My name is AshaMaria Org du Thousand. After three more days, I will become a 16-year-old young lady.
(TN: Her name is アーシャマリア オルグ デュ サウザント)
I have decided to quit becoming a n.o.ble at 16 years old and why I am partic.i.p.ating in ballroom dancing … I think let’s rewind back a bit.
n.o.bility will frown upon my speech just because I am a n.o.ble. I myself don’t like to become a n.o.ble.
I am an illegitimate child born from my father of Earl Thousand and my mother a seamstress commoner.
Of course my father had a n.o.ble wife called Flore-sama. He even has three children. Eldest brother Geran is 10 years older than me, eldest daughter Catherine is 3 years older than me, and second daughter Rosalie is 1 year older than me.
And why I was born.
My eldest brother Geran before entering university, he leveled up his fencing technique, because Flore-sama brought back her three children to her parents’ house in half a year time.
Earl Thousand in aristocratic circle maybe was an excellent person, but because he needs to have a support type of person, as a subst.i.tute of Flore-sama he found my mother.
My mum said she had no contact. 「Why it becomes like this」she often ridiculed herself and laughed like this.
As an excellent seamstress, my mother was often asked to work on something extra to the clothing of n.o.bility. It was embroidery and fit adjustment. She was skillful, her looks was not so bad as my father paid attention to, after all it was an affair.
Just only one mistake and it dwelt a life … and that is me. As a gentle father, without s.n.a.t.c.hed away my life, I was born.
Even only half n.o.ble blood is flowing in me, I was not abandoned on street. It is for the sake of Thousand family’s honour.
High pride Flore-sama must not forgive my mother and I. There is a gardener’s work shed which is outside of the mansion, it becomes our place.
The married couple gardener sometimes looked after us, basically the life of two person mother and child. Once in a month my father come and see our condition, but by Flore-sama, my not-able-to-raise-his-head father hurriedly return back.
The living expenses are not enough, but the level is not slightly inferior to the life of everyday general common people.
Must draw water from the well and boil it. Going to the mansion’s kitchen to get food material, get to lower your head. The western clothes also, lower your head and finally get hand-me-down ones. Can’t live if you are prideful.
I think to work as a seamstress, but it was impossible to have for the young me.
My mother was strong and bright.
I, In order to be able to walk, the two of us secretly went out from the mansion, and secretly accepted work at a familiar western clothing store as a side job. Even if can’t live luxuriously, just a little cash on hand would make life smoother.
So that not to hurt Thousand family’s honour. Only that was carefully paid attention to. In city, ignorant behavior can’t be shown. In a modesty to the latest fashion, personally sewed luxury embroidery was shown. It was the kindness of mother’s father. An atonement to Flore-sama.
That was nearly the life about the two of us, I think it is obvious that was not unhappy.
When I turned 3 years old, suddenly I was called to the mansion. Even if I only carry half n.o.ble blood, I am obliged to acquire「Education as a n.o.ble」.
I that only entered the kitchen, a fluffy carpet was spread out in a place where parlour lined with carved furniture, it was the first time I met with Flore-sama and my siblings-sama.