Chapter 131

Ancelina was laughing loudly while Winslow trying really hard to not laugh. The people in their surroundings looked in their direction and made Renneshia feel more embarrassed and want to hide herself as quickly as possible. She hide behind Winslow as she never thought there would be someone who realized her.

But...

"Wait, did you forget about me? It's me, Nemesio. We have been meeting in the East before. You are trapped in the ma-." Nemesio tried to remind her about him but he couldn't finish his words.

"Stop it! I think you got the wrong person. I never met you before. And what kind of embarrassing nickname is that? Can you please stop calling me like that?" Renneshia acts like she never met him before and talks with an angry tone.

"Huh?! You are right, when I look carefully, your hair has a different colour from hers. The person that I knew had a darker colour that was similar to the night sky. But you have a similar face to her so I mistook you for her. It has been a few years since the last time I saw her. I just want to thank her for helping me before but I couldn't find her again..." Nemesio looks dejected as he admits that Renneshia is not the person he is looking for. 

Renneshia feels sorry for Nemesio but she also can't tell him the truth. She looks at the two who look like they want to say that she made him cry. Their gaze makes her feel more guilty. As she could not bear their sharp gaze, she decided to cheer him.

"You said that your name was Nemesio, right? I'm sorry that I was not the person that you are looking for, but we are still able to become a friend. My name is Renne, nice to meet you. They are Brother Winslow and Sister Ancelina who help me to go around this City today." Renneshia said with a smile on her face.

"Nice to meet you, everyone. I'm sorry for making a fuss." Nemesio apologised and bowed his head.

"Alright, let's go around the Festival and enjoy it." Renneshia holds his hand and takes him to the Festival as she feels guilty for lying to him.

They spend their time together happily and enjoy the Festival. But as they happily play and eat, there is someone who secretly follows them. That person is wearing a robe that hides his appearance and has been following them after Nemesio make a fuss. 

"Why did she was in this city? She couldn't be in this City... And who are the people who were with her? No, if she was able to get her happiness then I won't say or do anything to them... But she looks different from her... Is she really the person that I have been searching for all these years? I seem to have gone mad after I came to this City." The robbed person mutters in a sad tone.

The robbed person follows them but he sees them walking to an alleyway and when he chases them into the alleyway, he loses them. He looks around with a sad face but he already loses them. 

"What am I doing? I know she will hate me even when she sees me... Is this because of my guilty feeling because I made such a mistake before? I really miss you even when I cannot remember anything about you... This is strange... But my heart seems to know when I see you, my most precious person." The robbed person felt sad as tears started to drop from his eyes. 

Renneshia and the other three are using magic tools to fool that person because they know that they have been followed by someone. It was something that Renneshia made while acting as Ludger in the alchemy guild. She made it after she felt suspicious about the Magic Tower Master who hid his appearance and never appeared in public anymore. 

That robbed person didn't even try to hide that he was following them like an amateur but for some reason, Renneshia also felt that it would be better if she didn't meet with that person. While both of them seem to have some fate that binds them, but Renneshia doesn't want to take any risk. She also doesn't know if the black robbed group are still exist in this city because the current Duke Kadaklan, Kismet or someone who she often calls as Darius, never told Ludger anything related to it anymore.

Renneshia feels her life is always being targeted by someone even after she ran away from the Viscount Ruach territory and faked her death, she keeps feeling that she is still in danger. If it was like her predecessor, Shia said about the Goddess fragment then she must be targeted by the God of Chaos. But what happened today seems to give her new information that will be able to improve her magic.

'My magic seems to be lacking. Unlike the magic spell that Sister Elviira described when she told me about the Tower Master. My spells seem able to be seen through when someone has met and know me before... It can't be..., there shouldn't be another person who has met me in the East like Nemesio. Or is it just some coincidence? My heart beating so hard when he started to follow us... No, it was normal when you have someone stalking you.' Renneshia decided to ignore the person who followed her because she didn't have any time to worry about it.

The sun had set and the sky started to get darker. They decide to go back to the place where they're starting and the three of them send Nemesio back to his inn before they come back to their home. Renneshia secretly sneak into her room and tell her mother that she was having fun that day. Her mother felt happy as she could see her daughter's happy face. She often smiled or laughed as Ludger but because of their condition, Katarina rarely saw her real face.

It was a tiring but enjoyable day. Renneshia feels tired but she doesn't feel like sleeping because she knows that she will see those strange dreams again. Those dreams always made her wake up with a messy mind and feeling. But of course, she couldn't prevent her tired body to not falling asleep. That night, Renneshia had a similar dream that she had been seeing.

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It was about what happened to Renneshia in the game before the game began. Because of Renneshia's cold behaviour, the people in the Palace started to avoid her. They started gossiping about her behind her back. They started to gossip that she was a heartless person or she was looking down at the other. But only Prince Edmund still treats Renneshia kindly like always and makes her have a hard time seeing his face because her heart with beating really hard.

But lately, she feels scared because he keeps asking her about her life in Ruach territory. She didn't dare to say anything about the horrible things that the Ruach family did to her. Before she came to the Palace for her training, Viscount Ruach had warned her to not talk about the bad things they did to her. Renneshia has no other choice except to listen to their words because they still have her mother with them.

"Hey, can you tell me what kind of territory is the Viscount Ruach's territory was? They said that it has a harsher summer in the East part of the Empire?" Prince Edmund keeps asking her the questions about the Eastern part of the Empire. 

"I was too busy with my studies so I haven't really seen the place outside of the Ruach mansion. Besides I have such an ominous hair and colour so I don't want to scare the people outside of the mansion. But everyone still treated me well and helped me a lot." Renneshia repeated the answer that she was told by the Viscount Ruach.

"Hmm?! What are you talking about? You have such beautiful hair and eyes that look like the night sky or onyx. Oh right, it's because you are from the East where the Temple of Light has the biggest influence... I-I'm sorry, I shouldn't say anything about that. Oh right! You seem to like studying and I seem to always saw you reading in the Royal Library after you came here. Can you tell me why you are studying so hard?" Prince Edmund made a lot of expressions.

Renneshia's heart felt hurt every time she saw him keep showing a different side of himself. And the most uncomfortable thing is that he keeps treating her kindly and caring for her even when she acts cold to him like how she acts in front of the other. She has been treated with horrible treatment since she was born, and she often listens to the curse from other people in the Ruach mansion.

They always said that she was ugly, useless, and stupid and caused them to have bad luck. And because she keeps hearing the same things from the time they were born until now, it makes her think that everything that they told her was the truth.

  "Your Highness, I need to study because I realized that I am someone talentless and stupid. I need to make sure that I will be able to be a good partner for you. I don't want to make a similar mistake that I made in the last party. I will do my best to not make you feel ashamed from today onwards. So, will you still accept someone like me as your 'temporary partner'?" Renneshia asks as she looks straight at Price Edmund who seems to be too surprised by the unexpected answers.