Quest: Book 4

Extra The Dark Legend--The Big Conspiracy 3

  Miss Deere Merlin calmed herself down, she opened the door gently. Since the other party is a young master who has a maid and a magic beast, he should also be a noble or rich people something, she doesn't want to show her behavior very discourteously in front of such a man.

  The door was opened, she saw her father's beaming face and the back figure of the guest at the first sight. From this angle, miss Deere Merlin just only could see the guest's the tied with silver ribbon fair and the decent clipping clothes.

  "Oh! You are coming," baron Ian Merlin said loudly, "Mr. Turner, I'm so glad to introduce you to my daughter, my pride, Deere Merlin."

  Each word in her father's words is full of vitality, this let miss Deere Merlin obscure very much.

  She just thought whether she should squat down slightly, give a formal fair lady salute to this looks not that bad young man, but then she saw his face when this man turned around.

  "It's you?" Miss Deere Merlin stood straight her body right away, "you this parvenu! What are you doing in my home?"

  "It's me!" The man named Turner gnashed his teeth and said, "I come here to talk business with your father! And also, I'm not a parvenu, I'm a businessman!"

  "Really?" Miss Deere Merlin didn’t have a little kindness at all, "what kind of business you can talk with my family? Don't think that you can cover the fact that you are a parvenu, even you have the good dress on!"

  "What kind of business is talked by me and your father, I think that he is the leader of the family, and for this clothes..." Turner had a pat on the clothes casually, "I bought it in your store, the new store owner gave me fifty percent discount, do you like it?"

  "The clothes is very good, the people is very poor! This clothes on you is really wrong to death," miss Deere Merlin said, "what kind of business?"

  "Sorry, we have already finished the talking," Turner walked to the outside, he turned around at the door and spoke to the baron, "I'll be waiting for your news, you should know where you can find me."

  "Goodbye! Mr. Turner. Oh right, there is some of the mud ground outside of the door out of the flatness, I hope that you don't mind about it." The baron's face is smiling like a blooming flower, if the dog tail flower also can be counted as flower.

  Watching that named Turner guy disappeared in sight, miss Deere Merlin began to look at her father doubtfully.

  "What are you doing?" She asked, "what the hell is this all about?"

  "Oh! My good daughter, my baby," the baron said happily, "we don't need to stay at this damn place any more!"

  "Why?"

  "Because just now that Mr. Turner will take care of all the debts for us! He will use a house in the Darkness city to exchange our this villa! And he will pay me extra large sum of money well!"

  "Didn't I hear it wrong?" Miss Deere Merlin asked confusedly, "besides he is a bumpkin, a parvenu, and he is a fool as well? That's a lot of money!"

  "He is not that stupid, he took my most precious thing!" Mr. baron took out a letter, "you take a look! Our debt has been undertaken by him! This is the letter of the debt transfer!"

  "Really?"

  "Really!"

  "Even though the Darkness city is not what a good place to live in, but it's still much better than here," miss Deere Merlin had the light shined in her eyes, "then what are we waiting for? Let's pack the things and get ready to set out!"

  "No, my dear, it's not us, it's me," Mr. baron looked at his daughter and said, "you're not going with me."

  "You, I don't go?" Miss Deere Merlin didn't understand, "what do you mean?"

  "It's like this, there is an additional condition in our this business with Mr. Turner..." Mr. baron turned his head around, "he... Wants you to marry him."

  "Marry him?"

  "Yes."

  "You won't promise him? Father?"

  "Why I don't promise him?"

  "You are saying... You sold me..."

  "This is not a sell!" Mr. baron said in a loud voice, "this is not! This is just... Oh right! A girl should have already gotten married when they are your this age. I didn't notice this before, it's my responsibility! Now I have to take the responsibility as a father, you see, I picked a good husband for you, a very rich husband!"

  "You! You, you..." Miss Deere Merlin couldn't stand stable, step by step, she backed to the wall, "I'm trying hard to make money... To pay for your debt, try my best to earn every copper coin, just in a turn, you would not hesitate to sell me to other people..."

  "In your way, we will not have a good living in one hundred years! Now it's so much better like this, you will have a good husband, I will also can hunt on the wild fields in the Darkness city, make some new friends. I can even play some rounds of cards in the sunny days..."

  "You are not my father, you are just an animal!"

  "Whatever you may say... I have to start to write the letter, Mr. Turner is still waiting for my reply!"

  "I won't promise... I will never promise to marry him!"

  "I'm your father, it's recognized by the Temple of the Brightness! It will be alright if I promise."

  Miss Deere Merlin got her body weakly, she slid down to the ground along the wall and passed out.

  ............

  Kone Cada sat at the hall in the castle, he was enjoying his lunch, the whole castle has been reset and decorated by Feshert. The bedrooms, the study room, the garden, everywhere, the decorations are richly, the style is elegant.

  "It‘s terrible, it’s very bad!" Jack rushed into the hall from the outside, "boss, it's not good!"

  "Your boss is very good," Kone asked, "What's the matter?"

  "That woman! That one who boss you went to her house this morning!" Jack had the sweats all over his head, "she is on her way to come to here!"

  "What?" The viceroy Kone was shocked, "where is she now?"

  "She is almost get to the door!"

  "Take away these things! Take away, take away... Take away!" Kone got to the upstairs, "if she really come in, ask her to go to see me on the upstairs!"

  Miss Deere Merlin rode on the only horse their family have, she dash rushed to the gate of the castle, and she was just like a soldier in the battlefield.

  The passed out her woke up really soon, and then she grasped her father's collar to "ask" where this parvenu lives, after all, it's this guy who is in the smuggling! She decided to fight for her own fate one more time.

  The gate was opened, she threw the rein to the doorman, didn't say a word, walked straight through the garden, and walked into the hall.

  She has not been in the room like this for a long time, miss Deere Merlin didn't have time to go to appreciate the decorations in the hall, her eyes stopped at a young knight who is the only one left in the hall.

  "I'm looking for somebody named Turner."

  "Turner? Oh! He's in the study room," the young knight answered her, "upstairs! The first room when you turn left."

  Miss Deere Merlin went upstairs immediately, and she just remembered that she should say thank you to the young knight when she walked half way on the stairs, but then she thought that she should just forget about it, now it's not the time to be polite.

  With the sound "bang", she opened the door.

  Turner sat at the desk, heard the noise, and raised his head.

  "You should knock on the door," he turned the book in his hand absent-minded, "this is very impolite!"

  "People like you also know how to say polite?" Miss Deere Merlin had already gotten her anger up, "I'm talking to you right now, put down your book and look at me! You hold your book upside down, you idiot!"

  "You just tell me what you want to say," Turner threw the book out of the window, "you don't need to mind how I hold my book, upside down, downside up, put on the head, or step under the foot, this is all my business!"

  "I'm coming over here," miss Deere Merlin calmed her mood down for a bit, "is to let you take back your offer to my father earlier!"

  "You also k
now that's the proposal between your father and me," Turner said, "you didn't join in."

  "But your offer has me in there!" Miss Deere Merlin paused for a moment, "it's impossible for me to stay out of it."

  "I don't care about this," Turner looked at her and said, "I just care how your father replies to me."

  "What do you really want?" Miss Deere Merlin said, "even you can marry me, it still can't conceal the fact that you were not born in a noble family. In fact, this do you nothing help for your sad mentality."

  "That' my business," Turner stayed calm and collected, "I can tell from listening to your tone, your father is ready to promise my this deal."

  Miss Deere Merlin was said to the sore spot, but she was still not going to give up her try.

  "Listen to me, you can abolish this proposal, or... Not involved me in the deal?"

  "No way."

  "Why?"

  "Why not?" He said, "or to say like this, doing so can make me feel very happy."

  Miss Deere Merlin looked at Turner, she felt that she was going to go crazy.

  "You... You, you!" She hit her fist on the desk, "you this parvenu! Bumpkin! Layman! Smuggler!"

  Turner "foo" stood up, he also a fist hit on the desk.

  "That's right! I'm a parvenu, a bumpkin, a layman and a smuggler! So what? Don't you still have to marry me? All of these you need to blame on yourself," he was furious, "when you sold three clothes to me for fifteen gold coins, you are destined to have it this way like today! So what? I will marry you! Scold you with the rude words every day! Make you to do the rough works every day, daub your face with mud every day, and molest you every day!"

  "Pah! You this bear grudges villain," miss Deere Merlin didn't want to show her weakness at all, "I'm not afraid of you!"

  "Not afraid? Good! You just marry me and try it!" His fist was making some sounds, "then I will scold you with the vulgar language everyday, make you do the rough works everyday, daub your face with mud everyday, and then never rape you!"

  "You think that I'll fall for it?" She said proudly, "I'll go back tidy up my things and run away from home! You never expect that you can get me!"

  "Really?" He said, "suit yourself, but you are responsible for all the consequences."

  "All the consequences have nothing to do with me," miss Deere Merlin walked to the door, "just suit yourself to deal with my father."

  Turner didn't speak, he just brought out a big box from the desk and "pa" threw it on the desktop, the walked to the door miss Deere Merlin just only took a look, and her eyes couldn’t leave it any more.

  "Go! Just go!" Turner is just like a complete villain right now.

  "How could these jewelries fell into your hands?" She looked at the sapphire necklace in the box and said.

  "These jewelries are very beautiful, I spent a fortune on them!" Turner sat down, "but I don't care, if you, miss Deere Merlin would not like to marry me, I will find a few women who will be willing to wear them."

  "What do you mean?"

  "I have no other meanings!" Turner said, "I will go to find some of the dirty prostitutes, respectively to wear the necklace, the earrings, and the ring to welcome their customers! And then tell each customer who the original owner of these jewelries is!"

  "You!"

  "This kind of thing, I surely can do it."

  "I will look down on you forever," miss Deere Merlin had her eyes full of tears, "even if you can marry me."

  "I didn't think about this at all," he took back the jewelries, "don't say that I cheat on you, I have already have three wives, two of them are twin sisters, and the last one is an elf with wings. You, are the forth one."

  Miss Deere Merlin didn't wait for him to finish his words, she had already walked out of the room. All in her mind is her mother that set of sapphire jewelries, she knew, he really would do it like what he said, and she could never stand anything happened to damage even a little bit to her mother's reputation.

  When she stepped out of the castle gate, one of her family servants walked by her side and went into the castle. The servant had a letter in his hand, miss Deere Merlin knew very clearly what is written in it.

  Dropped down the tears, miss Deere Merlin brushed past the servant, and brushed past her own destiny.

  The room on the second floor, Kone Cada had read the letter, he said to Jack next to him, "bring a people, to her home, let her have a bath, change the dress, and bring her back to here."

  ............

  The wedding ceremony is very simple, doesn't even say the priest from the Temple, there are not even guests. The baron Ian Merlin didn't even say anything to her daughter, he just got on the carriage and left to the Darkness city under the protection of several knights.

  Miss Deere Merlin sat in her own room, she was wearing a blue dress, wearing her mother's that set of sapphire jewelries and sitting over there dully, that girl named Lily had been in the side with her.

  The black iron dagger of course is on her side, not a moment she left it away from her side.

  What a proud woman herself used to be, miss Deere Merlin thought, in her hometown, in Wanpu... Every party she left, there would be a series of broken hearts left behind, whenever she would respect anyone of them? But now, she had to be committed herself to this dirty businessman.

  "Madam," Lily said to her with the smile on her face, "young master ask you to go downstairs to have dinner with him."

  Alright! Even if you have already married me, I will not let you to have a good day! Miss Deere Merlin had already thought well of the countermeasure.

  "Lily, how would you follow this dirty man? You were robbed by him too?" While she was setting her hair, she asked this girl. In this castle, Lily is the only one she is willing to talk to, of course, and the magic beast puppy which is named Abu in Lily's arms.

  Lily thought about it for a while, and then she could understand what the "dirty man" in madam's mouth is her young master.

  "It's me who wanted to follow my young master," Lily said, "young master wanted to send me to the Darkness city at first, he gave me the freedom."

  "He didn't use any other ways to threaten you?" Miss Deere Merlin was very surprised, "this is not his style."

  "No." Lily shook her head.

  Miss Deere Merlin was confused.

  "Tell me about it," she held Lily's hands, "how did you know each other?"

  Abu jumped down from Lily's arms, he "flapping flapping" flew around miss Deere Merlin's face, and he finally stopped on her shoulder, the charmingly naive look made miss Deere Merlin began to laugh out.

  "I was a slave, even when I was born," Lily said, "I was sold by the masters back and forth. A year ago, I was sold to a very fat master in Wanpu, I didn't know what he bought me for at that time, in fact, it's impossible for me to know as well."

  "I didn't know where I was, I was cabined together with some other girls. In there, I met my only one friend, a slave is almost same as my age. We never needed to do anything, but there would be several girls brought away once in a period of time, they would never come back again."

  "At first, I thought that they were just sold to some other people, but until one day, a girl was brought back... We then all knew, we were put over as the materials."

  "As the materials?" Miss Deere Merlin asked, "I don't quite understand."

  "The materials, as the material to make the wine set," Lily said, "with our skulls."

  "My goodness!" Miss Deere Merlin said surprisedly, "I've never heard of that before..."

  "This is just our fates, it was nothing originally," Lily's hands were getting cold, "finally one day, my friend and I were taken out..."

  "Then what?"

  "We were washed clean with water, lots of men stood with the grinning faces around us... When I was about tied to the wood platform, my master released me out..."

  "Why?"

  "He put a nearly transparent black crape on me, and asked me to drink wine with the guests."

  "Thi
s beast!" Miss Deere Merlin scolded, "and then what?"

  "Later, I held the wine pot to sit by my now young master's side..."

  "That bumpkin? He must be rude to you!" Miss Deere Merlin held the dagger tightly, "this snipe hunter!"

  "I thought so too at that time," Lily said, "but, he was not."

  "Was not?"

  "When I saw him, he was eating a chicken leg," Lily recalled her memory, "I was tearing to pour the wine for him, but he took off his cloak to cover my body, right! And he handed Abu to me to let me hold him, right, Abu?"

  Abu shouted while he was nodding his head.

  "And then?" Miss Deere Merlin held Abu into her arms.

  "Then, my friend was made to the wine glass and was given to young master as a gift..."

  "I did think it right! He is just such a person!"

  "No! Young master didn't know the wine glass was made of human being, after all, it's me who told him..."

  "What happened after he knew about that?"

  "Young master, and young master's friend, it's that gentleman who presided over the wedding for you, killed my master... And released all of us out..."

  "Murderer!"

  "Maybe, young master said to me right then, he is a very good bad guy... I don't understand what it means. But young master held me in his arms, killed the subordinates of the master one by one, I saw his eyes... Very terrible eyes, but embraced by him, it's so warm... Young master put the skull back into my friend's head, and held the funeral for my friend too, I will never forget... He preyed for my friend in the funeral, that's the first time, there is somebody put us as human being to treat..."

  "I'm sorry," miss Deere Merlin said sincerely, "I didn't know..."

  "It's nothing," Lily wiped away the tears, "I don't know why young master will do this to you, but certainly young master is not the way as what you said."

  "Let's go down," Miss Deere Merlin said, "no matter how, I also won't bow down my head to him!"