Rosie's Games

Chapter 117: Live 5

Rosie Rothley.

'It's not a bad name,' Rosalind thought. The fact that her hair, and even her face, had changed was fortunate. It meant she could start a new life. Duke Lucas Rothley just gave her the one thing that she wanted the most. A new start.

She did not care if he wanted her to call him husband or that she would spend the rest of her life repaying this favor, she could think about all the consequences later. Right now, she chose to bathe at the fact that from now on, she did not need to hide herself or her gift anymore.

"Are you awake?"

Rosalind looked at the door of the carriage that separated her from the Duke. Lucas had told her to sleep inside it instead of the tent as the camp was in the middle of nowhere. t Since she was still recovering, she needed to be where it was safest, and out in the wild where there might be beasts that would attack them, that meant the carriage.

"Yes, please come in," she called out.

Duke Lucas walked in. He was still wearing black, but his face was not as serious as it was when she had first woken up.

"I just received news from General Lytton. It seems that the Emperor wanted them to give up on the search. Rumor has it that it was me who kidnapped the Marchioness and Miss Rosalind in order to avoid the arranged marriage. I told them to add fuel to the fire and talk about a lover that I had been hiding."

Rosalind nodded.

"Thank you."

He said nothing as he stared at her.

"If they do not find Miss Rosalind's body by tomorrow, the Marquess household will hold a small funeral. I will ask the General to attend it."

Again, she nodded. This man really had done a lot for her. Somehow this made her a little guilty. She was too reckless and he had been cleaning up after her since they first met. For now, she could only thank him.

"I would like to ask Huig to start training me," Rosalind started. When she saw the Duke frown, she immediately explained. "I do not want to become a burden. I believe that learning swordsmanship and archery will be good for everyone. I may look like this but I have my Blessing and "

"No."

"What?"

"You cannot ask him to teach you."

"Why? Did you " her eyes widened. "Did you kill him? I told you it was my mistake. You did not have "

"He is under probation. He will guard you again once we reach Wugary."

"But why can't he teach me?"

"Because I will."

"Huh?" Was he not busy? He was a Duke. Surely, he had better things to do than teach her how to fight?

"And the training will be done on secret grounds. You and I will be training there alone."

"Your Grace, I think you have done a lot of things for me. I know you are probably swamped with work. I just "

"There is no need to negotiate. I am not going to make you pay a lot."

"Huh?" 'What pay?'

"Are you planning to get someone to train you for free?"

"I " He was asking her for payment? "I did not know that "

"I understand, the custom is not common in the South. There is nothing free in this world. Huig would probably charge you a lot and I am better than him, not only in swordsmanship but in all aspects. And since I am your husband, I am going to give you a discount."

Rosalind nodded. Now that she thought about it, asking Huig to teach her for free was truly impolite. She could not just ask Huig for a favor after what she did in the Aster Empire. Why did she not think of that before?

"I understand. It seems that I still have a lot of things to learn," she said. In response, the Duke nodded in satisfaction.

"You are fine. You will learn these things slowly once you reach the North."

Again, she nodded. "Thank you."

"There is no need."

"I mean thank you for everything that you have done. I know that you did it because of the Blessing, but I still think that "

"I said there is no need for that!" he said, frowning. "Let us stop talking about this matter. It ruins my mood. I came here to drink."

The man revealed a jug of wine from his coat. She wondered how he fit the wine in his coat and then thought of his spatial bag. She exclaimed. She had forgotten about the bag! She left it at

"Are you thinking about this?" the Duke suddenly revealed a bag her bag. "Huig was able to get it from that Victoria." He then threw it towards her, Rosalind smiled and graciously accepted it while saying another word of thanks.

"Now, let us drink." The Duke said as he poured her a glass of wine.

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THE ASTER EMPIRE

"Still nothing?" Victoria demanded as she looked at her sleeping daughter. It was already the dead of the night and Dorothy had just fallen asleep after a sever bout of pain because of the dark curse.

"No. Sadly, no one could heal the curse," Loren answered, his face undeniably pale. "I have asked our people to do more research about it."

"And Rosalind?"

"Still no body," Loren said. "There is no way that she would have survived that fall. Despite the fact that she had the Blessing, she was still a weakling. She was already wounded and drained from using her Blessing. The rain, the wind, and the rocks would have destroyed her."

"But you have not found her body yet!" Victoria screeched before quickly lowering her voice. "Blessed people are called Blessed because they received the Blessing of the Goddess. Did you really think people like that are easy to kill?"

Loren said nothing.

"Find her. I want her body, her clothes, or anything that will prove she died from jumping off that cliff. And I want you to find her before the Northerners can!" Victoria hissed. Since that kidnapping, the Northerners had never stopped looking for Rosalind in that forest. She was lucky, her ment were able to clean up the place and made sure not to leave any evidence of their crime or that General would have killed her!

How hateful!

3/5

I was hoping to get 1000 unlocks for the winwin to get a better rebate. I hope I can reach that number of unlocks!