The Atrocious Duke'S Wife
Chapter 30: The Amateur Spy
THIS WORK IS FICTION. NAMES, CHARACTERS, EVENTS, PLACES, ARE JUST A DELUSION. PLEASE READERS BE WISE IN RESPONDING.
Cassandra Pov's
Okay, time to act.
Right now I was in a pile of grain sacks being carried by the carriage to the Nephorine kingdom.
Honestly, I'm very uncomfortable! Even breathing is hard!
Aish, but that's okay. This has also been my decision, ahe.
I feel like a real spy now.
If you ask how I got in this position, then the answer is very easy.
Let's go back a few hours....
Flashbacks
"Be careful."
He said with a slightly shaded look on his face. Is he worried about me now?
I don't really know, but if it's like that, somehow it warms my heart and weakens.
Is this what it feels like when someone is genuinely worried about you?
If yes, then I am very lucky. I can feel this warm feeling even for a moment.
Unknowingly, I reviewed the sincere smile that came from the bottom of my heart and threw it at the figure that was before me at this moment.
"Surely." Convinced him. Slowly but surely, I turned my body and stepped up to go on the mission I had planned.
"Wait."
I could feel a large, warm palm blocking my wrist trying to prevent me. Suddenly, I turned back.
"What's wrong?" I asked as I was with my eyebrows raised next door.
"You want to infiltrate the territory of the Nephorine Kingdom, don't you? I know the easy way," he said, making me even more curious.
"How's it?"
He seemed to be putting on a slanted smile on his face. "Come with me."
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The sound of insects named crickets always faithfully accompany us with his noise.
Sleeking, is the thing we are currently doing. It's pretty far from our base to this region.
Armed with a horse carrying our body weights on his back, we finally arrived at the destination.
Arlen immediately jumped down from the back of a horse that was quite high, after which he stretched out his hand to help me down.
I'm happy to accept that which is helping me at the moment.
I spread my eyes all over this place, there's a lot of horse carriages around here.
"What are we gonna do here?" my question while glancing at him who was staring flat straight ahead.
"Not us, but you," he said, making me point at myself with a slightly surprised face.
"Me?"
"Yes, you're going to infiltrate the train," he pointed out.
My netraku now turned towards where his index finger was.
A carriage with a pile of wheat?
"Are you telling me to ride in that horse carriage?" tanyaku and he was seen painting a prickly smile.
I feel bad.
"It's more precisely hiding under that pile of wheat" he said.
"Huh? Do you think wheat is as light as cotton? How can I hide under him?!" my protest.
"Oh? Then, please think for yourself how to infiltrate the Nephorine region," it seems to make me upset.
But not long after that, now I can only breathe.
"Can't I ride normally?" he persuaded me and quickly refused.
"No. You should hide your face as much as possible. Because there could have been someone there who recognized you," he insisted I could no longer argue.
"Alright, then divert first the attention of the man who was the coachman of the carriage so that I could sneak in" I ordered.
His slanted smile had now turned into a paltry smile. "It's so easy."
"Cih, songong once," my lips.
He took out some banknotes from his pocket, and I quickly intercepted them and snatched them out of his hand.
"Eitz! What if you don't use money? Use your own way to distract her," my challeng with a grinning smile.
It seemed like he was slightly insinuated and felt slighted, visible from the look on his face.
"Alright," sure.
He also stepped his legs wide approaching the man who served as coachman and then began to talk to him.
Although a stranger may have only one expression, but not for me.
From a distance, I could see the various changes in his expression, even though they were very vague.
So unconsciously because of the will to observe his expression, the coachman seemed to have dissolved into the transfer of the man.
All right, time for me to act.
With a step like a silent cat step, I slipped into the pile of wheat.
Before that, he had a chance to glance at me and our gaze met.
I smile with my index finger and thumb I form into a circle.
It seemed that he returned my smile briefly, and somehow I could feel the spirit within me burning.
I forced myself to go under that pile of wheat.
Flashback off
And like that, the way I can feel in the position now.
I can feel the train that I was riding - errata, more precisely that I was secretly beating this stopped for a moment.
Whatisthis? Is the train out of gas? But it is also impossible, yes the horse carriage use gasoline.
The carriage swayed slightly as there was something slightly heavy going down it. Soon after that, I heard a conversation behind a pile of sacks of wheat that was going all over my body.
"Let down all the luggage in your carriage, we'll check it out" said a man whose voice seemed to be a bodyguard.
Wait, did he say that? Drop all the luggage?
Heh....
Hm....
Isn't that dangerous?! Hey hey! This way I'll be found out!
Immediately I caught the fog in silence behind this pile of wheat.
In my brain it's like a couple of employees got a sudden assignment from their ruthless boss.
Come on Cassandra, think... think!!
"All right, just check it out."
Soon after, I felt one by one the sacks of wheat that had befallen me in the lift.
Damnit damnit! What should I do now?! How can I hide?!
I am not a doraemon who has doors anywhere and other magical items.
When one sack left in charge of hiding my body has not been lifted, at that moment I felt my heart as if it wanted to jump on an elastic trampoline.
"Please! Don't get caught!" my mind was screaming hysterically.
The srek!
Ah, it's over. I must have been caught, just a little more slit. My beautiful face will be exposed.
I closed my eyes tightly preparing to accept what would happen next.
"Infoiler!!"
I widened my eyes as the loud scream pierced my hearing.
I put your palm in front of my left chest in an attempt to calm my heart.
And before long, the soldier who had almost caught me rushed straight to the origin of the loud voice earlier.
If it's not wrong, someone said intruder, right? If it's not me they're talking about, then is there another intruder in the region?
Seems like. Means, don't let me also get caught, I have to be extra careful.
Who knew I could become a famous spy in this life, hahaha!
...🥀...
I am currently in a long, uninhabited hallway.
From right there, it seemed like many soldiers were on guard. So my choice is, go to the left.
Slowly, little by little, carefully, I quickly crossed my legs to the left so that the soldier on the right did not see me.
Fyuh~
Nice, not caught.
I went back to walking while flirting around vigilantly.
I re-justified the veil that covered my face that had come down, then shortly after that I now heard the sound of footsteps.
Lothawat! There's people!
I quickly turned my head to look for a room or anything that could hide me.
Bingo! There's a room there! I ran silently towards that door.
Hopefully it's not locked!
I pulled the doorknob and turned it around to open it.
Chequek!
Yup! I cheered inwardly, it seems like Goddess Fortuna is starting to like this beautiful me now.
Without further ado I entered this room and hid behind the curtains that reached the floor.
"Are you kidding me?"
"Do you think I'm the kind of person who likes to joke?"
"Of course not, but still your words are unbelievable!"
Prince? Whose prince?
I'm getting confused. Strangely, though, I felt that one of the two voices felt familiar.
Agh, Cassandra's! Why are you so senile, anyway?!
Yeah, I know that voice. But I don't know who the owner is.
Hah..hopefully they do not realize my presence, if it does not end already my history.
"You're sending your hero to break through our main defenses? Do you intend to kill your royal ace?"
Penetrating defense?! Wasn't that a task that Arlen had to carry out?!
And what do they mean that 'ace card' is Arlen?!
Who are they really?!
"Because he could've messed up my plan, and I didn't want to take any chances."
"However, wouldn't you waste such a precious figure in your kingdom instead?"
"A very valuable person? He is nothing more than a pawn that can be thrown away at any moment when it is no longer useful."
"Pff! If it was like that, then we would not hesitate to eliminate it."
To kill?! Are they going to kill that guy?! If it's like that, I have to stop them!
I couldn't stop being surprised when I heard the words of two strangers that I couldn't see.
"However, stick to our original plan. After you finish him off, then send your troops to attack our two unprotected territories."
"You take it easy, I'm the one who keeps the appointment. I'll let my useless army go to be your stepping stone."
Two areas not protected? There is a traitor among us!
If I could see his face now, I would have thrown the traitor straight into the komodo dung.
But I can't do it, because if I get caught, then I won't survive.
"Heh. Turns out you're a cold-hearted man, Prince Naelson."
Prince Naelson? Is that the prince of the Nephorine Kingdom?
"This is for the good of my own kingdom. The useless people who usually just eat the place better I just obliterate all."
"Then I hope you keep your word, Prince Naelson."
"You too."
If what they say is true, Arlen's life is in danger.
No, this can't be allowed. I can't even think of what it would be like if that man lost his life.
Anyway I should hurry up to help the man! I have to get a chance! I should be able to!
Klang's!
I immediately rounded my eyes. The vase that was on the surface of the table near my elbow, I accidentally nudged it so that it fell to the floor.
"Who is that?!"
Goddamnit! I'm busted! Why get knocked over, anyway?! I just said that Goddess Fortuna started to like me, but misfortune still kept me in the way!
Agh the point is I don't know!
I have to rely on my other skills!
Run!!!!!
"Damn it, there's an intruder! Chase him!!!"
I ran using all the strength and power left in my body!
It was fortunate that during school I was always the winner of the relay race, so I easily carried my light body running.
I could hear a loud voice yelling at me. I turned my head back for a moment to check the conditions behind me.
Oh dammit! For the sake of internet quota that runs out in the middle of the road! It turns out that many soldiers are after me!
It is true that I am superior in running, but I am not superior in terms of the layout of this place.
I don't even know where the exit is, so all I do is run and run.
But if this continues, I will be harmed. I'll run out of steam if I don't find a way out.
Try to think Cassandra while running Cassandra! You can do it for sure!
Unfortunately, an idea still had nothing popping up in my brain.
So all I do is run, hope I don't get caught and hope that a miracle happens.
Aghs! I'm not strong anymore! I've reached my limit, my energy has been drained a lot, please don't let me get caught here.
For the last time, I turned my head back to check on the situation behind me.
It turns out the soldiers are still after me! And they also looked not exhausted at all!
Jeez if it goes on like this, I'll really get caught!
Just as I was about to give up, there was a hand that pulled the right arm so firmly and suddenly that my body was attracted to it.
The figure silenced my mouth while sticking his index finger on his lips told me to be quiet.
My breath was in a hurry, my lungs were greedily breathing the air around me.
The figure was wearing a scarf that covered his mouth to his neck. Was he the intruder I heard earlier?
I don't know at all.
And before long, now the noise no longer filled my hearing. Looks like those soldiers have left and lost track of me.
I was finally able to breathe quietly, and she started to put away her hand that had originally been smothering me.
"Si... Who are you...?" I was confused while looking at him.
He started to take down the scarf that covered half of his face just like me. And at that time, I immediately widened my eyelids so surprised.
The figure showed his smile.
I didn't think he would be here.
^^I Become Wife of the Atrociouse Duke^^^
^^^06 December 2020^