Chapter 93 - That Hole in the Wall
Level 20 should have been special. Adelheid had expected Level 20 to be special. But it wasn’t. Why? She didn’t understand. Wasn’t 20 a whole new decade… or was it decimal?
Whatever! It was a milestone, as her big sister would say. It should have been special.
Now, Adelheid was Level 21. She hadn’t gotten to talk about it, with her sister so busy with her own Skills. The disappointment had gotten easier to ignore, but she remained mad, deep inside. Anna Franziska had told them all about how feelings could be weird like that, during one of their latest classes, but that was one more thing that made no sense to Adelheid.
How was it that she could forget all about it one moment, then when she thought about it, it all came back? Were feelings just things you put inside a hidden inventory and pulled them in and out depending on the time?
That wasn’t how her teacher had said it, but unlike the version in their lesson, this explanation actually made sense!
Had she been there, her great-grandma would have probably told her everything would be okay… or maybe that Adelheid needed to calm down. It was either one or the other, and without talking to her, it became harder and harder to tell.
Since Malwine had given her great-grandma all those gifts, guessing what she would have said had gotten… weirder. Especially since she couldn’t visit her anymore. Had Adelheid been more into reading, like her sister was, maybe she would have had an easier time explaining it to herself.
It tired her more to learn all the things her great-grandma didn’t say, now, and every day was worse than the last.
…But it was good practice, as Malwine would say.
| Your Acclimation to {Implicit} has grown! 116 → 137 |
| Your Control of {Implicit} has improved! 58 → 67 |