"Egugu, be polite!"
Perhaps I felt that I was just saying goodbye to my stepfather, Dorian smiled and complimented me.
I turned my head bitterly toward the nanny, and then stopped looking at the portrait of my parents I had seen in the chapel.
Dorian seemed to unwrap the velvet around the portraits and find a place to decorate them.
I reached out my little hand to Dorian.
"Come here."
"Hey, baby."
Dorian handed over the frame as if she had been waiting for it.
I took them, carefully put them down on the bed, and said:
"That's right."
"This?"
I pointed to the folded velvet, and Dorian handed it to me, puzzled.
I spread a large piece of velvet on the frame.
"Even if it's cheap."
"What?"
Dorian was surprised, but when I didn't change my mind, she rewrapped the frame.
I hugged two velvet-wrapped frames tightly in my arms.
Dorian stroked my hair with moist eyes.
"It's okay, baby. Your father allowed me to put the portrait in your room. Don't you miss the two of you?"
I miss them so much.
Therefore, we cannot waste time in sadness, thinking only about the memories of the two of them.
I have a lot of work to do.
"I want to put it. (I want to put it in a safe place.)"
The pronunciation was leaky, so it took Dorian a while to understand.
But in the end, we cherished the portraits of our parents in the bottom drawer of the closet.
I made a promise as I watched Dorian carefully close the drawer.
"Take it out only when you're too tired or when you're sick."
Dorian closed the drawer tightly, stretched out her arms, and hugged me tightly.
"Yes, baby. You'll take it out as much as you want. Good baby..."
***
I stood side by side with the Halias brothers and saw off Alsaid and Caliph.
At first glance, it was a simple group with an escort knight and a few boots, but it was strange to see a crow sitting on each of the knights' shoulders.
As they began to run, the crows cried in unison and soared into the sky.
Whoa, whatever.
A meaningful cry echoed through the sky, and Shion tilted his head.
"Brother Theo, why are you taking a scout instead of a knight?"
Not a knight, but a scout?
As I listened to Shion's story, Theodore asked him with displeasure.
"Shion, how did you know they were scouts? Do you remember anyone's face?"
"I don't think so, brother. I don't know their face. But I can tell that it's not a Templar. Moreover, they take crows with them."
Theodore patted Shion's head in disgust.
"...Clever, Shion. But I didn't hear why they were taking the scouts in particular. Maybe they are trying to check the situation while they are on their way..."
In fact, even if Theodore knew the exact reason, he was unlikely to tell Shion or me.
But Shion did not give up and asked again.
"But you said you were going to apologize... Other territories don't like the ravens of Haliqs, right?"
Theodore smiled softly.
"That's true. But the crows can fly, so they'll be fine. They can hide in the sky at any time, and they can be clever enough to find their owners."
In response, Shion bent his waist and looked at the raven flying high in the distance.
Theodore laughed.
"If you want to see the crow, shall we go see it?"
Then Shion ran up the stairs and shouted.
"Ugh... I don't like it, brother! They're too loud!"
Theodore then bent down and asked me, making eye contact.
"How is Liana? Are you curious about crows?"
The Halias family was famous for their bird-catching.
They were my enemies in my previous life, watching over intruders and reporting them to the lord of the castle.
To be honest, I might have burned a few of them.
It was interesting to meet the opponents of the previous life as a member of the family.
If it's a crow, it's not as scary as a hawk.
However, Dorian, who was nearby, showed disapproval.
"Master, wouldn't she be scared?"
I'm afraid of crows.
I snorted involuntarily, and Theodore grabbed his stomach and laughed.
"Dorian, Liana laughs. It's not scary, it's funny."
Then he hugged me.
***
We went up the stairs to the far end of the hallway.
Unexpectedly, there was a cage the size of a small room.
I mean, a new room?
Trees grew in the room for birds to sit on, and a cold wind blew in from the windows with many bars.
Looking around, I saw a few crows between the branches.
"Oh my God, the crow is so big."
Maybe it was because I was smaller, but when I saw a black bird the size of me up close, it wasn't so easy.
Theodore sighed lowly.
"Oh, it's scary, isn't it? Sorry, I've loved birds since I was a child, so I thought you would like them too. There are many birds in Halias Castle."
Oh, it's scary!
I was about to tell Theodore that I was okay.
Wow!
A crow nearby made a loud noise, and this time I was startled and burrowed into Theodore's arms.
"Ahh..."
He hugged me, stroked the back of my head, and scolded the crow
"Oh my God, Note. Be quiet, the baby is surprised."
However, the crow that he even called by name did not listen.
Wow! Wow!
"You, this guy!"
Theodore was indignant, but he heard a soft laugh.
I looked up from his arms and saw Garcia.
"Gardilla..."
Theodore was also displeased.
"Garcia! How did you come down?"
Garcia laughed meaningfully.
"I came because I wanted Ingram to make friends."
"Again? Why don't you give up on this..."
Who else is Ingram?
As I looked around, a noisy crow screamed again.
Wow!
I was surprised again, but Garcia calmly opened the cage and walked in.
She reached for a large tree, and a white bird came down and sat on Garcia's shoulder.
Wow! Wow!
The crow near us shouted again, and someone said,
"Get out."
Theodore sighed.
"Oh my God, Ingram... The baby is listening."
"Get off, get out."
It was then that I realized who Ingram was.
Ingram is Garcia's bird....
And say... To be precise, he cursed.
Garcia came back outside and closed the cage door with a click.
Garcia moved Ingram to her wrist, stroked his wings lightly, and asked me.
"Little Baby, did you know that this white guy is also a crow?"
Crow?
Wasn't the crow a crow because it was black?
He tilted his head, and Ingram said,
"Eeeinggram!"
I was surprised and greeted with a strange face.
"I'ma Nyaana...."
As Theodore and Garcia burst into laughter, Ingram replied.
"Nyana! Nice to meet you, Nyana!"
A talking white crow?
I was so embarrassed by Ingram's existence that I was glad that I hadn't met this bird in my previous life.
Ingram repeated loudly.
"Nice to meet you! Nice to meet you, Nyana!"
I couldn't help but greet him.
"Hello, Ingudam...."
Fortunately, Ingram's language skills were just parrots, and there was no further conversation.
However, Ingram said what he had said over and over again.
"Nyana! Ingram! Nice to meet you!"
Still, I didn't tell him to turn it off.
***
Garcia playing with Ingram was just like an old woman.
"This small, ordinary old woman is the guardian of the North Wall..."
In a previous life, I thought that the Guardians of the North Wall, shrouded in secrecy, were a group of capable mages.
I thought that only then would they be able to protect the entire long wall for decades...
No, I don't know if Garcia will be able to defend the North Wall in 16 years.
She's still a grandmother like this.
"Have you decided on a name for the worry doll?"
Garcia suddenly asked, and I quickly shook my head to shake off ny bad feeling
"Ah... Doll..."
"Ahh..."
Theodore Intervened.
"My worry doll also had a name...... What was it?"
"Theodoudou doll?"
"Yes, he had white hair and black eyes. Oh, yes. His name was Marcel."
"Mardel?"
Theodore nodded.
"It's Caliph's middle name. He was my only friend at the time, so I thought I should give him his name."
Theodore smiled nostalgically when he said that.
"But his doll was just called 'Vice'."
"Why?"
Theodore and Garcia giggled together.
"'Vice' means white. My doll also had white hair."
Listening to the story of the Halias brothers' worry dolls, my doubts about the dolls disappeared a lot.
Garcia looked at me with benevolent eyes.
"Baby, treasure of the kingdom, a new star has risen in the western sky."
"...new stal?"
"Yes. If you have sleepless nights, please take Dorian to the Western Tower. I can see the stars close to my room."
I nodded slowly, and Theodore explained affectionately.
"Garcia used to look at the sky to find out what was going to happen, and she had predicted all the births of our brother, but the star of Shion was the biggest and brightest."
"...Tion?"
I thought of Shion and shook my head a few times.
He will be the grand scholar of the kingdom, so he is a big and bright person.
Ingram suddenly shouted loudly.
"Cherry! Cherry!"
Garcia laughed and slowly turned away from the hallway.
"I think he's hungry. Let's see you again, Baby."
As the little old woman walked slowly down the high-ceilinged corridor, a white crow fluttered its wings and flew from side to side.
"Cherry! Cherry! Eeeeeeeeinggram!"
After his loud exit, Theodore called out to me in a meaningful voice.
"By the way, Liana."
"Hmm?"
"I told you you should call me brother, didn't you? To all of our brothers."
I stuttered with my jaw dropped, and Theodore kindly demonstrated it.
"Come on, follow me, Theo Brother."
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