Something Beautiful

Chapter - 10

Mingyu quickly withdrew his hand as if it was burning with fire. "You girl!"

"It's not my fault!" Reply Lisa, offended to hear the accusatory tone in Mingyu's voice.

The ridiculousness of the words they were saying to each other made the two instantly stunned. Mingyu's sullen look suddenly turned into a wide smile and Lisa began to laugh. And it was in that state that the Madam of the innkeeper saw them, both of them in bed, laughing, Mingyu's hands hanging inches above Lisa's wide-open breasts and shirt.

"Bruschweiler!" hardik woman, galloping into the room like a warship unfurling a sail, her eyes seemed to spark fire as she looked at Mingyu's hand which was located above Lisa's open kingdom. "What does all this mean!"

Lisa fortunately did not understand how dangerous what was in the mind and vision of the Innkeeper Madam, but Mingyu did not, and the man was disgusted at the thought of how evil the woman's mind was because he accused the little girl of no more than thirteen of immoral conduct. His face sharpened and his snuffling voice sounded cold and resolute. "Miss Bruschweiler was injured in an accident that occurred south of this inn. Please call the doctor."

"No, no," Lisa asked and then advanced her body to a sitting position even though she still felt limp. "I'm fine and want to get home soon."

Mingyu spoke to the suspicious-looking woman in a commanding and resolute tone. "Then, I'll take him home, and you can get the doctor to go straight to the corner a few kilometers south of this inn. There he'll find two robbers who may not need his help, but he can tell if they're really dead." Mingyu then reached into his pocket and took out a card that listed his name under the image of a small golden crown. "I'll come back here to answer all the questions she might want to ask, after I bring Miss Bruschweiler home to her family."

The hostess muttered something cynical about the robbers and indecent behavior, took roughly the card in Mingyu's hand, snatched it towards Lisa's unbuttoned shirt, then galloped out.

"It looks like you're surprised, because I'm a girl, I mean," Lisa said.

"Frankly, tonight is indeed full of surprises," Mingyu replied, removing the innkeeper Madam from her mind and focusing her attention on Lisa. "Am I too presumptuous to ask why you're wearing that armor?"

Lisa slowly swung her legs to the bedside and tried to stand up. The room felt like it was spinning. "I can walk," he protested as mingyu reached out to carry him.

"But I'd rather carry you," Mingyu said firmly and did exactly as he said. Lisa smiled inwardly looking at Mingyu's indifferent attitude as she walked through the sitting room, gracefully ignoring the gazes of the villagers while carrying the disheveled shabby girl dressed in knee-length tight pants and a shirt with long sleeves.

As soon as the man placed it gently on his luxurious and padded carriage seat and sat in front of her, Lisa's amused taste suddenly dissipated. As well as 0merta he realized they would pass through a terrible sight caused in part by him. "I have killed people" he whispered with remorse as the chariot began to make its way towards the dreadful turn. "I can't forgive myself."

"I won't forgive you if you don't kill him" Mingyu said with a mischievous smile. Under the light of the carriage light, Lisa's teary hazel eyes lifted at her, looking around, as if pleading for tranquility, and Mingyu automatically responded. He reached out his hand forward, lifted Lisa up and sat the girl on her lap, killing her, as if she were a sad child. "What you did was very brave" he muttered to the wavy, soft strands of brown hair that swept his chin.

Lisa sighed trembling then shook her head, unconsciously rubbing her cheeks with Mingyu's chest "I'm not brave, I'm just too scared to run away like a logical person."

When she put the little girl in her arms, Mingyu was stunned to think that she would one day want to have her own child. There was something touching from the way this little girl curled up in his arms, trusting him. But when he remembered that this little girl would one day become a spoiled woman, he immediately threw away the thought. "Why are you wearing that old armor?"

Lisa describes a spear match that is a Roseanne family ritual every time one of her family members has a birthday, then he repeatedly made Mingyu laugh out loud as he told about some of his defeats and victories at the game this afternoon.

Mingyu was really Shock to the point of being speechless for quite some time. Within the scope of the association, everyone travels to various places, and often. It's hard to believe this intelligent boy would never see anywhere other than a remote hamlet at the end of this world. He looked at the face covered in darkness beneath him and found the girl looking at him with a friendly interest, not the kind of admiration she usually gets from others.

He smiled inwardly at the thought of wild young hamlets playing with spears. How different their childhoods were when compared to the children of the nobility. Like her, the children of the nobility were all raised by nannies, taught by tutors, had to be kept clean and tidy, and constantly reminded to be haughty like the nobles. Perhaps the children who grew up in such a remote area were much better and different, still innocent, brave and unpolluted, just like Lisa. Based on the life Lisa told him, Mingyu wondered if the hamlet boys weren't luckier. Commoner boy? It also occurred to him that the polite words of this boy did not resemble the residents of the hamlet at all.

"Why did the coachman call you 'Your Grace'?" lisa asked with a smile, and Lisa looked even sweeter.

Mingyu tried to take her gaze away from that pretty face. "Because I'm so tall, you know."

"What's that?" lisa asks, disappointed that this handsome stranger is living in a world far beyond her reach and will thus disappear from her life forever. "Is it like a King and a Queen?"

"I'm just below him," Mingyu replied, seeing the girl disappointed. "Are you disappointed?"

"Slightly," she replied making Mingyu surprised. "What is the nickname people give you?"

"At least there are dozens of names," Mingyu replied, amused at once at the loss at the girl's innocent yet spontaneous reaction. "Most people call me Kim or else Hawk, hawk, while the closer ones call me by my name, Mingyu."

"Hawk suits you well" Lisa said, but her intelligent brain has reached an important conclusion. "Do you think the robbers robbed you on purpose because you're a wealthy noble? I mean they took a very big risk by robbing you not far from the inn."

"Greed is a very strong motivation to take risks" Mingyu replied.

Lisa nodded in agreement then softly quoted, "There is nothing more burning than passion, nothing more painful than hatred, nothing more dangerous than greed."

Mingyu was completely stunned, he looked at the girl. "What did you say?"

"I didn't say it, but Buddha" Lisa explained.

"I often hear those words of wisdom," Mingyu said, painstakingly restoring her control. "I'm just surprised because those words are not foreign to you either." He sees a speck of dim light from a dark house that is right in front of them and assumes it is Lisa's house. "Lisa," she said quickly and decisively as they got closer to home, "you mustn't feel guilty for what you did tonight. Nothing makes you feel guilty."

The girl looked at him with a gentle smile, but when the carriage stopped on the path of the rickety mansion, Lisa suddenly exclaimed, "Oh no!"