The Villainess Needs A Hero

Chapter 09

The Villainess Needs A Hero

Chapter 09: Time Does Fly

Scarlett Mila

"Scarlett, you look a lot more blooming today! You are just like your flowers!" - my customer, an elderly woman exclaimed as I handed her the bouquet of lilies she ordered for her now in heaven daughter. Lilies are her daughter's favorite flower and although quite expensive she still buys them once a month. 

"Maybe it's really just because of the flowers, madam. "- I smiled at her and she just laughed.

"You are already nineteen, just tell me if you are about to get married, okay? I'll be the one to arrange your wedding dress" - she said, which made me smile on the outside but on the inside I just want to shake my head as a sign that what she is saying is quite impossible to happen. Because first and foremost I have no intentions of marrying someone.

But I don't want to offend her since I know that her intention of saying that is neither good or bad. Marriage at the age of nineteen is only a usual tradition around this world. If a woman turns twenty one she will not be allowed to get married anymore, unless, there is a grave reason why she isn't marrying someone just yet. Such as a promised love, pregnant or has a child whose father is unknown or is already dead or there is no guy that is willing to marry the woman.

"I will go now, Scarlett. I'll be back next month" - she said as she smiled widely at me and I smiled back to her as I watch her leave my flower shop. 

I heave a deep sigh as I sat down on the counter stool. 

Six years; six long years had gone by like a blink of an eye. All the memories I had in that place that I once called home are all fuzzy and vague. The only thing or rather the only person that I could never forget is my biological mother. Although I wasn't that attached to her since I am much more concerned about learning how this world works and what is its components or facts that I need to keep in mind, still she is my mother. 

The person who gave birth to me, who fed me and took care of me until I was able to walk on my own, speak my thoughts and run around the house. I kinda miss her actually, especially when I look at a mirror because honestly I am a splitting image of her.

However, my silver blue hair is no longer visible. Well it is because I asked Aesir to dye my hair to red. It is going to be quite a ruckus if my hair is silver blue because that color is kinda rare around the empire. The citizens will surely be a lot more curious of who I am and where I came from.

When I first arrived here in this town everyone looked at me like I am a person who actually bring trouble because of my red hair. Based from my knowledge red hair symbolizes a war god or goddess who killed thousands of people during the ancient times.

They were scared so I lied that I lost all of my memories, that I don't know where to go, I can't even remember my name nor my family. And because I am still a child that time and full of wounds all over my body the citizens immediately believed me, the town mayor of some sort took me to an inn, called a doctor but obviously the doctor cannot do anything so all of the citizens are worried that I might die.

I have been bedridden for two months and everyone was happy that I was able to survive death. They asked me what do I want to be called and I said Scarlett first it is because my hair is red and I told them that it is just an instinct.

From that moment they have accepted me to live with them and of course, I did not allow it to be free although one family wants to adopt me. I decided to live on my own, constructed a green house where I grew my flowers, a flower shop. And of course, I loaned it from the richest family here in this town. And I was able to pay them in full in just a year in a half. 

How? Because my flowers are being patronized around the empire. Since I can use magic, I was able to deliver flowers to other parts of the empire without having to pay for the transportation fee, though I am charging delivery fee to my clients.

Well, of course there is no such thing as free labor. And also I made sure that I will not accept orders from the place where I came from. I only deliver to the places or households that is either quite far from the palace and from the Bicester's Household.

My six years being alone is really a good thing because not only I was able to earn my own money, I also made sure that the economy of this town will increase so that the citizens will able to enjoy life even more, I was also able to cultivate magical powers.

I can now control the dark magic inside me which is so hard at first. Because I can control it, no monsters are able to enter this place. The citizens were actually quite happy because before I came here and before  I could even control my magic powers, a lot of monsters came and attacked this place. Where casualties are all soldiers or adventures who are trying to protect the town. 

And now people who get wounded around town by monsters are the the adventurers or the mercenaries who kill monsters or complete missions for money.

Before I was thinking that maybe I should become an adventurer as well, but it would definitely going to be weird since first I am a girl, second I am still young and third is that it would be suspicious. Well I am trying my best to be low key around here.

So technically it's been six years and all of the citizens here knew how I grew up. These people around here, I consider them as a family although I have no blood relation with them. And that's one of the reason why I don't want to get married it would be totally weird if I marry some guy in this town.

Well, I am going to leave this place sooner or later anyway. When I turned twenty-one I could no go back to the place where I was born. Why am I going back? Because I want to show them that I am alive and kicking. Why when I turned twenty one? It is so that they could never force me to marry anyone. 

Oh well, I could always go back anytime actually because they can never force me to do something I don't want. I could always use my power to hide again from them. 

Anyway, time does fly so fast so it will be in a blink of an eye before I turned twenty-one.