Chapter 5: Prophetic Dream

Later that day in the evening the Gravius family leaves. I

got to make a little eye contact with duchess Gravius as she was looking for

Adelite as if it was the most wasteful time and useless. She doesn’t even try

to hide her disdain for Adelite. And I guess it is the same for duke Gravius.

What a pair of unique couple. They really suit each other.

After they left that day, 5 months have already passed. In

the meanwhile, Adelite has been visiting here quite frequently. Her attitude

towards me has changed a lot. She has opened up a lot to me. Now, she no longer

hides anything from me. She is also more confident now. But she is still afraid

of touching. It’s because despite everything I have changed till now, it has

merely an effect on her life. She is still being abused as she was in the

original.

You may ask me why I am not taking any initiatives to stop

that. But, I won’t stop that. Because I don’t possess the power or authority to

do that yet. And even if I did, I still would have chosen to turn a blind eye

to this. Because this abuse and mistreatment towards her is needed to activate

her holy power.

Normal holy power users can control their holy power since

they turn three and they are also aware of their powers since birth. But it is

not the same case for saint and saintesses. Because their enormous power of

holy power is kind of similar to magic itself. So, like magicians, they get to

know about their power after they are completely sane and it also takes a lot

of time to completely control it. Usually, saintesses know about their power

when they turn 10 and can completely control them when they are desperate about

something.

So, in Adelite’s case, since she has been a product of

mistreatment since birth, she needs extreme kind of trauma to use her holy

power. She needs to be desperate. That’s why I can’t help her with those abuses

and mistreatments but at least, I can tend those old wounds on her mind little

by little with affection which nobody has ever showed her in this life.

Currently, I am 11 years old and Adelite is 9. I have only 4

months left now for my escape. I have already made a lot of preparation for

that. But one main thing is left. I have to visit the forest of nightmare. I

have got the address and necessary information about the forest from Valka. So,

the final thing is to visit there physically. But there is a big problem.

Marquis Triluver doesn’t let me leave the mansion. Even if he does, he sends

some family member or plenty of guards with me. Man, he really is afraid of me

escaping, to let go of a valuable product to make fortune.

But I have already got the solution.

I glance at a glass bottle in my hand as I think that. The

glass bottle has some bluish liquid on it. I smile at that.

“Dia, let the marquis know that I wish to have an audience

with him.” I say to a maid who was cleaning my room.

At my command, she frowns and acts arrogantly, “The marquis

is busy now. He has a lot of stuff to do other than wasting his time having

useless audiences.” She doesn’t even look at me while answering let alone

address me respectfully.

“Oh my, I didn’t know that. What a pity. I wanted to get

‘father’s permission to leave the castle for some business. But since you said

the marquis is SO busy, I guess I will have to go without taking his

permission. When he or the guards ask later, I can just tell them about your

kindly thought of not disturbing my ‘father’, right?” I ask putting on a fake

innocent smile.

She becomes perplexed and anxious at my reply. She quickly says,

“N-no lady! No matter how busy the marquis is, he can always have time for you

to have conversations. I’ll go call him now!” she leaves the room quickly

saying that.

I sigh as she leaves.

It’s always a hassle every time, I need to teach these maids

a lesson. I miss Emma. But she is currently on a vacation. I hope she returns

soon and safely. She is the only person I have by my side in this house.

The maid returns.

“You have been granted permission to make an audience with

him now.”

“Alright” I say as I stand up and walk towards the door.

As I leave the room, I can hear her sound of scoffing

through the door. How bold of her to scoff me knowing that I can clearly hear

her. Insolent.

I head towards the door of the marquis’s office. I stop

before the door taking a deep breath. Every time I see his face, curse words

almost escapes my mouth. I put on a business smile on my face and knock the

door. I hear some rummaging coming from the room and then his voice speaks,

“Come in.”

I enter.

“What do you have to say to suddenly interrupt my works?

Make it quick. I don’t have time for you to hear your complaints.” he says not

even bothering to look at me. What’s wrong with all the people in this family?

Don’t they know it’s normal politeness to look at people to whom they are

talking to? And they call themselves ‘noble’.

“I had a strange dream yesterday night. It was so weird…”

“You dare make an audience to brag about your dream?!” he

slams his palm in the table and glare at me with angry eyes.

“N-no! It’s, I mean the dream was so realistic. It didn’t

feel like a dream at all. It-it was almost as if I was really experiencing it.

It felt like it would really happen when I wake up from the dream.”

His ears perk up hearing the last sentence.

Heh! I got you, marquis.

“Dream that felt like it would be real when you wake up?

Like a future event?” he mutters and his breath becomes heavy. I know why he is

acting like that. He is now thinking that I may had a prophetic dream. Among

all the magicians there are some who can see the future through dreams. They

are what you call prophets in this world. I am not actually a prophet. But what

the thing I said wasn’t entirely false either. It’s because it is indeed a

future event which I read in the original novel. That incident is supposed to

take place today in a boutique.

“What did you dream about? Tell me every single detail.”

“I saw that I was in a boutique named something like

‘Crolla’, no, ‘Creli’……”

“Croliss?”

“Yes, yes, it was named Croliss. I was there with the marchioness

and some guards guarding us. We were looking for dresses there for the

marchioness and Lily. Then suddenly, a room was in fire where the empress were

resting. Nobody was around us when that happened so nobody else but the

marchioness had to call the other people and guards to save the empress. Thanks

to the marchioness’s quick thinking the empress was alive so she praised and

invited the marchioness to a tea party held by the royal family.”

The marquis stayed silent the whole time while I explained a

fake dream I had. Even after I was finished he was deep in thought and smirked

evilly.

Now he is completely stuck in my trap. I know exactly what

he is thinking. He must be thinking now that if the Triluver family were to

save the empress’s life, then they would not only get on the good side of the

royal family but will also receive a lot of fortune. Well, it’s true. That will

really happen. But there is one thing I lied there. “I” or you can say

“Elanoura” was never present there when that incident happened. I just made

that up to get outside.

“I saw the time was around 3 pm to 5 pm when that happened.

I really want to go to a boutique. I have never been to one.” I lie about the

time. Actually, it happened at 5:30 pm. I said the time earlier to do my real

business. Now all I have to wait for is the marquis to grant me the permission

to leave the mansion with the marchioness. After a while the marquis finally

replies, “Alright, you may go. I will inform Tintella( the marchioness’s name)

as well. But you will be surrounded by guards all the time. So, DON’T even

think about trying something funny.” He says in a stern tone again glaring at

me.

“Yes. I would ‘never’ do that.” is what I say out loud

smiling.

“I will EXACTLY do that.” is what I say in mind.

After a few hours when the time finally arrives, I leave for

the boutique from the mansion in their family carriage. Ugh! I really hate to

be on the small space with this woman. She picks on every single thing I do.

Anyway, with a really uncomfortable and suffocating ride, we finally arrive at

the boutique. Now my real action starts.

As the marchioness attempts to open the door of the

carriage, I suddenly call her and grab her arm.

“Marchioness!”

She becomes dumbfound with my action and loses her balance.

Just when she is about to fall, I use frosty magic to stop her fall, and knock

her out before she can even utter a word. Then I take out the bottle which

Valka gave me and make her drink a sip of that when she is unconscious. She

will now forget what just happened when she wakes up and will stay unconscious

for at least 3 hours.

After handling the marchioness, I take out a small device

looking like a stone and place that in my throat as I start speaking.

“Ride the carriage a little more to the left under that old

willow tree.” Speaks the marchioness’s voice from inside the carriage covered

with veils.

The horse-man and guards become confused with the sudden

order from the marchioness. But goes along with it since it was the marquis’s

wife who gave the order.

Actually, it wasn’t the marchioness who said that. It was

this small stone looking device. It is a magic item which can make anyone

imitate anyone’s voice. Cool, right? Both this item and that potion was bought

from Valka. These were really costly. My poor money TwT.

As soon as the carriage moves under the willow tree away

from the crowd, I open the carriage door and freeze all the 5 guards and

carriage-man’s mouth, hands, feet with frosty magic so that they can’t move nor

can scream. Then I knock all of them out before they can even grasp the

situation and do the same thing I did with the marchioness. After I am finally

done with them, I place another magic item that I purchased from Valka to the

carriage. This magic item will make them seem invisible to the others for a day

unless I remove it myself. Splendid! I really am in love with magic. If only

magic existed in my original world!

I stare at the invisible unconscious bodies of them. Should

I just kill them right here? Nah, that would cause unnecessary delay to my

escape and I also don’t want to be a criminal wanted person.

Now to my main business. The traces of the forest of

nightmare should be around this willow tree somewhere. I have exactly 3 and

half an hour to find out the forest and finding out the thing I actually came

here for.

I stop wasting my time and search for the traces around the

willow tree.

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