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Whats your na?
Are you really not going to tell ?
Thank you for taking care of , though.
Now that they were standing side by side, Liloa looked up at him and realised that he was surprisingly tall, like a boy who had already entered his growth phase and his limbs had been beginning to lengthen.
As Liloas gaze remained fixed, the boy reluctantly responded to her silent urging.
Call
Doctor. Be polite.
..?
I guess that makes it fair, right? As both of us didnt say our real nas?
The boy laughed at his own remark. Liloa, however, who had a deeper reason for not disclosing her na, could only nod her head in agreent. The boy then proceeded to step away from her and cleared her way to the door.
Liloa inadvertently began stepping forward, but then stopped and looked up at the boy again.
Im too scared to go out alone.
The boy reached for his forehead. This ti, it was with two hands, almost like he wanted to bury his face in his palms. anwhile, Liloa tried her best to drag the conversation.
But why do you live in this mansion with all the lights off? Its so strange and scary.
Then why did you co in the first place?
I had to find my friends bag.
Bag?
That day, Liloa triumphantly returned, holding the bag that the strange boy had found after searching the ground floor hall. She appeared as majestic as a victorious general. All the children, except for Charles and Etienne, greeted Liloa enthusiastically. In a way to tease Charles, Liloa even claid to have lost her hairpin while looking for the bag, so she dared him to find it for her. But as expected, Charles couldnt bear to enter the mansion alone. And that wasnt all. He could never again bully the girls, including Louisa and Liloa, or boss them around in their gas.
A few nights after eting the boy, Liloa sat down with her blanket wrapped around her and looked out the window. The stars in the deep night shone like a whisper. It was as if they were speaking to her and among the imasurable amount of voices was the voice of the boy who called himself doctor.
{ Ill find the bag for you, so dont ever co back here again. }
However, his cold words were the complete opposite of his generous actions as he eagerly crawled on the floor to look for the bag. At that mont, Liloa had no choice but to ask back in confusion.
{ Why? }
{ Because youre annoying . }
{
}
{ Im already very busy as it is, but I got held back for an hour today just to take care of you. }
At first, I believed that the actions of the boy who took care of this fainted tomboy, brought her shoes, and even found her friends bag were done out of kindness. So even though it was my first ti seeing him, I felt strangely excited. But after, he suddenly told
not to co back I know I should tend to feel bad to hear that even though I was an undeniably uninvited guest. But strangely, I didnt feel bad about it. Instead, I just felt sorry for taking up his busy ti with my sudden intrusion. Maybe he really is a doctor And when this trespasser beca his patient, he couldnt simply ignore . But still
{ Because youre annoying . }
Was I bothering him that much? ?
Liloa was used to kindness. Everyone, except her family, was kind and affectionate towards her. Even Charles and Etienne were kind to her at first. The bullying only beca more frequent after Liloa started rebelling against their rules, but in the beginning, they treated her just like everyone else did. As a result, the strange boys unfamiliar attitude towards her kept lingering in her mind.
{ Because youre annoying . }
In my whole life, Ive never heard anyone say that to . No one ever dared to tell
that my presence bothered them. I have always tried to act like a decent and mature lady, and people normally saw that. Everyone at Obernyu praised
for it
It annoyed Liloa that the boy apparently thought of her as an annoying child.
It was just that I was scared of Mortu. Thats all. And Ive been seeing him more and more these days
But at the sa ti, Liloa knew that her ability to keep her resolve was rather poor. She made a promise she couldnt accomplish. On her own, she couldnt have retrieved that bag, but she strutted out as though she had recovered the bag herself.
This thought made Liloa feel so ashad of herself that she kicked the blanket a few tis. It seed to her that if she couldnt sohow make up for this sha, she couldnt continue living with herself.
So the very next day, Liloa found herself standing in front of the mansion again. The high sun of early sumr brightened the building. It had been easy for her to co here without anyone knowing as she had fulfilled her role at the salon quite well, causing Ann and Charlottes surveillance to relax again.
Liloa stroked the railing of the front gate. It was a style that was popular while the Empire was still a monarchy. She tried to ask Ann and Charlotte, but their only response was that no one in Malus knew the owner of the mansion. All they said was that this place was a kings villa a long ti ago, more than a hundred years.
Despite being wary of having to go through the terribly dark halls again, Liloa comforted herself with the thought that she would eventually reach the room filled with sunlight*. After the ntal pep talk, she grabbed the doorknob with a gold lion carved into it. However, unlike the last ti, the door didnt budge. She tried again, but the result was the sa.
Its locked.
Liloa pursed her lips after backing away from the door.
Its because Im annoying, right?
The boys grumbling voice seed to linger in Liloas ears as an auditory hallucination. She paused and pondered for a mont, then decided to go around the main house and explore the garden instead.
They said he digs land every day, so who knows, maybe Ill run into him in the garden.
Sure enough, as Liloa walked along the huge main building, she began to hear the sound of spading soil until she spotted him. From a distance, Liloa stared at the boy who was digging into the beautiful garden as if it were a re field. Around the trees, which had been neatly trimd in oval shapes, was grass that had been carefully trimd, neither too long nor too short. In the middle of that scene, where the grass was stained with soil, the boy indeed appeared like a madman.
However, Liloa soon realised that he was planting seeds And that he had noticed her presence Nonetheless, he carried on and completely ignored her
Liloa carefully approached the boy. When she had gotten closer, the boys straight eyebrows gradually wrinkled more and more. When she was finally standing in front of him, the boy looked up at her and let go of his pouch of seeds.
I told you not to co back again.
Im sorry
You say youre sorry, but you keep doing things youre going to be sorry for. What do you want this ti?
The boy didnt even attempt to hide the irritation on his face.
Maybe I made the wrong decision to co back, but
Liloas mouth had dried, but she managed to bring up what she had been thinking about.
You told
that you lost an hour because of . Im here to pay you back.
With what?
The boys squinting eyes scanned Liloas outfit. Liloa realised a beat too late that her dress was of no help in planting seeds or ploughing fields. She hesitated at first, but then soon steadfastly suggested an alternative.
Is there perhaps anything else I can help you with?
Nothing. So please go away. Dont beco any more annoying than you already have been. I only took care of you after you lost your senses because I thought I was the one responsible. Dont mistake it for anything else.
The boy, turning away from Liloa, picked up his pouch again. anwhile, Liloa looked around him and found a small shovel-like trowel. She held it and plopped down next to him. She rembered what the boy had done earlier and began to similarly dig a furrow of a certain width. Sure enough, the boy glanced over his shoulder and jumped up.
What on earth are you doing!
I have nothing else to do, so I have to do this.
Oh, really! Its annoying!
Liloa quickly hid the trowel the boy was trying to snatch behind her back. His approaching hand hesitated and was withdrawn in the air. As expected, the boy didnt try to take the trowel away any further so as to not touch her body. Liloa spoke quickly, wondering what he was going to say next.
Why dont you give
a chance to make up for how I annoyed you? I already told you, Id pay you back for wasting an hour.
You say that, but in reality, youre just making
do more work.
TN:
reach the room filled with sunlight
Isnt it kinda cute that to an 8-year-old Liloa, Ed already symbolises light and sunshine? Soone who makes the darkness go away? Just like years later in his cabin on the Bell Rock, Ed already expels Mortu without even knowing it. As the translators, we both really loved this small little symbolism the author sneakily added to the story.
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