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Characters in this chapter:
Cohen Kheda: The main character.Iva rlin: A down frustrated nobility in Winper City, a gambler.Dior rlin: Iva rlin's daughter, a business whiz.Fischer Sumrs: Cohen's friend and a prince of the Swabia Empire.Jack, Marfa: Cohen’s childhood friends and firm supporters.Arnold: Cohen’s eudemon.
Cohen Kheda sat by the dining table, bogged down by this deep trouble he thought he was in. There was no doubt that Dior rlin was an attractive girl, especially when she acted angrily. Her puffed big eyes, sleek lines of her lips, slightly pointy chin as well as her smooth and exquisite skin, all were dis-concentrating himself.
"No n would refuse the chance take hold of such a woman! Let alone a man as possessive as I." He told himself. However, Cohen Kheda was not willing to do it in the rough thod, he just wouldn't.
Watching the well-dressed Dior rlin strolled into the dining hall as if millions of deportnt were into one, Cohen Kheda's heart beat furiously. He knew that this was a war. It will either end up with wounds or joyfulness on both sides. There was no chance anyone will have a single win.
He pointed to the chair beside him without turning a hair, to let Dior rlin sit by his side.
Ms. rlin, no, she was not Mrs. rlin, gathered up her evening dress hemline, then sat down gradually.
"What's for dinner?" Dior rlin acted casually and asked. She had it all planned that even she was forced to marry this man, however, she could still take advantage of her frequently used tricks on the playboys to deal with this guy: To make him fall madly in love with herself, then furiously stamp him under her foot unannounced. Many tis, a cold face hurt more than the sharpest blade. As for Dior rlin herself, she will not let this man touch her body, not even a finger.
"Fish!" Cohen Kheda seed as if this exquisite face was invisible and replied stiffly, "And big shrimp!"
"Big shrimp?" She thought, then sipped her cup of wine, "It's called jumbo shrimp!"
"I like it. I'll call it big shrimp!"
Dior rlin nearly choked to death by her aperitif. Such an unrepentant layman!
"Suit yourself, but don't expect to call it like you do!" She looked up and faced her husband while the sapphire earrings turned to reflect a beam of shimring light right onto Cohen Kheda's heart.
"Bon appetite!"
Cohen Kheda started focusing on tackling with the 'big shrimps' in his plate, which made Dior rlin slightly frustrated. As if he was not paying attention to a bit of her beauty.
"I have to derive his focus onto ! This way I'll be able to deal with him properly!" Dior rlin secretly made up her mind to revenge brutally on this man's rude behavior to her.
At this mont, a warrior entered with a booklet in hand. He was rather young as well. It seed that all of them were young.
"Boss! I have the list of our next cargo…"
"Read it!" Cohen Kheda did not bother to stop eating.
"Yes, sir! First-class silk fifty bolts, first-class wine three hundred cases, first-class…"
Dior rlin heard all these, she chuckled involuntarily.
"What's so funny!" Her husband glared.
"Are those what you are smuggling?" She said proudly, "What a waste of labor…"
"I know you are so sort of business knower." Cohen Kheda said, "But then if you haven't the slightest idea of what smuggling is, you'd better shut off your opinions!"
"If I were you, I will load the ships with spice. Do you know what is it?" Neglecting what Cohen said, she continued, "Cinnamon, aniseed, clove… however, I assu you will not understand how profitable these are."
Cohen Kheda suddenly slapped on the dining table and stord up.
"Make clear who you are! You are rely one of my many wives!" He approached her body as if he was about to devour her, "And I, am you husband! Finish your stuff and go back to your chamber! Wait in bed after the shower!"
Finishing with this, Cohen Kheda exited the room ablaze with anger.
"Don't you dare touch a single hair!" Dior rlin tossed her napkin and left as well.
The mont Cohen Kheda was out of the dining hall, he imdiately grabbed Marfa's pen and began writing on a paper.
"Genius, what a genius! Cinnamon, aniseed, clove…" He raised and asked Marfa, "What else did she say?"
"Ah! I wasn't paying attention…" Marfa shook.
"Next ti I fight with her," Cohen Kheda said, "Mark down everything she says! This is all pure gold! Our next cargo will be done exactly according to her…"
Dior rlin entered the room. She undressed and put on a sturdy wear as fast as she could, plus three belts and the black steel dagger on her back. On second thought, she moved the dagger back in her hands.
The door closed, a chair was fixed against the door. She considered in this way, there will be a sound once he cos in!
Dior rlin had finally set everything ready. She returned back in the corner chair and fixed her eyes on the door, dagger drawn, was without the faintest idea whether the blade should point to her husband or herself.
"Alright, I'm aiming it at him! It's just for frightening… I'll not send the blade out." She said, "I know he's gonna force . I… I'll not let him!"
Arnold watched her with curiosity, then jumped onto her laps, barked.
"Good boy, Arnold, what should I do?" Dior rlin put down the dagger and hugged over Arnold, "That guy is coming soon… what should I do? Why can't I make uglier? Gosh, my face is driving him crazy…"
Cohen Kheda rested on the castle tower. In his point of view, he was able to see everything in his wife's chamber, thanks to Arnold. He knew clearly what's happening there.
"Honestly, she's not that bad…" Watching as Dior rlin took Arnold, Cohen's instinct told him such.
By the morning, Arnold's bleats awakened Dior rlin. She found her body stiff as she kept in the chair sleeping the whole night. By then she woke up, Arnold was looping loops in bed.
"Morning, Arnold…" Dior rlin rose and peaked outward. She was full of curiosity about all the quiet last night. Her hateful husband did not break into her room as expected, which made her pity for the all-night battle station.
"It must be his evil plot! He lets loosen up on purpose, but I most certainly will not!" Dior rlin told herself and went downstairs after dressing properly.
"Good morning, Mrs. rlin!" Lily said.
"Morning." Dior rlin replied, smiled, "Where is that annoying man?"
"The Lord? He has a guest, they are in the garden!"
"Guest? This guy has friends?" Dior rlin decided to check them out.
Dior rlin crossed the hall to arrive in the garden smothered with fresh air. Cohen Kheda was whispering with a man, his one arm around that man's back. Judging by his lip movent, he was replying "Yes".
"Alright, that's all. Off you go!"
When she ca closer, she heard her husband said so. What kind of guest he was, he was totally a subordinate!
"Greeting, Mrs. rlin!' The guest greeted her as he passed by, body straightened. It was a standard military gesture.
"Glad to et you." Dior rlin replied in return. Though she was unaware of who the man was, she did not want to act impolitely.
The guest left through the gate. Dior rlin turned to her husband and asked confusedly, "Who is him? Why was he followed by so many soldiers?"
"Weird, huh?" The husband watched her and said, "He's the new Winper mayor, Kirk. He was once the Dark City sub-lieutenant."
"Since when did Winper have a mayor?"
"Since yesterday."
"The new mayor ca to visit you on the second day?"
"Dissatisfied? He and I are not only friends, we have business going on…"
"I see! He's the mayor, you smuggle… No wonder you do it without fear of getting caught!" She, for the first ti, thought his husband was not too stupid after all.
"Smuggle, I also run whore houses, stores." The husband said, "As long as anything that makes money, I'm doing it."
"What do you need all that money for?" She asked yet again, confusedly, "Smuggling alone is not enough?"
"No, 'cuz I need money…" The husband said, "My spending is enormous."
"No doubt there, three pieces of clothes for fifteen pieces of gold."
"Hehhe…" Dior rlin's husband grinned, "Ya think？Never mind, I'm feeling good today. I don't wanna fight with you." Her husband laughed and went back into the hall. Dior rlin went out of breath. It was the first ti he refused to argue with her. Fine, then, as he wished. Dior rlin blinked then the whole of her turned innocent as a pure little girl. She stepped into the hall energized.
"I just don't believe he’ll not fall for !" She thought as the fact was. Almost any n will fall for her eyes. They would even break away from their religion for her extra look on them.
As she entered the hall, Lily ca rushing by with a pot of flower with yellow leaves.
"Young Lord! Look, what happened to it?" Lily presented the pot on Cohen Kheda's desk and asked anxiously, "I was in the garden and it was like this."
"It's dead, just get rid of it!" Cohen Kheda took a look at it.
"My Lord! Please save it!" Lily asked again anxiously, "It's Lily's favorite."
Cohen Kheda rubbed Lily's head and smiled.
"Fine." He said, "Let try!"
Cohen Kheda lowered the head and focused. Then his hand floated over that pot of flower. Without chanting, beams of white light appeared descending from his palm and increased. The beams then gradually ford a light ball that enveloped the whole pot.
Slowly, leaves of the flower restored its color back from the dead yellow. They stood again upright and green. One leaf, then another. By then all the leaves were as live as it were, a tiny bud appeared on the trunk. A drop of liquid fell onto the bud, let to a pretty and tiny three-colored flower blood slowly on it, emitting light scent in the entire room.
That liquid belonged to Cohen's forehead.
"Done!" Cohen Kheda smiled exhaustedly, he said to Lily, "It's all yours!"
"Madman!" Dior rlin left for good. She did not want her husband to notice that she was watching, "Cure a flower with a healing spell and he winded up sweaty all over! If he's low on magic then don't use it! What kind of mage he is…"
However, Dior rlin's eyes were welled with tears. She knew that she will never forget that in a bright morning, a lousy magician exhausted himself to cure a flower only to win a girl's smile.
Bright sunshine traveled through the french window and landed on him, making the buds of sweat extraordinarily crystal-like. That mont, his face seed so glamorous, his sincere smile beca not so hateful, his evil grin was even becoming likable.
Dior rlin found herself on the port. She tried to clear her mind. What a strange feeling that was. She obviously hated him instead of being attracted. She considered whether to continue to hate him.
Smuggling carriages went in from afar. Dozens of them lined in shape by the port.
"This man is extraordinarily greedy for money."Dior rlin thought.
She watched as the young warrior called Jack commanded his n to unload their cargos. A unique sll of dried clove filled in the air.
Wait, clove?
"Cunning man!" She found one reason to continue her hatred for him, "Plagiarizing my idea!"
"Cunning who?" Her husband appeared from the back, which she did not notice.
"Cunning you!" She said angrily, "I said yesterday to smuggling spice, then you start imdiately today. How quick you act!"
"Of course, since it's profitable, I’ll not linger around." Her husband said seriously without a single intent to apologize or appreciate.
"Haven't you seen anything wrong in that?" She said in high words.
"Are there?" The husband said lightly, "You are my wife, as all your ideas are mine."
"My ideas are yours? What an easy way to put it!" She said, "How about your ideas?"
"My ideas?" The husband laughed, "Of course they are mine."
"You… rascal! Robber!" Dior rlin was furious, "You are fighting ! It's a duel!"
"Are you sure to do it?"
Dior rlin stopped talking as she drew from a warrior who stood beside a narrow sword. She stood in the assaulting position. As for her husband, Cohen Kheda smiled as she did all these.
"Fine, I'll play with you." He said, "Three tis."
Dior rlin thrust like a flash of light. The sword went straight to her husband's arm. She was sure that this attack will be able to break his clothes, which will make a fool out of him yet he will remain unhurt.
Dior rlin's husband's kept smiling as if he saw through her mind. In the anti, he grabbed the blade using his hand.
"Once." The man let go of the blade. She then saw a pair of black glove was there on his hand since god-know-when.
Dior rlin breathed smoothly and eased herself. She considered and decided to pull out her best martial skill: Five Linked Strike. Cohen Kheda then saw many flashes of snow-white blade lights intertwined and flew toward himself.
"Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!" The husband's both hands moved rapidly and blocked all five attacks!
"Twice." The man said, "You have one more shot."
Dior rlin remained speechless. She once tried countless tis and no one was able to take all her five strikes. Even if her opponent was able to take it, they dared not pretend not to lose.
Her husband's serious attitude had made her shaful. She glared then thrust one more ti. No, she thrust one after another. Clearly, she had forgotten the three tis promise.
"It's past three tis!" The man's tone beca heavier. But she did not care!
However, Cohen Kheda caught her sword in the rain-like attacks, his other hand grabbed her collar.
"You've gone too far." He said, "We're done here!"
"NO!" The stubborn Dior rlin said, "You rascal, I will defeat you!"
"Don't you understand?" His eyes glimred, "You'll never defeat , on anything. Why not try to learn to respect ?"
"Because you've never respected !"
"I haven't?" He beca angry and dragged over her body, "You asked for it!"
Cohen Kheda raised her body high as if he was holding a bag of dry clove and went near the port, then he paid no pity for her and threw her down into the sea water.
"I think you need so ti for yourself." Cohen Kheda leaned by the upper side wall and looked down to her, "Think about it. In this castle, who is the most special one with ? Who is able to do anything regardless of the rules? Now you are telling I'm not respecting you? If it were other nobility chicks, I've had already tie her up and raped for real!"
"SHUT UP! SHUT UP!" Dior rlin yelled, "I hate you!"
"Is that so? I see. If love isn't an option… hatred is not bad." The man stood and left.
Dior rlin struggled back to her chamber and Lily helped her to get changed. Then she stood alone in the bed and looked blank.
"Don't be mad…" Lily comfort, "Just take it as you ordered him to throw you down."
"No! He did it in front of everybody…" Dior rlin said with a pouty mouth, "I will have my revenge!"
"Just quit it!" Lily took her hands and said, "I think His Lord was quite right. Why don't you try to make peace with him?"
"Can we?" Dior rlin was on the edge of crying, "We co from two different worlds!"
"If you wanna marry soone so identical to yourself," Lily looked at Dior and said, "What's so different if you don't get married at all?"
"Don't you understand, Lily?" She murmured, "I was bought here and paid by him. Why would he buy a girl like ? Every ti it ca to , I just… I just…"
Lily slowly took steady of Dior rlin's shoulders.
"I'm just a girl and a maiden. I wasn’t even bought by him." Lily said, "But I know, Young Lord treats well. I’m happy with my life in here. Mada, why do you care how you two winded up together? Don’t you know that Lord respects you a lot? These days, he slept with his friends instead of ca bothering you. You are the only one to fight with the Lord without being punished…"
"He dares not…" Dior rlin said hatefully.
"Wrong again, Mada…" Lily said, "You've never seen the Lord getting angry, but I have."
"Maybe…"
"Mada, can I give you an advice?"
"Sure, you can." Dior rlin took Lily's hands, "We are friends."
"Can you try to forget what happened in the past. Starting from today, learn to feel what he feels. You will find you actually enjoy staying with him. He might not be a perfect man, but he's definitely a sincere one. His heart is."
"Do you really think so?" Dior rlin asked in doubt.
"Positive."
"Fine, I'll try…"
Thus, days passed, Dior rlin spent her days fighting, big or small, with his husband. Sotis she won, other tis, the man won. When there were no fights, she will take Lily and Arnold to walk on the beach. As long as she did not overdo anything, the husband had never stopped what she intended to do. He would rely watch her from afar.
Dior rlin had the freedom she had not been enjoying for years. It was like she was back in her childhood. The days were joyful and fulfill. Before she knew it, Dior rlin had spent the seventh day in this castle.
This morning, Dior rlin was carding her red hair while thinking about the subjects on what to argue with her husband today. These days, arguing had beco their routine. Both of them restrained themselves while doing so in case the fight involve family, friend or relative.
"I'll pick sothing up during breakfast." She thought, "Right, to begin with this, and make him angry! Then leak out so smuggling catalog… he must be overjoyed."
By then, her door was strongly pushed open.
Dior rlin turned and found her husband walking in! She instinctively grabbed the dagger that never left her. The husband never ca to her room at night, now the lock remained idle.
"How could I be so careless!" She felt depressed, "He's not coming during the night doesn't an he's not going in in the morning…"
"What do you want?" She stood up, "You should knock, get out."
"Put down the weapon." The man said, "I have sothing to tell you."
"Listen, I'm only gonna say it once." He looked serious, "It's urgent. I need to go out for a few days. I don't know how it's gonna end, but I'll co back as soon as possible."
Dior rlin had never seen her husband this serious. She cannot help but nod.
"In case I am unable to co back." The husband found a pile of paper from the pocket and gave to her, "You have to take over all of my business in Winper City, including the smuggling business. Do whatever you like, there will be people to help you. Every half-month, the mayor will ask for money. You'll give him how-much-ever he wants, you get ?"
"How-much-ever he wants!" Dior rlin was unaware that she was already acting as a wife.
"I will leave a few guards for you." The man said, "If you have any questions, ask Jack. I'll leave him as well."
After all these, he strode out.
"By the way," He stopped by the door, "If you need to go out, pay attention. Don't be too wild while I'm gone."
Watched as he went down the stairs. Dior rlin felt panic out of nowhere. She knew that her husband must be in big trouble. Uproars ca from the port side. She fetched Lily and boarded the castle tower and watched toward the port.
A giant ship docked by the water. Her husband was talking to a few people. Those n who have been calling her husband 'Lord' were gathering out of the castle and lined on the portal. They all wore armor of many kinds and ard as well.
By the ti her husband boarded the ship. Dior rlin saw him glimpsed toward the castle. Only then she knew that she to him was not so low on status as she thought. Looked at the pile of leases and business papers he gave her: The clothes store that she had thrown in so much hard work and the property deeds of her house in the city… Her heart ached and nearly dropped in tears.
"Pay attention, you too." She watched as the sail began to rise, and waved her hands, "My… rustic…"
"…I have to make myself clear, that your status is always not welcod here…"
"…now, Sander, you'll be my Dark Navy Corps deputy commander…"
"…can I trust you, my darling wife?"
"…in this ancient shrine, there is a giant dungeon where lives a flock of dreadful beasts…"
"…Cohen, this isn't looking normal…"
"…I admit that you are one viceroy of bravery, but that still can't change my view on you from earlier…"
"… the Protoss Lord followers, for your loyalty and persistence, my blessings…"
Please look forward to Cohen of the Rebellion
Volu 5 – Light Journey
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