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Chapter 55: Yuri Catreya is on the Run

"Wait, please, young lady!"

"Haa, Haa! Please stop! I beg you!"

"Who would stop when told to stop!? If you're being chased, of course, you run!"

It was the entrance exam for the Royal Academy, just after the completion of the commoner slot's exam. In the midst of the bustling royal capital, a girl was sprinting alone, being pursued by several breathless knights.

"Mi-Miss Yuri! Marquis Catreya has requested your presence! Please stop!"

"I don't have an obligation to respond to the call of Marquis Catreya! I've already been disowned by the Catreya family! I'm no longer the marquis's daughter!"

A month ago, Yuri had quarreled with her father, Marquis Catreya, and left home. During their argument, he had told her, "If you're leaving, consider yourself disowned! Never return to my house!" Although she was allowed to use the Catreya name due to her father's mercy, she no longer considered herself a member of the marquis's family.

"No, that's just a play on words! The head of the knights regrets the words and asks you to come back!"

"I am already free! I'm not bound by anyone!"

"Please, listen!"

Ignoring the knight's shouts, Yuri jumped from roof to roof, moving with agility like a cat.

"Yuri-san! Young lady!"

While the knights continued to call out, Yuri's expression remained bright.

Yuri was the youngest of five siblings. Her four older siblings were all brothers, and she was the only daughter of Marquis Catreya.

Due to her striking resemblance to her deceased mother, Yuri had been doted on by her father and brothers. Rarely allowed to leave the mansion in their territory, she was always accompanied by at least five of Marquis Catreya's subordinates whenever she went to town.

Despite her wish to learn swordsmanship by watching her brothers train in the yard, all she got was a padded stick and training akin to playing house. Thus, she could only secretly engage in muscle training in her room, unintentionally developing exceptional physical abilities.

Yuri endured such treatment until she turned fifteen, but at that age, she finally reached her limit. Although she thought she would be able to enter the Royal Academy, her father strongly opposed it.

"If Yuri enrolls in the academy! Bugs will surely swarm around her, and she'll be surrounded by suitors! If she wants to study, we can hire a tutor. She won't leave the mansion!"

Yuri, for the first time in her life, felt intense anger towards her father. Her four brothers also agreed. She had believed that attending the academy would allow her to escape from the cage-like mansion and embark on a journey into a new world.

Make friends, experience various things, and learn about the vastness of the world—that's what she had believed.

However, her dreams were shattered; she couldn't attend the academy she longed for. Even though she respected her father, there were things she couldn't forgive.

In the end, Yuri had a fierce argument with her father and ran away from home. She received a recommendation letter from her mother's relatives and took the entrance exam for the magic department, which was not under the influence of her father, the head of the knight order.

"I am free... This is the world!"

Standing at the top of the clock tower in the royal capital, Yuri spread her arms towards the twilight sky. Enchanted by the sight of the royal capital she had never seen before when it appeared in the morning, she had accidentally fallen, but she wouldn't make the same mistake again. Yuri looked down at the royal capital bathed in the orange light of dusk, wearing a radiant smile.

"Now, I'll make a hundred friends! I'll go to various places and see lots of things!"

The world stretches out endlessly.

Having been confined to the mansion in her territory for so long, Yuri aimed to expand her narrow world.

"And then, I'll find... a wonderful husband!"

Yuri shouted loudly towards the setting sun.

"Find a respectable and splendid man, have a lovely romance with him."

This was part of the last will that Yuri's late mother left behind.

One of the reasons Yuri aimed to enter the Royal Academy was to follow her mother's words and search for an ideal partner.

"On my first day out in the royal capital... I've already made friends and found a wonderful man! Let's keep it up!"

Ignoring the knights searching below, Yuri made this declaration towards the setting sun.

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