Royal Princess of Blood Vol. 3 Chapter 59: To My Cousin’s Home (Part 1)

It has been a busy several days, and I have been a little stressed ever since. A lot has been moving, all preparing for the operations that were to co. And guess who was to oversee the preparations? Yeah, . I never had to manage an operation of this scale before, I was only a goon in my past life. Good thing I’m coping nicely… I think.

But nothing can be done about it. What can I say? It's just a day in my life. I'm up early in the morning, in bed early at night. To be productive at work, I got to be well rested. Yeah, motherfucker, you heard what I just said.

I'm just a regular everyday normal motherfucker.

Ahem, now that’s familiar.

Now, what am I doing at the mont? Well, it’s about ti for to have my little reward after all the hard work! Not the kind where I would receive like so flowers — ahem, give so flowers — or so teddybear — give that too — it was my vacation! Oh yeah, it was ti to chill around!

Of course during that ti, I would not be worrying about the operations taking place at the sa ti. I will leave it to the reliable people! My mind will be free and clear of all the troubling things. Yesterday, I was working with the family, and of course that includes uncle ril, to tune out the details.

So far, nothing was amiss. Although it was a bit tense when they asked a lot of questions. Take it easy on the fragile little old .

But seriously, all things seem to be in order. I’m confident they’ll do well without my personal sightseeing.

‘But Estelia, why don’t you just focus on those instead of going sowhere?’

Sssssshhhh, shut, shut it! If that thought crossed your mind, don’t even think about it. What? You don’t ever have vacations after so tiring work? No paid leave or sothing? We all take that, don’t we? Gotta rest sotis. Otherwise, we’ll die of overwork or sothing. Sotis I just wanna crawl under a rock and hide, you know.

Besides, as I ntioned before, I’m gonna enjoy so parts of life! And that includes taking a break! I have done everything I need to keep things going smoothly in the background while I take so vacation. And when I co back, all should be done. Then go back to stressing again.

Hm.

“So how is Mizia?” I asked my uncle.

At the mont, we were walking down the hall. With I heading for Mother while he was leaving the palace. So much that I didn’t want to have a casual conversation with him, I was just curious about my dear cousin. She has been given sowhat a heavy responsibility for my sake. I could at least inquire how she was doing.

“She has been working very hard for your arrival. I never saw her this enthusiastic in a while.”

“Mm. I have not seen her for so ti, and I’m quite excited to see her again.”

“Are you ready to socialize? You have never done that before.”

“I-I think I can manage.”

“... Rember what I said, Estelia. Make true friends.”

I frowned. “You’re still hung up on that? That’s the purpose of socializing, to make friends.”

He mildly shook his head. “No need to pretend you don’t understand what I an.”

I sighed. “True friends… are not easy to co by.” I quietly said that only he could hear.

Everyone around, the people, how could I be truly friends with them? They were outsiders. How could I fully trust soone that has not shared my tornt? We were not equal.

At least, that was how it had always been with . All my friends in the past life, we all have gone through the sa hardship. Only them I would care about. Why should I care for outsiders?

“Not easy, but they can be found. Sotis…they are already around us.”

I looked at him, and he rely smiled before waving his hand.

“See you, Estelia. I may get a chance to greet you at ho tomorrow.”

Hmph.

He should be sowhere else at the ti of my arrival, so no. He would not be greeting at his ho. Can’t say it would be a loss on my side though.

Now that he was out of the way, I made my way to the lobby on the first floor, where Mother said she would be. When I arrived, she was with a knight, supposedly one of the elites. I expected Estevan would be here with her, but I guess he’s busy with sothing else.

“Mother.”

“Ah, Estelia. I’m just finalizing the knights that will be guarding you.”

“Oh, can I see?”

“Certainly.”

I moved beside her, and she gave a sheet of paper with the list of knights. My eyes widened for a mont when I saw a particular na on the list, I didn’t expect him to be here.

“Alzen Welford… he’s staying in the Order?” I looked towards Mother.

“I heard he was adamant about staying. He wanted to prove that he would still be effective, so I will give him a chance with this.”

“Will he be alright?”

“We’ll see.”

“And what about Alan, his brother? I don’t see him here.”

“He’s in quite a difficult spot.”

“What do you an?”

“His blunder earned him the ire of his Father. And so, the Count asked to keep Alan out of any activities outside the palace while they thought about what to do with him.”

Even now? That’s a long ti to think. But damn, Alan really fucked up big ti, huh. And Alzen… surprising that his family let him stay. Well, it’s not like they have any choice, I guess. They wanted soone at the palace to serve as knights. They can’t pretty well get rid of Alan now that Alzen was pretty much impaired.

How’s it gonna be fighting with one hand? That would be hard. Even I wouldn’t want to have one hand all my life, I couldn’t imagine. Okay, so let’s not think about that!

“Very concerning, please have soone watch Alzen at all tis.” I said to the elite knight.

“Yes, your highness.”

“Thank you.”

I skimd through the list again, nothing wrong, they were fine. Although there was one I was particularly interested in, and it made smile a little.

“Mother, I would like to have Elson trial to be one of my close protectors in my travels.”

“Him? Why?”

“He helped quite a lot during the recent operation. I found him reliable.”

She mildly nodded. “Very well.”

“Thank you. And that is all. I have no other concern with this whatsoever.”

“Then we’ll send this out.” Mother gave the list to the knight. “Give this to Estevan, let him handle it.”

And with that, the knight left the room.

“Now, shall we figure out your luggage?”

“Yes.”

“To your room, then. Oh, and the suitcases, we’ll start placing your things in.”

She commanded so nearby servants to bring the suitcases to my room before we headed there. Mother seed pretty energetic today, was she excited that her daughter could finally go out and have so fun?

Careful, Mother, you might find your daughter at a party, dancing around, wilding, kissing random guys, drinking — kidding! I’m kidding. I’m a good girl. I would never do sothing like that. I would rather be at ho, reading books or sothing, or sleeping. Estelia’s a well-behaved girl.

When we arrived at my room, my Mother imdiately went on to open my wardrobes.

“I think we’ll pick the dresses that are easy to wear. We might also need the extravagant ones for your tea parties.”

Don’t know how much I would really need. I expect Mizia already got my outfit lined up of her own choosing, outfits that she would definitely like to wear. However, I’ll let Mother decide on things, she seed to be enjoying herself, I’m not going to ruin her mont.

“This looks cute.” She pulled out a dark outfit.

“Mizia gave it to .”

“Then we’ll bring this, I’m sure she’ll be proud to see you bring her gift.”

Um, do I really need to bring that?

The dark outfit was the gothic-like outfit. Yeah… can’t believe Mother just said it was cute. I thought you liked my white and pure look, where I was supposed to be the cutest. Was I the weird one here? Was I the one with a different perspective with this?

“Co here.”

I approached closer and she held up the hanging clothes in front of . “Truly interesting. Now I want to see you in this.”

“Maybe next ti...”

I’m too lazy to dress up right now. So please Mother, focus on the main objective.

“Alright…” She smiled and placed the dark outfit on the bed.

She’s really gonna make bring that?!

At that mont, the servants that were ordered to bring the suitcases have finally arrived. They brought a total of three.

“Perfect,” said Mother. “Alright help fold and place them in, unwrinkled.”

I only watched as Mother and her servants pulled out outfits after outfits. Folding them carefully into the suitcases.

Even my underwear… It's embarrassing! Good thing they were all won, and of my servants, ra was only here.

It took a while before all the suitcases were full and they closed it. Mother nodded in satisfaction.

“Alright, most are ready for tomorrow.” She approached and held my hand. “But are you?”

“... Yes. I’m ready.”

She smiled fondly. “You’ll be alright.”

“Yes…”