CH 42

Me, and my adorable students ④

Translated by KaiesV

Edited by KaiesV

「Greetings, Ottilie-sama.」

Today I am visiting another student with Madot. She is a girl who will turn thirteen this year. She is a pretty girl with beautiful manners, although she is a bit shy.

The name of this quiet, brown-haired girl is Lununea.

She has two older sisters and is the youngest. I have been friends with those two older sisters. At first they were a little wary of me, but now they have become a good friends of mine and even lets me tutor their younger sister, Lununea.

It is also a pleasure for me to know that there are people who get along with me in that way.

New encounters and new exchange relationships. Just thinking about it always makes me feel excited.

「Greetings, Lununea.」

The girl has a kind of shelter-inducing atmosphere that makes me feel somewhat warm and fuzzy too. The class with Lununea has a different atmosphere than the class with Madot.

「Lununea, we did so much the other day, so today——」

「Yes.」

She is a rather quiet girl, but it doesn’t mean that she has no will of her own. I think she is a wonderful girl because she has the strength to express her own opinions without being swayed by others.

If I say something wrong, she is the kind of girl who can say,「No, it’s wrong.」Although I have studied a lot, I realize in these classes that there are still many things I have yet to learn.

I am sure that there will never be a moment in my life when I will be satisfied with the end of my studies.

「Lununea likes to go to the theater, am I right M」

「Yes. It was incredibly fun.」

In Crevasse Kingdom, theater culture, or rather, the presentation of plays and songs, is very active. It’s said that many people from other countries come to see these performances. Lununea likes to go to see them. She’s also a very good singer and we study singing together.

I also study the meanings and origins of songs that have been handed down in Crevasse Kingdom. I’m not that familiar with such things, so it is even more fun.

The history of this country can be hidden in such things that have been handed down from generation to generation. It’s fun to learn about these things because I can discover new history.

「If so, have you seen『The Little Princess and the Knight,』which we have been playing for a while now?」

「I saw it. The wonderful thing about that play is that the child actors expressed their emotions so beautifully…! I thought it was really good!」

Lununea also knows a lot about the actresses who work in those theaters. We would go to see them together as a class, and then we would discuss the subject with them—— That kind of thing is fun, too.

I went to see that play with Ifmut the other night.

I just enjoyed watching it, but Lununea saw it from a different perspective.

I don’t know, but the girls that Ihmut introduced me to or that I befriended and became a student of are all very dedicated to the things that they love.

For example, there was a girl who is very fond of furniture and has such knowledge, or a girl who knows more about the latest trends in Royal Capital than anyone else, or a girl who enjoys horseback riding, etc——. I have a lot of experience and learn a lot.

When I see my students living happily like this, I think about my past.

When I think about what it was like when I was around the same age, I realize that I did not have such high hopes for the future. I had a lot of friends who were commoners, and I enjoyed them. However, there were many things that bothered me because of my situation as a disliked person.

I tried not to be misled by the rumors in my classes—— I have often told people that I am not a good person. Because my life I have been swept up in a lot of rumors and the words of one being saying.

The students would look at me surprised that I had been called hated person like that. People tell me that I don’t look like a “hated” or a “villainess” when they interact with me.

But it’s still true that I have been called that, and it’s part of my past.

I would be sad if my lovely students had to go through what I went through. I also want to do my best to be on their side when they are affected by someone else’s words in the same way, even if they don’t suffer the same way I do, and when they have that kind of attitude.

Despite these feelings, I would still teach my classes as a teacher to my lovely students.