CH 16

The shoes that Jeryl asked the maid to prepare weren’t only high, also very stiff shoes. It’s only pursuing ‘pretty’, and the real high heels that aren’t for beginners too!

In fact, as Ellia is a fairy, she didn’t have a chance to come across with high heels.

I’m saying that now my feet are as soft as a baby’s feet.

I walked for three hours in shoes with thinner and sharper heels than my pinkie finger.

Jeryl was pretending to do her job.

[You’re getting beautiful little by little!]

…Isn’t she really a crazy bitch?

Calib said that it’s too early for me to already wear high heels, so I had to stop when he told me to stop.

While making a fuss, my feet were shaped like this. I couldn’t crush the crazy etiquette teacher, so I promised to scratch her face with a grater.

…I couldn’t raise my head because I was embarrassed.

“Haa.”

I let out a gloomy sigh as I watched Calib blow my feet, hoohoo.

Just in time, Olivia brought the doctor.

“Miss Ellia!”

“Huft, huft, where is the patient?”

I wonder how fast the old man ran, he was out of breath.

“Ah, here. I want you to take a look at Ellia’s feet.”

Calib got up from his seat and pointed at me. The doctor quickly greeted Calib, the Grand Young Lord, with courtesy.

Then he approached me and looked straight at my feet.

“Well… I guess you don’t usually wear shoes.”

“Ah, yes.”

“Then you should have habituated slowly.” The doctor rebuked politely.

That’s what I mean, because my eyes were on revenge only, I didn’t pay attention to any other things. I couldn’t bear to say that, so I just smiled awkwardly.

Calib said in a worried voice.

“How’s her condition?”

“The ankle seems to be looking at the situation for a while, but there seems to be no problem with the bones.”

“Hmm…”

“I will prescribe an ointment for the skin, so apply it well. It may get worse in a few days, so keep the affected area clean for a few days and don’t stimulate it as much as possible.”

At the doctor’s words, which weren’t particularly different, Calib let out a small sigh, as if he was relieved.

He looked at me with a look full of worry on his face as he said.

“You won’t attend class until the wound heals, and I’ll tell the teacher.”

Ugh, damn it.

It was a while since I said that I would get revenge, but I can’t believe I’m like this before it even started!

But apart from being injured, I can’t send Calib alone to the crazy etiquette teacher’s lair.

“No. Even though I can’t practice, I can watch it.”

“Don’t overdo it.” Calib seemed to notice that I was going out because I was afraid he would be treated unfairly.

I answered while watching Olivia go out with the doctor.

“It’s okay. There’s nothing to do anyway. And if I keep looking at the teacher, won’t I improve at something?”

It is also said that a dog can recite a poem after three years at a village school. (t/n: this means practice makes perfect.)

But Calib looked down at my feet with a sullen face.

“It happened even when I was by your side. I can’t protect Ellia.” He clenched his fists as if it was resentful.

I pulled and grabbed that little fist.

“One way or another, I must have been injured at least once anyway. Because, as Calib knows, I’ve never worn high heels.”

Originally, I was also an athlete, so my fingers could count the few times I wore high heels.

“So, don’t blame yourself. It turned out rather good. I will become perfect as I learn harshly.”

Calib still had his head lowered with a gloomy face. I grabbed his hand and shook it gently.

As if I wanted him to look at me.

Calib made eye contact with me with a depressed expression. I told him with a smile.

“If I quickly get used to high heels and know how to walk stylishly, we can also go to a party. Right?”

“Party…?”

“Yes. I will practice hard. So let’s have fun at the party together. We can also dance together. What do you think?”

“…I like that.” Calib meekly nodded his head.

I patted his little hand and said kindly.

“Great. Then let’s just think about pleasant things like this. I feel so healthy again that I’ll get well soon.”

“Ellia…”

For a moment, there was water in Calib’s eyes. He looked at me with red eyes moist as a rose with dew.

He soon dug into my arms like a kitten.

“Yeah, I got it. I will only think of fun things.”

“I will work hard to get used to the etiquette.” I hugged Calib tightly and stroked his back.

***

“Then rest, Ellia.”

“Yes, Calib too.” Calib closed the door himself while watching Ellia, who greeted him kindly.

On his way back, he met Olivia, who was assigned to Ellia.

“Olivia.”

“Yes, Grand Young Lord.”

“Take care of Ellia so that her wounds don’t get hurt.” Calib’s voice trembled a little.

At that, Olivia hesitated without realizing it.

It must be so, because Calib was a doll-like boy who was always expressionless and spoke only hard words.

He was crying, asking for her to take good care of Ellia.

Olivia quickly turned her eyes down so as not to show her bewilderment.

“I will do my best to take care of her.” Then she placed her hand on her chest and greeted him politely.

Calib quickly left the room as Olivia might catch him crying. His fists trembled thinly as he returned to his room.

‘I, I couldn’t stand it because I was pathetic.’

His fingernails digging into his palm gave him a tingling pain, but he couldn’t open his fist.

Because he couldn’t stand it  as he was pathetic.

‘I should have expected Teacher to target Ellia!’

Jeryl is a clever person who abused even the Grand Young Lord without him realizing it himself.

There’s no way that Jeryl would make the fatal mistake of abusing the Grand Young Lord in front of others.

‘It’s only natural that she intends to bully Ellia first, then kick her out, and then torment me to her heart’s content!’

He hadn’t considered that because of the idea that he should provoke her sympathy by showing his pitiful appearance to Ellia.

And not properly expecting any of these obvious things, he made Ellia have her painful experience.

‘Pathetic.’

Calib entered the room, crouched on the sofa and clenched on his head. But he had no time to be frustrated.

‘Teacher is smarter than me. I can’t beat Teacher on my own.’

Jeryl would surely annoy her in ways he didn’t expect, even if Ellia was just observing her.

Calib’s enemy, who had her head bowed down, shone brightly.

‘That’s never going to happen. Even if I get hit once, I won’t get hit twice.’

He learned a lot from her during his stay with Ellia.

[Calib, there is no shame in not knowing. It’s obvious.]

[But Teacher said that I should be ashamed of not knowing because I’m ignorant.]

[Huh. What is that teacher, did she know all the principles of all things since she was born?]

[That… ]

[How about that teacher? There must have been a time when she looked at the ocean and asked, ‘Dad, why is the sea blue?’]

[The reason the sea is blue is because the light of the blue sky is reflected.]

[…I-Is it like that? Calib is much smarter than me, what!]

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As he recalled his memories with Ellia, his stiff lips loosened slightly.

[If you have any difficulties, you must tell an adult, Calib.]

[She said that if I’m the Great Young Lord, I have to do everything alone.]

[She’s really a crazy b… Ah, no. She’s a really close-minded person. Calib, you are a human being, apart from being the Grand Young Lord, and human is a social being.]

[Social being?]

[Yes. A person can never live alone. They have to have a relationship with someone, get along with them and live.]

[Get along…]

[Yes. So, if you’re having a hard time, don’t grumble alone, and talk to an adult around you. It will definitely help.]

[‘Why is Calib so annoying?’ If there’s someone like that, bring them, and I’ll beat… I’ll scold them.]

He remembered her face as she clenched her fists tightly, then she laughed and clapped her hands, ahaha.

“Yes, Ellia is right. I’m still young and I need help from an adult now. I can’t protect Ellia from Teacher Jeryl alone.”

Calib got up slowly from the sofa and clenched his fists again. Not because he was pathetic, but because he had a new conviction.

In fact, since he came to the Grand Duke’s Castle, he never once asked for help from an adult.

[Listen well, Grand Young Lord. The Grand Young Lord is ‘The Grand Young Lord’. You’re not just a kind of kid.]

Throwing a tantrum, childishness, and immature behavior weren’t permitted at all.

Jeryl taught Calib as if she was brainwashing him. And the adults of the Grand Duke’s Castle also said that Calib was terrific. In those cold, bitter glances, he lost the courage to ask for help.

‘That’s why I could hardly ask Brother Cedric for help.’

What if even Brother finds me annoying, what if he is sick of me, what if he hates me…

‘I was afraid of such a thing, so I could hardly go. But not now.’

There’s only one thing that bothers Cedric, so even if he bothers him.

Even if he is hated!

“I have to go to Brother. So I have to ask for help.”

He couldn’t stand to see Ellia in pain again.