My name is Roselle Staron, I'm the first princess of the king of Capital City of Staron. I just recently turned 18 and with that, I became an adult, my father celebrated my 18th birthday by throwing a grandeur party in the Royal Palace, inviting nobles and merchants alike, even the guards and their families received the invitation letter.
This was because I am grateful for them and their service, so this is only but a small token of my appreciation for them. You probably know that princesses tend to be timid and ladylike inside the palace, but for me, holing up inside the palace is nothing but a cage for me.
When I was a kid, my father told me that he and mother used to be adventurers. Their story started when father took on a quest of subjugating giant lizards that has been harassing nearby villages. During those days, father always get the job done even though it is hard for the others to do.
He was known for his great achievements and was called "The Bloodthirsty Adventurer." At first, I find it strange because the father I know today has a calm composure and a demeanor of a king. It is strange that father was once a bloodthirsty adventurer, I asked mother about it and all of a sudden, she laughed at me.
Is there anything funny about it? I mean I'm curious what father and mother were like during their prime. That is the time when mother told me everything from where they met each other until the day they began loving each other.
That was also the day I started to love adventures and stuff, I always read books about adventurers and their riecords of adventures, going to the forests, hunting down monsters, venturing at sea and just thinking about it makes my heart burst with excitement!
I just remembered that I can ask anything to my father, maybe I should go and work outside as an adventurer as well. But I think it will not work well, given the dangers and risks of adventuring.
I know well about that, but my body and soul craves for an adventure, the books and stories can no longer satisfy my desire of adventure.
The next day, I asked father's permission to let me apply in the Adventurer's Guild and surprisingly, he agreed but under one condition and that is whenever I'm applying to any jobs, I should come up with a pseudo name or a fake name in order not to attract any unwanted attention and also to reduce the risks of the princess roaming around the city with no bodyguards.
I was so happy when he let me to be an adventurer to the point that I can't contain myself and went to a weapon shop to buy armor and weapons, I also brought Adelina with me since she knew where the shop's location.
By the way, since I'm going on an adventure, I wore my training clothes in order for me to move easily since I have trained myself some self-defense moves at the same time, my father also trained me with the sword and surprisingly, he was teaching me some forms when fighting with a sword, but it was so hard for me since I am a slow learner so I devised my own form and father praised me for that.
Since then, my father always let me trained with the royal knights and that's where I met Adelina, who is now my best friend.
Back to the main topic, I went to a weapon shop with Adelina to buy an armor and a weapon, but when we arrived at the shop, there was a ruckus happening ahead and it seems that the topic was about the rumored Witch Hunters that was circulating in the place.
Witch Hunters – I always thought of them as thugs who know nothing but killing witches for a living and nothing but inferior to the Royal Knights in every aspect, lacking manners and etiquette about society. According to the rumors, it seems that the Witch Hunters hunted down more witches and brought them to the Elven City of Siberius where they will be charged and sentenced to death, poor witches, did the Witch Hunters even recognize them as human as well.
Well, I don't have interest in those kind of people nor I don't want to get involved with one, who knows what kind of fate will await when you met one so I went ahead inside the shop to look for decent equipment.
Luckily, I had Adelina helped me in picking out armor and weapon that would suit my style and that's it for the first stage preparations, it's time for me to apply myself in the Adventurer's Guild. I am so excited for this! I really am.
Here comes the moment of truth, the moment I entered inside the guild, the atmosphere here is somewhat cliche as you can see some are looking at the quest board, some are assembling in the corner, some are fixing their gazes at you as they knew that my face is new to the guild.
But the most cliche part is that behind me, some nostalgic thugs suddenly entered the door and casually approached me. Since I'm a girl, they casually asked me out for a drink, of course, I knew about this situation thanks to the books that I read back in the palace, if I were a boy then things would be different but the outcome will be the same and that will be ignoring them as if they were just bugs whispering in the wind.
Of course, those thugs didn't just stop from inviting me, they even brag about their party's achievements in battle, their adventurer ranks and more, so in order for them to stop annoying me, I replied, "Who cares?"
They became pissed when I replied that, I mean, anyone would be annoyed when they brag about the things they got and then suddenly you showed no interest in it, but this time, it's different and what's more surprising is that they became composed despite getting embarrassed in front of many people.
After those events, I proceed with my registration in the counter. I almost accidentally wrote my full name, good thing I only wrote my first name, but what about last name? Should I write it? No, the staff in the counter said that I must write my last name as well, but what should I write?
Thinking about it suddenly made me remembered the events that happened when I was staying with my relatives at Bélen three years ago.
At the balcony, I can see the starry night sky above as I got caught up in it's beauty until suddenly, I saw a man standing in front of the beautiful moon in my view, staring afar with his sword in his back as he suddenly faced here in my direction and smiled at me. That was the time when I realized that I felt this warm and comfortable feeling, I didn't know what it is but that was the moment when my heart suddenly beats fast. What a lovely memory and with that I decided to register myself as Roselle Cruxano and will start as an adventurer.