Chapter 323 – A Family (2)
Matilda noticed that her Eve’s gait was slightly wobbly. She stumbled, tilting her leg slightly like someone whose shoes didn’t fit. Matilda, she thought, was either Eve was drunk with her or she had n’t quite quelled her excitement about beating people yet.
When Eve arrived at her office, the nun handed over the papers. Matilda’s physical information and grades of her were listed on her paperwork of her. Eve was looking at Matilda’s papers with her curious look on her face her. Contrary to his fierce first impression of her, Eve was a person with a lot of expression. She widened her eyes and pointed to Matilda’s sexual item her.
“You skipped a grade at the academy?”
“Yes.”
It was something to be proud of, but Matilda was ashamed of her body. It was always awkward for her to receive compliments from others. Eve nodded her head and she focused again on her papers her. She read the section on her family history her and asked Matilda.
“The family… Do you have both mother and father? What are you doing?”
“Oh that… Both of you are good people.”
As Matilda said, she unconsciously covered her arm. Her Eve’s gaze her turned towards it and then she went down again. She had a lot to say, but she didn’t say it. It was because the relationship was not good enough to share such stories with each other yet. As Eve looked at her paper her, she was reminded of her old days her. The memory of her escaping from the slave market and running to the shore came flooding back to her.
At that time, she was Eve. She was also looking for someone to take care of herself. Words she had never properly expressed, but she longed for someone to take care of her. She thought that if they were mermaids, she might be accepted, so she recklessly ran to Mermaid Island.
“You are a good person… Can I just sign here?”
Eve also had a document she had never signed, so she questioned the nun. The nun nodded her head and cautiously approached Eve’s side of her. Contrary to her first impression of the nun, she felt that Eve had a fairly gentle personality. She obediently signed the sign as the nun said, and as soon as her signature her was complete, she accepted her papers her and again the nun stepped behind her. Eve asked as she put down her pen.
“What is the procedure now? Are you just going back?”
“Oh, no. Now, I am going to go back to Daecheonsingyo Headquarters with my coachman, deliver the documents and come back.”
Said the nun. In other words, it meant that Matilda had to be alone in the mansion for the time being. Eve nodded her head and looked back at Matilda. Matilda bowed once more.
“Take good care of me.”
“Please take care of me too.”
Eve grinned because she wanted to make a good impression of her somehow. Matilda took another step back at her sharp teeth bared. Then she embarrassed herself and apologized again.
“I’m sorry.”
“No. Then… I need to decide on a room…”
Eve kicked off her office desk and got up. She then walked out into the hallway and she called Aira’s name out loud.
“Ira!”
“Yes!”
Ira, who was playing in her common room, got up and came out cheerfully at the sound of Eve calling. Matilda, following her Eve down the aisle, greeted her Ira with her head bowed. Ira looked back and forth between Matilda and her Eve, and she asked.
“Oh my, who is this child?”
“He will be staying here for a while. Take me to the room I prepared for you.”
“Yes~.”
Ira smiled and took Matilda’s hand her and led her. Matilda looked back and forth between Eve and Ira with her uneasy expression. Her Ira her made her laugh and reassured her. Ira was a beauty with her freckles. Matilda thought that there were many beauties in this mansion.
The room assigned to her was a small but neatly arranged room. A nun came up from below with a luggage bag. Matilda took her bag and looked around her room again. It was a neat and nice room that felt similar to the dorm she had stayed at at the academy.
The nun said to Matilda, taking her clothes from her gym bag to her.
“How are you?”
“I don’t know.”
Matilda’s answer was full of her wariness. She met after Lord Delmon, she was also a good person on the outside. After being betrayed by people twice, she couldn’t easily conclude Eve.
“Then Matilda. Do I have to be nice here while I go through the paperwork again?”
“Do you have to come back soon?”
Matilda gave her nun a hug and she said so. In fact, she was also a nun, and she was anxious about leaving Matilda alone at Peta Lucius’ mansion. It was because she didn’t seem like a normal person who asked for a girl’s school uniform instead of solving the case. Besides, Eve, his wife and lord’s agent, also seemed bloody in her character.
“Matilda. Will you be back soon?”
However, if the patron noble changed again, this time there was no place to set foot. The nun took her reluctant steps. Matilda looked at her nun and smiled her melancholy. The door closed, and Matilda was now alone. She looked around her, holding her hand tightly. She was not guided from where to where she could touch her, so she had to keep an eye on it.
She was about to go out for a while, but she decided to sit down and wait, hoping someone would guide her. As she waited for a while, someone knocked on the door.
“Yes-.”
Matilda carefully opened the door. Across the door was Eve, smiling slightly. Matilda took a step behind her as soon as she saw her. Eve smiled at her attitude and opened her door wide.
“Follow. I need to know what kind of structure the mansion is.”
She did not know that the lord lady would direct her, so Matilda followed her Eve with her dumbfounded face her.
“Basically, if you just want to study, I plan to guarantee the conditions as much as possible. But still, everyone has to eat together, and sponsors are obliged to allow their sponsored children to go for a walk or other leisure activities for at least an hour in the afternoon, so you have to cooperate in this part.”
“Yes.”
It was something I had heard before. The lord of the Delmon estate used to write to her what he wanted to do with Matilda in her spare time her. Matilda then remembered what had happened and she gritted her teeth. Eve stopped her pace for a moment as she stopped talking to her when she saw her attitude towards her. Matilda, who was walking absentmindedly, collided with Eve.
“Oh, sorry.”
Matilda hastily apologized. Eve looked at it, smiled, and continued the story.
“So, I have to decide what to do with my free time, but I really don’t know about that. What do kids like these days? Doll play… Do you like that?”
Eve said with an awkward smile. Matilda answered, avoiding Eve’s gaze.
“That… I want to study, but can’t I? I’m not that smart… To continue to receive sponsorship, you must continue to maintain high grades in your grade. So that…I want you to study.”
“Okay?”
Eve lightly relaxed her shoulders at those words. In fact, she was quite excited when she saw the word free time guaranteed in the “Obligations to Sponsored Children” Section. But when Matilda mentioned her circumstances and said she would study, she could n’t push through. Matilda looked at her Eve and said again.
“I’m sorry.”
“Oh, no.”
Eve felt like she was building a brick wall between them whenever Matilda said she was sorry. She was not accustomed to such delicate human relationships. About the process of slowly building on each other from the bottom of her, she said Eve she had never learned.
“Are you going to take a walk? I’m just going around the manor house lightly here. Yes?”
“…Yes.”
In contrast to Eve’s expectant remarks, Matilda nodded her head with her head bowed. Even though Eve found her answer her rather unappealing, she decided to be content with the fact that she went for a walk with her anyway. Matilda said she was 15 years old, but she looked 11 or 12 years old on the outside. As such, Ilive, whose lines were thin and pale, was a little cautious in dealing with her.
After she finished taking her around the house from the third floor to the first floor, Eve tried to smile a little brighter. Matilda was still awkward with her Eve. She thought Eve couldn’t help it because it was her first day her.
“Well, it’s over now… Do you have any questions?”
“Oh that… Originally, the lord of this territory was said to be Peta Lucius… Maybe…”
“My husband is on a business trip to the Dwarven Kingdom right now. Like dragon love.”
“Are you a warrior?”
Matilda’s eyes twinkled at her words her as her champion her. Her reputation for her warriors her was good anywhere in the world. Eve sensed it and smiled bitterly at her. About half of Lucius’ notoriety was her because Eve had a share of her.
“Let’s talk about it when you come later.”
“Yes!”
Matilda laughed cheerfully. She saw Matilda and she laughed and Eve grinned again. As Matilda watched Eve smile, she began to hesitate, the smile her gradually pulling away from her face her. Because she stopped talking again.
Eve said she had nothing more to say, so she hesitated. Matilda wanted to get out of this situation as she was Matilda. Just as Eve was about to open her mouth to go in, the front door rattled open.
“Hehe.”
“Mermaid. I had fun today.”
“I was happy too.”
Beastmen and mermaids covered in dust appeared at the front door. As soon as they moved their feet, a shower of dust fell. Matilda looked at the two of them with her dumbfounded face. Eve looked at them with a puzzled look on her face, then she said.
“Wait a minute.”
Then she took the bucket and went outside. Eve and Elsie were sharing their impressions of the village tour a while ago. Matilda was just thinking about whether she should go back to her room. Eve opened the door again and poured water from her bucket over Selu’s head.
“Wow!”
Surprised, Sellu fluttered. Eve glanced at it, then she put the bucket on the floor and she said to Elsie.
“Wash your feet too. Did I say Make it dirty and don’t come in.”
“Mermaid. It’s too neat.”
Elsie grumbled, but then put her feet in her bucket and washed them. Matilda was a little taken back by the sight of mermaids and beastmen for the first time in her life. She watched the two of them for a moment, then she looked at the prisoner, Elsie, with a melancholy look on her face her. Eve suddenly looked at her Elsie and asked if her crying her was strange. She poked her at Elsie.
“What did you do to him?”
“I don’t know who.”
“I-I’ll go up first.”
So I don’t even know English. Matilda left for her room to recover from the pain of her broken heart.
