Chapter 12: chapter 12

 

I, Emma Anak, was born as a farmer's child in a small village named Khana, located in the northern part of the Crambel territory.

　I would say that I grew up in a warm and healthy family with kind parents.

After I reached adulthood, I was able to marry my childhood friend, who was very kind to me, and have children with him.

　Although we were somewhat poor, we were happy.

　I thought this happiness would last forever.

　Until I was invited to join the Crambell family as Master Luke's nanny. ......

　The same year that my child was born, Master Luke, the eldest son of the Crambell family, was born.

With that, Master Sebas, the butler of the Crambell family, asked me if I would be Master Luke's nanny.

　I had never heard good things about the Crambells before.

I have heard that the lord takes the woman of his choice and forces them to live in his mansion just to satisfy his lust.

　I wonder if he buys children with no relatives as slaves from other estates. I have also heard such rumors.

So, naturally, my husband and parents strongly opposed me becoming a nanny.

However, unlike the rumors, Master Sebas did not try to force me to go with him, but gave me a choice.

　Normally, I would have had to willingly accept it as a duty of a fiefdom.

　Not only that. He also offered me a large sum of money.

　Maybe he was just asking me to do it as a serious and honest job.　

　At the moment I thought that, I was dazzled by the word "reward.

I thought that if I could get a payment from the Crambell family, I would be able to give my child an education.

　Unless you are born to a noble family or a merchant, you don't earn enough to get an education.

That is why every farmer's child longs to go to school at least once.

　I might be able to send my child to that school.

It was this desire that made me take on the role of Master Luke's nanny, overcoming the objections of my family.

　Ten days after Master Sebas' visit to the village of Khana, I left my child in the care of a friend and began my life at the Crambell family mansion.

I was nervous and anxious about my new job and new environment, but all the senior members of the house, including Sebas, were kind to me, and my anxiety was quickly dissolved and my tension was lifted.

Although the lord, Master Lloyd, did not speak much and always looked grumpy, he was not particularly strict or unreasonable, and nothing that I had heard rumors of happened to him.

　I was becoming convinced that the rumors were just that, rumors.

I was becoming convinced that this was the case, but I was not quite sure.

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I heard from my seniors in a vague manner that the previous lord and his son, Lloyd's father and elder brother, were as rumored, or even more than rumored.

　At that time, I considered myself lucky.

　The previous lords had died in a fire a few months before I arrived at the mansion.

　In retrospect, it was probably a mistake to have taken it that way.

　Perhaps I was punished for thinking that their deaths were a blessing in disguise.

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　Two months after I came to the mansion, the village of Khana was hit by a flood caused by heavy rain.

　Nearly half of the houses in the village, including the house my family lived in, which was built at the foot of the mountain, were made part of the mountain by a landslide.

I was in the mansion and wanted to leave immediately to go to the village of Khana.

However, I could not leave the side of young Master Luke, who was still hungry for milk.

I spent my days at the mansion raising Master Luke and praying for the safety of my family.

　However, that wish never came true.

　In the first place, it was a wish that could never be fulfilled.

　It was three days after the end of the heavy rain that I heard the news from Khana village.

　During that time, no one was involved in the rescue operation.

The remaining people of Khana and the people of the other villages were too occupied with their own lives to carry out rescue operations.

　With the lack of manpower in the Crambell territory, there is still no way to recover from the disaster.

　Families, friends, and people from the village who knew each other face to face are still under a large amount of soil after two years have passed.

　Those who remained in the village have scattered and relocated to other villages.

　With no people left and the terrain changed, the village of Khana is no longer a place I can call home.

　I had lost my place to return to and my family all at once.

　Some people say I was lucky.

　I was saved because I was called to the mansion as a nanny.

But I didn't see it that way.

　I was left behind.

I was all alone 

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