Inside on what seems to be a desolate castle. There was a beautiful woman with a silver smooth hair lying on a luxurious chamber. Her eyes was closed but it seems like she's catching her own breath. Her face was pale yet it was exquisite like a skin made of priceless jade. Her sweat like pearl was pouring down through her soft white pillow. Her features was like a young maiden from a fairytale books that children used to read.
She slowly opened her eyes while grasping an air and puts her delicate right hand through her chest.
She groans and massage her head carefully but she immediately stopped moving when she felt a weird atmosphere from the surroundings.
"Where the hell am I?"
She confusedly check the foreigh room, from left to right even its corner before heading out to bed. She silently walked through the open window and stared blankly outside.
She can see a massive walls and towers that looks like from the Medieval Era. From the window, the maze like roses can also be seen outside, that if a person was put on its center, the person will definitely had headache by just finding the right way to its exit.
"What is this place?"
She asked to herself and abruptly looked towards the door when someone was knocking.
"My lady, are you awake? we prepared a water to wash your face Milady."
A gentle voice came from outside the door awoken her from her thought.
"Come in."
She replied nonchalantly as if it was natural for her to do so.
The door opened and a countless maids immediately surrounded her room. One was filling a new rose to the vase while the others are busy tidying up her bed. There was only one pretty maid who are still looking at her with a gentle smile.
"Lady Leona, let me wash your face for awhile so you'll be freshen up."
Leona. A name that immediately run through her memory. It's like she was struck by lightning and attacked by a sudden headache.
"Arrrgh!"
"Milady, what's happening? are you okay? milady— all of you, CALL A HEALER!"
Every maids who was busy cleaning the corner immediately run through the hallway to call a healer while the maids who are still inside the room are starting to worry about their lady's sudden behavior. Some are even panicking and calling a gods to seek help.
"What's happening?!"
The door suddenly forcedly opened and a young man with a silver hair abruptly come inside. Worriness can be seen on its golden sharp eyes that even the maids fliched by its handsome appearance.
"Young Lord, the lady suddenly holds her head while crying painfully. W-we didn't know why..."
The pretty maid was trembling while holding Leona's shoulder. These is her first time seeing her Ladyship acting this way.
"Did you call the healer?!"
"Yes, Y-young lord..."
Leona was still crying while holding her head. A strange memories suddenly poured through her mind and circulating in her brain. She doesn't even know what was those time or place she have seen like a premonition or in the past. She didn't even know the people who this previous body encountered.
The only thing that was similar between them is the name "Leona".
—
The room was silent and only one maid, a healer, and a handsome young man can be found behind's Leona's bed.
"How is she?"
The young man immediately caught Leona's hand and hold it tightly like a priceless gemstone.
"Her lower body is healthy but in her upperparts where her brain was placed is odd. I tried to give her a portion of my mana to circulate into her brain to check if its fine however, her brain itself is not accepting the mana. It's like there's some sort of barrier or a huge wall was guarding on it."
The healer explained while staring confusedly at Leona's head.
"So Mr. Healer, what will happen to our young lady?"
The pretty maid asked suddenly while sobbing.
"Don't worry, she's fine. Just wait for her to wake up and let me check her again after that."
The maid nodded and head out the room with the healer.
The young man let go of Leona's hand and sat down on a chair besides the bed. His eyes was roaming around the room and atlast at Leona's window before sighing in relief.
"Hmm, W-who?"
The young man's eyes rounded in surprise when she heard a beautiful yet small voice from Loena.
"Leona, are you hurt anywhere? This is me Drazel, your older brother."
He said gently and smiled.
Leona was staring blankly at the young man's appearance. She doesn't know what's happening to her. All she remembered was... She's sleeping peacefully in her house but now, she found herself into a room full of luxurious things and a young man whom with a silver hair and a handsome appearance.
'Is he a model? but where am I and what does he mean by calling himself my older brother?'
She confusedly thought.
After asking herself. Her mind immediately showed her a strange yet famillar scene.
It was in a balcony where a beautiful girl with a silver hair was crying silently. She keep muttering a words repeatedly until a young man in front of her hugged the girl and comfort her by patting gently her back.
"Older brother..."
"Yes Leona, it's me!"
Drazel immediately replied and caress Leona's hand.
Leona doesn't know what's going on to her but she knows something strange behind this. She remembered ealier how she fainted and what she saw outside the window. The language are also different yet she can still spoke and understood every word.
Before she could asked to Drazel. The door suddenly open widely and a pretty maid appear while carrying a glass of water and a bread.
"M-Milady you're awake!"
She immediately put what she carries on a table and run through Leona's side.
"I-I'm glad you are fine now Milady, I'm so worried about you." The maid starts sobbing while saying how worried she was to Leona.
Just like what happened earlier to Drazel. a dozen of memories with this pretty maid are circulating through Leona's mind.
"By the way, Young Lord... The Duke and the second Young Master arrived already than we expected. I don't know if they already knew about what happened to Milady's but I think Joseph will tell them about it."
The maid said while staring at Drazel.
"That's fine. Only Callel will react about these matter but the most important of all is Leona's health. Call the healer again."
—
In the center of the capital which the palace of the Imperial family resided. An old tavern can be found in a corner of the slums which filled with wild men who are crazy enough to alcohol like mercenaries, adventurers or knights.
Inside the tavern, there was a five women wearing a cloak gathering in one place with an alcohol and a food on the table.
"Can someone tell me, what the hell is going on?"
A woman with a purple eyes and a brown hair asked.
"Who knows? I can't believe it either. All we need to do now is to find more information about these world and search if there's someone else like us. Green, how's the tea party? did you find any important details?"
A woman with a pink eyes, and an Orange hair asked the girl opposite to where she's currently sitting.
"Yes, although that tea party thing is one of a hell. I heard an information about the named Leona. The same with our leader's name... she's a Duke's youngest daughter from Avella Duchy. It was also known that she was sick and has a weak body that's why almost 5 years when they last saw her."
"Do you think, she's our leader?"
"We don't know yet, but... we need to find her and see it on ourselves. If—if ever she really is Dark, t-then everything will be alright... "
Worries and anxiousness filled their atmosphere. Each of them was hoping for a positive information especially after hearing their leader's name.
"Tonight. let's gather here again tonight and we will go to Avella Duchy to find her. We need to know the truth."
All of them nodded as a response for approval and silence immediately indulge again.
"Base on this map of the whole Curion Empire, Avella Duchy can be found in the Northern territory. Also one of the annoying maid of this body said that it will take four days to arrive at the northern part of the Empire but if we use these so called magical carriages in this world, it will only take two days instead."
(Violet)Fatima Drishti Vadestine said while pointing the map of the northern territory.
"If that's the case, then where can we find these magical carriages?"
(Yellow) Luna Anastacia Gregor asked calmly while sipping the alcohol on her cup.
"I think you all forgot something..."
(Red)Kamara Unitte Luñez playfully smirk and ate the whole bunch of meat from her plate.
"Huh? what is it?"
(Blue) Kristyle Amalia Fastillo confusedly asked.
"Are you really an idiot? look! Violet and Yellow is a Dukes Daughters. while me, Green, and you Blue are all from a counts family! It means we have a big shots fathers, so buying a hundreds of magic carriages is a piece of cake for us."
Red.
"I think Red is right. I almost even forgot that my father is a known merchant who uses magic carriages for his products to travel each Empires and Kingdoms. I can steal one of those... just hope that tracking devices are not trend here."
Green.
"Well then, prepare yourselves for tonight's departure. Make sure to take a weapons and foods, also don't leave any traces behind. We must find Dark as soon as possi—."
Violet frowned when her sentence was cut off by a loud voice coming from behind.
"LOOK WHAT WE HAVE HERE! A BEAUTIFUL LADIES! YOU WANT TO HAVE FUN WITH US?"
It was a huge muscular man with a bald head that has scar on its neck. It was horrible to look at that even Red who used to bath a blood was still disgusted.
"Woah, what an ugly creature!"
Yellow suddenly blurted that makes the other costumers in the tavern laughs unconsciously, Especially the man's subordinates who was with him the whole time.
The huge man's face darkened and grit his teeth while holding an armor. One can even say that they are a knight from a noble house.
"W-what did you just said about me?"
The huge man asked with an awful expression.
"I said you're ugly."
Yellow nonchalantly replied without a care.
"Y-you bitch! do you know who I am? hah! I'm a knight from Count Luñez House! A Count Luñez House! I can't bare this fact that a lowly pheasant like you is humiliating me! I'll teach you a lesson!"
He arrogantly draw his sword from their table and glared at Yellow.
"When did I say that we are a pheasants?"
Blue suddenly interrupted and pulls down her cloak.
"W-what?"
The huge man was surprised by Blue's pretty face. He can tell at first glance that she was from a noble family.
"And Luñez, you say?"
Red spoke.
She also pulls down her cloak and stared at the huge man's face with a sharp eyes.
The muscular man suddenly felt a cold down from his spine and cold sweat was forming from his forehead. He wants to burry himself and be vanished instantly. How could he not know this woman in front of him? She's the third precious daughter of Count Lunez for Pete's sake!
"L-Lady Kamara... I-I didn't k-know it was y-you..."
"What? you asked if we want to have fun with you right? You also used the Luñez House just to show how mighty you are and called us pheasants?"
"L-lady, I-I wouldn't dare... p-please I beg your forgiveness Milady!"
The man suddenly kneel down to the floor with the other knights while pleading for Red's forgiveness.
Other costumers in tavern are starting murmuring to each other while watching the scene.
"I can't believe this, that's Lady Luna from Gregor Duchy right?"
"Ahh! that's the youngest Lady from Vadestine Duchy!"
"The Fastillo's House and Bauquimer's House Ladies are here too. What a beauties!"
"What's going on, why are these Ladies from the respected noble families here?"
"It was really rare for a commoner like me to see such beauties in one place..."
"Well, I think I'm more lucky than you. Whenever we went to Avella Duchy to deliver a product. I always happened to see the third daughter of Duke Zareff. I swear to god that she is the most beautiful Lady I have ever seen in my entire life."
"Avella Duchy you say?"
A deep and chilling voice can be heard in the man's behind whom last one talked. They immediately turn their heads to where the voice's came from and knelt down on the floor. They were terrified by the young lady's fierce eyes and even killing intent was surrounding on its aura.
'W-what the! I'm trembling... "
"Youngest daughter from Avella Duchy, you mean Leona Avella?"