Chapter 853 – Sunday of the 8th Week (6)
“Oppa, you can’t even use chopsticks?”
“Yes, I have to learn from today.”
“Good! Lily will tell you!”
Lily taught me how to hold chopsticks, but you can do it like this and this and this. It was just not enough for Marey to understand with that explanation.
Seeing Lily eagerly trying to teach her, Nagisa showed her how to hold it. Looking at it, she was clumsy, but she was able to easily hold chopsticks.
“Are you okay?”
“I’ll think I’m learning something new.”
“That’s right, that’s right. Learning new things is important. Mom said that! Come on, let’s eat now!”
Lily dipped her chopsticks into a large piece of sausage in the center of her table. Looking at Nagisa, she gracefully picked up her sausage and carried it away.
“Can you do it?”
“… I will try.”
Marei was embarrassed by her unfamiliar tool, but she felt like she could figure out why, so she carefully picked up the vegetables. She didn’t feel very difficult.
Strangely, Lee Ha-un’s words that no matter what weapon you use, the tricks are similar, came to mind.
“Disgraceful!”
Lily said to Marey, frying her rice.
“What a shame…” . “What’s wrong, Lily?”
“Lily, it took me a while to get used to it! Marei knows how to do it right away! It’s disgusting!”
Nagisa let out a small laugh. Marei also smiled as if she thought Lily was cute. Although she was a little clumsy, she had the confidence to write similarly to Lily.
There were a few mistakes when Lily chewed her favorite side dish of stir-fried sausages and vegetables with rice, but she got used to it in no time.
Nagisa kept looking at Marei, wondering if something was wrong, but seeing as she was quickly becoming more proficient, she ate her meal as well.
Marey, who had some free time, looked at the food on the table.
Apart from breakfast, I didn’t think much about the lack of expensive ingredients that are said to be good for stamina and that are always on the table these days. She was full of vegetables and nothing but greens.
The only thing that could be considered meat was sausage.
Even her dishes and tables seemed quite old. It felt like something from when she lived in the village around the wall.
As for the professors’ salaries that Sasha gave her, she couldn’t remember the exact amount, but the house was too old and narrow for Nagisa, who was receiving at least an average amount. Meals were also the same.
Seeing Lily eating sausages in a hurry, Marei only ate her vegetables, and then she realized that Nagisa was doing the same.
“Isn’t sausage delicious!?”
“Yes, yes, it’s really delicious. “Does Lily like sausages?”
“Huh! “You can only eat it on Sundays!”
Seeing Lily chattering without even swallowing the food in her mouth, Nagisa said, ‘Swallow it all and then speak.’ “She is Lily,” She scolded briefly.
Although he had no intention of finding out, Marei was able to easily guess Nagisa’s financial difficulties just from the conversation and the atmosphere in the house.
While I was eating, I heard something like a knock on the wall or something strangely muffled talking from the house next door. Lily had an expression that seemed casual, perhaps because she was used to it.
“The guy and the lady next door are fighting again.”
I started shouting. Nagisa cleared his throat slightly, perhaps out of embarrassment. It seemed to her that it would be better for Lily to stay in the dormitory she was building rather than somewhere like this.
Marei, who thought she should ask Sasha to take a look, wiped Lily’s mouth with a tissue after seeing her mouth covered in sauce.
“I like Marei oppa so much!”
“Yes, yes, you like Lily too.”
She was a cute child. Marey gently stroked Lily’s head, wondering what a cute baby Lauren would be when she had a child of her own.
The meal ended like that without much conversation.
“I was grateful for lunch.”
“She had very little clothes on, I don’t know if it suited her.”
“It was so delicious.”
Although there were mostly vegetables, the seasoning was just right, and I really liked the fact that it was an Eastern Continental style dish. Marei thanked Nagisa for her humility.
“Oppa, can’t I go? “Can’t I play with Lily~?”
Perhaps because the teddy bear family had fun, Lily was still hugging a large teddy bear the size of her own body. She was the doll that Marey played the role of ‘Bear Daddy’. It seemed more accurate to call her Daddy Bear, but since Lily called her that, she also called Marey Daddy Bear.
“Lily, Pawen has to go home now. “If you bother me like that, I’ll never be able to play with you again, right?”
“Chii… I wish my brother was my dad. “So I can play with Lily every day.”
Nagisa smiled bitterly at Lily’s words, and Marei bowed down to her eye level.
“When my brother has time, he will play often. Then is it okay?”
“Huh! Huh! “You have to play often!”
At Lily’s bright smile, Marei waved her hand and came out of the villa where Nagisa’s house was located. Looking around, there were a lot of motels and street restaurants.
As Marey walked along the main street, looking around, she noticed a newspaper being sold at a newsstand. No, more accurately, she looked at the black and white photo on the front page of the newspaper.
“Julia?”
Julia was filmed receiving her medal. It was a scene where His Majesty the Emperor personally placed her medal on Julia’s chest. Was this what she meant when she said she was being promoted to colonel? Marei paid for her newspaper and leafed through her contents to the store owner who was staring at her.
She wrote a long account of recapturing the northern fortress and pushing back the orc horde. It seemed like it happened a few weeks ago when she was on a business trip. In relation to this, she often participated in mock battles, and as she followed the Orc commander’s fierce breakthroughs and attacks, she remembered feeling scared by the green skin commander, who did not even know her face.
In the newspaper, there were only stories about receiving a medal, stories about the Northern Front, and stories about being a professor at the Walter Academy. I felt like I needed to hear the details directly from Julia.
I just thought it was amazing to talk directly with His Majesty the Emperor.
“Huh… ? It’s Marey, right? What are you doing here?”
“Gilia?”
“Hello~!”
She was Gilia, the third daughter of the Marita family, who were distantly related to the Pawen family. She was also the class president of the class led by Julia, and she was also a heroine preparing for military academy. Of course, it will have to grow a lot here and there.
“What are you looking at? Ah, I was watching Professor Julia’s story. Isn’t it amazing~?”
“Ah, uhm… Yes.”
“Again, again, I am respectful. “I told you to speak comfortably!”
“Ugh…”
Since Labella wrote her letter of recommendation, Gilia has become much brighter, as if she had lifted a heavy burden, and has not been as stiff as before when it comes to the behavior of her classmates.
“I’m on my way to the library, what about you?”
“I was studying at Professor Icher’s, and on my way out after eating with Professor Nagisa…”
“Meeting with professors, uhm… “It must be terrible.”
Gilia frowned and shook her head from side to side as if she was disgusted.
“Professor Nagisa… ? You’re the swordsman professor, right? What happened? Ah, is it about the academy?”
“No, just. I have one daughter. We met by chance, and he asked me to eat together, so somehow.”
“He’s a cute kid.”
Gilia let out a small laugh.
“Anyway, there’s been a lot of talk about Professor Icher. Are you okay?”
“Hmm, I feel like it’s worth it… I don’t know about the test. Did she say the average score was 20?”
“They say it’s definitely difficult… Since it is black magic, there are probably some things that you don’t even study. “Don’t be too scared.”
Perhaps because Gilia was paying attention to her, she brought something like a rumor about Professor Iche Le. There is a great beauty behind the robe, and the test questions were very difficult, and the solution process was so meticulous that the test paper was dense from the beginning. It was the same story.
“How is Gilia?”
“It’s me, I’m doing really well these days. “I think her admission to the military academy is almost confirmed because of Lavela’s letter of recommendation.”
She went for an interview yesterday. Gilia scratched her cheek and laughed.
“Wow, that’s amazing! “Then are you the youngest?”
She said, “There are some ridiculous records from the Continental War, and it is said that she usually goes faster if she gets a letter of recommendation…” . “I’m probably the youngest in recent times.”
It’s not that I did well, but it’s because of Lavela’s letter of recommendation. Gilia gets her nails hard
“I didn’t know my mother’s letter of recommendation would be that good.”
“Marei, I don’t know because you are my mother, but you are an amazing person. “Even though the mother is very, very good to her son at home.”
Gilia smiled happily, recalling the way Labella treated Marei last time. She certainly thought that if she had a child like Marei, she couldn’t help but find it cute.
“Then Lauren, if you have a letter of recommendation, how much does it cost?”
“Governor? If you are the governor…”
Gilia thought carefully and spoke carefully.
“Even if you don’t take the test… “Maybe they’ll let me enroll at the top.”
“Really?”
“There is no way someone of his caliber would write a letter of recommendation, and even if he did, only someone with the qualifications would be able to receive it. Admission at the top of the class is a given, right?”
Marey nodded her head as she thought about asking Lauren if she could write her letter of recommendation to Guillia today, along with the story of her pregnancy.
