Allrounders!! Chapter 7

After being taken to this mansion and getting introduced to Elder Sister, my first impression of her was: 『A plain and gloomy child』.

And she actually proved my impression to be completely right. When I was introduced to her, I was very surprised since I didn’t know that I had an Elder Sister, but despite that, I greeted her cheerfully, and yet, Elder Sister didn’t et my eyes, only facing downwards.

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――When Mum suddenly passed away, Father ca to and told that we’d go to Father’s ho since I wouldn’t be able to live by myself. To be honest, I had absolutely no problem with leaving this place since I hated how the neighbor kids bullied , always calling “Mistress’s Child.” Another big plus was my being able to finally live together Father. But then again, I actually wanted this to happen much, much earlier…when Mum was still alive.

While thinking all that, I was taken to a huge, castle-like mansion.

At first I was super happy and frolicked around. I wanted to bring the kids, who had been bullying , here and triumphantly show them my new ho. When I told Father about my idea, he smiled with a troubled expression, and told , “You and them already live in different worlds, so you won’t be able to bring them here.” This made even happier.

Although they had bullied to their heart’s content, they were below now, and if I were to et them again in the future, I’d look down on them instead! I was keen to put this wish into practice, but only much later I understood that I’d never et them again anymore.

Instead, I was ridiculed by other people. My manners were repeatedly called into question, and people said, “‘This is why commoners are…”, behind my back. Even my plain and gloomy Elder Sister frowned when she saw . However, noticing that, Father got angry and scolded Elder Sister.

――Co to think of it, why is that girl my 『Elder Sister』? Why hasn’t she lived together with us until now?

Once I confronted Father with those questions, he smiled with a troubled expression once again, and answered, “That girl is a hopeless case, so she’s been living sowhere else.”

Afterwards I heard Father frequently tell Elder Sister that she was as worthless as her mother.

I was surprised by that. For him to say sothing so nasty about Mum…when I beca very sad and started to cry, Father said in a hurry, “I’m not talking about your mother, Prim.”

…Whose mother then?

At first I didn’t understand, but I gradually learned the truth.

Elder Sister’s mother had married Father while Mum and Father hadn’t been married. This also explained the aning behind “Mistress’s Child.”

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It looks like Elder Sister didn’t live together with Father. When I asked her about this, she told that Father had shown up with a little while after her mother had died.

I was jealous of Elder Sister since I believed that she had been living together with Father, but hearing that this hadn’t been the case made slightly happy. And after having discovered that we shared this trait, I felt closer to Elder Sister.

Father might have other “Mistress’s Childs” as well, but I was the one he brought here, and Father treated very kindly. Father was the only one claiming that being unable to learn manners was to bla on the teaching thods. He got angry because Elder Sister didn’t teach and because her teaching thods were wrong.

Being unable to leave the mansion was boring, but I didn’t have to help out around the house like when I lived with Mum, and I was being treated like a princess. …But, I had too much ti on my hands, and thus it was boring.

The only child close to in age was Elder Sister. I tried to play with her, but it earned a super nasty look from Elder Sister. It was sowhat scary.

When I got Father to scold Elder Sister by telling him about it, she stopped looking in the eyes altogether.

No matter what I said to her, it was useless. I tried to get this fixed by telling Father about it as well. But when I did, Elder Sister stopped eating her als.

Even though it’s so delicious, she didn’t eat almost anything.

When I tried to eat Elder Sister’s share, she got scolded. Father said it’s because Elder Sister hadn’t properly taught that it’d be a breach of etiquette for to try helping Elder Sister out because she wasn’t eating her food as she should.

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After so ti of such incidents repeating themselves, one day Hannibal rushed into the room in panic. He said that Elder Sister had collapsed and wouldn’t wake up.

I got startled and looked at Father, but he laughed scornfully.

“She’s probably faking it. That woman often pulled the sa trick.”

I see, she’s faking her illness, huh? I know what he ans, it’s when you say your tummy hurts when it actually doesn’t, right? When I was really small I rember having said things like that as well because I hated the idea of Father leaving.

I went to wake up Elder Sister. As soon as I climbed on her, thinking that I’d wake her up by surprising her, I was jerked off her, falling to the ground. That totally startled .

When I looked up, I found Coral towering over with a super scary face. …I an Coral is always scary, but now her face looked terribly frightening.

“…Miss Primrose, what are you planning by treating your Elder Sister, who hasn’t woken up after collapsing, so violently?”

Scary.

“…I an she’s faking her illness, so I thought she’d wake up if I startled her.”

I justified it while being on the verge of crying.

“Goodness gracious…! For her to say sothing so awful…”

The maids, who had appeared behind Coral without noticing, all blad . And Coral’s face beca even more scary.

“Lady Indra isn’t faking her illness, she has collapsed. Did your mother teach you to treat sick people violently, Miss Primrose?”

“…I’m sorry…”

I beca afraid and cried.

“Sally, Clara, Anna, take Miss Primrose back to her room.”

“””Certainly, Head Maid!”””

…I don’t like Sally, Clara, and Anna. I an they’re always treating like a silly dolt. Even now they’re looking at with really cold eyes.

So ti ago I told Father about it, trying to have him replace the three with the gentle-looking girl serving Elder Sister, but Father said that he couldn’t do so because that girl wasn’t up to the task of serving . When I tried to have him scold Sally, Clara, and Anna instead, only Elder Sister got scolded while those three maids not only went scot-free, but weren’t replaced with soone else either.

I told Father that I got scolded by Coral because Elder Sister wasn’t faking her illness and because I had tried to wake her up since I heard that she was faking it, but Father insisted that she was playing ill, and cut off the conversation at that point.

I wanted to know whether Elder Sister was truly faking her illness, and thus I persistently pestered Hannibal about it every day.

On the day Mr. Doctor visited I tried to storm into Elder Sister’s room to get certainty once and for all, but Coral planted herself in my way after having suddenly appeared from sowhere.

…Once again she looked at with a scary face.

Since I got frightened I scurried back to my room. When I left it a little while later, I spotted Hannibal.

“Did Mr. Doctor say that Elder Sister is faking her illness?”

Faced with my question, Hannibal gave a fed-up look.

“It looks like her mind and body has weakened due to stress and malnutrition, and it’s unclear whether she’s going to regain her consciousness. He said her life is going to be in danger at this rate, if she doesn’t wake up soon.”

“Eeehh!?”

Then it’d have been better for to not climb on her in order to surprise her after all!? Coral scolded with such a scary face, and even the other maids…

“Miss Primrose.” Hannibal called my na as I was brooding.

Once I looked up, his face was as scary as Coral’s.

“The doctor has stressed that Milady should rest and be treated very carefully.”

I froze.

“Currently Lady Indra is like an extrely fragile handiwork. Exposing Lady Indra to your overflowing liveliness…to be blunt, if you were to do things like slapping, kicking, shaking, and climbing on Lady Indra, she would undoubtedly die.”

Hannibal apparently knows that I had tried to wake her up. But, I haven’t gone as far as slapping or kicking her…though I did think that she might eventually wake up if I did that.

“If you aren’t planning to kill Lady Indra, then please never do anything like that. Got it?”

I nodded fearfully.

…Sohow Hannibal is also frightening.

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It was only quite a while later that I heard the servants talking about Elder Sister having woken up.

With even my plain, gloomy, taciturn Elder Sister not being around, it’s boring. There are no other children of my age here, and the maids won’t talk to either.

I thought that she’d show up during our als, but since she never ca to the dining hall, I got tired of waiting and asked where she was, just to be told that Elder Sister was eating by herself.

Imagining how Elder Sister was eating in a really dark room all by herself, I felt pity for her, and intruded upon her in order to invite her to take her als with .

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Seeing Elder Sister for the first ti in a long ti, I realized that she had completely changed. And when our eyes t, her look had changed from the bad feeling it gave in the past, but then again, it still gave the sa kind of bad feeling. She was looking at with a face clearly asking what I was doing here. And then I got scolded for having entered the room without having waited for a reply after knocking.

Just when I was about to say, “Isn’t it fine since I did knock?”, Elder Sister sarcastically ridiculed by asking whether I actually enjoyed watching how she got scolded, and thus I couldn’t say what I wanted to say. After recovering from her illness, Elder Sister wasn’t plain and gloomy anymore, but instead she had beco awfully sarcastic.

When she put it like that, it sounded like I had no other choice but to obey anyway, and thus I reluctantly did as Elder Sister told to. But once I got used to her ways, she was more approachable and easier to talk to compared to before.

For so ti after her illness I didn’t approach Elder Sister as Father also forbade to do so, but soon I started to speak to her again, and although she was quite an to , I sohow managed to talk with her, and she stopped being nasty, too. I never got her to play with though.

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But then, at long last, I got the opportunity to go out!

Just hearing about a tea party, I got super excited. I wanted to show those children, who had bullied , how I was wearing a pretty dress and sparkling accessories. But, since I didn’t know etiquette well, I wanted to take Elder Sister with . If I did it like that, only Elder Sister would get scolded after all.

When I invited her, Elder Sister showered with sighs and cruel remarks, but in the end she agreed to co along.

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…Just as I thought, I feel like Elder Sister has changed.

Previously, when I had happily shown her a dress Father bought for , she had glared at with a terribly nasty look, but now she doesn’t look at like that. Instead, her face is always colored by irritation…

Okay, I don’t really like seeing either of those looks.