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Kuuuzzuuu...

Kuuuzzuuu...

I was silent for a moment after my fox ears and fox tail came out.

"No! I don’t want to be separated from Onee-san!" Holding back Hana’s whining who kept sticking to my body, I tried to stay calm and hold back my embarrassment after several commoners glanced at me with strange smirks.

"Onee-san! Help me..." Hana tightened her hands that were holding my body tightly as much as possible before she was successfully taken by the holy woman who started taking her to the horse-drawn carriage belonging to the Aurora Goddess Shrine.

Baamm!!

With a loud sound, the door of the Aurora Goddess Shrine’s horse-drawn carriage closed tightly, and began to walk away leaving this center of attention.

"Uhm, should we also run away?" I asked Father while playing with my fox ears, which went up and down as the wind blew on them.

"Yes, that’s much better than being the center of attention like this."

My father responded casually.

When I wanted to get into the horse-drawn carriage, several soldiers guarding the gate of the Aurora Kingdom Capital were seen putting down their weapons in a weapons salute.

Brakk...

"Thank you for your hard work!" they said simultaneously.

I just smiled at them before my steps moved to enter the horse-drawn carriage that had the Marquess Rommel family crest.

Without putting off my fox ears and fox tail, I sat down covered in sweat and tired after using a large amount of magic energy. When my father and mother got into the horse-drawn carriage, my mother immediately carried my body and placed my body in her soft lap.

"Lily, what you did today seemed very reckless and dangerous."

"If I remember correctly, you have never used magic energy that is materialized using a magic device, right?"

"You can use magic energy and more efficient than the average witch or wizard, did you learn it from someone?"

Taka... takakaka...

When the horse-drawn carriage passed through the gate of the Aurora Kingdom Capital, which looked busy after experiencing an attack from the sin-eating slime, my mother asked me several questions about my use of magic energy, which was much more efficient than that of the average witch or wizard.

"Uhm, that’s because I learned it from a magic book written directly by the Great Hero," I replied without hiding my activity of studying magic books with Alice and Alyssa.

"Magic book? Ahh... I think I get it now... So Alice and Alyssa have been studying magic books written directly by the Great Hero?" My mother was very surprised when she heard my answer, even in the dark twilight sky, I could see her surprised expression when she realized that the magic book I was studying with my twin step-sisters came from the writings of the Great Hero.

"Hmph! Why doesn’t Lily invite Mama to study it too?" my mother continued, puffing out her cheeks that looked like she was pouting.

"Amagi, aren’t you already a great Witch in our Kingdom?" said my father who entered the conversation by laying Alice and Alyssa on his lap.

"This is a form of my greed as a geat witch who is always tempted by new magical knowledge, especially those from the Great Hero which are difficult to understand because the language used in their writings is very complicated to the point that it almost makes my head explode, Rom-chan!"

"Uhuk! Please don’t start by calling me that, Amagi!" My father stuttered a little when my mother called him Rom-chan again.

"Eh? What’s wrong? Shouldn’t I call you that in front of my father and mother directly, Rom-chan?" My mother kept on insisting on her little tease that made my father look like an old man who was easily fooled by his wife.

I didn’t interfere in this matter because I found it funny to see their behavior that looked like young men and women joking around.

"Damn, at a time like this, I have to meet my father-in-law and mother-in-law? Can you not push me who already exhausted mental burden too much, Amagi? I haven’t even made a report about the incident of the monster appearing inside the Royal Palace."

"Rom-chan, you should take advantage of this situation to get away from the royal family’s influence. Don’t you remember that Lily had casting curse and forced one of the rats who was always openly corrupt to keep that terrible monster that came out of the mouth of one of her children? If this incident can be used diplomatically, we can become a noble family that is neutral and not tied to any of the powers that will determine the next King. Just think of this as our retirement as nobles who no longer care about the political conditions that occur in the noble social circle," My mother explained the situation that was happening in my family but I could only understand a few of her words that mentioned that the Marquess family would officially be neutral regarding the political conditions that occurred in the Aurora Kingdom.

Caress...

Sruukkk...

Puurr...

When my mother explained her complicated words about politics and the condition of the Marquess Rommel family, her warm hands stroked my hair and touched my sensitive fox ears.

Puurr...

I accidentally purred like a fox enjoying the soft touch on its head.

Whether it was because of the dusk approaching night or my body feeling tired after releasing a large amount of magical energy, I started to feel very sleepy.

Puuurr...

"Ahhnn... Does Lily want to sleep? Did today’s incident make Lily feel tired and sleepy?" My mother directed her caress to my face which was starting to get teary from yawning and sleepiness.

"Ummn!" I replied with a nod and lowered my fox ears down as if I wanted to sleep.

"Ah, why are you so cute when you become a fox girl like this? Just watching the fox ears drooping down like this makes me feel like I can see Lily’s true feelings."

"Huum?" I started to raise my fox tail to cover my feet which were starting to feel cold like pulling a blanket. Like a fox curling up when sleeping, I unconsciously made that movement and made my mother smile as if holding her body from pressing against mine too tightly.

"Yes, anyone would be tired after doing such an amazing action. Rom-chan, you have to block the incoming mailbox starting tomorrow because there will be some noble families who are scared about Lily’s curse and incoming letters begging Lily to undo her curse and it will be annoyingly," when I wanted to fall asleep comfortably, my fox ears slightly perked up when my father and mother’s conversation, it sounded interesting.

"It doesn’t mean we’re going back to our residence, right? Aren’t we going on vacation now? There’s no reason for me to read such annoying letters, right?" My father cleverly answered my mother’s question in a cheerful tone.

"Ah! This is the first time I’m going on vacation without thinking about my duties as a noble. Can our noble proxy survive while we disappear from the front lines of business communication and social circles between nobles?" my father continued to ask my mother in a tone like stretching his body.

When I curled up and wanted to sleep, there was a conversation that was a little hard for me to understand.

Thanks to drowsiness and fatigue, I sank into a dream world until I woke up because I had arrived at the vacation area that would be the escape of the Marquess Rommel family for every problem that occurred in the Aurora Kingdom.

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When Marquess Rommel’s carriage walked out through the territory of the Aurora Kingdom, it was already a long and cold night.

The heavy tracks of the carriage left a long line on the dry ground.

When the darkness of the night showed signs of nocturnal predators starting to search for prey, a long and soft whistle was heard.

Kasakasa...

The rustling sound of the bushes showed a gaze that radiated a terrifying aura in the darkness of the night.

"Everyone, please heed the orders given by Marquess Rommel to us!"

Behind the bushes, there were rows of Maids wearing black clothes that covering her head and face like a mysterious army working in the darkness of the night.

"Our Lord officially wants to erase his traces that leave the territory of the Aurora Kingdom. Our task is very simple, which is to erase the traces left by our Lord without being traced. Can you do it?" The heavy and cold voice came from one of the Maids who covered herself in black clothes.

"Oh, my, Head Maid, you seem too serious for the task we always do to cover our tracks. Did something happen to you that you suddenly became more active like this?" joked one of the Maid who looked not serious, her black clothes slightly open showing some of her skin.

"Please be more serious this time, don’t you feel embarrassed when our job will make our Lord hunted like a wolf leaving a trail of stab wounds on the stomach?"

"Hahaha! How funny! If our Lord was that weak, he wouldn’t have been the wolf standing at the top all this time. Oh! Speaking of our Lord, why did he go on vacation after causing such big trouble? Isn’t our Lord not young anymore to make mischief and run away? Ouch! It hurts!"

Bonk!!

As the conversation of the Maid moving in the shadow slightly deviated from the actual topic, the Head Maid gave a hard smack on the slightly arrogant Maid’s head.

"Head Maid! That hurts! Why did you hit me with a Morning Star like that!" the Maid screamed in pain while rubbing her head.

"Can we work now?" said the Head Maid while playing with a spiked iron ball nicknamed Morning Star because every touch from the impact of the hard, spiked object felt like a morning star shining towards death.

"I-I will work right now!"

With that shout filled with threat and fear, all the Maids dressed in black began to work to clean up Marquess Rommel’s traces.