I adopt the male lead

chapter 5

The village where Karina and the children arrived was just an ordinary rural village found everywhere in the Empire.

Young children ran around screaming among sour tired people moving for labor. At their feet, the rats and cats were playing tag.

But for Karina, who lived in a mansion, it felt like a different place.

Of course, they had no time to spare, and Karina inadvertently passed the sight away when she normally would have looked.

The children’s eyes glistened continuously as if they knew the anxious burning sound of Karina.

Karina soon realized why.

The children grew up in an orphanage and were trapped in Lord Lenque’s forest mansion. There was no chance for them to see a small town.

If Karina didn’t have the memory of her past life, she would have thought that the world was only the forest, the mansion, and a small stream that she would go to once a year.

But Karina knew, they just haven’t had a chance to go, and now there’s an infinite world ahead of them.

“…?”

Karina blinked her eyes.

She felt something heavy, Roland was timidly hanging on her bag.

As soon as Karina noticed the fact, it was pitiful to see him step back and read her expression.

“Roland.”

Karina sighed inward.

“Come here.”

“…I’m sorry.”

“There’s nothing to be sorry about.”

Karina raised the bag in her hand to her shoulders.

There was not much inside anyway, so it looks more like a handbag rather than a regular bag.

“You can hold my hand now.”

“…”

Roland hesitated for a moment, unable to hold Karina’s hand, which was held out to him.

“You don’t want to?”

“Ah, no!”

Roland hurriedly grabbed Karina’s hand, she felt the little hand is burning with tension.

Karina busily grabbed the children’s hands and drew them.

There’s still a long way to go.

When they arrived at a place where they could ride carriages leaving for other cities, she took a deep breath.

Karina was nervous as she tried to carry out what she had only imagined in her head.

Even more so, she held the hands of two young children who only looked at her.

“There are too many people.”

Melissa was terrified and dug into Karina’s side.

“It’s all right.”

Karina reassured Melissa.

“This isn’t much.”

It was as she said.

The building at the top of the village, Abelau’s building, was always bustling, but not to the point where the child was scared.

Melissa nodded, but Karina didn’t try to get away from her. Karina didn’t bother to take Melissa off of her either.