"What's wrong my lovely daughter?" Illyra's father asked in concern.
"There's no way I would say that embarrassing word!" She said, worked up. "Did you watch too many Japanese live-action? Don't you think that I will be a laughing stock when someone hears me say that catchphrase!?" massaging her temple, she cursed herself in her heart for losing her composure. Breaking Illyra's personality.
A cloud of depression hung on Illyra's father's head. His shoulders sagged. Illyra's mother rubs her husband's back, comforting him.
"I thought you would love that... like when you were a little girl... sob..." a single tear drop from his eye.
Taken aback, she feels a pinch in her gut seeing him in that state.
The little girl who was watched Japanese Live Action with her father wasn't even Illyra, but Illyas who switched with his sister. So why does she feel guilty?
"Alright, I'm sorry for snapping at you, daddy." she sighed, "but at least, can you change the activation word?" she persuaded.
"Sob... sob..." Illyra's mother patted his shoulder, he then looked at to her with his teary eyes and shook his head, "Daddy had to create new earrings to do that..." he whispered.
Illyra's mother then spoke up, "Why don't you use that in the meantime while waiting for your daddy's new ones?" she could only comply, "Using whisper will work too. Look at your daddy, so pitiful." she kissed her husband's temple before looking at her, "Alright baby?"
"Yes, mommy. Sorry, daddy." Mikki lowered her head.
"Daddy will never be angry at his lovely daughter." he sniffed, smiling at her.
"Then~" Illyra's mother clapped, "It's time for your departure. Damone will be accompanying you to your dorm." she pressed a button on a device in her hand, "Anyway, James has told his son about you, I mean you will use the identity of a new young man so you can live in the same dormitory as him." she explained, "that's why you can't let anyone knows or it will spells trouble~"
"Alright, I understand."
"Your father and I have packed several devices and potions with its instructions." she came to her, giving her a hug, "Be careful, alright?" she hugged her back.
"I will, Mommy."
Illyra's father then joined in the hugs, "Don't neglect your health, okay, my lovely daughter." he said.
"I won't, daddy. Thank you for the gift. I love it."
"Oh, I know baby." he sniffed.
"Enough of that. Damone is coming." breaking the hug as there's a knocking from the outside. "Come in." the door opened, the butler, who had escorted Mikki before, bowed indicating that the preparations were finished.
"Everything has been prepared, Madam Alyeska," Damone said.
"Very well. It's time for your departure, my lovely daughter. We wish you good luck." she kissed her cheek as her husband waved his hand in farewell.
She was sitting in a limousine as two maids from before binding her chest and changing her clothes and cutting her hair, she saw her reflection from the mirror. A young man with androgynous appearance looking back at her.
Strands of hair falling, a new appearance slowly formed in the mirror. She frowned. A question mark popped up inside her head.
'Why did he seems familiar? Where did I see him before?' Mikki wondered.
"Ah, it's finished." the first maid exclaimed, "How is it, Miss?"
"Hmm, neat," she commented absentmindedly.
The maid nodded happily, "Anne, where's the file?" the second maid named Anne, handed a dark blue map to her.
"What is it?" she opened the first page. "Haruki Ivanovich Volkov. Male. Sixteen years old."
"That should be Miss's identity."
Her hand stopped when memories of her past flowed. "His parents died giving him full access to his inheritance. Haruki had mixed blood with a Japanese mother and Russian father." her eyes widened as the words left her mouth.
"Yes!" not noticing her distress, the maid replied cheerily.
'No no no... This can't be happening!' Her face turned as white as a sheet. Disbelief and denial made her stomach churn.
She remembered...
She remembered her sister obsessed in the famous Otome Game called The Royal Bodyguard. The story is about an ordinary girl who gets a scholarship to a prestigious elite school with five capture targets, including the Royal Heirs of the Salvatore family. Adrian Markus Salvatore.
And she is Haruki Ivanovich Volkov. One of Adrian's friends who was only a side character who will later died to protect him.
Her sister said that Haruki was a girl who fell in love with Adrian and could only watch and protect him. Her tragic fate brought Adrian to the development of his character and later discovered Haruki's true identity.
Taking a deep breath slowly, she starts to count from one to one hundred.
She sighed. She had to thread this carefully and assessing the situation she would be thrown into in the future.
'I don't even play The Royal Bodyguard, damn it!' she cursed inwardly. The real Illyra had a skill as a material artist and a weapon handler, but she was killed nonetheless.
'Wait. Illyra's father should have given her a weapon, shouldn't he? She is a bodyguard after all. So it makes sense that she has a weapon.' she touched her chin thoughtfully.
She then turned, facing Anne. "Anne, Is there any weapon in my trunk?"
Trying to recall, the maid shook her head, "There's none Miss. Master only told us to pack his selected devices and Madames'."
Face-palming, she screamed in her head, 'I'm doomed!'