I wake up after crying my heart out for at least ten minutes. When I do, I find a surprising sight in front of .
Are you alive?! Are you alive?! Princess Laura is shaking my body like a ragdoll, screaming directly into my face. Why is there blood?!
What? Why is she so pale and scared?
Blood?
Yo, I say while bringing a hand to my mouth. It cos back wet with bloodtons of it.
Its a good conversation starter. You can thank later.
My brain quickly puts together what Lord Juler has just done.
Im fine, I say to the woman still shaking .
Are you sure?! Why are you bleeding?! If you die, they will say I did it! Dont you dare die on !
Jesus, woman. Im superstitious. Dont say that stuff.
I swear, Im good! This blood is totally random! Im not sick, nor am I at risk of dying soon!
After hearing my words, she finally seems reassured enough to notice that we are awkwardly close to each other. Wait, not awkwardly.
Why are you bleeding then? she asks, not letting go.
I think I fell and banged my mouth. I blacked out for a second because maybe I was still weak from not eating yesterday?
She nods even though my statent is formulated as a question.
I have a potion with ; take it, she fishes out a potion from the bag of holding on her belt and uncorks it with one hand, trying to feed it to .
I can do it
Shut up and drink the potion! she starts pouring the thing down my throat as if I just suffered massive internal bleeding.
I start coughing from the excess of healing potion this woman is trying to have imbibe.
Good! You stopped the bleeding! Can you please not drown now?
She sighs in relief and lets the body my body she was holding by the back fall to the ground. I bang my head on the rag I placed on the floor before I can stop my fall.
Princess Laura stands up and looks at my bewildered gaze with a pensive expression.
Get up, she orders .
What?
Get up! she bends and takes my arm.
WOAH!
She hoists up with incredible strength.
What thehow are you so strong? Im a bit skinny, but how
The Royal Family has skills to pass on the best genes and skills from previous generations. Queens are trained for their role and wont bear a child before all the right skills, potions, and rituals are in place. I got [Greater Strength] from my father at birth. And a bunch of other skills. I actually got a mixed heritage, half-magic, half-warrior.
She says the last part with a note of resentnt.
Isnt that good?
Shut it. Co with , she drags by the simple shirt Im wearing.
I look at my feet. Did I go to sleep with my shoes on? My mom would have killed .
Why are you dragging downstairs?
Princess Laura doesnt say anything in response. She just looks forward with a relaxed expression while basically dragging down an entire flight of stairs, putting at risk of rolling down and cracking my head for good.
As soon as we hit a table, she roughly pulls out a chair and slams on it.
Dont move.
She goes into the kitchen with a gait akin to a military march and cos out a minute later with a steaming plate of different pieces of grilled at. On the side, a dish full of lidulae and the weird purple potatoes that are a staple of Amoriums diet.
Thats a lot of oil, I look at the at and the vegetables doused in olive oil. It almost looks like my mother made those.
If you die on , Human, Princess Laura says while gently putting the plates in front of and nudging them in my direction, my Ancestor will probably accuse of having killed you. So, eat. Your bodyguard told you starved yourself to learn how to do the paperwork for the bakery. You yellow-leafed, flat-eared idiot! I am the Princess of this Kingdom! Of this entire Continent! I could have you run a sex trafficking ring, and the Watch couldnt utter one word of protest, and you worry about so stupid taxes!
She sits angrily beside , nearly punching the table multiple tis but hesitating every ti she looks at the food and my bloodied mouth and shirt.
Are you eating, or do you need to feed you?
I an, I wouldnt mind
And Im not going to make it pleasant, Human. I have heard from your other employees that you are a womanizer. Try sothing funny with , and Im chopping your virility away. Are we clear?
The clearest, for sure.
Then why are you not eating?
You didnt bring any cutlery, to be honest.
She looked bewildered at my words before realizing that, indeed, she had brought no cutlery. She gets up and stomps into the kitchen, huffing, and swearing.
She has been staring at for the last ten minutes as I cut the food and put it in my mouth. I feel like an anorexic daughter being forcibly fed by her worried parents and watched during the act. Will she make sure I wont puke this in the bathroom? I an, she looks like she would.
I hate you, she says out loud.
Mh, I nod while chewing, not impressed.
I wish I could believe you had a political angle, that you were so sort of a spy trying to destabilize my country. But you are the most flat-eared idiot I have seen in my entire life. I even used an artifact to double-check your class. Not even an [Archmage] would be able to escape its effect, especially while passed out. It turns out you are only a [Luxmancer], a class advancent of [Light Mage]. The only weird thing is the lack of a [Baker] class, but given the idiosyncrasies Ive observed so far, its not unexpected.
Idiosyncrasy, I snort.
What?
Its a funny word, thats all, I wink at her.
So, your employees told you had a fight with my Ancestor because he wanted to humiliate . And that my Ancestor an imnsely powerful man capable of deciding who sits on the Throne of my country has been working at your bakery for almost half a year. And that he had been taking care of the paperwork and legal duties of this place, a thing that apparently drives you crazier than committing high treason by almost blinding the Princess of this country permanently.
She brings a hand to her eyebrow and shakes her head.
You fired him, they say. And now you have to take care of sothing that, allegedly, brought you to have a breakdown. Even your bodyguard said he never saw you like that. Would you have believe that all of this is true and not a plot? That you wanted to safeguard my interests and that you lost my Ancestor because of ?
I an, if you put it like that, I guess you own at least one date, right?
The Princess looks at unfazed while taking her short sword out of the scabbard and calmly placing it on the table.
Say that again.
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