Finally the time for departing came, I packed all my belongings into 2 suitcases from my room. Aalis and Ame carried it.
"What about all of your belongings?" I asked them
"Our stuff was already on the carriage." Aalis answered
We walked out of my room and towards the front hall of the castle. On my way to the front castle, the castle seemed different from usual. When I came back to Louis, All the servants came to me, but this time, there was no single servant that I came across.
"Where are all the servants, Aalis??"
"I don't know, Your Highness.." Aalis were nervous..
I just kept walking and was followed by Aalis and Ame. We reached to the front door of castle, I opened the door because there was no one in there….and I saw a carriage with the royal army coat of arms and 3 other horses, Louis and 5 people in line where 2 mans and 3 womans were waiting for me. I didn't know who the 5 people were, all of them wore white shirt, brown pants, and light armor in different location including Louis.
Louis walked towards me, after he was in front of me, he kneeled.
"Your highness, your knight only could recruit these 5 people, but these 5 people were so capable that I trust."
I looked at the 5 people "These people, do you mind introducing them to me??"
"Yes, Your highness."
Louis led me towards them from right, Aalis and Ame didn't follow me and took the suitcases to the carriage. Suddenly these 5 people kneeled towards me, and began introducing themselves.
From the right, a man who seemed to be in his 40 years old with brown hair with brown eyes, but his body was so muscular, a little bit shorter than Louis, he had light armor in his shoulder, and two big battle axes in his back
"This lowly person greets Your Highness, my name is Darryl." The man introduced himself.
"He was from the mercenary guild, Your Highness." Louis said.
"Darryl, I will remember his name, you may stand now."
We walked to the next one..Beside Darryl, a woman who seemed to be in her 20's with her cream hair tied back, slim body, a little bit tall, and a serious face with serious blue eyes, she had light armor in her chest, and a greatsword in her back
"It is a gratitude for me to meet your highness, I am Aldea willingly to give my sword to your highness." The woman introduced herself.
"She was from the adventure guild.." Louis said
"Adventure Guild? May I know what you do in adventure guild?"
"Yes, I do recon quest, exploring a quest about unknowing terrain, and some subjugation quest, Your Highness." She answered
"This subjugation quest, is it perhaps monster subjugation?"
"Yes it is, Your Highness.."
So monsters are a real thing in this world..
"I will receive your sword, Aldea, I hope I can hear your adventure story in the future, you may stand now."
"Thank you and it is an honor, Your Highness.."
We walked to the next one…A woman seemed to be in her 30's with short curly red hair, and red eyes. She had a slim body taller than Aldea, her face seemed like a relaxed person, she had light armor in her chest, and a short-sword in her hips.
"Greeting Your Highness, my name is Zoela, your highness can call me Zoe.."
"She was from the assassins guild, but she is trustworthy, your highness don't concern it." Louis said.
"If it is what Louis said, I will not be concerned about her, so what is this assassins guild?"
"We deal with information, assassination, espionage, alienation, and many things that I think will make it uneasy to Your Highness." She answered.
"Well, Information is the key one, so Zoela, I hope a lot about that from you, you may stand now."
We walked to the next one. It was a boy, who was shorter than me, he was probably under my age, he had blonde hair and yellow eyes, he didn't wear light armor nor any weapon, and he was so nervous.
"My….na..me…is..Cai..lean..You..r..High..ness."
"He was from the merchant guild, he was a little bit timid, but he was so smart, your highness." Louis said.
"I love a smart person, you may stand now, and you don't need to be nervous or scared towards me."
We walked to the next one….and I was surprised..A woman seemed to be in her 40's with long black hair and black eyes, she had a curved body, and an immense pair of breasts, I looked to Aldea and Zoela and compared the size, it was huge gap, they were normal size, but this one was different, and she was beautiful in her 40's.
"My name is Elpis, this lowly person is so happy to meet Your Highness."
"She was from the Alchemist Guild, she had knowledge about medicine and plantation." Louis said
"A physician is surely an important thing, you may stand now."
She stood up, but there was a lot of bounce from her things. It seemed underwear, especially bras, was expensive for the commoners.
After all the introductory things, I walked towards the carriage, Louis lent his hand to help me get inside the carriage.
"How long will this trip be?" I asked
"It is around 2 days, your highness.."
"Very well."
There were 5 people inside the Carriage, it was me, Aalis, Ame, Cailean, and Elpis. Louis rode the carriage as coachman, and the others rode the horses. The carriage was full of my stuff and others stuff.
"Your highness, we will start the journey to the Chambery…Zoe you may go first." Louis said to me.
Zoela started to hop her horse, and went first, followed by the carriage, The carriage protected by Aldea on the right side and Darryl on the left side.
Chambery here I come, the first step for me.
No one said goodbye to me, no one saw me go, and here I went to the Chambery.
...…
On the journey, my eyes were so uneasy about the view, that in front of me was Elpis, and the road was not smooth, there were a lot of bumps. So her things got bumps a lot too, I wanted to ask about that, but there was Cailean beside her. I saw his face so red, maybe he was a boy after all.
I asked her "Elpis, may I ask you something?"
"Sure, your highness."
I pointed at her chest "Do you have a layer of garment behind your clothes?"
Everyone was surprised by what I said.
Cail took his face to the right side window because he could face the bouncy thing anymore and his face was so red after what I said, Aalis's face was a little red, even Louis in the front could hold his red face. The carriage had a little window between the passenger and the coachman, so Louis could hear what I said.
Elpis was a little bit surprised. "Oh My…undergarments are a little bit expensive, Your Highness."
"So, you don't wear any layers of undergarments?"
"Yes, your highness, honestly I want to wear it, as you see in the capital, all undergarments are cute."
"If you want it, I can buy it for you in the capital." it is better than seeing your gigantic bouncy all the time.
"Oh my…Really? I am really grateful for your highness's generosity, but…" she pointed to her breast with her two hands "As you can see, your highness, there are no undergarments with my size.."
I was astonished by the fact.
...
I was curious about why Zoe took her horse so far from the carriage alone, I talked to Louis
"Is it okay that Zoe took her horse so far from us?"
"It is okay, Your Highness."
"Why are you so confident about Zoe?"
"I think Zoe will be grateful that Your highness worries about her, but she has great flair that some humans don't have beside her."
"What is it?"
"As your highness already knew, that Zoe was in Assassin Guild, she was there because of her capability, that she can smell blood killing intent far away."
"Blood killing intent??"
"She can sense human killing intent so far away, so she went to the front a little bit far from us for her job to sense any danger."
"What about Aldea? She is from the Adventure Guild, she may be great to stick beside Zoe."
"Your highness's idea is great that Aldea's capability similar to Zoe, but Aldea will be better to stay on the right side of carriage."
"Why?"
"Aldea sense is great to monster and Zoe sense is great to human, monster and human are different how they catch their prey, human usually use trap or ambush to kill passerby, so Zoe went to the front to sense the ambush earlier and inform it to us, but monster use ambush to kill passerby is so rare and almost impossible, monsters usually sense their threat or their prey and they will start to go for it, so Aldea on right side is to sense if there are monsters that coming to us, and there is Darryl on the left side to back up Aldea, so rest assured and don't worry about us, Your highness."
"If that's what you said, I will decrease this worry."
...
After a few minutes, I saw Ame on my left side, that she like wanted to say something to me.
She held my left hand "Your highness, are you feeling lonely?" Ame with her pitiful voice.
"Why Ame think like that?"
"Because there is no one that sees your highness departing, and there is no one that says goodbye or sees you again to your highness."
All the faces in the carriage and the atmosphere were a little upset.
Elpis tried to join the conversation "When I waited for your highness outside, I saw it a little bit weird, that there was no one to come see your highness even the servants didn't wait for your highness with us.Is it because regarding the rumor about your highness.."
"As you can see the rumor is a great thing for me and for all of you too, but the other faction not happy about it, maybe it is the Queen order or the King order or maybe one of the princes order, so no one came to see me and it didn't make me a little upset nor sad." I said.
Ame started to grip my left hand more "Your highness, Your highness, Your highness…" with a cheerful tone and I looked at Ame.
"Ame will always stays beside Your highness, so Your highness will not feel lonely anymore.." she stood up from the carriage, and she leant to my lap "It's not only Ame, but…" she took Aalis's left hand and took it to my right hand "My sister too will always stays beside you…" she started to move and point everyone after said their names "Sir Louis too…This boy (Cailean) too…." Cail was startled by what Ame called him "This Aunty too..…" Elpis was a little irritated that Ame called her Aunty, she moved toward left door window "That old man(Darryl) too…" she moved toward right door window "That warrior lady too…" she moved back to the center "and that scary lady in front too….." she jumped to my lap and looked at me "Everyone will always stay beside Your Highness…so don't be sad…"
This was the first time that someone took pity on me. Before I went into this world, no one took pity on me, even in difficult times, I always took it alone and swallowed it to my heart alone…
I looked at Ame's face, suddenly she was so sad, and I looked at everyone 's faces, and their faces suddenly looked so surprised and sad too..
"Your highness, what did Ame say make you sad?" Ame said..
"Why do you think like that?"
"Because you drop your tears."
"Huh??"
I didn't realize after Ame said it, that I dropped my tears. Was it because someone took pity for me? Or because of this body?
Elpis worried about me "Are you okay, Your highness?"
"I am okay…"
I sensed 2 hands, grabbed my hands, and I saw it was Ame, who grabbed it.
"Are you really okay??"
"Yes I am okay…"
"Ame has an idea…If your highness is sad about something or want to cry about something, just find Ame and we'll cry together. How about that??"
"Cry together??"
"Yes…It is better to cry together than cry alone, so Your highness will not feel lonely when crying."
I was astonished by what Ame said…
I patted her head with right hand "Hahahaha…sure, If I want to cry, I surely will find you, and cry together…"
"Really??" Ame with a cheerful tone..
"Yess.."
"You promise??"
"Yes, I promise.."
The atmosphere of the carriage began to cheer.
"I can invite my sister too, Your highness." Ame said
On the trip, Ame talked a lot about her stuff, which made the trip a bit of a relief.