She Belongs To The Devil

"General Herwin… General Herwin…" Adeline called the General several times in an attempt to wake him up but he did not move a muscle. He was out cold from a punch of Adeline.

Adeline looked at her brothers and sisters and then said in a vacant tone, "Well, I guess the class is over. Should we inform the guards to take him to the healer?"

Adeline was not feeling any remorse by hitting her teacher like that and making him go unconscious. Rather, she was feeling a sense of pure satisfaction. He was belittling Adeline by saying things like she was cheating on her fighting training by making some kind of deal with her brothers and sisters.

And to add to that, he was boasting his masculinity and was talking as though all women were weaker than him and not even worth giving a chance to fight with him to prove him wrong. And now that he was lying on the floor, she was feeling happy to her bones.

"Yes, I think we should inform some guards while we are on our way out." Raphael agreed to Adeline.

"Okay then," Adeline left the General on the platform and climbed down to where her brothers and sisters were standing.

Gustin was openly smiling because he was also feeling very happy that the General got to taste the punch from Adeline. The General was scolding him earlier saying that he had given up too soon when he could have gone for another round with Adeline. But there he was, lying on the ground, not even able to finish a single round.

Gustin gave a wicked smirk and then commented to Raphael, "Now that he got knocked out by a single punch, I hope that he knows his place now. It is proven that he is weaker than me."

Raphael touched his chin and hummed as though he was thinking something, and then replied to Gustin, "Does that mean I am stronger than you? I last two rounds with Adeline. You just last one." He gave a quick glance at the others and continued, "And the others don't even last a single round."

Nefriti gave a corner-eyed look to Raphael and shouted as if she was singing a song, "We can hear you…"

But both Raphael and Gustin were in the middle of an argument so none of them paid attention to Nefriti.

"Are you going to use Adeline as the standard to measure our strength? Or are you going to consider the times that the two of us have faced each other and also its outcome? I bet you have only won a handful of times while I have won most of them." Gustin rolled his eyes and began to walk away from the ground.

Raphael didn't like this habit of Gustin, always walking away when the conversation was still going on. So he yelled at his brother, "If you think you have won more times, then let's battle right here and now. And let's see who wins."

But Gustin just waved off his hand and kept on walking away.

Adeline also bid a goodbye to everyone because she had some plans. "I will also head out now. See you tomorrow everyone." She then glanced at Nefriti and spoke to her while pointing at the General, "Will you please inform the guards that he is unconscious. I am in a bit of a hurry."

"Sure. Don't worry about him." Nefriti was instantly up for the job.

"Thank you!" Adeline smiled at her and ran back to her quarter. She was in a hurry to go somewhere.

Adeline had to return back to her own room from Theodore's room very early in the morning. Though she wanted to hear from Theodore's followers who had spied on Lillian the last night, she did not get the chance to do so. She could have waited till nightfall for Theodore and she could have asked him if his followers saw anything unusual the last night. But she did not have the patience to wait till nightfall.

She even thought about calling Theodore by using her ring, but she didn't think that it was a good idea to do so in the broad daylight. There was a high chance that someone would overhear them or someone would walk inside and disturb them.

Adeline could not wait any longer to know about what Lillian was really doing. She still had a three hours break before her training with General Osmond would start. And at that time, she thought that she would go to the market and meet Agnes to know the details.

After reaching to her quarter, she immediately called for Hawisa and then ordered her, "Hawisa, I have something to do in the market. So will you please ask my guards to change into some normal clothing and escort me?"

"You are going to the market again? Are you going with your brothers and sisters again?" Hawisa was not outwardly showing it but she was really angry with the other Princes and Princesses. She really believed that they were a bad company to Adeline and they would have a negative impact on her. To be honest, Hawisa was starting to miss Nigel.

"No, I am going alone. I have some work there." Adeline clarified to her maid.

Hawisa did not dare to question the Princess about what kind of work she had in the market. She thought that it was not her place to ask such questions. "Alright, I will inform the guards. But just make sure that you are safe. And don't forget to ask permission from your father before you go."

After warning the Princess as a caring mother would do, she left the Princess's room.

After Hawisa went outside, Adeline called Osanna and then asked her, "Will you please take out a plain gown for me. I am going to the market again."

"You are going there again? Seems like someone found the outside world to be fun." Osanna smirked and then walked towards Adeline's wardrobe. She took out a light blue gown that didn't have any embroidery work on it and handed it over to the Princess, "I hope this will be fine."

Adeline took that dress and looked at it for a while. Then finally she thought that it would blend well with the other village woman's dresses. "I think this will do."

And after Osanna also went outside of her chamber, Adeline changed from her fighting uniform to the gown.

Until the guards got ready and came to her quarter, Adeline thought that she would go and see her father. So she headed towards the King's Court where her father would be at this time of the morning.

But when she reached there, she was stunned to see that her father was looking pale and weak.. She ran close to her father to get a good look at him and exclaimed, "Father, you don't look so well. What happened?"