Lifting her gaze, Estelle focused on the wall clock. Only then did she become aware that she had slept for approximately seventeen hours, nearly noon on the second day.

“I’m alright. I just have a cold. Maybe it’s because I have been staying abroad for a long time that I can’t adapt to the climate of Hadale now.”

Rebecca nodded. Then she came straight to the point, “Estelle, how about you let Christina live with me? It’s for my sake that you agreed to take care of her. Now I don’t want you to worry about her anymore.”

“It wasn’t because of you that I agreed to care for her,”...