Aunty Halen's Husband

The next day.

Leon had come home after finishing his work. He went to take a bath to freshen up. The place to take a bath is outside of their house. When he was coming to the house, finishing his bath, he saw Aunty Halen outside his main door.

He went into his house from the back door and opened the main door from inside.

Opening the door, he greeted her. "Hello aunty. You doing well?"

"Yes, how can I ever have a bad day?" Halen pouted angrily.

"How can I forget that. I am sorry. But aunty, you are coming to my house now. Is there anything?" Leon asked curiously.

"There is something I want to talk to you about," Halen said seriously.

Seeing Aunty Halen being serious, Leon immediately said."Then Aunty come in. We can't talk serious stuff here."

After that, both sat on the chairs at the table where they ate.

"Leon I have come today to give you something." Halen didn't waste any time.

She took out an old, tattered thin book from her waist pouch.

She said. "I saw yesterday that you were practicing with a sword. So I thought this can help you."

Leon took the book and saw a name on the cover. It says 'Focus Art'.

He became curious."Aunty, what is this?"

"This is a book made by your uncle. This book is a set of practices that your uncle practiced. This type of practice is basically called "arts" in this land. Every strong man has their own arts or they get others inheritance and make their own." Halen explained.

Leon became happy when he heard that. He was blindly training this whole time. He doesn't even know if all the things he did until now were worthwhile. Now he got a practice method, he could truthfully say he finally started true training.

Leon stood up and bowed slightly. "Thank you, Aunty. This book means a lot to me."

"No, no, no, I have to thank you. Why are you thanking me?" Halen denied sadly.

Leon asked. "Aunty, why do you have to thank me, and who is uncle? Could he make this book?"

"Your uncle was a brave, honest, and kind man. His name was Mark. He was an adventurer and a strong one. His dream was like you to explore all around. Then he met me, and we fell in love with each other. But I was the daughter of a wealthy merchant in a big town. My father didn't like a nobody like your uncle, who doesn't even have a place to stay permanently." Halen became sad after saying that.

But she still continued. "So he kidnapped me with his team and escaped from that town. My father became furious when he heard that I fled from the town. My father is a wealthy merchant, so he hired strong men to chase us. We escaped with a hard-earned victory. But my father still kept sending people to chase us. During this chase, Mark became stronger, but this is still a hassle. Until one day we came to a city whose lord is a marquess."

"Marquess is a strong man, and he also has strong men under him. So when the chaser made noise with us in the city. So marquess immediately send his people and killed our chaser effortlessly. We were summoned in front of the Marquess and were asked. The marquess's name was Klent. Marquess Klent, seeing we were not at fault, didn't punish us, but he asked Mark to work for him so he could give shelter to us. Mark also agreed to the request. We also lived happily. Seeing Mark as an excellent fighter and a good trainer, he was appointed as a teacher for the prince and princess. First, it was a good job and brought us great status. But this also brought us disaster."

Halen also became sad, and tears started coming down. "One day Marquess suddenly summoned Mark. Mark, when he came in front of the Marquess, was angrily questioned by everyone in the hall. Finally, the marquess asked with anger on his face why he raped princess Kloe. Mark was confused, and he persuaded the marquess that he was framed. But the marquess immediately presented princess Kloe's body in coffin. Her body was full of scars, and her face looked like she was being tortured. Still, Mark denied it; he said he would find the murderer. Mark trained all the princes and princesses, he saw them all as his students and children. Seeing Mark like this Marquess called prince Kane. Prince Kane directly said he saw Mark taking the princess to a private room. Later In his room, some maids came and reported sounds coming from a room. They heard Mark's and Princess's voices in there. He hurried to the room when he heard Princess Kloe's cry. He opened the door in anger and saw no one but Princess Kloe's scarred body."

Halen's eyes were misty, and her face was full of tears. " Mark couldn't prove his innocence and this statement and he was broken when he heard prince Kane's accusation. He knew Prince Kane was lying, but he didn't say anything afterward because he loved his students, and he also taught them they would have their difficulties, He surrendered honestly. They were going to execute him, so he was allowed to have some words with his family. At that time, he told me all this. I also didn't blame him for his choice because he surrendered to Hiba. I was pregnant at that time too. If he didn't surrender, we would also go back to being chased down. On the day of execution, Mark suddenly became crazy. He fought and told his former team to escape far away with me. That day, he fought alone and got killed in the end. During our escape, his teammates got killed too. But I successfully escaped all alone."

With tears in her eyes, she looked at the book in Leon's hand and said." This book was made for his regrets. He was free-spirited, and I shackled him. The day he came to have his last words with us, he gave me this book. This art was made by him. He couldn't make it resound through the whole world so he said if I could give it to a later generation who can make it bloom beautifully."

Aunty Halen looked right into Leon's eyes and said."I will be glad if you can make this art bloom in front of the entire world."