Chapter 158 - 157: Daphne Secret Pain Relief Space

Eleanore left the mansion immediately after Hael and Stella had departed. Marina followed her out, while Caelestis remained in Eleanore’s room lost in his thoughts.

They quietly skimmed through the roads of the capital, as Eleanore’s thoughts ran wild with Caelestis’ words echoing in her ears and her self esteem stooping low with every repeat telecast of those dreadful lines. She was looking for an open space. Somewhere, where she could scream out this frustration and anger that had bottled up inside of her.

As she walked down the small allies looking for a secluded place, she saw grass green hair fluttering in a corner and her feet stopped. She stood there for a while seeing the woman mutter a few words that Eleanore couldn’t quite interpret.

However, it was never her intention to find out what she was talking about. She was just curious about her strange appearance. Like her, Daphne had also dressed up like a commoner to meet a man. That man too looked like a commoner. He was not a noble, for Eleanore had never seen him before.

Then a question rose. Why is Daphne here, disguised, with a commoner on top of that? Daphne had this strange suspicious aura that always made Eleanore anxious.

Soon she turned around and their eyes met. She didn’t bulge or get scared on spotting Eleanore. Instead, she simply gave a smile and gestured to the man to leave as she walked closer to Eleanore.

Her smile didn’t fade when Eleanore suspiciously looked at her.

"Duchess, Pleasure to meet you here." She bowed.

"No need to greet me." Eleanore turns around. "We are here as commoners." She starts walking down the alley opposite where she had spot Daphne, earlier.

Daphne followed Eleanore closely as she saw her confused with the lanes and turns, she was taking. It clearly showed that she had no idea where she was going.

She turned to Marina. "Where is she going?" She whispered to her.

Marina looked at her, annoyed by that question, for she herself had no idea where Eleanore was headed. She shook her head signaling that Daphne was asking the wrong person.

So, she moved ahead and started walking next to Eleanore, who decided to completely ignore her presence. Eventually, out of restlessness, she asked the question she had asked Marina before.

Eleanore stopped walking when she heard that question and jolted to Daphne’s direction, her brows digging a hole between them and her eyes filled with rage ready to be poured out at any second.

"I am looking for a place far from here. Where even if I shout like a mad woman, no one could hear me. Do you know any such place?" Her unfamiliar firm, voice laced with anger, startled Daphne.

However, she quickly picked up Eleanore’s misplaced anger and smiled through her feeling that had just been hurt. She held out her hand to a direction Eleanore had never taken and answered her question. "Yes."

"Follow me." She walks ahead and Eleanore follows.

As if moving in circles they roam around through places they had never seen before. Until the allies ended and the path opened to a huge field with a single tree in between that hikeable mountain. Daphne stopped at the foot of that mountain.

"This is my special place. I came here to vent my anger too. You can try and I can guarantee that you will fall in love with this place." She says.

Eleanore looks at her, anger and peace from the air colliding inside her. She wanted to come up with a reply, even a thank you would have been enough, but she stopped.

She looked around once again and then her feet took over. She started up to that single tree in this vast grassland and started up. She didn’t stop, for that felt the most ideal place to her.

She was huffing and puffing by the time she reached the top and then her legs lost all their balance and she fell on the soft bed beneath her. She glared at the clear sky and dancing clouds and scorching sun and then her thoughts ran like wildfire.

The thoughts that she had been pressing inside her, finally poured out. It had become so overwhelming. She was tired and exhausted and annoyed and if she could she wanted to run away from everything, especially her husband Caelestis.

She had never asked to come here, she had never asked or begged the author to send her here. She didn’t mean by that email that she wanted to come here and save that damned man. She never wanted to leave behind that world. She never ever wanted to go away from the world where her mother, the only person who loved her once existed. She wanted to live there, drenched in success and self-satisfaction but she got none of that.

This world is worse than the previous one. Instead of resting and doing nothing, just enjoying her life. She was struggling to live every day. A tarnished marriage, severed friendship, angry brother and an unacquainted lover, who wouldn’t leave her alone. She had no one else other than these people around her.

There are enemies everywhere and they would attack her at any time. She was unsure what to do now.

"This will not help you." Daphne laid beside her.

Eleanore turned to her.

"Instead, you could get closer to the edge of this cliff and scream out all your frustration that would make you feel better."

In that moment, Eleanore felt genuineness showering from her words. That fake care and concern was nowhere and the anxious beating of her heart around her disappeared. She got up and walked to the edge.

She had never imagined that it would be so steep, or that this mountain like grassland was a cliff. Her mouthy opened and cuss words came out of it for Caelestis, the world and everyone in it.

"Just go to hell all of you!" She screamed for a long time, until her throat was sore and then came back to where she was lying before.