother, Count Keron Mitchell, who was the uncle to the children of the Leroy family.

“What brought you here?”

Unlike Marquess Leroy, who was happy to see his face after such a long time, Keron’s expression wasn’t very good.

“I thought it was best for us to talk face to face.”

Keron lightly greeted the Marquis and his wife, then brought up the main topic that brought him there that day.

“I have Irene, so you don’t have to worry too much.”

“What? Irene… Why…?”

Marquis Leroy murmured with a blank look at Keron’s words. There was no way they would have guessed that she went all the way to the Mitchell’s territory.

Marquis Leroy let out an annoyed sigh and said.

“I’ll go pick her up.”

He was glad to know where Irene had gone, but he was disappointed that she had run away from home. It’s a good idea to use this opportunity to scold her firmly. Keron, who was watching the Marquis closely, shook his head resolutely.

“No, count. I think it’s better if I keep her.”

“But…”

“Irene wants to have time away from her family, so please understand.”