Chapter 111: – The Lord Is With Us (32)

༺ The Lord Is With Us (32) ༻

My new life at the orphanage could only be called monotonous.

Rising at the crack of dawn, I practiced my swordsmanship with Celine and Seria. It would have been nice to have Senior Delphine join us, but she scoffed at the idea and refused.

She believed that we weren’t on the same level to train together.

If I really wanted to, a single brandish of my hatchet would fix her attitude, but doing so just when her fear of me started subsiding sounded like the worst outcome.

Not to mention, she had spent her entire life honing her swordsmanship and was likely to have her own routine. There was no need to force her to break away from her routine just to join our training.

If there was time after training, I’d spend the rest of the day observing the forest or helping out with the chores at the orphanage.

I was already quite close to the children. In fact, not just me but everyone else as well.

Even Senior Delphine was strangely cooperative in doing her fair share of the chores despite how disgruntled she was at the beginning.

And Seria was especially shocked when she witnessed her lofty sister do menial chores.

“……S-sis, you’re doing the laundry?”

Seria froze upon seeing her prideful older sister twisting and wringing out the soggy laundry before turning to look at me with a tearful expression.

“S-senior Ian…….”

Her eyes were begging me to do something about it. Her sister doing laundry came as big of a shock to her as hearing that the world was coming to an end.

It was understandable. Seria was practically a vassal of the Yurdina.

Although she was an illegitimate child born of a maid, the fact that she was a skilled swordswoman made her the perfect vassal to serve as Delphine’s closest confidant.

She held various feelings towards her sister. While she was fearful of Senior Delphine, she also admired her and harbored some degree of sibling affection.

That was why, to her, this situation was no different from a servant watching her master do trivial chores.