[Vol. 4] Chapter 86

"You are unusually quite today..." Arashi remarked as I was practicing the verse the empress was teaching me.

"What happened?" He asked.

It was already night and the whole time, I had practiced every letters that I was supposed to learn. Even the instrument. I went to Rei and asked her to help me. Even when I was bad at it, I kept trying it.

I knew I didn't need it but that didn't mean, I didn't have to learn it. I went to the head maid to teach me the tea ceremony etiquette. Arashi had taught me but I wanted to perfect it.

I said, "I want to learn these..."

I had finished writing the letters and I dropped my ink pen. Then I turned around and hung the paper before Arashi. "How's it?"

He examined it for a few seconds and nodded. "Well, it has certainly improved a lot."

I smiled but it still didn't make me happy as I sighed.

He looked at me then to the ground where piles of papers laid. I had used up all the papers already.