Themis, The Flower of Justice
Chapter 10 — New life

3 Years later 12 Aries 1341 Helios calendar

[City of Luminous, Kingdom of Medeia]

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Somewhere in the capital city of the kingdom of Medeia, there is a palace with a large size and a large enough courtyard. From outside the palace it looks very busy, many people passing by there. From knights to servants, they all looked busy as if they were preparing for something.

But after going inside, it turned out that in the palace hall they all looked busier, they seemed enthusiastic about doing their work. Even if it was a palace, there was no way the workers could be that busy. It was like there was something they were preparing for that very important thing in that palace.

The palace was the private residence of the 3rd wife of the Medean king Selena Argaient. Each of the king's wives was given a private residence in the form of a magnificent palace, showing the impression of how prosperous the kingdom of Medea to give a magnificent palace to every king's wife.

In addition, Selena is the eldest daughter of three brothers from the strongest magic family as well as the holder of the highest magic military authority in Medeia, Argaient. The power of the Argaient family in the field of magic is not only famous in the country of Medeia alone, but throughout the continent. Especially the head of the Argaient family, his strength could even be juxtaposed with the master of the strongest Magic Tower in history.

In addition to the hall, they were all also busy passing by in front of the corridor of a room. Suddenly a servant stood at the door of the room and knocked.

“Sorry to interrupt, Princess. How's your preparation? Are you ready to go down?”

The waiter opened the door.

In the room there was a little girl surrounded by several women dressed as servants. The girl was sitting in front of the mirror with a flat expression.

The girl had silver hair fluttering from the wind outside the open window. The combination of silver hair and her snow-white little face is a charming combination. Her beautiful blue eyes stared at her reflection in the mirror with a complex look on her face.

The silver-haired maiden was Luminas Von Medeia, the fifth princess of the Medeia kingdom, and the room was hers. The room has a very luxurious interior, even tends to be excessive for a little girl who is only 3 years old. Thus giving the impression that the kingdom of Medea was so rich that the royal family had many luxury items in it even though it was only the private residence of a third wife.

Beside the servants who were dressing Luminas, there were also some old male servants standing behind Luminas. They all seemed busy despite only dressing a Luminas. The servants were confused not because it was difficult to dress Luminas, but because they were confused about what Luminas would look like because he looked beautiful wearing anything.

But Luminas' expression was strange, she showed a displeased expression even when she was being beautifully dressed by the servants as if she did not like it. Of course, this is a strange thing, because the look on the face shown by Luminas is not the look on the face of a 3-year-old girl who should be happy when she is dressed beautifully.

“Haah, haven't I told you to dress up enough? Didn't you guys say I fit in with anything? Why are you so difficult in choosing it?”

Luminas sighed, he looked like he did not like the servant's excessive treatment of him.

“Can't be so, Princess! You are a princess of the kingdom of Medeia, also the son of Her Majesty Queen Selena Argaient who is the daughter of a Duke! Of course you have to look very beautiful!”

Luminas put on a sullen expression hearing the words of his servants.

In contrast to Luminas expectations, when he put on a sullen expression should the servants be worried. Because they should be afraid of their master's dissatisfaction towards them. But their reaction was opposite to his expectations, they instead seemed more excited when they saw Luminas pout.

The servants were probably excited because Luminas' cheeks were bulging unconsciously as he pouted, surely it was adorable, and perhaps Luminas would never notice it.

While they were busy dressing Luminas, once again a knock on the door from outside the room came. The door was opened, an old man in a different butler outfit from the other servants appeared from outside the room.

“Mr princess, the time has come. Her Majesty Queen Selena and also the witch from the palace are waiting below,”

The man bowed before Luminas.

“Oh, butler Steve. All right, tell them I'll be right down,”

“Alright princess, I will tell them. Then I'll let myself go,”

The old man who was the butler paid his respects by bowing his body and leaving the room.

“I told you, groom me enough. Quickly speed this up, I feel bad about my mother waiting downstairs,”

“BOTH PRINCESS!”

They all answered in unison to the words of Luminas.

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Luminas walked down the corridor while accompanied by several servants behind him. Along the corridor stood the guards of this palace. Although this was only a private residence, the guard in this palace was quite strict. Luminas feel they are exaggerating about it, even though for security reasons they still behave excessively

‘So it's been 3 years huh, since I moved to this world..’.

Luminas thinks that he was already in this world 3 years ago. After a terrible death as James Nielson, he is now alive again as a royal family.

She found herself as a royal princess named Luminas Von Medeia, who was the fifth daughter of Elios Von Medeia the king of Medeia, as well as her mother Selena Argaient who was a daughter of the Duke's family.

He felt so grateful that he was given a second chance at life. As if his last prayer had been answered, he was glad to know that he was alive.

‘Well, although initially not easy. But I'm used to it enough.’.

By the time Nielson was in this world, he had little trouble adapting to this world. Especially since she had suddenly become a girl, let alone a princess of the kingdom, it would naturally cause her a little trouble.

Although he had a little trouble at first, Nielson quickly got used to it. This is because she was reincarnated into a baby again, making Nielson easily adapt to all new things, such as language and lifestyle, especially when he made a mistake no one would feel that there was something strange about him.

‘I've done well... Even though I messed it up..’.

When Nielson was able to speak for the first time, he uttered some strange vocabulary to experiment with new worlds. He said things like ‘Status’ or ‘Properties’ but nothing happened to him. Nielson concluded that even though he had reincarnated into another world, this is not another world like the one in the comics or the fictional novel of his colleague, Zeta.

Nielson recalled when he said that when he first spoke, the servants who were passing by accidentally saw him. Nielson thought that his servants would think he was strange for saying such unfamiliar things, but it ended up like this.

They thought Nielson was communicating with an elemental spirit at a very young age. They thought that Nielson was such a rare genius that he was able to summon elemental spirits at this age. So when his mother Nielson or now he named Luminas, summoned the palace witch to check on Nielson's magic.

‘Zeta shit, because of her I said things like this. Because of the comics and novels he gave me, I said these strange things. Although he's my partner, I'm —‘

Nielson or Luminas was aghast, he became silent considering the last thing Zeta did to him.

‘Can he still be called my colleague? Considering the last thing he did, I—‘

Luminas gnashed his teeth, his body trembled, and he clenched his hands violently. The emotions he felt last time flooded into him. The overflowing emotions from him involuntarily made himself emit a killing aura.

‘Himut..’.

But the servants instead saw it was an adorable thing because Luminas' body trembled because he was embarrassed and afraid to face outsiders from the palace.

The servants had been nurturing Luminas since he was a baby, so they knew the behavior of the princess they were nurturing. When they saw Luminas, they initially thought that Luminas was a genius child because he showed extraordinary intellectual and emotional intelligence.

Luminas who realized that he was emitting his sinister aura, he immediately pulled himself into reality and restored his aura to its original state.

Luminas has always been a child. Because he does not want to be considered strange by others and invites things that are not desirable to him. She always pretended to be a kind little girl, even though it didn't look like that in the eyes of others.

As Luminas was deep in thought, suddenly a little girl bumped into him until they both fell together. Luminas, who was shocked to be hit, suddenly felt pain from a fall.

“Aduh.. duh.”

Luminas glanced forward, as a little girl with long red hair groaned in pain. Given that the collision was quite violent, he felt it natural for the girl to feel pain, even she felt pain.

“Dorothy!!!”

As Luminas was observing the little girl, a man shouted from a distance, shouting a name. It was seen that a man dressed as a waiter was heading here in a hurry.

“Princess Luminas!”

“Mr Princess! You all right?!”

“Mr princess! Let me help you stand!”

Seeing the Luminas that had fallen due to being hit, the servants did not stay silent. They looked worried and immediately helped Luminas stand up and check if he was injured.

“Dorothy!! What the hell are you doing? Didn't I tell you not to run in the hallway?!”

“Ah dad! I-i'm sorry! I-I just—“

“DIAM”

*PLAAC

The servant-clothed man who seemed to be his father slapped the little girl hard. Instead of helping her, her father looked very upset and forced the little girl to prostrate herself until her head hit the floor quite tight.

“EXCUSE ME FOR MY DAUGHTER'S CARELESSNESS PRINCESS! IT WAS NOT INTENTIONAL, I BEG THE PRINCESS MERCIFULLY FORGIVE MY DAUGHTER'S CARELESSNESS!”

The man dressed as the waiter prostrated and banged his head violently.

“IF IT SHOULD BE PUNISHED, THEN JUST PUNISH ME! I AM HERE GUILTY OF NOT BEING ABLE TO LOOK AFTER MY DAUGHTER!”

The servant-clothed man banged his head against the floor once more. He looked very frightened because he was afraid that his daughter would be punished for her mistake of hurting a king's daughter.

“M-forgive a-me. I-I didn't accidentally, I-please don't punish my father,”

The girl's voice trembled, tears welling up in her eyes.

‘H-out of us, we heard that a servant was once punished by a royal princess for making trivial mistakes. But the mistake made by my daughter is quite fatal, although I should be punished at least my daughter is not.’

Luminas got up and looked at the little girl and the girl's father who was prostrating asking for mercy in front of her. He walked up and approached the two people who were prostrating. Hearing the sound of Luminas footsteps approaching, the two of them grew even more frightened. They imagined the things that befell them because they had done a great mistake to a royal princess.

But Luminas smiled, patted the two men on the shoulder and told them to get up.

“Bless your head and wake up,”

The two of them looked up at the smiling face of Luminas. The two of them immediately stood up to hear the orders from Luminas. Seeing Luminas smile, the two of them grew even more afraid. They were worried that it was a vile smile that would not forgive their mistakes.

Seeing the two of them standing in fear Luminas became confused. He has put on a smiling face so why do they put on a scared face?

Feeling a misunderstanding, Luminas sighed. Although he felt that smile was quite sincere, but in that situation he felt that the smile had instead added to the fear in them, and he had to straighten out any misunderstandings about himself to them.

Luminas moved forward and clasped the little girl's hands together. He put on a face that seemed to worry about the girl.

“You all right?”

“A-I'm fine,”

The girl how to respond to Luminas who said that. He was confused by Luminas' reaction to worry about him even though he had hit him and hurt him.

“Good, I'm afraid you'll get hurt because the collision was so hard,”

The grip on the girl's hand tightened, Luminas showed an expression of relief with her charming smile.

Dorothy was flabbergasted by the attitude shown by Luminas. He found that Luminas' body was smaller than his, considering that Luminas was 4 years younger than him. Of course with his smaller body Luminas would feel a greater impact compared to Dorothy.

Seeing the attitude of Luminas being so considerate of her, something within Dorothy became turbulent. His feelings were stirring and his heart became turbulent. Without him noticing his tears rushing down his face, he felt something great feeling growing on him. That feeling is loyalty.

‘T-mr princess, for your kindness I will serve you for life!’

Dorothy then got up from her kneeling position huh and shouted out loudly

“A-I am Dorothy the servant, will devote my whole life to serve you princess!”

“Eh?

EH?!”

Hearing Dorothy's sudden statement, Luminas became shocked. He did not expect that Dorothy would declare that she would serve him for the rest of her life. This was something he did not expect.

Because Luminas treated Dorothy so simply because she felt she could not see someone prostrating for mercy in front of her. Also Luminas does not want people to think that he is cruel, he must maintain the reputation of a kind daughter.

‘A-I have to straighten out this misunderstanding—‘

“Dorothy wait seben—“

But seeing Dorothy sparkling and excited Dorothy's eyes, Luminas undoes her intentions.

“A-ah sure-certain. Please help him in the future yes, Dorothy,”

“WELL! PRINCESS!”

Luminas was confused as to how to respond to Dorothy who was so excited, she became nervous and displayed a clumsy smile.

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