Just as the little girl had said, the six of them were secretly learning in a sly and... developing manner.
Ten years had passed, and no one knew that the boy who had suddenly dropped out of school due to illness had already read extensively; he laid daily in the corner of the private school to steal lessons.
No one knew that the boy who had broken his leg, and since then, had been confined to a wheelchair, and whom the Imperial Physician from Imperial City said would never stand again, had already become light as a swallow, able to scale walls and leap onto roofs.
No one knew that the youngest girl, who was as beautiful as a flower, had blackened her little face, applied freckles, and deliberately made herself ugly so that, apart from her siblings, even her own parents thought she was an ugly duckling, and they worried about her prospects of marriage when she grew older.
