Beautiful Villaines
Chapter 8. Felix Theodore
Liora placed the folded napkin in half on the lap, a sign that was ready to enjoy the food served by the chefs and waiters in the dining room of the Duke Shancez residence. Appetizer dish in the form of beef bruschetta served this time looks so appetizing.
With a look of excited face, Liora also enjoyed her dishes full of manners like an elegant and dignified noble Princess. ‘Hmm, delicieuse,’ his mind sparkled happily while slowly cutting the meat into small pieces to avoid the mouth fullness when bitten.
Well, as a top actress in her native life, she also often conducts official banquets. In fact, not once was he invited to the palace twice by the Queen of England. Of course something about tabble manner and noble grace is everyday.
“So, does your head still hurt a lot, Roxa?” Duke Shancez, a burly man with a thick mustache opened the conversation lightly. He was the biological father of the body that Liora was currently occupying.
Liora at once Roxana reflexes touching the head, pressing it slowly, and slightly frowning, “I've felt better even though there's still nothing I remember. Forgive me, Father,” he replied with a face of guilt. What a very natural charade in the previous time he was so excited to enjoy the food.
The look of sadness on Duke's face even though the half-century man tried to hide it behind a smile, “It's okay, Roxa. Don't rush because we will always wait for you.”
“True. You are the most precious thing to us. So, as long as you're healthy and happy, it's not a problem.” Joanne, Duke Shancez's wife and mother Roxana said with a shady smile.
Liora smiled as she watched the couple. The sincerity they showed Roxana could really be felt by Liora. During the nearly one month of living in the Duke's residence mansion, the two of them had always paid attention to Liora and made sure her life was comfortable without anything lacking. Duke and Joanne loved Roxana, their only daughter.
The story of Liora's dark past suddenly opened. You could say if this is the first time Liora felt something called warmth since living in an orphanage. The caregivers in the parlour were so ignorant and often abandoned her. They were busy embezzling donations given to orphanages to the hard and moldy bread that often became his food.
And now, Liora who felt so cared for became a little envious and also awkward. ‘You're really lucky, Roxa,’ her mind.
Placed spoons and forks side by side, a sign that Liora has enjoyed eating enough. His agenda today was to go to the guild, the information center. He wants to find information about the mysterious Axe—man he wants to have.
The reason Liora wanted to have that man might indeed sound a little silly, which was because of his good looks. However, honestly Axe also managed to shake his heart. A foreign vibration that he first felt was enough to make it a marketing.
In his previous life, during Liora's role playing with some handsome actors, he only enjoyed his face. Not a single one of them managed to make it flutter.
However, Axe is different despite having a cold nature and quite scary. If there was Eva, maybe he would force the manager to get his personal number or maybe his email address somehow.
“Oh, yes, Liora! Did you reply to the letter sent from the academy?” Joanne asked with a bright glowing face.
“Surat?” parrot Liora slightly widened her eyes. There were indeed quite a number of letters hanging up on his room table, but he did not touch it at all.
Anne said most of the letters were from nobles who congratulated Roxana on regaining consciousness. Liora was very lazy in responding to all of them because all of that was just a small talk and a sign of politeness shown to Duke Shancez.
Well, since the beginning it has been explained that most of the noble girls no one likes the figure of Roxana who is arrogant, quiet, and mysterious. They always gossiped about it in the back and avoided it if they met at a party banquet.
“Sorry, I haven't had time to read it.” Liora said honestly and slightly smiled stiffly.
Joanne looks a little disappointed, “Then are you going back to the magic academy this year?”
“Hah? Back to magic academy?” Liora knitted both eyebrows.
“Darling, it looks like Roxa also forgot about it.” The Duke looked at his wife with a sad looking face.
“I'm sorry, Dad. But can you tell me everything? Tell me everything that happened before I lost my memory.”
Duke took a deep breath before starting to explain, “Before you had been a student of the academy for a year before falling into the river. Hoover Academy, it is the leading magic school reserved for the nobility. They have known your talent in magic and you are also very excited when learning it.”
‘Hm, so such absurd supernatural things are here too. At that time ‘ handsome man my husband-to-be’ also had it,’ Liora's mind can-can pin the nickname to Axe at will.
“Roxa ..” Joanne breaks Liora's daydream.
“Ya!” Roxa practically stared fixedly at her mother's face.
Well, from this second on we'll change Liora's call to Roxa to make it easier, right?
“We hope you can go back to the academy and meet your friends. Maybe that way, you can regain your memory.” Joanne added with such a deep gaze.
Roxa. Right now he really cannot resist. Anyway, the story has to go on. Roxana Adelaide has quite a great talent in magic. If he were to use it in the right thing that was not trying to kill the female lead, wouldn't bad luck not happen to him either? Moreover, that power would also be useful to protect him as well as his family if needed.
“So, when should I get ready, Mom?”
Hearing that, Joanne then smiled happily, “Four more days is the opening of the new school year. Since Hoover is on the northernmost continent, then you must cross half of the British mainland from our residence on the border of the Capital City. You can pack now because tomorrow morning you have to start departure.”
‘Tomorrow? That's a sign I can't visit the guild today. Well, how else,’ mind Roxa regretted the destruction of the agenda that had been made to find her future husband. Well, if he can't find it right now, maybe he can find it later. Uh! Or maybe find another potential husband in a magic academy. Hm, quickly the girl changed her mind and changed her plan.
Staring at Duke and Joanne in turn, Roxa raised both corners of the lips, giving a warm smile, “Good, Dad, Mom. I'll prepare my departure.”
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Roxa did not expect to make her longest trip so soon after waking up in Adelaide's Roxana body. Moreover, he would go to such an impossible place in his original life, the Magic Academy.
‘I'm like being Harmione Granger in the Harry Potter series,’ Roxa's mind while tapping her fingertips on the frame of the train window.
Speaking of the Harry Potter series, this time Roxa also felt the same way that went to the Magic Academy using a train. The difference, not the magic train ‘Hogwarts Express’ but ordinary trains that will make the body bounce like a spring if the road is not flat. In Roxa's sitting room right now there was only herself, no Harry, Ron, and Harmione.
Looking at the scenery outside the window, Roxa had been sitting in the car for three hours and almost died of boredom. Retrieved a book of romance novels in a suitcase bag that Anne had prepared to enjoy the time during the trip.
Previously, Anne only included the history and legal development books commonly read by the original Roxana until the fake Roxana aka Liora told her to replace them all with romance novel readings. Just imagine how horrified Roxana fake reading those boring books when she only likes romance novels with the genre of mature.
The door to Roxa's seat suddenly opened as she was busy reading hot readings and imagining the passionate scenes in the novel.
On the doorstep, the netra emerald Roxa was poking at the figure of a charming-faced man with golden blonde hair who was smiling kindly at him. The man then walked over and immediately sat down beside him.
“At last I found you, Roxa. I thought you would be sitting at the very end of the room as usual,”, he said as he put the suitcase carried under the seat.
“Who is it?” Roxa asked stammeringly equipped with a clumsy face. He really did not know who the handsome man who seemed to know him was.
The man paused for a moment and looked at Roxa with her beautiful silver netra deeply, “It seems like the news of you losing your memory is indeed true. Why don't you return my letter? I'm Felix Theodore, your best friend.”
Roxa slipping, ‘Fe-felix Theodore? Wasn't he a second male lead in The Villain’s Dead?’
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