Chapter 27

“I heard from Raymond that you fell off a cliff. I’m glad you’re safe, Rosaline. Idelavhim must have helped you.”

“Yes.”

“I was looking for you when the battle just started. I was worried because I couldn’t see you. You must have been around a cliff that was far away from the barracks... I didn’t even think about it.”

“Is the cliff on which I was found far away from the barracks?”

‘Yes. No. It’s fine.’ This time Rosaline responded with a new answer aside from rotating between these three. Diech seemed excited by her reaction.

“Yes, it was in the exact opposite location. The rescue party said that’s why they were late to find you.”

“Is that so?”

“I’m sorry I couldn’t help. I haven’t been able to visit since my return because I’ve been busy all the time, but seeing your healthy figure... Well, I’m glad. I’m so glad, Rosaline.”

Diech’s eyes were curved. Diech was the most smiling person she had ever seen. Following his smile, Rosaline raised the corners of her lips too. ‘Thank you.’ Despite her brief reply, he couldn’t hide his joy. Diech soon turned to say his farewell to Rosaline. It seemed that with this last goodbye he has achieved his real purpose.

Rosaline recalled a question she had always had but had forgotten for a moment. She had even heard from Raymond that he hadn’t seen her when the assassination squad had just raided the barracks. And he hadn’t even seen her long before that. However, with the words of the 5th Prince today, she could tell that Rosaline was not present at the time of the battle or even before.

‘It’ put a lot of effort into healing Rosaline’s body as soon as it was first constructed. Broken bones, presumed to have occurred at the time of the fall. Organs were crushed and damaged as a result. They were the most significant fatal wounds, so ‘It’ didn’t pay much attention to the torn skin or open external wounds.

But coming to think of it now, the scars on Rosaline’s back were unusual. The wound on her skin and her muscles were so broad that all her bones were exposed. So if she hadn’t fallen off the cliff, she would have also died from that single wound.

Rosaline’s absence during the raid by the assassination forces, the cliff located far away from the barracks, and the deep torn wound on her back. A few details came together and twisted the facts that Rosaline had known.

Perhaps she had an accident before the raid by the assassination forces.

***

“Calyx.”

Calyx looked at his sister with blank eyes. Her smiling face was as soft as the spring breeze. During the time he did not see her, her expression had become more “Rosaline-like”. Rosaline walked up to Calyx quickly and hugged him tightly. His body trembled, but he hugged her soon after. It was a bit awkward, but his hands slowly touched his sister’s back. A smile appeared on Calyx’s lips as well.

“Have you been at peace so far, Sister?”

“Mm-hmm.”

Therefore, it didn’t seem too strange if his sister attacked someone to steal something. Instead, it was unfamiliar to see his sister socializing and showing her human side. It’s only been a few months since he’s known this crumpled ball, but in some ways, he’s more familiar with it than the former Rosaline, whom he’d known for 20 years. This kind of stable irregularity was already deeply engraved on him. Calyx let out a sigh of relief.

Calyx followed Rosaline up the wall. As he climbed, there was the slight sound of his palm hitting the wall. Which was in sharp contrast with the deep, heavy, thumping sound he heard from the other side of the wall.

By the time Calyx stood on the high wall and looked down, Rosaline was subduing a man. Calyx tried to quickly say, ‘You must not kill!’ or ‘You must not steal someone else’s food!’ But Rosaline had no murder intent, and the man had no food in his hands. Calyx decided to keep an eye on things from atop the wall.

The man with tied-back ultramarine hair was lying on the floor under Rosaline. Also, not too far away, a reddish-brown haired woman was running while on her knees. Rosaline did a nice backflip and landed in front of the woman who was running away.

The woman on the run, Leticia, saw the hem of Rosaline’s trousers descending quietly, and she shrieked.

“Hiiiyy!”

Rosaline squatted down and tapped Leticia’s forehead.

“You guys died again, Leticia, Eberhard.”

“Haaaa...”

The man and woman lay flat on the floor at Rosaline’s sentence. Their backs and chests went up and down, representing their feelings at the urgent moment.

“Did you not hear the sound of someone climbing up the wall?”

“I didn’t hear it...”

“Seriously, Leticia.”

“I heard it vaguely, but I thought it was just the sound of someone pounding the wall...”

“If one scales the wall, wouldn’t the position of the sound be different? If you hear a sound from the upper part of the wall, you should have been alert, Eberhard.”

Before Calyx was even aware of the unknown situation, he was moved by his sister’s neat and polite words. ‘You go, Sister...!’

Leticia and Eberhard looked up at her with injustice-filled eyes. They had been ambushed with death dozens of times in mock battles and were now thinking that they could now read the wind to some extent. It was only yesterday that they were so proud of themselves, but today, her footsteps became even quieter. ‘So, does she mean that until now, she hasn’t shown her true power?’

If they couldn’t stop Rosaline’s attack, it was their explicit rule that they had to do ten sets of rigorous physical training. Since Rosaline had never been by their side every time they worked out, Eberhard once asked timidly, ‘How do you know if we’ve been training or not? What if we lie...?’ At his question, Rosaline narrowed his eyes and smiled slightly. And then:

[Do you want to try it?]

Eberhard felt that her reply at that moment was even more frightening than his angry mother. Rosaline was far scarier than an assassin who openly said that they would kill you.