Chapter 131: 15-year-old Inglis and Hyrule Menaces' Escorting Directive (39)
「Lady Ripple?」
Ripple’s attitude was not like the usual, thought Silva. She usually showed a cheerful face when nothing was going on, and she often kept her head down and listened quietly when the topic of Ripple’s own protection and measures against Magic Stone Beasts came up.
She must have felt chagrined at the fact that she was putting the country and the people was supposed to protect as a Hyrule Menace in danger, while instead she had to be protected by everyone. Silva understood her feelings. If he were in her shoes, he might feel the same too.
That was why Ripple couldn’t say anything herself. The only thing she could do was to accept everything that happened to her in silence. Even if she was to be returned to the Highland and they discarded her like an old toy.
However, from Silva’s standpoint, that was but a foolish subject to go after. Just how much work Ripple had done for this country up until now? How many people she had saved and in turn adored her for it?
All those meritorious deeds, all that she accumulated, they didn’t take them into account at all. She wasn’t something that could be simply replaced like that. Silva definitely couldn’t agree to it at all.
「Miss Ripple……What’s the matter?」
Asked Principal Miliera. She, too, had seemed to have noticed that Ripple’s demeanor was a little off than usual.
「Y’see……until recently, I thought I could only accept everything that happened to me. I mean, a Hyrule Menace who can’t protect everyone isn’t a Hyrule Menace, right? But… everyone is trying so hard to help me, right? Well, there’s that one exception who’s doing it for fun……」 「Hahaha, there is that one. I won’t say who, though.」