Today, Jessa and Sana are the ones attending to me. I just got out of bath, sitting infront of my vanity table as Jessa dries my hair while Sana tries to find a dress for me to wear today.
I stared at my reflection and sighed in satisfaction. 'Cute. Very adorable.'
The description of Viviana in the story didn't even give her justice.
Long and wavy platinum blonde hair, big almond shaped eyes of deep blue color that sparkles like that of an ocean, a nicely carved nose, plump pink lips, a very fair skin, and some baby fats on her face. She still looks childish but I know once I grow up, this face of mine would attract both genders.
'Blonde hair and sparkling blue eyes, traits of Lostela's Royal Blood.'
"Princess Viviana, would you like to try this dress?" Sana called my attention as she held up a sleeveless purple dress with a lace and ribbon on the middle of the waist. It's simple but presentable.
I nodded. "Vivi will wear what Sana picked."
Jessa also nodded in approval. "This color is good. It would complement princess Viviana's eyes."
"I thought so too!" Sana beamed.
I was dressed and now looking at my reflection in front of a wall mirror where I could see my full body. The dress ends just below my knee, and it did look best to pair with the color of my eyes. They've also let me wear a purple choker, a black headband, and a black shoe.
"kyaaah~ Princess you look so lovely ah!" both of my maid squealed.
'Beautiful. I'm so beautiful.' This is the path of me being narcissistic. 'If Viviana is this beautiful, I wonder how Vernon looks like.'
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That afternoon I was reading one of the few books Tifanny brought for me, History of Lostela Kingdom, under the tree with a bowl of oatmeal cookies beside me when an eerie voice talked.
"Do you still remember your mission?"
I lifted my eyes away from the book to look at the Dengel and went back to reading as I answered. "I do."
"Then why aren't you doing anything?"
"It's not like I don't want to, I just don't know how to."
"Why don't you ask us?" a sweet voice answered.
I finally looked back at them and mulled for a moment. "Can you answer my questions?"
Lucy says "Sure."
"Okay." I said as I closed my book and straitened my sitting posture. "How do I find the lost soul and system?"
"You encounter them." Ferr answered with a matter of fact tone.
'ahh?' my lips twitched. "t-then, how do I know it's them?"
"Well…you'll know it's them since your soul would be sensitive around them.hmmm… How should I describe it?" Lucy had this thinking hard look but the expression suddenly turned mischievous as Ferr answered. "It's like being watched, naked."
'ahhhh?' my lips twitched twice. 'is this devil joking or what?'
"Catching the system? How do I do that?"
Lucy wore a worried look as her right arm was placed on her cheek. "Oh my, we haven't given it to you yet?"
I was getting more confused. "Give what?"
"That." Lucy and Ferr's voice vibrated as a necklace materialised around my neck. There are two pendants, and both are glass gourd.
"The necklace would be what you use to catch both." – Ferr
"but how?"
"Try to pull out the gourds from the necklace." Lucy instructed and I complied. The two glass gourd that was only 1 centimeter became lifesize, I got frozen solid shock.
Lucy continued. "The bluish gourd is for the lost soul while the reddish one is for the system. These gourds have the power to suck both the souls and systems, separating and filtering them from each other and trapping them inside the bottle."
"How do I do it? Do I just point it at them and they will be sucked? Is that it?"
"No, it's not that simple. You cannot just point it at them. Host and system alike are powerful; you need to be careful when facing them." – Lucy
"You can do it once they are weakened, unconscious, in shock or disarray. Something like that. It's…" Ferr looked at me with a glint in his eyes. "…dangerous, you know?"
I shivered. "s-so… to find the soul and system, I have to search them on my own and I'll find them using my sixth sense? To catch them I need to use this but there's a chance that I'll fight and be in a dangerous situation?"
Both of them nodded. I felt cold sweats dripping on my back. "But how can I even search for them?!"
"ahh? Isn't there already a clue?" Ferr has this are you dumb look.
"Clue?"
"well yeah. The story transmited to you. That's your clue, you dumb or what?"
"…." 'is this devil trying to start a fight with me?'
"yep. You're dumb."
"Ferr!" Lucy reprimanded as I started to get mad at Ferr.
"Tsk."
Lucy sported a resigned smile and looked at me with apology. "The story itself is the clue. Since it was the information transmitted to you then they might be related to the story or the characters right now."
She paused. "Since you know the original story then you would know if there are changes…. With that, you can have more clues until you find them… the ones who have been derailed and are distorting the original story are our targets."