Chapter 37

Of course, the Imperial Palace knights who were our escorts were waiting outside the front door, outside the door of this classroom, and all over the kindergarten, but there wouldn’t be a first aid kit for them.

Eventually, I opened my crystal-clear locker and pulled out the first aid kit from among the little things piled up in it.

“What is that? It’s suspicious.”

“It’s a first aid kit. So Lord, give me your hand.”

“……What? First aid kit?”

Cedric complained that I was five seconds behind the time limit when he saw me, but he had waited for me in particular, and he flinched when he saw the box in my hand. Then he folded his arms and closed his hands.

“Why are you trying to see my hand?”

O-ho? Look at this?

Of course I don’t really know, so I was trying to see it, and if you keep it scratched from the stone like that, it might get worse! With what kind of guts are you holding on to it?

So I finally threatened.

“When I say something nice, give me your hand.”

“……tsk.”

Cedric pretended to give up, unfolding his arms and placing his hands on his knees.

In the light of the chandeliers on the ceiling of the classroom, the scratches on Cedric’s small hand were red, revealing their presence.

I frowned. Whenever water touches these scars, no, it would have been quite painful and sore just by gently rubbing it on the hem of the cloth.  How did you play gonggi with such sharp stones until it reached this point?

No, rather than that, the son of the Grand Duke has a hand that looks like that, but no one has treated it…?

‘Ah, don’t tell me like the original Alice’s house, Cedric’s house is also indifferent.’

With the uneasiness passing by, I had to ask a question that might sound strange in some way.

“Why didn’t you ask for your hand to be treated? No, if they saw this wound while taking a bath, any attendant would have called a doctor right away to treat the wound. Nobody did it?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about. When I do things like bathing, I don’t get any help.”

Huh? I don’t know what Cedric is talking about.

Are you saying that the youngest son of the Grand Duke’s family, who is only 7 years old, doesn’t get the help of the attendant when taking a bath?

Cedric snapped back as if he could read my absurd expression.

“That’s the way my family is. Attended while in a bath? Those are words that aren’t in our family dictionary. Because the knowledge of great knights is cultivated intensely. It’s not like a brave knight to get help from a servant even for the chores. So these little wounds are nothing… Ack!”

“I heard it, and I couldn’t stand it. It may sting a little, but please bear it.”

I lifted the corner of my mouth and smiled pretentiously.

And while Cedric was babbling about the family, I wiped the wounds on his hands one by one with the disinfectant I had poured onto the cotton.

Yes, the knowledge of the knights is good. That is it. But I’m not really sure why that should lead to just leaving the hand wounds of a little 7-year-old kid alone.

Look, even if you tried hard to say that it didn’t hurt, it still hasn’t healed a bit.

Doesn’t it really hurt?

“Ugh, what the hell are you washing my hands with? Is the medicine right? Not poisonous?”

“If it had been poisoned, the Lord’s hand would have already turned purple. Don’t flinch or pull your hands away.”

What’s the point if you were the youngest son of a Grand Duke who was crowned the first sword of the imperial palace from generation to generation?

I sighed in silence. It’s not like all the branches of the knight’s family have strong iron skin, so they don’t get hurt and don’t feel less pain.

“It’s all done. I’ll bandage it now.”

“Oh, don’t put on bandages. It’s uncomfortable.”

“If you don’t wrap it up, the sterilized area gets dirty again.”

At the end of the quarrel, I bandaged Cedric’s hand and tied it so that the blood flowed properly.