Chapter 95 (1/2)
The carriage enters the mansion and stops.
The first one down was Keios, my uncle.
I got out of the carriage and looked toward the mansion.
It is a three-story building. It's bigger than my mansion in Grigit.
The garden was large and was attended to by a gardener walking around with a pair of shears.
I did not know that the Eiban family were nobles.
I think it would be more accurate to say that I had forgotten about it.
I must have heard about it when I was little.
But I had forgotten all about it over time.
”Go ahead.”
Keios led the way to the mansion.
In the entrance hung a portrait of a middle-aged woman with red hair wearing a beautiful dress.
A woman in the back gives him a slight bow and addresses us.
”Who are these people?
”He's my nephew, Toru. You've already met him.”
”Oh yes... The boy.”
”Can you give us a minute, please?”
She must be my uncle's wife, because she gave me a stern look before disappearing into the back of the room with a quick step.
I was taken to a room that looked like a studio and sat on a couch.
For some reason, Keios sat on the side of the desk.
I thought I was going to be sitting across from you.
”Welcome, Toru. You look so much like my brother when he was younger that I mistook you for him.”
”Really? I don't think there's much resemblance. So, why did you bring me here?”
”You're being very distant. This is a reunion between an uncle and his nephew.”
”Do you know that Dad is dead?”
Keios' eyes widen like saucers.
The shock was evident on his face.
”When did that...”
”When I was fifteen years old.”
He closed his eyes and exhaled deeply.
”What about your mother?”
”Also dead, both of them.”
He then became depressed and silent for a while.
I think it really came as a shock to him.
'Then why didn't you come to see me?'
I bet that's what you must be thinking.
”If you have any problems, please tell me anything. I will help you as much as I can, anything for my sweet nephew.”
”No, thank you.”
”Don't say that. We're family.”
Eh?
Are we family?
What are you saying all of a sudden, old man?
We are only blood relatives, but we are strangers who know nothing about each other.
It doesn't seem right to use the word family all of a sudden.
”That doesn't matter to me, but there is something I want to know. Tell me about the Eiban house. I want to know all about my mother and father.”
”Well, I'll tell you everything I know. But I don't have time today, I'm busy and I have to go to the palace to meet the king.”
”Then I will come tomorrow.”
”Hmm, you can stay in the house. This place is already like your home, you can spend some time with the slaves there.”
*Knock Knock*
Someone knocks on the door.
”Father, we need to talk to you about something? Who are these people?”
”Let me introduce you. This is my son, Bill.”
”I am Toru, Toru Eiban, nice to meet you, Bill.”
”Eiban? Is he the son of your disowned brother?”
Bill was a young man with short red hair.
He stared at me when he heard my name.
”Father, are you still bent on a woman who is no longer with us, when you have your wife here?”
”Relax, Bill. I have no other intentions in bringing him here, simply because he has Eiban blood in him, he's your cousin.”
”I don't care if we share the same blood, he's still a commoner, nothing to do with us nobles, let alone that he's the son of that woman.”
Bill exits, closing the door vigorously.
Keios poses with a dry laugh and says ”sorry”.
He seems to have problems with his son.
However, I was envious of Bill.
I wish I could have had a discussion like that with my father.
”That boy is crazy.”
”Kyui!”
As soon as we entered the room we were given, Frau complained.
I don't know if it's because they share the same opinion, but Panda reacted as well.
For now, I'm going to lie face down on the bed and let Kaede give me a massage.
”When he referred to 'that woman', was he talking about your mother, Master?”
”Maybe, I don't know that information.”
”Did your parents ever talk to you?”
”I asked them, but they never answered my question. I never knew why my father and uncle didn't get along. I don't know anything about this family.”
Kaede pulls up my clothes and presses her hands directly on my waist.