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Now forty-one years old, Williams family father, Arnold
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It's been a year since Alicia holed up in her cabin: .......
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I didn't think she would agree to it at the time. I had given her an unreasonable offer.
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I was trying to get Alicia to give up, but I had motivated her to do the opposite.
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I thought I knew Alicia's character very well, but I thought she would break if the conditions were so impossible.
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I have never seen Alicia since then.
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Alicia's personal maid of honor, Rosetta, brings her food, clothes, and books.
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Of course, they have no contact with each other.
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They only leave food and clothes outside the hut. The hut is shabby, but it has a bath, and it is livable, but I knew there was no way Alicia would be able to live in that kind of environment after the one she had been living in.
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It is possible to adjust from a simple life to a luxurious life, but it is very difficult to adjust from a luxurious life to a simple life.
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And yet, Alicia has endured that situation for a year.
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How much more can she endure? She used to give up on everything so quickly.
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I made a lousy wish ...... that she'd give up sooner.
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I wished with all my heart that I had forced myself to stop being Cather Liz's watchdog when Alicia was taken.
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I didn't see her until after the wounds were gone, but I heard later how she was.
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It was heartbreaking. My daughter could have died.
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I knew I had to stop this dangerous thing as soon as possible, but she insisted that she would not stop monitoring Cather Liz.
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I did not understand. She said she would continue to keep an eye on Cather Liz even after what had happened to her and knowing that her life was in danger. And she accepted the terms and went straight to the cabin.
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I have to take responsibility for what I say.
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I made a promise to Alicia and I must keep it.
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Without saying a word to Luke, I tried to get Alicia to resign from her position as Cather Liz's warden. I knew he would be smart enough to understand my feelings if I told him later.
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Soon there was an emergency meeting of the five noble families and I told them everything.
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João told me that I had done a selfish thing, but I managed to convince them all.
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I told them that without level 90, I could not monitor and develop the saints.
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All four of them reluctantly agreed, but I could see the impatience on their faces.
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Because two years from now, Cather Liz would be twenty years old and in her senior year.
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Once she graduates from the magic academy, she will have to live her life as a saint.
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So there is no time to relax. I understand that.
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But why my daughter?
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We certainly know that Alicia is an unprecedented heretic as well as a saint. Still, I would never kill my own daughter. My gut is churning.
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What do you think you are doing with my daughter?
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All four of them wrinkled their brows and closed their mouths.
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After a few moments of silence, Luke said quietly, "Heresy for a heretic.
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How selfish I was, I thought to myself, but I looked at the hut and wished every day, Alicia, please come out of the hut.
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I went to my room to meet a boy named Jill for the first time.
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The boy came out with a pouting face and seemed much smaller than a normal nine-year-old boy.
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As I told him everything, his expression became more and more grim. I told him that Alicia would not be able to go to the poor village for two years.
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Then I gave Jill a bottle of a light pink liquid called Abel. He told her that she could go through the wall to the poor village anytime she wanted.
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Then he stared at me with a terrible fierceness.
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He had such a terrible, murderous temper that I could hardly believe he was a nine-year-old boy.
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Children are pitiful when adults are stupid, Gilles said with a sneer and walked away from me.
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I couldn't say anything back to him and just looked away from his little back.
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It was as if he was giving me the same environment as Alicia.
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Jill had spent the entire year in our library.
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Meals were brought to the library by the servants. And he took a bath only once every two days.
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Sometimes he went outside in the middle of the night to the forest. The destination must have been a poor village.
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Alan and Albert did not seem to be particularly concerned about Alicia.
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But Henri was the first to raise his voice and yell at me.
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He asked me why I had made such an absurd condition. Couldn't he see that Ali would always accept such a condition, even if it was impossible?
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After that day, Henri and I never spoke to each other again.
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And Luke's son, Duke, began to stare at me.
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He said nothing to me, but there was anger and contempt in his eyes when he looked at me.
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My wife fist-bumped me in the cheek. That was all. ......
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I thought I knew my daughter well, but maybe I underestimated her a little.
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She is the kind of girl who, if she has a goal, will never give up until she achieves it.
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At that time, I was too rash and told her what she couldn't do.
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About six months later, I found a letter in front of the cabin.
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It was from Alicia to me.
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