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While Sage went to deal with Baon.

I smiled at Helena, who was sitting across from me while drinking tea.

"I think this is my first time having tea with you."

"There's been so much going on. I'm glad we can have tea time together now."

"So, would you like to tell me now?"

Helena, putting down her teacup, gave off the impression that she already knew everything.

"That's why you came to me."

"Well, it's not like there was no reason at all, but I just wanted to see my grandmother more."

"so?"

Helena raised her lips gently, as if she was not entirely offended by my words.

"But where did grandpa go?"

"I'm out of the office for a moment."

So where to?

When I opened my eyes wide, Helena shook her head, saying she didn't know.

Are you saying that you left without even telling her where you were going?

I couldn't believe it, but since Helena said so, she must have been away for some important reason. I sat in the circular pergola in the garden, surrounded by blooming flowers, leisurely drinking tea, and my mind felt at peace.

"Isn't it beautiful?"

"yes?"

"This garden. It's the garden that Ian gave me as a gift when I was the mistress of Astrophell."

"Was it like that?"

"Set sometimes comes here for a walk, right? Maybe it's because Estella also visited here often when she was alive."

Helena was looking somewhere with eyes lost in memories.

She looked down, caressing the edge of her teacup.

"Estella and I used to drink tea here often. I was worried that she wasn't adjusting well to the castle. It's understandable that a free-spirited child from the South would suddenly become the mistress of the Astrophel family."

"......Ah. So that's what happened."

"I was the same way. That's why I'm so worried. There's no one like you there to take care of you."

"......grandma."

Helena looked at me with an expression full of worry.

"It's not that Kaid doesn't allow it because he feels like he's being taken away from you. Of course, he does have that kind of feeling, too."

"I never thought there would be a reason for that. I was too short-sighted."

That's what getting married was like.

As long as Sage was designated as the next head of the Kiraas family, it was right for me to follow him since he could not leave the North.

It was only natural that moving there would be physically and mentally difficult, as the whole lifestyle had changed.

Moreover, while there were many people in the South who truly cared about me, there was no guarantee that this would be the case in the North.

Because I will be nothing more or less than a maid to them.

The only person who could truly understand my inner feelings was Sage.

That's what Kaid was worried about.