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T/N: Today I want to give a big thank you to my repeat Cookie Donor Rich! Thanks again for the sweets!! ❤
Once night falls, I grab the bag filled with supplies and head towards Grandpa Will’s house.
When I get there, even before I head inside I hear the boy’s painful moans. It seems like he’s doing much worse today than he had been yesterday.
As I walk in, I see that Grandpa Will is doing his utmost to wipe the boy’s sweat and do anything that he can to sooth his suffering.
I quickly approach the bed and take the bottle from my bag, passing it over to him.
“And what’s this?”
“Clean water.”
“Thank you,” he murmurs.
“Take this, too,” I say, handing him the Josiah.
Accepting the grass, Grandpa Will runs his fingers lightly over the blades.
“Ahh, Josiah is it…..?”
No way. He can tell what type of plant it is through touch alone?
Amazing can’t even co close to describing Grandpa Will. His actions always far exceed all my expectations.
Grandpa Will drops the Josiah into the bottle, letting the leaves dissolve into the liquid until the water has beco a light green color.
He then huddles over the thrashing boy and opens his mouth. Carefully, he pours few drops of the mixture onto his tongue.
The boy closes his mouth and not long after, his thrashing abates slightly as he starts to calm down.
It seems that once Josiah enters soone’s mouth, it doesn’t take even a minute before the effects start to show.
I unwind the dirtied strips of my dress that I had wrapped around the boy’s head yesterday and apply so of the salve that I’d brought in my bag to his now festering wounds. Once I finish, I make sure to wrap up the injury again, this ti using actual cloth bandages.
I suppose this sort of terrible wound is probably commonplace here.
“Alicia, thank you,” Grandpa Will says once again.
“I’m….. only doing this because it happens to benefit , so your thanks are unnecessary.”
That’s right. I’m soone who makes personal gain her priority in life.
Saving this boy is rely on a whim because I wanted to try having a conversation with a young, clever child.
Grandpa Will’s shoulders stiffen at my words. I don’t want to make him see contemptuously, but I also don’t want to lie to him.
“Regardless of your motives, thank you,” Grandpa Will says to , warmly, relaxing again.
“What’s his na?”
“It’s Gilles.”
“Gilles…. Age?”
“Six.”
“And where are his parents…..?”
“They were killed by so other villagers here.”
Killed?
They didn’t die of so disease but instead were killed?
“Alicia, that’s the type of place this is,” Grandpa Will states matter-of-factly, but his voice gives away a hint of ambition.
“Their cri?”
“There was none.”
So then, what. At 6 years old, Gilles has beco an orphan for no reason at all? Is that also considered normal here?
“That’s just not right.”
“Yes. I think so as well. But no matter how unfair it is, there’s nothing that can be done about it from in here.”
What is the heroine even doing? She needs to hurry up and do sothing about these inhumane conditions!
……Wow. Am I actually relying on the heroine now?
But what can I do? There’s absolutely no rit for in improving the conditions of this village!
Agh, forget it! I’m a cold-hearted villainess. This sort of thing shouldn’t bother !
I’m determined to beco the best villainess that this world has ever seen!
…….But if that’s the case, then why does my heart feel like this? Where is this stuffy discomfort stemming from?
“Thank you very much for today,” Grandpa Will says, patting my head.
“This…. Please share it with him,” I say by ans of reply, passing Grandpa Will the bag filled with the multi-colored macarons.
Perhaps sensing that my tone had lost so of its previously ambitious bravado, Grandpa Will pats my head one more ti and whispers to that it’ll be okay.
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T/N: Gil…. I’m not familiar with this na, but it seems to be a real na according to the website, Behind The Na. I’m really curious to see if HaruParty uses the sa one in the manga version haha. If they don’t, I might change it later! What do you guys think? At least it’s better than Prince Duke, right? XD
P.S. Thanks to Max Koot in the comnt section, I’ve decided to change Gil to Gilles. Thank you for your input!!
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