Cinderella Crazy
This is not just a war

There is some information that Asteron knows about Ashelia, such as about her daughter's bullying of the girl at Kalia's birthday party. Also about Ashelia flirting her first son in front of the guests.

Funny considering that now the target girl is actually moving from the child to her father.

As Asteron recalled, only a few hours ago he read Ashelia's letter asking for leniency for Kalia. But when he was considering it, he actually got the news if Kalia disappeared. After several hours of exploring the city, Kalia was found with the girl and her unusually friendly niece.

Despite having tried to think about it, he still could not get a reasonable connection from the pattern.

Ashley's strange manner of speaking, elusive attitude and actions, indiscriminate openness, being able to use foreign languages, and having unquestionable abilities, are all very difficult to understand, it really is a very striking thing. Didn't that woman have met the criteria of being a crazy girl that would shock anyone?

What does Vincent plan to do by hiding all of that and instead building up his daughter's image as a useless stupid single child?

Continuing to look at the girl who was leaving with her nephew, Asteron's mind was still filled with questions. He was stared back at by Ashley with eyes that showed no fear at all. The woman did not even feel awkward despite continuing to stare at each other without saying anything.

Until when the horse he was riding passed the man, then a sentence was spoken from Ashley's lips.

"It's not just a war."

Aateron's eyes widened upon hearing that. Unmistakably, Ashelia was a card that Vincent had prepared secretly.

Of course it wasn't.

When Asteron thought the war she was referring to was about Klaus, the emperor, in fact, Ashley pointed to her misfortune about having to get involved with the issue of Kalia's death.

Moving away from the horde of humans labeled 'Serious', Ashley and Daryl did not say goodbye at all. They were completely indifferent, even to the girl they had just helped. The thing that makes Kalia can only stroke the chest.

"By the way, I'm older than you, too." Said Daryl suddenly which immediately made Ashley spontaneously turn to the side because she did not understand the topic.

"I'm also the head of the family." Next later.

Still not understanding, the woman turned back to face forward ignoring the man behind her.

Realizing that Ashley ignored him, Daryl felt a little disappointed. But the disappointment was immediately swept because riding a horse with Ashley already made him very happy.

"Your friend.. At that time, how did you know him?"

A fella? Women who do not feel they have friends in Ashelia's world try to remember who the man was referring to. Until he remembered what happened yesterday, when he was walking through the city with Daryl.

"Haraon?"

"In the arena? Oh no. In prostitution." Ashley continued to relax, inversely proportional to the person who heard it.

Because too surprised Daryl even to the difficulty to respond. How did Ashley know the place, why he went there, what he did there, who he went there with, not knowing which one to say first the man simply stuttered without actually asking.

"Don't go there again!"

As a result, only the core of his unrest came out.

"Don't. Even though. Can't."

Ashley looked back, looking at the man who dared to nag her. His brows furrowed as he did not understand why Daryl had become so noisy. He wanted to push the man backwards to the point of falling down no matter what happened afterwards. But regardless of the woman's annoyance, Daryl still tried to ban her.

"Donts. Go. There." Said the man while slowly bringing his face closer.

Again, his memory of Kenny again stops Ashley from hurting Daryl. Slightly fading his frustration, the woman turned her back to the man while assuring him laziness.

"Yeahya."

Hearing that insincere remark was enough to make the worries of Daryl's day slowly disappear. Although it is actually impossible Ashley will obey the will of the man, but he still believes. As usual, he never doubted all the words of the woman. The same thing always made him lose when gambling with Ashley.

Whether it is called sincere because it wants to continue to believe the words of people he likes, or called stupid because it does not learn from what has often happened.

Talking about it, Ashley also remembered the little thief who wanted to steal Daryl's money yesterday. As a person who works for the kingdom, cleaning up the evil in society is also the duty of the man.

"Why did you release that boy yesterday? She's also a mistress, right?"

"Because he's a kid?" Continue the woman with a soft tone.

Ashley often uses young children, or recruits minors to do certain things to make it easier to avoid punishment. Things also then impact him because one of his subordinates wrongly chose people. The child he was supposed to protect got into trouble because of him. Then as an impingement, he almost killed his subordinate.

It was on that basis that Ashley became cynical while thinking the little thief could get away with just because of his age. But that's not Daryl's reason.

"Because I'm with you."

Ashley glanced back without moving her head hearing an answer she never expected.

"I don't want to think about work when I'm with you."

Silently for a moment, Ashley then sighed not understanding what was inside the man's mind.

"What a boring answer." Said the woman while leaning her body on Daryl.

Slowly, Ashley closed her two eyes, ignoring the tension of the person behind her.

The girl that the man liked was leaning on his body. With her hand still holding the reins, Daryl felt like he was hugging Ashley. His heart was beating so fast that he was worried about heart failure. Although unable to hear the man's heartbeat, Ashley can feel Daryl's muscles tightening and his hands trembling.

While slowing down the pace of his horse, the man tried to relax his body to make Ashley feel more comfortable.

Right, not only did he turn a blind eye to evil, he even liked a criminal.

After about 45 minutes passed, the gate of the Midgraff residence was seen from a distance. The length of their journey was not because of the great distance, but because Daryl drove his horse so slowly so that Ashley did not wake up.

Then suddenly,

"Miss Ashelia!"

Someone who had been waiting before the gate with the other guards immediately shouted and made the woman wake up. Throw a murderous gaze by Daryl to the humans who can't read the atmosphere.

On the other hand, Ashley who had just woken up still looked shocked. Not because of the difficulty of gathering consciousness, but because for the first time he really 'sleeping'. How could? How could his vigilance really be lost?

Feeling that he had made a big mistake, the woman was mentally shaken. Not stopping there, the thing he hated so much was waiting for him.

.................. Connect .................