Chapter 29 (2/2)

“If you have no intention to help me, don’t bother. As I’m busy, let me leave. Take care.”

“Hey, you!”

I just ignored him when he was trying to say something to me, and left.

It was about ten steps that I walked when he began to chase me, hurling abuses.

When I took another step pretending I hadn’t heard, I felt my knees buckle.

When I tried to keep my balance, I suddenly felt dizzy.

“Damn it….Hey! Wake up!”

My blurry vision was filled with red thread, and soon, the whole world became dark.

Finally, I passed out, feeling like someone was pulling me.

When I opened my eyes, I saw a familiar ceiling.

I smiled bitterly. After returning to being a ten-year-old girl, I was steadily trying to get in good shape, but I had no choice but to laugh uncontrollably as I passed out often. I was struggling to live a life different from my past, but it was so difficult.

“Have you come to your senses, young lady?”

“…Lina.”

“First, drink water. Here you go.”

After drinking the water that Lina gave me, I barely sat up. I couldn’t see the sandbags that were bound to my wrists and ankles, and my hands and feet were a bit swollen because they had been bound a bit tightly. I sighed a little. What should I do? If I can’t do this, how can I escape from my past?

“Miss.”

“Huh?”

“Lars is here.”

“Lars?”

“Since he brought you home after you passed out. He’s been visiting here every day since then.”

I opened my eyes at her unexpected news. I could understand that he caught me when I was falling, and carried me home, but I was curious why he kept visiting me everyday. I was puzzled, but I felt I had to express gratitude to him, so I told Lina to let him in.

“Uh, are you okay?”

“Fine. Thank you, Lars.”

“Uh, for what?”

“Well, you caught me when I was falling that day. I wasn’t injured because of your help. Thanks.”

I still felt bad about his actions, but bowed and thanked him. As if he was greatly embarrassed, the boy swept his red hair. His gaze was wandering all over the place without turning at me straight. Was it because he was nervous? Unlike how I felt at the first meeting, this time I didn’t see the shadow of someone else overlapped with his blue eyes. When I looked at him comfortably, the boy who took a deep breath said more calmly than before.

“Hey, just stop this kind of practice right now. ”

“… ”

“If something goes wrong, you will never hold the sword. Why do you think your father didn’t train you?”

“… ”

“When you attach something like a sandbag to your ankles when you’re young, all your joints are injured. That’s why your father didn’t train you that way, I think.”

I agreed. It was for this reason that my father did not train me on top of my weakness. Even though I practiced with Allendis for the same period of time, the reason why he achieved far more than I was because he was superior to me in terms of inbred muscular strength and physical strength. Perhaps that’s why there were a few female knights in the empire while most of the empire’s knights were men.

But no matter how difficult it was, no matter how disadvantaged my innate physical condition was, I had to learn fencing. I could never give up because I had a desperate reason to get out of my past.

“Why are you trying to learn fencing? Why are you in such a hurry? ”

“… ”

“Because you’re the only legitimate child of the Monique family? Are you trying to be the successor of your family?”

“…. ”

“Good, but I feel you are still weird. You don’t have a rival. So, there is no reason for you to hurry up. Then, what the heck is the reason? Why are you being so hard on yourself?”