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Heinrich stood in silence, staring at the short letter that claimed his siblings were going to kill him. He wondered if it had been sent to the wrong person and checked the envelope again. “To Heinrich von Schwartz. From a friend.” It couldn’t have been a mistake.
“What is it? What’s it say to make you look like that?” Connor Lint asked, noticing Heinrich looking shellshocked.
Should he tell him? That he’d received a strange letter? Heinrich thought better about it, folded the letter, and tucked it away.
“Oh, it’s nothing. Just… nothing important.”
“… Really?”
If the letter was a malicious prank, there was no need to mention it.
If it was truly a warning from someone claiming to be a friend, sharing the contents could be dangerous.
“I should go. I need to rest.”
Heinrich gathered up his letters as a chill ran down his spine. He walked stiffly back to his tent.
After organizing the letters, he closed the entrance and sat down, staring intently at the letter from the mysterious sender.
It hadn’t been delivered by mistake. But he had no friends who would send such a letter.
Anyone could send him letters, so he couldn’t rule out the possibility that it was just a prank.
The letter contained nothing but a simple sentence: “Your siblings will kill you.”
It was hard to believe.
Believing it would be foolish.
He heard his sister’s voice. “When this situation is over, are you thinking of returning to Kernstadt?”
If his siblings had started seeing him as a competitor rather than just another sibling, then was the possibility that hard to believe?
The letter could be dismissed as a malicious joke, and he thought it should be. But it also presented Heinrich...
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