Cheat Awakening

"Huh? Where'd Rosy go? Shouldn't she be waiting for me here? Damn it, because of my fear of getting caught by Sylphy, I also didn't ask her address. Now finding her is going to be a pain in the ass as I couldn't let her fatty husband know that I am looking for her wife, and most importantly, I only have two hours to finish everything...

Sigh, let's wait a bit here if she doesn't come in 15 minutes, I will try to find her." Read exclusive content at empire

With that thought in mind, Myne sat down under the tree where he found Rosewell yesterday and patiently began waiting for her, but deep down, he didn't have much hope.

"Ugh, today really isn't a good day. Not only did we fail to reach Ember Falls City even after raiding the house at full speed for 8 hours and going to great lengths using magic on a horse so it wouldn't die from exhaustion, but now it seems Rosy's matter also has to be put on hold..."

Sssss...

Thud!

Ouch!

When Myne was thinking about his life's minor problems after finally getting some time for himself to reflect, suddenly a strange movement occurred at the top of the tree he was resting under. A rough ball, seemingly made of cloth but somehow strong as a rock, plummeted down and landed on Myne's head, eliciting a yelp of pain.

"F*ck! Which bastard dared to sneak attack me in such a vicious way?" Myne yelled out in anger, clutching his head in pain. He quickly looked up, but when he saw a little boy around 7 years old lying right on top of him on a large branch, with a horrified expression, as if he might pee his pants if he scared him any more, he didn't know what to say.

Myne looked at the "weapon" used in the attack and then at the frightened boy. He could only shake his head regretfully. If it were a man, at least he could gain some new skills. But a little brat? Forget it. Apart from ear-piercing screams and unnecessary workload, there's nothing he could get from him.

"Kiddo, I'll count to ten. If you're not down by then, prepare to lie there for the rest of your life. And believe me, even the king himself come here for you, he might be able to extricate you from this branch..."

BANG!

Myne had barely finished speaking when the boy, who was scared to death, directly fell to the ground without giving him a chance to count. Clearly, this little guy's level of obedience had maxed out a long time ago.

"My Lord, please don't kill me! I'm willing to do anything for forgiveness! It was a pure accident that I dropped my ball on you," The boy, God knows where he learned to apologize so well, pleaded. As soon as his butt landed on the ground, without caring about his own injuries, he hurriedly crawled to Myne on all fours before bowing down completely.

He hammered his forehead on the ground – of course, not hard, it was just for formalities sake and didn't even leave a mark on his forehead. How can you expect a 7-year-old child to hurt himself? If he had such a strong will how can he still carry a ball with himself while climbing a tree? It's just people around him are good at saving their asses, which also infected this little guy deeply as well.

"Get up, stop this childish play. If you honestly answer my few questions, I'll consider it if nothing happens and let you go. But if you dare to deceive me or hide anything, don't expect mercy from me. You'll then spend the rest of your life in misery and unimaginable pain, where you'll beg for death, but I won't give it to you..."

"My Lord, that's enough, I understand. Please ask anything you want, as long as I know it, I'll tell you. Even if you ask my deepest secret, I won't hesitate to answer," The little guy interrupted Myne again. Maybe he didn't want to hear how his life would end or he had long ago made up his mind to be completely honest, even if Myne asked his deepest secret.

Although no one in the right mind would be really interested in a 7-year-old child's deepest secrets.

"Good, I like smart children like you. Now, my first question: tell me what the hell were you doing up there?" Myne locked his hands behind his back trying to look more seriously, and asked with a frown.

"I... actually, I was tasked by someone to wait for someone here and deliver a letter to that certain person," The Boy stammered. "The reward was quite generous, and it didn't seem dangerous, so I didn't think too much about it and accepted..."

"Oh, tell me everything about your mission, especially about your employer!" This time, it was Myne's turn to interrupt the little guy, finally taking his revenge. Although it was a bit shameful to hold a grudge against a child, Myne, himself only 16 years old, obviously didn't care about those minor details and quite enjoyed doing so.

"It was Mrs. Rosewell," The Boy explained hesitantly. "She's a wealthy merchant's wife who lives a little far from here. She's a very kind lady and occasionally helps out the orphanage, so I'm quite familiar with her. Today, while I was playing with my other orphan brothers and sisters, she came to visit us. She brought a lot of good things and divided them between everyone.

But when it came to my turn, she took me aside and told me that if I did a small task for her, she'd give me a gold coin as a reward. Of course, I agreed without hesitation. You know, even the dean of our orphanage hardly gets a dozen or so gold coins from the mayor to maintain the orphanage, it is quite a lot of money for a small character like me."

"After that, she told me to come here and wait for a special person. According to her, he's a tall, handsome, kind-looking young man with blue eyes and black hair, wearing nice-looking, expensive clothes...?"

The boy who was describing his target's appearance suddenly paused. He looked at Myne up and down, who was looking back at him with a playful smirk on his face. And suddenly, his little, lazy brain jolted awake.

"It was you?! My Lord, please forgive me, my stupid mind is just too useless that it couldn't recognize your handsome face immediately!" The Boy blurted out apologetically, although he looked sincere, but for some reason, he reminded Myne of those bootlicking henchmen who would do anything to make their boss happy.

However, when the situation turned sour, they'd be the first ones to switch sides and stab their own boss who raised them for years without hesitation.

"Okay, stop your nonsense and give me the lett..."

"Here, this is what she wanted me to deliver to you," Maybe the little boy was just too enthusiastic for his own good, or he was doing it subconsciously out of nervousness. He again didn't hesitate to cut off Myne's sentence halfway through and took out a small, roughly folded letter from his little pocket. Its condition wasn't exactly pristine under the care of this little rascal.

Myne, now with a vein popping up on his forehead from being continuously interrupted, took a deep breath to calm himself down. He resisted the urge to grab the little brat by the collar and spank him hard, before taking the letter with a dramatically low HP bar, and half of it soaked in the little brat's sweat.

Yet, the boy clearly hadn't realized his mistakes and was still looking at Myne, in the same way, waiters in a restaurant look at their customers while collecting the bill.

Shaking his head helplessly, Myne first cast a cleaning spell on the letter before examining it. The envelope didn't have any name or seal on it and looked very suspicious at first glance. Myne gave the little boy a quick glance, who was honestly standing in his place, silently waiting for further instructions.

No matter what he said, this little guy had all the qualities to become a perfect henchman.

After confirming that there wasn't anything wrong with the boy, Myne opened the envelope and took out the wrinkled letter. He focused all his attention on it, but to his surprise, the letter was very short and he finished reading it before he could even react.

"I don't need your help!"

That was all written in the letter, a complete waste of resources. Just to write a few words, she wasted an envelope, a sheet of paper, and most importantly, an entire gold coin to hire a delivery boy. Myne didn't know what to say. As expected of rich people?

Anyway, the letter successfully shocked Myne, leaving him completely dumbfounded.

What the hell?! What kind of joke is this? She went through so much trouble just to tell me those few useless words that even a child wouldn't believe? Does she have something wrong with her brain? If she didn't need my help, then couldn't she just ignore me? I hardly know anything about her anyway.

If she hadn't responded, I would have naturally gone on my way...

Wait, could this be a new trick to send a hidden message? Is she afraid her husband might intercept this letter, and find out about our affair in advance at critical moments like those typical nonsense in novels? So she wrote this false message that only I can understand? Hmm, that makes sense. She's more clever and cautious than I expected. As expected of the woman I've set my eyes on.

How could she be an idiot?

Patting himself on the back mentally, Myne nodded with satisfaction. He tucked the letter away and began to plan his next course of action.