Chapter 154

‘Still, you just have to wait a month!’

If I want to meet anyway, I can either send a letter to the family or send someone to make an appointment.

‘More than anything else, there is no way that an intact kindergarten will disappear!’

…… I thought. However, there was one important fact that I had forgotten.

That this kindergarten was originally established for a limited time with a purpose.

To sum up its purpose in one word, it could be said to be ‘make Ninaina’s best friend’.

And it was as if the purpose had already been accomplished.

But I guess I foolishly believed that this kindergarten life would last forever.

After all, one day I will be old enough to not be able to attend kindergarten.

I found out about this the night before when my family and I decided to go on a summer vacation to a villa near the seaside.

“Emir, you will have to hire a tutor from next year. Are there any classes you would like to take apart from basic liberal arts and etiquette?”

My mother suddenly called me and asked me such a question.

I was just puzzled by that question.

‘If it’s a liberal arts class and etiquette class, it’s something you learn in kindergarten anyway, so why do you want to hire a tutor?’

I asked a curious point.

Then……

“Ah, Emir. I haven’t told you yet.”

“…… What?”

For a moment, I felt a strange, ominous feeling.

I didn’t know what my mother would say next, but I had a foreboding that it wouldn’t be very welcome news.

And my foreboding was right.

“At the end of this winter, His Majesty the Emperor has ordered the disbandment of the Imperial Kindergarten.”

“Kindergarden…… Disbanded?”

At first I just couldn’t believe it.

I just blankly thought about the words ‘kindergarten’ and ‘disbandment’ that I had never thought of.

I asked in a quiet voice.

“…… Why is it disbanded?”

“Well, Mir.”

My mother was puzzled and answered.

The situation was like this.

First of all, the Emperor’s orders are also orders, but the other children except for me had one reason why they could no longer attend kindergarten.

First, the prince Nicholas.

Nicholas turns eight years old after one year. He’s old enough to pass the academy early entrance exams.

Nicholas, he was so smart, it was as if he had already passed the exam.

‘I see. The prince will go to the academy next year…….’

Actually, I already knew the story. For some reason, I felt a little empty.

And my best friend, Jake.

It is said that Jake had followed his father, the Duke, to the Magic tower when summer vacation began.

We have been on vacation for a while now, but if he doesn’t go to kindergarten, he says he might go back and forth between the Magic tower and the Duchy.

After all, Jake had a talent for magic from a very young age. He was probably going to be a great wizard if he continued to be educated and learned from the magic tower from now on.

And Cedric is said to have traveled to the desert and trained this vacation with his two older brothers, the knights of the grand duchy and knights apprentices.

A true knight was trained according to the swordsmanship philosophy of the Grand Duchy, who should not only wield his sword on the plains on a sunny day, but also be able to wield it at the edge of a cliff on a day of thunder and lightning.

After dismantling the kindergarten, Cedric probably wanted to focus on his swordsmanship training, not only in the desert, but also throughout the continent.

It turns out that Ninaina is now following Nicholas with a tutor and starting her studies.

In the original story, Ninaina wasn’t very interested in academic studies, but it seems that she changed her mind while attending kindergarten with us.

‘Perhaps if Alice stops attending kindergarten, she will spend more time on Fairy Island.’

I flopped down on the rocking chair. And I thought.

‘I’m happy though. It’s not about disbanding right away.’

When I go back to kindergarten after summer break is over, I think that I will have to cherish each day more.

Normally, it would have been one of those moments that just flowed away, but as I, living in my second life, I know well how precious and quickly fading the childhood memories were.

After that, just before leaving for vacation to the villa, I wrote a letter to each of the children personally.

It was a greeting letter asking if they were having a good vacation.

* * *

The villa near the beach was smaller than the marquisate.

But I liked the gentle smell of the cool sea and the sound of seagulls cawing.

Also, the sounds of children my age running around and playing in the neighborhood really made me feel like I was on vacation.

“Wow, it’s a sky-blue seashell.”

As I was walking on the pure white sand, I picked up pretty shells.

“Well, shall I make it into a necklace?”

Contemplating, I headed to the villa with my hands full of seashells. The sea was beautiful, but I didn’t have time to look at it for long.

Because today is my birthday.