Saved by Crazy Stepfather!

t to the academy, and she has never missed a senior position.
From swordsmanship to magic to being clever; she is that perfect.”

“I see…! But why did you…”

“You can call me Sister.”

“Oh, yeah.
Why are those ugly twins eight years old when she’s sixteen?”

It was just out of pure curiosity, but Cecilia’s face turned dark momentarily.
I was also worried that I might have asked something I shouldn’t have asked.

“I’ll tell you the story in my room.”

“Oh, okay.”

It’s not that we haven’t, but we happened to arrive in front of the room.

But now that I came here, the pattern of her visit became a little different.
There were usually no patterns on the numerous rooms we passed by, but the room in front of us had a dragon with a knife, known as the mythical animal.

“Why is the door different?’

But without a moment’s notice, the door was opened.

“Let’s go in.”

“Okay!”

Fortunately, no one came into the room while we were inside.
I thought someone would come in, slightly touch my mother and electrocute their whole body.
However, I do regret that the number of people who antagonize us might decrease a little.

Cecilia, who followed, locked the door tightly, and I put the withered flowers beside my mother’s pillow.

“Mom, the garden is so beautiful.
Next time… please wake up and let’s go to the garden together!”

There was no answer, but I even felt that my mother’s face had a smile on it today.

While I was talking to my mother for a while, Cecilia brought a chair by the bed.

That natural act made me jump in there.

Then she started talking again.

“So let me finish what I was talking about.
There is only one woman that the Grand Duke had ever loved.
That was Ellinson Eivelant.
Grand Duchess Ellinson became ill after giving birth to Lady Astor.
So it took eight more years for her to give birth to the twins.”

“I see.”

It wasn’t an interesting story, but it was a story I have asked, and at least every single one of Cecilia’s words had engraved in my ears, feeling that it was part of the common knowledge I needed to know for me to live here.