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"...... at the Royal Palace?"

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　How did someone who worked in a royal palace end up in a poor village .......

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"I disagreed with him, and when I spoke out against him, I made him furious. He was blinded and washed up here."

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"How ...... did you argue with him?"

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　I found my voice trembling.

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"What's your name?"

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"I'm Alicia."

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"Well, Alicia ......, that's a nice name. I'm Will. Just Will.

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　He stroked my head lightly.

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　I wonder if he could tell what I looked like. He was so calm.

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"Alicia, I know you don't understand this yet, but older is not always better. Do you know what it means to look back in history?"

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　I was speechless, even though I knew I had to respond.

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"Looking back on history is not to confirm that things were better in the past. We look back at history to make it better than it was, to know the mistakes of the past and to create new developments.

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　Tears involuntarily streamed down my cheeks.

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　Grandpa Will gently wiped my tears away with his hand.

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"You are a smart boy. It is important to accumulate knowledge so that you can create wisdom.

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"Grandpa Will, do you hate the royal ...... court, the nobility?"

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　I could see Grandpa Will's expression harden.

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"I'd be lying if I said I didn't hate him. I still look for reminders of my old self in my dreams. When I try to touch the colored world in my memory, it disappears momentarily. It sometimes torments me. But I believe I have done nothing wrong. And I believe that the day will come when someone will understand that. When I think of that, I can live with pride in what I have done.

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　I was ashamed of myself. For the first time in my eight years, I realized how blessed I was.

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　I can't stop crying. I sobbed and cried. I couldn't stop, even though I knew it was shameful.

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　I couldn't control my anger towards the nobleman who was in the same position as me and my smallness of wanting to be a bad girl compared to the idea of the old man who had taken my eyes from me.

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　Will embraced me tenderly. I will never forget his warmth.

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　I told him the whole story about how I wanted to be a bad girl.

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　That's why I came here. .......

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　Grandpa Will listened to me quietly until the end.

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　When I finished, he smiled gently and patted my head.

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"You are a very smart boy," he said.

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　I wept silently.

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　I'm sure I look my ugliest right now. Tomorrow morning I'll probably not be able to open my eyes.

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"You want to be a bad girl, so you learn swordsmanship and read a lot of books every day ......."

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　I nodded deeply.

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　The corners of my eyes crinkled and Grandpa Will laughed.

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"Please keep that aspiration alive in the future."

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　Unexpectedly, she recommended me to be a bad girl. I don't know why: .......

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　A bad girl is a bad woman. A woman who thinks she's good enough for herself. .......

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"You should go home now."

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I'll be back.

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　Grandpa Will looked annoyed at my response.

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"You shouldn't have come."

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"No. I would like to talk more with Grandpa Will.

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　Grandpa Will froze for a moment, then his face broke into a smile and he said, "Thank you.

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　I guess he could tell that I was stubborn and that once I made up my mind, I would stick to it.

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　I left Grandpa Will's house and headed toward the fog.

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　The smell was strong. I covered my nose with my hand.

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　I walked through the fog and out into the woods. I ran through the woods with my extinguished lamp in my hand.

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　The fear I felt on the way there was gone on the way back. I thought about the poor village on the way back.

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　In a word, a poor village is a corrupt area.

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　I would never want to go there again, but I would like to talk to Grandpa Will again.

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　I think he is the most intelligent person I have ever met.

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