You Will Pay With Your Life For Deceiving Me

“what?”

 

 ” The learning speed is too fast. It wasn’t like this until yesterday. I can only say it is an innate talent. “In particular, her skill with a sword is so excellent that it cannot be considered that of a twelve-year-old girl.”

 

 Oops. She swallowed her saliva, thinking she had made a mistake. Fortunately, the sound wasn’t that loud, so they didn’t notice her presence.

 

 Probably she ought to have acted worse. But how could she claim to be worse than that? She did her utmost best.

 

 “… under. After all, she is Roderick Weishafen’s daughter. She looks like her father, who only cares about swordsmanship.”

 

  “Well, there’s nothing bad about it. She hopes my skills improve quickly so she can stab her father in the back.”

 

But fortunately, both Byron and Cloud seemed to accept her skills as natural talents.

 

  Actually, it wasn’t a natural talent. Her blood was obtained through her own efforts.

 

  When she was twelve years old, she was not as good with daggers. She had to explain to Byron multiple times that her skills were not developing all that well, and each time she prayed that her hands would become feet.

And she always tried.

 

 For her father, who is everything in her life.

 

 To avenge her father. To receive her father’s love.

 

  When Laura locked the door and locked her in, she practised swordsmanship by swinging a stick in the dark.

 

  Even when she goes to bed and shuts her eyes, she thinks about what Cloud taught her during the day. Until the moment she falls asleep.

 

  That was the skill she gained.

 

 It was such a pointless endeavour, she realises now.

 

 “Then from now on, don’t leave that child’s work to you. “I hope you raise her to be a useful assassin.”

 

 “Yes, my lord. “I will obey your orders.”

 

 “And, is there anything else to report? what?”

 

 

 It seemed like there wasn’t much talk about her anymore, so Ayla sighed.

 

 But she couldn’t seem to relax. The information she hears from now on might be more important.

 

 “It is said that the knights of Weisshafen appeared in a village beyond the forest. They said they went around asking if there were any abandoned fortresses, caves, or bandits’ living quarters in this forest.”

 

 “… … Did you follow me here again? under. ” You’re so persistent.”

 

 Byron spoke harsh words in an angry voice. It seems that he has been wandering around for this reason.

 

 

 Her dad, Roderick… She was heartbroken by the fact that he didn’t give up and kept sending knights to track down Byron, who kidnapped his daughter and vanished.

 

 “What shall we do, my lord?”

 

 “What should I do? What should I do? “I have to leave.”

 

 “Yes. “We will find a suitable location as soon as possible.”

 

 As she listened to the stories that kept coming, it seemed like she would be leaving this fortress soon.

 

‘… I figured out the secret passage. Are you leaving soon?’

 

 Sheesh. She grumbled inwardly. She had only been able to use the secret passageway she discovered for one day, and she couldn’t help but feel sad that she was leaving. Still, she might be useful until she leaves.

 

 “If you are finished watching, please leave. He told me to prepare bath water and massage on the way. Did I overdo it today? “I’m tired.”

 

 “Yes, my lord. Rest in peace.”

 

 It seemed like the story was over. If she told her to prepare her bath water, it seemed like she had nothing more to gain from staying here.

 

 After taking a bath, Byron was sure to drink like he always did and then go to bed.

 

 Ayla silently closed the door she had left slightly open and hid herself again in the gap in the wall.

 

 Not long after she hid, the door opened, and Cloud came out. She held her breath until he disappeared down the hallway, then went back through the secret passage and back to her room.

 

 

* * *

 

 

 Fortunately, Ayla’s secret night out was not discovered.

 

 In some ways, she didn’t know that this was a natural result. She would never have thought that it would be possible to escape from a room blocked on all sides by stone walls.

 

 Thanks to this, she was able to freely wander around the fortress every night for several days before leaving.

 

 She tried exploring the secret passage, but there was no significant gain.

 

 Most of the passages were unusable because they didn’t even know if there was an entrance to a hidden passageway, and furniture was placed on top of it. A few weapons were found in the passages, but they were all rusted and unusable due to a lack of proper maintenance.

 

 These were weapons that seemed to have been made at least a hundred years ago.

 

 Still, it was much easier to move around at night because she secretly took one of her washed training clothes and hid it in the aisle.

 

 This training uniform could be worn every night and then secretly put back in the laundry just before leaving the fort.

 

 The most fruitless thing was watching Byron.

 

 She couldn’t tell what he was doing because he always trains during the day, but as she could watch him at night, she thought that maybe she could find some clues that would help her find out what he was planning.

 

 He always locked himself in his room, reading and writing countless letters.

 

 It would be nice if she could sneak into his room and steal the letter to read, but he rarely left his room at night.

 

 She had to leave the room for a moment to wash up before going to bed, but she couldn’t go in at all because the door was locked.

 

 She even wondered if she could sneak in through the window. However, there were no trees near the large south-facing window of his room, and it was clearly exposed to the fortress yard, so sneaking in through the window seemed too dangerous.

 

 It seems that until she relocated, she would not be able to learn any more information. 

So a few days later,

 

 Lady. “We will leave the fortress tomorrow morning, so go to bed early.”

 

 Laura said as she put Ayla to bed early in the evening.

 

 

 “You should go to bed right away and not do anything else. You will be tired because you will have to camp out for a few days.”

 

“Okay, I get it.”

 

 Ayla knew that if she didn’t answer, she would be watched until she answered again, so she answered obediently. Laura seemed to like this, cleared her throat, and locked the door with her lock again.

 

 Ayla sighed deeply. She sighed as she thought about sleeping by the fire in the middle of the forest for a few days.

 

 Although it was hard to sleep on the ground in a sleeping bag next to Laura, that situation was considerably worse.

 

 That was because they couldn’t lock her up in the open air.

 

 This is not the time. ‘I have to put my training clothes back.’

 

 She would have packed everything by now because she was going the next day, but since the laundry kept leaking out, she packed it separately in the end. She had no other chance to get her training clothes after this.

 

 There was an option to leave it in the aisle, but it was risky because if one training uniform disappeared like this every time she moved, it could arouse suspicion at some point.

 

 She waited in the room for a while until the sunset and went out through the underground passage as usual. She was trying to sneak into the room where laundry and cleaning supplies were stored to avoid people, but she held her breath when she felt a sign of presence in the room.

 

‘There’s someone. Two people. No, it’s three people.’

 

 It was a disaster. She needs to quickly put the laundry back before it goes away, but there’s someone there.

 

 What could possibly be gathering here when they are so busy getting ready to leave? It was truly a suspicious situation.

 

‘Let’s hear what they’re talking about.’

 

After confirming that there was no one around, she put her face close to the door and listened.

 

“Sister-in-law, I…”

 

It was Cloud’s voice. Sister-in-law? Ayla, who didn’t even know that Cloud had an older brother, let alone a sister-in-law, pricked up her ears and focused on the voice coming out.

 

“It’s that sound again. cloud. “You don’t want to avenge your brother?”

 

A sharp female voice questioned Cloud. It was definitely a voice she was familiar with, but she couldn’t remember whether it was one she hadn’t heard in a while.

 

“No. She just… “It just bothers me to deceive a child like that.”

 

“Uncle, what are you talking about? Have you forgotten what that girl’s father did? My father died in her hands.”

 

 This time, the voice of a girl who was different from the previous woman intervened and became angry. This was a voice she couldn’t understand.

 

 Laura. It was the voice of her maid, Laura.

 

 It seems that the child and girl they are talking about are Ayla.

 

“… … I know, Laura. know. but… … .”

 

 “… … And Laura, you were only eight years old when it happened. “I don’t even remember exactly what happened to my father.”

 

 

 Cloud spoke in a quiet voice. However, Laura became more angry at Cloud’s voice and raised her voice.

 

 

 

 “Don’t treat me like a child! At that age, you can remember pretty much everything.”

 

“Especially if it’s such a terrible memory of his father dying and the whole family having to run away as if they were being chased.”

 

 Laura’s voice was full of resentment.

 

 “If our master’s plan does not succeed, we will have to run away as criminals forever. I can’t let Laura live that kind of life! My husband, your brother… “You must not remain a sinner.”

 

 The voice of the woman whom Cloud called his sister-in-law was quiet, but she spoke in a tone that seemed to be burning with anger. And soon, Laura’s voice agreed with him.

 

 “That’s right. “My father should be recorded as a knight who died honourably while protecting his master. To make that happen, I can serve that enemy’s daughter for a hundred years or a thousand years.”