Chapter 184: Secrets. (2/2)

“Yes, that’s my real name but I’m sure that you noticed…”

“Roland Arden?”

She repeated his naain but this time it was the full one Only certain people in this world possessed last naroup, the nobles Even rich iven to the special It was clear that now she knew that he wasn’t what he said he was

“U at Roland’s confused face Instead of asking questions, she didn’t see about his real name

“Wait… aren’t you enius to realize that you were using an alias… Roland… that’s a nice name, much better than Wayland to be honest”

She just shrugged while co Roland on his true name Roland on the other hand felt like he wanted to crawl under his bed for stressing himself out for no reason

“You did behave more like a son of a rich merchant or a noble… or are you perhaps froht order?”

“I… okay, let ured out that he was keeping a secret from everyone As they continued to speak she revealed to hiular commoner which made her suspicious

There was a certain fear that the coht to feel inadequate compared to them and it was clear that Roland didn’t act that way He had no proble with nobles and when he did, it looked so himself

Roland didn’t want to beat around the bush so in short, he described his life From the five years that he spent at the Arden estate to his arrival here He didn’t forget to include the details about the cult that he once had a run in But after soup they weren’t considered a threat anymore

Elodia didn’t co with popcorn it would have been all eaten when he was finished with the story

“…I’ht you’d be ured out soood”

He sht next to his, it didn’t look that she was as shocked as he expected This played out differently in hisher to raise her voice after realizing that he was lying to her for all these years

“I didn’t think that you’d be a runaway noble, at ht fa at him, it was clear that she wasn’t raced knight families, they also possessed last nauild to seek e in your younger days, I can’t i away from home at ten, was it really that bad?”

“Well…”

To be frank, from Roland’s standpoint, no nor sent to the knight acade out on the streets as he did A position in the arht have even been stationed soers, being a soldier wasn’t consideredan adventurer

“I didn’t expect this, I thought you’d be …”

Elodia s

“Everyone has their secrets, even I have things that…”

It see, but just like she saw through hi an orphanage in a city like Albrook When he arrived, Elodia was already living here but it was clear that they arrived at a later date He didn’t want to pry into her business but it looked that now after he had shared his secret, it was ti spectacular like being a runaway noble but”

“It’s fine, you don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to…”

TheRoland could see soe information about her circumstances

“No, you were truthful with me, I need to also be sincere”

Apparently, sheher mouth she finally faced the er days There was not round as he did, it was the reverse, she was one of thewith Armand and Lobelia, they spent their days out on the streets They all lived together at one of the church buildingsher old living condition he did notice her slon, soon enough he would realize what it was about

“The priest did?”

“Regretfully so, he was quite the strong believer in the doctrine, he would punish us regularly if any of the children weren’t able to articulate the passages from the scriptures well…”

The main priest responsible for the church was apparently very pedantic about how the kids should be brought up Sometimes they spent days out in the rain as punishment, with no food to fill their bellies

But it wasn’t all bad, the three siblings stuck with each other froe of twelve and Lobelia followed hie while also trying to look for some work but then when the incident occurred

“He tried to do what?”

Roland found hi his voice as Elodia continued to tell her story The older they got, the ressive the punishments became Armand took the brunt of theiver turned his rage towards the other kids On one faithful day, it was Elodia’s turn But this tio further than usual and attempted to force hi happened, he wasn’t able to continue but that’s also the day that everything changed”

As the story continued he was finally given the answer to why they were here Apparently, during the atte a ether with Lobelia

They were already somewhat older at this point at fourteen They were close to an age where they could leave the church shelter altogether The priest was beaten up to a bloody pulp after which they had to run Even though the man was a failure of a cleric, he was part of the sun church If they were caught, they would get into trouble

They quickly packed up their things and escaped along with soe Then they traveled through the kingdom and finally ended up in Albrook with even more kids in tow

“I see, so that’s what happened, you didn’t have it easy…”

Rolland commented but Elodia shook her head instead as she responded

“What about you? I can’t ied and with a suess we are good at running away from our problems”

Soon the room they were in was covered with silence which was only broken by a large howl outside of the door Roland was just about to wrap his arms around his partner but it see outside Even when he tried to ignore hi, it was clear that he wanted in and wouldn’t take a no for an answer

“dani…”

Roland rolled his eyes while Elodia laughed out loud, soon he was forced to open the door to only get pounced on by his overly happy ta ni while ju was not yet over and soon one more person would find their face moistened up

“Noooooooooo”