Chapter 1.14 - Kind and Cruel (1/2)

Chapter 14: Kind and Cruel

Since then, I have gotten somewhat closer to Sigren.

I hope it’s not just my imagination. Well, at least he didn’t ask me not to touch him like before. I thought it was a good development. Moreover, I now understood that since Sigren had been subjected to such persistent abuse in the first place, it was natural that he was sensitive towards any stranger’s touch. And now that i think about it, Sigren seemed to have prevented me from touching his scar even more.

“It would hurt! I told you, don’t move!” I slightly slapped his shoulder to which Sigren refuted with a look of injustice.

“This is fine. I’m almost cured.”

“No, you don’t know when you’re well. Listen to this older-sister.”

Sigren chuckled at my nagging.

“I’ve been wondering since before…”

“Hmm?”

“You keep calling yourself ‘older-sister,’ honestly, how old are you?”

That question was, uh… I swallowed my saliva. Honestly, at physical age, I was a year younger than Sigren.

I answered back with a small voice. “Thirteen years old.”

Surprisingly, Sigren did not get angry. On the contrary, he spoke in a rather muted tone as if he had anticipated it. “That’s more than I thought. I thought you were about ten years old.”

I got up and stood up. “What?!”

I let a loud sigh. Abel kept nagging me every day that I was small and should be fed more. And now this boy was saying that I look like I’m ten-years-old. Did I really look that small? Well, I can’t help my slow growth. I was stuck in the attic at the height of my growth and couldn’t eat well.

“I was a year older anyway.”

“Mentally, I will be more.”

Sigren snorted.

“You must be the only one who thinks that way. The Duke of Heilon is feeding you so much. What the hell is up with your body that’s not getting bigger?”

“That’s true..”

In fact, I was also poor in physical strength. Because of that, even though my magic power was good, it couldn’t be used for long periods of time. In terms of running, it was similar to being strong in short distances and not being able to travel long distances. In other words, it meant lack of endurance.