Chapter 191

Fortunately, contrary to my concerns, Alice was very pleased with the gift I had given her.

“Thank you so much for giving me all these clothes! Thanks to that Miss Emir, I am so happy.”

Alice looked at me with wide eyes and said thanks in an excited voice to the gift I had given her in the backyard of the kindergarten.

It also made me feel better.

“But there are too many. I don’t know which one of these to wear to the school festival. What should I do?”

I carefully expressed my opinion on Alice’s troubles.

“How about wearing this blouse, skirt and coat? It will look cute and warm. Above all, I think it suits Alice very well.”

At my words, Alice nodded her head.

“Great! I will wear whatever Miss Emir choose.”

* * *

Time passed, and it was the day of the school festival.

The children arrived at the kindergarten early in the morning and each worked hard for the last practice.

Except for Cedric.

“Alice, didn’t you come in the same carriage with Cedric?”

It was difficult to say that he was late on the day of the school festival.

Alice shook her head as if she did not understand my question.

“The carriage didn’t come on time, so I just borrowed Lord Abish’ power.”

“Aha…….”

I blurred my words, worriedly.

What if he doesn’t come to the start of the school festival like this?

That was then. Fortunately, the sound of a carriage rushing out of the window could be heard.

“…… !”

“I think Young Duke Cedric is here!”

Even if they pretended not to, the other children seemed to be concerned about Cedric’s absence.

Our handbell team all got up and headed out of the kindergarten.

“Gasp, gasp. Sorry. I overslept while practicing the handbell until late yesterday. What is it?”

Cedric jumped out of the carriage and ran, dressed in a hurriedly prepared look.

‘In the meantime, he still managed to wear white clothes. I’m glad.’

The shirt buttons were pushed down, and the ends of his pants were wrinkled, but he was still wearing a white suit as promised.

With Cedric, the late student, we entered the kindergarten again.

We were all dressed in pure white, and we looked like a group of snowmen.

It was then.

Cedric, who barely sat down and adjusted his clothes, screamed in shock.

“Ahh! I didn’t bring the handbell!”

“Lord Cedric, what are you saying?”

“Did you leave the handbell at the mansion?”

“My God.”

Our handbell team was taken aback by the sudden situation.

It looks like Cedric got up in a hurry and brought just his body.

‘What if…… ah! Come to think of it, I have a new handbell that I bought?’

The handbell we used originally had only one set in kindergarten.

However, the last time I went to Fairy Island, I had a handbell set that I bought because I had swapped my handbell.

‘It’s a good thing that I brought all the sets besides mine.’

I picked out ‘mi, fa’ from the bag, which Cedric was in charge of.

“Oh, Emir. How do you have a set of handbells?”

“I bought a new one. I will lend you a special one for today.”

“…… Really? Well I’ll use it, thank you.”

For some reason, Cedric was embarrassed and thanked me.

After handing the handbell, I turned to look at Alice and Nicholas.

The two were quite awkward at first, but soon became good concert partners and practiced together.

Thank God. After all, they are the original male and female lead, so it might be a little awkward at first, but eventually they will get along well.”

Meanwhile, Maya, who chose something other than music alone, sat quietly in his seat, looking at the paper.

It was a piece of paper on which twenty lines of poetry were written.

I suddenly had a question, so I approached Maya and asked a question.

“Young Duke, have you memorized all of this line?”

“Yes? Of course.”

Maya looked puzzled by my question for a moment and then nodded his head.

“Wow, that’s great!”

“…… What’s with this much? It looks like you memorized all the sheet music too.”

Maya’s words surprised me this time.

“Huh, how did you know? I never said that.”

“Yes, because I watched the handbell practice earlier. You played well by yourself without looking at the sheet music? I saw you.”

With Maya’s praise, I smiled bashfully.

“Thank you for listening to it well.”

“More than that, Emir. If you have time to spare after practicing, would you mind helping me?”

“Yes? A help?”

Our handbell team decided to take a short five-minute break before the start of practice.

If it was a request that didn’t take long, I was thinking of granting it.

“Look at the paper on which my poem is written, and make sure I’m reciting it well.”

Because he was practicing alone, he said he was worried that there would be a part where he would skip.

“Oh, if that’s the case, I’ll do it right now.”

I got the paper from Maya.

Maya cleared his voice a bit and then started reciting the poem.