"Don't you know? There was a lady that saved a little girl yesterday morning at the market place! They said she was strong and manly! And how she easily beat down the man that captured the young girl! The rumour has spread all over the capital!" The maid at the Redmere Duchy babbled to the other maid, ecstatic. The other maid's eyes widened.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL7k32EmGtN
"My! Then, do they know where that lady come from?"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJvyy2MoQMv
The maid shakes her head. "They didn't saw her face clearly, and the bad man was sentenced in a seven years of imprisonment for almost harming the young girl he captured I heard. And according to the knights' physician in the palace, that man was a crazy in the head! Ho! Thanks to that lady for capturing him!"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcxEqQ4ZxfA
The other maid nodded. "Right!"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwDqYE0a77X
Prince Sage, who's about to enter the Redmere Duchy, stopped when he heard what the maids was gossiping. The knights behind him stopped too, wondering.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV3FW8t1NW8
"Your highness?" One of the knights asked.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLoqFT7D34d
The two maids who's gossiping on their working time, was stunned when they heard the two words behind them. They slowly turned around and step back hurriedly.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmTDI8RzjKV
That's right! It's his highness! He'll come here today!
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe6q0ejHvmR
"I-I greet your highness, prince of the Dalis Kingdom!" They both muttered.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPXlb0hNMkG
Prince Sage just stared at them bowed their head. He opened his mouth, about to asked something when he hesitated and just decided to shut it.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4JevRkErsz
Nevermind.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyao2YKZaUT
"Where's the Duke?"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa4v0oEV02O
"H-He's preparing for your arrival, your highness! He's coming here now,"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡejtgoZRgnT
And right after the other maid finished her sentence, they heard footsteps behind them and the cheerful face of the Duke appeared.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwdgt9Sf20X
"Your highness!" Duke Atticus gladly greeted him.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjIkODaG3My
The two maids excused themselves.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoEr9Zvqu4D
"Your grace," The prince greeted.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlAIVKcn37U
"His highness was early---then, let's get inside." The duke smiled.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoW28K3u5Fp
Prince Sage nod and asked, "Is it the duchess' month already?"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEFctEKjzDF
"Yes, your highness. And I'm afraid I would faint if I would ever heard her scream from pain of giving birth to our first child. It's---my first time. I will lose my mind,"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMxoqfUn8MT
Prince Sage just listened to the duke say about his pregnant wife, the Duchess.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpXKJNqXqzi
Somehow, he couldn't help but asked himself, how would I react or feel if I was in his position? Of course, one day, he will be in his position. Every ruler of the kingdom needs a heir, and he's the future king.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZvf99NX9o
As the duke lead their way to the drawing room, he invited the prince to sit opposite to him. The duchess also entered the room, her baby bump was really like this month she'll be giving birth.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp19hWaV0al
"I greet your highness,"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQMG5fG9r0V
The prince signed his hand, "You don't need to, your grace,"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgGs9nGdGxv
As the duchess sat beside the duke, a paper appeared on the table, handed by the prince.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPfZY95cHmY
"Then, your highness, what's the cause of your coming here and what's with the paper?"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz9IzGCh4Jy
Duke Atticus took the paper from the table and read as his eyes widened in astonishment.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7rbjpUXXtE
Union!
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHyMFS587r
"Your highness, you're getting married in seven months from now?!"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4cREsTFbB
Prince Sage's eyes fell to the table. "It's what the paper says."
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCXtXliNJnL
The next moment, both of the rulers of the duchy was speechless.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdLR4EQNt9X
"And...before the wedding takes place, his Majesty the king told the duke to get his affairs done in the border in the span of before the wedding. He wants everything kept in line."
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQTqKJytaK1
"Of...of course, my affairs can't take that long. The agreement of the tribe and the Dalis Kingdom in the border is getting good. But this...I didn't know you have a lover, your highness?"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJL0AcZzyV3
Surely, the Duke misunderstand.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuotfm4NPsN
"I don't have a lover, my father engaged me ten years ago and I've only come to know it three months ago."
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWopwKUNeH7
Now they understand. The prince can't do anything if it's the king's order.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmcmgIYNJbz
But once, Duke Atticus was in his position too. He was engaged with the Duchess and he can't do anything about it. But they learned to love each other due to the circumstances they're facing. They're together, never leaving each other's side by the time the problems came. But, also, the duke knows not everyone experienced this kind of tale.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvkTastWhyc
He's now only wishing that the prince would have a good marriage with the woman he's marrying.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnPZOzrY4ZF
"Then, may I know who's the lady you're marrying, your highness? There's no name written in this paper. It only says a union between the kingdom's first prince and a lady...what is his Majesty thinking? He's making the lady anonymous,"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYK9z6TI856
Prince Sage rubbed his forehead. "It's not my father's only unusual doings," He received the paper on his hand the duke read, "The lady is the Captain of the Blue Knight's daughter."
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb4fWq8JHDT
"Sir Shae Hawthorne's daughter?" The duchess surprisingly asked.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNPlCKpxpv0
Shae Hawthorne, who knight and a hero who defeated a hundred troupe of knights of the other kingdom while the war was occuring. He gained the honour of the kingdom and was beloved by the people when the king appointed him to be a captain of the blue knoghts. And now his daughter...was going to be a princess consort.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQbgwpmMHVc
They do not know about Shae Hawthorne's daughter a lot, her face was even blurred in their memory, but they heard some news that she was like him. A lady who's strong enough to defeat a troupe of knights in just a young age.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL8RRD7xZIo
"That's...that's unexpected." Duke Atticus muttered.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmGYWosoMxZ
Prince Sage could only stared at the paper.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7E9us5pjIe
An hour later, the time of Sage's departure arrived. Both the duke and duchess bid their goodbyes as the Prince got on the carriage.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoPxcBze0J
Before taking the road on the way to the palace, the carriage needed to pass by the Paku Village, where the Prince saw someone he didn't expect to see.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIMuEuZSDlK
"Stop the carriage!" Sage shouted.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtffPkbXBhH
The coachman got startled and stopped. Sage got off the carriage and put the cloak for him not to be noticeable.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHlSZcRggo8
There was a group of crowds forming in the middle of the street, watching someone who's shouting.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJBblUD3EZb
"You're out of this!" That voice was familiar, and as Sage realized it, the one who's shouting was Madam Ezra, the Countess. And the countship of his husband the count was located in this area.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzbQYQjLCTd
Prince Sage saw a lady his eyes caught on while he was on the carriage holding a child that was about five year old and it's bleeding! One look from it, it seemed like he was being bullied or someone tried to kill him but failed!
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAXVl037zdF
Sage shaken off.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJLrdeWcSua
"Give me the child! He's my slave!"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY7OgAIPBej
The lady who's holding the child gripped the bleeding child's body. The child started to sniffed and silently cried, not letting go of the lady's arms.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNG5b80Dnfk
"You can't make a child to be a slave, madam," The lady said calmly, but all know she couldn't repressed her anger by delivering those words.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk9llmQyO9b
"I bought him! You have nothing to do in my business! You're just a daughter of a lowly knight! If you don't go of the child right now, I'll make you face the jail for insulting the nobility!" The veins on the neck of the countess was restraining, she was really mad.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0UP1Zgh37N
Prince Sage, hearing that, clenched his fist.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcfRJ7EUDqx
"Then how much?"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuugCIVO2Z5
"What?!"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR0GoOrnm75
"How much did you bought the child, madam? I'll pay you!"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrwsWy1N0kb
"Ha! You think you've got that much money? You really think you would get that child by your father's money? You're father was just a knight! And you're just a lowly daughter! Hell with you!"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA4mu2s0DiZ
Sage couldn't take it anymore and remove his cloak.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTlHkpRXj8Q
"You can cut it off now, Madam Ezra, "
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT6mv7jXji8
Madam Ezra got taken aback hearing that fearful voice as she turned around.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfvTTRAebzP
"Y-Your highness?" She gulped.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq1u1h1LWHV
Sloan was astonished too.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUNQ6lp185b
What's he doing here in this place?
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡudL56RoxQo
Sage gazed at Sloan who's now furrowing her eyebrows while gently hugging the bleeding and crying child.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsSa4kAQzaS
"Your highness! This lady---shes--- she's hurting the child and I was trying to conceive him!"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDIYB146g1Q
What? Since when did the tables turn?!
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvBKM0NtHLC
Sloan was about to open her mouth to explain when Sage interrupted.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ34AShWziri
"Don't flip the situation, Countess. I heard and see what's going on. You can fool everyone but me. And as far as I'm not mistaken, I never saw a law that nobility should took upon child slavery. You know what I'm saying, right?"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡooN3SEFy6J
The Countess gulped, speechless.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVdA8kNm17m
"Even if you're part of a royalty, you can't escape a punishment by the law."
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqqau5f8ViC
The group of crowds in the Paku Village gasped, hearing the prominent and confident prince of the kingdom who happened to saw the scene.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZnjYgh2hcu
"Your highness!"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVXwbK8yV6l
Sage ignored him, gazing at Sloan.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3KxrczPnrz
"And you---"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx8UdMh5Apc
The Countess interrupted again, finding fault in Sloan. "Your highness! That lowly daughter of a knight must be punished too for insulting a royalty and for didn't bother to greet you!"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY2IM8csRaj
Sage sighed. "There's really no need for that," Sage walk towards her. "Come with me, we'll need to talk."
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF0H4fUriLI
The Countess was perplexed, how do the prince talk like that to her?! And when a while ago they seemed like they didn't know each other, but now?!
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ9PANTPEl7
Sloan silently nodded while carrying the child.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMJIUcVVV8n
As they were about to leave, the Countess shouted.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV6NqgXK1d8
"Your highness! What is wrong with you taking that bitch's side?! And why is she coming with you?! She's a---"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSQUonl45De
"Countess, I'll bring the knights here as soon as possible when I arrive at the palace." Sage interrupted, getting mad.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdq3nJ3Ho8C
Sloan looked down.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwNakRgEGIh
"Your highness!" The Countess' expression flipped. "Why are you being like this---i bet you don't even know that lowly daughter of a knight---"
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRmkV0ctCVx
Sage couldn't take it anymore and talk back. "Countess, if you can't shut your words off, you'll be sentenced in lifetime imprisonment for insulting the one I'm going to marry. And when I say insulting the one I'm going to marry, it also means insulting me."
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtOX4Q4bk1C
The Countess got taken aback. Sloan too!
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa9zfsXsxJM
Why suddenly did he said that thing?! He didn't even mention it once when he's with her!
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPzreF64RhN
"The Duke's tasked was too spread that news over the kingdom but since i couldn't shut my temper off just now, Countess, I slipped and told you. Now, you can't just make a reason. With that, you broke almost three laws of this kingdom."
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡySLFD8tvoM
Sloan got a hint of what's happening.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ckY60MEj7
The prince already went to the duke for him to spread the news all over the kingdom. She thought it was next month, why suddenly they're in a rush of making everyone knows the engagement?
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzSBpajmlHR
Sloan stared at Sage, questioning him using her facial expression.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH2Fw1cdsR6
Sage only held her gently like he was protecting her as they turned around and leave to get on the carriage with a bleeding child.
159Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxAOEjdq4WE
Now, the Paku Village was in tense and excitement that the Prince delivered. It spread to the other areas in just a matter of time.
ns216.73.216.94da2
