Alice said with a sob: "My, my sister."
Sister?
On that carriage?
Alice's family wasn't well-off. Besides her and her sister, she also had two younger brothers, and their parents preferred boys to girls.
Usually, the two sisters had no say at home.
Because the younger brother needed money for his illness, their parents sold the sister.
If Alice weren't at the Magic Academy, she would have been the one sold this time.
If she hadn't returned today by chance, she wouldn't have known her sister was being taken away.
She begged them not to sell her sister; she could drop out of the Magic Academy.
But they said...
"It was so hard to get into the Magic Academy, and we're paying such high tuition fees, and now you say you won't go? Do you know what kind of place that is? It's the Magic Academy. Once you graduate, you'll be someone important. We're counting on you, and you say you're not going? If I hear you say that again, I'll break your legs!"
