8 days before the explosion - small house
Since her rescue by the stranger, nobody bullied her anymore since they were afraid of her. Since she managed to escape from that hopeless situation without a scrap, all kind of rumors started to go all around the university, they went from her being a secret assassin to running a criminal organisation in the shadows.
Susan was happy with this development since she could finally be left alone,and even if the guy had being kind of an a*s hole, she was thanks full for what he did. Sadly,even after searching for every magician in the university and even in town, he never found him.
After looking for him for some time without success,she give up and focused on her study's, and finally after years of working hard, she carry out what her mother demanded of her.
"I am so proud of you Susan, tomorrow you are finally going to become one of the duke's legitimate daughters"(mother)
"Thank you mother"(Susan)
"And don't forget to do ANYTHING he ask of you, you don't want to waste all that effort, right?"(mother)
"Of course mother"(Susan)
Susan had done research on the duke over the years, and she knew what to expect. The hardest part was to get his attention since he had a lot of bastards and he would only adopt the ones that catch his interest, but even if you got selected, there were more test you need to pass. The test changed from bastard to bastard and it could be one assignment or multiple, but the better you did, the more chances you could get a good place, and the better your family would get "supported"(bribed)
"Let's get you ready to meet your father, we don't want to disappoint him"(mother)
And for the next 3 hours, her mother made her try all kind of dressed, carefully apply her make up and took care of her hair while constantly nagging on what she should and shouldn't do no matter what(she also implied that she can't fail no matter what, period)
2 days before the explosion - Party
This party had being organised by the duke to celebrate the upcoming ceremony of the sun god the day after tomorrow and was the introduction party of Susan to the noble world. She had being trained by her mother and even some teachers on how to behave in such party's so it wasn't to hard for her, the only problem would be the test.
when she finally met her father a couple of day's ago, the duke was exactly as she heard, a pig in fine cloths. He asked her all kind of questions from how old she was to how "committed" she was to the family. Of course she answer all his questions and assure him that she was completely committed to the family, and for the looks of it, he had being pleased with her answers.
He gave her a "task" as he called that according to him was of the up must importance. She had being tasked with the important mission of getting into the prince Jorge room no matter what.
According to him, it shouldn't be to difficult for her to do it with her looks and talent in magic. Since Jorge attended EVERY party in the empire, he would show up no matter what, and since he liked to hunt for new prey (especially the pretty ones) the duke was sure he would approach her.
The duke told her that a daughter of him should be able to carry out something so simple easily and that he would be REALLY disappointed on her if she fail. Susan told him that she wouldn't fail no matter what and to rest assure. The duke was pleased with her answer and left after giving her the invitation to the party, a dress and some "pocket change"(1000g, more money than she had ever seeing)
On the party, the duke introduce her to all kind of people and she had being asked all kind of questions(interrogation to be exact) like where she had being all this time, what could she do, etc. Her objective arrived late to the party but was still introduced by the duke. Jorge kissed her hand and said a charming thing that make her blush but left her alone after that and started to chat with different people.
She did get kind of nervous since it looked like Jorge was ignoring her, but the duke was normal, so she keep her cool
and keep a smile while "enjoying" the party.
It was after the duke left her and she was resting on a char after some waltz that Jorge approach her again
"Me and some of the nobles are going to a more "fun" party, we would love if you come so we can get to know you better"(Jorge)
She knew that she would go the moment he made the offer, but she couldn't make it look like she was too exited or she would look "easy"
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"Just to be sure, where is it and how many boys and girl are going and for what?"(Susan)
"Don't worry, we will be around 15 boys and 15 girls in a Manor near the palace, we will drink and have some party games"(Jorge)
"Sure, but I can leave if I see something i don't like right?(Susan)
"Of course, follow me"(Jorge)
Her mother thought Susan many tips to catch a man lust and heart, in this case, if she played hard to get but approachable, she should catch his interest.
She went with some nobles in a different carriage than Jorge, but she still tried to be sociable without giving in with the advances of the guys, even when they arrived to the Manor.
They have a lot of alcohol and some party magic items, so they play and drank until sunrise. She took advantage of her healing magic and applied minor desintoxication magic on herself when she felt too light headed and manage to convince most of the nobles to drink until they pass out.
In the end only 3 girls and 2 guys were left(including her and jorge)and all of them end up quite drunk. Since she was the only one relative sober, she started to make her play. First she approached one of the two blond girls still awake(both of them had the liver of a oax) and propose to her a threesome with the prince in his room. The girl had neing delighted with the idea so they approach Jorge and asked him if he could "show" them his room in the palace.
Jorge gladly agreed to the idea of "showing his room and with the help of Susan, she and the two drunks enter the palace(the guards even smiled at them) and Jorge took them to his room.
As soon as Jorge open the door
"Why don't you bring some snacks and alcohol while we prepare, I am sure we will get really hungry in a while"(Susan)
"anything for a lady"(Jorge)trying to bow while smiling to the girls
Jorge went to what Susan suppose was the kitchen and took the blond girl inside and casted a sleeping spell on her while laying her on the bed
She made sure where the wardrobe was and while casting a small ice spell on the floor, she move it thanks to the extra strange her inner mana gave her without noise. Susan casted a big ice blade in the form of a half circle and pressed the blade to the wall that in theory should allow to remove a block of the wall.
She used low-level telekinesis(a skill any mage can learn if they practice enough) to move the block and enter the adjacent room and confirming there was a wardrobe on the other side. The duke informed her that it was suppose to be empty since Rebbeca was in the middle off an experiment in the university and that the two room were a mirror of each other except for the bed(Jorge was a doble).
She was getting out of the hole went she started to hear the talk between Jorge and some one else, so she quickly put the block into the wall and laid on the bed while pretending to be sleep. She knew she didn't have time to move the wardrobe so all she could do was pray the other guy went away and that she could manage to cast a sleeping spell or fool Jorge.
"...eah, here it's your room, take care jorge"(???)
"Take care little bro, unless you wanna have some fun"(Jorge)
Please no please no please no(Susan) prayed to the gods
"Naa, they look to wasted to be fun, see ya later"(Prince?)
After the prince left, Jorge closed the door and went to the bed where the 2 girls were sleeping(well 1 yes, the other pretended), and fall completely sleep with them. Susan slowly move away from him, cast a sleeping spell just in case, and moved the wardrobe so no one notice what she did to the wall.
She wished good night to the two of them and left the palace from where she came from. The guards let her go without any problems, so she decided to go to the duke and report that the important "task" was a success and no one should know she did it. She didn't know why she had to do it and she definitely didn't enjoy it, but she would keep doing works for the duke for her and her family, she worked to hard to let it all go to waste.
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