Chapter 106: Chapter 106

"So, are you ready?" Cecilia asked after she put her brown cape on, covering her head.

Max nodded, "Shouldn't we were wearing a mask?"

"No. We don't need to attract more attention."

"But, your pretty face is the main source of the attraction." Max shook his head as his disagreement.

It's already two days after his proposal, and Cecilia thought that he became weirder than before.

"Max, you are exaggerating." Cecilia said to her fiancé.

Duke Lancia, who are reading his paper, nodded. The young couple was insisted on going for doing some espionage activity on Icicle for three hours a day. "For now, I agree with that rascal, Cecilia."

"Ah! Not you too, Father." She said in frustrated way. Then, she threw her gaze to Albert, the Butler, "Can you tell Mary to bring my makeup and small mirror, please?"

The Butler slightly bowed before left the room, "As you wish, Young Miss."

The remaining men were raised their eyebrow.

Duke Lancia didn't say anything since Max already tell what he wanted to say, in annoyed voice, "Make up? You want to make yourself more beautiful than now? My, my, let just stick to our original plan. Let Father-in-law and I, who will come to that froze  island!"

"Max, sit down and drink your tea, please." Cecilia said when she took a seat on the nearest couch.

Her fiancé followed and obediently, sit beside her, "But, Chili! You must be kidding me, right?"

Albert then entered the room with a small hand mirror and small box of the makeup.

"Thank you, Albert. Max, please hold the mirror and I will perform you such a magic." Cecilia said while she took a brush from the box.

Halloween is one of Cecilia favorite time when she was live as Han Ji Eun. She got candy and no one bullied her for being not good-looking.

Because she knew how to dress or act like an invisible ghost.

As Han Ji Eun, she hopes that Halloween will be held every day. So, people can leave her alone, didn't budge her, while she was happily eating candy.

With brief movement, Cecilia made a wounded scar from her red lipstick and brown eyeshadow. The scar was drawn from her jaw to the left cheek. Meanwhile, in the others cheek, she drew red dot as blotched acne.

All the people in the room was amazed with her skill.

Duke Lancia crossed his arms and nodded, "I have to admit this. You look amazingly... disgusting, My Dear. I approved this."

Cecilia laugh because unsure if it compliments or not. "Ummm, thanks, Father. And, Max, now is your turn. I think it's better if two of us was hiding our identity. Now, closed your eyes."

"Wait, Chili! I will wear a mask instead."

"Close. Your. Eyes." Hearing her demanding voice, Max gulped and know that he can't escape from her.

Then, slowly, he closed his eyes while murmured, "Okay. Guess I've no choice."

Cecilia confidently move her brush to his face. After five minutes, both of Max's cheek full of dimple and redness acne.

"My, my. I almost can't recognize myself." Max said with a pouted face.

"You are exaggerating again. Father, Albert, we will go Now. See you later." She waved her hand to the men behind the desk.

Max nodded before take his fiancé's hand and teleported to Icicle.

Cecilia's first impression of this place was white. As far as she can saw, in that forest, all the land was covered in snow. The trees was dying.

"Where is the people? Houses?" She asked in confusion. "Did we lost or something?"

Max shook his head, "Wait. There is a smoke there. Let's go."

Cecilia nodded after she tightened her cape and walked behind Max, "My, my. This place is colder than refrigerator."

"Refi--, what?"

"Refrigerator. You know, a box to preserve the fruit or vegetables or even meat for a longer time."

"Ah, I see. I have one in the guild. Actually, it's one of our source of income. Nobles willing to pay a huge amount of money for a brick of ice. When winter came, we cut the ice from the frozen water, like river or sea.

After that, we put it on the underground cellar, and it won't melt until the next year. Not all the members on the guild know how to teleport, so I was one of the poor people who farm the ice."

"Wow. It's weird. Since in my previous world, you can make an ice blocks for one hour. So, it's not a rare item anymore."

Max smiled, "I hope you didn't know how to make that magic box. It can ruined my bussines. Sometime, your knowledge makes me scarred."

"Don't worry. I'm not that smart. There are so many mysteries on that world that I can't solve. One of them was how the electronic works. I should've studying more diligently."

He gently kissed her knitted gloves, "No, you are doing great. It's not like I don't want you to find it. But, business is business. It should've separated with kindness."

"Cheapskate." She smiled.

"Perhaps. I need so much money for spoiling my wife and raising our future kids. I want to make sure that money will be not their problem."

Cecilia laughed, "I guess you will be a capitalist good father, too."

"Honestly, money is solution for almost all the problem we faced. I was struggling so much to build this guild. In the past, gaining one gold coin for a month almost drained my blood, sweat and tears. I don't want my children suffering with the same thing as I've been through in the past."

"You will be a good father. In my past, my parent was bad. I was almost swearing to not getting married and end up being like them. But hearing you say something like that..." Her gaze softened, and words can't express her gratitude. Cecilia isn't fond of children. But, she's sure that under his guide, everything will be okay. "Honestly, I want to kiss you. But, it will ruin the makeup."

Max laughed, "Well, then you owed me one. You have to pay it once we were home."

The smoke was getting darker and bigger when they approached it. Turned out, it's a town square. Several homeless people gathering on the bonfire

Not far from them, Cecilia can see several buildings like houses or shops in terrible condition.

All the homeless people was thin, dirty and has no light on their eyes. As if they are had no passion for living and only waiting for the death.

The town was gloomy and only one restaurant which open. But, rather than restaurant, that place seem like an abandoned bar.

When Cecilia and Max entered it, the man behind the cashier desk sighed, "Sorry, the soup and beer was sold out. Only tea and porridge."

"How much for each?" She asked.

"One bronze." He answered.

Cecilia sits on the nearest table of him, "Then, we order two."

The man nodded and enter the kitchen behind his back.

Five minute later, the cashier put the porridge on the table.

Cecilia gulped when saw the porridge. It was only made from oat and water. She took a spoon of it and sighed after eat it. It was bland and plain, tasted like poverty. A familiar taste when she live as Han Ji Eun.

But, worse.

She almost cried when realizing that everybody was eating this food in order to survive.

Then, after she cleaned her bowl, he came to the cashier and give him one silver coin. "Keep the change. But, please help me. I need you to answer my question, what happened with this island?"