I Was Told, “I Can’t Leave the Territory Management to You, Brother-in-law!!”, So I Restarted My Adventurer Life in My Mother’s Homeland – Chapter 43

Chapter 43: Landred and the Goddess of Curses
  Landred was drunk on the celebratory sake in his room.
 
  “I can’t believe it went so well.”
 
  And the person sitting across from Landred was completely covered in a cloak.
 
  “Kukukuku…… The new lord isn’t a blood relative, so a new curse could be cast, and her husband was easily swayed with a bit of money. It was so amusing~.”
 
  “I’m truly indebted to you, Goddess of Curses Lunatel-sama. The previous curse seemed much stronger. Why wasn’t this one a death curse?”
 
  Landred said as he refilled his glass with sake.
 
  “Hehehe, I’ve never cast a death curse in the first place. That was just Eld’s, or whatever his name is, real parents drawing the curse onto themselves so it wouldn’t affect their child.”
 
  The Goddess of Curses Lunatel said while gulping down her sake.
 
  “If things had gone as planned, I would have cursed the lord before the previous one to be driven out. But first, the mother, sensing her short lifespan, drew the curse onto herself. However, a curse on a family doesn’t fade easily.
 
  That’s why the lord before the previous one also drew the curse onto himself during that accident, not wanting to burden his child. If it had ended there, the position of lord would have been yours at that time. But because the stepmother also drew the curse onto herself, it weakened considerably.”
 
  Lunatel snatched the sake bottle from Landred’s hand and drank directly from it.
 
  “Moreover, because of that, I could only cast a very weak curse on the current lord. A Goddess’s curse is also a type of contract. To make a contract with a human, you have to place some kind of restriction on their descendants. As a result, the stepmother’s actions protected her real daughter.
 
  Humans are so confusing. Some curse the Goddesses if they aren’t saved, while others, like her, ask the Goddess for a curse on themselves to protect their child.”
 
  “Can’t other Goddesses remove the curse?”
 
  Landred said while taking out a new sake bottle.
 
  “Nope, impossible. Even if they could, they could only prevent it. But to prevent my curse, you need a Goddess with considerable power. Someone on the level of the Goddesses of War who fought against the Demon Tribe. Kekekekeke. I doubt there’s anyone with that kind of power among the current Goddesses of Protection. Even if they try to protect, they won’t be able to completely. Some kind of weak curse will remain.”
 
  Landred thought it was unusual for her to be so talkative today, as she usually didn’t speak much. Still, thanks to this Goddess, he was able to avenge his father’s humiliation. He reminisced about his father while drinking his sake.
 
  Landred’s ancestors were butlers for the Faniaal family. After the founding of the Lutodelein Kingdom, as part of the territory management, they transitioned from butlers to merchants and expanded their business, marking the beginning of the Rinjapaa Trading Company. At that time, they made a promise with the Faniaal family. To avoid collusion, the Faniaal family and the Rinjapaa Trading Company would not intermarry. This wasn’t a contract, just a promise, but it was never broken. It was based on the contract the royal family had with the Five Great Houses, and breaking it was considered an act of rebellion against the royal family.
 
  However, Landred’s father tried to break that prohibition. As a result, he earned the resentment of Eld’s grandfather and was cut off from the Faniaal family at that time. Landred’s father’s rage was immense, but Landred himself thought it was his father’s own fault. However, he also wondered if his own family could become the lords. And that’s when he met the Goddess of Curses, Lunatel.
 
  At that time, Lunatel had just descended to the surface and was completely covered in the same cloak as she is now. She hated taking off her cloak, so he had never seen Lunatel’s face before.
 
  At first, he didn’t think she was a Goddess but just a vagrant, and on a whim, he gave her the food he had with him. Lunatel, being a Goddess, didn’t need to eat, but she greatly enjoyed it and revealed to Landred that she was a Goddess who had descended to the surface. She then told him that he could get anything he wanted using the Goddess’s curse.
 
  Landred was skeptical, but he tentatively asked for the most popular girl of his age at the time. Lunatel agreed and cursed the girl. The content of the curse was extremely simple: if she didn’t stay near Landred, she would experience excruciating pain. The girl, not understanding why, sought relief and came to Landred. It was no wonder, as she would suffer unbearable pain if she wasn’t near Landred, pain that made her wish she were dead.
 
  It wasn’t exactly what he had imagined, but Landred, convinced that the suspicious person he met was a Goddess, immediately wished for the downfall of the Faniaal family. However, a sudden downfall would have too great a cost, so it couldn’t be done. So he wished to become the lord when he grew up and had some power. Lunatel agreed and cursed the Faniaal family. It was when Landred was 10 years old.
 
  “Hey, don’t you have any more of this sake?”
 
  Landred came back to his senses at Lunatel’s question. He headed to the shelf to get the sake Lunatel desired.
 
  “Well, it’s a bit later than planned, but it looks like I’ll be getting the position of lord in the end, so it’s all good.”
 
  Landred poured sake into Lunatel’s glass while thinking about his future moves.