Chapter 337

Gorilla VS Bear [Part 3]

“Well, there’s a lot of difficulties. I’m sorry, everyone. I have made the atmosphere gloomy... I can’t keep chasing my dreams forever.”

Marion was 17 years old. She was already at an age when she had to think about her marriage. In one part of her brain, she knew she had to fulfill her role as a daughter of a noble, but a part of her also wasn’t willing to give up her dream no matter what. She was feeling conflicted every day, yet time was running out for her.

“Marion-sama. I will lend an ear anytime. Don’t say you want to give up and let’s think together of a way to become a knight, shall we? I think it is such a pity to give up since you are still young.”

Emma held the hands of Marion, who was smiling weakly.

Marion’s palms were more callused than Emma’s and were more similar to those of her father, Leonard, and older brother, George. They were the hands of a warrior thoroughly trained in swordsmanship. You could tell the incredible efforts she had put in just from her hands.

“Emma-sama, I’m already 17 years old.”Aall newest chapters on n.o./velbi/n/(.)com

‘Even if Emma, several years my junior, said I’m young, I...’ Marion looked troubled.

Bluntly speaking, seventeen was not an age when one could keep dreaming. It was considered a marriageable age, so most young ladies her age already had a fiance, married, or... had children.

In the first place, even if daughters of a noble had dreams other than marriage, they wouldn’t come true. They couldn’t even work outside the house without the understanding of the person who would be their husband.

As Marion gained insight into the world, she couldn’t help but think that her dream would be difficult to realize.

She had frighteningly sharp ears.

Although Melsa was smiling sweetly in front of Emma’s academy friends, she could only appear as the demon incarnate in Emma’s eyes.

“Eh?”

“I felt like I just heard something I couldn’t allow to pass by just now, though?”

“Eh? Uh, uhhh.....”

“You don’t possibly intend to not let me hug my grandchild (in this life too), do you?”

“Eek... D-Did I say such things? No, of course I didn’t! I-I, uhh... was just saying to the downcast Marion-sama that ma—... EEK!”

“Marriage doesn’t have to be rushed” was what Emma wanted to say.

But her mother’s stare was too scary. Still...

“Ma... M-M-M-M-M... M-My cat Koumei-san... That’s right, I was going to introduce Koumei-san!”

Emma caved in under Melsa’s pressure.