The After World Breaker

Chapter 4: The voice of a girl's little heart

"You better step aside, don't get in my way!" Teresa said to Allenz who had just woken up, and met in the hallway of the house.

Allenz is now engaged to the Bartfold family, one of the nobles in the city of Nevelheim, the head of the family is named Ford Theodore Bartfold, while the wife named Tiara Xennia Bartfold, they have two children, the family's father, the family's wife, Tiara Xennia Bartfold, named Teresa Sena Bartfold, and Benard Dan Bartfold, Allenz is now engaged to the family's eldest daughter, this could happen due to the request of both parents, with the reason to protect Nayaka.

Of course Allenz asked about this matchmaking relationship with Nayaka, his parents explained that Allenz had to be engaged to Teresa, as the first fiance and Nayaka would be the second fiancee position.

It was clearly rejected by Allenz, there was no way he was engaged to his own sister, even though they were not real brothers, he said, but this happened because to avoid people who wanted to betroth their son to Nayaka, who was a relative of the royal family.

Because it inevitably Allenz complied and now he ended up in the Bartfold family, but he was not welcomed by the two children Ford friendly.

He had his own room, a special guest room, and he slept there, after tidying up his room he was about to take a bath, but he met Teresa with some maids carrying towels and clothes. As before, he still hasn't received Allenz here.

Allenz who is there can only find a way to make this matchmaking better, moreover his relationship with Teresa herself, who is his fiancee.

So sometimes Allenz tries several times to greet him, or just to interact with Teresa, but almost everything he does always fails.

As it was already impossible to get close to Teresa, Allenz decided to ponder for a moment in the garden beside the Bartfold's family home. He just sat by himself, with his eyes already demoralized, he gave up on getting the heart of this family's eldest daughter.

Before Ford's wife came, she saw Allenz who was like a demoralizer, unlike before. "Ara~ Nak Allenz, why are you here? Shouldn't you accompany my daughter?"

Allenz looked at Tiara who was staring at him confused, how could such a young person lose such love, Allenz then confirmed his sitting position, and sat up straight, "huh.... It seems quite difficult to get close to your child, even both of them also seem to avoid me altogether." Said Allenz who had kind of given up on what he did.

Hearing Allenz's complaint, Tiara felt sorry for how her two children might not welcome the friendly Allenz who is her son's fiance.

After that conversation, Allenz also talked about other things, he learned quite a lot from Tiara, about the four human kingdoms, magic, technological developments, and more.

Every now and then Allenz also commented on some magic, and as far as he could, only a few people had reached level twelve since the past few years, only, but they were not used in the war with the demons, because they were more devoted to the royal family, Allenz also had time to think because the royal family often hired powerful people, making human combat power so decreased, so that the power of the royal family would be reduced, only the ninth and eighth levels participated in the war.

'It is only fitting that they lose to the demon race.' He said in his heart, why can the royal family make such strong people enter the kingdom.

"Oh yeah, Allenz are you going to follow "Military Training"? Ask Tiara.

"Military Training?"

"You don't know? Military training, where you'll be taught the basics of being a soldier, so if there's anything urgent you've learned the military basics of a soldier." Clearly Tiara, "but, you've only been given light training, such as facing low-class monsters, and facing bandits or rebels, and the training period is only for 5 months." Tiara.

Allenz heard that, he like to think Military Training is like Military Compulsory, in some countries before, the example of South Korea. However, it seems that this is easier, because the task faced for the people who want to become soldiers of the kingdom.

"If you're not interested in joining, you can also be an adventurer, but an adventurer is freer than a soldier." Added Tiara.

However, whether Military Training or adventurer, Allenz was not interested in either, he planned to become a tool maker or something.

At nightfall, the Bartfolds invited Allenz to a meal together as usual, and even Allenz's position was right next to Teresa's. However, it was enough to make Allenz unpleasant, because Teresa thought Allenz was not next to her at the time.

They ate together, Allenz as much as possible avoided the gaze of the two Ford children, he just wanted to enjoy his dinner.

"Oh, yes, Allenz, do you have any activities tomorrow?" Ask Ford.

"No, not at all, what's up?"

"How about if you fight with me, I want to know how great you are, it doesn't matter if you're new to some kind of magic, but I just want to see how you fight using a sword." Ford told Allenz tomorrow to see how inclined Allenz is to use weapons, he wanted to see the power of Allenz, even though Allenz could improve his fighting skills in the future.

After the meal, Teresa and her personal maid walked down the hallway, heading for the mansion's library, as Teresa would often take the time to read books to enter the academy later, although it would take another four years, yet he had a dream of grabbing the top spot in the entrance examination.

"Miss, is it okay for miss to ignore your fiancee?" Ask the maid in the silence of the night.

Teresa fell silent, and stopped before the library door, as if she had spoken sassyly, "ah, I-sorry I didn't mean to–"

"Yes, do you think he's a good guy?"

The question suddenly made Yia the maid pause for a moment, she did not expect the lady to ask back a question. "Eh? Uh? Um... How yes... I think in people who are friendly, and willing to learn independently."

Teresa chuckled little, then answered her own question, "all men are like that, they will say sweet first, but when we fall they will show their true selves, remember it is Jiah," teresa. "And you know why I don't take it here?"

"Why?" Yia asked while tilting her head.

"It was to protect his sister, so I was just used as a protection shield for my sister from my fiancee, disgusting isn't it? Even my parents agreed to this stupid matchmaking, I wish this matchmaking could be annulled if I could." Said Teresa who began to sound depressed due to this stupid matchmaking, she was like being played every time.

The maid who realized that her employer's mood was bad, she immediately suggested reading a book like their original purpose to go to the mansion's library.

When pulling the door, it looks like a large shelf of books, a lot, almost thousands of books, because at night, makes the library look dark, illuminated by a number of hanging candles on each wall and pillar of the foundation of the library. Also the moonlight that penetrates the glass of the library from the outside, to add lighting at night.

”So what will you learn today?"

"War between humans and demons, also about ancient magic."

"Well, let me get you some books about it." Yia left Teresa by the door, and Teresa sat down on a chair and held her head against her desk.

Yia who was looking for the book, carrying the lantern she had brought earlier, muttered in the name of the book while looking for the book her master wanted, pointing with her finger.

Finding the book she was looking for, Yia then took the initiative to take the library ladder, the ladder used to retrieve the top-recorded books.

"Oh, library stairs? I saw it over there." Said the person while pointing at a corner of the room, and on the corner wall was a propped library staircase.

"Thank you ka–" Yia was silent for a moment, was there anyone other than herself and the young lady? Then who? It made Yia scream because she just realized that there was someone else besides them. "Yyaaaa!!!"

Shouting Yia successfully made Teresa come to him, Teresa found Yia kneeling in fear on the floor with two books strewn about.

"What is this?! What are you doing fucking?! You want to take advantage of Yia, huh?!" Shouted Teresa to the person who was reading earlier, who was Allenz who had been there from the beginning while enjoying a number of apples there.

"Huh?! You're accusing me? Heyy?! why does every woman always think no to men?!" Ketus Allenz who then closed the book he read. "After all, from the beginning I was just reading, and suddenly your maid was screaming herself, maybe she saw the library ghost?"

Teresa was immediately goosebumps to hear Allenz's words, because Teresa was quite afraid of things that involved ghosts.

"How are you here?"

"Why are you asking like that? I obviously want to read a book! What's again? What do you think the library is?!" Allenz was quite fed up with the questions asked of him, which seemed to blame him here.

"Here you are, you had a bad character from the beginning, huh?" Sindir Teresa on Allenz who snapped at him.

"uh? Who do you think first showed his bad character? When I first came, you didn't seem to welcome me very well, and now you blame me? You seem to need a mirror, miss." Reply to Allenz by quipping back Teresa's words.

That speech made Teresa unable to find the words to reply to Allenz's words. He could only dodge coming back with their initial discussion. "You... Then why are you scaring, Yia?!"

"God! Looks like Miss Teresa can't reply to my words, to the point of diverting the conversation, huhuhu~ is sad."

The response made Teresa fed up, of all the people she was engaged to, only Allenz was the only one who dared to reply to her insinuation, usually people before only hide it by laughing subtly or as if interested in the nature of his anger, which is said to be funny, funny, even though he wanted to make the people bring out their true nature that only uses friendly-faced masks, the reality is not they are rotten inside.

Teresa, who was on the blackboard, approached Allenz's table and slapped the boy, who was the same age as her. Then pull Allenz's shirt while giving an angry face with a red face.

Allenz was quite surprised Teresa would slap him, before long Teresa's eyes glazed over, her real self began to tear, then lowered her head down and wished Allenz had not seen her.

"If... I've never been betrothed at all, maybe I won't be like this, I hate a lie hidden behind everyone's facial expressions, I hate, I hate, I HATE ITUU!!!" He said while sobbing, he evaporated his emotions all this time.

She was originally just an ordinary, innocent little girl, and did not know what arranged marriages were, but she knew what love was. When her mother taught her what arranged, what her mother said was 'the match is when you are introduced to someone you don't know, but it is to build a relationship between you, on the basis of love' however, it was all a lie, they only wanted the standing that their Bartfold had, or just looked at herself as a beautiful young girl and would have a seductive body when she grew up, she said, that made him hate every man except the people in his house.

She had enough of her previous fiancee to resign, even though Teresa was only 13 years old, but thanks to the help of her servants she was able to make those fools withdraw from this matchmaking, until there was someone who still felt their matchmaking still continued, he a Viscount kept urging him to continue the match, obviously he had rejected it, even his family also refused it.

This is because Teresa had a bad experience with the Viscount's son, even the case until entering the court of Nevelheim city. And this was of course won by the Bartfold family, and the city court threatened hard on the Viscount's family.

Seeing her master cry, Yia wanted to take her back to her room, but Allenz took good care of Teresa's previous nature, she was as depressed as the matchmaking was, even as she screamed like that, Allenz suspects Teresa to be forced to do so, this girl seems not to want to argue the words of her own parents, which in fact makes herself should never argue.

Allenz then removed Teresa's hand from her previously pulled shirt, after Teresa was sitting on the floor crying so much, she was really depressed because of her being dishonest to herself, he continued to hold back his own will, it made him feel like a doorless prison where only the locked ones could open the cage themselves.

Allenz then walked up to Teresa who sat down, then hugged the girl, he knew it would make the girl hate him, even more hateful? But Allenz didn't care about it, as his parents didn't know what their eldest daughter had been up to, he wanted to protect the Bartfold family, his own family, his own family, but having to sacrifice his own honesty and result in him never being honest and always doing it himself, he has no backrest whatsoever, he just stands on his own feet without anyone's help.

"Relax..." Said Allenz quietly, the girl kept crying in her arms, Allenz seemed quite aware of something, this girl seemed to dislike this matchmaking from the start, and it made a big question for Allenz, he said, maybe after this he'll ask the waiter here, or maybe Yia later.

Teresa was then taken back to her room after she fell asleep in the middle of her crying, in Teresa's room, Yia laid Teresa's sleeping body down, then removed the girl's glasses.

After exiting the room, Yia looked at Allenz who was leaning against the wall, then approached Yia who had just come out. "Please explain why she didn't like this matchmaking from the start?"

Yia was surprised by the question, Allenz seemed to really want to know more about this, "but maybe you don't understand."

"Just explain it in simple terms, maybe I'll consider this matchmaking again."

Yia then took Allenz to another place, she brought him to the living room, then explained how the struggle of her little miss was trying to protect this family from the matchmaking, she also never even complained, she even complained, do their parents have no other job but to match their children? But Teresa held it more in her heart. Until now he has not spoken to his parents.

Allenz's conjecture was quite correct, she felt strange, Teresa seemed to not approve of this matchmaking from the beginning, because there must be an early factor that made Teresa like that.

The next day, Teresa, who was asleep, opened her eyes slowly, then took a sitting position on the edge of the mattress. She was surprised by the clothes she was wearing, she had not changed since last night, she did not wear her usual night clothes.

Shortly afterwards, there was a scream from outside, "Ford!! Ford!! I want to talk!!" The man's voice made Teresa speechless, then quickly looked at the window to see the person who had come, in her heart she wished it wasn't that person. He continued to pray about it, but the Goddess did not hear his prayer. The nightmare is coming back.

Several people stood in front of the gate of the Bartfold family mansion, there were about seven people with one luxurious carriage that was too contrasting to look at, he said, everyone might argue that the chariot decoration was too much and was like a waste on a horse carriage.

Ford and Tiara walked out of the mansion, Ford had also put up a face unhappy with the fool's visit, "what are you coming back for?! Didn't it say that you wouldn't come back here? Even the judge has given you strict sanctions!" Ford said in anger.

However, not long after one person there advanced, he was a man like 20 years old, with tidied hair, bangs cut in the middle, and did not forget the clothes were too fancy. "Ouch... Father-in-law why don't you greet us as kindly as usual?" Said the man in a friendly tone.

"Huh?! Since when have I been your father-in-law? Disgusting?!"

Inside the mansion Teresa was like full of fear, her hands were trembling, cold sweat was pouring down, she did not want to recall her bad past. Allenz approached them, Teresa and her sister peering out of the window, "who are they?"

Teresa twisted her body in fear, Allenz realized that, it seemed that this was quite serious.

"O-the one who spoke to my father, d-he was my previous fiance, Borath Foss Gothan." Teresa answered with fear.

Allenz then looked seriously at the person talking to Ford, knowing this person after Yia told him last night, but what Allenz was surprised by was his stature which was already quite far away from Teresa..

"O-this guy..a pedophile?!" Say Allenz with Alans together.