Chapter 189 - The Runaway Orphan (3)

The wind whooshed through my ears as I felt myself falling towards the forest underneath. But what I didn't expect was Luke jumping right behind me, above me as I was falling down. I was forced to see his face burning with frustration and anger staring down at me, not able to cover my eyes. Instead, my eyes widened from surprise that he would go after me and anticipated the trouble I placed myself in once I made my safe landing on the firm ground.

My skirt puffed up as I twisted my body to land on my feet while summoning some mana to control the air so I would have a soft landing. I sighed in relief when I safely landed on the ground, not looking at the clouds of dirt behind me when Luke followed after me. I gulped as I heard heavy footsteps heading toward my way.

When I looked behind, my face slightly turned from a light slap with Luke's angry eyes full of worry. I grabbed my cheek, unbelieving that Luke had actually hit me. Luke always tried to solve things with words. Even though it didn't hurt, I stumbled a few steps back, almost tripping over a tree branch a step away.

"What were you thinking?" Luke yelled.

When I was about to answer, the hover car drifted near the ground. Shelly jumped out of the car before it landed to run towards me. My eyes went round as she hugged me tightly and I momentarily forgot about Luke. Her hands trembled as she didn't let me go like she was afraid of losing something.

"No matter how much you disagree with us, it doesn't justify jumping out of a car ten metres off the ground. Only a blatant fool would jump out a hover car," Alex added as he walked towards us.

Everyone knew how it wasn't very dangerous to jump out of a hover car. We were trained in how to mana to survive in light missions given by the school ever since kindergarten. We could be left in a deserted island alone and we would still be able to survive in luxury due to this.

"You should've just left me alone," I muttered.

"I just wanted some time to myself outside of school and the stuffy mansions." I clenched my fists while looking down.

"Do you know how selfish you're being? What about the people who worry about you whenever you do these rash behaviours?" Alex pointed out Luke who stood in the back.

"I would've returned to school on my own anyways," I mumbled.

"But I wouldn't have jumped out in the first place if you let me go to that grocery store alone," I argued back in complaint as I felt everyone was ganging up on me.

"You know we didn't let you go for security purposes," Luke stepped forward.

Of course, it was always unsafe to be anywhere other than school and their mansions. I knew Luke didn't even consider my parents' place to be a safe place. But I wasn't a person who could live like that for my entire life. In my former life, I would go out with friends to karaoke rooms and PC rooms with fast WIFI together to have fun when I didn't have to study. I considered it a mystery how I was able to survive so far with such a limited amount of freedom.

"Especially after getting in danger as soon as leaving the orphanage," Luke added the incident of the boy threatening us.

"Then doesn't it mean I'm in danger everywhere except for your mansions and the school," I pointed out.

"Aren't you?" Luke agreed.

My heart skipped a beat from having my suspicions confirmed. It wasn't like I wasn't used to this. It was my fault for asking a question to get an answer that I didn't want to hear. But it was frustrating since it felt like I was always talking to an inflexible, tall wall.

"What would people want from a normal girl from the third district?" I complained.

"What would people try to obtain from the fiancée to the Roselia family heir?" Luke pointed out my other identity.

Of course, everything went back to my identity of being the fiancée of the heir of the Roselia family. From what I knew, I could've lived an ordinary life in this reincarnation if not for that one fact. I tried to change my approach to get a better answer from him.

"Then can I go anywhere other than those 'safe places' if I ask you instead of going off on my own?"

"I let you go to the orphanage today."

"That doesn't count, I meant on my own," I started to get more irritated.

"You know I go to these places with you since they're unsafe," Luke seemed to wonder why I wasn't getting the point.

I knew this meant he was never going to let me go anywhere on my own if it was deemed to be 'unsafe'. I separated from Shelly, feeling guilty I would be using her to argue why we were treated so differently. I shot her a pitiful look to ask for her forgiveness as her eyes flickered as if she knew what I was going to say next.

"Then why doesn't Shelly need to ask Alex for permission whenever she wants to go to 'unsafe' places? She's also engaged to the 'powerful heir of the Monete family'."