
Nanny sat in the chair. His hand involuntarily pressed the piano keys.
Nanny closed both her eyes. He was completely unaware of playing the piano in front of him. Played a melodious song whose voice was heard all the way to the corridor.
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"Basic sloppy. What if someone else comes in?" Nora continued walking down the corridor. He held the key of the room that had forgotten to be locked by one of the pressures.
"Master Duke would definitely be furious if he found out that someone had entered the forbidden room."
Taps!
Nora stopped her steps when she suddenly heard a melodious music coming from the direction of one of the rooms.
"This voice." Nora was silent for a moment, trying to listen back to the voice she heard.
He rounded his eyes as soon as he realized there was music.
Nora immediately ran towards the direction of the room where the sound was coming from.
"The door's open?" Nora's panicking. He immediately stepped inside.
Arriving inside, he immediately looked for the person who was playing the music.
"Kiss!" call Nora with a shocked face. It was spontaneous to make Nanny who was engrossed in playing music immediately realized.
"N-Nora.." Nanny looked at him with a surprised face.
"What are you doing here?"
"That's.." Nanny fell silent. He was confused what to answer, because honestly his initial intention was just to look around the contents of the room without ever intending to touch let alone play it.
"Let's go." Nora approaches him as she immediately rearranges her piano and pulls Nanny away from there.
Arriving outside, Nora immediately locked the door of the music room so that no one else could enter there.
"You shouldn't have come in here" said Nora.
"Why indeed? What's wrong with this room?" taua Nanny with a confused face.
"This room should not be entered by anyone except the maid who has been assigned to clean it. That's also we can not change or shift one inch of the object in it. Otherwise, master Duke would be furious."
"Mr Duke? Is this his personal space?"
Nora shook her head strongly. "This is not the Duke's personal space. But this is the private room of the late Duchess."
"uh? R-private room lady Duchess?"
"Yes." Yeah."
"Ah, right. During my time working here, I only realized that I had never seen the Duchess before. Actually, what happened to him?"
"You don't know? Has Zelda never told you anything about this?"
"No. Zelda never explained anything about the Duke or Duchess. He just said that I should replace him for a while to nurture the young master. That's all."
"I don't know what happened either. The incident has been very long, even a lot of maids have been replaced. Most of the maids now working in this residence were new maids assigned since the young master was around four years old. In fact, the butler was also not the Inggrid mistress we know…"
"…But from the bird news I heard, the Duke was left behind by the Duchess for some reason. There are rumors that the Duchess fled with one of the bodyguards at the Duke's home. But there are some who say that he was pursued by a group of people who tried to kill him. Therefore, he fled and tried to protect his family by leaving the Duke and the young master."
"really?"
Nora was silent. Hang talk. Nanny silently watched him with a curious look on her face.
"But what?"
"…But you know what happened? The royal witch who helped heal the Duke's master died a few days after healing the Duke's master."
"What's? But how can it be?"
"Nobody knows what happened to him."
"After that, what happened? Is master Duke fully healed?"
"Yes, he is completely healed. But his nature changed since then. The Duke ordered all the servants in the house to be replaced, and every room associated with the Duchess was forbidden to enter except for a regular cleaning for once a week."
"So, that's why you were so shocked when I was inside, earlier?"
Nora nodded her head in response to Nanny's words.
Now I understand why Nora was so freaked out when she found out I was inside. Turns out that's the reason…
Poor Mr. Duke. What really happened to the Duchess? Where the hell's he going? Nanny.
"I hope you understand and don't repeat the same mistake" said Nora, breaking her whole daydream.
"I'm sorry that I've been trespassing."
"It's okay. I understand and I understand because you've only been working here a few days."
"Oh yeah, by the way can I ask you one more thing?"
"Tell me. I'll answer as much as I can."
"It's about young master. Why is it that once I get here, and as long as I am here, the young master always enjoys breakfast in his room? Why isn't he allowed to have breakfast with Mr. Duke at the dinner table?"
"Regarding that, master Duke himself forbade it."
"Eh?"
"Mr Duke made the rules. The young master is not allowed to eat or approach the area that is often occupied by the Duke."
"But why?"
"The reason is because as I explained earlier. Ever since the Duchess left the Duke's master, the master never wanted to see the young master again. Even the arrival of the Duke master to the young master's room a few days ago was the second time as long as the young master lived."
"You mean.. The young master had never met the Duke master before?"
"Only once, and that was when he was three years old. On his birthday. But since then, he never met again until a few days ago."
Nanny fell silent. I don't know why his heart hurt when he heard Nora's words just now. Even his eyes were glazed.
Nanny was completely inexhaustible with what was happening. He also did not think that it turned out that Duke Karl could be so bad for his own son.
"Kiss!" Nora patted her shoulder slowly.
"Huh?"
"Why are you crying? You okay?"
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