Chapter 92 - Not Giving Up So Easily
[ Third POV ]
"Oh... no, you didn't understand. I'm 10," William clarified.
"Yeah, you are indeed 10, 'cough,' 'cough,'" Lora said, misinterpreting the situation while attempting to mask it with a cough.
But it was caught on by both of us.
Francis, perplexed by his wife's comment, didn't dwell on it and instead asked William, "What do you mean by 'you're 10' Kid, do you mean you are ten years old or you have already been in the academy for ten years?"
"I meant that my age is 10."
"You mean your age is ten times what you appear, right?" Lora dismissed William's statement and concocted her own interpretation.
"No. I am 10 years old," William reiterated, this time more intently.
"You sure you don't mean twenty? You meant that, didn't you?" Lora insisted once again, this time with more force behind her voice that seemed to break slowly.