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"......"

Lelia was perplexed. Her uncle began to cry.

"Uhh..."

Perhaps due to overlapping memories of the events when Lelia was young, her uncle wept like a child, holding the plate of maclia in his hands. Her mother's expression began to turn confused. In this way, her uncle would often cry in front of her mother, and it made her mother feel a bit uncomfortable. But as he began to cry openly again, her mother looked at Lelia with her troubled expression.

"... Uncle, so... When I was young I..."

Lelia couldn't get her explanation right and she spoke gibberish. Her mother approached cautiously, and, covering her mouth with her hand, she asked softly into her ear.

"By any chance, did he get hurt? Where? Head or..."

She saw a grown man crying every day, so she seemed to ask Lelia to find out. It was a heartbreaking situation for her uncle, but Lelia struggled to smile when her mother, who had no memory, asked so clearly. She shook her head, saying it wasn't the case. Her mother seemed relieved.

"Uncle..."

Lelia reached out and stroked her uncle's large shoulder. Her big uncle felt like a child. The childhood image of her uncle, who would have loved and followed her sister, was clear.

"I'm sorry... I'm just..."

Her uncle raised his head and looked at her mother. The family had agreed together. First of all, they decided to help her mother, who has only just begun to adapt to the castle, focus on regaining her health. They decided not to force her memory to come back by revealing her past for no compelling reason.

Lelia needed time, both for her mother and for her family. Even though it would take her a long time, she decided to go a little slower. Lelia had confessed to her grandfather that she had a medicine to bring her memories back. After a long conversation, her grandfather and Lelia came to a conclusion. After her mother became perfectly healthy, they would decide whether to use the medicine or not. So it was difficult to explain why her uncle was crying right now. It must have been the reason why her uncle was now speechless and unable to explain.

"... Don't cry and eat."

Then, her mother carefully reached out to her uncle and patted him on the back. Perhaps it was because she had heard that he was her younger brother, she seemed to feel pity for him without knowing the reason. But her uncle started crying louder. Her mother panicked, and Lelia smiled embarrassedly.

***

She was happy like a dream. Her mother was getting her health back... She seemed to be happy to know that her family was there. She was so happy and peaceful that she thought it was a dream. Besides, she had her friends by her side. She ate breakfast with her friends when she woke up in the morning, drank tea once a day and went for a walk together. Kalix was still foolish, Romeo was comfortable, and Griffith was warm. It felt like everything she had hoped for had come true.

The days she spends peacefully with her family in her estate, and even her friends who protect her. Of course, Emperor Perseus was still unaware of her mother's existence, so it could be this peaceful. She knew that. A lot will change in the future. However...

Even if Lelia were to go to the neutral zone, she was sure that for a few months of the year she would be able to feel this happiness again. But... In the midst of her happy days like this, Lelia felt like her chest had been ripped open. Oscar. She doesn't have Oscar by her side now. Late at night, alone in her room, Lelia hugged her knees and started crying.

She is happy like a dream every day, and her tears burst out when she is strangely left alone in her room late at night. She missed Oscar and she was worried. Lelia asked herself. Is this feeling because of the remaining medicinal effect? Or just friendship? Now she could come up with an answer.