Lativa's activity in the morning is to wash her body with cold water and then wipe it with the cloth she usually uses to wipe windows. After she finished drying herself, Lativa put on an old maid outfit that looked shabby and tattered.
Even though she didn't have breakfast, Lativa started working from morning until noon. Lativa's job was to wipe windows and mop floors throughout the royal palace. After she finished her work during the day, Lativa got an hour of rest which she usually used to read books in the library.
'I've read all these books, but I haven't had the chance to apply the knowledge I've learned from these books.'
Brack!
Lativa was kicked by someone until her head hit the bookcase in the library. The person who kicked Lativa had short golden yellow hair with the same jewel-blue eyes as Lativa. That person was none other than the crown prince of the Honorsche Kingdom.
"Why would an insect like you set foot in the library of the royal palace? Who gave you permission? Answer me you bastard!"
The crown prince asked Lativa in a tone like a very angry person, the crown prince also grabbed Lativa's hair making Lativa look in pain.
"I was granted permission to enter the library of the royal palace by his highness the king himself his highness the prince."
The crown prince's face looked very angry at what Lativa had just said. The crown prince tightened his grip on Lativa's hair and brought Lativa's face closer to his. Their eyes met and the crown prince slapped Lativa.
Slap!
"The prince? I'm the crown prince, not just a prince! Don't you dare with me just because you're a crown princess who came from my father's illegitimate wife!"
Brack! Brack! Brack!
The crown prince banged Lativa's head many times against the bookshelf. The sound made by the crown prince banging Lativa's head against the bookcase was loud. The maids and guards outside the library heard the loud voice, but they chose to remain silent.
Lativa's head was covered in blood but Lativa remained silent and didn't shed a single tear. The crown prince looked even more annoyed that Lativa did not show any reaction to the harsh treatment that the crown prince had done to her.
"WHY?! Why are you silent?! At least cry or scream in pain! I want to see you suffer!"
"Ashur! STOP!"
Slap!
The king suddenly appeared and slapped the crown prince by mentioning the name of the crown prince.
"What are you doing Ashur?! Can't you see her head is covered in blood?! What will happen if there are rumors that the crown prince kills his own sister?!"
"But she's not my sister!"
Suddenly the queen also entered the library of the royal palace. The king became silent after the arrival of the queen, while the crown prince wept and ran towards the queen. The crown prince hugged the queen tightly while crying.
"What is going on here? Who dares to make the crown prince cry?!"
"It's not what you think, it's just-"
"Shut up!"
The king can do nothing about the queen, because the original holder of royal power is the queen and not the king. The king used to be a duke who had the highest power in the kingdom after the previous king, but he married the crown princess politically until he became the current king.
"You disgusting daughter of an illegitimate wife, guard! Drag her out of the royal palace and throw her into the forest."
"Hey! Isn't that too much?! We can use her for a political marriage."
Slap!
The queen slapped the king so hard that it left a slap mark on the king's cheek.
"You shut up! I know you were the one who slapped my dear crown prince."
Lativa with her head still covered in blood was dragged away by the royal palace guards. Lativa was dragged by the royal palace guards to an old building and then she was put into a large sack.
The sack containing Lativa was transported using a cart pulled by a horse ridden by a royal palace guard. They headed towards the forest which is called the cursed forest by local residents because anyone who has entered the forest never comes back out.
Bruk!
When they were in front of the entrance to the cursed forest, the sack containing Lativa was thrown into the forest by the royal palace guard. Lativa came out of the sack realizing that she had managed to get out of the royal palace.
'I never thought an opportunity like this would happen. In my previous life, when the crown prince grabbed my hair, I brushed his hand away and then I was locked up in prison for more than three months without any food or drink.'
Lativa stood up and tore off some of her clothes to use as a bandage for her head.
'This forest should be called a cursed forest by the locals because anyone who has entered here will not be able to get out. But the real reason no one was able to get out of this forest was because of that divine creature.'
Lativa tried to remember something from her previous life. He clearly remembered that there was actually a divine being nesting in this cursed forest and that divine creature was a ancient dragon.
Roarrr!!!
There was a roar coming from the deepest part of the forest which was most likely the ancient dragon's roar. Lativa braved herself and approached the voice with the aim of forming a pact with the ancient dragon. She did this because in the future, there was a brave boy who made a pact with the ancient dragon and became a legendary dragon warrior.
Lativa remembered that clearly because the pact with the ancient dragon had already been made into a story and disseminated in the future.