I Shall Break Off Our Engagement For You
[Chapter 10]
Translated by: ME
[You have to rely on those you can rely on.]
Maisie's mother always said that.
Since they were weak, it was only natural to lean on others.
The person being leaned on doesn't feel bad when they're relied upon.
Mutual satisfaction, a win-win relationship.
Maisie, who had always lagged behind others, often needed someone's help or relied on those around her.
It was easier to have someone help her, and she thought it was natural to rely on others.
She was often clicked her tongue at or called clumsy, but she didn't understand why they blamed her.
One day, her mother said.
[We might be able to become members of the Goddard baronetcy.]
Her mother had apparently desperately appealed to a good-natured baron about her plight, gained his sympathy, and somehow managed to secure the position of his wife.
She wondered why he had welcomed her plain and unremarkable mother as his second wife.
But, more than she expected, the baron was kind.
He seemed to feel like he was doing something good by welcoming her mother (who was said to have no relatives) and Maisie into his family.
It seemed that it was indeed better to lean on someone you could lean on.
The other person was happy, and above all, it was easy and beneficial for her.
At the church school attended by lower nobles and commoners, she was sometimes looked down upon, clicked her tongue at, or verbally abused.
But, after becoming a daughter of the Goddard baronetcy and attending an academy for the children of upper nobles, that no longer happened.
Her cousin Felicia's friends were all kind-hearted young ladies, and even if Maisie caused them some trouble, no one blamed her.
[When I was little... I was always bullied... and I didn't have any friends, so I'm so happy now...]
When Maisie said that, everyone genuinely sympathized with her.
What she said wasn't a lie.
It was true that she had been clicked her tongue at, verbally abused, and ostracized, and it was also true that she was getting along well with everyone at the academy and that her days were very fulfilling.
[Please be friends with me from now on too...]
When Maisie said that, kind words always came back, like [Of course] or [Isn't that obvious?]
She was satisfied with such friends.
When she realized they were discussing plans for an outing, she asked, [Can I come too?]
Because everyone was so nice, she was never refused.
Occasionally, when she told them about a store she knew or an interesting book, they praised her, saying, [Maisie has good taste.]
[How do you find them?]
Even if she was asked, she had no answer.
Most of them were things Felicia had found, and she had learned about them while constantly clinging to Felicia.
When her poem was chosen in class, she was especially praised.
[How did you come up with it?]
Even if she was asked that, she still had no answer.
She looked closely at the things she had read and especially liked and wrote about them.
She took inspiration from works she wanted to write like from poetry collections released in various places.
It ended up being mostly excerpts of her favorite parts, but it wasn't like she had copied or stolen anything.
She had thought about and written the other parts herself...
It was possible for things to coincidentally be a little similar.
People often wrote with something as a reference.
Everyone was influenced to some extent by something.
It wasn't like Maisie was the only one doing it.
The work she had submitted to the 'Grain Newspaper' the other day might have been a little too similar to someone else's though...
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