Chapter 6 - Thuna (1/2)

Chapter 6 – Thuna

“I’m dangerous.”

Contrary to those words, Nabel passed his time there quietly. In the Rieda household, he only ever opened his mouth in front of Ronée. He never once spoke in front of others, in particular the Earl or his wife. He only gave hostile looks.

“That mannerless thing!” Lady Rieda did not like Nabel’s gaze at all. “Throw it out!” she ordered the guards. But Ronée did not abandon Nabel to be dragged out of the house.

“Mother, I’m afraid you have no right to throw this child out.” As she was the one who had bought Nabel as a slave, she was right. Nabel’s owner was Ronée, and if it was not Ronée’s desire, then he could not be thrown out.

The matter would have been resolved if they could just throw Ronée out too, but they could not. They were still waiting for an answer from the temple concerning this “cursed one”.

The temple, which had originally been very sensitive concerning the matters of heresy these days only told the people, “If you discover an evil thing, do not set it loose upon the world, but wait.” regardless of the type of matter.

Thus, whether it was a blessing or a curse, Ronée was able to remain in the Rieda household.

“Then poke those rude eyes out or something!”

On such days when her magic did not work, Lady Rieda would eventually fire her magic at Nabel. This time it was not a fireball, but lightning magic. Small black clouds appeared in the hallway and little bolts of lightning struck at Nabel.

Bang! As a mage of the third rank out of nine, Lady Rieda’s magic was not that powerful. But to injure a young child, it was enough.

As soon as Lady Rieda’s expression turned ugly, Ronée shielded Nabel. Thanks to that, the only damage the two of them suffered was the hem of Ronée’s clothes becoming singed.

“Ronée.” Nabel clenched his small fists so tightly that they turned white. Neither of them had been hurt, but his eyes were growing darker and darker. The Rieda household that he had observed was indeed, as Ronée had said, a dangerous place.

A place where only one person, Ryne, could be said to treat Ronée kindly. In this place where there were enemies on all sides, they could only lean on each other.

“This is a household where we worship the god, Thuna,” Captain Devant of the knights of the House of Rieda said, with his chin in the air. Thuna, the god whom these people worshipped so faithfully.

His gaze looking down at Ronée was full of scorn. He spoke politely to her only out of deference to her station — he held no respect for her. He, too, would not treat her in such a way were it not for the label of “impious one” applied to her by the temple.

“So please do not cause trouble. Do you understand, My Lady?”

Bang!

After the incident where Ronée, instead of Nabel, had been struck by Lady Rieda’s lightning bolts, Captain Devant had practically imprisoned the two of them in her room. They did not know whose order it was, but there was no one in the household who opposed it.

“Who did this?” Nabel looked at Ronée’s scorched-black hemline while Ronée’s gaze darted about here and there.