The knights and Sir Gilton felt a knot form in their throats, Silvia was seething in anger at their insolent behaviors towards the princess, grand Chamberlin was stumped for words, a loud voice interrupted their monologue
"Grand Chamberlin Keith, call Jane Ryker and let her take care of the princess and let the imperial physician treat the princess, replace the guards with my shadow guards, to protect the castle and Princess Estelle"
IN THE SYSTEM SPACE
Evelyn called for Estelle as she nudged her, Estelle's physical form is in the bedroom under supervision but her soul is in the system space. she woke up groggily and saw Evelyn crying with her big eyes and snot all over.
Estelle has a Deja-vu feeling her internal thoughts were halted when heard someone laughing. Estelle was taken back to see a big white dragon resting lazily under the tree she doesn't know where it came from.
the dragon saw Estelle ogling him he turned face to face with her he looked her in the eye to see through her thoughts, he got three big lines on his head with her thought process, Estelle's brain was conjuring a million thoughts right now but she is unable to think any possible explanation for the dragon's presence in her system space.
the dragon then transformed into a handsome young man in silver clothes from top to bottom he looked quite dashing, he stood in front of her arrogantly and looked Estelle right in the eyes, Estelle was shocked but her thoughts drifted by his eyes, they look like unearthed jewels golden with an orange hue.
Estelle sucked her breath as she got mesmerized by those eyes, she forgot everything, the dragon then knocked her head hard to wake to knock her out of daydreaming. Estelle clutched her head rubbing she shot an accusing glare at the dragon
"You have the nerve to glare at me after ogling me like that?"
feeling guilty Estelle coughed and was about to ask him but got interrupted "look your ungrateful brat I know you don't belong to this world and your soul traveled here"
he caught her head with his palm and said "I was Fated with that unlucky child Estrella but even before we can meet, she left this world"
he rubbed her head hard and made it a look like bird coop satisfied he continued speaking
"What that child experienced is an unspeakable hell and I saw your resolution of taking revenge for her but listen to me during the absence of mine and blacky something happened to this world and we are unclear of the situation"
he then sat on the rock under the tree again no idea where it come from Estelle sat beside him and questioned him "what do you mean unclear situation?"
the dragon glanced at her and then remembered she has no idea and her knowledge about this world comes from Estrella's memories he sighed
"I am the white dragon symbol of peace and the ruler of mana users; you can address me as Rex and the black dragon is the protector and god of war and ruler of magic, he is called Elmo"
Estelle gaped at his casual introductions when they are God-level creatures of this world, yet he introduced himself as a next-door neighbor, Rex amused looking at her funny expression he continued
"I and Elmo along with beast king were an entity of this world but unknown to us we slept for a long period of years without our knowledge and then we woke up with repulsion between our powers"
Estelle's heart and body shivered at his words; Rex gave a side glance at her before confirming her guess
"Foreign powers invaded this land blinding our eyes with illusion, the place Estrella was kept in and also some lands on this world we were unable to figure out since they appeared as there was nothing wrong with it. Elmo's hunch on danger never went wrong that's when we found out about the cave Estrella was held as captive"
Estelle got lost in thoughts listening to Rex's explanation she looked dazed, Rex stopped talking when he noticed her dazed expression, he noticed the brewing emotions in her eyes, he felt a sting of pity towards her, but didn't disturb her and stood up and walk away leaving her to sum up her thoughts.
Evelyn was sleeping on the other side of the shade of a tree when Rex lifted her by the collar,
Evelyn rubbed her eyes sleepily when she felt someone lifting her in the air, seeing Rex she gave a toothy grin and Rex returned the same grin to her saying
"little girl you will probably end up counting money for the people sold you right? I can't believe how that fellow assigned you to her"
Evelyn pouted at him while flailing her arms in the air, Rex caught her like a chicken from the back of her neck and said now be quiet let's go build a comfortable house here, Evelyn stopped, pouting as she looked at Rex with shining bright eyes.
Rex felt uncomfortable at her bright eyes as he knocked her head with another hand before hugging her in his arms, they both started planning on what to do and how to do...
Estelle sat on the rock while hugging her knees she saw what Rex and Evelyn were doing, and a tear slowly escaped her eyes. Surprising her she stared at the ground as her tears fell,
she felt as nothing changed before and after her transmigration, she is still leading the same life as a useless chess piece who continuously trying to prove its worth in the hands of the player, the only change here is that the player and the pawn both happen to be her in this world, she closed her eyes in resign to her fate, unknowingly she cried to sleep
Elmo who was introduced by Rex appeared by her side when she fell asleep, he stood at her side when she leaned forward, he stood there without moving and let her sleep, Rex was walking towards them but halted when Elmo motioned him not to,
he lifted Estelle carefully and entered the house they built in the system space. He placed her on the bed. He came outside and saw Evelyn dozing off on the chair he lifted her and placed her next to Estelle.
Rex was sitting at the table waiting for Elmo, he saw him pulling the table chair he asked him "did you find anything?"
"What I find is something which requires the power of all forces from this world to fight, I found a crack and black mist of spiritual energy surrounding the illusion places"
"What?"
"Yes, the most annoying is that the evil force we defeated before turning this place a human habitat, I saw traces related to that horrendous creature in the kingdom of Zyon"
Startled Rex widens his eyes at Elmo in disbelief, he clenched his hand in a tight fist as he stood up and disappeared from there, Elmo sat there calmly through their discussion, when Rex left, he turned his head towards the room Estelle and Evelyn were sleeping, he squinted his eyes
He definitely saw her crying earlier, the darkness in her eyes made Elmo analyze the situation from the beginning, he decided to talk with her since that's the only thing he can do now given the situation.
KINGDOM OF ZYON
"I... I don't...Want to go...Princess is acting weird and no one is caring for her" the servant maid said nervously clutching the tray
"Shhh, what are you talking about if anyone heard you will be in trouble for bad-mouthing princess" saying the other maid with her pushed her towards the 6th princess room...
The nervous maid went inside the room in fear as soon as she entered, she saw the princess sitting quietly on the bed reading a book. She placed the tray on the bedside table and ran out of the room hurriedly without looking back.
6th princess who was sitting calmly on the bed lifted her eyes from the book and saw the maid running then towards the tray, she smirked the people of the palace are now adamant about treating her as a sick person well there is a reasonable explanation to that because of the incident happened in the morning