Madam and the Stable Keeper (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 34

Nicholas Portrion’s funeral was scheduled to last a week, according to his family’s customs.

The first Viscount Portrion had managed his domain admirably and used profits from his trading company to aid the poor, and it was said that after his death, mourners never ceased visiting his funeral.

Thus, subsequent Viscounts Portrion kept open their manor for five days before burial, welcoming all mourners regardless of social status, to honor the first viscount’s spirit.

However, opening the manor only served to further tarnish Nicholas Portrion’s honor.

‘They say you can tell how someone lived by looking at their funeral.’

Those claiming to have spent time with him were either gamblers or drunkards.

When Edith heard rumors that among the mourners were tavern keepers who had regularly hosted him, she was so disgusted she was left speechless.

Moreover, several ill-mannered men were caught trying to steal the viscount’s personal effects, which had been placed in the chapel according to ritual, forcing his belongings to be hastily moved to the room he had used in life.

‘The reason personal effects are kept with the body in the chapel is to cleanse them of curses so the deceased may take them along.’

Thanks to his choice of disreputable friends, the viscount would surely arrive in hell completely penniless.

Edith looked toward the center of the chapel, entirely draped in black cloth.

There lay the viscount, dressed in burial garments, eyes firmly shut, lying perfectly straight.

Thanks to the widely used anti-decay funeral magic employed across the Empire, his body showed no signs of rotting and looked as if he might rise again at any moment. Mourners paid their respects to the viscount’s body and then stepped back, murmuring among themselves.

“They say that even right before he passed, he lay here like this, asking for his fourth wife.”

“Maybe he learned she was carrying his heir? However reckless, he is still the viscount—he must have considered how to secure his lineage.”

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