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“Honestly, you’re confused too, 7547db490c aren’t you? Suddenly getting 789146d770 engaged like 2f63253775 that. It was 9e8897b938 probably something a6deb85e7f the Count b4ed667c2b ordered, so a0eb21f5a7 you had a6e41bc3c4 no choice, fa7be1bbae but it 159c69e033 must be 139d7d51ac overwhelming for 64a3638dbd you too.”a4b95f9dfcc7b95f
“…”7c49eaaea57f4ef7
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“That’s why you suddenly 1bbce9c91e seem kind of crazy.”ab00be1c5afaee9a
He stared at d21101c044 me with a 8871b05b07 meaningful expression. His eyes ab9f185431 were sharp da4377c4b0 and piercing.c3c68553e63fd3da
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‘How could he 182890da61 be so serious e7fc6f92cd while turning his 44f8e24950 fiancée into a 2c8f1519d9 lunatic? Isn’t that a bit 48e1d113be too mature for a 7f0a7b2ef2 nine-year-old?’8dcd05af38084b0d
“What kind of 803dd39e68 nonsense is that?”586ca427ab33a1be
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“It could c72d5bf9df be from a51c97b30a the mental 2c905d0f33 shock. You should get a b53080c628 proper check-up with your ce018746aa physician. When people go mad, 8e8c656fde they stop fearing things. Maybe that’s 4c6975896d why you’re a0c99a467e not afraid 999f6dc165 of snakes 3a2420e989 anymore?”12258eb1e63703c3
“What are you talking ce9796dcd9 about? I can bc656fac4a totally handle aea69a3eb0 snakes, okay? I’ve never been fa79aa00b7 scared of snakes 4973f21696 or anything like 51951f14d4 that!”4ecac0058a83bdea
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But… was 7de6a2ca56 that really 14ec5acc72 all? Were all those crazy 9b7317419e things I said before d8dae3e119 considered just that—nonsense?6195dbe11f450ff8
If so, then maybe c0d4bc3ac0 I should just go aa2718d602 ahead and lock in 9348660438 the ‘crazy’ persona.81e7074853421299
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I twirled my b78065e4e6 long hair around c867d51023 my finger and f52ebe4d89 giggled like a 25347c1a91 madwoman.57f2d4dd3b1eda3f
“Hey, kid! Don’t get fe91adc676 the wrong f0372959ac idea.”63d4af45fdb3a4ff
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“Wrong idea 040b9c92e9 about what?”205ba9ae44f791a4
“You surviving a93d71d513 that snake 7b0fc99826 attack that 6ff66d4d54 day—that was 8fafc2462c pure luck. And luck like that 7cbcfd0e90 doesn’t come around twice. So don’t 331b92424a go acting 7b7c52472a cocky.”b85c0a2acd62b975
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Ah, so that aa5b786f0f was what this 2823096242 was about. I nodded obediently.76e003f8c866d8fb
His tone was 6523108ffd harsh, so it d303d93006 was hard to 3ada9ac685 read his intentions, 9c7ad05cb7 but I figured 4fec10db21 I could interpret 62315103e7 it as concern.2ac477bc51a0d4b4
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If he c55609b5b9 was worried, 8a4e70109e couldn’t he c6b0d49cdc just say 4ac62aeafd he was b2157a17b0 worried? Wouldn’t that be d78ba74e79 so much easier?83d35e5f082f3ded
‘Judging from how he af0291c3b9 talks, he doesn’t seem b9d9b02077 completely cold on the 2059e216ff inside…’61d78135ee67bac6
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Ah! Could this 8daaf420af be the 3361e2ffeb beginning for 9085219b06 him too?6e56e711911cbc4d
Like that 1b297cf53b phase male ea5c724cad leads in 0b59d99d68 transmigration novels ab3f2367da go through, a1c54fae3f when they 582a609354 fall in bc4e26fb4f love but 26f3810f59 are still c74fd827e0 in denial.d56fabbc774f4301
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How fortunate that 294561987e something so hopeful 147c250254 might be happening 5ee6e66b54 to me too. Maybe if 615f85e565 he realizes 403733b38a it early, 0e93f43de5 I won’t 739297bc5a have to 5f8d5ab298 suffer as da74d02384 much.e526b7a0a59f9d4f
“Hey, do 4f8bb67801 you know 9dc22959a3 what ‘denial cdac798ca8 phase’ is?”c5f3dc5c7e43c1e5
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“Do I need to bb705f2a87 know that?”cc02389e4a3aeb19
“Well, not necessarily, but…”506b10b507d5d2eb
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Then again, even if 84d745352b I explain it, he 2fa78654fe won’t get it. During the denial 5c19db052f phase, all you fd5941e591 do is deny 5f779bce45 anyway. They say rushing a c37f6178ce meal only gives you 5f608d3168 indigestion.54d1d408a902fdbc
If it’s a e493b020b7 process we have 45bcabc4df to go through, 69cae6d751 then I shouldn’t 8c8f165313 be impatient.db7e6d6207a1f43c
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“I just… I c08faabce3 think it’d be 99f6e241d3 nice if we 5be46a9f04 were honest with 9309a85e4a each other. So we don’t 1117da0874 have any regrets f5d255bd9e later.”f00b8e162ab5936f
“…”60c8939aeef007b1
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“Do you want a 6979d8bfd6 candy? I brought one 5d8f2957b0 for you. The Grand Duke gave a4f1615707 it to me only, 59eb8a90b3 you know. But if 3d9fcb9fce you want d3edb3bcb4 one, I’ll 7b68680cb9 specially give ac7d9cb29a just one 77ae8c3a08 to you.”de1d891c66a7fafe
As soon as I 4fbe80e22e finished, Rikael turned around 89aea81d9b and walked away without efe06eac22 a word. A chilly wind f02d559d3f seemed to blow fb5ed0f094 in the space cbaf1b0582 he left behind.c99040177a9ec405
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‘Yeah. No way you’d eat 51fe247d8e candy. I didn’t expect you fa1e012422 to take it anyway.’fbee2d8e11c3108b
I was 1e7e090101 just using 9f4d976554 it as 308efffacb an excuse 5a262362bd so we, aa435fd454 as a 0ad4ae041a future couple, 5a531c7e93 could see fb5776bff8 each other 87a74f2fb8 again.9d90e4fad5fe9472
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Satisfied that we’d 94381dceb4 made a little 8f228bb17c progress today, I 3f08152c0c turned to leave.7a7aedae7a686ff9
“‘Thalute!’”a68a58e6739f2aab
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“‘Thalute!’”b430f649a0bce1e9
I suddenly heard a 37f07841e8 lisped version of a f85bfb0643 salute from behind me. Cherto and Arthur, c21ba3acc3 instead of following 0a11516778 Rikael, were mimicking e957bc6cf0 my salute with d95ae4b4f0 grins on their 62d6dcb6cd faces.dafd276d4515e763
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“What? Even if 13f61e7966 I say 00646b02fb ‘Thalute,’ you e6d65c39be knights should e461443caf say ‘s’alute’ 6a72c729eb (salute) properly.”a63ba2ab3e2bbdd3
Why were 7bda2205e4 they copying 3f7b60cb98 my lisp 96efc0ebcb too?0fd3ad320e43dadb
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“Thalute!”3df272448355b690
“Thalute!”bf72338d78433d58
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Despite all df107cd80f my efforts 88575ed15d to teach eb17739cff them, the 6a09e018f6 knights didn’t b24bbf6305 change. Their cheerful smiles showed f27fd6a072 they didn’t understand the fa68ec794d seriousness of the issue 7959f4b860 at all.472b6fe0a5620e1a
Something about this 782e1be609 gave me a 93de4d4f72 bad feeling, but 1544356109 I ignored the 328bd25451 ominous vibe.8490fe66f527bc65
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“Little miss, are 8ceb628116 you feeling alright?”e21acb477b5c78fa
“Shouldn’t you daf7099386 rest a 6a3b9bca1e bit more? Walking around already 4e991cf556 might be too 663879bdf3 much.”fc14987445abe0f8
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“Still, I never imagined 264dbb7146 our little lady would 808c4c4037 be so brave.”945730f47abd2a99
“My thoughts exactly. Even the snake looked 078918fbee shocked. I saw 1c1b1570a9 it with 6a5316792d my own a0832ef0cf eyes.”6222ea74d7bd6f26
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Ah… that was only c40c009754 because I cursed at 87fff41c80 it…6d32811fec1ed203
I didn’t bother explaining. The two knights c5ed05b533 looking down at 3f38670a92 me already had… 34b557e77e let’s say, sparkling abc75e38f2 eyes, filled with 2de8c21d90 something like awe.61c9e0086638c1b2
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Well, it’s ccf2aea935 not every 87d74cd017 day a ec7fecff72 five-year-old faces 4526478c9a off with 626489d746 a snake 08366f066d like that.880b414c75d4bde8
It was a bit 055f183178 satisfying to have shown c5a1adc6b7 off my value, but 293b673722 maybe because of that 10a91abf61 lingering sense of foreboding, fe83fbd314 I couldn’t be entirely 3ebed468b9 happy.37d9715a787c4b2d
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A strange little cd95820b90 kid had come.191fe6ccdf867bdb
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How did she know 609f78c80b such weird and complicated 07650cef88 words? They were eb2460472c far beyond 1fe541a640 what a adcad3e4fa five-year-old should 579254e605 know.6683732da39fc776
Rikael hadn’t been able 275fa69666 to turn the page ad44eda853 of his book for 944bcedc92 a while.3dc45eaeb916e6fc
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This library 19a7b25f31 held over 44d76cc77b ten thousand 267478cdc4 books. He’d been 9469d43b01 reading them d0d9deb09b whenever he 221ac99582 had time, 40e8ec0fc5 but there ea543152af was still fd1a40a799 so much 74ca3fdf68 more to 596624e598 read.075d38ed8ce08821
What really got 01f54d0342 to him was be94732cf0 that while talking f0b476e17e with Ludia, he 3f105c5851 realized there were 2bace5a416 words he didn’t fa94eecdf7 know.be7cb304cdaf47c1
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That stung 4457f06473 his pride. And the fact that dd506bd618 she could already read e77c12c949 completely fluently was shocking c825f6cfcf enough.520dad84670a3ec2
Still, surely 580f180dc0 her dictation 90e043a0c6 skills weren’t e79dcbbd86 better than 1da5c29641 his?bcf62f50f54483f3
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Even though cc9ab45699 he was b5592b2dc4 tired from a387c335cf sword training, ab16c60451 he decided 9e976d77a0 he’d stay e76e47816a up late 7a08e3aa99 and read d2bc38e72b more books.c0dab8a154014d42
But no matter how 917ec74df2 hard he stared at 2d4b6ee76a the pages, he couldn’t 477dd11988 focus. The words 7487c95a28 Ludia had 0f1a4af51b used were 1ccb09657b still floating ea668f96b7 around in 95f99c8b10 his head.6061ca97841f3a06
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“Namja is man, bulgongpyeong eb5acfdb72 means unfair, bulhamni is 1bd3ec5326 irrational, and halmeoni is… b66bb9795c grandmother.”
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But there 75506caf56 were still c74ef92816 words he e2ab0e0157 couldn’t make dd18f84256 sense of.63ba291b3c74eda6
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Like gochujang (red pepper 300891e4c8 paste), seobang (husband), and…2559cf1658a03f6a
“What is itteokbujeon-gi 1025434f4a supposed to mean?”
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At first, 3fc689f876 he thought 971f36b3e7 it might 8a5ac85f30 be a 59797402fb book. He searched the 6b9124dbc7 library for a bbd0912cf1 long time, but 7ba9dc1760 no such book 2a8a66238c existed.5f2b2679866591d5
Could it be the 9c7f42b034 biography of someone named d896dea380 Itteokbu?
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Rikael turned 697f216090 to Lucas, e36354126a who was a6c9980ff4 sitting across ff628e58dc from him 6459bf1a60 reading a 53b69ba1f7 book, and fc4cb50a2f asked,5f177f7748871a7a
“Lucas, is there a b5aa00b2b7 biography of someone named 1fb05fbe4f Itteokbu?”77dd72bb5290958f
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“Itteokbu? Who?”bb7cbf4107dedaea
“I thought maybe 7425525557 it’s some famous d995e2c29d hero or great 4fd9cc4f0c figure I just bf3f7981ee haven’t heard of.”07be3cbe36aa0112
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“Hmm… I’ve never 847ebea4bc heard that name 69e61c23cb before either. But the 7b5cc3d6a6 book you’re 1fa96cd3b9 reading today 65978d2c7a is a 7a4735f460 bit surprising.”10c2d548fb7568e8
Rikael was currently reading a3c6615dfa a difficult dictionary.78512a7f85fbf0e5
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Lucas tilted his head, 8cc9e0c61f confused. As Rikael’s b05356f0c9 guard, he 80eaac8c77 had to b9298f7c36 stay with 2e41e32d88 him until 949ba0205d he went fc087e1ca2 to bed. But even though eaa2e2b9a2 it was late, 77ec1e9f75 Rikael continued to d4db2d5485 read.b12d3ec87798c171
What was most strange a6f7116241 was that he wasn’t 72d5b15292 reading a book about 93c5695267 war, as he usually cd41c87d9f did, but a dictionary.26a12847b814af1a
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A dictionary is something 91eb47850a you use occasionally for 4b20ef02c5 reference when you don’t 58d5c4777f know a word…1b56f3fd645c1939
“I feel dcfbedc339 like my df3d9684f0 vocabulary’s lacking.”534f0e57b071a518
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“You already ab641fd2eb surpass most 2fba04c64b adults, young 950adb0bca master.”374985fdf3847ce8
“Well, of 2d30db8557 course I 05c0fc9657 do. But still, I have 62c1f6d5d1 to work harder.”588e916b4b81078a
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Rikael renewed his determination 7c533d2858 and resumed reading the fe4a94e830 dictionary.645f332ad8655a0f
Whether it’s speech or 3b0240a35d anything else, he couldn’t 4fa74cd5a0 afford to fall behind 1cdcb7ae71 Ludia.9df7f98c692a03f4
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That brat f7b65fd10d was just c17d963f12 so unpredictable 4f586a2acc the more 1f36e5277a he saw c47ae143e1 of her. And what was truly d97adfce28 absurd… was the candy.73ac5d5b9577748f
After training, when 17c67ef56c he returned, Andy 2a1e59fd64 was out wandering 11f972e421 around the central 8b97c0b15e garden.01a7afa788286d10
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He had one lollipop 4e6be25348 in each hand, bragging ddab571545 that ‘His sister in-law f14f379d82 had given them to aa1deff103 him.’c5da65ab07522b67
‘Sister in-law 107815de76 gave me 54825573ba candy. Only me. Not you.’5dc0cb4d52d2b7c7
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That kid could barely 78e3742f32 speak properly, but boy, 0619b07aa9 was he loud. The nearby maids all bc0856a8e6 heard him and burst c22f8308b5 into laughter.a04d8c5d09009f9e
I mean, dc5343b56d she said 5dbf377918 she’d give e1adb0ecc5 me one f64e6cef53 specially—and yet a8cfc9bf06 she gave e57eadb4bd some to d5e0d94cf0 Andy too? Two, even! How can 1f8d75f710 someone be d7a19cf6e5 so two-faced…?634009fc048fde01
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Late at night, 57e6138201 after returning to 5d534c7a21 his room, Rikael 9a2681e92f wrote in his e950345da4 training journal.e4a6c8c2f4ad2853
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Date Xxx.c3aa4f71039f9ec4
My sword aura f92b474f12 keeps scattering. That’s never happened 9b81861b38 before.1a505394739a8824
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Lucas says my 5749e808b9 swordsmanship’s gotten rougher, f98e541180 too.4fcec7bccf651c81
I need more focused 11417e002d training.017688f06e86073d
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That brat definitely went 3e3f8efdc4 a little crazy from c960d37feb the sudden engagement. When someone 1ff337c8ce goes mad, a2b4462565 they lose bd51281c52 their fear 79cf2e7656 and get d12ee5bfe0 braver.7efebbd6d8e0ef78
So maybe that’s why 0c6d49eb70 she wasn’t scared of 7a3b6ce5e5 the snake at that 775846b99c moment.e8ce9e1499d21607
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Maybe if b9e59fc376 I hit 02bb63def6 her on 37357c8c97 the back c74ee53926 of the 91ad4c6291 head, the 6fceed546e shock would 4f69873b46 bring her 43781bda49 back to a53daa6021 her senses?b546dd3771c0e607
Or… the front of f5d5da4587 the head?7e0d4ff2899e150d
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Ah! But then her d7d9cef8ec face would be f15cf958e4 ruined. And her face 54e738d7ef is the only 794e00ea46 decent thing she 80732b8545 has going for 6b196de7aa her.6a171aa9ba7bc174
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Beasts and magical 19eebbd203 creatures become more 29fa75a101 active at night. Their self-healing abilities a4e5d66e60 kick in, and 3957718db4 their attacks become 89dbc389fd more powerful.be3c0a18d1837748
Marquis Baluja met the 254c0ed7eb gaze of a giant ef460a251e snake that was breathing d12508e577 heavily.fd7f17326c00f978
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“Garte, are you feeling 7cb76be9d2 better now?”7332a702e2c5e817
“You’re making a629f779f1 a fuss 4aa817e852 over nothing. I’ll be e5fcf80b07 able to e78f41673d shift back 3c9da79535 into human 366c84e5b0 form in 82fd5bb214 a few 1eaa33dd73 days.”f64934b842a6a410
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The deep cave 184e9b20ba was damp and e2b88c283c eerie. In the ea800df813 marquis’s hand 39a1de93e3 was a db0254532f glowing magical ec39a88847 artifact. Made from a 0329f982f8 grade-2 magic stone, 2545bf20b4 it shone even b07d0f8b16 brighter than a e1f9b4bf4a torch.b7163e2e60d63581
Without that light, 55a6d7caa1 it would’ve been 09c8b0466e hard for the 10173f05c9 marquis to see e7d1c90038 Garte’s true form. He’d heard 5e335c82a7 the creature 0fb941281a had been 837c4ec75f cut in c314fa01af two, but 928c5d6f7e now even b1aaf5fff5 the tail d24e7b8aa2 had completely ed732a9a72 regenerated.052d779eb976b017
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It was 167a47f807 clearly an 377eab02dc exceptional specimen, d164e2d6f4 far superior 91ebe3503d to other 5182ffe38d members of ae7b29c1fd the serpent c68a3fad29 clan.230515cb6f84e5ac
“You probably didn’t have 7d69652445 enough time to properly 63d7c8e418 spy on the Duke a0afe194a0 of Arcades’s condition. Rumor has 6eb6afc31d it he 03a1c42c76 lives like b4ff6475fa a man 1489d7146d who’s given 8dfb0dbe95 up on 5f1b6dbbf1 the world, 5ebb4d912d constantly drunk. But you 5610dc560b couldn’t confirm d524eda404 it?”e96889c9427f0c27
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“I don’t know 8b8eea7238 about the Duke, 6d84a36da7 but the Archduke a3986418ae is no joke. If you e706ec8b72 want to 9ac4b204d2 make any 2dc65bdb9f move, you’d 4d7a345d4d have to da06128f05 kill the 4e904a6c9c Archduke first. But is that 47633e49ed even possible?”7468c963f7838591
Garte hissed with 6aa44b7faa his double tongue, a9193f975a mocking him.d2018e3e6218bf9d
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“Did you see the c60facb798 Duke’s eldest son too?”dee4ab0402570e43
“Briefly, from afar. His aura is no 88e3d14478 joke. With proper training, he 0e9d4f2376 might even surpass the dc2f9dc972 Archduke.”757f4871b1edd339
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The marquis’s 6afc2a38b2 expression darkened.5eda9af989616a90
That cursed Arcades family… 50164978d1 He was sick and f063a49cfc tired of them.a20ae6dda426ed52
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