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Roses of Betrayal

CHAPTER 6, Commission. Part I

CHAPTER 6, Commission. Part I

May 02, 2024

Amara however chooses to contact Alijah and ask what they should do to earn coins and he advises that they should do some type of commissions they could do so they can get gold and silver coins to pay for food, it didn’t matter to them if there were easy or difficult tasks, they are up for any type of task. Alijah was in quite some shock at first because he didn’t expect her to ask for these types of things, though these commissions were ridiculous to do if you don’t have others to do it for you. “I have found a commission near you guys, well it’s only one commission sadly.” He told her. “That’s fine so no worries, thank you Alijah, what are the tasks about and how much do we earn?” She asked him curiously. “The title of the task is a tale that should've been kept hidden within the Zaïre townspeople, it’s about a men eating forest that started to eat men for about 37 years now. It hasn’t eaten in some time now according to the prayers but people’s husbands and children are still missing because of the mist that covered their city and whenever a child or man tries to leave they are starting to go missing the minute they step into the forest. However It’s not after females who are walking there. So at first I thought it was a grade two until I saw the forest had some type of connection with him.” He quickly summarised from the prayers everyone made about it.  “So what grade is it now in?” Amara asked Alijah with no high expectations. “Oh it seems to have been a grade four since 10 years ago.” He told her with displeasure however Amara didn’t seem to believe it for a minute and asked for the scroll she was reading from. And she wasn’t lying… It really was a grade four. Amara could only sit there confused. “A… Grade four…?” She said in a worried tone, How could one person have the power to make a grade double the annoyance of their own power? That's not easy to deal with in the beginning? Amara however wasn’t in shock by that in any way but was rather impressed by it. “That is quite impressive of him, who would’ve thought people prayed that much for him that he was able to do that?” Alijah was surprised by that comment of Amara, it wasn’t really what he had in mind of him to say about him. “Well he did gain quite a lot of attention after trying to break in here and came to her highness her chambers.” He said in a nonchalant way. “Excuse me?” Amara had to take a pause after she heard. “Did Alijah not tell you he came to see you once you were locked up?” He asked her. “No, not at all you haven’t told me about how he tried to visit her …at all!” She shakingly said to her with a shocked voice, …odd? “Ah, Alijah did tell you to wait silly? Butttt you didn’t wait for me. So honestly who’s in the wrong mimi?” Amara felt like he was scolding her and he was, he totally was. “I didn’t hear you and we had already departed away from the realm anyways so you can’t blame me.” She tried to defend herself. “However you are also the one who made the call to depart from the celestial realm without any permission now did you?” He asked her knowing he won this one Amara only gritted her teeth and shutted up. “My, my, does princess Mimi now also have lost her voice? My words do have wonders over you from time to time don’t you think?” He said, smiling from ear to ear. Amara however didn’t think it was THAT funny at all. “But Princess I think you should do this commission on your own, within the prayers I’ve spotten your family blood name being mentioned a couple times.”
Odd.. You did not expect this one coming now did you? Amara didn’t react to it, it did try to come to her room while she was on house arrest so it would make sense that her bloodline was mentioned. “Me or Trinity…?” She asked him in a whisper while looking through the scroll of prayers. “I’m sorry I didn’t quite catch that.” He lied, he heard her loud and clear but he just wanted her to repeat herself, just once more. “Me or Trinity…?” However this time she said it in a more stern voice. “It’s a question that’s already been answered, so why are you asking me this?” He said with a smug face while crossing his arms. “Is it that hard to answer my question?” She looked up at him while saying that. “I think my surprise in your room will answer that question won’t it?” Before Amara could respond to Alijah he ended the spiritual call between them. “What the fuck…” Amara didn’t expect him to hang up that fast. She gathered herself together before noticing a small box with a bow beside her. She looked around the room before opening the pretty box, there was a letter inside and a hair pin. “Perhaps you’ve forgotten our conversation from years before about this matter but I do and will choose you over Trinity. There was no reason to worry about this situation in any way. I am yours, I am always here for you whenever you need me for big or small situations just call me and I’ll answer ASAP, I promise. From your dearest and closest friend, Alijah. :)” And the letter had some extra hearts on it. “Is he serious right now?” She told herself while smiling and giggling to the paper at hand but then she tried to remained a straight face after noticing what she was doing and she felt like she was embarrassing herself while she was looking at the letter for some time, she then put her focus on the ruby hair comb that was with it. It had her initials on it with his, oh how cute and cringey in a way. “A+A…? He has to be joking now.” She put the hair comb in her hair while making the initials facing the way to her hair. She honestly doesn’t wanna explain to anyone why she randomly got this comb from or even worse, what if they start suspecting her of having a boyfriend after all this time? Well okay that would be a stupid thought if any of them brought that up. She literally was locked up and had no way out. She tried to calm herself down before going down stairs and let people know her excitement. As she got down the stairs she noticed all three boys were quiet in an awkward way… the tension felt thick as if you could cut it through with a knife. Ryo quickly looked up the stairs when he heard footsteps while the other two faced the ground. “Are you guys okay?” Amara asked them while scratching the back of her neck. ‘Wait… Do not tell me it’s because of that ridiculous comment he made earlier?!’ She already knew the comment that Ryo said was quite rude to ask but it didn’t get too much to her as it did. “Gosh… You guys are such funny children, it’s hilarious.” She softly said and snorted. Ryo still felt guilty after what she said. “Please if there is a way I could make it up to you, your highness!-” However Amara put up her hand and said: “It’s fine please, it was really okay to ask that question. I’m not mad nor upset at any one, it was just a mere question to understand me better wasn’t it?” She looked at him with a smile on her face which made him finally feel less worried. “It was… I was trying my best to follow the story and get to know your highness better.” He said while putting his head down making the mood gloomier than it already was. “Gosh, is it my fault?” Amara mumbled to herself while looking at him. All three men looked up to her. “Perhaps I was too mean a moment ago, there is no reason you should apologise to me. So please,” She said while leaving out a sigh. “Don’t apologise for such nonsense that doesn’t matter to me.” Amara couldn’t help but look away with a small hint of blush on her face out of embarrassment. Words may be easy to use and make people understand what they want but it’s especially not her strong suit. Ryo’s eyes lit up a bit after hearing and seeing her reaction. It gave him a warm feeling, while the other two just stare at each other and back after witnessing this moment whispering to each other and saying stuff like: is this real? there’s no way! It sounds silly if you think about it. Amara quickly cleared her throat before explaining to the three little pigs about the commission they’ve received from Alijiah and gave them the same explanation she got from him. At first Amara offered to work on the commission on her own however they wouldn’t allow her since they are a group of four so they simply thought it would be best if they split in groups of two so the first group can handle the commission and the other two do the household work. But they had to play a game of rock-paper-scissors. The rules were that the first winner of the game will be working on the commission with the second loser of the next game but if two people have the same hand they’ll have to look if they both either lost or won. If they won the game they would do the commission together but if they both lose they would do the house. So the game was purely based on luck! Right… Luck. So all four of them were standing in a circle looking at each other wondering who would make the first round start. “Are you all ready?” Amara asked them and in response they all nodded. “Okay…! Rock.. Paper… SCISSORS!” …huh? Did they all just have rock? They didn’t have a back up idea for this! The logical thing for them to do is do the game again right? Well that’s not gonna happen. “Okay what if we just go all to the commission and split up?” Kane suggested. “But the house isn’t clean yet!” Mo Yue sluggishly said. The other two just look devastated about what just happened merely seconds ago. Kane and Mo Yue just were arguing with each other but after sometime hearing them argue Amara started to get annoyed by the fact that she tied with them and made all three of the men do the housework in the end. Before she left she wore a disguise spell on herself so when people would look at her they would see someone else than her but to be safe she also wore a cloak on herself and finally started her adventure to the town Zaïre. And visit the men eating spirit, on her way there she went to look in multiple shops to see what they sold in the early morning. She bought bread and water since she does not consume human food well, she can eat bread, steak, water and cake to a limit. As she was continuing her path to Zaïre she saw a bookshop nearby and felt a strong wave of mana coming from it and decided to investigate it. It was filled with a lot of books and scrolls, there was this particular scroll that was glowing a bit and it made her curious. She decided to buy the scroll in the end and the mysterious shopkeeper looked at her with disbelief. “Are you sure that you want this one? A girl like you would prefer to read a love story instead of this right?” And Amara shook her head in response, making the mysterious shopkeeper laugh a bit. “I see, I see.” He let her take it for free instead of charging her for anything so they both bid each other farewell and not saying anything. What a weird hair colour he had. You don’t see a yellow hair colour on a daily basis right? Oh well it wasn’t that important anyways. She spotted a public carriage nearby without anyone on it so she went towards the person who was in charge of it and asked where he was headed. “I am headed to Zaïre in about a couple of minutes and that will also be my last time going in today since it’s getting closer to dawn.” Amara looked confused at the man. “Why is that if you don’t mind me asking?” She curiously asked the man. “I suppose you are from somewhere far aren’t you? There is a spirit in the forest that attacks men and children at night. Somehow it doesn’t go into the town so we will be safe there.” He explained to her and she decided to board in already to not miss the carriage. There was a man already sitting in the carriage also with a cloak hiding his head from Amara. “How odd…” She thought while looking at him and sitting close to the door. There was this awkward silence hanging in the air making them both uncomfortable so she decided to start reading the scroll. It was a story from Alijah’s good deeds, like only his good deeds and it made her uncomfortable due knowing a bit about how devilish he really is. She unconsciously sighed and quickly put her hand on her mouth out of embarrassment. “Is the scroll not to your liking?” The man asked her while reading his own. “I wouldn’t say that.” She softly said to him while she was amazed by his smoothing voice. The man was finally staring at her with a smile. “Then, you wouldn’t mind if we swapped books now, would you?” He asked while slowly sitting in front of her and putting his scroll in front of her and she accepted it and gave hers to him. “Thank you, I accidentally bought the wrong scroll.” She told him with a smile. “Accidents happen to all of us, see this as lady luck helping you a bit.” Amara couldn’t help but feel a bit uneasy around him, perhaps she’s just paranoid after having to read the good deeds of Alijah?The carriage had finally started riding so she decided to start reading the scroll from the man and it was a story about Amara and her past, how she used to live in the castle walls and how she was never alone and always had company from her bodyguard who would never leave her sight. “If they word it like that then it will seem like Kyan was a creep who didn’t want to leave her under any circumstances…” Amara thought to herself and cringed a bit before continuing the story. It was also said that they were the closest friends and nothing could break their friendship. It has been sealed since the moment Kyan gave the promise ring on her 21st birthday. Amara does not agree with it in any way or form because it felt more like a trap friendship for her than a normal friendship. “How absurd can this get…” She accidentally muttered it louder than she wanted. The man laughed at her reaction when she noticed that she said it louder than she intended to. “What is so absurd about the story?” He asks with a chuckle.
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