"Sister Bronya, you should eat some too! A few pieces are enough for Seele." Though she was reluctant to part with them and was terribly hungry, little Seele still handed most of the chocolate back to Bronya.
"Seele should eat it herself. Bronya still has some... Besides, Bronya isn't hungry right now!"
Seeing little Seele's actions, Bronya's heart warmed. As expected of her Seele—even if she was a Seele from a parallel world, she was still so lovable.
As little Seele ate the chocolate, she slowly told Bronya more about herself and the orphanage.
This was Country M, but Seele was not from Country M. Like Bronya's Seele, she came from the Republic of Estonia, or Estonia for short.
Of course, because of the war, Estonia had twice been occupied by Bear Country, though it had later regained independence both times.
Seele herself did not know how she had come to Country M. She had only been three or four years old at the time. According to her, she had woken up one day and found herself in this unfamiliar country.
The person who had brought her here had mysteriously vanished, and she was eventually taken in by a nearby orphanage.
The living conditions at this orphanage were undoubtedly much better than those at Cocolia Orphanage. After all, this was a peaceful era, and Country M was a developed nation.
When Bronya asked for the names of the other children in the orphanage, it was both fortunate and disappointing that there was not a single person Bronya knew.
But perhaps that was for the best. After all, if nothing else had gone wrong, Seele was now the only survivor from the orphanage.
She had escaped disaster only because, out of fear, she had hidden herself inside a box in