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Translator: Vine
Chapter: 11
Chapter Title: A Strange Living Arrangement
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With the victims themselves stepping forward to ask that the incident be kept secret, the priests felt as if they’d struck gold.
The high priests came to Lellia, Calix, and Griffith in person, bowing their heads in apology.
They promised that nothing like this would ever happen again, that they would ensure absolute safety, and that they would conduct a thorough investigation to find the culprit.
‘Like hell they’ll investigate.’
Lellia scoffed.
In the original story, they had also promised a thorough investigation, but nothing ever came of it. After all, it was an incident orchestrated by the high priest in collusion with the emperor of the Ascad Empire.
Back then, the only witness had been the victim, Calix himself.
Even then, Calix must have known who was responsible after seeing the wolf disintegrate into sand.
‘Trying to kill a child like that. Those rotten bastards.’
Lellia decided she had to tell Calix something before returning to her home country.
That when he got back, he should renounce the throne and become a mercenary. That he had what it took to be the best.
In any case, peace returned after the incident.
For the next few days, Lellia did nothing but laze around in her room. The priests didn’t dare ask her to attend prayers; whatever she did, they simply bowed their heads like guilty culprits.
The only uncomfortable part was…
‘Why do these little brats keep coming to my room to hang out?’
Every morning, all four of them would gather in my room, as if they were clocking in for work.
Naturally, they didn't attend prayers either, and somehow, we ended up spending all day together, only sleeping in separate rooms.
But that didn’t last long.
Soon enough, these rascals had the priests bring beds into Lellia’s room.
The only silver lining was that instead of putting them in the bedroom with Lellia’s bed, they lined them up in the empty adjacent room.
‘Damn it. This is so awkward!’
You crazy fools. I’m a girl!
But since she couldn’t tell them the truth, she was the only one about to burst from frustration.
And so began a strange and uncomfortable cohabitation with the four little kids.
