The Key of Destiny
White Soldier Finley

The next morning, it was still the same as the day before. Snow still fell and continued to cover everything below. On this cloudy morning, Ace, Lizzarde, and Gladiol plan to go play with their friends who are in the village.

Because the weather was a little worse, so Gladiol and his mother Anne Drime could not return home to Thousand Flowers immediately so Queen Cordellia suggested for them to stay at GloryStone until the weather really improved.

When they arrived in the village, it turned out that the group of young people were helping the villagers clear the snow from their main road. Ace saw an old grandmother carrying a large shovel while removing snow from the main street.

Ace felt unbearable and approached Lizzarde, "Lizzarde, tell the palace and send help here," Ace ordered to Lizzarde.

Lizzarde felt no objection at all, instead he was pleased with Ace's attitude, "Alright!" he replied, Lizzarde immediately returned to the palace using her magic and called for help.

Gladiol was stunned at Ace's attitude, Gladiol thought Ace was a person who could not understand the feelings of others. But apparently, Ace is a person who can be humble as well.

"Why silence?" ask Ace to Gladiolus who daydreams at Ace. "Let's help! You're a prince, right?" connect Ace firmly and then he replaces the old granny to clear the snow from the main road.

Gladiolus smiled, "Of course,"

Ace and Gladiol cleared the main road, all the residents who were there were happy and felt unheeded. "Ace will be a wise King later," said the old grandmother who was replaced by Ace earlier.

After some time getting rid of the snow, Lizzarde finally came with fifteen soldiers who brought some shovels and warm clothes for the villagers.

"We are coming Sir! What is the next Lord's order?!" a soldier's salute to Ace.

Ace was silent and did not answer. "Loh, this is your man! Just shut up, later they will not work Ace.." said Lizzarde while folding his hands.

"Let's just clean it up, it's hard! You weird soldier! Did you guys bring a shovel here to cut down a tree?" answer Ace timidly.

The soldier scratched his head, and some of the citizens who witnessed the moment laughed because of Ace's behavior towards his soldiers.

But still, some of the soldiers cleared the snow and the rest distributed warm clothes to the residents.

Ace felt the warmth of the happiness of every citizen there. But Ace remained not so satisfied, because Ace felt that if those who were near the palace area alone were like this, how would those who were far away be near the border?

"Surely their condition is worse than this," Ace said inwardly.

Lizzarde looked at Ace who was a little moody, then he hit Ace hard on the shoulder, "How about we visit the border?!" lizzarde said happily.

Ace held onto his shoulder, "Sick to know!! Strangely enough you.., can we go there?" connect Ace who's back moody.

"What the fuck, you're the prince! Prince GloryStone!! Yes, it must be a bus!"

"I once went to the border in my country in the spring, I went alone with a commander, and they there very well welcomed me, if I'm younger than you already can go to the border, why don't you?" continued Gladiol who finally made Ace's spirit smoldering.

"really? But won't you ban me?"

"Would you be Ace? As long as you still see this strong girl with you, then any permission will always be in your hands!" Lizzarde makes a pretty face.

Without letting out a look of disdain, Ace smiled at Lizzarde and Gladiol who were already by his side at the moment. "In addition, we have the presence of a prince from a neighboring country too! Our chances are doubled!" connect Lizzarde while embracing Gladiolus.

"Alright, let's go to the border," Ace smiled and stepped gallantly towards the wagon and picked up a warm shirt and handed it out. Lizzarde and Gladiol looked at each other and smiled at the same time seeing Ace get excited again and become Ace as they knew it.

"Queen Cordellia is cool, next time I have to learn this magic," praised Gladiol who was amazed when his body did not feel cold at all when he touched the snow. "You can learn magic too?" ace asked, "Can, but only some magic, because the descendants of Thousand Flowers were indeed born not to bewitch but to craft, haha," Gladiol answered clearly and made Ace's knowledge increase as well.

Ace nodded, and their journey continued for several hours.

Arriving at the border area, the day had already entered the afternoon. Ace and his entourage went down then how shocked they were, that the border area was not as bad as they thought. Precisely the border area is clean of snow, and many small children play there.

"That's so clean." Ace's eyes twinkled and he was stunned.

"We think who, apparently Prince Ace and the palace," said Reddle who came to Ace's entourage. "You.."

"It looks like we haven't seen Mr. Reddle in a long time. The young man who had saved Master from the stray dogs, "Reddle bowed before Ace and his entourage.

Gladiol saw Lizzarde's cynical face staring at Reddle, Gladiol was confused and approached Ace and asked, "Your introduction?"

Ace nodded, "Yes,"

"Anu, Uncle Reddle, why is this place so clean?" ask Ace.

"Oh! I don't know, but the residents here are very diligent and like to clean up, so this place is no longer piled with snow," Reddle set his gaze towards the village. "Then, did you come here to send help?"

"Eh, i-iya," Ace answered.

"There is no need to hesitate sir, even though this place is clean, but at least there are still many people who are cold there," Reddle spoke while looking at the warm clothes on the train that Ace brought from the palace.

"Oh! Yes, we bring a lot of warm clothes for the residents here, so we ask for help to help distribute these warm clothes for them" Ace explained to Reddle. "Alright, I help you with pleasure," Reddle replied then he helped the palace soldiers hand out warm clothes to the villagers.

Ace also donated a few pieces of spades to the village in preparation for the next one. The villagers were very pleased with the presence as well as the assistance from the palace. Ace is praised and cheered on by the villagers, "Live GloryStone!" that's how the fun is.

Ace was very happy, as were Lizzarde and Gladiol and the soldiers on duty. After all the business was done, Reddle lowered his head and thanked Ace very much for the help Ace gave him.

"It's my job, so don't take it too much" Ace told Reddle to lift himself up. "Prince Ace!!" call a group of kids carrying wooden boxes. Then the group of little children approached Ace and pointed at the wooden box, "Prince Ace, this is a gift from us, thank you for sending help to our village! We are very pleased and helped, hopefully Prince Ace will not mind and will accept this gift and take care of it with all his heart!" it was obviously one of the boys holding the box.

"Treating wholeheartedly?" ask Ace and look at the box. How surprised Ace was when he saw a white wolf child sleeping in it. "The wolf boy?".

"Yes! Reddle's brother found him in the woods, this wolf mother died from being hunted, so Reddle's brother took it and gave it to us, and we want Prince Ace to take care of her for us" the other boy explained.

"Really? Very cool, thank you, I received the gift," Ace smiled sweetly at the children and picked up the box containing the wolf cubs. "From now on, this wolf will be taken care of as much as possible until its death, thank you very much" Ace lowered his body.

"Well this wolf child is very lucky, if this wolf child has grown up do not forget to visit here! We're waiting! "

Ace nodded, "I'll take care of him for your sake,"

"By the way what's his name?" connect Lizzarde suddenly.

Ace was deeply moved and wiped his tears. With a look of affection, Ace looked at the wolf boy.

"The name is, Finley which means White Soldier," Ace replied.