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We had our lovely moment before my departure into the world. All I could say was it was definitely something she'll never forget for the rest of her life.
And of course she also gave me a good luck charm to send me off to my doom as she would call it. A nice, visible injury on the side of my neck.
She's so aggressive, hahaha!~
So here I went, outside of the Ancient Plains and looking back at the place where I spent my married life after slaying the Dark Enigma.
Things were always bound to change.
It certainly feels unreal at first, but once you adapt to it then there's room for new sights.
. . .
"Hey Alice! I know father wants us to get married soon, but you didn't have to reject each one of them so cruelly like that so much that they had to leave! They are higher nobles for god's sake!"
A girl with dark brown hair and light green eyes said to the girl besides her with lighter brown hair and darker green eyes.
Alice stares at her sister who was pouting at her for refusing to entangle herself with such fine men as those nobles. It wasn't that she didn't want to know them, it was because a marriage love for only two people was more complicated to have.
What if the husband decides to love another woman instead of you? Isn't that bothersome? This world loves polygamous marriages with a man with many women by his side.
"Elise, I'm only worried about the love between a man and me. As a female who was born to this social norm, I strictly don't like how a man has to have many wives to keep a lot of connections to other families." Alice said to her.
Her sister Elise sighs at her words. The world was definitely cruel to women who didn't have nearly much power as men do.
Sure there were some women who were really powerful enough to dominate a kingdom but they were not in the same world as the powerful women were.
Different worlds can't collide easily.
"But Alice, we aren't independent. It takes mighty courage to take up our own lives alone to deal with many things that adults deal with. We're only 15-years old!"
The sisters were only 15-years old. Of marriageable age.
"That's why I want to try adventuring. If I can become like the Red Hero, I can become stronger and obtain more experience to create my own path in life." Alice smiles towards the sky. Ever since she heard about the Red Hero's stories, she wanted to become someone greater like he was.
"Lady Alice von Gettsberg and Lady Elise von Gettsberg, we meet again."
Alice and Elise turn towards a familiar noble who was one of their potential suitors at their residence. There were four guards behind the noble who were looking at the sisters with certain glee in their eyes as if they can't wait to do something to them.
Alice frowned and puts an arm in front of Elise, getting in front of her. She didn't think this through. "What do you want? Didn't I tell you that I didn't want to know you?"
The noble laughs at her. "That was a bad choice, Lady Alice. If you had married me, I would've given you the chance to choose from my men so we would've been equal for having such relations." His words disgusted both the sisters completely.
"That's utter bullocks! Your men don't deserve my sister!" Elise shouted at him and his men before telling Alice that they should run.
Their creepy approach made the two sisters run from them in the green forest.
. . .
I looked at the direction to a nearby forest from the road to Aireale, sensing that something or someone was getting closer to me any minute now.
"Well, that's a nice way for action to take place. Are there new friends for my wife there?"