I Put all my Stats into Charm - Chapter 92

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I Put All My Stats Into Charm Episode 092

The records room, filled with the scent of paper, was lined with bookshelves and packed tightly with boxes.

Theodor pulled out a box from one of the bookshelves.

After wiping away the accumulated dust with a dry cloth, he opened the box lid and took out stacks of documents. Then he placed them on the desk where I was sitting.

“Here, these are the record logs of the Redeemer Orphanage residents.”

“Thank you.”

I began slowly looking through the logs.

The logs contained personal information about the orphans, including their birth year, appearance, personality, and circumstances of admission.

Each orphanage resident had different circumstances for their admission.

There were war orphans, children who lost their parents to illness, and children who came in after losing their parents to monster attacks.

“Each child has different circumstances for losing their parents.”

“That’s how it is.”

Theodor brought two teacups filled with warm tea.

“That’s not all. There are many kids who come in even when their parents are still alive.”

“They come to the orphanage when their parents are alive? Why?”

He handed me one of the teacups.

“Some parents leave their children at the orphanage due to unavoidable circumstances like debt. And some people abandon their children at the orphanage because they don’t want them.”

Debt is understandable.

But sending children to an orphanage because they don’t want them?

“That’s ridiculous. How can such parents exist?”

“Unfortunately, there are quite a few.”

Theodor let out a bitter smile.

“There are also children who voluntarily come to the orphanage because of parental neglect or abuse.”

“My goodness…”

I opened my mouth in disbelief.

Just what did they do to make a child run away to an orphanage?

So there are people unqualified to be parents in this world too.

I felt sorry for the children who grew up under such parents.

Theodor brought another box of documents.

“Let me know if you need help.”

How much time had passed?

I put down the last document with a troubled expression. Theodor, who had been doing other work beside me, looked up.

“What’s wrong? Can’t find the person you’re looking for?”

“No… I’ve checked twice but can’t see them.”

“What’s the name? Let’s look together.”

“Aisha.”

Theodor paused.

As if checking whether he had heard correctly, he looked at me with slightly widened eyes.

“What? It’s not like you’re seeing an orphan for the first time.”

“…Oh, no. Sorry. I had no idea.”

“It’s natural you wouldn’t know since I never mentioned it.”

I answered nonchalantly.

Actually, I hadn’t given it much thought before.

I thought it wouldn’t matter much for conquering the male leads whether Aisha was an orphan or not.

If it weren’t for the mark on the back of my neck, I wouldn’t have had reason to look into this.

“My master adopted me.”

“Lowell Chiffrion?”

“No. My first master wasn’t Lord Chiffrion, but someone named Brion.”

I continued explaining to him.

“But I don’t remember anything from when I was young. I don’t know what kind of person I was, so I came to find out.”

“…I see.”

Theodor’s expression was serious as he listened to my story.

“You must have had a hard time.”

“Well…”

I can’t really call it hardship since I have no memories.

There was no need to explain that far, so I shrugged my shoulders.

Theodor rolled up his sleeves.

“I’ll help you look for the records too.”

Right, let’s search just one more time.

While earlier I had only looked for names starting with Aisha’s first letter, this time I began examining each entry from the first page of the registry.

Still, Aisha’s name was nowhere to be seen, and I was starting to get tired when.

‘Huh?’

I saw a familiar name.

‘…Karin?’

Isn’t that the name of the woman Hakin and Jerome were looking for?

I examined Karin’s record log.

A child my age with pink hair and golden eyes.

The special notes also mentioned that she was good with animals.

As I stopped at Karin’s page, Theodor leaned his head toward me.

“Did you find…”

Theodor paused and quietly stared at the name Karin.

Then he opened his mouth.

“…Do you know this person?”

Should I say I know her or don’t know her?

“I only know the name. But it could be someone with the same name…”

Finding it difficult to explain, I looked at Theodor.

“Do you know this person, Sir?”

“I know her. She was my first love.”

“What?”

Caught off guard by the unexpected story, I stammered.

“Uh… didn’t you say your first love had passed away?”

“Yes. That’s right.”

This is getting confusing.

The person Hakin and Jerome were looking for has the same name as Theodor’s first love?

It couldn’t be a simple coincidence. Sensing a connection between the three people, I anxiously opened my mouth.

“When and how did she pass away?”

“Huh?”

“Can you tell me about her in detail?”

When Theodor looked confused, I realized my mistake.

“Sorry, I got carried away…”

It might still be an unhealed wound for Theodor.

I felt like I was trying to drag out a story he didn’t want to bring up.

“Actually, people around me are looking for someone named Karin. She was precious to them too, so I wondered if it might be the same person.”

Theodor’s eyes wavered.

“But if you don’t want to talk about it, you don’t have to. Please don’t mind what I said.”

He lowered his gaze with a thoughtful expression. Then after a moment of silence, he opened his mouth.

“…It’s okay. I can talk about it.”

Theodor looked at me as if he had made up his mind.

“As you saw in the records, Karin was a Redeemer resident. I met her over ten years ago.”

Theodor continued his explanation in a serious voice.

“I used to come to the orphanage sometimes to get meals. That’s when I first met Karin and we became friends quickly.”

If it was over ten years ago, Theodor would have been just a kid too.

The fact that he came all the way to an orphanage to get meals suggested his childhood wasn’t smooth.

A gentle smile formed on Theodor’s lips as he recalled those times.

“Karin was a warm child. It was natural that a family would appear wanting to adopt her. The night before she was supposed to be adopted, I secretly went to give her a gift before she left…”

Theodor’s face gradually darkened as he reminisced about the past.

“There were suspicious people in front of the orphanage. They were wearing black hoods…”

He paused, catching his breath.

After a moment, he opened his mouth as if exhaling.

“They took Karin away.”

Theodor’s face grew increasingly rigid.

“That incident is still vivid like a nightmare. Karin in their hands was hanging limp like she was dead.”

He continued in a sunken voice.

“There was no color in her face. She didn’t look like a living person.”

Theodor spoke bitterly.

“I rushed at those people. Asked them what they had done to Karin. But how could a boy barely ten years old beat several grown men? I was knocked unconscious before I could even put up a fight.”

I silently listened to his story.

“The orphanage filed a missing person report for Karin, but there were no significant results. Child abductions were frequent at that time.”

I began to feel a sense of déjà vu.

“Moreover, shortly after, the heir of a ducal house also went missing. When they couldn’t even find the heir of a noble family, who would care about an orphan with no backing?”

It was no longer possible to dismiss this as mere coincidence.

The ‘Karin’ that the three people were looking for was connected as one person.

With a certain conviction forming in my mind, I listened to what Theodor was saying.

“Eventually Karin was declared dead. I wanted to believe she was alive somewhere, but among the children who went missing at that time, only Duke Winston’s son returned.”

The Duke Winston’s son he mentioned was definitely Jerome.

Having finished his explanation, Theodor stared at me.

“Now it’s your turn to speak.”

The end of his voice trembled subtly.

“You said people around you are looking for someone named Karin. It seems like a fairly recent matter, so what’s going on?”

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