Chapter 73 - Aliss Past

"Sorry I don't know anything!..." Vicar then run towards the slums as Aliss tried to chase her but the guardsman didn't allow it.

"We are truly sorry Lady Aliss, your father didn't allow you to go deep in the slums." The guardsmen block the way as Aliss saw Vicar getting deeper and then vanish in her sight.

"Didn't you remember that boy! It's Vicar..." Aliss said that to the guardsmen.

One of the guardsman then replied "Vicar? Oh that's boy that used to be..." Before the guardsman could finish, the guardsman next to him nudge the one who talking and give him a glare.

The guardsman stop talking as the other guardsman said that it's time to go back as the rewards already been distribute to the people of the slums. Because of that, Aliss feels that something has been hidden from her and the only she could think that it's may be her father work.

Aliss had to agreed to go back as there nothing that she could do. Along the way back, I told Aliss that I had met Vicar once and his mother when Aliss father thrown me out from the manor.

She was quite suprised when I said that, Aliss then ask me about Vicar mother. "Is she doing well?"

"Last time I saw her, she is kinda sick...but do you mind explaining what sort of relationship you have with Vicar." I was curious and I must Aliss about it.

"I hope his mother is doing well, our relationship you say..." Aliss explain it to me along the way.

Apparently Vicar used to be Aliss playmate as their age is pretty close to each other. Back then Vicar mother works as a maid for Steenswis Household and because of that Vicar was assign to be Aliss playmate. They both live in the manor with Aliss.

The reason why Vicar become her playmate because Aliss had lost her mother while she was five and that made Aliss sad. Sir Allen didn't want Aliss to be sad so he bring Vicar as a playmate.

Aliss smile when she explain it to me as she had remember something funny, "Is there something wrong Aliss?"

She shake her heads and continue to smile, "No, there nothing wrong... it's just I remember how funny Vicar was when we was still a children. We had so much fun back there but he and his mother suddenly disappeard in the manor."

"Why do you think they disappeard like that?"

"I don't know but father just told me that they left and will not be coming back, as a child I didn't even think the reason why they left the manor but now that I had seen Vicar in the slums... there must be some sort of reason and the one who can answer it right now is my father."

I know that as a child you didn't think that much and there so much we don't understand, eventhough something missing in your life while we was a child. We will gradually forgot about it as the missing part been replaced by something new and the a.d.u.l.t will not told us all of it. It's kinda like me when my parents divorce and I had to be seperated with my siblings.

After few minutes we are back in the manor and Aliss immediately went to see her father to ask about it. "Father!"

Sir Allen was reading in his room as Aliss barged in there,"Ohh! Aliss you startled me... so how the distribution of the knight rewards?"

"Why you told the guards to distribute the rewards likes that and what really happen to Vicar and his mother?"

Hearing that Sir Allen immediately stand up from his seat, "Like I told you... I hate the slums as they just a society garbage and what with the other question... who is this Vicar?"

"Father! You don't remember Vicar... the boy that used to be my playmate when I was still a child."

His father place the books he read on the table as he tried to remember, it tooks quite a while for Sir Allen to remember. "That was the boy name, I didn't remember his name but like I told you... they left the manor."

"And why did they leave the manor? There must be a reason..." Aliss asked.

"There reason was his mother stole our jewelery and fled the manor, I thought that she was a good maid but she just a thief."

It didn't seems right to me...