
The morning after Elona's birthday party, her bedroom was filled with gifts from the nobles. Elona, assisted by her personal servant, opens the gifts. Maria gives a music box in which there is a small toy in the form of a female warrior and a prince, Lucas gives a dagger with a unique carving and Vander he gives a sword. Ricardo gave Elona a white coat made from fox fur that he got during the hunting event yesterday.
After finishing opening all her gifts Elona prepared to leave to return to be Ricardo's personal bodyguard.
In the training room of the royal palace, Lucas and Elona are resting after training their sword skills
" Do you like the dagger I gave you?"
" Of course the carvings on the daggers are very unique like the assortment of shells on the beach, thank you commander"
" Yup! you can call me Lucas if there's no one else"
" Okay if you can call my name"
Ricardo and Vander also came to train
" You guys done practicing?" ask Ricardo
" It's just now" Lucas said
" How did you fight with me after I trained with Vander?"
Lucas nodded his head in agreement, a few minutes after Vander finished training with Ricardo, Lucas got up and was already preparing with his sword. Ricardo had also prepared to take up a position to attack.
Klang... The sound of their swords clashed with each other and were won by Ricardo with the state of Lucas' sword thrown to the ground and Ricardo's sword pointing at Lucas' neck.
" Vander and Elona you guys are also trying to practice together!" ricardo said
" The Crown Prince, Vander he's nicknamed a little sword genius if he trains with Elona, he'll get hurt" Lucas said
" You practice using wooden swords so that no one gets hurt. How agreed?"
" I agree! do you have any problem practicing with me?" said Vander
" Yes! I don't care" Elona said
Then the two of them took a position to prepare while Ricardo and Lucas were dudu and saw them fighting each other's swords
" Crown Prince, why are you suddenly telling them to practice? do you believe that Elona's ability can keep up with Vander or hone her skills?" ask Lucas
" I believe that even if he's not as good as Vander at least he'll lose by a landslide" Ricardo said
A few moments later, Vander defeated Elona
" Your sword skills are good too" Vander said
" Thank you senior for the compliment, I will definitely train even harder"
" Whoa!! just this time I saw Vander praising someone's sword skills" Lucas said
" I'm not wrong to ask you to be my personal bodyguard" Ricardo said with a smile on his face
After that they all returned to Vander's study.
Tok... " My Crown Prince the head of the palace bulter brought a message from His Majesty the King to you"
" Get in!"
" The Crown Prince, His Majesty the King told you to prepare to choose the crown princess candidate after the competition of the soldiers is over"
" What?! this crown princess is still too early I will think about it after the person behind the enslavement is caught, because until now we only caught her accomplice. You just said I don't want to get married right now" Ricardo said
" Are the soldiers training for the sword competition tomorrow?" ask Ricardo
" Yes now they're all in the sword practice room" Vander said
" Alright, you can return to work on the tasks required for tomorrow's event"
After they leave Ricardo's office, Lucas and Elona watch the soldiers and Vander returns to guard Ricardo before Elona leaves Vander invites him to speak briefly in private.
" Wait on Elona there's something I want to talk about for a second" Vander said as he coded Lucas to leave the two of them
" I'll go to the training room first" Lucas said
" Is there anything I can do to help senior Vander?"
" Mm.. Elona tomorrow at the warrior competition, did you invite your friend?" ask Vander
" my friend? Ah, what does senior Maria mean?" ask Elona
" Mmmm..."
" Yes I invited him because he wanted to see the competition"
" Ok! thanks for the information, you're continuing your work"
Then Elona left Vander and went to the training ground of the soldiers. Lucas is curious about what they are talking about because seeing Elona's facial expression is like finding something interesting lanfsung approached Elona and asked what happened.
" Tomorrow it looks like we'll find something interesting about senior Vander" whispered Elona
The next day in the palace grounds had prepared the arena for them to clash their swords if they came out of the arena then it would be considered defeat, he said, the soldiers had been sitting in the lower seats near the arena of the participants to prepare for their sword competition while the spectators were sitting on the balcony to be able to see the match clearly. Ricardo and his personal guards had prepared to go to the arena but before going to the arena Vander met Elona with a dessert he had bought from the store.
" Elona, is your friend whose name is Maria coming?"
" It's not possible for a moment yet, is senior looking for him?"
" If he has come to give this, say this instead of dessert at your birthday event" said Vander while giving the dessert in his hand to Elona.
" It's not better for senior to give it straight and at the same time resolve his misunderstanding"
Sometime later Mary came to meet Elona, and Elona informed her arrival to Vander
" It's Maria coming, you can give it to her directly senior"
" Elona, are you waiting for me?" asked Maria in a tone that teased Elona
"Maria there's something senior Vander wants to talk about"
" Oh! the dessert guy at the time. The commander-in-chief is pleased to see you again" Maria said
" Yes, Miss Coper is happy to see you again. It's dessert instead of time at Elona's birthday show, I really don't mean to scramble dessert with you"
" Alright I accept the dessert anyway I have also forgotten the pursuit of that time, the commander-in-chief does not need to worry" he said while receiving a dessert
The incident was also seen by Ricardo and Lucas who were on his way to the palace court where the sword competition event was held.
" It's fair that Elona said yesterday that there will be something interesting tomorrow with Vander" Lucas said
" It's interesting when we'll see something like this again"