But God Forced Me to Reincarnate!

The Hartmann Family and Details About My New Home

I am Alrescha Lyra Hartmann, the second child of Hartmann's head of family, Icarus Valkyane Hartmann—"Cyan", with his wife, my mom, Cassiophelia de la Sanctuaria—"Cassie". Sanctuaria is an Earl family somewhere in the border of the eastern province and the central province, whose governance is under the Hartmann family.

That explains why the engagement between my parents were plausible. But it seems that both of my parents are in love with each other, even if I don't know if the love blooms due to the engagement, or that they go through engagement first, then love. It doesn't matter.

I have one big brother, his name is Altaire Ophiuchus Hartmann—Alt-nii for short. He is three years older than me. We both have the pretty hair color (subjective—sorry, but you don't know how happy I am when I found out about my hair color!), it is a dark navy blue color—or must I say it again, the color of a beautiful galaxy or night sky that's bright with stars. I love it when I see my hair under the light. Different light exposure affects the way I see my hair color, but they are all pretty in my opinion. Apparently, my left eye is red, while my right eye is blue.

Back then, I was really curious on where did we get this hair color from.

Now, I know. My dad kept on gratefully saying that I resemble his mother a lot.

His mother—or my grandma, she had the same blue hair and pretty blue eyes that we each have. Unfortunately, neither Alt-nii nor me had the chance to meet her. She died of illness when my dad was young. That is so unfortunate, as I am curious about her... since Dad seems to be very fond of his mother.

When I was Reinst, my grandparents did not leave any strong impressions on me. They were the same as my parents back then, I felt like I was more like a tool for them.

The current Hartmann family's wealth is not as abundant as it was due to past generations' corruptions. My dad was the one who bravely came forward and exposed those wrongdoings.

In the turn of events, the king decided not to punish my dad alongside with his family and entrusted the territory to my dad. My dad then sold the wealth of his family and allocated the money to help building the eastern territory and gave some to the "victims" of the wrongdoings.

Now, the Hartmann territory is doing stable, the social and economical discrepancy is not as high as what I knew.

As a result though, we lived in modesty. My mom who came from the branch family of Sanctuaria has been leading a modest life so far, so she didn't seem to mind it.

There are only three workers here.

Chloe was close to dad and dad's mother, so she willingly volunteered to be here.

Vince was close to mom—mom's uncle figure, I suppose, and was a gardener at the Sanctuaria family, so he accepted mom's offer to tend the Hartmann's garden.

Niina's husband is the merchant in Heartswaarth city—one that my family often went to. So rather than idly being a housewife, she decided to work here. Since her house is not that far, she has the freedom to go back and forth.

I cannot really talk well so I gather those information from what I heard. For example, the thing about my grandma—yeah, got it from my dad who spoiled the whole thing. About why we are not so wealthy, Alt-nii asked it when he came to realize about how a duke's family should be. And the rest, from observation.