Chapter 50

There’s one thing I’ve felt while continuously receiving help from Kyle lately.

It’s that I’ve raised Kyle to be an extremely good man.

“Anyway, he helps people so well, doesn’t say a harsh word even though it might be uncomfortable, and helps a servant so devotedly.”

Wouldn’t that make him an extremely good man?

Seeing Kyle who worries about me to the point of making me uncomfortable, something felt strange.

Is it because Kyle gives me such apologetic looks when he sees me?

It was an extremely strange feeling.

“Kyle will probably come in about an hour…”

At first, I thought Louise or Elin would help more.

After all, Kyle is a young lord.

He’s not someone who should be helping and nursing a servant.

So I thought he would spend more time with other friends.

But since Kyle insisted on helping somehow, I ended up sticking with Kyle almost all day.

Kyle would wake up early in the morning to wait for me, and I would sometimes wake up earlier than Kyle to wait for him.

And we spent the morning lightly with Kyle sitting in the chair next to my bed.

Kyle ate meals with me in my room in the mornings, probably not wanting me to move from morning.

Since my leg hurt, this was extremely inconvenient in this aspect.

If I hadn’t been injured, Kyle could have had a normal breakfast.

A proper meal, not just a simple diet like this morning.

“Sigh…”

Still, I was extremely grateful to Kyle.

He even washed me, as I still had trouble washing myself despite removing the bandages, and he helped support me every time I went to the bathroom, even though I felt pain in my leg.

I wondered if I would have treated a servant this well if I were a noble.

Anyway, the point is that I raised Kyle extremely well.

“Haah… when will he come…”

I ran out of things to do while Kyle was away for his lessons.

I somehow ended up reading all the books he gave me last time, and I was bored just being in the room all day.

Louise or Elin came once or twice a day, but they had already come to play today.

So they won’t come again today.

So I waited for Kyle.

Because Kyle always came to me after his lessons were over.

He often smelled slightly of sweat, suggesting he had been working hard with the head of the family.

I was grateful that he came to help me without even taking time to wash.

And since Kyle’s sweat smell wasn’t a bad scent at all, I enjoyed that scent too.

“Come to think of it, that smell isn’t coming out much these days.”

The sweet scent I occasionally sensed from Kyle hasn’t been present lately.

That scent was sweet and nice.

Is it a type of perfume?

I’m not sure.

Because I don’t know much about perfumes or cosmetics.

“Hmm….”

Well, no matter how much I think about it, I won’t find the answer.

Because I’m not Kyle.

*

“Miss Sofia, what kind of place is a boarding school?”

“A boarding school…?”

Kyle asked while we were spending time in the room.

Boarding school…

It was a turbulent place in many ways.

At least it was for me.

“Yes, I know you graduated from a boarding school, but I haven’t heard much about it.”

“Hmm…”

To be honest, I didn’t want to talk about it.

Unlike adventurers who were cheerful, refreshing, and slightly crazy, those kids were a bit disgusting.

Though they weren’t that disgusting in the lower grades.

“A boarding school is… a place frequented by people with a lot of inferiority complexes and strong pride.”

“What?”

“Literally. Inside, they have tremendous inferiority complexes, and outside, they express incredible confidence.”

Most people who attended boarding schools were lacking.

“Boarding schools are places that specialize in training maids and servants. You know that, right?”

“Yes. That’s why you are a servant in the first place, Miss Sofia.”

“That’s right. It’s a place operated with roughly that purpose. And the people who come with that purpose, in fact, almost never come because they want to.”

My mother suddenly sending me was a special case, and most are pushed in semi-forcefully.

“Most are from the very low class of nobles, families whose power is so weak that they only hold the name of nobility, or those whose standing in their family is insufficient.”

Among them, those who came because of insufficient standing in their families were the worst.

Thanks to such idiots, it was really tough.

“Imagine having the status of a noble but learning the work of servants and maids.”

It takes money to attend a boarding school.

It’s a more specialized field than you might think.

Of course, there’s nothing wrong with finding cheap servants or maids.

But the more prestigious the family, the more they want to use higher quality servants and maids.

And the place that produces such high-quality ones is the boarding school.

“Nobles attending boarding school to work as servants and maids for other nobles. That must be very displeasing to them. Don’t you think?”

“I suppose so. Because there’s something called pride.”

“That noble-specific pride is the problem.”

I seriously worried whether these nobles were made of confidence and self-esteem.

Of course, after meeting Kyle, I thought differently.

Anyway, that’s how it was.

“First of all, the ratio of noble students to non-noble students differs quite a lot. Because it takes a certain amount of capital to pay enough to attend a boarding school.”

Come to think of it, I don’t know how my mother sent me.

Was our family actually rich?

“Anyway, these high-pride nobles spend time gritting their teeth at boarding school. Naturally, their stress builds up over time.”

“Uh…”

“And there are a few prey around. Commoners who aren’t even nobles of their level.”

Kids like me.

Especially, I caught the eye of those guys a lot.

“A commoner who has better grades than them, a commoner who receives more attention from the instructors than them, a commoner who stands out annoyingly much.”

They really had nothing better to do.

If they could spend time on such things, they should have spent it on studying instead.

Why did they throw tantrums at me?

“Anyway, boarding school is a place attended by nobles who excessively check on such commoners.”

“…”

“The staff working in our castle are people who have worked for a long time, so they are probably proper people. They are different from the idiots who do such things in boarding school.”

This was true.

There was no one like the people who used to throw tantrums at me.

Just proper servants and maids.

Suddenly thinking about boarding school made me angry.

Thanks to that, I could momentarily forget the pain in my leg.

“Uh.. I see..”

“I’m sorry it wasn’t the kind of answer you expected.”

It was probably a completely different answer from what Kyle had in mind.

I knew that well too.

But I deliberately told the truth.

Because it’s usually better to tell the truth than lies.

“No, it was good to learn about something I didn’t know.”

“Is that so…?”

That’s good then.

Honestly, I thought the atmosphere might worsen because of my answers just now.

Because I suddenly said things criticizing nobles.

“Did you also receive that… checking, Miss Sofia?”

“….”

Ah, fuck.

It’s turning out like this.

If I had known this would happen, I should have just glossed over it.

After talking about truth and whatnot just now, it would be wrong to lie.

How should I get past this…

“…..”

“Miss Sofia?”

I thought about it.

Whether it would be okay to explain what happened at boarding school.

Honestly, I didn’t have many good memories there.

In fact, that was why I thought my body was shitty.

That’s why I tried so hard to lose weight during my adventurer days.

“Haah… do you really want to hear it?”

“.. Yes.”

Yes, curiosity is a good thing.

It’s better to know something than to not know.

Well, it might feel better not to know this.

“To tell you the conclusion. Yes, I received it. Quite a lot.”

“.. Really?”

“Yes, because as a commoner, I had better grades than them who were nobles, I was close with the instructors, and when commoners gathered together, I gave a strong impression of being the leader of the group.”

I was just eating meals together at boarding school and talking comfortably during breaks, but that’s how they felt.

I really don’t understand why they felt inferiority for such things.

They were really strange guys.

“So they suddenly started to check on me. Me, a mere commoner, not even a noble.”

I don’t understand why they checked on me, a commoner, to begin with.

“They would curse behind my back, and suddenly pull me away when I was talking with other classmates to empty their mouths.”

They didn’t cause physical harm.

If they had, they would have been reported and expelled from boarding school immediately.

So thanks to that, I couldn’t do anything either.

They wouldn’t get expelled just for emptying their mouths.

“And as the grades went up, the tantrums got worse.”

I know it’s wrong to use such words with Kyle, but I was a bit upset so I couldn’t help it.

Perhaps what I held back then is bursting now.

“As the grades went up, perhaps my late secondary sexual characteristics arrived, and my chest started to swell. Thanks to that, those guys started to bully me tremendously for it.”

Thanks to that, I came to wonder if large breasts or large hips were considered a sin among nobles.

At first, I also thought that women with large breasts were attractive.

Most people thought so in my past life.

It was one of the symbols of an attractive woman, that kind of feeling.

But thanks to those idiots, I learned that this world was slightly different.

“In class, they would start from saying how uncomfortable it must be with large breasts, and how much they would make a fuss about my body alone, really…”

“….”

“I apologize. That was a slip of the tongue.”

No matter how close I was with Kyle, this wasn’t right.

Yes, I almost crossed the line.

Kyle is also a noble.

Making statements that cross the line to such a Kyle is unacceptable.

I’ve already crossed the line a few times, but this still isn’t right.

“Anyway, that’s what happened.”

Maybe it’s because I crossed the line.

Kyle’s eyes became slightly cold.

Usually, they were blue eyes that gave a warm feeling, but now they weren’t at all.

“.. I’m sorry. I got upset for a moment…”

“No. You’ve done nothing wrong, Miss Sofia.”

Kyle fixed his expression, looked at me, and spoke with a smile.

But Kyle’s eyes remained the same.

Those eyes were slightly scary.

Enough to make my lower abdomen tremble.