episode_0141

Alice actually didn’t have high expectations.

Even when Sylvia called him ‘brother’, it was probably because she needed Jayden’s strength rather than because she really wanted to call him that. Alice didn’t know how Sylvia would act before she used her ‘ability’, but that doesn’t mean she couldn’t imagine it.

Sylvia never spoke directly about her abilities. Alice didn’t ask Sylvia to tell her either. But considering what her father had said back then, it wasn’t impossible to infer her abilities.

What if I could make my mistakes seem like they never happened? Every time I thought about it, Alice also came to the same conclusion: ‘I’ll do whatever I want and take only what I can get.’

But, it was unfair.

Isn’t that so?

The person who stayed by Sylvia’s side the longest… if not the longest… was Alice. It took quite a while, but Alice truly thought of Sylvia as a sister. To be honest, being called her older sister was a claim that had some degree of arrogance in it.

Besides, hadn’t Sylvia maintained a friendly attitude only towards Alice since childhood? While maintaining a cold attitude towards her other siblings, she did not hesitate to help Alice.

Hey, brother.

Yes, honestly, I felt a little wronged.

Even though it could be pretended that it never happened, it was still unfair. After all, Alice was still remembering it right now.

So, Sylvia’s reaction in the morning was quite surprising to Alice.

“Sylvia?”

Alice rarely had to wake Sylvia up in the morning. Sylvia usually woke up earlier than Alice. It wasn’t that Sylvia slept less than others, but it seemed that she wanted to maintain a regular routine.

When there was a dispatch, Claire woke up earlier than Sylvia and woke her up.

Alice was jealous of Claire. The difference in difficulty between ‘saying’ and ‘hearing’ the word ‘sister’ was as great as the difference between heaven and earth. Calling someone ‘sister’ was something you could just do yourself, but ‘hearing’ meant that the other person had to somehow convince themselves and use the word.

If Sylvia says she doesn’t like it, that’s the end of it.

“… … .”

anyway.

In that sense, the fact that Sylvia woke up later than Alice meant that something had happened to Sylvia. Even if it wasn’t something extremely dangerous, it meant that there was at least some minor reason why she couldn’t stay up late last night. And it wasn’t something that could be canceled with ability.

Or, perhaps Sylvia herself is preparing to go back to the time before she used the word ‘brother’, so she doesn’t really care about little things like oversleeping.

Whatever the reason, it was time to get up. The Master was waiting, and from experience, the Master doesn’t like lazy people very much. You won’t get excommunicated or anything, but it might make the training that day several times more difficult.

Alice raised her hand again and knocked on the door.

“Sylvia?”

There was no response from inside.

“Going in?”

Since there was no answer despite asking for permission like that, Alice decided to just open the door and go in.

And what I encountered inside was Sylvia, who was ready to leave.

Sylvia was sitting on her chair with a blank expression, wearing the uniform she had been wearing almost every day since she started attending the academy.

That’s a blank expression.

Even from Alice’s perspective, who could read Sylvia’s expressions, it was not an expression that could be called ‘expressionless’.

“Sylvia?”

Only after Alice came close and spoke like that did Sylvia blink.

“… … Princess.”

Alice’s temper rose again when she heard the word “princess”, not her sister or her name, but she held it in for now. If Sylvia couldn’t hide her expression, it meant that the situation was quite serious.

“What’s going on?”

“… … .”

Alice asked in a somewhat serious voice, but Sylvia just stared blankly at Alice for a while before suddenly raising her hand and wiping it from her face.

“Is this serious?”

“That’s… ….”

At Alice’s words, Sylvia was very hesitant.

Alice’s heart sank again at the sight.

*

I can’t go back to the moment I called you sister.

How can I say the same thing?

To someone who asks that question with such a serious expression.

When I think about the image I usually had of myself, I shouldn’t be so flustered. My character was always supposed to look cool and beautiful.

No, well, I did have in mind that the character would collapse at some point. Yeah.

But that wasn’t the point where I thought it was beyond my control.

“… … Nothing.”

I took a deep breath and calmed my expression again. It seemed like morning had already come while I was just sitting there blankly. I did sleep, but I didn’t sleep comfortably. After experiencing Jayden appearing in my dreams several times and saying, “Now, call me Brother one more time!” and waking me up abruptly three times, even if I barely got any sleep, my morning sleepiness would completely disappear.

“Really?”

Alice still had a serious expression on her face, but she didn’t ask any further questions.

It’s always been like that. As if I don’t have to say anything if I don’t want to.

… … Despite all that, she never backed down from the title of older sister.

Now, it can’t be cancelled.

I somehow managed to stop myself from wanting to roll on the floor again, clutching my face.

after.

Well, okay. It turned out like this anyway. I have to scrape together what character traits are left somehow.

“Yes.”

I answered like that and got up from my seat.

“Let’s go to the teacher.”

“Oh, yeah.”

I got up and walked confidently out the door.

“Oh, over there, Sylvia.”

And then I heard a voice calling me again from behind me.

When I turned my head—

“The direction is this way, right?”

Alice was talking, pointing to the opposite hallway from where I was heading.

“… … .”

I turned stiffly and walked back toward Alice.

Alice still had a serious expression on her face… …

I can’t say that because I’ll call you sister even if I die.

Even after trying several times since the jig is still nearby, I can’t say that the checkpoints are being updated in real time.

Alice would never miss that opportunity.

*

“Sister!”

As soon as I entered the training ground, I heard loudly those words that were now almost traumatic.

For some reason, Claire was waiting at the training grounds.

… … Should I give Claire a nickname?

If you give her a nickname like ‘Flash’ or something like that, which often appears in light novels about second-year middle schoolers, wouldn’t Claire be embarrassed and stop calling her that big sister?

But at this point, the risk was too great.

If Claire has that cheerful personality… …then wouldn’t she rather give me a nickname if she likes it?

At that moment, goosebumps came up again. It was the same goosebumps I had several times yesterday.

“Claire.”

Claire ran towards us with a smiling expression.

“After finding out that the Master was nearby, my mother gave me permission to practice here too.”

“But the condition is that you have to go home in the evening and take a bridal class.”

Leo, who followed Claire, said so.

“Bride class?”

When Alice asked what he meant, Leo shrugged.

“After all, we are barons. If we were of a slightly higher rank, there would have been people lining up to marry Claire even if she was a little less feminine, but if we are barons, unless we are of equal families, they will follow our conditions. ”

Claire glanced at Leo, who was speaking formally to her in a different way than at the academy, but didn’t deny what he said.

“Well, we’ll all be adults someday.”

“Tsk tsk.”

Blacksmith clicked his tongue at Claire’s words.

“Are you not aware that you are an adult at that age? When I was your age—”

At those words from Black Frederick, the expressions of the three people who were talking became subtle. If I hadn’t been particularly careful about my expression because of what happened yesterday, I would have made the same expression for a moment.

Even though Geomseong said that, he tried to dissuade Leo from going to the battlefield if there was a war.

“Ahem.”

As he was about to give a long speech, Geomseong coughed in vain when he saw the expressions of the three people.

“What can we do? Times have changed, so even old countries must follow suit.”

The swordsman who said that looked around at us and then said.

“Then, I will start morning training now. I will eat after that. Understood?”

“Yes!”

A powerful voice echoed through the training grounds.

I glanced around and looked at the soldiers standing next to the door.

Everyone is looking at us as if they are jealous.

… … Well, what.

Just the fact that he secretly did not participate in the training was praiseworthy for his self-control.