'Woahh!!!'
Eleanora's jewel like blue eyes widened with surprise as she looked around the street market.
Cathain's words turned out to be true because the duke ended up melting like butter after hearing her words and now she is roaming in the market with a bunch of knights following her from behind.
She wanted to know a bit about the place she is in, and thus she decided to start with the market first.
Everyone was wearing colorful dresses, and the way they behaved was completely novel.
Members of each social class or profession were dressed in a certain way, clearly identifying individuals as belonging to a particular category.
It made it easier for people to recognize each other socials status.
One can recognize a knight as they carry a sword with them.
The nobles always keep a few knights beside them for protection, where the commoner people can be recognized at once because of their simple style of clothing.
'It should be the mid eighteenth century…'
Eleanora thought as she observed everything around her.
By the mid eighteenth century, prosperity among the merchant and planter classes of the East bought an increasing display of luxury goods.
Wealthy colonials bought the latest clothing, carriages, and fine houses furnished in mahogany.
This was the brief knowledge about this era that Eleanora from the modern world knows.
She didn't know why, but nothing interested her back then.
Instead she liked how the hero's and heroine's used to draw their swords and fight, the historical ways of clothing and their culture always attracted her.
The way they used to show the use of magic powers would always make her wish to have those too.
In the end, she just passed with minimum grades in every subject as she at least had to be a graduate because of her father's status.
She wasn't interested in business, neither in any other profession.
So, her most of the time was spent by reading novels and doing nothing but annoy her parents.
A painful smile appeared on her face as Eleanora thought about her parents.
'They must be really sad, right?'
'And here I am being an ungrateful daughter by feeling attracted to this place, calling someone else my father just so I could survive…'
Eleanora's blue eyes felt blurry as she sensed herself tearing up.
But she was just missing her parents so much.
How would her dad react to the news of her dead?
Her mother should be really sad right?
Also, there are Cathain's parents too; they also loved her so much.
Especially his mother adored her like an own daughter.
Eleanora wished she could say a final goodbye to them, tell them to not worry and live their life.
But there is no way to do that… or is there any?
Eleanora's eyes widens with that thought before her vision suddenly turned dark as something covered her and she struggled to remove the object from her view.
"Stay still…"
Alexander cold voice rang as he covered her body with a light pink cloak which had bunny ears.
Hearing her father's voice, she felt relieved before she wondered why she felt that way.
Is it because he is the father of the body she possessed?
Suddenly, he no longer felt sad and crying anymore.
As Alexander tied up the cloak's ribbon, Eleanora turned to look at him with a confused face.
But to her father, she just looked like a cute little rabbit; full of innocence.
His face twitched again as he got amused by his daughter's cuteness again.
There is no serious look on her face, no proper etiquette; but she still seemed perfect to him.
'So just now he went away to buy this cloak?'
The passerby's was glancing at her as they walked by her because of her silver hair.
There is only one girl in this whole empire who have silver hair and blue eyes; Eleanora La Alexander Dalton, the crown princess of this empire.
And it was also dangerous for her to roam around unprotected like this as there is a lot of people after her life, which made Alexander anxious.
She isn't acting like before anymore, it's highly possible that this news has already spread and people are waiting to harm her.
He wanted to go home directly but he couldn't refute her request either.
So, he just decided to protect her directly from now on.
But then he becomes surprise as Eleanora suddenly extends her hands towards him and his entire body freeze.
"C-Carry me…"
Eleanora speaks in an extremely embarrassed voice.
She doesn't know why she said that but she just wanted to get closer to him.
Something was pulling her towards him, like a very familiar warm feeling.
Like she has missed and craved it for a long time; so she blurted out those words without thinking much.
"Princess… let me carry you-"
Duke Dalton's aid, Sir Rayon couldn't finish his words as Alexander gestured him to step back and with a hesitant hands and confused mind, he finally carries her on his arms.
Alexander once again felt weird as a heartbreaking pain spread on his chest, like it was suffocating him.
Eleanora wrapped her tiny hands around his neck as her feet were wrapped around his waist tightly.
Hugged by him so tightly like this, Eleanora suddenly felt safe and protected.
But her heart was also painful because the image of her father, Ethan Montogamy hugging her like this flashed on her mind; her father was really similar to this man.
She slowly buried her face on Alexander's shoulder as her blue eyes became wet again.
'Maybe this is why I feel safe with him…'
'But I still miss you so much, papa…'
.
Meanwhile, At the Hertz Duchy~
.
"WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE DUCHESS?!"
"It-It's better if you see it yourself, your grace…"
The servants replied and the man with grey eyes and purple hair got more anxious.
Duke Kieran De George Hertz came out off from his office room as he suddenly heard his wife's yelling voice with horror.
Hertz duchy is the third most powerful family of the Valentino Empire, and Duke Hertz was in charge of the second squadron imperial knights.
The duke had dark purple hair and grey eyes, Earth type magic which gave him the ability to control the soil.
His grey eyes were full of concern as he rushes to the hall room where his wife's voice just came from.
His wife is a petite and weak lady, who rarely talks loud.
So what made her yell out so loudly this time?
"ARE YOU ALLRIGHT HONEY?!"
Duke Hertz spoke as he pushed climbed down the stairs but then his body instantly froze too, like he had seen a ghost.
Now he understood why his wife had reacted like that and currently fallen on the ground because she was too surprised.
Not only them, the whole duchy was shocked and horrified.
Where the person who had caused such a ruckus just stayed still like an annoyed old man before exhaling heavy sigh.
'As I had expected… I was better at the magic tower;'