CH 19

“Isn’t there anything useful?”

She didn’t sleep until morning because she was busy pulling her hair out. Because so many things happened in a year and a half, it was difficult to recall the original work.

“Ha…”

The relationship between the main characters was clearly organized. And she also remembered a few supporting characters…

There was no one she could need…

“Oh, obviously there was. A great educator.”

Let’s make him human! Let’s socialize Leone and help him become a member of the imperial family! She had never had such a goal and never planned to have one. Still, she felt the need to teach Leone to speak. It was because that was the only way to know about Leone.

She wished she could learn the language of Leone, but she could neither understand nor learn the language of the beast. However, Leone could learn human language little by little. Even if it was wrong, he called her name and understood her short words. So that was the quickest and most reasonable way.

She would ask him directly about his scars, his nightmares, and he would be able to tell what he wants and how he can be happy.

“Azar… Not this person.”

Apparently, there was an educator who played a big role in the novel, but she couldn’t remember the name. That person was the talent selected by the female lead. The fourth son of a shabby baron in the frontier town. That fourth son’s future was clear. He would not be a baron, but a commoner with a little wealth and aristocratic manners.

But his family was even shabby… Usually, it was best to become a butler for a noble family, but since it was a border town, there were no jobs for him. However, it costs too much money to come to the capital, so he couldn’t do that either. The solution was to marry a noblewoman with a title and receive the title, but he was not attractive enough to appeal to the daughters of the only countess in the frontier village.

He gave up his career and sought a way to live a moderate life. He was quite brilliant, so he quickly found his talent. He knew that he had excellent qualities as an educator. He first started working as a volunteer at the temple, and soon became a nursery school teacher.

Everyone pointed his finger at him and said he was doing useless work, but he soon succeeded in teaching the deaf. But the town was a very cornered place. Geographically it was not good, so he couldn’t show his ability any more and continued to live there. Abandoning his career or title, he spent nearly a decade proud of himself as an educator and compulsorily content with a salaryman’s life.

In front of him, the female lead, Leila, held out her hand. He wasn’t without ambition in the first place, so when Layla offered him to go to the capital, he immediately took her hand. What did the man say when introducing himself to the female lead? It was a scene where the female lead admired, saying that she had never seen a person with such manners in a border town.

It felt like a mouse would come to her head of how disheveled she was.

“Roo… Root. No that. Lou, Sat. Rutu. Luther… ah! Luton!”

Luton, Luton! Eureka! She remembered the family name.

Now, all she had to do was remember the name of the village and the name of the man. But her memory didn’t work hard anymore. She needed a list of nobles. If she looked closely, a familiar name would pop out.

“Tomorrow I will go to Adler first.”

She read what she had written down once more and put it into her head.

Because the day was fine, the fireplace was not lit, so she took the candle she had next to her and burned it carefully. The ashes of the burnt paper fell into the hearth and mixed with the soot. A complete destruction of evidence was accomplished.

* * *

“Do you have anything to say?”

Adler spoke to her with a questionable face. It was a question that came back as soon as she entered the study, so she was surprised without knowing it.

“Yeah?”

She came to ask for it openly, but why was she being stabbed? Hearing the sound from the window yesterday, she thought of Adler running out and became frightened. Adler at that time was really scary.

“Why are you so surprised?”

“Adler. Sir Leone needs a tutor.”

“…Yeah?”

Adler answered her a beat late. A bunch of question marks on his face seemed like she knew what he was thinking even if she didn’t ask. Anybody in that mansion knew how to hide their emotions, so it was easy to spot. She tended to hide it often, so her conscience hurt a little.

“What do you mean all of a sudden?”

“If you want to teach Leone to speak, you definitely need a teacher who has knowledge and has a good curriculum.”

“Trixie. You saw the moment Leone had a seizure yesterday, right? I have thought it necessary, but it is too risky.”

That morning, Leone was also hit with medicine. So Adler’s concerns were justified.

“How do you get the mindset to hire a tutor?”

“… To convince me, Sir Leone will have to tell me my name.”

After thinking about how to convince him, Adler’s words brightened her mind. He was still calling her Tree, but ‘damn knight’, didn’t he say that word correctly? Given time, anything could be done.

“Is that enough?”

Adler and Gourden could not get close to Leone. That’s why she didn’t see the scene where Leone said a short word. Yesterday, in front of Adler, he called her and said ‘risi’, but it sound more like ‘rrr’.

“If so… I mean It seems easy.”

Adler laughed. She shook her head.

“I mean I will try.”

“If you could teach Sir Leone my name… I will give you a thousand gold as a reward.”

A bitter look spread across Adler’s face. He seemed to be well aware that Leone hated him and that he refused to learn to speak.

“Well. Anyway, that’s not what I meant to be talking about, the tutor. I have someone to recommend.”

She turned around. Adler grew depressed the closer she got to Leone. The shadow that fell on his face these days was, needless to say, thick.

“I was also a noble lady, so I was educated. My teacher was very sincere, wise, and passionate about education. He told me just once about an educator at a country nursery school, with his gossip.”

Of course, she didn’t know who her former teacher was. So it was important to emphasize that it was just small talk. Even if the teacher said it so lightly that he couldn’t even remember it, there was no way for Adler to grasp the truth.

“Wait. Are you recommending a teacher from a rural nursery school to be invited as Sir Leone’s teacher?”

As expected, Adler’s refutation came back from an unexpected part. It’s like this arm blow…

“It doesn’t matter to anyone in terms of discipline or life, but knowledge is not the same. Recruiting the best people in the empire is not enough!”

“No, just listen.”

“There is nothing more to hear.”

“But… That man is said to teach deaf people who can’t understand or hear.”

“… He teaches the deaf? Does such an education law exist?”

Adler rolled his eyes in amazement.

“I heard he developed it. My teacher was also surprised. If only he could teach deaf children…”

Wouldn’t it be possible to read Leone’s mind? There was no need for the words that followed. Adler himself added it.

“Sir Leone too. He might be able to teach him.”

Adler’s eyes widened.

“Who is that person?”

“That’s why I’m doing this.”

“Yeah?”

“My memory… I don’t remember his name. How can I come up with his family name?”

“Aha.”

“Show me the list of nobles, please.”

A very thick list of nobles quickly sat down on her hand, so she smiled awkwardly.

“It’s from five years ago, so the accuracy is low, but if he is a teacher, he must probably be quite old, so it should be written down.”

She stumbled slightly over the thick book, then placed it on the reading table Adler pointed to.

Luton, Luton… 

After a while, she found it.

In a village four days away, Benjamin Luton. That was the man.

* * *

The sun felt a little warm. It seemed that early summer was approaching. The only thing better there than in her previous life was that the temperature difference was not as great as in Korea. Although it was hot in the summer, the humidity was low, so it was cool in the shade, and although it was cold in the winter, there was no sharp wind blowing that would freeze the whole body.

‘Which season does Leone like the most?’

After she decided to teach him to speak, she had a lot of questions. She always asked Deoksoon ‘do you like this? What do you think of that?’

He couldn’t answer, but she could tell. How nice it would have been if Deoksoon could learn to speak, or if she could have learned Deok-soon’s language. There were so many times she wanted to talk to Deoksoon… If Deoksoon had come to that world, and if he had been by her side, he would have had a good time with Leone.

No way. She had to try not to be sad again.

“It’s worth the money while ventilating, really.”

After the curtains were drawn, she took a look around the brightened room before approaching the cage. 

If one sleeped too much and didn’t see the sun, one would become lethargic, so one had to let the light into the room.

“Leone.”

She carefully opened the cage and went in and approached him who was buried in the cushions. The day before yesterday, he was given a sedative. After that, he just sits there in a daze. They said he didn’t take the medicine today because he ate well. So she came to check on Leone. It was because Leone’s anxious eyes kept glimmering and caught in her heart.

Leone, who made a quiet noise, seemed peaceful. He was different from him a few days ago, when he let go of his hatred with a vein in his neck.

She sat down on the cushion and put her hand on his hair. Soft, silky hair slipped through her fingers.

“Are you sleeping well?”

She murmured softly.

She wished him good night and continued to stroke his hair.