#15. Estimating the Distance Between a Man and a Woman (6)

Lady Eleonore is acting strange!

Lately, this had been the number one topic of conversation among the servants of House Béarn.

The gardeners who tended the mansion’s grounds.

The cooks who prepared their meals.

Even the butlers and maids who attended them closely.

Whenever they gathered among themselves, they would exchange worried words like these.

Though they were lowly servants, there were so many of them that the atmosphere in the mansion had inevitably grown a little strange.

Though their precious youngest daughter had finally returned to her hometown, an odd tension hung over the Béarn mansion.

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House Béarn was the family that ruled the Empire’s West...