#Chapter4
Alright.
So, I guess I messed up quite a bit yesterday because when I opened my eyes this morning, I was lying beside a man. I guessed it right! It was that brat except he was not a little squirt anymore but had turned into a teenage boy about my age. This all happened when I formed a contract with him. It was suspicious how he exactly looked like my father.
He seemed to shine lightly with a tint of yellow and silver, the same colour as his hair. That ankle—biter, he was sleeping beside me on my bed holding my hands between his!
Wait—Sleeping?
I actually slept for the first time in ten years. I feel so refreshed!
However, that doesn't change the fact that this man was sleeping beside me! That's indecent! Henceforth, I decided to do the exact same thing a lady should do, which was to kick him out of my bed.
I was about to do so when he opened his eyes and lazily got up yawning and stretching his hands. I was waiting for an explanation when he said to me with a smile /"Good morning, Milady. Yesterday sure was rough. Did you sleep well?/"
/"Shut up, you pipsqueak! What is this? Why were you sleeping with me!?/" I shouted at him.
/"Well, I had to protect the bed from your hands. If they would have touched it, then we won't have a bed anymore. Since your powers don't affect me, I decided to cover your hands with mine in order to save the bed.
And, I'm not a 'pipsqueak' anymore, I seem to have a body of a 17—year—old human boy. How convenient, I'm near your age. By the way milady, what's your name?/"
I got up and stood up straight while pressing my chest with my left hand and slightly raising my chin while looking down at him.
/"I'm lady Vierne Obolensky. The only heir and daughter of the late Earl, Avgustin Obolensky, and his wife Laura Obolensky. Nice to meet you. And, what is your name?/" I had waited so long to do this! Now, I was waiting for an answer but he just blankly stared at me like an idiot.
Finally, after a good two minutes of staring, he opened his mouth and spouted,
/"This means milady is nobility? Awesome! I'm so lucky. I'm going to serve a noble demigod, I just couldn't ask for more!/" He squealed.
/"You haven't answered my question yet,/" I said.
/"Stars don't have a name./"
/"C'mon, that's not possible. You must have something by which people address you. I can't keep calling you 'brat' forever, now you're not even a brat!/"
/"I don't have a name but...I do have a title./"
/"A title? See, that's your name. What's your title?/"
/"The hour of music./"
/"Is that how people addressed you?/"
/"Yes./"
/"This really is a title, a weird one./"
/"But—now I'm not just a star anymore! I'm a star spirit, I have a demigod as my master, so I was wondering if.../" He got all fidgety /"If you could, you know, give me a name, Milady./" His dull blue eyes looked into mine, and I could see a mixture of pleading and a bit of... Agh how to say this! Cuteness?
/"A name? No problem, I'll give you a name, then. Let me think./"
While I was thinking of something that would suit him, he was looking at me curiously. I could tell he was very eager.
Looking into his blue eyes while thinking his name, I was lost in another world. It was as if I was drowning in the ocean, deep in the blue, staring at the golden sun overhead. Without any more thought I just said,
/"Lict./"
As I said this, his chest began shining all of a sudden and then the light vanished just as suddenly.
/"My name,/" He touched his chest.
/"Your name is Lict. It means light./"
/"I love it! Lict, Lict, Lict, Lict, it feels so good speaking your own name, I have a name, I'm so happy!/"
/"It's easy to make you happy. You're simple, aren't you?/"
/"I swear I'm not what you're used to though./" He smiled.
I was about to say something when my stomach started making weird noises. A feeling of discomfort covered me and I felt a strange emptiness in my stomach. It was as if my body was demanding something, but what? I haven't had this feeling in years.
/"Oh! Are you hungry milady? I'll prepare breakfast./" Lict looked at me.
/"Hungry? What are you saying, I'm not a human, I don't feel hungry./"
/"Yes, but, you formed a contract with me, so now, your body needs to perform all the metabolic activities in order to survive. Basically now, you're no different from a human, Milady.
From now on you'll have to eat, sleep properly, bathe every day and carry out other human activities in order to stay healthy./"
/"You've gotta be kidding me!/"
/"Don't worry, I'll prepare the food and everything you need, Milady. Now, if I may ask, where is the pantry?/"
/"It is near the dining hall at the end of the—wait on! Don't try to change the subject, I'll kill you!/"
/"Well, dead people can't die,/"
I grabbed his collar and like a fool asked him to take back all these human qualities I had now gotten within me. Feeling hungry would require food and food will cost money, I can't work so I won't be able to manage it for very long. He was so cute just a moment ago but now he's just acting like a jerk all over again!
Lemme just kill him inside my mind since its not legal to murder someone. He started walking towards the kitchen as I chanted inside my head—
I'll kill him I'll kill him I'll kill him I'll kill him I'll kill him I'll kill him.
He entered the kitchen which was a useless part of the mansion for all these years and was in a horrible condition. It was dusty and home of spider webs. In short, the idea of cooking in that kitchen made me sick to my bowels.
/"Hey, how will you cook in here? We don't have any ingredients and this place is a wretch./"
He simply smiled and said /"Why don't you take a bath, Milady. I'll serve the food in a short while, you must be starving./"