Upon entering the Palace I felt a little disoriented by the amount of light which was covering the area, while following Vel I had accidentally bumped into someone who would turn to me and start apologizing, I didn't know why they were but I said it was fine, it was at that point the place had went quiet. I looked around getting my head together.
"Did- Did you just say it's fine for that guy to bump into you?"
"Well- I was dizzy so I wasn't sure where my body was and I bumped into him unintentionally, that's not his fault I was dizzy or anything."
Staring at him I sighed this place had people like him who were in a small form arrogant when it came to people getting near or talking to them, all while people began whispering to each other about something, though that excluded the bride and their husband, along with another lady and the suit of Armor on the Throne watching us, though I knew it was just Mrs Vera. Now being approached by another lady, her hair pinkish in color cascading down onto her waist, though she was short, like really short, it didn't matter I would've looked down while she did the opposite, her eyes different colors, one Crimson red, her aura felt like it held malice, so I could say it looked like the Malice she had, while on the other hand her other eye a blue color, like diamonds or the sky.
"Is there anything you need.... Miss-"
"Please call me Aurora, what about you?"
"Kaida, though... You can call me in your room later."
Aurora in that moment froze, not expecting someone to do something so brazen like that with a Princess like her, as soon as she regained her composure, her face flushed as she covered it with a fan, one which looked Japanese, yet also having things vastly different from what Japan would put on it, more adjusted to this world's culture.
"Clever... I didn't expect someone to do something like that, No wonder you were able to befriend my Little Brothers."
Vel looked at Aurora with clear anger- {"They don't have a good relationship do they..."} I gave a nervous but also confused look at them, From that I would've just walked off following Enoch who didn't wanna deal with their drama, I sat down next to him though moved to the side as soon as I saw a lady start talking to him asking to sit with him, his voice already became nervous as he accepted so I knew he would have more confidence sitting next to her.
"Oh- Why did you move away from him?"
"I think both of you together would be better, You must know him for longer if you could approach him instantly, I met him today only so I felt like it would be worse if I didn't move."
It was a logical conclusion, to which Enoch would turn beet red as the girl would sit next to him and touch his hand which was on his sides, I could only give a chuckle as he was slowly calming down from what was happening right now, Vel on the other hand went to sit next to Aurora, who and waved at me to call me over, I looked at Enoch and spoke.
"I'll be going now, Vel's calling me over, have fun with your Girlfriend!"
the Girl who was holding his hand would've thought for a second before finally realizing why I even moved and what I said, turning red like Enoch with him seeing this, considering the fact he looked surprised, he didn't know she seemed to be happy about this fact, at least a little bit.
"They finally got the hint didn't they~?"
"...Don't say anything in that tone again, and second, Yes they did."
I sat down next to her, my legs under itself as I only made small talk with Aurora to not reveal much about myself, I couldn't trust her yet, I just felt something weird about her. As soon as the wedding began I would've just watched, it felt similar to how Marriages happened in my world, though there were slight differences here in there involving it, though, I paid no mind, waiting for something which I needed to do I would've just then noticed time stopped, well all except for a person who was hiding outside the Palace, my eyes darted over there as they ran past the crowds thinking no one could stop them, in a sense only Vera and I could, Seeing she was doing nothing I disappeared and reappeared in front of the couple forming a blade though not large like what Vera had, it was viable to push back their attack, from then I deflected his second attack, and in that moment where he lost focus would time resume, though I didn't want so many eyes on me and because of that I quickly formed what looked like a disguise, a change in body shape, clothing, and facial structure with my hair now brown, ears like an elf's and larger assets in which worked perfect against what I was, a mask over my face since it was still changing depending on the others view of me.
"Who the hell!-"
Blood spilled out slightly though I formed a barrier with the use of magic slowing the blood down as it neared the ground changing it's trajectory back into it's body and disappearing with both the head and the assassin while also having a body double in my place, though by the time I was gone I was able to remove my disguise and shapeshifted body and switch places with the body double.
"..."
I could feel a silence across the entirety of the Palace, even though there was no one there to protect them because people thought it was foolish to protect them, meanwhile I saw Aurora who while showing happiness was clearly angry, with her body language and movement, Either she orchestrated the entire plan or she was angry someone would even try this on her sister. Though I thought it'd be the first one since I felt almost every one of her family staring down except for the Bride, Enoch and Miss Vera.
"You must be disliked by most of your family if you get those gazes everyday..."
Aurora looked over to me, her face tilting in genuine confusion as she didn't realize what I meant, her face and even body language indicated a sense of innocence. I sighed and pulled her close whispering into her ear,
[There will be no romantic tension here alright?]
{"Look... While you might not see it, they're giving very, very malicious gazes as if they want to hurt you, I'd just be wary."}
While I said this Aurora stayed quiet surprised by me telling her this, though she wasn't annoyed or angry, she felt calm and almost as if she predicted something like this would happened, Aurora's figure changed position into the same one I was in, she closed her eyes though she looked with a smile, her anger began to rise as those who were staring at her with mean looks quickly changed their mind turning away.
"Is something wrong Aurora-san?"
Though treating her normally it would've been out of character for anyone else to treat her like this since they'd normally call her Sama since they were speaking too a Higher ranking individual, though I had less of a care for ranking in social structures let alone somewhere I'm not even from. Aurora nodded no even though she was clearly angry as I sighed letting her do what she wanted to do. I got up and looked at Vel who had done the same, now following him I left the palace even though I didn't get food, It didn't matter, I made a friend though I could've made more, as I was walking out with Vel like the others since they didn't want to get assassinated would Vera appear in front of me as I stopped on my tracks, meanwhile Vel was stunned for a moment before hearing her voice.
"...I thank you for protecting my daughter, though where is that man?"
"Oh that other body is being controlled by a friend of mine named Lilith, she's doing something I have no idea but he's still screaming and begging."
Vera chuckled, something which made Vel's eyes pop out like a cartoon, as he looked at me nervously on how I was speaking so casually with his mother, he didn't know what to think and had accidentally blurted out a very, very interesting theory....
"Mother are you going to make this lady a concubine like fath-"
In unison.
"No."
I looked back at Vera and sighed with her disappearing, I looked at Vel and smacked his head as he spoke like that and pulled him before letting go once he asked me too, following me through the streets I looked for food I could get, though the food didn't look from my world I could recognize certain things like Dango and Gyūtan also with Horumonyaki. Though they looked appealing the best of them was Horumonyaki since I liked it's taste and it filled more of my stomach compared to the rest of the food. I looked over at Vel walking to the stand as I would've bent down looking at the pork offal.
"Could I have this?"
The person behind the counter nodded pointing at the price on which Vel looked at me and tried nodding no but was defeated as I held out the money which I stole from his pockets, though he didn't know it was his. Though he sighed in relief I kept a extra replica in case I used up all of it, giving her the money I had gotten four plates of it inside of a white plaster box as I held it, I walked through the streets for a little longer before finding a bench which I sat on, opening it I grabbed it swallowing a piece of it, Vel looked hungry but tried to shy away from eating it, I sighed giving him part of it shoving it down his throat as he gagged from that. Though he was able to eat it he looked at me angry with very good reasoning.
"Kai! what the hell was that!?"
"You were refusing to eat food I got for the both of us so I had to take drastic measures."
He looked over blushing out of embarrassment and sighed giving in and eating the food while I also ate, though taking most of it, he was full after finishing part of it, all while I ate it like some madman even though I kept elegance not getting anything dirty, not even my face nor making any noise while eating which I considered rude, I was a lot more conscious of what I was doing currently since I didn't wish to put a bad impression on Vel or his siblings, I sat waiting for Vel to say something since he really wanted too I could just see it in his face.
"Well, Kai- You know a lot about me right now but I know nothing about you... Is there anything you could tell me?"
"...Well I guess I could tell you what I did before I came here, when I say here I mean the "World" which in my interpretation means the entire Universe, I come from another one through a black hole, I wasn't some super powerful girl I was just a ordinary but tall girl in High School which is a form of education."
"Education- Wait ladies actually go to study there instead of being maids or wives!?"
"Well generally yes, your world can be considered to be in the past considering it has a lot of things mine doesn't, but some of them you do not want like hating on others for different skin colors, I can see from your brother Enoch who's a lot more tan and was born that way, but no one seems to care about it anyways, it's even here that they don't care someone looks different, I really like that part though the education part could use a change."
Vel looked at me ramble and sighed because he didn't know what to think of it, he thought that he could maybe help with it but in the end he had no idea if had any say in something like this. I didn't care if he did anything, time will pass and it'll happened, it always does, though I don't see much discrimination against ladies here so I doubt they'd want change anyways.
"Also, just a heads up, there's always going to be a small but loud minority of a certain group which will always go against what you decide, it's best to just ignore them unless it's about a serious problem which their solution helps, you listen once"