Chapter 152: The Youngest Disciple (4)
After that, Trisha kept scratching her head in desperation while begging Dereck to please help her at least a little, but Dereck, as if raising a wall of steel, rejected all her requests.
Even if Trisha, who went around raising her voice arrogantly everywhere, had reached this point of humility, one would think he might grant her something; but he had no intention at all of retracting the principles he had already established.
“Miss Trisha. Even so, in this world there is nothing that is absolute. Lady Diella, although she certainly has the temperament of an enraged beast, if one approaches her with complete sincerity, one way or another she eventually opens her heart.”
“…”
“To use myself as an example, when I first met Lady Diella, I ended up drenched in dirty water full of food scraps. After leaving me like a filthy rag, she hurled insults at me nonstop.”
Dereck remembered the first encounter with Diella.
The image of that small girl shut away in the annex of the Duplain family, rejecting the entire world as if everything were her enemy, quickly came to his mind.
“S-she did something like that? How in the world did you manage to connect with such a savage? What kind of magic did you have to use for a wild beast like that to end up following you so well…?”
“Hmm… I did everything in my power… that’s all I will say.”