The Manner Demon [Part 2]
Before I noticed it, my companions increased one after another in the empty classroom where it used to be just my teacher and .
Turned out, many young ladies were also suffering like , it’s just that I never knew it.
For , it was my mother, but for others, it could be their father, ho tutor, the lady they previously learned manners from… Everyone’s case was different, but the fact that each of us was in anguish and suffering was the sa.
Height, weight, face size, neck length, shoulder width… Everyone is different in every part.
‘To find the most beautiful angle for that soone.’
I found that a standard had been made for sothing that had always been vague.
If I stick to this angle, no matter how sobody points it out, I can protect my own heart.
It led to have self-confidence that beca my charm.
To , manners and etiquette had beco the weapon to protect myself.
I got married, had children, and when my children grew up, I asured their own “angle” and gave them their “weapons”.
In particular, my youngest child, lsa, was a bright child who learned etiquette quickly and found her own angle by herself..
When lsa went to the academy, she chose the classes I couldn’t study before. Mathematics, Physics, Demon Science, Economics, she took the subjects that were especially difficult and were said to be impossible for young ladies.
Even when soone spoke ill of her as mannish or warned her that the nail that stuck out would get hamred down, lsa continued to achieve excellent results.
“Why is soone as strict with manners as you letting your daughter do whatever she likes?
In this male-dominated aristocratic society, I had also received so cruel questions.
But, lsa had perfected her manners from long ago. That child had a weapon to protect herself. And so, I could let her do as much as she liked.
“Just because a woman is smarter than a man, doesn’t an she has bad manners.”
I, too, have beco much stronger.
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Ti passed, and manners and etiquette weren’t talked about much as they used to be when it ca to my grandchildren’s generation. Rather than strict parenting, parents nowadays tend to say that raising a child with love is most important.
When I first began to think about retiring and handing my title over to my son, my youngest child, lsa, brought her daughter, Emma, to .
“Mother, please teach this child. Please be a little… no, please be very strict with her.”
lsa married a borderland Count, and the first ti I t my grandchildren was just a few weeks before, which was when they moved to the royal capital.
Emma was said to have a large scar on her face, so she always wore a veil.
With the impression that the three siblings’ etiquette wasn’t top-notch but was also not bad, I felt that they were taught pretty well for children who grew up in a remote borderland.
“Calm down, lsa. Tell what happened first… !!!”
Emma didn’t wear a veil that day.
On her right cheek was a terrible scar that didn’t suit her adorable face, which I only clearly saw for the first ti. The color of her eyes, which were looking up at timidly, was green, different from her brothers.
A light translucent green color that seed like it could suck you in.
It was the color of our Sullivan family.
When our eyes t, she weakly smiled. Different from lsa and Leonard, she had a soft, gentle, calm-looking face and a short, slender, delicate body.
She looked more child-like and vulnerable than her actual age. Her scars would still remain even after she grew up, wouldn’t they?
“I understand. For a whole month, let Emma co to after her school is over. I will prepare a carriage for her.”
I have to give this child a weapon.
Because she will live while carrying this scar from now on.
The best weapon I have ever imparted.
I may beco a little too harsh.
But.
That’s because I want to get her as much equipnt as I can, so she will never be hurt.
Looks like the manner demon’s retirent will be a little later than planned..
Author’s words: The color of Emma’s eyes is the color associated with Sullivan House.
It’s a rare color that rarely gets passed down, so only Hilda, Hilda’s son (successor of Duke Sullivan), lsa, and Emma have it.
lsa is the youngest child out of 12 siblings.
Translator’s note: Hilda is the only child of the forr Duke Sullivan. She succeeded the title and beca the current Duchess. Hilda’s son will be succeeding the Duke title from Hilda, not from Hilda’s husband. (Duke Hilda Sullivan was what the author wrote in the original, but I translated it to Duchess as it seed more fitting)
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