Betrothed to My Sister's Ex (ずたぼろ令嬢は姉の元婚約者に溺愛される)

I've made up my mind to march into the Shaderan house,

in order to face my parents and to ascertain the truth.

I have an urgent message for Baron Shaderan!

Please open the gate!

If you don't, something terrible will happen!

What's impossible is impossible! Now go on and leave!

Actually, haven't I seen you somewhere before?

You're imagining things!

What's more important right now is that you open this gate!

Marie, you're really certain about this?

I don't want to!

Open the gate! Open it right now!

Yes. Don't hold back.

No! I won't do it!

All right.

Open the gate!

If they won't open up, then we'll just have to force our way through, right?

How many times do I have to tell you? Enough is—

Punch through, Ringomaru!

You have a terrible taste in names!

I-I did try to tell her.

Episode 12 "It's Time to Settle This"

Mio.

Understood.

Wh-What are you doing? Stop it!

Let go of me!

I-Is she really a maid?

He wouldn't stop making a fuss, so I took the liberty of restraining him.

What is all this? What do you think you're doing?

I've been wanting to see you, Baron Shaderan.

Or rather... Father.

I've brought the baroness and their son.

It's been a while, hasn't it?

Father. Mother.

Big Sis Marie?

Cedric!

It seems that no one in your family has realized who you are.

Well, when you came to the workshop, you believed I was a boy, didn't you?

Now that you mention it, I did!

But why disguise yourself again?

I have to see it with my own eyes...

to make certain that the same mistakes never happen again.

Marie! What do you think you're doing?

You didn't reply about the betrothal ceremony no matter how long we waited,

so we came to see you in person.

We hoped that you would give our love your approval.

If you do not believe that we love each other,

then I'd like you to look at these.

It's a record in which I've written exactly how much I love Marie.

Lord Kyros...

Is that man really all right?

No, he's too far gone.

I-In any case, I'd like to have a proper talk.

Let's go to the hall.

My father and mother... What will happen to them?

It's all right. Don't worry.

Trust your big sisters.

Big sisters?

Oh! Um... Just don't worry, all right?

All right.

It isn't likely that they'll see through my sister's disguise.

Are you all right?

Y-Yes.

This is all so sudden, it's made me feel a little ill.

Wh-Why is this servant here? What sinister red hair!

The same cursed hair as Marie!

Baroness, that is an old superstition.

It's no superstition!

Because of Marie, both Lady Sasha and Anastasia died!

So why is Marie the only one...

They looked like princesses!

Both Lady Sasha and Anastasia were far more worthy, and yet...

Mother, your hair...

Don't trouble yourself over me!

Please just leave me alone!

How dare you treat me with such disrespect!

You really are born of barbarians, aren't you?

I have nothing to discuss with you!

Hurry up and leave!

Please don't run away, Father.

R-Run away? Just who do you think you're talking to?

I am the lord of this land and your father!

Lord of the land? A father?

Don't make me laugh.

What did you say? You—

Baron Shaderan, this is a written notice of the stripping of your authority as a lord.

You can't speak Flarian, which is essential for managing your lands, can you?

Wh-What are you talking about?

I just hate foreign languages, that's all!

In that case, please say something in Flarian.

A simple conversation will do.

Th-That's...

After Sasha Shaderan passed away, you failed to officially inform the crown

that you had your daughter Marie act in your stead. We've already investigated it.

Gregor Shaderan, we cannot entrust the lives of our precious citizens to you.

For abandoning your official duties as a lord,

and the crime of covering it up,

you will pay dearly.

A-Am I... going to lose everything?

No.

There is one way to preserve the barony.

Although the Granado family will essentially take over,

you would retain your title and residence.

Talented personnel will be dispatched here.

However, there is one condition.

A condition?

Please apologize to me.

For violating her dignity, brainwashing her, and tying her down to this house...

If you apologize for these inhumane acts and ask for help, then I promise you assistance.

All of us here discussed it, and that is what we decided.

Father, please give me your answer.

Why didn't you follow the proper procedures? Why force everything on me instead?

S-Stop whining!

It's only natural for a good-for-nothing daughter to obey her parents!

Not only do you show no gratitude towards Marie, even now, you take that attitude?

As a fellow noble, let me say one thing.

To apologize. To seek help. To feel gratitude.

Each of those things are essential in a lord.

If there's something you can't do, then ask for help and rely on someone else.

If you show your gratitude properly, then there is no embarrassment or crime.

The true crime is to protect one's own pride by turning truth into lies,

and to hold others in contempt.

That egocentrism is the crime.

The previous baroness, Sasha, hoped for your growth as a lord here, didn't she?

Stop talking!

What do you know?

Mother... My mother...

never expected anything from me!

So that's it!

You wanted Lady Sasha to have high hopes for you.

I-I... I...

That's enough! Are you happy destroying your own house?

Just how much misfortune must you bring us before you're satisfied?

That red hair will bring unhappiness to everyone!

Lady Sasha and my darling Anastasia... you killed them both!

Now, look here.

I'm sorry to tell you, but I'm not dead.

Anastasia?

Could you please not blame Marie for all these bizarre offenses you see?

And really, I guess my blonde hair was all you ever saw in me.

You've come back to me, my Anastasia!

Oh, this blonde hair! It's so beautiful! My princess!

Stop it.

Let go of me!

Mama, I have never once been your Anastasia.

Mother. As I thought...

Hair... My hair!

Sh-She has red hair?

It seems that the baron knew.