27. Second Go! (11)
“What is your opinion, Ally?”
Maximilian turned his head to gaze at Ally.
Stila, whom was able to obtain some illumination from Chris’ weak fire, was immersed in the spellbook—her eyes shone.
“Let’s see… If it’s either the apostle of darkness or the angel of light, since it’ll be a one-to-one contract, I don’t think just being beautiful would suffice to summon them. However, since there are many spirits of nature—such as fire, water, earth, and wind; I think there would be some who will come out if Your Highness humbles himself…”
Ally stared back at Maximilian, pondering.
Certainly, back when his appearance was still the spitting image of a youth in from religious paintings, spirits eagerly pranced around him.
…Now that I think about it, until my 9th life, Maximilian only need to walk outside to have a butterfly perch on his fingertip and bird on his shoulder…
The Maximilian of her previous nine lives was also the same man who proclaimed that if he hadn’t been born as the King’s son, he would have chased his dream of becoming a bard.
Back then, he even wrote a love song for her—
“—Wow. He sucks.” Was her impression after receiving it—however, deep down, she was really happy.
Despite so, in the end, he devoted said love song to Saint Mia; to her, and only her—
—as the memory of her past captured her, she grew rapidly depressed. Ally quickly pulled her hair.
In a hurry, she looked at the current Maximilian’s hands—
—it’s full of scratches. Wouldn’t be suited for a lyre.
After confirming so, Ally exhaled.
“My, Ally. You’re surprisingly bad at concealing your desires—do you want to be held in these manly hands that badly?”
“No, that’s not it at all. I don’t know the beautiful man that is from ‘the dream of His Highness’—but, one thing is for certain, the real His Highness lacks the skill and appearance to make what you said sound innocent. Therefore, please think before you speak. Your words just now can be deemed as sexual harassment.”
It was truly nice that there were no young maidens applying to become a maid of the West Wing.
Whether it was his true nature or due to the influence of his dreams, Maximilian’s remark just now sounded like what the former Maximilian would say, back when he was still a little handsome… that was why, please stop.
Other than that, if his mouth wasn’t corrected before the social season, his sexual harassment could have him be brought before the royal magistrate judge.
“I, I wasn’t sexually harassing you! B, besides, I would only say that kind of thing to the girl in my dream and Ally!”
Because Maximilian slammed his foot on the ground like hell, an earthquake with a seismic intensity of three occurred locally.
“Well, well, Your Highness, Miss Ally is just being bashful. After all, she’s a baroness—under normal circumstances, she wouldn’t be able to get close to Your Highness. Therefore, it’s only natural for her to be confused by Your Highness’ sudden advances…”
The representative, Geoffrey, showed a friendly smile.
She was confused by his sudden advance, sure. But she never intended to get close to him in the first place!
In turn, Ally stared at the Muscle Special Squadron. To describe the feelings she directed at them at that moment—I still haven’t forgotten my past resentment towards you guys!
Even right at this second, I still want to escape… but I have to take care of Lady Stila…
Formerly, when she was still Alicia, the Duchess, she had never met Stila.
During of her adolescence, Alicia was the most active in the noble society. Nevertheless, she had never met Stila, nor Kelly in the royal palace. Perhaps, in her previous nine lives, they were secretly killed, as the Queen intended—indeed, it might be so.
I have no idea what will happen during next month’s social season.
…I have to protect Lady Stila no matter what, even if it means dying!
While confirming her resolution, Stila suddenly yawned.
“Everyone, this shall conclude today’s practice. Each of you, please think of a chant that will smoothly summon the spirits of the four elements. Regarding the apostle of darkness, it would be best for you to continue your muscle training before going to sleep, since power factors greatly. Of course, don’t forget healthy nourishment and proper sleep schedule.”
The apostle of darkness and angel of light both had a high amount of pride, so they would never appear before those with weak magical power.
In her past nine lives as the Duke’s daughter, she was able to wield the darkness attribute. However, it was only now that she was able to make a contract with an apostle of darkness of such high ranking.
If in the future they would inevitably come face to face with the angel of light, therefore they should continue training their bodies and amplify their magic.
While holding Stila, whom was sleepy and rubbing her eyes, Ally gazed at the Muscle Special Squadron. When they saw the princess was about to enter the world of dreams, no one dared to resume the special training.
***T/N: #Maximilian-is-a-Disney-Prince #Facts
Sorry for zee delay, you guyz… You zee, I am zick… *snort into handkerchief, yez, zend pity party my way…
“That’s a good question. But, in my opinion, you aren’t obligated to say anything in that regard. Yes, not until your past wounds have healed; not until you’ve seen that they really have changed; and not until you are comfortable enough to tell them about those memories.”
#TheWomanofMyHeart #StraightUpFacts
*P.S: Do any of you in the comment section watch the newest Kim Soo Hyun Drama ‘It’s Okay not to be Okay’? Then you guys could probably guess what I have problem with ^^^ (related to the quotation above)
Now she should reveal who she is to maxipad, appropriate name considering how much of her blood he spilt.
Tiny fanfic of how I think she should keep him away.
Maxipad had been more bold of late in his affectionate banter, it had become increasingly troublesome as time wore on, no matter how firmly I rejected his advances he simply brushed it off ignoring my wishes, rather he kept changing tactics sometimes using Stila shamelessly to gain my attention. It was time to deal was with this completely.
“Your highness, may I speak with you I. Private later when you have time” his face flushed red a stupid happy grin on his face.
“O..of course! now is good!”
“Very well” my voice sounded distant in my ears, I felt calm, i had decided to reveal the truth of who I was.
I would often tell Stilas stories of the dukes daughter and the handsome prince, I chose to share it one day with the muscled freaks present, I wondered if the dreams they had might trigger an actual memory like mine, sometimes I would notice Maxipads would stop what he was doing and listen, his grin at the happy ending was warm.
Maxipad seemed nervous, as we found a secluded spot to sit and talk, I had created an area that prevented anyone from overhearing what I was going to say with magic, sighing softly I turned to Maxipad.
“Your highness please stop making advances towards me, do not ignore my request anymore, there….there is a reason, I am only coming forth with this because of Stila and my family, the more you know the better…”
I looked at Maxipad suddenly feeling quite numb.
“I have… Memories of my past lives” Maxipads eyes widened in shock… “The dreams you spoke of…I can explain…”
“Ally?”
“Do you remember the tale I told Stila?”
“Yes… I..I found it quite charming” a sudden chill travelled down my spine.
“That story, is based on my past life, I was the dukes daughter and you…. you were the Prince”
“Ally!” Maxipad rather than feeling happy, a sense of dread warning that I shouldnt listen, The urge to flee was overwhelming
“We grew up together, we had a warm and happy childhood, my feelings for you grew into love, I was happy and proud to be your future wife.” Maxipads heart was beating wildly in fear “Stop her…dont let her finish!”
“Are you…”
“Please dont interrupt, this is already quite difficult…”…” Then one day she came…the saint a great beauty who was gifted with precious light magic… My happy ending did not come, my prince turned from me to her, the feelings I had did not matter, a person whom you had spent years knowing, was discarded easily.”
Maxipads memories clung to that beautiful girl whose eyes were filled with tears and pain the image was suddenly so vivid as Ally spoke I could see it clearly…”No!” “Please stop no more” yet Ally kept talking… her voice steady and calm…
“The weak pathetic dukes daughter could not win against the Saint, she could not protect her friends no matter how desperately she struggled, till finally she was falsely accused of trying to murder the precious Saint, the family that raised her, the childhood love abandoned and condemned her…”
“No more….please” tears flowed freely from his eyes… there was no sign of that energized fool flexing his strength…
“The prince decapitated the dukes daughter for her crimes…at 17 yrs old” Ally could hear a strangled cry… “Imagine my surprise to find myself 7 once more…I had thought that was a terrible nightmare, but alas, history repeated itself… I was once again your victim…after the third time I tried desperately to live, all for nothing… By the fifth time I had succumb to depression, anxiety, misery and fear.” I could hear painful sobs from Maxipads…
“Ally…I….”
“I wondered after committing suicide how my childish self looked dangling from my wardrobe, I thought it quite funny… I had temporarily gone Insane, I spent 2 more rebirths trying to kill the Saint I had discovered her charm ability, I realized you to were a victim, I tried so hard I tried… pitiful really I never succeeded, the 8th time, I tried leaving the kingdom, but somehow you still came and took my life…finally I gave up, resigned to my fate…I waited for the inevitable, reborn…I awoke in this body hoping to finally be free and yet here I am…”
“I..I…cannot make up for this…” The vague images finally became crystal clear… The sound of my blade as it hit flesh, the sickening sound of her lifeless body landing heavily…her beautiful blue eyes forever dimmed, grief…unimaginable pain searing through my heart, just how long did she suffer…
“I dont want your guilt nor your pity but please protect them from the saint and Stila especially Stila safeguard her well, she never existed, at least I never heard of her in all my lifetimes, perhaps she died too soon, but in this life…she lives…I will protect her and all that I love, I do not blame you, I know you were charmed ..but that does not erase what was done” with sudden tears in my eyes i pleaded and begged desperately
“I want us all to move on and live better lives, I want to break this damned cycle” choking on her words “I want to love, but not with you…”
I would’ve done it that way…he got maxipad zoned, not even bro or friendzoned!! I have not read ahead so I got no clue what happens…this is my own imaginings of rejecting him firmly.
Typing on a phone sucks balls lotsa typos…fatfingered
…Now that I think about it, until my 9th life, Maximilian only need to walk outside to have a butterfly perch on his fingertip and bird on his shoulder…
Does he sing using a high pitched voice after that?? Does he sing a song with lyrics that goes “I know you. I walked with you once upon a dream” while wearing a beige skirt and barefooted??
“but, one thing is for certain, the real His Highness lacks the skill and appearance to make what you said sound innocent. Therefore, please think before you speak. Your words just now can be deemed as sexual harassment.”
So it isn’t counted as sexual harrasment if the person saying it is good looking??? Is it like how they call ugly persistent and creepy suitors who refuse to name themselves as stalkers while handsome persistent and creepy suitors who refuse to name themselves are called secret admirers???
“Well, well, Your Highness, Miss Ally is just being bashful. After all, she’s a baroness—under normal circumstances, she wouldn’t be able to get close to Your Highness. Therefore, it’s only natural for her to be confused by Your Highness’ sudden advances…”
Somehow I wanna beat them up for this assumption. Don’t frickin assume that anyone and everyone wants to become close with a prince!!!! FYI, a prince and a crown prince at that is a fricking danger magnet!!!! Who would want to endanger themselve like that?!?!?!
Maximillian sexually harrassing one of his friends:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcR8VMGM4qVRmFSSXN6QFt5uA9GoMwOqC4MgYQ&usqp=CAU
The story behind the pic:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6072486/male-gorillas-sex-rotterdam-zoo-netherlands/amp/
Where’s the complimentary gorilla-max?
Lyre won’t work. Get him a guitar maybe. LOL!
Reminds me of the anime with working out and the guy just burst out of his clothes when people mention working out.
Feckin hell, he sounds like an absolute madman
Aww Ally! She handles them so well despite still having all of those sad feelings T__T poor girl
Editing mistake:
c“No, that’s not it at all. I don’t know the beautiful man that is from ‘the dream of His Highness’
Well, if a lyre won’t work for him, all he has left is to contract a spirit of lightning and make it all go electric~
Lol thanks for spotting that!
Why don’t they try to train the spirits into being muscle heads too?
oh no, please, that would definitely open a whole ‘nother can of death flags
Thank for the update
Thanks for the chapter! I hope you get well soon.