“Iki-Jii… can you prepare for my morning tea?”

“Of course, Rozy-Ojousama… This Ikirowson Thompson, will gladly fulfill your task”

“Thank you, Iki-Jii”

After give me an elegant bow, Ikirowson Thompson or I always called as Iki-Jii, take his leave from my room while 3 of my personal maid stay and prepare for my dress. One of the maid brushed my hair gently, the other one took off my cloth, and the last one prepared my dress for I used today. This is my usual morning as a third princess of Ippotis kingdom, Rozy Prinkipissa Ippotis.

After they are finish, I’m standing in front of mirror to confirm what I use today. Today, I wear a cute pink dress that have a lot of frills in the edge of my cloth. The shoe that I use is my usual red shoes that made exclusively for princess sake and a pink flower, Piranov, brooch that already attached in my right chest.

After I smiled and give my thanks, my 3 personal maids take their leave and leave me alone in my room.

“Today, maybe I will go to that place again….”

After that meet with Evrys-San 3 weeks ago, I always wait for a chance to sneak away from this castle to go to the Garden of Paradise. After I leave this castle, I use a magic stairs that Evrys-San stabilize 2 weeks ago after I met him again coincidentally in the Garden of Paradise. He made this Magic stairs for me so I can go to that place safely without being noticed by the monsters. From what he said, who can step in this stair is only a person that Evrys-San recognize as his friend. So, I mustn’t worry if something suddenly happen like the monsters chase me while I’m run away and go to this stairs, because no matter what they do they won’t reach me because they didn’t have a permission to step their foot in this magic stairs.

I hope I can sneak away this day too

While still thinking about that, I go to the garden inside this palace to take my morning tea that Iki-Jii already prepared. When I arrived at there, I can see my little sister and big brother already take their seat.

In the palace garden, you can see a pond that place in the center of the garden and you can see a lot of fish swimming around inside the pond. Around the pond there are 7 colored flowers that the maid plant to make the palace garden more beautiful. This flower arranged as a rainbow color.

“Good Morning Ilna-Chan and Bruno-Oniisama”

“Good Morning, Rozy-Oneesama”

“Morning, Rozy”

After give my greeting, Iki-Jii escort me to my seat and after he pull the seat I sit in there.

“This is a frena tea, Rozy-Sama. This tea can make your body warm for this full day and make your mind calm and this is one is Grenda cake. This cake is a new recipe from the royal chef who made the recipe yesterday.”

“Thank you very much, Iki-Jii”

Delicious! This tea really makes my body feel warm.

After I took a sip, Bruno-Oniisama talk to me while Ilna-Chan still eating her cake without a slightly care about our conversation.

“Rozy, I heard since three weeks ago, you become more cheerful than before, could you tell me what happen?”

“Is that so, Bruno-Oniisama? About that, maybe it is because I have a very wonderful dream every week”

“A very wonderful dream is it? What kind of dream?”

“It is a dream where I find myself in a place where there are a very clear lake with the monster and animals playing around there without attack each other. Not just that, there is one boy around my age that teach me a lot of new things that I want to know too Bruno-Oniisama”

Of course I said it as a dream. After all I can’t really say that I sneak away from the castle to go to that place every week, right?

After we chat for a while, Bruno-Oniisama take his leave because he have some appointment to do for today.

Become the next heir of the throne is hard, isn’t it

Even sometimes I think about that, I can’t really say it in front of Bruno-Oniisama. Bruno-Oniisama is already 14 years old. So, next year he will become an adult and my father will give a very important announcement that time.

When I still leisurely take my morning tea, Ilna-Chan say that she want to go back to her own room. After she said that, Iki-Jii escort Ilna-Chan to go to her room because Ilna-Chan still didn’t have her own personal attendant until she turn 7 years old.

This is my chance!

After I look around to my surrounding, I find that there are no one in here. Look at this condition as my chance, I go to the back of the garden where there are bushes and go to the back of the bushes. In there, I can see a hole that I always use to sneak away from the castle. In fact, I put my red hood in here too so I can use it whenever I want to sneak away from the castle. Not just that, in this garden, the guard will stay in this place after the noon bell rang so morning is my only chance for sneak away especially for this day when a lot of attendant got busy because of Bruno-Onisama’s guest come every week. That’s why I always successfully sneak away in this day.

Fu~ it seems today is success too….

When thinking about that, I use this magic stairs that Evrys-San stabilize and starting to walk to reach the Garden of Paradise. The place where I appear after passed the hole in the back of bushes is near the cliff but there is still a normal stairs that will lead you directly to the forest. I usually use this stairs before, but after Everys-San stabilize this magic stairs, I prefer to use it because it will take me directly to the Garden of Paradise. That’s why there is no one who will spot me after I reach this place. After all, only a royal family who knows this secret passage.

When I walk on top of this stairs, I can see this country from above. When the first time I use this stairs with Everys-San, in fact I’m really scared because it is too high above the ground but Everys-San said to me it is not a problem because you won’t fall from here. He told me that there is an invincible wall that I can’t see. That’s why no matter what I did, I won’t fall from here.

After several minutes I walk, finally I reached the Garden of Paradise. From above I can already see a lot of animals that take their rest in there. Not just that, some of them come here for drink the water.

When I finally got down, I wear off my shoe and run to play in the lake. If Bruno-Oniisama looked me do this, without fail he will scold me because it is not an attitude of princess will do.

When I feel tired after play in the lake, I came off and stroke some Usaga that I see. As Everys-San said, in here even it is a dangerous animal, they won’t attack you no matter what happen. Maybe for them this place is like their sanctuary, in the end this is just my opinion about this weird habit.

Before I realize it, I fell asleep for several hours. When I wake up, I can see that it is already past afternoon. That’s why I running back to the castle using the magic stairs as fast as possible to the castle.

What is that? Person? Why he standing alone on top of the time bell? In the first place, how can he get to that place?

When I already reach half of my way to the castle, I can see a person standing alone on top of the Time Bell tower. That person wear a very weird cloth that I not recognize. He wear a red scarf, with 2 black strips as the motif, to cover his neck and black mask to cover his face. He has 2 long swords in his back and 2 short swords in the both side of his thighs.

What is he doing in such a high place?

Suddenly, that weird person spread both of his hand and said something I don’t really understand. I don’t know why, but it seems that person didn’t realize my existence in here.

Is it because anyone who Evrys-San didn’t recognize can’t see this magic stairs as well as the person who walk on there?

That’s my only answer in this condition. Because of my curiosity, I’m trying to observe what this weird man to do. Not long after that, I can see that man make a very cunning smile for the reason I don’t know. But one think that I can confirm is that the man said some word before smiling like that. That word is,

[Steal - Blood]

I don’t know what really happen because literally there is nothing happen around him after saying that word. What make me wonder is why the man suddenly laughing so loud.

But why he said something like stealing blood? Is he gone mad? Or is he want to suicide?

That’s the question that instantly appeared in my head after hearing it.

Before I realize it, it is already night and when I want to confirm it by looking into the cloud above me—

What is that huge red magic circle? Why is it suddenly appeared above this country? And why it suddenly rain in here?

“Wait… rain? No… but the color is… red?! What is this?! It’s looks like… blood?”

—I can see the rain of blood already fall in this town from inside the huge red magic circle that surrounding the town… and beside me that man still laughing so loud even his face is already covered by the blood that appear from nowhere in the sky.