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Chapter 5

As I turned around the corner right away, my sister, who should have been educated at the central academy, someone caught my eye.

"What.... Why did you came out?"

Serene made a fat face and looked me up and down with her frowned eyes as if she were contempt.

A beautiful woman who looks like the Duchess, not the old man, and she has a pretty gorgeous beauty. Thanks to that, she was a well known lady in the social world. And there were secrets that no one knew. My head was almost blank.

Both commoners and nobles couldn't figure out how to get into the academy, where everyone had to take and pass the exam. Every single word spoken out of his mouth revealed his ignorance. Olden tells her.

'If you can tell, don't tell. You need to be ignorant, Would you like to hear me say that you are worse than that stupid monster?'

It was enough to say.

Who sees who is stupid. The women who were lacking were also talking to each other well. His first daughter was scared of him, so she avoided me, but the second, Serene, stuck with me for a while throwing a contemptuous gaze. At first glance, it felt similar to the duke.

A gaze mixed with contempt and check. Checking for what you can ignore.

"You was having a conversation with my father."

".... huh."

She looked at me by rolling her eyes. Then she snorted and leaned against the wall, taking a position to highlight her voluminous body.

"What was the conversation?"

"The conversation we always have."

"What kind of deal was that?"

Her eyes glanced over my face. What wonder is that why I always I have to tell you? Even if I explain it to you, you can't understand, that is because of your low intelligence.

It wasn't once or twice that I wasn't willing to ignore it and it was bewitched.

But when I ignored it, it bothered me to the end. Looking at it, Serene was the most picky and bothersome. Because the conversation doesn't work.

"What we was talking about was the basic cost of each equipment supplied to the Central Army and the indicators of the normal figures mined in the mines did not match, and it would be an important factor in determining the equipment price in the future. OK?"

In the end, if you explain this, the answer that comes back was simple.

"Ah... Yeah?"

She didn't know.

"Hah."

I turned around, exhaling a very soft voice. I'm tired only by having more conversations. I want to go back, but Serene didn't let me go.

"Wait a minute!"

Gently pushed down her hand grabbing my arm and closed her chin.

I only spoke about my conversation, whether I was so unaware that my attitude has changed, or whether I am living in my own world.

"You have something to do."

"No"

"Yes, you have something don't you?"

"I don't think I have something to do. I'll go now."

Serene opened her axe and held my hand tightly. I couldn't solve it anymore, so I turned back on. Her eyes looked at me with a stuffy face.

"Why are you so speechless?"

"This."

She handed me over a small roll of paper. When I checked it, that was a report card. A report card with disastrous scores.

Even if I took a 10-year-old that was taught 3 years report card, it would come out better than this. Are you really taking classes? Serene, who looked at me with a pathetic face, but could not see my eyes, immediately put my words in her mouth.

"This time, because of my test scores were a bit low. Thanks to that, the head of the faculty warned me. This test score is a failing test and then expulsion. The third expulsion card day was because of history class is the first high school."

I am very proud.

"So?"

"So, I have gave a good opinion to persuade people again. I told to the head teacher that I would try to replace the note with an assignment, you know that?"

"Good, then do it now."

"This one."

I was anxious to laugh and I tapped my shoulder. Only when she asked for a regretful request, she clung to my arms, and there was no hesitation behind her.

"Do I have do that? You have to do it by yourself."

Like this, laughter flowed into the house. Why do I have do it? It was a natural question, so when I looked at it without even being able to put it in my mouth, Serene screamed with a confident face.

"The head of teacher is not flexible. He requested for total of more than 100 assignments based on the whole subjects that I learned this semester, are you telling me to do this? But look at this. How long my wrist sits. It will definitely break when I use it."

"No. It won't happen. It's not a soft bone."

"What! No, anyway! You will only do a little. You're unreasonable. Besides, I have something to do, and you know that there will be a banquet soon. I can't wear a Tacky and dirty dresses, I'm a fashion leader in the social world. My appearance are the honor of the Duke, so I'm preparing a dress and jewelry for a few days, I think I'm running out of time, so do this. Understand?"

While looking at the point where she was pointing, there were only books piled up. My eyebrows were plump.

She smiled and I stared blankly at Serene, who was moving far away from me. I did not stop the speed. And it she great. How could she be the same as Olden(the Duke)?

Do you think that even if I tell you that I will do it, you will just leave the words to be asked to check while monitoring?

I picked up a passing servant and handed him the rolled paper. The servant, who received the paper from me, flinched, tilted his head.

"Take it to the Duchess. Ah, said that that is Serene's report card, she will probably smile and accept it."

I hoped that the heart of the Duchess, who was always looking forward to her daughter's grades, would be happy.

Before turning around and going to the room, I looked at the stacked books once again, a pearl necklace around a pig's neck, and this expression couldn't fit so well.

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When Serene returned over the mansion in order to enjoy the splendid social life, the outbuilding was as quiet as usual. Of course not far away. Serene, who took the report card from the Duchess, was greatly confused.

In the end, instead of getting a dress or jewelry in hand, Serene picked up a pen. I was overloaded while working on a task using a head with insufficient capacity or something. That story came back, but I didn't care.

At the time when the banquet was three days before, the mansion was often visited by many guests, as if emphasizing the importance of this banquet.

For those who served the family as a duke's servant from generation to generation, it was always a hot topic for those who received the vacancy of the Crown Prince at this banquet.

The young prince's secret position, that now 20 years old, was aimed by all families. Besides for Morden, who had two grown-up horses, of course, it was a place where Tom was bound to fly.

However, strangely, if greed was the second, Morden was saddened at the spot.

First of all, it was because the prince was born by a concubine, and not a child of the empress.

The Brixia family was a family that supported the Imperial Family from generation to generation. In other words, the Brixia family did not recognize a prince other than the one who was born in the empress's as his successor. Because of that, Olden nailed it, saying that he would never become the Emperor.

However, it was only a side view. For more than 100 years, the Brixia family had not been able to connect with the imperial family, and that was very annoying to the pride Olden.

A stupid man with a different inside and outside... I thought about it for a moment as I rotated the pen. I won't attend the banquet anyway, but if so, how should I spend the rest of the time? I rolled my eyes.

"Nanny Vera."

"Yes. Miss"

"Are Nanny going to the banquet? It's a national event that lasts a week. Is there plans?"

"Yes. Well, actually, I don't have any plans. If the miss is attending to the banquet, I would like to attend a family gathering in that time. It's been over 5 years since I haven't seen my family."

Nanny Vera is a bit worried about me. If Seves Rudin treated me without prejudice against my appearance, Nanny Vera will felt sorry for my appearance and gave me a lot of sympathy. If it's a difference, but that kind of warmth wasn't bad.

Anyway. It means that if I don't attend the banquet, in the end, Vera's nanny will be here with me..... She haven't seen her family in 5 years.

Vera's nanny was a soldier at my age of 18, my nanny without children was dependent on my family, but it was a year that she continued to hate meeting with my family because of me.

I stopped the ceiling, looked up, and turned to nanny again.

"What would you do if I didn't attend to the banquet?"

"I have to stay here to serve miss. The other maids are scared of the lady and try not to come, but I have to remain here to provide meals and help you with the bath."

"I can take care of me...."

"The desk of the person you know is so dirty, how will I believe and leave. Even if you leave your desk for only a week, you will be walking around like where you picked it up."

I flowed with an awkward face at the raw expression. It couldn't be helped that the desk was dirty. Since I used a lot of paper, it was common for me to put it in one corner and the eat. Then, the nanny would come and clean it up.

At that time, I complained about whether there was someone to clean up, but it was true that thanks to the nanny, I was able to maintain a neat life.

"You won't go even if I give you vacation?"

"I can't go. If you go to the banquet, I'll be glad that the maids will come with you, but if you don't attend to the banquet, the mansion will be empty. Most of the maids will go on vacation and there will be only the a minimum number of people left to protect the mansion. The miss and the maids with faces are all served."

"Hmm."

"Don't worry too much. If miss doesn't want to participate in the banquet, Nanny will remain here with you and protect the mansion together."

"Then, I'll have to look at the faces of my family and my body injuries."

"It's better to be here than at the bar where the brothers complaining about their teeth with pumpkin pie."

Her white hair shook as she kicked her tongue. My face was full of longing while shaking my head.

When she thought that she couldn't have children, she couldn't even see her family. I'm okay, so even if you push me to go, I will never try to go. How can you push me?