# 3
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Could things go like this?
Elinor returned to her room and sighed in confusion.
She enrolled in the academy to avoid the fate of the original story, and returned home seven years later.
More than a year has passed since the original story's starting point.
So, she thought Charlotte had made up her mind somehow.
In fact, she made up her mind.
But not with the hero. Rather, she became involved with the secondary character, Alexis, and she became pregnant, gave birth, and then ran away at night.
“Dad, Mom, what exactly happened?”
Charlotte even left the child she had given birth to in the palace and left.
“A child that Charles gave birth to? You didn’t tell me anything about this!”
Her parents would tell Elinor, when she asked about Charlotte, that she was living well.
She misses her older sister very much and has to constantly write letters to her.
But Charlotte never responded to Elinor's letters.
She previously thought it was because she was preoccupied with the original story and in love with the hero.
'baby? When did Charle begin her deep relationship with Alexis Aubin? No, apart from that, how could they hide something so important from me?'
But more serious things happened.
“Who says we should feel shame?”
"my dad."
"She was hiding her pregnancy until the last minute before giving birth. Your mother knew and colluded with her!"
“Mom, did you know?”
“I'm sorry, Elaine. But Charle ed me to keep it a secret… After all, Charle is still an unmarried virgin. We must protect her reputation.”
“Mom, how can you be a virgin when you have given birth to a child?”
"She's a virgin! She has to be one to be a saint!"
Elinor remembered her conversation with her parents, so she held her forehead, which was beginning to hurt.
In short, it was a total disaster.
Her association with a man other than the hero can be overlooked.
Since Elinor herf departed from the original story, there was no law requiring Charlotte to follow her written destiny.
But abandoning the child she had given birth to and running away into the night with a man was a different matter.
“What exactly are you thinking, Charles?”
Because of this, the Count was jumping in anger, accusing Charlotte of ingratitude.
The Countess insisted on hiding the truth because someone other than a virgin could not become a saint, and Charlotte must be found.
The fact that none of the servants appeared in the palace was planned by the Countess.
She gave everyone, except those very close to her, a long holiday to coincide with Charlotte's due date.
“Huh.”
A deep sigh escaped Elinor's mouth.
She felt that this situation was more difficult than the first problem she solved after joining the academy.
“I was just going to say hello and leave quickly.”
But the situation has become very complicated.
Elinor remembered the baby she had seen in the day.
No one, neither the Count nor the Countess, embraced the child, who was crying from the Count's screams.
The couple hated the child.
They seem to think that all their problems are caused by this child.
“Oh my God, calm down, baby.”
If the nanny had not run late to comfort the child, he would have stopped breathing from crying.
Elinor slowly got up.
Click.
Late at night, I arrived at the room where the baby was.
The room was quiet.
It seems that the nanny has left temporarily.
Elinor took it as an advantage, and went towards the bed where the child lay.
She thought he was asleep because the room was so quiet, but the baby was suddenly awake.
He wasn't crying, he was just quiet in an empty room.
When Elinor appeared, his clear eyes moved.
You wouldn't notice it during the day, but the baby has bright red eyes.
The same color as Elinor's eyes, not unlike Charlotte's green eyes.
The child smiled innocently.
Elinor stood looking at him and asked quietly.
“Where did your mother go, baby?”
Why didn't she take you with her?
It is her child that she gave birth to.
“Did you hear her say where she went?”
The baby opened his little mouth and yawned in a cute way.
He looked like a little angel descending from heaven.
“I don't think Charles abandoned you.”
I hope you haven't.
Because that would be very sad.
'Daughter, you can be strong, right? In ten nights, I'll come back to get you. I promise.’
Elinor realized why she had come to see the baby.
She saw the child's attitude as a reflection of her past.
Her life before she had Elinor's body.
When she was six, her mother left her in an orphanage and disappeared.
She said she would come back in ten nights, but she didn't.
After a long time, I realized the truth.
My mother abandoned me.
When she realized this, her tears had dried.
Her mother did not return to her until twenty-five years later.
'I heard you have cancer. Make me the beneficiary of the insurance. Anyway, everything will be worthless after you die. Think of it as your last duty to your mother, okay?'
That was when Elinor received a death sentence.
Elinor looked at the child silently.
Suddenly, you started hearing footsteps in the hallway.
Who is this?
Elinor, terrified, quickly hid behind a piece of furniture far from the bed.
Bang!
The Count and Countess entered the room.
The Count was holding in his hand...
'Skin bag?'
“We must kill this now.”
The Count muttered menacingly.
“She was going to enter the temple as a saint, but she gave birth to a child. If this is known, our family will be over.”
“Dear, but maybe we can use this to convince Charles to come back...”
"Back what? She abandoned her child and ran away! She was blinded by a man and didn't care about her family."
Elinor's heart, who had overheard, began to beat violently.
What are they talking about now?
Kill the child?
"But you must come back, Charles. How are we going to explain this to people?"
“We will say she is sick. As we have done so far, we will delay sending her to the temple as much as possible. In the meantime, we will find Charlotte somehow.”
“I don't think it's a good idea, dear.”
"Be strong! Do you want everything to be found out?"
cried the Count angrily.
He looked at the countess sharply and opened the opening of the leather bag.
“First, we'll get rid of this problem...”
Clank.
Suddenly, the couple turned together upon hearing a voice.
Under the partially open door, there was a small box rolling around.
The Countess scanned the hallway with annoyance.
“Who's there?”
"no one."
“No one, so what is this? No one should be eavesdropping. Look for him now.”
The two hurriedly left the room.
Quiet returned to the room.
The empty box was thrown away by Elinor.
She quietly got up after successfully distracting the couple.
“Kill the child?”
This child did not exist in the original story.
Charlotte left the child she had given birth to and fled secretly.
But far from all these details.
“Is there a reason this child died?”
The child was only born.
He did not choose to live by himf.
Elinor looked at the child.
The child had fallen asleep in the meantime, breathing quietly without knowing what was happening.
After a while, Elinor left the place.
The child who was sleeping there with her disappeared.
* * *
In the early dawn, when the light began to appear.
Elinor got out of bed feeling exhausted.
Did she sleep for three hours?
Because she woke up so many times, she didn't feel like she slept at all.
“Hoo.”
She sighed tiredly and examined the small bed next to her.
A cute baby was fast asleep.
It was the two-month anniversary of Elinor's escape with her nephew from Count Winston's palace.