Chapitre 23: Acceptance
" Tell me why are you doing this again? Rod " inside the carriage of Rod Reiss that is raiding towards one of Duke Reiss estates, a man with little stubble on his face raised his bored eyes and questioned Duke Reiss
" Kenny..." Duke Reiss sighed and looked at the ill-mannered dog in front of him "...Krista is my last descendant, I doubt that I can still give children in my age, I need her to continue the royal blood so when we find the Founding Titan we can her or her children as the holders of its power."
" I wasn't asking about that" shouted Kenny, he made a serious expression " Why didn't you let us kill the Braveheart bastards already? You even made them a noble family"
" A dog will be a dog in the end" Rod gave Kenny an annoyed expression and said " it's already too late to do that. If we kill them we risk an economic crisis. the bastards hold 40% of our economy. instead of killing them we should use them for our good. Supplying the military with food, weapons, and land is giving me and the others a hard time meanwhile Mr.Braveheart is spending all that money on nothing. I am planning on making him spend all his fortune on the military " Rod told Kenny his plan with a look of disgust on his face, he has some hate for this man. if it wasn't for his strength he would have killed him already
The carriage stopped moving. Rod and Kenny to get out of it but Rod turned to Kenny and said
" You stay here"
" Why?" asked Kenny
" You killed her mother, I don't want her to see you...Matter of fact, just leave." he left after saying his command to Kenny leaving him fuming with anger
Rod walked to the inside his estate and ordered some servants to call his daughter. the servant did as they were told with complete silence, no said a word and just minded their business, after all, no one wants to die today.
after a few minutes, a servant brought Krista back and left the father and daughter couple alone. Rod knelt down and smiled gently at Krista who is in complete shock. she never imagined she will see her father again
" Krista, you remember me right?" asked Rod causing Krista to nod sub-consciously
" Great! I was really worried about you, finally I could meet you again" Rod hugged his daughter who is still in her shock, she felt her father's warmth on her and she felt his body tremble when he hugged her, she felt really happy, she thought she will never meet her father again
" I came to take you home, to your new family" Rod looked at his daughter in the eyes and with a passion he started telling Hostoria how much he missed her and how hard he worked so he can give her a good life
Krista smiled at her father with happiness and said " I missed you dad" she launched her naive self at Rod who caught her like a loving father but while Krista is enjoying her father's embrace, Rod is not enjoying any of this. his face who was filled with excitement early in front of Krista is now cold as Ice
" Come, Krista, I will tell you everything you need to know" Rod dragged Krista into his carriage and drove away to the King's castle. he needs to teach this useless daughter of his how to be a noblewoman so she won't make him look like an idiot in front of all of the walls Nobles
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" I DO NOT ACCEPT " in the Living room at the Mansion of the Braveheart family, Maria stood up with rage from the couch, she just heard what her son will face
Mikasa who was sitting beside her was having a hard time hiding her dissatisfaction, Eren and Armin were looking at this situation with much more relaxed expression since this in somehow doesn't concern them
"I refuse to take another girl as a daughter in law that I never saw before," she said " We agreed on marrying Mikasa to Ace in the past, you should have said that Ace already has a fiancé " Maia dropped a bomb with realizing at the kids.
Armin an Eren looked at Ace and Mikasa with shock, Mikasa's face was red as tomato ' Me? Mary Ace?" she felt a sense of happiness invade her heart but it faded as she remembers that Ace is now being engaged to another girl. jealousy is killing her
" I brought that out as a last resort however they still refused this...but" Roger shook his head
" But what?" asked Maria
" they said, that a nobleman can marry more than one wife but he needs to mary a noblewoman first, so there is no running from this."
Maria still didn't like this idea of Political marriage, especially when her son is the one being involved in this and Roger can see the dissatisfaction her eyes
"It's the king's orders" Roger looked at his wife with an understanding expression but they have no choice in this. he looked at his son who hasn't spoken from the beginning until now " Do you really accept this? if you want I can try again for your sake" said Roger, his words made Mikasa have some hope in her heart but Ace next words made her drop her head low with sadness
" It's alright, we don't need any unwanted trouble with the king," said Ace, he can see what the king is aiming at " So they want to make us close to them so we won't be able to move freely. they locked us" he said but his eyes held some light in them " As for locking our movement, they succeeded by Promoting our family to a duke rank but I can't understand why the marriage is needed? "
Everyone in the room had the same question on their minds, especially Mikasa, why the marriage?
Roger sighed and said " It's not you and the girl who will be married" Roger's words confused everyone
"It's our families that will be married, meaning that you work as the living evidence of our family and the Reiss family joining together," He said, he didn't stop her and continued
" The Reiss family is responsible for Keeping the military in order and supplying them with food and equipment," he said " According to Duke Reiss, they plan on making us take care of supplying the Military with food and other necessities that the Reiss family had to do, as of lately, the Reiss family is in dire situation and can't keep supplying the military for long" Rogers expression turned serious as he remembers the Rod Reiss that day, he could see the greed in his eyes and the others too
"For short, we are being used"
The atmosphere in the room turned gloomy as everyone felt bad about this situation
Ace, on the other hand, thinks that they all just exaggerating this situation, basically, they gave his family some power over the military which he appreciates and made his father have a strong standing in the wall, something he always wanted. his power now is only below to that of the 5 councels and some military leaders. it all works in their favor but his parent's overprotectiveness and love for him is blinding them for the moment, he knows that after calming down they will see the bigger picture
' I just hope the new wife is not a Biatch' he thought
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Oooh, you don't know who you're getting married to. if only you know, you'd be jumping to the sky like a monkey
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