Northstar Vale I will leave my marks

It seemed that her plan of talking about Takeshi worked, however, Vespera couldn't help but notice something wrong with Yuudai, although the man tried to stay neutral about the topic, there was a hint of anger in his voice. Yuudai explained that Takeshi was betrothed to Reiko, whatever that meant, after her parents died. The Duchess knew of some knowledge of what happened to Reiko's parents and the place that she came from, and no matter who she asked, there was a hint of despair in their voices, Reiko, Yuudai, Hiromi, all three of them spoke with sadness in their voices. The dark woman blinked, she really didn't understand how royalty worked or how an Empire worked at all, she was used to run-of-the-mill standard packs, so she had a lot of questions.

"So... Betrothed... She didn't have a say in the matter... Like... At all?" The woman looked to the samurai with a lost face, she was trying to piece this together herself. If that is what a betrothal meant, Vespera wanted to wrinkle her nose in disgust at the idea, how could someone be forced to marry someone they don't even like? That would be miserable!