chapter 12
12 – Episode 12
I’ve gotten a little fatter.
Yes, literally, it has improved a little, but it’s probably because I’ve become calmer or because my body has grown.
Let’s explain our daily life with words.
Let’s say it’s okay to wake up in the morning, finish your meal, wash your body, and study all day long.
I had no common sense.
It wasn’t too difficult to learn.
I don’t know, considering my body’s age.
The teacher was quite faithful in teaching, and I absorbed everything I learned, so a conflict could not happen.
The amount was terribly overabundant, but it was enough to just memorize it without requiring anything creative.
And sometimes, whenever Xenia came to visit, as if she had been instructed by the Duchess, Miss Louise sent me right to her bar.
Studying far ahead of the original pace would have played a part, though.
I heard that a week ago.
Now she says she has nothing more to teach herself.
She said that even if she went to the academy, she would not have much to learn, sticking out her tongue.
Still, he says he wants to live while receiving the salty salary paid by the duke family, and that he will just keep bringing books.
He said that even if he brought in someone else, she wouldn’t be better than himself.
Ella no longer brings me meals, takes me to the bathroom to wash me, or cleans my room.
Her chief maid died of old age, and she and her close human beings became the new chief maid.
Thanks to her, the human who had been forced to smile from her tiredness all day disappeared, and she became a lively woman serving the Breslau family.
Maybe that’s why, just like you saw in a novel before, he stays by Xenia’s side all day and waits on her.
Of course, just because they are only taking Xenia, they don’t mix and talk, and when they run into each other while walking down the street, they greet each other and talk.
Ella doesn’t listen to what she’s puberty these days, now that her girl has grown up, she’s not as sweet and sour as she used to be. She often tells the same story.
Just like she missed the hard old days.
So she asked if she would go back if she could go back then.
“Of course,” She replies.
She was young and made a lot of mistakes, so she wants to fix them.
Even if she does go back, she’s going back Ella, she’s already in a state where her body is almost grown, but what’s the problem.
If someone had asked me that question, I would have shook her head and said never go back.
Playing with Xenia is the same every day.
Ah, the only difference is that these days she is reluctant to climb trees and go into caves where her dress gets dirty.
Since she is a girl, it was only natural for her to become reluctant to such things as she grew up.
She
Rather than play with her dolls, she has grown fond of chatting with Ella.
She prefers to sit on a tidy sofa and drink tea with a teacup and teapot on the table rather than going into a little cave and licking her body and drinking tea. .
She’s like she’s a lady rather than a tomboy.
And I also live by adjusting to Xenia.
When I drink tea, I brew it at the right temperature and at the right time, and when I talk about a book, I ask the teacher, get it right away, read it, and become a conversation partner.
Ah, life hasn’t always been this smooth.
Thanks to Xenia, I didn’t know about breakfast and lunch, but I was able to share dinner with the figures of the duke’s family at least in the evening.
Thanks to that, the Duchess has been terrifyingly harassing me every evening.
It’s not uncommon to be strangled, like when you’re first taken to a room.
The sharp fingernails pierce the flesh, and they are kicked wildly.
When I was younger, I felt my consciousness shake a little every time I got hit, but it’s not like that anymore these days.
And as her body gradually grew and muscles began to attach and harden, the Duchess brought out these words.
“Baby, now my hand hurts for me to hit you.”
When he said that and ordered an escort knight to beat me, I spent almost 10 days grappling with him.
After a few days, the knights stopped even protesting.
Nowadays, it seems that he has less energy and takes out his anger on me.
Maybe your relationship with the Duke is getting better.
That doesn’t mean you’ll leave me alone.
Or maybe I fell in love with the love of the duke who always talked about it while harassing me.
Because the fiery human who used to cry, scream, and vent his anger has turned into an ice field.
That’s what you said the last time you were hysterical to me.
“No matter how much a person doesn’t seem obsessed with something, if the people around them and the environment change, they will be influenced by that group at some point.
And the largest of such groups is the nobility group.” He laughed at me and said so.
“You will always suffer, because even if you try to take Xenia away, she will stick by your side.
How many humans will envy you, envy you, hate you, and even try to kill you?”
The woman burst out laughing and asked me to leave her room.
After that, during the day, I didn’t go out all day, I stayed in my room, studying and reading books, so I didn’t have to see her face.
Because the Duchess, who was cold like a sharp blue blade, was more burdensome and terrifying than the Duchess, who radiated anger.
And Xenia always makes her efforts to somehow make me friendly with my mother.
Terribly.
I know roughly what you’re thinking, but it was never a relationship that could be solved without being released.
As soon as I was born, I became something like an enemy to the Duchess.
You could say it’s irrational, irrational, and irrational, but it’s impossible for humans to move only with reason and rationality.
But I’m not in a position to resist.
Smart smart.
Today, without fail, Xenia comes to my room.
“Oh, Eric.”
I think she’s about 165 tall.
“Would you like to go for a walk here and there with me today?
Every day.”
Maybe because she resembles a duchess, Xenia was definitely a beauty.
Her well-groomed blonde hair, intense red eyes, and the balance of her face were in the golden ratio.
And the corner of her mouth that looks like a sneer, but also excited, that rises slightly to the right.
She’s probably a boy of her age, and she’d be a charming person that you couldn’t help falling in love with.
And she seemed to have adorned her face even more splendidly because it was day by day.
Today is Xenia’s birthday.
And it was the banquet day.
An auspicious day to which many modifiers can be attached.
A lot of families will send people to hear the news that the heir to the Duke of Breslau will appear in public for the first time.
And the humans who came to see Xenia would stare at her illegitimate son, who is wearing her tag of Breslau.
How dare you have that lowly fellow standing around us?
It’s too important a day for a mere illegitimate child to hang around.
“If you need someone to help you, for example someone whose first name is Eric and last name is Breslau.”
And on such a day, Xenia skipped school and came to me.
She said let’s go for a walk as always.
Judging by the light makeup on one side, it is clear that she ran away halfway through.
“Today, to commemorate your birthday, I heard that you will hold a banquet for her and make her debut.
Is it okay to wander around like this?”
“Of course it’s not okay! It’s because you sneaked away!”
When I asked, she confidently crossed her arms and raised her face as if nothing was wrong.
“Then hurry back, don’t make Elana suffer for nothing.”
The smiling face of her smile becomes hesitant.
Xenia put her index fingers together, pursed her lips and grunted.
“If you say that, it’s like I’ve done something really bad.”
“There’s nothing wrong with running away.”
“So how are you these days? I guess your mother is giving up on bothering you now?”
“Did you say something?”
“No, I didn’t say anything.”
I guess so.
Now, the humans around Xenia will be nobles, not me or Ella.
“That’s why I’m worried about something.
At most it’s a banquet for dancing, but I don’t know what makes it so different.”
“It will be different, he’s a duke. I don’t know anything else, but one thing is huge.”
As soon as I received the notebook and pen, I wrote down everything I remembered in the notebook.
And today Xenia isn’t the only one appearing at the banquet.
She will be the first to make her main character appear, and Xenia will be the first to make friends with her peers who are similar to herself.
“Now I won’t be stuck in this stuffy, deserted place.
Because you will meet countless people in the future.”
“But I don’t really want to meet you.”
“Do you remember what you said when you first met me?”
“Hmm, I met by chance.. I guess. Hmm.”
“No, your mother is a vulgar prostitute, so you should listen to me.”
When I said that, her face went pale and she started stuttering and making excuses, but I cut her off.
“You don’t have to say things like that to people you’re meeting for the first time.
Because you’re attractive enough and you look beautiful.
Just don’t do anything to be hated. If you’re having a hard time, come and talk to me.”
“What, I thought I was going to say something again!
Don’t talk about the old days. You weren’t immature, hee hee.”
Xenia smiles bashfully.
“Then I’ll decorate it again!
See you later at the banquet hall for dinner!”
She then waved her hand and started jumping with her gun.
Her back figure reminds me of Xenia who used to run fast.
How many years are left?
6 Years. Okay. If you endure for 6 years, you can get out of this mansion.
I will get rid of the cumbersome aristocratic business card and live as an insignificant commoner, not a clumsy half-penny.