Chapter 203

For a while there was only the sound of tears and runny noses in the classroom.

“…….”

Nicholas pretended to read the letter so he wouldn’t be seen crying, and covered his face with the letter paper.

But I could see transparent tears dripping down on Nicholas’s desk.

“…… Huff.”

Ninaina took out her handkerchief and wiped the corners of her eyes with a tearful look.

Still, she was scanning the letter.

At first I thought Maya was reading the letter casually, but then I noticed that the corners of his mouth were trembling.

“…… Even if I return to the kingdom, I will never forget these letters.”

Then he looked at us one by one with wet eyes and muttered so.

Cedric looked around, bewildered by the sobbing noises from the surrounding area as he read the letter.

“What, what? Why is everyone crying? Stupid! Why are you crying…… Hu-huff…….”

But, sadly, Cedric’s eyes were already full of tears, unlike the voice pretending he wasn’t sad.

Eventually, Cedric was busy wiping the tears from his sleeve.

“…… Huhuu, Emir. Thank you so much for writing this letter.”

Alice, too, was dripping with a long line of marble-like tears.

Then she saw me crying and handed me a handkerchief.

“Huu, Miss Emir, please use…… this handkerchief.”

I was crying, but I declined the handkerchief because it seemed that Alice needed it more.

Meanwhile, through my blurred vision, I saw Jake smiling faintly at me.

‘Jake, he usually cries a lot. At times like this, he was surprisingly resolute.’

Jake was the only one of 7 children including me who didn’t cry.

After a while, I barely wiped my tears and started reading the letter.

‘Oh, what to do? The ink is smeared……!’

But there was a problem.

Ink smeared everywhere where my tears had fallen, making it look ugly.

I couldn’t ruin the letter any more.

I stopped my tears with my eyes wide open.

‘Funny thoughts, funny thoughts…….’

I imagined Cedric wearing the uniform with his buttons misbuttoned one by one when I went to play at Cedric’s mansion.

‘That look was really funny.’

And I remembered the day I went to the market in an adult form using artifacts.

Ninaina’s appearance is clearly a dignified princess, but her actions and tone are still childish.

‘There was a lot of laughter because of the difference in tone and appearance.’

So, I remembered one by one the interesting things that happened during the year.

But why…….

‘The more I think about it, the more tears come to my eyes! Hey, I won’t think about anything anymore.’

Eventually, I shook my head, cleared my head, and began reading the letter again with the handkerchief I pulled out of my pocket and placed it around my eyes.

The first letter that caught my eye was from Nicholas.

A neat and clean handwriting.

[Nicholas: Lady Emir, nice to meet you.

It was awkward when I first wrote the letter, but it’s not awkward anymore because Lady is the last one.

In fact, there were a lot of things I wanted to say to Lady.

When I first came to kindergarten, I never imagined that I would be friends with anyone except for Ninaina here.

But thanks to Lady, who came to me first and held out your hand, I was able to become good friends with others.

Of course, I’m also grateful that you introduced me to a children’s book.

Lady was the first to recognize me as Nicholas, not as the prince.]

‘Prince Nicholas…….’

As I wrote this letter, thinking of Nicholas, who must have been a little shy, made my heart ache.

The next letter was from Cedric.

I could tell just by looking at the crooked letters.

[I am Cedric.

Damn, I wrote this letter four times and now I’m just realizing it.

That I had written my name as ‘Ced ric’ and not ‘Cedric’.

No, more than that, Emir.

I have something to tell you.

Well…… Thank you.

As you know, there are many times when we were together alone, right?

The one who helped me play the handbell, the one who helped me retrieve the stolen sword, and the one who gave me a party on my birthday.

Damn, come to think of it, it’s all just me getting help, right? I have no qualifications as a knight.

Well, as long as you continue to be close friends with me, I will pay you back for all the things I have received from you.]

‘What, do you really have to say this when you mean that you want to continue being friends? Phew. Anyway, Cedric. He still isn’t being honest.’

I read the following letter.

The sharp but neat handwriting felt very similar to that of Nicholas.