“What is destiny? Does destiny always be true? If the person is destined to die tomorrow, can that person avoid the death? Do humans just follow the flow of destiny or can we break the flow of it?”

That was what I always thought about the villainess novel where people trapped in the novel’s world and became villains, but it seemed they didn’t know what is fate or destiny of them, they just followed the flow of the novel’s story.

There were two types of fate that religious people believed, first the fate where humans could change it, no matter the humans wanted to change this fate, they would face it, it was the fate of death, and the fate of a soulmate. God already decided your fate about those, where or when or how you would die, or who will be your soulmates, God already had the note of that before human birth.

The other fate was the fate you could change, there was a lot of this type of fate, the fate you would pass the exam, it depended on you, you wanted to study or not, it was not God’s matter, it was your matter. You wanted to be healthy, you wanted to be rich, you wanted to be famous, etc, it was your fate that you could change how you act.

But there was an exception from the fate you could not change, the exception was you still needed to try, for example you wanted to have soulmate or partner to marry, but you didn’t have any effort to find it, just stayed alone waiting someone came to you, God would not unite you with the fate one, and if you didn’t want to die fast, so you needed to stay healthy, eat healthy food.

So did the novel’s story like the god’s fate? Where the character of the novel could not change it, but if someone was aware of the story, it should change the story or the fate of the novel. Why did every novel I read about this concept seem like they weren't aware of this concept?

            The character seemed so focused about the novel’s story and seemed scared about the future of her. It was not the case if you were aware, you could easily change the fate of the villain character. You just avoided the death flag of fate where it would bring disaster to the villain character, or just trying something new. But in a lot of novels, the person who was trapped in the villain's body, just kept following the story of the novel, like they wanted to unite the male lead with the female protagonist, or they weren't aware of the male lead feeling, and many more where it was bound to the story. But there was some novel who has common sense of fate, the villain just got the **** out from the story, like she was going to the countryside or hidden from the society just lived relaxed.

            Just imagine you already knew and remembered the date of all the Sun and Moon Eclipse, and traveled back in time. You presented to all the people, said about the Sun and Moon Eclipse. Immediately people saw the eclipse, and thought it was your power, everyone would worship you as saint, apostle or any call. So this kind of power to know the future was so big, why all the character’s novels just blatantly follow the rules of the world's novel. Just bend the rules and be you not be the villain of the novel.

            Sometimes it was dumb until……….

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            One day in the evening, I opened my eyes, and saw the different ceiling, the ceiling that I never saw in my life. In front of me was my hair, that was long hair, it felt that I never had long hair. Half asleep I tried to get up from the bed, and my hair kept in front of me. I looked around, I didn’t recognize the room, the design was so old than the modern day, there was a big mirror, big dressing table, big wardrobe, big window with big balcony beside of bed, everything seemed fancy to me, even the bed was so fancy

            I saw the door open in my room, there was a maid who brought a bowl with a towel and entered the room. Our eyes met, suddenly she was surprised and dropped the bowl with the towel. I raised my hand to call her, but she immediately exited the room.

            I laid back and examined what the hell was going on. I never had a room like this before, I never had white hair like this before. My face was maybe more beautiful than before. I stood up from the bed to check my face and my body, I walked to the big mirror beside the window. In front of the mirror, I saw someone's body with thin cloth pajamas, it was not my body, the body was smaller than my own body, It was maybe around 14 years old. Unbelieve what I just saw, I kept touching the body and the hair.

            The sound of the door opened, I turned back my head to the door. Saw some people entering my room. There was the maid before, a lady with long white hair, a man with short white hair, and there was a little boy and a little girl behind them. Their faces were so worried.

            “Is that really my Aurelia?” The lady spoke.

            The lady and the man immediately approached me, and hugged me. I wanted to reply to the hug, but I didn’t know what was going on, it felt awkward. The lady showed her face to me, and I saw there was a tear in her eyes.

            “Aurelia…You have awake…how is your body?? Is there any hurt anywhere?” The lady said it to me.

            “Oh dear…How about you calm for a second…It seems Aurelia can’t handle a lot of thought, and look at her face, she is still in shock and pale.…” The man tried to confront the lady.

            The two released their hug to me.

            “I know..my dear, but to see Aurelia awake and standing makes me so happy…I can’t hold my feelings against it..”

            They didn’t hug me anymore, but there was something nagging my leg. It was the little boy and the little girl hugged my leg. When I saw the two carefully, they were twins, with different eye colors. The girl had red eyes like the lady and white long hair, and the boy had blue eyes like the man and white short hair. The girl held a doll in her arm. They were so cute.

            “Aurelia, you need to take a rest in bed, and you two let her leg go.”

            The little two released their hug in my leg, and the lady accompanied me to the bed with everyone in back. I laid down again in bed, and she lifted the blanket.

            “How’s your body??” The lady kept questioning.

            “Au..re..li..a” I tried to say something to them.

            “What is it?”

            “You called me Aurelia, is that my name?”

I saw everyone’s faces shocked after I asked about it.

            The man immediately shouted “WHERE THE PHYSICIAN THAT I HAVE ORDERED EARLIER?” I saw his face startled.

            “She is on the way here, your grace..” The maid answered it.

            “HOW LONG? YOU PICK HER UP!”

            The maid straight away ran out of the room. The lady’s face was startled like disbelief. I saw the two felt uneasy about it, the lady kept holding my right hand, and the man kept walking back and forth. The little two were beside the lady. The room filled with complete silence, the lady beside me kept holding my right hand. The little two were beside my face.

After some minutes of silence, the maid came to the room with a red-haired woman.

            The maid addressed the man “The physician has come, your grace.”

            “Great..Quickly check my daughter..”

The words of my daughter surprised me, the little two stepped back from me, and let the woman come and sat in bed beside me, but the lady kept holding my right hand. The physician touched my hand, especially the pulse. I saw she closed her eyes while checking my pulse . After some moments, she touched my forehead and touched her own forehead. I realized she checked my temperature compared with her temperature in her forehead.

            The physician addressed the lady and the man “I believe there is nothing wrong with her condition.”

            “Are you 100% sure about it?” The man replied.

            “I’m sure, your grace.”

            “But she asked about her name, it felt like she didn’t know her own name.” The lady replied.

             I looked at the physician and her face turned to me.

            “Do you know your own name?” She asked me.

             “They called me Aurelia…I think that’s my name…”

             “Before they called you Aurelia, did you know your own name?”

             “I don’t know..”

             “Can you remember about the past?”

             “What past?”

              “Hmmmmm…How about these two children behind me, do you recognize them?”

              I looked carefully at their faces “I have no idea..”

The lady and the man’s faces became so worried.

            “Do you not know them?”

            “I’m sorry I have no idea..”

            “How about the lady that is still holding your hand right now, do you recognize her?”

            I turned my face to her “I don’t have any idea..”

The lady’s face became more anxious and worried

            “How about your dream? Do you have any dreams when you are asleep?

            “I can’t remember it..”

The physician stood up, moved forward to the lady and the man. I saw her whisper something to them. They followed her out of the room. After they were out of the room, there were still the little two in the room. I saw their faces like they wanted to cry..

            They came to my bed, and held my right arm..

            The boy spoke first “Sister Aurelia, do you really not know us?”

I cannot answer his question..

            The girl spoke with shutter like she wanted to cry “Sis..ter… Aure..lia.. Are..you..real..ly…sis..ter.. Aurelia..?”

Still I cannot answer the question..

            The girl showed her doll with her two hands to me “Look…You..mus..t..k..now..who..she..is?”

I kept quiet. The girl seemed to not be able to hold her emotions anymore, and started to cry..The boy tried to calm her to stop crying, but it failed and he started to cry too..

            I got up from laying in the bed, and tried to calm them down. I put my hands to their head, and started to pat them. I was just smiling at them..

            The man and the lady with the physician immediately went into the room. The lady went to the little two, and started to calm them down. The man went with her. The physician stood in front of my bed.

            The physician tried to explain to all of us “I think it is better to let everyone know, especially my lady about the condition of my lady.” she started to make statement “My lady has suffered memory loss, the amount of memory lost, I still don’t know it, because my lady didn’t recognize madam, madam was the one who gave birth my lady, if my lady didn’t recognize her own birth mother, It is possible that all the memory of my lady is lost. But there is hope in my lady situation, usually when people lost their memory, they would act like a baby or child. My lady acted not like a baby or child, even my lady understood what I had said, so it would be great if my lady started to learn everything again. I hope in the process of learning, my lady regains her memory.”

            “It’s great, but I think it’s better if we start introducing ourselves…” The lady said “Let me introduce myself to you, My name is Cordelia Aurelius, I am your birth mother like she said, and you are Aurelia Aurelius..” She patted the little two “Do you want to introduce yourselves on your own, or your mother introduce you to your own sister?”

            “No..I wa..nt to Intro..duce..my..self..*sob*sob” The boy stuttered from crying “My..name..is..*sob *sob..Aurelio Aurelius..”

            “I..am..*sob*sob…Ophe..lia…Aur..elius…*sob*sob” The girl stuttered.

The lady patted their head. I turned my face to the man.

            The lady turned her face too to the man “Dear..I think you start to introduce yourself too..”

            “Right..right…I am Marcus Aurelius, I am your father…”

            “As you already knew, we are the Aurelius family…and the one who checked you is our family physician, her name is Sofia..”

            Sofia was bowing to me.

            “I think it’s better for you to take a rest first, after hearing all of this…..Two of you let your sister take a rest…”

            All of them left the room…

            My identity was Aurelia Aurelius. I laid in bed.

            “But why I don’t remember anything..”

I closed my eyes and tried to sleep, but I could not fall asleep as well. I got up from my bed, walked toward the balcony beside the bed..

            I opened the big glass door of the balcony, the wind immediately blew my hair and made my hair waving like the wind. In front of me, a mother of Luna appeared with her full form in the sky, her appearance was so big and white. She illuminated all the places with her form. I leant in the balcony. The wind was so windy that it kept blowing my hair, it made me comfortable after the things of before. It felt like she sent this wind and made me clear my mind. I stayed on the balcony for a few minutes while looking at the garden in front of me. After my mind was clear, I went in. I closed the curtain's balcony door, I laid on the bed and tried to sleep, and in a few minutes I fell asleep.

            ……..

              When I was asleep, I felt something patting my body and pushing. My vision was suddenly full of red, not dark anymore. It meant there was a light illuminated to me, so I opened my eyes. The curtain’s balcony door had been drawn, making my vision blurry for a few seconds. I regained my vision, and saw it was the maid yesterday.

            “My lady, Good Morning..” The maid greeted..

            “Good Mooooooorning..” I yawned..

            “Did you not sleep well, my lady?”

            “I slept well, but from yesterday…it made me a little bit tired..”

            “His grace and everyone are waiting for my lady at the table for breakfast..”

            “Oh my really? I better go right now..”

I immediately got up from the bed, and walked toward the door. But the maid stopped me in front of me.

            “My lady, I think you need to dress before you go there..”

            “Dress? It's just breakfast right? Why do I need to be dressed? What’s wrong with my pajamas”

            “There is nothing wrong with my lady pajamas, but it is appropriate if you are well dressed at the table.”

            “But…they are waiting for me..It's not more appropriate to make them wait.”

            “I believe his grace and madam will know my lady's condition..”

            “If you say like that, sure I will be dressed.”

            “My lady, can follow me..”

            I was led by the maid to the dressing table, I saw there was a bowl of water, small towel, and soap on the floor, and I sat at the chair in front of the dressing table. She took the soap and mixed it into the water in the bowl, after that she used the small towel, and washed it on my face.

            “Excuse me, my lady..” She started to rub the towel on my face.

She finished washing my face. I saw her open the drawer of the dressing table, took out a few small jars, and put it on top of the dressing table. The maid started combing my hair with a wooden comb, it took some minutes to comb my hair. I saw she took a powder from a small jar in the dressing table, and applied it to my hair, it has a rose scent. My hair smelt like a rose. I saw she took another powder from a different small jar, and rubbed it on my face, after that she took a cream from another jar, and rubbed it too on my face.

And she took oily powder and mixed it with the rose scent, after that she rubbed it on my face. Next she applied a blush to my cheeks mixed with rose scent, and she did not forget to rub my lip with another powder mixed with honey. I thought the make up of my face was done because she walked toward the wardrobe.

            She came back to me with a dress and a sort of stocking with garter belt. She started to undress me. After undressing me,she crouched down to put on the stockings for me, before she dressed me with the dress, she rubbed me some deodorant, and dressed me. I looked in the mirror, my face was so different than last night, it was more sparkling. The dress was so well made and fancy, it was a white dress.

            “It’s done, my lady..”

            “Is it necessary to do all of this just for breakfast?”

            “Of course, it is necessary my lady, it is my job to maintain your beauty everyday.”

            “Everyday? You said.”

            “Yes, everyday..”

            “It’s like I will go to a party if we do like this.”

            “If my lady prepares to go to the party, there will be more steps to beautify my lady.”

            “Really?”

            “Yes, as my lady see in this dressing table, there is 2 section of drawers, what cosmetic I used to my lady is in the right section, it just a cosmetic for daily basic, and if my lady go to the party, I will use the drawer of left section too, there will be more treatment for my lady’s face.”

            “All of this baffling my mind..”

            “My lady doesn’t need to think of it, just let me do it for my lady..”

            “Right..and I am still not catching your name..”

            “My name is Adeline, my lady..”

She was a black hair maid, her appearance like in her 20s.

           “I will remember it..let’s go to breakfast, can you lead me to the breakfast room?”

            “Of course, my lady.”

            We left the room, and walked to the breakfast room or dining room. On the way, I didn’t recognize anything from the house, and the house was huge. There were a lot of fancy ornaments, and a lot of paintings on the wall. There were a lot of fancy objects too, not just on the wall. My room was on the second floor, and it took us more time to arrive at the breakfast room.

            In the room, I saw everyone was in their seats already. Adel led me to my seat; it was in between the little two Aurelio and Ophelia, she set up the chair from the table before I sat, after I sat, she set up my chair again to the table, and she left from the room. In front of us was our mother, and our father was in the middle of the table. There was still nothing on the table.

            “How’s your feeling, Aurelia?” Mother said to me

            “It's getting better, sorry for making mother so worried about me.”

            “It’s alright…I think your brother and your sister are the ones who worry you so much.”

            I turned my face to each of them, and patted their head with my two hands..

            While patting their head, I said “Forgive this big sister, that makes my little siblings so worried.”

            “I will forgive sister Aurelia, if sister Aurelia play doll with me” Ophelia said to me

            “Sure..I will play it with you later..”

            “UNFAIR!!..You will play with me too right, Sister Aurelia?” Aurelius intervened.

            “It’s alright I will play with all of you two later..”

The two were so happy, but…

            “Aurelia will play with all of you tomorrow, today I want to introduce Aurelia with her tutor..” Father finally spoke a word.

            “Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh..” The two whining.

            “It’s okay, if your father said tomorrow it means Aurelia will be free all day tomorrow, and you two can play all day with her.” Mother calmed them.

            “Really??” Aurelio was excited.

            “Aurelio….Don’t get excited first..” Ophelia intervened

            “Why, Ophelia?”

            The two started talking to each other secretly in front of my lap, but everyone could hear their talking.

            “It is father…Aurelio, do you learn something from all the things that father said to us?”

            “What do you mean Ophelia..?”

            “Father is a cunning person…So we are better not to trust his word…”

            “But mother agrees with father, does it mean we can trust father’s word?”

            The two turned their faces to their mother..

            “Mother is an ally of father…maybe she schemes with father to take sister Aurelia from us..”

            “It makes sense.”

            Mother and father started to make small giggles from the little two's conversation and behavior.

            “See Aurelio, they are laughing at us…”

            “Right, right, how about sister Aurelia, is she laughing right now?”

            They looked at me, I just used poker face.

            “Sister Aurelia is our only ally, Ophelia..”

            “Because she is sister Aurelia..”

            “Are you aware that your father and your mother can hear your conversation right?” Father intervened.

            The two faces were surprised…

            “We don’t try to steal your sister from you..” mother said

            “We don’t believe it, right Aurelio..”

            “Yes..”

            “What will make you believe us that we will not steal Aurelia?” father said.

            “Promise to us…that tomorrow we will get sister Aurelia all day” Ophelia said

            “I promise you will get Aurelia all day..” Father promised..

            “No…Father needs to raise one of father's hands so we will trust your promise, right Ophelia.?”

            “Yess, Father needs to raise hand..”

            Father raised his right hand “I promise you will get Aurelia all day..”

            “What will happen if father breaks the promise?” Ophelia asked

            “Yess…what is the consequence?

            “I will take the family to stroll in the city and take the family to shop—”

            “DEALL…” Ophelia immediately agreed about the father promise.

            Mother and father were giggling..

            “Ehhhhhhh..”  Aurelio was surprised and turned his face to Ophelia “Why are you suddenly agreeing, Ophelia?”

            “Just agree with it, Aurelio..”

            “Well, Ophelia is a girl too, so it will be agreeing..” mother intervened.

            “Maybe it is inherited from you, my dear..”

            “Oh my…Aurelio acts more like you too, dear..”

            The little two were arguing for some moments in front of my lap, and mother and father made a conversation. But there was something important..

            “When will we start to eat breakfast? I am so hungry right now...” my thoughts..

            After a few minutes had passed, the table situation became normal again. Father clapped his hands, and immediately some maids went to the room with some plates in their hands. They served it in front of us. Finally, we were starting to eat..

            The breakfast was finished, and Adel led me to my room. Arriving in my room, I wanted to lay down in bed, immediately I ran to the bed and jumped to the bed..

            “MY LADY!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?” Adel with a worried tone..

            “I just want to lay down in bed.”

            “You are in a dress, it is not appropriate to do that..”

            “Ehhhhh…”

            “How about sitting on the balcony, my lady? And enjoy the view of the garden.”

            “Alright..”

I got up from the bed, and I realized there was a table and a chair on the balcony. What I remembered from last night, there was no table and chair. There was a tea set, cookies and cakes too. Adel set up the chair for me, I sat on the chair, she set up the chair to the table. She started to pour tea into the cup. I took a sip of it, and enjoyed the view and the wind. Adel kept standing beside me.

            “My lady, you can eat the cookie or the cake..”

            “I will try it if I want it.”

            “I am already full from breakfast, I cannot eat anything for now.” My thoughts

            ……

            There was someone knocking the door, Adel immediately went to it and checked who it was. It was a butler, and I saw the butler say something to Adel, after that he went off. Adel passed the message from the butler to me.

            “My lady, his grace, wants to meet my lady in his room.”

            We immediately went to my father's room and Adel led the way. We reached in front of my father's room, and the door was so big, I thought it must be 3 times taller than my height.

            “You can enter the room, my lady, I will wait here.”

            “Are you not accompanying me inside?”

            “No, I think it will be better if my lady and his grace talking privately, it will not be appropriate for me to disturb it.”

            “Alright then..”

            I pushed the door, and saw the room was so big, with a lot of bookshelves full of books, and there was my father sitting at the working desk with a lady standing in front of me. I saw the lady didn’t wear a dress like I do, but it felt like man’s clothes and had blonde hair. I walked toward my father. father’s eyes met me.

            “Aurelia, you are already here..”

            “Yes, father..Is there something that you need me for?”

            “I have told you in breakfast before, that I will introduce you to your tutor right..” Father’s eyes went to the lady “She will be your tutor and lady in waiting for now..”

            “Greetings, my lady..” She bowed to me “My name is Octavi Claudi, I will be your tutor and your lady in waiting..”

            “Greeting too Octavi..”

            “She is from the Palace Academy, her knowledge and her ability are so excellent…”

            “If my father praised Lady Octavi so much, it must be true..”

            “It’s an honor to me that Lady Aurelia and his grace praised me..”

            “You two can have a tea party, so you two will know each other..”

            “Like father said, I believe there are some cakes and cookies on my balcony…How about Lady Octavi accompany me on the balcony and enjoy the view of the garden.”

            “I will gladly accept it..”

            “I think it is better to have a tea party in the garden than enjoy it from the balcony.” Father suggested..

            “It's a great suggestion father, I ask Adel to prepare it.”

            “No, father will ask a butler to prepare it..” Father clapped his hands..

            Immediately a butler opened the door, I was amazed that the sound of father’s clapping could be heard from outside.

            “Prepare a tea party for my daughter and Lady Octavi in the garden!”

The butler bowed and left..

            “With that, the tea party is settled, you two can go to the garden to enjoy the tee and the view.”

            Lady Octavi and I walked toward the garden led by Adel. I observed Lady Octavi walking. The posture was more like a man walking than a lady, her body was strapping every step she walked.

            We arrived at the entrance of the garden. The garden was so spacious, and there was a pavilion in the middle of it. We walked toward the pavilion, and I noticed that there were 2 chairs and a table with a tea set, cookies, and cakes in the pavilion. There were a lot of types of plants in the garden with different colors, which made the garden full of color.

            Adel set up the chair for me first, after me, she set up the chair for Lady Octavi. She poured the tea for me and Lady Octavi, we took a sip.

            “Lady Octavi, how old are you? Sorry if it’s disrespectful to you.”

            “No it’s not disrespectful, I am 21 years old, my lady..”

            “And my father said that Lady Octavi was from The Palace Academy, what's it like to be in there?”

            “Hmmmmm…does my lady want to enter the Academy in the future?”

            “I still don’t have any intention of thinking about going there..”

            “Well..The Academy is huge as well, and there are a lot of nobles who roll in there.”

            “Really a noble studies there..What type of nobles?”

            I saw her face and seemed surprised.

            “My lady, you are aware that you are a noble too, right?”

            “I am a noble?”

            “Yes, my lady..Your family Aurelius Family is a distinguished family, and is respected over the kingdom.”

            “It is a shame for me, that I don’t know anything about my own family...”

            “It’s alright my lady, your father gave me the mandate to educate and give all the knowledge that my lady needs, and your father had told me the situation of my lady facing off…”

            “If my father trusts you so much, I will trust you to educate me..”

            “Just leave it to me, my lady..”

            I took a sip of tea.

            “Can you tell me about my own family..”

            “Of course…the Aurelius Family has a long history of being a distinguished family. The present of the family is like the present of the royal family of the kingdom. Does my lady know the meaning of Aurelius?..

            “I don’t know..”

            “Aurelius means Golden, and the kingdom gives the nickname of the family as The Golden Family, the family being respected not just the name of Aurelius, but the family is well known as a sharp family. The proof is in here, does my lady know what city my lady lives in?”

            “I don’t aware of that..”

            “This city is the most developed city in the entire kingdom, even the capital of the kingdom development cannot beat the development of this city, it’s because of the Aurelius Family. If my lady family is such a distinguished family, does my lady have any idea what peerage of the family is?”

            “What is the peerage? I don’t know about that..”

            “Peerage is a title granted from the kingdom to the family, it has some rank, let’s start from the lowest, the first one is Baron, the baron is who oversees the village, the second is the Viscount doesn’t have any land, Viscount job is not oversee a land but to help for the higher peerage rank. The third is the Earl or Count who oversees the county, The Fourth is the Marquess who oversees the border of the kingdom. The Fifth is the Duke who oversees the duchy, and the highest one is the king who oversees the kingdom…The Aurelius Peerage rank is the duke, the family oversees the duchy of Florence..And the family doesn’t have count and baron vassals who oversees their county and their village, All the county and the villages in the duchy of Florence has been oversees by the family..”

            “What’s your rank Lady Octavi?”

            She took a sip of tea.

           “My family rank is Viscount, my lady…and Our family is the vassal of Aurelius…”

            “So you are my vassal, Lady Octavi?”

            “Yes…Claudi Family has been the vassal of Aurelius for a long time, over the generations Claudi Gens are the sword and the right hand of Aurelius…It is a great honor to swear fealty to your family, my lady..”

            “Well, I hope our relation is not agitated by the peerage relation..”

            “If my lady hopes for it, I will fulfill it..”

            “Thanks…and my father said you are my lady in waiting…Can I ask you what is that?”

            “Lady in Waiting is a companion a lady, my lady..It is usually in the royal court, but your family is so different and special, so it has a Lady in Waiting, beside a companion, Lady in Waiting can be a bodyguard of Lady..”

            “To be a bodyguard, it means Lady Octavi is great with a sword right?”

            “Well..I can swing my sword..I don’t know if it is great in the eyes of my lady..”

            “Do you mind if you show me some moves of your sword? You have the sword in your hip...”

            “Sure, I can show it to you…”

            Lady Octavi stood up from her seat, and walked toward the open grass in front of me with her sword…

            “My lady, While I am doing the move, I will tell you the name of the move..”

            She started to make a move, the first move was she raised the sword with 2 hands up in her head..

            “This is the stance of Ochs or Ox, it focuses on the enemy's face and throat, and cutting it.” She thrusted her sword so fast, after that swung diagonally fast.

            Next, she lowered her sword with her two hands in between her two legs, the sword pointed to the ground...

            “This is the stance of Alber or Fool, it is the defense stance, as my lady sees right now, this is a provocative stance.” She pointed to her torso with right hand. “While my sword is in between my legs, the enemy’s eyes will focus this upper body because it is so wide open..as the name of the stance “fool” it is a fool to attack right away, because…” She swung her sword upward vertically, and swung horizontally. “In this stance, it is easier to counter the attacks, and easier for our lower body to move.”

            She brought back the sword to her sword scabbard in her hip, and bowed to me. I clapped my hands..

            “I hope it’s enough to impress my lady about my sword skill..and there are still some moves…If my lady is curious about the sword…I can teach my lady about it, but with my lady father's approval first..

            Suddenly a voice of someone could be heard from behind Lady Octavi “THAT AMAZING..”

            We turned to the voice, and it was Aurelio and Ophelia. Aurelio immediately ran to Lady Octavi with their maids.

            “YOU…What was that?” Aurelio spoke to her.

            “That was just a small sword move.” she answered.

            Aurelio started to imitate the move of Lady Octavi “you doing like this..and like that…and with fast you doing like this..That was amazing…TEACH ME! HOW DO YOU DO IT?”

            “Aurelio, you are being disrespectful in front of Sister Aurelia’s guest.” Ophelia behind Aurelio “You should introduce yourself first, before asking someone a question or making a request to a guest..” She lifted her skirt and greeted Lady Octavi “Deeply Apologize, for my brother's behavior.”

            Lady Octavi responded to the greeting and greeted back with bowing to them “It’s okay young lady Ophelia, and young master Aurelio, and let me introduce myself. My name is Octavi Claudi.”

            “Lady Octavi seems to already know about our name, but we will still introduce ourselves. I am Ophelia Aurelius…And this is my stubborn brother…”

            “My name is Aurelio Aurelius…”

            “What’s Lady Octavi position to have an afternoon tea with our sister Aurelia?” Ophelia tried to intimidate her.

            “Your father has appointed me as Tutor and Lady in Waiting for Lady Aurelia, so it’s my obligation to accompany her..”

            “So you are the one who is trying to steal our time with Sister Aurelia..” Aurelio said.

            “Well I am not aware what Young master is talking about, if the young master wants to be with Lady Aurelia, of course the young master and young lady can join us.”

            The little two came to the pavilion with Lady Octavi, and suddenly there were 2 chairs beside me without my knowledge. Their maids set up the seat for the little two, and lifted them to the chair.

            “How do you guys know that I am here?” I asked them.

            “Aurelio was the one who watched Sister Aurelia come to the garden from his room, and informed me that Sister Aurelia had a tea party with someone.” Ophelia answered.

            “Yes, we want to bring back Sister Aurelia from someone who stole her from us.” Aurelio said with pointing his finger to Lady Octavi.

            “Don’t blame or accuse Lady Octavi, father has appointed her as tutor and Lady in Waiting for your sister…And Aurelio, before you said you wanted Lady Octavi teach you about something..”

            “AH YES…YOU TEACH ME HOW YOU DID THAT.” Aurelio said with a happy tone.

            “I can teach the young master about it, but with your father's approval..”

            “Really?? I will talk to my father later..”

            “Lady Aurelia, I can teach Lady too..”

            “I will consider it..”

            “NOOOO!!.” Ophelia suddenly “Sister Aurelia will become a proper Lady, with her beauty, she will become the center lady of the kingdom, so she must not hold a sword.”

              “But Ophelia, as you can see, Lady Octavi is a lady too but she is great with a sword..”

             “Really? May I ask you a question Lady Octavi?”

             “Sure..”

             “To be a tutor for Sister Aurelia, you must have an education background, may I know what your background is.”

             “I am from the Palace Academy, and I am from the Claudi Family..”

             “Sister Aurelia, Palace Academy is not a lady academy, it is a knight academy who wants to be a knight…..”

             “So you are a knight? That’s amazing.” Aurelio was amazed with Lady Octavi.

             “Aurelio, why are you amazed by that? She is a knight but became a tutor to Sister Aurelia..”

            “What’s wrong with that, Ophelia?”

            “Why should a knight become a tutor for Sister Aurelia, it must be a lady to become tutor for Sister Aurelia not a knight.”

            “Well, a knight can become a lady too right like Lady Octavi, let’s not judge Lady Octavi, father has chosen her, it means there is nothing wrong about that.” I said.

            “But her outfit is not a lady outfit, but a man’s outfit..”

            “But she is still beautiful with that outfit right, a real lady will be beautiful with any outfit.”

            “I think she is cool with her outfit.” Aurelio said.

           “See even Aurelio as boy can see the beautiful and the coolest of Lady Octavi.”

           “Whatever..” Ophelia grumbled.

           The four of us continued the tea party, like eating the cookies, cakes or drinking the tea. We were having afternoon tea, until the sun almost set. The tea party was over, and Lady Octavi parted away to go home. Ophelia was still grumbling and went off without a word, Aurelio was still with me. We were walking to the second floor together with our maid.

            “Aurelio, it seems you are interested in swords.”

            “Yes, Sister Aurelia, After saw Lady Octavi…” While walking, he imitated Lady Octavi Sword’s move “She was doing this so fast.. And like that…and that was so amazing and cool.”

            “How about we asked father, to give Lady Octavi a permit, so she can teach you in the future.”

            “Really??”

            “Yes, I will try to ask father about that..”

            “Thanks Sister Aurelia..”