Always want to be WITH YOU || Reiner x Historia

Chapter 16

Bathump!

Bathump!

Bathump!

Bathump!

Sweat the size of corn kernels ran down my forehead, I frowned several times and sharpened my hearing in case there was something I misunderstood from his words. But after she said that sentence again, I was shocked for the second time.

"Wh-what the-!!!"

"Reiner Bauer, an abandoned war child who was found by the Bauer family in a well. And because of Paradise's garbage-like government system, they had to be separated again. But is he really a war casualty?"

Rod Reiss repeated his words more fully. The pair of round sky-blue eyes looked at me coldly, condescendingly. Still with that pretentious smile, which made me want to vomit up all the food I had eaten since I arrived in Paradise. But for now, I was unable to do so. This pair of legs seemed unable to move, my face also unable to make any expression. But inside my chest, I can't lie, her heartbeat is so loud that I'm sure the whole room can hear her voice in the silence.

Now she was smiling, a smile that meant the opposite. Seeing me dumbfounded seems to be her own entertainment. A triumphant smile was now emitted, a satisfied smile that the people of paradise had never seen before. "...Or shall I call you, Reiner Braun? Marleyan hound and special warrior on a mission to kill myself and my family?"

I felt the whole room staring at me in disbelief. Rod Reiss's servants behind him rounded their eyes, all of them looking at me deeply and confirming that the words of Rod Reiss the exalted King were not wrong, even though I knew they found it hard to believe that a child as small as me was able to infiltrate and have a mission that even professional adults should have done.

Slowly my gaze wandered back, where the children were under Annie's protection. Was that expression-... Anger? Fear? Revenge? Ahh I can't read those variegated expressions. How is this? I saw that Annie was just as shocked as the servants, but she was more incredulous that my secret could be revealed and reach the king's hands. That expression indicated that she was thinking hard.

I couldn't think in this situation, even I dared to ignore Rod Reiss' gaze piercing my body like a thousand blades. But in this situation, I had to remain calm.

"Then what are you going to do if it's true? Kill me?" I said with emphasis and stabbed back at that gaze.

The errand boys finally couldn't help but believe it, the chattering of their teeth and the sound of their irregular breathing echoing each other, as if they were looking at me as bait for the hungry lions.

"Ahh... No, no... I won't do that. A king must have a clean reputation, right? I am the King of Rod Reiss who has always been revered and applauded by his people. What if they find out that I killed a minor?"

Look at that pretentious face. That expression that switches from a sickening smile to one of sadness and fear. Cih!

This time I let out all the feelings I had been suppressing. I spat to the side, then wiped the corner of my lips and left a bloodstain from my hand that was almost dry. Rod Reiss's emotions were triggered, I could feel his anger silently.

"I challenge you, Your Highness. Kill me within 48 hours. If you can, with your own two hands. But remember, if you let me get away this time, I assure you that you will never find me again later, anywhere, because I am a professional in camouflage. And if you don't exterminate me soon, you and your family will live haunted by my shadow, where I'll continue to look for opportunities to kill you!"

Rod Reiss dismissed my words as weightless and nonsense. A child's bluff, that's what he had in mind. He wasn't scared at all, and responded with a faint smile.