Derick sipped from his tea and closed his eyes. Savoring the moment.

But why does it make me feel pissed.

"Why don't we talk now?"

This is so similar to what happened in the village, the moment Derick and myself will talk.

He acted shock and put down his tea then smiled at me. And said, "Right. I totally forgot, I was so immersed from the tea's aroma. It's rose tea anyway. So, if you have questions start now."

Actually, I have too many questions to ask. Like why is my father saying he knew me but he couldn't anymore, what's Derick's relationship with my father, or the ither villagers or Leia and Leione. It's a mess.

Wait, don't tell me father and Derick.. No, no. That isn't possible, Derick's a child and father's too old for that. But. Even though father's old he looked way too young to be in his 30s or 40s. And Leione said Derick has been long by my father's side even before they came. Hmm, suspicious.

"Wait, I can sense that you're thinking about some nonsense. Stop it, it's giving me goosebumps. My hairs' standing up."

Oh, right.

Speaking of the village, what happened to the villagers after we left?

"Hey Derick, what happened to the village?"

He froze for a moment but became serious after that.

"There's a bad and good news about that. What would you like to hear first?"

I gulped and said, "The bad news."

"Alright. The whole village was destroyed. If you ever come to see it in person, you can definitely tell that a monster really did invade there. And the villagers, didn't make it. As I can approximately tell, only 25% made it out alive and is now residing here."

Yes, definitely monsters invaded there. And U expected that many wouldn't make it but to that extent, it's really unfortunate and not great.

"Then the good ones?"

"The village can be fixed, and since it's in the borther or Hanlon and Hellbore, and no one claimed that village to belong to both. Hanlon should've shoulder the responsibility since the monsters is from Hanlon but since they made some negotiations with us, they didn't claimed the land to be theirs. So, Hillville Village is now part of Hellbore and it'll be revived sooner or later. That's why His majesty's so busy."

Oh, right. That really is good news. I thought that village belonged to Hanlon but it turns out that it wasn't.

"Oh, that pink brat brought a letter for you. It's in my room so maybe I'll bring it for you later so you could write a reply."

So Lin definitely survived. Thank goodness. Oh speaking of paper, I wonder if my diary's—

"Here, I thought you might look for it again once you woke up." And he reached it out to me.

My precious memories with Leione's stored in here.

"Where's the pen.. and the stuffed toy?"

"Destroyed." He replied abruptly.

"By the monsters attack?"

"No, by me. Why? Are you regretting it?"

I went silent after he asked that. I don't know, after all that happened and all the revelation or dreams that I saw, I don't have any lingering attachments to it anymore. Specially from her.

"And the pen, before we went to the village I had disposed of it." He proclaimed as if it's nothing. Hmm, the pen's from Dion anyway, so it's really nothing.

"Oh that's okay. But still why? It's a good pen anyway except the one gave it to me."

"The 's emitting something that is definitely not good. Have you gone weak and your wounds don't heal?" I nodded as an answer.

"Why? Is it weird?"

"It is. Since that woman's blessed with light magic that specializes in healing so their self healing are strong, and you're from her bloodline so it should be obvious that it'll happen. But that pen, has magic that's making your self healing to decline. And since other than her bloodline you had his majesty's so that'll probably be one of the reason too." Hmm, too much information but very essential. I like it.

"And by the way, Charles should've been the one to tell you this but just in case he might forget since he's so busy. A teacher will arrive to teach you a week from now." He said and then stood up.

He's so talkative today, did anything changed really? Is he in a hurry?

"Then, if there's nothing more. I'll be leaving, I'm a really busy person. I'll just send the letter to you later. See you around "

But, I still have many questions to ask though? Aish.

"My apologies my lady, sir Derick's really busy. If you have other questions, maybe I can answer you in behalf of him and his majesty. I've been informed very well about things." Leia said after she got near me.

So then I did.

Cloud's two years older than me and was sent to dormitories in the Academy. Right, there's also an Academy here. Lin's in the Bruteminda dukedom, her father's parents or grandparents rather who resides here in Hellbore. Bruteminda Marquisate is located in Flammia so it's understandable.

The other residents of Hillville now work here, they originally work in Flammia but it'll be a lot of work and effort to go South and Flammia's an ally of Hellbore, no they're one, Leia said.

And the other details she said was what to eat for dinner. While we were walking, I hugged my diary tightly. Hoping that the person who gave me this is well out there that even though he may had forgotten about me, like everybody else does.

Oh well I don't blame father, they might've been a reason why he had forgotten about me but at least he's trying to make it up for me. Unlike those hateful family.

I asked Leia about that family's one and only princess if they had found that person yet, and as far as her updated intel knows. The Froscheldt's princess hasn't been found yet.

Leia looked at me, still the same as ever but her question definitely is something, she might've been worried about me.

"Why are you asking about that *beep* family? They're *beep* *beep*—"

See that? It was all sh-tty words so we might as just censored that a bit.

"I was just curious, don't worry Leia I am fine."

She goes down on her knees to match my height, she put her hands on my shoulders and talked.

"I might look like this, my lady, but I am definitely boiling in anger whenever that *beep* family's name is brought up. I'll definitely do my best for you not to go to that kind of things again. I promise."

'My lady, I'll definitely protect you.'

They're so the same yet so different.

"My lady, why are you crying?" she then wiped my tears.

This is making me miss her a lot but I hope I won't make her worry, I'll definitely live well.

"Yes, thank you."

Then she hugged me.

"Don't worry if that *beep* family will do something I'll definitely *beep*—" and she brought up too many torturing tactics.

I giggled to her words.

"—oh, sorry. I was so immersed with it."

Leia will definitely looked emotionless but, I felt too many emotions just her being by my side.

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Hallo! HAHAHAHA I've just enrolled to college that made me a lot busier than normal. Who missed Leione as Charlotte miss her? Well, I love the twins so— anyway I hope you loved the update! Will update soon again (idk when but hopefully very soon) since classes are going to start next week. Anyway, keep safe guys!

Ps. I am practicing my digital artwork, who do you want me to try? A character in this story of mine. I'll post the product in my next update. Well, you can ignore this if you don't wanna. Thanks again! Live well you guys!

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