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102. Gresha (2)

“Ahem ahem ahem!”

“cat….”

“It’s okay. Eat a lot and get better quickly!!”

“Meow meow!!! Gulp gulp gulp!!”

“Hehe, you’re eating well!”

Swish swish swish-

“cat~”

Deep in the forest near the Duke of Gresha’s castle.

A silver-haired girl wearing a dress that was a little uncomfortable to wander through the forest was smiling brightly as she watched Suin eat food.

“Is it delicious?”

“cat?”

Suin, a small, young cat that was only as tall as her waist, raised her head from her busy eating at Mi-on’s words, met her eyes, and tilted her head.

After her older sister, Sion, was confirmed as the successor around the age of 10, Mion developed a tendency to like to experience things that piqued her curiosity by directly encountering them, as the head of the household ordered her to live as she pleased, as there were no particular expectations or wishes within the family.

So, she lived a rather self-indulgent life for a daughter of a duke, listening to the stories of her maids and nannies, letting her imagination run wild, and sometimes going around the estate and experiencing various things.

This time, I was running around the mountains near Yeongju Castle because I was curious about the hunter profession.

The two maids in charge of Mion followed her around the forest all day, panting and struggling. After about ten days of work, they found the water child lying in the forest, covered in wounds and blood.

She was embarrassed and went over to try to treat him.

“Haaah!!!!”

“Mom! Hey, I…need to treat that wound…. Ouch!!”

“Miss!!!”

Instead of taking the person to the castle to be treated for the disturbance that occurred when he saw someone and started to have a fit, the maid had to just wrap a bandage around him that he had in case of an emergency and then leave.

After that, I slowly took my time for a few days and finally convinced myself that I was not a dangerous person before I could touch the child.

“Miss, treatment cannot be done in the castle.”

“That’s right…”

She asked the maids to take the girl back to the castle with her so that she could receive additional treatment as soon as possible, but a look of difficulty appeared on the maids’ faces.

“Huh? Why… If you take him to the doctor, they can take a better look at his wounds… There’s a limit to how much bandages and first aid can do to treat him… Look, all of this kid’s fingernails and toenails have been pulled out, and there are more than a few signs of torture.”

“That’s….”

“Um… Actually, the lord doesn’t like foreign races staying in the territory.”

“Huh?”

Mion was a little suspicious of the maid’s words that her father, who was blunt and rarely expressed his emotions, was loved by the people of Yeongji for his rational and equal policies and hated foreign races.

“? There are dwarven blacksmiths and elves in the market in the territory, right?”

“Didn’t you mean to take this child to the doctor in the castle to treat him?”

“Yeah.”

“I don’t know if you can take them to a treatment center or a religious relief center in the territory, but the lord forbids bringing them into the castle.”

“Why?”

A maid stammers and speaks to Mion, who is puzzled by her father’s actions of implementing lenient policies toward commoners, even though the dwarf uncle and elf sister both look like people and treat other people normally.

“Ah…I think it’s probably because of the Lord Soga’s constitution.”

“Ah! Is it because my sister got into trouble when she was little and touched a cat..?”

There was a time when Zion, who had gone to play at the servants’ quarters when he was young, collapsed while trying to touch a cat raised there.

It was only then that he learned that he had a peculiar constitution that rejected cats, and even Mion, now older, finally remembered that fact and understood that there were no human servants in the castle.

“That’s… That’s right… A cat’s rejection reaction? I think the owner of the house has become stricter because of his… constitution.”

“I see.”

Mi-on, convinced by the maid’s impromptu additional excuse, looked down at the water girl.

“Then, let’s go to the church relief center in the territory and get a potion!”

“Yes…?”

“The potion is expensive, but…. Ugh, I’ve been saving up some money, so I can buy a bottle. It’ll be more effective than those ointments.”

“Ah… Yes…”

“Then let’s go! Meow, I’ll go, see you tomorrow.”

“Cat!”

Mi-on stroked the head of the water bird that had been clinging to her and wagging its tail, and returned to the castle with the maids.

Sometimes, when she petted this child who looked like her older sister when she was younger, Mion felt like she was petting her older sister, and she thought it was fun.

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“Miss.”

“Ah, Marie!!”

“Oh my, what is this? Did you go to the forest again today?”

“Yeah!”

The one who welcomed Mion back with the maids was Zion’s nanny, Mari.

Strictly speaking, her role was to take care of both Zion and Mion, but after Zion’s position within the family rose, she mostly stuck to Zion, so it became difficult to see him often.

Still, Marie made every effort to visit Mi-on at least once or twice a day and talk to her.

“How long do you plan to do this experience?”

“Um…. a month?”

“Is it pretty? Oh my, your dress looks dirty. I’m going to take a bath.”

“Ouch! Hey… Wait a minute, Marie!!!”

“Hey, you guys, follow me quickly. Those guys who are always busy with things like this should take care of it right away.”

“Gasp…gasp..yeah.”

Marie, who was pulling on Mion’s nagging ear, headed to the bathroom. After the maids finished bathing Mion, she quickly took off her clothes and went into the bathroom, embracing Mion’s body.

“Gyah!! Sister! Actually, you did that on purpose because you wanted to take a bath during work!”

“Oh my, when did I get to see you?”

When the two sisters were born and when they were four and five years old, Gaju hired a girl who was five years older than Zion as a nanny. That girl was Mari.

Zion grew up early and just called her nanny, but Mion often called Mari, who had been her close friend since childhood, her older sister.

“Oh my…unnie!!”

“Haa… This nanny is sad. Miss, you’re almost an adult, but your heart still…”

“Oh my gosh, it tickles!!”

“Still, I’m relieved that it’s not completely flat.”

Cast cast cast

“Eight!!!”

Water splash!!!

Unlike Mion’s small breasts, Mion fondles Marie’s breasts, which are as large as Sion’s.

“Huh! You fought back, you know? This girl is impressed!”

“Gyaak!!”

While Mion and Mari were bathing, playing around by fondling each other’s chests, one of the maids serving Mion made eye contact with Mari, who winked and one of the maids quietly left the bathroom.

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“…..That’s it.”

“Really?”

Brrr-

Duke Leon Grecia puts down the papers he was reading and looks at the maid as she reports, kneeling on the floor of the master’s office, shaking with fear and bowing her head.

“Did that kid look suspicious?”

“No, my lord… He said he would buy a recovery potion from the church and treat the water man.”

“Um… Go get one of the lowest level potions from the butler.”

“Yes..net! Okay.”

“Look.”

At the short command of the head of the household, the maid quickly gets up and leaves the office.

“That’s good. Since Zion is participating in the experiment in earnest starting today, I’ll have to leave the first test subject recovery and experiment to Zion once the runaway guy recovers.”

Palang-

The head of the household soon picked up the documents he had been looking at and focused again.

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Two weeks passed after he went to see the maid who gave him a recovery potion and treated the wounds of the water girl the next day.

When she brought and dressed the dress she had worn when she was young, she saw that the girl looked exactly like Sion when she was young, and she was as cute as her older sister, but with cat ears and a tail! Mion, whose heart was in pain, hugged the girl tightly and rubbed her cheek.

Mion, who had brought a picnic blanket and was hugging and rubbing the girl under a tree, tried to talk to the girl.

“Meow meow!”

“Sister!”

“Nyangni!”

“No…Why can’t he speak?”

“Miss, sometimes the beastmen living in areas where there are no humans don’t know how to speak the common language.”

“Really?”

Mion nodded and turned her head at the explanation of the maid who brought her the potion.

“How does Matilda know that?”

“….uh…”

“He’s really interested in this kind of thing, Miss.”

“Really?”

“He’s the kind of kid who only knows useless knowledge that he doesn’t really need and just goes around talking about it. Heh!”

“Bear…!”

“Foot, stop it both. Matilda didn’t do anything wrong and she learned something today!”

Mion, who had been mediating the grumbling maids, closed her eyes in the warm sunlight streaming through the leaves and took a nap while hugging the water girl.

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“Un… Nii!”

“Gyaaaah! Good job!!!”

“Hehehe.. Sister!!!”

And three days later, the girl, who was very smart, began to speak simple common language.

“Matilda, isn’t Bea really smart?”

“That’s right. Even though you can’t speak sentences, you’re incredibly good at memorizing words.”

“You’re really smart.”

“Huh? What’s wrong with you both? Is it not good that he’s smart?”

“Ah…no, that’s…”

Mi-on tilted her head as she saw the two maids’ uncomfortable expressions.

“Now that the wounds are all healed… Phew… Should I tell Dad?”

“Oh…You shouldn’t make a big noise, Miss…!!!”

“Matilda…?”

Mion, startled by the sudden shouting of the maid, looks at her.

“Sorry… I’m sorry, miss… I’m so shocked when I think back to when the Lord of the House collapsed and there was chaos…”

“Yeah, that could be true. I don’t even remember, but if Matilda reacted like that, her father would be really surprised… Should I just give up and let her live in this forest and come by and get her something to eat sometimes?”

“That sounds good.”

The two maids let out a sigh of relief at Mion’s decision, and Mion, who was a little puzzled by their reactions, turned her head back to the Suin girl.

“Meow.”

“Yeah! Sister… Hehe.”

“Sister, I’ll come back later.”

“Tomorrow….Aren’t you coming?”

“I can’t come every day anymore.”

“Why?”

He felt uneasy as he looked at the girl looking up at him with her eyes wide open, but no matter how much he told her to live as she pleased, he had been wandering around the forest every day for a month now and his family was starting to take notice.

“I came here every day because my cat was sick. If you live here, your sister will come visit you sometimes.”

“Really…?”

When Mion declared that she would experience being a hunter and said that the area she would explore was the forest near the castle, the knights and people of the family had already investigated it.

The results showed that it was a safe place with no dangerous animals and only medicinal herbs and fruit trees, so Mion was able to come to the forest with only her two maids.

Although this animal has lost all its fingernails and toenails and has a low survival rate, it will have no trouble surviving if it eats only the fruits that grow in this forest.

“Sister, please come!!!”

“Okay, take care~”

Mion left the forest with her maids, thinking that she had to have dinner with Sion, who had not come looking for her for two weeks.