"Welcome master" The sound was large enough to be heard outside the mansion. What a warm welcome. I looked at Mother, and she was already looking at me and smiling.
"Go" She slightly grazed her hands on my back like she was giving me a push.
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I fell on the bench In the garden with my energy wholly drained from looking at all the rooms in the mansion individually as the new owner of the house who have to manage it from soon after I come in age.
"Madam, would you like me to bring something cold to drink?" Ruby asked with a worried look on her face.
A worried look? Maybe I am too tired that I am seeing things.
"Yes," She walked inside as soon as I said that.
I closed my eyes for a bit.
*Rustle Rustle*
!!
I quickly opened my eyes and looked all around.
What was that sound? Like something was moving in the bushes.
Bushes?
I quickly got down the bench.
*Rustle Rustle*
I saw the bushes to the right corner of my eye moving lit. It must be a rabbit, right? But what if it's an assassin?
Should I go see what's inside? Should I go to my mother? But what if it was nothing and just an illusion?
*Rustle rustle*
Yes, definitely not an illusion.
"Mother!!" I quickly turned around to run, but before I could take a step a pair of hands closed my mouth from the back.
Who is it?
An assassin for real?
But his hands are too small. It barely covered my face. It belongs to a child. Just who is this?
"Please don't call master" The voice sounded like a little girl's voice but not exactly a girl's.
I tried to turn back, and he let loose his hands on my mouth. It slowly took his hands away completely and stood awkwardly, rubbing his right hand on the back of his neck while his other hand is in his pockets. His slightly blushing cheeks, dark black hair down his neck, and his deep dark black eyes look so familiar.
Where have I seen him again?
"Master will be angry if she saw me here. She told me not to come in front of you"
My brain flashed a memory that I have forgotten making me remember him.
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"Your Ebdout house kidnapped you from your home?" He spoke casually sitting on the fountain in the middle of the street on a very busy road while I, also, hopped into the empty place beside him not caring about any other person in his world.
"Yes, I hate her" I replied with pure hatred towards my mother.
"Then should we dig something about her and ruin her reputation?"
That's how he started digging for information about people and soon became very famous and ended up as a guild leader for an information guild.
Master ZIKI.
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The only time when he maintained his original form. His back hair and his deep black eyes.
After he started the guild, he became so mysterious that he started meeting me in a new form disguising himself every time we meet that I kind of slowly forgot how he actually looks.
The one I want to meet accidentally came in front of me accidentally and on top of that he knows the mother, and he is calling her master?
Just how much did the future change?
How did he end up by mother's side?
"I--"
"I told you not to come in front of Ane" Mother's voice interrupted mine. I turned back to look at her tall figurine walking towards us. He quickly took a step back and kept his head down, facing only the ground.
"I am sorry master, it was by accident"
"Never make this accident happen again" She spoke so angrily that he flinched in fear.
Just what is happening? How did these two meet?
"Let's go, Anemone" She placed her hand around my should and tried to pull me along with her.
"M...mother, who is he?"
"Are you curious about him Anemone?"
"I--"
Come up with something, Anemone! Something! To convince mother.
"I am lonely mother"
That's it!
"I wanted a friend to play with. I always wanted to know the feeling of having a friend. I want him to be my friend. Can I know about him"
"No," She said firmly.
!!
It didn't work?
"Mother, please, I want--"
"I will arrange some people for you to play with." She spoke and caught my hand and walked inside the mansion.
I turned back and saw Ziki's small figure buried his face in the ground and not daring to look up.
Does Mother not like him?
But this is my chance to make him a friend.
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She brought me back to my room.
"Mother, he--"
"Anemone, Mother only wants you to be friends with good children" She spoke and left the room.
Good children?
That idiot! What did he even do?
"Madam, I brought your snacks and something cool to drink" Ruby entered the room.
Well, that was fast.
"Thank you"
If my mother doesn't like me being friends with him. I have to be friends with him in secret.
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As the sun quickly went down, the moon got into the sky. All the people went to sleep. I got down from the bed slowly and walked to the window and saw Ziki sitting on the top of a tree branch.
"This is my chance"
I slowly opened the front door and saw my both guards fell asleep. Of course, they will! Because I made them run too many errands in the evening and on top of that I asked them to spar with each other and show me their true strength that they got so tired with barely any strength left.
It was also a nice experiment because I found out their true potential strength. They can improve a lot more as time passes. As my mother said, they really are the strongest. I have the best knights around me.
Anyway, I walked out of the mansion and slowly reached the tree where he was sleeping, but when I saw up he was not there.
!!
He was just here a second ago, so where did he go?
"Who are you?" A knife was placed on the edge of my neck suddenly.
"A… Anemone!"
He panicked as he took the knife away immediately.
"Sorry, madam anemone," He fell on his knees.
That was a close call. He really kept the knife very close to my neck, that even a slight moment of that sharp object might've cut my skin and made me bleed.
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