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an for me, that is.
And I won’t get in trouble for this much.”

“…I don’t want anyone else to suffer because of me, so I’m gonna go talk to her.”

But Cecilia shook her head from side to side and stroked my head.
She touched my head as if she was touching precious silk, as if it was that soft.

“Don’t worry.
Even though I look like this, I’m on the same level as the Grand Duchy’s head maid.
There’s no reason for me to get in trouble.”

“…”

“Of course, I’ll be scolded if His Grace scolds me, but he’s definitely not the one to judge.
And… you’ve known Lady Harris’s insubordinate whining from the very beginning.”

Watching Cecilia mumble the end of her words, I also opened my lips.

“Is Harris… is she always grumpy?”

“Yes, didn’t I tell you about Lady Harris? I think it’ll be better if you know about it later.”

Cecilia, who I would normally have talked about, looked at how I felt.

“Huh? No.
You can say it!”

“Will you be okay then?”

“Yeah.
Oh! Will I get hurt or something like that in the same stance?”

“Usually… it is?”

“I guess I’m weird.”

That’s what the Grand Duke also said.

If it were Cecilia, I would refute this right away, but today.
I didn’t do so.
I just plastered a smile on my visage.

“By the way.
Cecilia.
What’s wrong with me?”

“Well…”

“I’m weird compared to other people.
Do I have to fix it?”

“No, you don’t have to fix it.
It’s not weird, it’s something different.
The difference is that it’s not how a child would usually act.”

It’s the same as always.

What the hell does she mean by ‘how a child would usually act’?

“What do you mean by that, anyway?”

I was willing to fix it enough because I wanted to survive here.
But Cecilia agonized and agonized for a long time over and over again with my words of worry.

“Well, I don’t know.
I don’t know what Miss Harris is like.
There are two young masters, but you two have lost a lot of this.”

I flinched for a moment.

That’s childlike.

‘Hit people, act deceptively, get angry, and even threaten me.’

“That’s childlikeness.”

“Yes, it’s a little too much, but…”

For a moment, I envied Harris’ life, too.

If I were the daughter of Grand Duke, I wouldn’t have had a hard time like this.

‘Why should I be born as my father and mother’s daughter? Was that so hard?’

But I quickly let go of that thought.

No matter how good a house was, I liked my dad and mom.

My father who died loved me more than anyone else, and my mother cared about me as much as her life.

‘It’s okay.
I love myself!’