Months passed by and now it's winter here in Elleveire. So far, after the Karciel issue, our days were more peaceful. The prisoners Milia saved were either returned to their families or have agreed to stay in Westreon and start over. The guards that took in the strengthening pill never got back the way they were before and mother suggested to just let them go home and spend the rest of their remaining time with their families.
Miss Bloom have opened the businesses Karciel ran underground but now they were all legal. This gave work opportunities for the people without proper education but before they were hired, they underwent basic reading, writing and Math training. Milia, now works as Miss Bloom's personal guard, we are still trying to locate her kin.
"Myel!!" I was taking a walk in the garden and enjoying the soft snow when a childish voice called for me. I turned around and saw a black haired little demon scampered towards me.
"Dee, how many times do I have to tell you not to run?" I reprimanded the little demon. "You could slip and fall."
"Shrory." Dee apologized but he still looked delighted.
Dee has nowhere to go so Father decided to let him stay in House Castellan as a knight trainee and renamed him Daemon Beelzebub Laluna. If you know what the name means, you'll understand how bad my father's humor is. Sebastiene is his current trainer and this demon was quite strict with his training.
"Why are you only wearing a shirt and pants? Aren't you cold?" I asked when I saw how thinly dressed he was when it had been snowing for several days now.
"Nou." He answered with a smile.
I turned to look at my butler who was only wearing his butler uniform without any coat.
"Are demons not cold?" I asked him.
"We do get cold, my lady." Sebastiene answered respectfully. "It's just that I have learned of a way to adjust my body to the weather and taught it to little Dee too. So we basically have a body that could withstand any kind of environment and weather."
'Of course.' I thought to myself.
One thing about Sebastiene is he has a lot of useful abilities that he learned from his long life. I turned back to Dee.
"Were you training?" I asked him.
"Yeth. Strong." Dee nodded proudly. He still has problems with speaking but he has grown physically, he actually looks the same age as Athy. When I asked Sebastiene about it, he just reassured me that it was normal for demons to grow faster than human but the time they grow from teen to old man takes hundreds to thousands of years.
"Is training done?" I asked again and he nodded.
"Dee!" Another voice came and a handsome child came to view. "Lady Mel!"
Dumakulem's face brightened when he saw me and came running towards me. He stop a few steps away from me and bowed down with his right fist above his heart.
"Blessings upon House Castellan." He greeted formally.
Dumakulem was about to be returned to his tribe, but when he and the knights that escorted him arrived at the Demon Mountains in the south, they realized that Dumakulem have absolutely no idea how to find his tribe. With the problem they faced there, they were forced to return to Westreon with Dumakulem. We decided to let Dumakulem tay in the castle and be a knight trainee too so Dee has a partner.
"Hello Dumakulem, how was your training?" I asked him.
"We just finished morning training and were instructed to head back for lunch." He explained. "But then Dee started running towards here so I had to follow him"
"Okay." I patted them on the head. "You two should go and have lunch now."
Both kids looked at me and smiled.
"Yes! Thank you, lady Mel." Dumakulem thanked me before holding Dee's hand.
"Thant chu." Dee repeated as Dumakulem started to drag him back to the knight's residence.
Later that afternoon, Sebastiene came to my office with a letter that has already been opened. It was the official invitation letter for the Winter Hunt. All the noble houses were invited to the winter hunt by the royal family. Winter hunt is an event where only nobles and their knights are allowed to participate. Each noble house is required to send one participant, male or female, to lead their knights to hunt animals.
The house with most hunts will win and will receive a treasure from the royal family. For this year's winter hunt, the winner will receive the treasured 'Mayari's Blessing'. It is a ring with a pink diamond that is believed to be a gift from Bathala to Mayari, the goddess of the second moon that only rise every two years and light up the sky for a month.
This year, for the winter hunt, we have already decided that father would be participating with Haktor and some chosen knights. Mother and us sisters will be attending as guests as well and will stay in the camp to wait for them to return. There will be other ladies from other noble houses who will also be at the camp and they will mostly ty to suck in to us.
Good luck to them.