"Uh, you really want to learn...?"
Edward scratched his head. Once Bernadette learned Chinese and read Roselle's diaries, he really wondered whether she would abandon her stubborn determination to find her father and simply consider him dead.
Seeing her nod, Edward could only take out the materials he had compiled specifically to teach Lilith. "Then let's start with pinyin."
"Pinyin?"
"You can think of it as something like the phonetic symbols in Loenese or Intisian. It's used to learn pronunciation."
Lilith darted over and said smugly, "Miss Lilith already learned this ages ago~ a, o, e, i, u, v..."
She began reciting the pinyin letters, swaying her head.
Unlike the "brute-force learning" and "rote memorization" Lilith had used to learn pinyin, Edward began teaching Bernadette the basic principles, such as initials and finals.
Bernadette listened attentively and mastered pinyin in little time. But Edward did not begin teaching her Chinese characters. Instead, he expanded the lesson to cover the origins of the pinyin letters, then shifted straight from teaching Chinese to teaching English, from letters, vowels, and consonants to grammar, phrases, and sentences.
Only when Edward brought out a thick CET-6 vocabulary book for her to memorize did she seem to realize what was happening. Frowning, she said, "What you're... teaching me isn't Rosellean?"
"..."
Edward coughed a few times. "This actually falls within the scope of Rosellean too."
Her azure eyes stared steadily at Edward until he felt uncomfortable all over.
Fortunately, Lilith spoke up just then. "Edward, Miss Lilith is hungry!"
Edward took out a dried fish for her. "Don't you have dried mice?"
She crunched on the dried fish and mumbled, "Sometimes I want a change of flavor too~"
"Your Majesty, would you like something to eat?"
Bernadette nodded. "Just a piece of bread and a glass