I stopped asking Kaichen for advice on estate managent after that. But whenever I did sothing related to it, he would always help even if he didn’t agree or understand it. Whenever I needed him, he would always be there. He frowned a lot while teaching magic but never gave up. The genius who had a natural aptitude of learning magic didn’t know how to teach it to others, but that never stopped him.
“Why don’t you know this? Move your mana, take it out like this and take it in the air. All you have to do is mix it up properly and co up with a formula.”
“Teacher… I don’t know how to do it. And you need to explain the process to .”
“Oh god! Being stupid also has a limit, you know. Didn’t you say you were a genius? You can’t even do this! Move your magic as much as you move your mouth. Maybe you will learn then.”
Kaichen had no rcy while teaching. He was a very strict critic. He was usually so sweet to . But when he taught magic, all the sweetness disappeared. If I hadn’t learnt to gather my mana and mastered control, I would have never been able to learn from him. I didn’t think Kaichen could ever teach anyone at all. He sucked at explaining the process.
His explanations were so unhelpful that I went back to the books. I read and read and fished for information so that I could do better. It took a crazy amount of ti to understand and apply myself.
“Countess? Shall we take a break?”
“I’m sorry, Mimi. Just give a second.” I pressed my temples and waited for the nausea to abate. I tried not to think about things to calm my motion sickness. Angel sat next to and Mimi sat on the seat across. She tapped on the carriage door to let the driver know that we were stopping. Even when I opened the door and got out of the carriage, the world still tilted.
Angel got a chair out of the carriage and set it up for .
“I didn’t know you have motion sickness,” said Mimi. “If I had known, I would have prepared so dicine.”
If I had known it myself, I would have prepared a huge box of dicine. I couldn’t even say it aloud. Mimi placed a damp handkerchief on my closed eyes. It felt cool and fresh.
“Thank you,” I mumbled. The original Dalia didn’t suffer from motion sickness. In fact, won from aristocratic families have traveled by carriage since their childhoods. There was no way Dalia would have motion sickness. At least that was what I heard when Mimi mumbled to Angel.
Healthy punks! Not everyone was an aristocrat. They got to eat good food, wear good clothes, and have doctors at their beck and call. But they also had too many etiquettes and rules to abide by.
Even Dalia seed to have lived a life that did not deviate much from such routine. Mimi had nagged so many tis when I had forgotten the social etiquettes. I made excuses that my mories weren’t back. How could I tell her that I wasn’t the original Dalia and didn’t have her mories at all? Our conversation went sothing like this:
“Oh my god! Countess! How can you co out dressed like that?!”
“Huh? Why? Can’t I even co out to the garden?”
“Not in your pajamas!”
“There is no one here.”
“No one?! There is an Archmage living with us! And Angel is here too!”
At the Willow house, I had practically lived the days out in my pajamas. But I couldn’t really tell her that lest Mimi got a heart attack. Kaichen had seed shocked at first but he had gotten used to it. They were just loose-fitting shirts and pants. What was so vulgar about that? But Mimi was relentless.
“I’ve told you so many tis. The countess is a noblewoman and we are commoners. We can never eat together.”
“Why not? No one is watching anyway.”
“It will beco a habit! What will you do if guests arrive at the mansion and Angel makes the mistake of sitting down at the table with you?”
I had complained. Who would even co here? But her worries made sense in hindsight. I never ate together with Angel from that day forth. I made snacks and shared them with Angel.
“Don’t tell, Mimi,” I would whisper. All the rules and regulations were very tiring. I couldn’t even rember half of them most of the ti.
I acted so freely that it occasionally shocked Mimi. But I needed to be careful, especially since Julius had called to the capital. I needed to be aware of the etiquettes followed in their world. The Imperial Capital was supposed to be so huge that people frequently traveled by carriages. I was already feeling dizzy with such a short travel. How will I be able to take a carriage every ti I went out?
Dalia’s body was the sa as it always had been. How was it that just because the person in this body had changed, the motion sickness had beco this severe? It was incomprehensible but I had no choice. I regretted accepting the offer to visit the Imperial Capital.
It was so astonishing that all these thoughts arose just because of sothing as ordinary as motion sickness. But one could only understand it if one suffered from it. The feeling of being inside a rattling carriage where the world keeps tilting sideways and you feel like you can’t hold the food down. That was the worst feeling in the world.
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