Chapter 30

With only the thought of hurriedly leaving Cersi, Chadwick turned the door handle and emerged into some alley he himself did not recognize. The back door of Cersi was a door that took whoever turned its handle wherever they wished to go.

He considered going back, but the fear of running into Saya again kept him from doing so.

"I don't know either."

The reason nobles adopted commoners was obvious. It was charity. Nobles, restless over not knowing where to spend their overflowing money, showed interest in orphanages.

Chadwick had realized that early in his childhood at the orphanage.

Until now, he had assumed Saya was the same. That Marquis Erdona, having nowhere to spend his overflowing money, had adopted Saya.

If not that, there were also cases where nobles sent their illegitimate children to orphanages and then took them back under the name of adoption.

But Saya did not…