Cabel, Erich, and Johannes return to Vastia for the vacation. The mansion, which had been quiet for a while, became more noisy than before.
As winter became deeper, there was a lot of time for indoor activities. Of course, I canât stand such a life more than anyone else. It was the truth.
Cabel spent most of his time in the haze, but when he wasnât, he sat down at Vastia mansion and stared at Johannes with that particular glance. Of course, Johannes treated such behavior of Cabel as usual.
Whenever heâs doing that, Iâm embarrassed if it seen by the couple in
Vastia, so I gently send the second brother out or up to his room.
âPenny, letâs have a snack.â
Meanwhile, Penny was the most excited
about Erichâs return to the mansion.
Penny came to Vastia together with us when we left Ernst, but he was forced to stay away from Erich during the semester because Erich couldnât take him to the academy.
In the meantime, the people of Vastia and I took a good care for Penny since then and it didnât seem like Penny was going to chase Erich to academy either.
However, it is natural that those two really love each other.
Huft. I hope you will continue to love me, Penny. Iâm a little bit hesistant to disturb these two warm peopleâŠ
No, I looked at a warm man and a puppy and glanced under each other nose.
âLouise, arenât you going to use the piano room now?â
âIâm not. Sister can use it!â
She replied coolly as she looked at Erich as she approached Erich and Penny.
Then Erich turned to Louise. Shortly thereafter, he looked at Louise, who was
getting closer, and was frustrated.
âI want to touch a pennyâs belly!â
âWhy do you want to touch pennyâs belly?â
âWhy canât I touch it? When he didnât have brother here, I gave him a meal and gave him a snack and took him for walk!â
I looked at the two people who were friendly and then turned around because they were twice as warm as before. Both of them really cute. It seems that six years is definitely short.
When I see that theyâre close enough to be teaming with Vastia. One or two people
went up the stairs and I headed to the room with the piano.
Cabel went to the field early in the morning and was insensitive to news, and Johannes was reading a book in the library.
Erich and Louise are playing with Penny downstairs and Vastia couple goes out. Because of that, the mansion was quiet now.
âAre you going to practice the piano, Miss
At that time, a gray-haired old man with a pair of eyeglasses in front of my eyes appeared.
He was a gentleman who was regrettably ask us to call him an old man. He was the butler of Bastier, his name was Albert.
Our butler in Ernst, his name was Hubert, so if you listen to their name, itâs like a twin. Well, theyâre not though.
âThe piano sound was more turbid than before, so I called the tuner in the
morning and repaired it.â
âOh, already? Is it done now?â
âYes. And since the cleaning has just been done, you can stay at ease.â
This butler really is competently! I admired Albertâs fluttering heart again. The piano sound was just had problem yesterday. And now problem solved.
Hah, Iâve felt it before, but Albertâs promptness and accuracy is so great.
Our butler Hubert was, of course, competent, but Albert should be said to be more seasoned than him, or to have more experience.
I thought inside my head and opened the door of the piano room.
Since coming to Vastia, I have been studying the basic literacy of Lady with Louise.
It also includes musical instruments, so we learned the piano twice a week from a tutor. Our tutor, Mrs. Flora, was a sweet and friendly lady.
For this reason, she explained to Louise and me kindly, one by one, rather than being frustrated or yelling, even if there was some awkward part on us.
Indeed, as I came to Vastia, I just knew that it was impossible to be punished by a tutor!
From the viewpoint of educating children, it was said that punishment for corporal punishment was a great disgrace to the lady.
Furthermore, I heard that it was a shameful act to disqualify the tutor.
Knowing that, I got a backache and felt like throwing everytime I remember I was hit by madam, that damn ladyâŠ!
In the past life, and this time again, then, what have I been quenched with so that I deserve fire on my legs?
Damn, what would it be? Itâs completely a caught up! How stupid, a stupid little girl who lived in a back alley and knew nothing.
Besides, even Mrs. Leonard, our guardian at the time, would have protected her, a contemptuous cloth they are. It must
have been easy to bully at least one girl.
On the day I first noticed that, I had to writhe all night in bed with a deep heart.
At least for a few years, I said, âI Quit! It was not worth it!â
Wow, Iâm still far, still got many thing to learn. Not once, but twice innocently, by that wicked ladyâs words.
What? It is a shame to receive corporal punishment, so I should hide it from others? All other noble lady take classes like that? Ah ah! Why Iâm stupidly believing that word too soon!
I kicked this memories every night in humiliation, shame, anger and oppression.
In fact, in the past life, there were no peers, nobles, or wives who had personal acquaintances with me, so there was no comparative group to objectively examine my situation.
I wasnât in bad term with my brothers, but that didnât mean that I was close enough to share such a personal story, so I never realized that Madam deceived me.
Anyway, it was fortunate that my maid, who had been serving me clothes in Vastia, had seen my legs with traces of being ill.
If she wasnât, I would have known nothing and being like a fool until now.
âWhat? That insane woman said that she was punishing you by cane and was jealous of you?â
Countess Vastia, who was usually gentle, is so intense when she saw it for the first time, I was embarrassed by myself.
When I first came here, Vastiaâs people who looked at my face and with a trace left by Mrs. Leonard in my legs made a startled look, it was still vivid in my memory.
That is why Mrs. Vastia, who learned about the tutorâs corporal punishment, was resentful and felt more compassionate for me.
Um, perhaps they seemed to think that after Ernstâs death, I was incredibly persecuted by Mrs. Lenoard.
Well, it doesnât sound very wrong, but I guess it wasnât as serious as they thinkâŠ.
Cool luck, of course, because even if I say
that, the atmosphere will not work, so I just stayed still. And at the same time, they finally understood why Eugene left us here.
That night before we left Ernst.
In fact, at that time, if no one had stopped Mrs. Leonard, I might have been immediately taken to an orphanage. Or maybe I donât even want to imagine that much, but it must be a terrible place
than an orphanage. It might have been to.
The slowly rewinding memory for me stayed at that night again.
Then my hand that moving on the keyboard began to slow down a bit.
âItâs a pretty difficult song, but youâre good at playing it.â
As I turned my head, his figure standing by the door came into my view.
âWhen did you come in? If you come, you should tell me first.â
âSorry if you were surprised. I like to hear your music so I was hesitant to interrupt
Since Johannes never came to the room without knocking, it must have been clear that he had heard of another thought at that moment.
âI learned this before, but itâs been a long time since play it. Can you play it?â
Johannes smiled lightly and approached the piano. Thatâs it. Long, neat fingers on the keyboard as he sat down. The music I just played rang in my ear.
I followed Johannes with my left hand on the piano. Soon, the chords he and I made began to spread inside the room.
It seemed true that the playerâs character was revealed in the piano notes. I felt it while I was learning the piano together with Louise, but Louise was giving a feeling of bravery and running alone.
So it was also difficult to match her when we playing together. On the other hand, Johannes is playing a delicate and caring performance. And the song is done.
Johannes smiled at me and I smiled at him too. At that time, outside the door, Bang!
A loud noise has been heard.
Considering that the piano room was particularly sound-proofed, it must be a
tremendous noise pollution.
Because the sound of running up and down was getting closer, Johannes and I stopped playing.
âWhat are you doing!â
It was the second brother who come in after opening the door.
I still have a few things to teach him, heâve been teaches well for years, and yet, Iâve still had a lot of things to correct his behaviors.
Cabel used to be toxic to Johannes affairs. Why the hell arenât these two getting any better?
âBrother Cabel, Iâm surprised. Knock first when you come in.â
Johannes also opened his mouth after I contemplated the second brother.
âWhat do we do, youâll be able to know if you have one of your eyes and ears open.â
âAre you laughing at me?!â
Well? Did they tell you to call me? Was it a time for Vastia couple to come home? Or else, it wasnât that Cabel would have left Johannes to pick me up in the first place.
Perhaps the Vastia couple had just gone out and returned.
Even if I hadnât responded to knock sound, Johannes would have just opened the door, and if he knew Iâm in such a situation, he wouldnât disturb me and just turned around quietly.
But heâs not. And now Cabel picking fight at Johannes like this now!
âBrother Cabel, what are you talking about when we just playing the piano
âIâm gonna play it too!â
âYou never learned to play the pianoâ
âIâm going to learn to play the piano from today too!â
It was already a few years ago but you still want to compete with Johan in every little things! It was clear. Letâs just talk later.
âBut why did they tell you to call me?â
âOh, brother sent us a gift!â
Cabel said quickly, remembering why he came here. When I heard that, I got up from the chair. Johannes apologized to me.
âIâm sorry, I just forgot about it for a while as I coming, because I had something to say about my favorite piano song.
âNo, itâs alright. It was fun playing with brother.â
I walked out of the piano room with in a friendly relationship with Johannes.
Next to me was Cabel. The second brother must not know that we are tired to
his rambling, heâs still be a scammers from the side toward Johannes.
He said, âHeâs a noisy man,â and he mumbled again.
Nevertheless, itâs more important to see our guardian now, and I donât even know how wide Johannes heart is to keep up with Cabel like this. Is his personality and
temperament inherented from the Vastia?
âHari, Eugene sent a gift, do open it.â
As we went down to the Vastia couple, they smiled and greeted us. It has been a long time since Eugene sent gifts to us this way.
I unpacked the purple ribbon of the big box that came to me and opened the
top. This gift was clothes.
Even if I pretend not to be awe at it, a light blue dress with a luxurious feeling caused a dazzling wave in my hand, as I lifted it up to my body and I inevitably laughed.
âOh, it seems a little small.â
The growth period has come for me since late autumn. I start to feel my knees sore, but now that winter has come, I have grown taller than before.
I was a case where growth continued to slow and then grew rapidly. So maybe by spring Iâll be at least half the height my present height.
âIâm going to call someone to mend it.â
The clothes I wore last winter didnât fit right now, so I had to call a tailor to get a new fit.
Mrs. Vastia said that it could be repaired it as if she was embarrassed herself, but she pretends not to be. It was not enough to be solved like that for me.
âI just want to have it as it is without any repairs.â
I said with a laugh, wanting to have Eugeneâs present untouched.
Still, Eugene doesnât know Iâve grown up more than before. Maybe I will continue to grow until next spring.
Of course, there must be a little more time for me to become a slender beauty whom
Heck, that day feels so far, but the time has passed so fast, that day is probably will come too soon. I guess⊠?
In addition to me, Cabel and Erich received gifts from Eugene, respectively.
In fact, it may not have been Eugene who picked the gift to send to us.
Normally, the aristocrats tended to give
instructions to their servant when doing this, but it was fine. I know that his heart for us is completely contained in this.
On a day like this, I wanted to see and talk
to Eugene through the communication sphere. In fact, I can still contact him at any time if I decide to do.
The communication sphere I used before
was still in my room, and even if it wasnât, the Vastia couple would like to give us if we wanted to, but neither do I, nor the other brothers want to.
It was three years ago that we last got in touch with each other through face not correspondence.
And around that time, Eugene was attacked on the way home to Ernst. The criminal was arrested immediately,but Eugene was stabbed and had to be treated for quite some time.
However, two days after the incident, he show his face and talked to us through the sphere pretending nothing happened.
It was some time later that we got to know his news.
After that, first of all, Cabel opposed
Eugene from coming to Vastia to see us. Erich and I agreed there.
This is because Eugene, we were aware of the fact that we have been unreasonably unaware of his situation.
Since then, I have started writing letters to Eugene. As I was able to get in touch more often than using a limited number of correspondence sphere, I stopped using it.
And I was able to write down more detailed daily stories as I desired on the letter too.
Of course, if I sent the letter 5 times, Eugene would reply 1 time, but that was enough.
Time passed, and somehow I wasnât using the communication sphere at all now.
âToday, the lamb is very soft.â
âThe sauce they changed this time is very
After the schoolâs in vacation, Vastiaâs table became more noisy than before.
âSo right now, is Ijekiel graduating this time?â
âYes⊠itâs cool, but why are you interested in his jobs?!â
âIt may be the same as academic academy, that Iâd be wondering. I asked you because you are his closest friend.â
âIâm his closest friendâŠ. Hung! Did you
know that now? If you have any questions, ask me all! Iâm now Ijekielâs best friend!â
No. Second brother, ah.. You seem to be laughed by Johannes right now? I donât think you know that?
âHey, stop talking and eat some food.â
Erich said with a cold face, he was colder than he usually as he could see Cabelâs excitement. Only the Vastias couple were making a happy face.
âI think our kids were also very influenced by you.â
Are you serious? Of course, there are years we spent together that it make sense that they would be influenced by us. Is that really a good influence?
But if you think about it, the Vastia have been looking at the authenticity of Cabel since the first meeting.
Even when they heard that he had a fight with Johannes, they laughed and were feeling satisfied. So, surprisingly, it could be sincere, not an empty talk.
âIâm still hungry!â
But the second brother, you need a little conscience! I looked at the Cabel âs elated face and made a cold expression just like Erich did.
The Vastia couple laughed again and Haha Hoho toward such a Cabel.
âWithout you all, it will surely feel a big vacant seat.â
At that moment, our hands that sitting around the table stopped all at once.
It was the first time they had talked about our absence. The chest slowly began to run fast. Not only me, but Cabel and Erich felt the same thing.
âYou guys have waited for a long time.â
The Vastia couple smiled at us and said,
âI think you can go back to Ernst soon.â
That evening I took out all the gifts that Eugene had been sending.
What he gave me ranged from dresses and shoes, silk gloves and satin ribbons to jewelry and dolls, music boxes and books.
I wasnât throwing away any clothes or shoes that didnât fit right now and kept it in the box.
It was the sixth year since we already come to Vastia. So, letâs put together the things that Eugene send so far, and the amount was considerable much.
I unfolded the clothes I received this time and sooner or later I hugged it and fell
White blanket wrap me. And my long hair on the top of bed make my head dizzy. I exhaled slowly and closed my eyes for a long time.
âItâs not a dream.â
Finally, we return to Ernst. When I recalled what I heard from the Vastia couple at the dinner table, my heart began to thump
Now we can meet with each otherâŠ
My nostalgic home. My nostalgic family.
âI can meet himâŠâŠâ
I donât pull anything tight while lying in bed, but somehow my chest feel tight. I buried my face on the clothes I was holding.
It wasnât the first time I felt sad after I came to Vastia, but I was happy too, so I felt like tears were coming. Good grief.
For some reason Louise came knocking in to my room.
âLouise, whatâs going on?â
I was a little surprised because it was usually time to go to bed. Whatâs more, she came to my room in nightgown, and even had a pillow in her arms.
âLetâs sleep with me.â
Itâs what Iâve been expecting since I saw Louiseâs figure.
As she usually do, she want us to sleep
together and came to my room whenever she couldnât fall asleep. It was extremely rare lately though.
âYes, come over here.â
I was willing to allow it because I thought I knew why she was doing this.
After a while, we lay on the bedside side by side with only one light on the bedside. Under the soft light, Louiseâs light hair colored orange.
âYou know, I liked sister coming here and live in Vastia. Of course, I know itâs such an ironic sound.â
A small voice rang in my ear. I smiled lightly, facing her dark blue eyes staring at me.
âNo, I like living in Vastia with you too.â
I sincerely thought we were lucky to be here.
Probably not easy to find, as wherever we go, they canât treat us as heartily and warmly as the people of Vastia.
But nevertheless, this place could not be my real home.
âEven when I go back to Ernst, Iâll come to play here often.â
âStill. I donât want to clean sisterâs room. Iâm going to leave it as it is.â
That night I shared this and that with Louise.
And by the time the words were sour, I could find Louise, unconciously asleep. I laid her comfortably on her side and
then lay down on my side.
But even when time passed, I couldnât sleep. Should I go out and drink some warm tea?
I listened to the sound of the clock second hand moving, and then quietly left the room. Fortunately, Louise is in deep sleep and she didnât wake up even when I was moving.
As I walked down the hall, I encountered Erich, who climbed the stairs. Ugh, Iâm surprised. I thought it was a ghost for a moment.
âErich, why didnât you sleep?â
But it seemed that Erich was surprised to see me too. We looked at each other, stepped back reflectively, and quickly asked each other nicely.
Presumably, Erich probably didnât fall asleep to the fact like me, that we can go home soon.
âWhatâs brother Cabel doing?â
âAsleep. He just lie down and fall asleep.â
âYou go sleep too,â I said to Erich.
Then, Erich asked me a quick question.
âDo you like Johannes?â
Hah, what question is this suddenly? No, itâs really surprising during the night. Doesnât he just mean you like people-to-people? Still, I replied as if I didnât know.
âOf course. Heâs a good person.â
But isnât it a little too much to talk to you and ask me now?
âSo, you want to hold hands with Johannes, you want to kiss, or you want to hug or go further with bare skin..â
âHey, just stop it there!â
Is this an obscene devil? Iâm getting more and more confused and I wonât let you go further!
âYou and I are still young to talk about that!â
As I looked at my adolescent brother, he lowered his voice and shook his nose.
âWhatâs about age, just how young are
What? I donât remember raising you like that!
âAnyway, you donât think so.â
No, of course Iâm an adult who is already
mature in mental age. But Johannes is not yet! Itâs a crime to think like that against a minor, to Johannes!
Erich seemed satisfied. The next moment, his hand was on my head. In succession, I shook my hand and hit Erichâs hand.
âGo to bed even if you donât feel like sleeping, go quickly and sleep. So youâll grow up.â
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