Chapter 15 - Why Are You Still Invading?

I take a deep breath and calm the mind as I held on to the door's handle. 'The moment of truth.' Opening the door, I step outside and look around. Surrounding me was the front garden, patio and some other stuff for people to have conversations with. I didn't see any other houses or anything for a few hundred meters, but outside that perimeter, there were other houses, shops, markets and mostly everything this town was consisted of. The farms and others places of work were surrounding the center of town, especially because there were no walls or even pikes that could be used for outer invasion. Which was one of the main reason, I didn't need to think twice about talking this out. From what I know about this town from the novel and Anna, it was a small town. It didn't have many residence, maybe a few hundred. The guards sucked and we didn't have much of an attack force. So the question was, how did the original guy from before stuck out long enough for the protagonist to come and win the heroine? Well, I'll get to that later, right now I have someone special coming for me. "Ahhh… there she is." A Heroine I say as I look at the white horse that stride's into town and under the gazes of multiple eyes, kept walking as if there was none. But it wasn't the horse they were looking at but the rider. I see the armor wearing women, sitting upright and stood tall as she rides her horse. Her most attracting things were her floral white her and blue eyes. Even after being bundled into a bun, it was eye-catching. Those eyes… there is a rumor that says that if you don't have the white hair and blue eyes, then you aren't a Religias and there is a reason why that is said too. But she was a true born Religias, those eyes would stare down into the most oppressive man in the future and wouldn't back down. Well at least, that's what the Arthur wrote about her and with what I see, most of it looks alright. I take a look at Anna before glancing at her, shaking my head. 'Nah, she can't compare to her.' I walk towards the main gate as I see that she has almost reached the place. Now that I have a better look, I see that she didn't have any guards beside her, just her, alone. This could be seen as a big insult to someone like me who called her out to my house to parley. It would be a great show of power for her and insult for me. But I already knew she was going to do this but not to insult me no, she had another reason for that. "My Lady Religias," I speak to her as I walk to her swords range. "It's a pleasure to meet you." It could be my clothes or my behavior, because she hesitated for a moment and her hand almost twitched as if she was about to pull out her sword but ultimately stopped. "Yes… the pleasure's mine, Lord Tax. I know that we are not at the best terms right now and hope that you wouldn't take my past intentions to your heart." Past Intentions? You tried to fucking invade my property and kill me. "Of Course, I won't. You had a reason for that, but for now let's go to my house and discuss there." I lend her my hand and she took a quick moment before succumbing to courtesy, taking it and coming down with a jump. "Come in, let me walk you." Sёarᴄh the NôvelFire.nёt website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. I say to her as we walk to the porch and say to Redwick, "Take her horse, clean and feed it." "Alright, master." Seeing one of her escape routes close out, she didn't say anything and instead stayed more cautious. ... "Tea or coffee?" "Coffee" "Biscuits or Sweets?" "Sweets" We were in the living room right now and sat opposite to each other on the red leathered large sofas in the middle of the room. "Anna" Anna nodded without a word and went out. "So… how's it going?" "Hmm, it's going good." "How is the earl's health?" "It is good." "… How did you like Hyfelia?" "It was… nice and small, people seem nice too." Samantha looked at me strangely as she didn't know where this was going. I didn't know how to say it or even how to begin. I never had something like this happen to me and it was very awkward to talk about it. Anna came inside, put the cups down and started pouring in the coffee as I finally sighed and said. "Alright, It's getting awkward enough so why don't I just go ahead and say it." "I want a divorce." "COUGH" "SHHS" Samantha who sipping onto her coffee, coughed as she heard my words and Anna's hand slipped and the coffee from my cup fell over the table. "OH! NO! I'm sorry, I'll quickly take care of it." Anna said and quickly started wiping the tables as I stopped her. "Anna," "Yes, master." "It's okay, it's not your fault." I said with a reassuring smile. "Why don't you give us a moment alone." Anna nodded again and stood outside the door and prevented anyone else from listening into her master's private words… but not her. "So as I was saying, divorce. What do you say?" I asked her with a jolly smile. "We can't do that COUGH!" She coughed as she put the coffee down. "We are not married yet." "Then why are you attacking me?" "Because I don't want to marry you." "Then don't." "But you aren't going to let me do that." "Who says I wouldn't." "But… your father had blackmailed my father…" She stopped as she remembered something else. "I think you already know that my father went on a trip the other day and had an incident." "So with him already dead, why are you still going to attack me?"