Mine to Reach: A story of Vengeance

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Our eyes then suddenly met, his bloodshot-red eyes looking into mine, I then inverted my eyes away from him to the flowers in the garden. " Is it true that you were the one who informed the Duke?" Arthur asked, how did he know this? I thought the Emperor and the Duke are the ones who only knew. " I don't understand what you're trying to say" I replied, " Your lies won't work on me" Arthur said in a serious face. " What difference will it make if I tell you or not?" I answered back,  Arthur faced his head towards me, " Because it really makes you suspicious" Arthur said, " What? Me? Suspicious? How?" I said in a nervous tone. Arthur then raised his brows signalling me that he wasn't joking, " Then, how did you get the information? Using your magic perhaps? But your kind of magic does not work on time, maybe your hiding something there" Arthur said, " Oh come on, I'm just an 8-year-old noble girl" I answered back.

Arthur then stood up, " Crime has no age" he then said then left. Is he trying to imply that I committed a crime? Hah, he might be right but I'm also doing this for the better of the Empire you know? I went back home with Rainier annoyed because of Arthur, but it suddenly hit me. All these things that I actually did were for me, reincarnation to my past self to save my parents was because it would be of my benefit. When I arrived home, Mother and Father kept asking how I was and why would the Emperor ask for me. " Honey, are you alright? Did they do something to you?" Father said, " I'm fine, the Crown Prince was really nice!" I replied sugarcoating my words because the word nice would be the opposite description of Arthur. My parents finally stopped fussing over my visit to the Imperial palace and finally start dinner. " So Yerenica dear, what did you and the Crown Prince do the whole time we were worried about you?" Father said, I kind of feel interrogated right now, " The Emperor welcomed me and brought me to the Imperial Garden Father, then the Crown Prince was there and we became friends!" I replied. 

Father seems to still not believed my words, " Oh well then, let's eat! There's nothing to be worried about dear, you see she had fun" Mother reassured Father by patting his back. We then started to dine peacefully and finished our meals. The next day came and to no surprise, that woman visited us, Aunt Childea. " Oh hi sister I missed you so much!" Aunt Childea said, Mother let her enter the mansion and brought her to the tea room to have a cup of tea. I remember this scene happening in my past life, I think she studied the tea room when she visited because she succeeded killing my parents in that room with its interior in my past life. I then joined them because I don't want mother to be alone with a person who has a desire to kill her. We sat down on the sofa and I sat next to Mother, " So sister, how was the perfume I gifted you and Yernenica on her birthday?" Aunt Childea slyly said. " Yerenica was really excited about it when she received it, after the party, she then took her box and mine as well to her room to take a look at it" Mother said. Aunt Childea looked at me, " That child still looks fine, did the poison take effect?" Childea thought to herself.

" Yerenica did it smell good?" Childea asked, I can't possibly tell her that I poured it all out, washed it, then refilled it with perfume that mom never used. " It was great! It smelled like fresh daisies!" I replied innocently which was a total lie. " Daisies? It wasn't supposed to smell like daisies! Did that merchant scam on me?!?" Childea thought to herself. " I'm glad to hear that sweetie" Childea said as she forced a smile, I can really see the annoyance in her face. Mother and Childea began to chat about different things and I just stared at them both and also observed that woman. She kept moving her eyes all over the room, and then she looked at the window that the arrow shattered when it killed my parents. I have to say, she did really plan this really carefully as she knows Mother and Father would always bond together in this room whenever they had tea.

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