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Albert's kindness makes me a little nervous.
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I am afraid that one day he will be depressed with me. He might throw me away again.
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"Is it okay to be so selfish?"
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I had always made a face, but now I couldn't hide the uneasy expression on my face. Maybe that's how desperate I was.
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I knew I should never show my weakness. To be with Alicia, I had to be strong. So, no matter what the situation is, I have to stand tall without being impatient or frightened.
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This is what I learned from watching her.
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Alicia is standing gracefully in any adversity. In fact, she looks more happy (and lively) when she is in hardship. With Alicia, we would never lose. I feel that way when I look at her.
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I admire her, but sometimes I feel timid.
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Even when she is strong, she is sensitive to the slightest change in facial expression. Alicia is still Alicia, and I am still me.
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I am still weak and small.
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"Compared to Alicia's selfishness as a child, I'm a pretty little thing. Besides, she's special. It's my fault that Alicia can't take care of me anymore. At least Jill can be a child."
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He relaxed his mouth and said in a soft voice in response to my earlier question.
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"Oh, Alicia was selfish?"
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"Yeah. I've already said dozens of times what you asked for on a daily basis."
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I can't believe it. I can't imagine that Alicia would say something like that.
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...... was a bad girl back in the day.
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"But then one day, for some reason, she just changed. Suddenly she started reading books and wanted to learn swordsmanship. ....... I still don't know what made her like that.
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"I wonder if there was some big trigger."
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"Not that there's anything special about it. It was really sudden. That's when I really started to lose sight of Alicia. ....... Maybe she sensed it."
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Albert says seriously.
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I had thought that Alicia had been so selfish, that she was just making up stories to impress me, but it seems that she was telling the truth.
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It is easy to want to change. But people do not change so easily. Unless you have amnesia, you will never change your personality.
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"It's one of the mysteries we still haven't figured out. Since there are no social debuts in this country, the only people who know of Alicia's selfishness are the people of this house."
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"Alicia, the only daughter among the great nobility: ....... Maybe it was all an act from the beginning."
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"What do you mean?"
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Albert tilts his head.
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"If the saint had not appeared, the Duke would have married Alicia. So he was deliberately trying to make her dislike him?"
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"Then why did you suddenly stop acting?"
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Indeed. There is no reason to stop acting. If anything, it's because I knew that Albert and his friends were about to fall out of love with me.
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But I don't think this will make her change her plans.
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"Speaking of which, something had changed a little the day before Alicia's change."
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Albert opened his mouth, trying desperately to remember the old days.
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