Chapter 324 – A Family (3)

[Matilda. It’s been a long time since I’ve been sending you news through a letter. It seems like yesterday that I confessed that I love you, but time goes by so fast. When I first confessed, you said you were sorry. I guess I have to say I’m sorry now.

I’m returning from Eastern Plains now. I don’t know many people yet, but I’m sending you a letter like this because I thought I should tell you in advance. Matilda. I am going to get married soon

You must be wondering what I mean. To be honest, it would be funny too. It seems like yesterday that I swore to only look at you, but suddenly I got married to someone else. Until I met Mila in the Eastern Plains, I thought I wanted to marry you and spend the rest of my life with you. Because you were a smart, beautiful child.

Mila is a prisoner, but she is wiser and warmer than anyone else. Ever since I first met her Mila, I felt I couldn’t get away from her. This time, when her case in the Eastern Plains is over, she will marry her. Even she got permission from her father to her. Matilda. It would be a great insult to ask a beautiful and wise woman like you to become my concubine or to be her second wife her.

The title of second wife will become a cage that will imprison you and take away the opportunity to use your talents. So, Matilda. I’m about to let you go Even though the word ‘letting go’ of you, who never belonged to me, is wrong, I am still writing this letter to say good-bye to you. Matilda. I let you go, but I hope your talent always shines.

If one day we meet again at the ball, will you smile and call me Sir James? Can I reciprocate by calling you my wife?

Matilda. Do you know the love poem left by the old poet Sephie?

‘Love is a sailboat, it is tossed by the waves.’

We met like the crashing waves, and we parted like the ebb tide. Matilda. Stay healthy.]

Matilda read James’ letter once again. It was the last letter sent by James, who participated in the operation to subdue the Sarang Church in the Eastern Plains. After this letter he never contacted Matilda again. Matilda’s heart sank just by looking at this letter. She folded her letter again and wiped away her tears.

“Bad guy…”

To Matilda, James was a really bad guy. He was the first man to tell her about her love her, even when she was not interested in dating her, and he was the man who even told her about the pain of her broken heart her. That’s why Matilda didn’t like the beast. I didn’t like the boom of the beasts at the academy around the same time that James married the beasts. As if they had waited, professors poured out supportive remarks about beastmen and mermaids, and bulletin boards they passed during their major classes were lined with organizations with grandiose catchphrases such as “Improve the human rights of beastmen.”

Except for the eastern plains, I heard that the continent was full of slaves only, but there were too many prisoners in the world. She whimped for a while, then finally lay down and fell asleep. The duvet was warm and the seat was comfortable, but it took me quite a while to fall asleep.

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Matilda’s studies began early in the morning. After halfway sleeping the night before, she opened the book with a drowsy face. In order for her to get extra points at the academy, she had to choose an extra study assignment and write a report while she was on vacation. What she chose this time was [History of the Continent: A Brief History of the Kingdom from a Diplomatic Perspective], A report describing the diplomatic relationship between the and neighboring countries and its future diplomatic direction.

“Sister. At that breakfast…”

She unconsciously looked for her nun, then turned her head and opened her book. Today, I had to read history books before writing a report. According to Matilda’s plan, she read [The History of the Continent] By today and tomorrow, and started writing a report in earnest the day after tomorrow.

Turning page after page, as heavy as her eyelids, she tried to get out of her slumber. The contents of the book were as heavy as the book itself, and there were many parts that were difficult for Matilda to digest at once. She forced herself to read her book with a frown on her face to understand.

[Love is a sailboat, it is rocked by the waves.]

At that moment, Matilda remembered James’s poem and felt her sleep her slip away. She opened her eyes and looked around her. It had only turned five pages. It was an incredibly small amount. The clock on the desk pointed to breakfast time.

“Miss Matilda. Have breakfast.”

Aira’s voice rang out. She was a woman who always smiled and walked around like there was something good going on. Matilda cautiously opened the door and followed her Ayra out of her gurgling her. People were already gathering in the restaurant and eating. Eve, the current lord’s agent, was at her highest table her, and next to him, a woman dressed in a nun’s uniform was eating with a modest attitude.

In the other seat next to her, Selou was slicing fish, and next to her was Elsie tearing at her meat her with her paws. Eve looked at Elsie’s figure in her and said.

“Do you eat with gloves on? You gave me the mitten the other day.”

“It is uncomfortable because it is thick. Bare hands are better.”

“Eat and wash your hands. Okay?”

“I get it.”

As Matilda saw the shape of her hand, she felt a strange, tingling sensation welling up in her heart her. She finished her soup and slipped up from her seat. As soon as she got up, her eating party all stopped and she looked at Matilda. Matilda was taken aback by her sudden reaction and shrugged her shoulders, she said.

“That… I have no appetite.”

“Where are you sick?”

The nun asked with a worried face. Aira, who was eating at a table a little away from her, stood up and said,

“Shall I call the councilor?”

“Oh no! I’ll eat! I will eat!”

Ira sat down again. Across from her was eating a fairly tall woman, whose breasts were so huge that she caught Matilda’s attention to her. The woman asked Matilda with a smirk as she looked at her.

“Hehe… What, do you have any questions?”

“Oh, no.”

Matilda shook her head and focused again on her meal. The nun’s gentle voice was heard again beside her.

“Tell me if anything happens. Because they are all good people.”

“Ah yes.”

Still, Matilda thought she was lucky to have a nun. Because she felt normal. She was a little afraid of the bloody lord’s wife, mermaids, beasts, and tall women. After finishing her meal, the woman stood up on her cane. She said hello to her as she left with a limp.

“Then I have something to do, so I’ll go first.”

“Oh, cow. You know I have to give you a budget application today, right?”

“Yes.”

Soya shook his hand and limped back into the hallway. Matilda opened her spoon and looked that way before she took another bite of her soup. Eve flipped through her wads of paper a few times before she spoke to Matilda.

“Matilda. When do you want to go for a walk today?”

“Uh… After lunch?”

“Okay? See you at 1:00 then.”

Eve closed the papers again and started eating. Matilda still hadn’t adjusted well to this mansion. She came back up and started reading her book her. She seemed a little awake after eating breakfast. Sober, she picked up her pen, took notes diligently, and began to read.

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Knock Knock Knock

A knock woke her up. Matilda realized that it was time for lunch. She has to eat all three meals. It was a story that the nun always emphasized to Matilda. Matilda opened the door with her answer. She said that this time she faced her face her, she was a nun. She was smiling at Matilda in her nun’s garb.

When Matilda saw her, she thought of the nun who had taken care of her. An attendant passing by her greeted the nun.

“Mrs. Sierra. Hello.”

“Yes.”

Sieri responded to her greeting her with a smile. And she looked at Matilda again and she said.

“Shall we go eat?”

“Yes.”

Matilda nodded happily and took Sieri’s hand her. There were few people at the table at lunchtime. Ira and Sierra. And Elsie was everything. As Matilda looked around her, Sieri said.

“Eve is eating separately in her office, and Selou and Soya are eating separately.”

“Okay.”

“I’ve been there for a day or so, how are you?”

“I don’t know. What is the original aristocratic mansion like? That… It’s a little different from the places I know…”

At that, Aira smiled bitterly. Cieri also laughed.

“Is it? I’ve never been to other estates, so I don’t know.”

A blunt, elongated snake-like object landed gently next to Sieri who said so. Something was wriggling, with the texture of a rubber snake toy. Matilda laughs and talks to Sieri, but she sneaks up on the table and when she sees it, she throws out the spoon and she screams.

“Quaaaaagh!”

Shieri froze with her tail pulled up in amazement as well. Elsie picked up her spoon, which had flown through the air, and put it back on the table. Sirius asked in bewilderment.

“Why, why?”

Matilda was looking at Sieri with a puzzled face. It was because her tail was sticking out all the way from under Eri’s ass to her. Even now, Sieri was looking at Matilda with a face as if something was wrong. Elsie said to Sieri.

“Nun. Her tail her sticks out.”

“Ah, this surprised me. Don’t worry… This is… So, I’m not used to transforming yet…”

Horns protruded from Sieri’s head. Matilda was even more started when she saw it. She forgot to eat her meal and ran up to her room her, her face white. I could hear Xie Li screaming at her urgently behind her, but she couldn’t hear her.

“Ugh… Ugh…”

This estate was strange. Matilda really thought this estate was strange. People were kind, but somehow strange. She held her pounding chest tight and opened her book again. She had to study But she couldn’t concentrate on her studies. When she closed her eyes, she remembered her face in Sieri, with horns suddenly growing out of it. As she tried to erase her face from Sieri, she remembered James ‘poem again.

[Love is a sailboat, it is rocked by the waves.]

“Silly. Really stupid.”

Matilda cried and closed the book again. She wanted to go for a walk. She made her way to her office her. It was because she could not concentrate on her studies of her.