Chapter 39

Will he refuse by saying he doesn’t need anything like this? Then that’s not good.

‘He wanted to do a gonggi match. So his hands should get better soon.’

When Cedric came, I was thinking of feeding it or pouring it evenly over his hand.

It was at that time when I thought that time was going a little slower because there was someone I was waiting for a long time.

The door opened quietly and Cedric entered.

I doubted my eyes. Is that Cedric? Why are you so quiet today?

However, even though I felt strange, I tried to go to Cedric with the potion in my hand.

“Hey.”

“…….”

But it was cold eyes that looked back.

It wasn’t the expression that the usual Cedric would make.

I stood dazedly for some reason, and Cedric glanced past me as if he was uncomfortable.

“Move.”

***

Cedric walked right past me and sat down at the desk.

He could sleep on his stomach as usual, but he was just staring out of the window with his chin resting on his hands.

‘What happened?’

Just in time, I felt a little uneasy when I saw Alice coming in after a little time difference.

It was because Alice also noticed that Cedric was so moody today, or because her expression and actions were shaky too.

“Ah, La, Lady Saeron! Good morning!”

“Yes, good morning to Alice too.”

For some reason, Alice looked at me and shyly said hello to me in the morning.

I smiled slightly and replied to Alice.

Somehow, because it’s a good morning, the sentimental Cedric staring at the window keeps on bothering my mind… but good morning anyway.

‘Oh, come to think of it. The bandage I wrapped him with yesterday, he took it off……’

I glanced at Cedric, and there was no bandage on both his hands on the other side of the desk.

I wondered if he had already called a healing wizard to heal it, but it wasn’t. Seeing with my good eyesight, his hand was still full of scratches.

‘……I keep worrying about it.’

I couldn’t take out the healing potion in my pocket, so I was just fiddling with it.

I would have thought that he would be fine if he had been tic-ticky as usual.

(Tik-tik-dae: when someone is upset about something but trying not to show the feeling, but still act upset.)

Contrary to his original personality, Cedric, who is so silent, I really can’t adapt to it.

‘Ah, and come to think of it.’

I looked at Alice.

Alice must have been in the same carriage as Cedric, so I wonder if she knows why Cedric is like that.

“I, I also brought a gonggi stone today. Lady Saeron, let’s go and play gonggi together……”

“Yes, Alice. Sit here!”

For now, I decided to respond to Alice’s cautious favor, and to slowly find out why Cedric was like that. Just knowing anyway doesn’t mean I can fix it right away.

“I’ll join you. Please make room for me.”

And to forget about the dark thoughts for a moment, when I was playing a one-on-one gonggi match with Alice, Nina came and stood in front of us.  With thick carpet cushions and jewel stones in each hand.

From what Nina said, she practiced all day yesterday, and now she has confidence that she will not lose to anyone in gonggi, really?

“Mir, Mir! Count me too!”

And Jake, who arrived last.

Jake was also said to have improved his skills a little now after practicing all day with smooth stones.

When I looked at his hand, there wasn’t a wound, but the skin was red because of frictional heat.

‘You practiced really hard, Jake.’

Anyway, we had a good gonggi match with 4 people.

“Oh my, I won again this time.”

Already the third time, Ninaina said again with a confident expression.

Too bad. I was doing well too, but at the last minute my hand slipped and I made a mistake…

Okay. Let’s be honest. Even in the midst of this, I couldn’t concentrate on playing because I was so concerned for Cedric.

Eventually, as it was almost class time, I approached Alice who was cleaning the gonggi and asked a little bit.

“Hey, Alice, do you have any idea why Cedric is like that?”

Alice rolled her eyes around to my sudden question, and soon she replied carefully in a very small voice.

“……Tha, that. The, the dog…”

“A dog?”

I asked back in amazement.

Listening to Alice’s words, Cedric’s pet, Polly, is sick. It seems so. Alice carefully added that she did not know the details because she heard from one of the attendants of the Grand Duke while riding the carriage.