I turned towards Duen, my mouth open as I’d by no means heard one thing like that earlier than. He was speaking to somebody who gave the impression to be his buddy.

“What do you assume? Aren’t you curious?”

By now, Bella was standing subsequent to me, her face grim.

I hesitated for a second. Then, shortly, I shook my head.

“No.”

She checked out me wide-eyed, stunned by my adamant reply.

“If there actually is a rule such as you say, I don’t wish to see it.”

“……Why?”

I heard her swallow dryly beside me.

“As a result of I don’t imagine anybody is extra good-looking than Liel, and I don’t wish to break my religion.”

I shook my head with a decided look on my face.

“……Uh, yeah…….”

I assumed I’d defined it effectively sufficient, however Bella appeared dumbfounded.

Nonetheless, I didn’t care.

It was simply my stubbornness, I suppose.

I made eye contact with Duen. Maybe as a result of our gaze was too blatant.

Bella waved at Duen with a annoyed look on her face. Duen waved again, confused, and returned Bella’s greeting.

Quickly, he turned his consideration to me, so I shortly bowed my head barely to greet him. He adopted swimsuit and bowed as effectively.

The room appeared to have quieted down, so I took this chance to stroll as much as Duen and congratulate him on his commencement.

After saying goodbye to them, the commencement ceremony ended shortly.

Though we weren’t saying goodbye to one another eternally, it felt like our time collectively was too brief.

A letter arrived from my grandmother. It mentioned that she was feeling higher after a number of days of relaxation.

“A letter out of your grandmother?”

Melissa, who was organizing class supplies subsequent to me, requested.

“Yeah, she was sick earlier than I obtained right here. Fortunately, she’s feeling higher.”

I mentioned, slipping the letter again into the envelope.

“Nicely, she’s a bit previous already. Usually, she’d be stepping down and taking a break…….”

However she was delaying her retirement as a result of I, the following in line, was too younger.

Furthermore, she needed me to prioritize age-appropriate routines over early succession classes.

I actually admired and revered her schooling and affection, however I couldn’t assist however really feel much more sorry for her…….

“So if I wish to put my grandmother to take a relaxation, I have to graduate as quickly as attainable and take over the household enterprise.”

Whereas I’m inferior to Melissa, I’ve improved my grades since my freshman yr.

Simply as Liel had a aim of changing into a knight of our household, I had a aim of changing into somebody my grandmother wouldn’t be ashamed of.

“You actually like your grandmother, don’t you?”

Melissa mentioned, handing me a portion of the fabric she was organizing. I casually accepted it and smiled brightly.

“After all I do. I really like my grandma probably the most on this planet.”

She’s the one household I’ve left, and even placing that apart, she’s greater than a father or mother to me.

I’m who I’m in the present day due to her.

However not lengthy after I obtained a letter from my grandmother wishing me effectively, I obtained a letter from Dioletta unnie. 

[Lucy, how are you? You may be wondering why I am writing to you a week after your return to the Academy, but I thought I should tell you. The Marquis has fallen ill again, and although Marquis Anise told me to never tell you…… in case you were worried, I thought it would be best to let you know, so here I am.]

My hand holding the letter trembled. Along with my grandmother’s collapse, an unknown anxiousness swirled by means of me.

I wrote again to unnie.

I needed to know if she was okay, and I needed her to explain her signs. If she was in want of help, I instructed her I might return to the Marquis as quickly as she wrote again.

Two days later, my grandmother wrote again.

[Do you know how frightened I was that you were really going to skip class and come back? It’s happened before, and it’s nothing to worry about. It’s just that my age has reduced my stamina. Lucy, don’t worry about me, just focus on your studies. I love you.]

I’m positive she realizes that her age makes me fear extra.

Even together with her reply, my anxiousness grew.

Three days later, one other letter arrived, this time from Sarah.

[Miss, it’s Sarah. What do I do, Miss…… The Marquis is in critical condition……. The doctor just left, and he says she won’t last long…… Miss, what should I do, Miss…….]

Now there was no time to answer to her correspondence. I rushed out of the Academy that means, leaving lessons and the whole lot else behind.

In reality, I don’t even know what I used to be considering after I obtained into the carriage. My thoughts was too full to let anybody know.

My legs had been shaking the entire solution to the Marquis’s home.

I used to be so scared.

I felt like my grandmother was actually about to go away me like this, and I used to be going to be alone on this planet.

As quickly as I arrived on the marquis’s home, I ran straight to my grandmother’s room.

Alongside the way in which, servants checked out me with nervous eyes and greeted me, however I didn’t even have time to return their greetings.

“G, Grandma……!”

I opened the door with a bang. The very first thing I noticed after I opened the door was my grandmother mendacity on the mattress, respiration raggedly.

“Ah…….”

A sigh escaped my lips.

I didn’t know the way I’d gotten right here, and it was troublesome to place one foot in entrance of the opposite.

I knew I needed to go as much as her and maintain her hand, however I used to be afraid to see her situation up shut.

“Ah, miss…….”

Along with the mattress the place Grandma was mendacity, Sarah put down the towel she was utilizing and came to visit to me.

“Why is she…… in such a situation? Absolutely throughout the break…….”

I requested, clutching my head with one hand. My imaginative and prescient narrowed. Then it widened once more.

“In reality, she’s been complaining so much these days that she’s been feeling drained…… however the Marquis says it’s nothing, however she’s been falling down so typically these days that I known as the physician simply in case, and, uh, the physician mentioned…….. He mentioned that at Marquis’ age, it could’t be helped…….”

“W, what can’t be helped?”

The muscle groups in my face refused to pay attention. Sarah’s stuttering didn’t make her really feel higher, and it was simply sufficient to make her expression much more uncontrollable.

“They are saying she’s overworked her physique …… and that’s why she has a mixture of ailments…… and now that she’s older, it’s harder for her to take remedy, so, so…….”

The physician didn’t prescribe something apart from painkillers.

Sarah’s final phrases made my eyes glaze over.

I remembered what the typical life expectancy was for people right here. I attempted to recollect what I’d learn within the e book, however stopped.

Even when she had reached the lifespan they mentioned she had, I wouldn’t have the ability to settle for her finish.

My legs had been about to offer out.

I stumbled backwards, in search of a spot to lean my wobbly physique, and my again fell in opposition to the wall.

For a quick second, I considered staying put.

“Lucy…….”

However I didn’t, as a result of the soothing voice of my grandmother calling out to me sustained my physique.

I appeared up at her, unable to cover the tears in my eyes.

“I instructed you it was nothing, and I’m sorry I scared you.”

My grandmother’s voice was raspy.

I puzzled if she’d be extra snug speaking to me if I moved nearer.

It wasn’t till my ideas reached that time that I compelled myself to maneuver nearer to her.

I knelt down, fumbled for her hand, and squeezed it.

“Why don’t you sit right here?”

There was nonetheless affection in her eyes as she scolded me.

“It’s okay, it’s okay.”

I couldn’t convey myself to sit down on the mattress the place she was mendacity.

“I, I assumed I used to be stronger than different previous folks, however I suppose I’m not.”

Cough, cough.

A lingering cough escaped from grandmother’s mouth as she completed talking. The longer she coughed, the stronger my grip on her hand grew to become.

I may really feel the wrinkles in her arms.

“Miss, have a seat right here…….”

Sarah set the chair down subsequent to me and wiped her tears away. I sat down within the chair she introduced, as if hypnotized.

I held my grandmother’s hand, however my shoulders saved slumping. My entire physique felt weak.

A tear rolled down my cheek and onto the seat.

“Lucy, don’t cry.”

I shook my head in response.

My grandmother checked out me in confusion and muttered.

“That is so……. I don’t have a hand to wipe your tears, however I need…….”

You don’t must wipe my tears, as a result of I’m going to maintain holding your hand.

I simply needed to maintain holding her hand.

I didn’t return to the academy, however stayed by her aspect. She typically mentioned she was sorry for me.

After I requested her what she was sorry for, she mentioned that she was sorry as a result of she was so grateful and pleased with me for sticking by her aspect, however she felt that holding me again due to that.

After I heard that, I cried arduous on the spot. My grandmother checked out me with tears in her eyes.

At some point, she instantly began speaking about previous tales, and I needed to inform her to cease as a result of it felt like she was reminiscing about her life earlier than she died.

However I couldn’t.

I needed to hearken to the whole lot she needed to say whereas she was nonetheless alive.

“You already know, Lucy, you had been a lot smarter than your friends from a really younger age.”

“……T, that’s as a result of I’m my grandmother’s granddaughter, that’s why I appear that means.”

My grandmother has the unlucky tendency to reward me an excessive amount of. I shook my head, revealing the complete extent of my embarrassment.

Then a smile broke throughout my grandmother’s face.

“It’s not unreasonable to imagine that you simply don’t…….”

“You’re so sensible…….”

“Actually, it’s so brilliant…… that it’s like watching my childhood…….”

Grandma was nonetheless smiling. However her eyes appeared unusually wistful.

“……so I didn’t need you to finish up like me.”

I don’t know what she’s speaking about.

I all the time needed to be a cool grownup like my grandmother.


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