Chapter 2 - v1c2—please be patient, grand duke

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“Who are you— ?”

Asked Leah, who lit her eyes with curiosity despite her fear. Then the boy sparkled his jewel-like eyes.

“Kieran. I’m Kieran Bale. Leah, are you twelve years old?”

“Yeah…”

“I am 15 years old. I am three years older than you, so I must be your brother. Right?”

Kieran, sitting at an angle at the edge of the bed, stared at Leah’s eyes.

Betty admired. The eyes and hair color of the two children looked similar to each other. Noble emerald-colored eyes and honey-colored hair. Besides, they even have strangely similar features.

Lia was afraid of the tickling heart she first felt through Kieran.

The child hurried away from Kieran, who was trying to touch her cheek.

The child, who hid behind the sofa, said in a crawling voice with only his round eyes.

“Send a message to mom— I came without a word. she must be worried!”

“Oh, do you want to see your mother? Well— Betty. Lia’s mother?”

At Kieran’s question, a woman who brought the soup a while ago approached Lia with an embarrassing face.

“That’s what your mother will tell you. I was only instructed to make meals and give her a bath.”

Then Betty squatted at eye level with Lia. Lia lowered her fear to Betty’s friendly smile.

This place was full of pretty, sweet, and scented things. A place that doesn’t fit with her, who hasn’t even washed it properly. It was seen in the eyes of a child.

The child, who had been hardened like a stick for a long time, sniffs and smells my body. The smell of stinging the nose was smeared.

Lia, alternating between Kieran’s white and soft-looking shirt and my clothes, gently pulled Betty’s hem.

“That—Can I wash it?”

“Then, let’s wash first and then eat. The food just needs to be heated.”

It was when Leah nodded and got up. Kieran, who was sitting on the bed and smiling, suddenly began to cough rapidly with a pale face.

“Keep! Kolok, Kolok! Cough, Kolok! Ah, Anger!”

Kieran coughs while crouching like a bloodshot person.

“Young master!”

The attendants, who were contemplated by Betty is scream, jumped in, put a clean cloth over his mouth, and gently embraced it. Then she shouts someone’s name and runs out of the room. They all respond calmly and quickly.

Leah knew someone who was coughing like that. He was a young knight who gave me candy every time he saw me.

The knight who coughed all night to blush was a guest of his mother, but one day he died. Her mother cried a lot as she hugged the man who had died while wearing blood on the blue armor.

Leah was terrified as she recalled her memories. With tearful eyes, Lia grabbed Betty’s hem tightly.

“Is that brother dead?”

A cruel question with innocent intentions. Betty shook her head as she stroked Lia’s head.

“No, he’s not.”

“Really?”

“Okay. So should I wash it quickly? Because if you are late, you have less time to sleep.“

I had a lot of questions, but Betty didn’t tell me anything anymore.

Leah smoothly followed Betty into the room across from her. There was a bathtub with warm water. In addition, bath products and soaps that only the nobles used.

This is the first time in the bathroom, and the child who is unfamiliar with the act of washing the body looked embarrassed, rather than wondering, even with the bathtub in front of him.

Betty said, stroking the child’s head.

“From now on, I will wash here every day. So, get used to it.”

Adults don’t like kids with a lot of questions. So sometimes he would wield a leather belt or slap his cheek with a biting hand.

Lia closed her mouth and stood in front of the bathtub and took off her clothes.

The child’s body, which was laid down on the floor in a rag-like cloth, seemed to have only bones 1 eft.

The child who entered the bathtub with a sorrowful skinny body cries out to see if he is surprised by the hot water.

Betty, looking down with a gloomy expression, grabbed the soap, and wiped Leah’s body.

The child’s face shines brighter as the time peels off. The child was a mess enough to have to change the water twice.

Betty, smiling as if satisfied with her neat appearance, stole the sweat from her forehead, and woke up.

“Eh, you match your character. Now that you’ve washed it clean, let’s fill your stomach. It’s a night with so many things to do.”

This was the first time I had fried chicken with such a savory soup, soft bread, and chopped beans or vegetables.

It was different from the time when I filled my hunger with sour corn soup and grain bread that was stiff enough to hurt my mouth.

Leah thought as she walked with Betty’s hand.