"You were" From the mont that they had t in her second life, he had been there just when she needed him. The cliff, in the maze, and those tis when she thought her life was going to end, he showed up.
"We made a deal," he said.
Indeed. This was all because of the deal.
"I am going to bring you out of the Aster Empire while you you will beco my person," he added. "And I always protect my people, Lady Rosie. You should rember that."
"Then where do you want to sleep?" she asked after a few seconds of silence. He would protect her but that did not answer her question. Where did he want her to sleep?
"Next to . Unless you want to sleep on the floor."
She swallowed. mories of the 'incident' where she 'accidentally' teleported into the bathhouse appeared in her head.
"Is sothing the matter?"
"What?" she flinched and wondered if he recalled that thing too. "No. I was just thinking."
He narrowed he eyes. He knew! He must have known what she was thinking about.
"Would you mind sharing?"
"Well" she cleared her throat and avoided his intense gaze. She knew that she was extrely red as she could literally feel the blood on her face boiling. "I thought about what we saw in the forest and the Thun Family. I just I had so information about them and it did not show anything about that woman nad Lurea."
"Oh?" he lifted an eyebrow. She thought he would ask her about the source of the information. He didn't. Instead, he looked at the cackling fire not far away from them. "You are playing with fire, Lady Rosie."
"Am I?"
"I suggest you leave it alone before it burns you."
"You know sothing."
"I know enough."
"I want to know."
His eyes sprang back to hers and she could feel him scrutinizing her, searching, probing. Was he wondering what she was up to?
"The seven families" he leaned back, his eyes still on hers. "Are not sothing that you can handle on your own. Many people have tried and all of them have disappeared, one by one."
"You speak as if you know everything about them."
"What are you up to?" he asked, totally catching her off guard. She did not expect that he would be so direct.
"I"
"How annoying," the Duke suddenly got up and threw sothing towards the wall. His movent was so fast, she did not know what he had done until she heard a loud thud on the other side. She got up, alard.
She did not sense anyone around the room.
"Rats," the Duke walked towards the wall. He removed sothing that looked like a dagger but was longer. It looked like a short sword except it was too sharp and its blade was circular instead of the traditional flat one. He pulled it from the wall and used a handkerchief to wipe the blood off the blade. "Indeed people seed to have forgotten."
"Your Grace, should we tell the others about this? I an the Countess and" Rosalind swallowed. Earlier, Lucas and her did not et the Countess as she was not at ho when they arrived. However, the sky had already turned dark and it was ti for dinner. She was certain that the Countess would be back soon.
"No need," Lucas said. "She will co when she arrives. Although, her husband is currently ill, she would surely see her husband first." Finally, he looked at her and asked. "This everything that you have seen so far is nothing compared to what will happen if the seven imperial families know of your existence and intention to fight against what they preach."
Her lips thinned, he was telling the truth. However, she wasn't exactly intending to fight against those people. All she wanted was knowledge and information, she needed it if she wanted to live.
The information that she had gotten from the black market wasn't exactly enough. Although so secrets were not known by many people, the things that were included in the list were not as nasty as the things that Dorothy and the Lux Family did in her past life. It was not enough.
Perhaps the Duke could
"If I am not wrong, the Thun Family want to attack Cirid very soon." The Duke interrupted her thoughts. Cirid was the third kingdom that was apart of the Northern Alliance.
"Then what are you planning to do?" she asked.
"Nothing."
"What?" Was he not going to help them out?
The Duke went back to his seat and poured himself another glass of wine.
"The beasts will soon start to rampage and a beast tide will happen. The Thun family is not prepared for that."
"A beast tide " Rosalind recalled a beast tide in her past life, but at this ti it would be too early. She recalled the beast tide happening when Dorothy was already the Empress. She wanted to ask him how he seed so sure that a beast tide would happen very soon.
If she was right, then this should be because of her reincarnation. Life is give and take. She could not just keep on taking without giving. There has to be a balance sowhere, a life for a life.
A beast tide would surely take a lot of lives. If this was going to happen earlier because of her then
A knock on the door interrupted them. Then the young son of the count walked in, distraught.
"We have a problem"
"What is it?" Rosalind asked. She could sll blood from the man.
"Father Father is There is sothing wrong with my father's wound! Please help him!"
"Impossible!" Rosalind said. She healed him! She used her dark Blessing to absorb the curse and used her light Blessing to remove the poison from his body. She then used her light Blessing to heal his internal wounds. There were wounds on the flesh, but none of them were considered life-threatening.
She imdiately looked at the Duke. "Sothing is wrong," she frowned.
To his surprise, he only chuckled and said, "Ah is it already ti?"
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