"Master! Would it be possible to bring my parents to Rosenheim?"
Had Louis's death caused a change of heart?
Viola seemed to have made up her mind and began pleading with me. She had always been careful in her behavior and rarely spoke to me about her family. She probably hadn't wanted to burden her master any further.
What a good girl. Unlike Lily, who's always pushing her luck, she's like a little sister you want to look after.
How could I turn my back on a request from such a kind, pure-hearted child?
But I only knew her as a handmaid from a fallen noble family and didn't know her history in detail, so I asked Viola exactly what had happened in her past.
After some hesitation, Viola spoke.
"Our family, the Rijekas, were one of the financial bureaucrat families of Radensdorf, but my father got caught up in a ledger fraud case and was thrown in prison."
"Ledger fraud? That carries quite a heavy sentence."
