Chapter 4: (Self Edited) Never Forget
When my fourth birthday was near, I told my parents at the dinner table.
“Can’t I get a blank book for my birthday this year?” (Yuri)
This was the first time I asked things from my parents. They were surprised for a moment, and then, they looked at me with a slightly troubled face.
“Yuri, what do you want to do with it?” (Rook)
“It’s like a diary… I want to write down what I think.” (Yuri)
“Is that so? Are you able to read and write now?” (Rook)
“Of course, he can. I have nothing to teach him anymore.” (Suzuya)
Actually, I could hardly learn anything more than the national language teacher, Suzuya. But that didn’t mean my language learning was perfect.
Suzuya was a woman from a farming family, and it was said that she married Rook in the form of love marriage. It was surprising when Rook was at the end of a noble family. Suzuya, who was raised by a farmer, could read and write a little, but if it was compared to the education level in Japan, she had the ability to graduate from an elementary school.