Haunted Duke’s Daughter

Nine.

“Yeah…… Please, don’t hesitate.”

Okay, and Alisa coughed up,

“To be clear, he was a very sorry man. On top of that, he is short-tempered and immediately wields violence. You had to be too unreasonable to be shy anymore. I also thought it would be terrible to try to get anything you wanted. I don’t even hesitate to use it in my husband’s name. Honestly, so much so that I regretted starting working here…. What’s up?

Alisa tilts her neck when she realizes Lilia has a pale look on her face. Lilia shook her head as she pulled her cheeks together.

“It’s nothing… Go on…”

That’s how the streak is even worse from Alisa. It makes me want to cry through anger and stuff. It was something that had already been said in Sakura, but when it was spoken in front of me again like this, there was something quite daunting.

“But”

Alisa separates words there. Alisa was smiling for some reason when Lilia looked at Alisa with her lifeless eyes.

“I know Master Lilia is actually a kind person. I believe.”

“Is…?

Kind. Who is it? Exactly. I think that’s even weird with Lilia herself. For Lilia, she thinks it’s only an act of creating gaps such as kindness towards others. The idea is still the same, and if what Alisa is saying is about Lilia’s behavior these days, it’s just following Sakura’s instructions.

Even though I know I have no choice, I just get a little discouraged. But after hearing Alisa’s words, Lilia tilted her neck.

“When I was a little girl, Lilia helped me.”

Lilia winks her eyebrows in surprise and Alisa tells me as she smiles bitterly when she sees it.

“When I was still a long time old, I came on a trip to Wangdu with my family, but that’s when I got away with my parents… I got lost and when I realized I was at the side of a big mansion.”

“Heh… Which house?”

– No, Lilia, you don’t get any names here other than Ardis…

– Really?

– Really? Let that be the case.

Lilia listens to Alisa, even though she remembers something that doesn’t really make sense.

“I don’t know what I thought then, I went into that mansion… Naturally, we were caught in no time.”

“It is…… Didn’t he get executed?

– No, Lilia. It would be strange if they were executed here.

– Really?

– Is it a ghost in front of you? Not a good story. Actually, horror?

– Oh……

Lilia nodded convinced that she finally understood what Sakura was trying to say. Sakura seems worried about something, but Lilia turns her consciousness to Alisa for now.

“It’s not strange if you’re a child or killed on the spot, but Lilia helped you then.”

“Me? How?

“Eh…… I thought you were gonna scratch the Aldis family name for fear of killing such a child.”

– That’s like a matter of pride, not kindness…

“After that, Lilia told me not to kill you in the back, and she looked for my family with the escort. Even when it comes to escorts, he was my husband.”

He narrowed his eyes so that Alisa would miss it somewhere, and then nibbled and grinned. My parents reacted funny then, he said.

– Lilia, don’t you remember?

– Like I remember. I don’t seem to remember… I just don’t think it’s such a bona fide sentiment, at least.

– Well… Maybe Alisa already knows that, too. That’s why I thought you said earlier that you believe after you know it. And.

Sakura stops the words. Somehow I feel like I’m watching Alisa. Alisa was staring at this one with a serious look. Like waiting for Lilia to say.

– For Alisa, it doesn’t change the fact that she was helped, so I guess either is fine. Then interpret it as convenient, don’t you think?

– Is that what it is?

“Alisa. Honestly, I don’t remember that time. I just don’t think it was such a bona fide emotion, at least.”

“Yes. Now I know that, too. But for me, the fact that I was helped doesn’t change. Lilia would be happy to work with us if we were to repay her.”

Alisa ran out in a firm tone. Lilia was flattered for a while, but eventually, she was smiling herself without realizing it.

“Nice to meet you, Alisa.”

“Yes, thank you very much.”

Alisa bowed her head deeply on the spot and Lilia nodded satisfactorily.

The dormitory is the largest building on the school grounds. It can be taken for granted that all students live here. The dormitory is three floors long, with a large number of facilities, such as dining halls and shops on the ground floor. The entrance is huge as soon as it enters, and chairs, tables, etc. are also available, making it a relaxing place for students.

The second floor will be lined with rooms for ordinary people, merchants, lower nobility, etc., while the third floor will be a room for senior nobility.

Lilia and Alisa entered the dorm through a large front door. This building, which is busy with a large number of students before and after class, is also quiet now that afternoon classes have begun even after lunch. There is no one at the entrance and only Lilia and Alisa’s footsteps sound.

At the deepest end of the entrance was a spiral staircase, with Alisa opening her mouth where Lilia put her foot on that first step.

“Um… Dear Lilia……”

“What?”

“Are you sure I’m in Lilia’s room too?

What now, I look back with a small sigh. Alisa’s eyes were shaking anxiously.

“Is there a problem, too?

“Do you call it a problem…… Well, you never heard of it, have you? I can’t believe nobility is just the same room as a maid…”