Seeing the face that she loathed in her current life after transmigrating caused her great inner disturbance. If she was still in the modern world, she'll already chug herself with beer and soju till she dropped dead on the ground. The entire afternoon, she desperately wanted to drink beer. A wine is not strong enough for her to become tipsy. With that in mind, a ridiculous idea popped out of her head. Right after dinner, with her professional sneakiness, she easily slipped out of the mansion. 30 minutes walk or 10 minutes by carriage from the mansion and you'll arrive at the capital.
The capital was very crowded and noisy. Even though it's nighttime, the energy around was a hundred times better than inside that stuffy mansion. The thought instantly clicked inside his head. She instantly regretted not coming in the capital although it's just close. As she was bewildered by the liveliness of the town, Roselia suddenly shuddered in a moment. She pondered by her sudden action and a face of a certain person pictured in her head and made her stiff in the place she's standing.
[ Already? Did Ian already noticed my escape? Is this his signal to go back? Goosebumps! ]
She ignored her cold doubt and walked in the crowded road and can't contained her amazement. It's been a year since she saw that many people. She can't helped but feel nostalgic.
"I brought 100 gold and a dagger just in case, I hope the prices here were not that expensive," she scratched her head and mumbled as shs worried for something so trivial.
***
"Can I have three skewers please?" Roselia smiled at the food stall owner as she gobbled up the food she ordered.
"That'll be 300 silver coins, miss," the owner looked at her happily eating his food.
"Here! Take the change, Mr. Owner! I'll stop by again so make sure to give me free service next time!" Roselia handed a piece of gold coin and waved her hand with food on her mouth as she left.
As she ate and stroll around, she began noticing odd things. She sighed deeply as her eyebags drooped down in extreme shock.
[ Cheap! 100 gold is too much! Why did I brought too much?! ]
She ended up handing 1 gold on each stall she visited and let them take the change. Her purse will end up bursting out if she took every change from each stall.
Meat skewer, takoyaki, chicken drumsticks, stir fried rice cakes, peanut - filled pancake, spring onion pancake, red bean paste taiyaki; every stall she visited had designated place in her stomach. In the entire 1 hour of strolling around, she just filled her empty stomach with delicious ordinary food. She found it tiring and depressing to eat foie gras and steak everyday in the mansion. She realized herself as a cow eating grass three times a day. She can't even complain as it's delicious and scary with Ian lurking around her.
During the past 1 hour, she also noticed that someone has been meticulously following her around. She can't even concentrate on her food as they kept on staring at her with burning gazes. She almost choked herself in the seaweed food she's eating. To finally end the uncomfortability she's feeling, she decided to take action. She entered a dark and uncrowded alleyway and started acting like she's lost.
"I think I'm lost ... What should I do?" she looked right and left and stopped walking midway.
"Are you lost, lady?
"Need some help?"
"You're a rich noble aren't you?"
Voices was heard as it was concealed behind the dark shadows of the alley. Soon after, five men showed themselves and scared Roselia by showing off their sharp knives. As if she's scared of it. Her straighten face turned pale in an instant and shook in fear as she began her marvelous acting.
"Give us your money and we'll let you go," one of the thugs licked the sharp blade of the knife he's holding.
[ Thugs doesn't really change even in this world. Low in quality and disgusting as ever. ]
"Really?" Roselia slowly tiptoed towards them and shakily ( pretending ) reached out the pouch she's desperately protecting.
The smile on their faces widen as they started giggling. One of them approached Roselia and aggressively reached out his hand. Roselia carefully brought out the pouch and as it was almost placed on his palm,
"Aaaaaaa!!!" the one who approached Roselia screamed intensedly.
The moment Roselia placed the pouch in his hand, she instantly grabbed the knife hidden in her waist and unhesitantly sliced his arm. Roselia abruptly picked up the pouch that fell in the ground together with an amputated hand.
"What's wrong, brother?"
"What the hell?"
Holding his amputated arm he looked back towards his comrades horridly and yelled in terror, "That wench! She cut my arm!"
The four of them instantly backed up their injured friend and engaged towards Roselia.
The first guy engaged and swung his knife sideways. She easily dodged the swing with her flexibility and counterattacked. She kicked his foot and made him trip on the ground. As he fell, Roselia stabbed him with a knife on the back. As she pulled out the knife, blood splurted out.
"Damn you!" the second guy yelled as he swung his right leg towards her.
Roselia dodged with a back flip and landed in a crouching stance. Surprisingly, the second guy threw himself forward and tried piercing his knife inwards. With her posture crouching down, she dodged the knife by shifting her body sideways and tripped him with her right foot. Just like what she did on the first guy, right after the second guy fell on the ground; she abruptly stood up and stabbed him in the same spot.
The third guy clicked his tongue as he swung his knife wildly at Roselia. "Stop dodging, you wench!" he infuriated. Roselia dodged every full swing the third guy gave.
"Okay!" Roselia lowered her stance and punch him in the chin. The moment he took the blow, he stopped swinging his knife. Roselia hand - chopped his armed hand. He instantly dropped the knife he's holding after he took the hit. Without a moment of rest, the fourth guy charged in behind her and swung his sword sideways. Roselia leaned herself forward and as she turned around, she grabbed the unconscious third guy by the head and threw him to the fourth guy.
"That was not harder than I initially thought," she sighed in disappointment as she dusted her hands.
As she walked out of that dark alley, she instantly noticed her hood tainted with blood.
"Ah! This is bad ... I shouldn't be caught," she mumbled as she calmly took off the hood.
She threw the hood in a nearby trashcan and excitedly skipped a walk towards her destination like nothing happened. She arrived after a few minutes and as she took a step forward in that place, she can easily tell that the air there was totally different. As expected of the Red District.
"After a year! Finally! Beer!" she raised her arms and shouted in excitement as she roam around the Red District.
As she roam around and looked around, she entered a random pub and had a few drinks to her heart's content.
"The feels, the kick, the sting ... This is really it! My dear friend, Beer!" she slammed the beer mug after emptying it contentedly.
As she enjoyed her time with her long lost friend, she unconsciously looked around. Everything was lively. Her attention was suddenly drawn by a guy who sat down besides her. As she looked at him, she can't help but blush. He's handsome and has this cool air around him. As he sat down besides her, Roselia grinned as she kept on staring at him. The pub was poor lighted yet the guy's presence besides him stood up among the rest. His black hair, cold yet emotionless navy eyes, and his exceptionally leaned body. Roselia was completely smitten by him.
Roselia had no experience in dating. She doesn't have any experience holding a guy's hand except from her dragging the corpse of her victim to somewhere else. Despite her being eccentric and wicked, she had a weak spot when it comes to handsome guys.
She just enjoyed staring at this guy from afar and chugged herself with beers till she dropped dead on the floor. That's what she came there for in the first place.
The next morning, she found herself waking up in an unfamiliar ceiling. It's made of wood and she can clearly noticed that it was literally not her room. Her first expression showed that morning was horrible.
[ Fuck. Where the hell am I? Did I not went back home? I'm doomed. Ian ... ]
She abruptly rose from the bed and scratched her hair in extreme worry. She looked around and something caught her attention. She raised her eyebrows in suspicion as she tried analyzing what she had just saw.
"Huh?? Am I hallucinating? Why do I have an extra feet?" she mumbled as she forcidly blinked her eyes in doubt.
The moment she shifted her gaze to her side, the chills climbed up to her head. Her eyes widen and just froze.
[ Heck ... A one night stand? What in the world did I do last night? I don't have any experience! Why am I finding myself here?! ]
She silently threw tantrums with just her facial expressions and carefully started picking up her scattered clothes in the floor. While dressing up, she noticed hickeys in her body and that made her agitated.
[ Is that really intense?! Why can't I remember?! ]
As she finished dressing up, she tried taking a peek on the guy's face. She wanted to assure herself that for her first time, at least make the person a decent one. She stood up besides him and slowly pulled down the blanket covering his face. Her heart was pounding so fast to the point that you can hear it. She's restless as she was frightened that the guy might wake up and got caught in her act. Her plan was to take a peek and leave in a hurry. Also leave a payment for the hot service she never remembered. Just like how modern one night stand novel plot does. As she pulled down the blanket, the moment she saw his blacl hair; she began sweating in cold.
[ This is ... No way? It's not him right? I remembered just watching him from afar. This is not him right?! ]
As she continued pulling down the blanket, she almost cursed loudly upon seeing his sleeping face.
[ Fuck. ]
Her jaw dropped in shock as she just blankly looked at him. She began denying reality and wandered in her thoughts.
[ Wait ... Perhaps? Did I force myself to him? Eyy! No way ... right? That's impossible ... I'm not that type of girl ..! ]
As she thought very hard, she sighed heavily at the final conclusion she had.
[ Shit. It's possible ... If I'm desperate enough last night then it's freaking possible. This freaking desire of mine. Shit! ]
As she was repenting for her actions, she didn't realized that the guy was already awake and was just staring at her blankly. As their eyes began to met, Roselia instinctively turned her head away.
The guy held Roselia's head and made her looked at him.
As the atmosphere turned awkward and heavy, she ended up greeting him a pleasant morning with an awkward smile and giggled. "Good morning! Haha ..."
"Good morning," he blankly answered.
[ Fuck. What's with this awkward development. We're barely even knew each other yet we're greeting each other in bed like this early in the morning. ]
Roselia snapped out in an instant and jumped jolted out. She placed her entire purse in the side table and rushed towards the door. "Nice to meet you, handsome man. I hope we'll not see each other again, adios!" she ran out of the inn with her legs working in maximum.
As she was running, something popped out of her mind that instantly changed her expression.
"Fuck. Did we use condom?" she muttered as she worked her legs to escape from the capital. "Wait ... is there even a condom here?!" she stopped and blankly added.
It took her exactly 15 minutes to arrived back in the mansion. As she catched her breath in exhaustion, Ian was there patiently waiting for her arrival outside the gate.
"Hehe~" the first word that came out on her stupid mouth after arriving at the Faques gate.
"Hehe?!!" Ian repeated with a high tone.
Ian was furiously angry. The tension turnes heavy enough for it to choke Roselia to death.
"Why did you just arrived now, Duchess?!" he leaned forward and furiously asked.
"I drank a bit ... Just a bit you know!" Roselia ended up confessing because of the suffocating tension.
"Then?!" Ian piercely gazed at her straight in the eye still acting furiously.
Roselia cowered her head like a puppy, "Then I sleep in an inn," and mumbled softly.
"Alone?!"
"Of course! What do you think of me, Ian!" Roselia answered flusterly.
"This is the last time, Duchess. We can't always let you do things that you want. You're the head of the Faques Family and Aztech. If something wrong happened to you, everything you planned will crumble in an instant, you understand it right?!" he sighed hopelessly and began his holy preaching.
"I understand ..." with her head drooped down, she replied softly.
Roselia never lost to anyone but after coming into this world, she ended up giving in to Ian everytime they argued. For Roselia, Ian is a superior being she needed to beat in order to attain her desired freedom.
After that incident, Ian closed the Faques Family gate from the public because of Roselia's reckless actions. As everyone in the mansion were all part of the Aztech, there's no also a need to hide in the shadows. After that, Roselia trained the members openly and began planning their next moves.
[ About that handsome man, let me just bury the memories of him deep inside my heart. We're not meeting again anyways.
]
2 months have passed after that and a scary news made Roselia almost faint in shock.
"You're pregnant, General! Congratulations?? Huh??" the head doctor announced in doubt.
Ian looked at Roselia furiously. "What is the meaning of this, General?!" His gaze could bore a hole in my chest.
[ Fuck. What the fuck?!! ]