in a luxury horse-drawn carriage
"Dad, why are you looking so anxious?" asked a little girl with short red hair, tilting her head while holding her index finger to her lips. She was wearing a red dress with a floral lace pattern.
Upon hearing this, the young man snapped out of his trance and looked at the little girl in front of him.
He was a handsome man named Lucas Weis, and he was the patriarch of a high-ranking Luvic noble family in the southern region.
"It's okay, dear," he replied. "It's just that Duke Asvold suddenly called for all the Luvic nobles in the southern region to gather, which made me quite uneasy."
Lucas knew that his extremely high and honorable status made others envious, but he also knew that being the patriarch of a high-ranking Luvic noble family was really troublesome.