Themis, The Flower of Justice
Chapter 2 — Dance Party

[33 Aquarius, year 1353 Helios Calendar (Night)]

In the usual silence of the night in the royal palace of Medeia, people in luxurious clothes were seen passing by in a large mansion. It seemed like they were nobles and emissaries sent by other kingdoms.

After the other royal envoys congratulated the king of Medea, at night they were invited to a dance. The party was held in one of the king's private mansions.

The mansion was quite large, it even made sense to say castle. The mansion consists of 4 floors. Except for the first floor, there are dozens of rooms with each pair of windows in each room, and the front view of the mansion there are white pillars with beautiful patterns that are in harmony with the paint of the mansion.

In front of the entrance, there is a luxurious red carpet and two butlers prepared to welcome guests. The two butlers were not ordinary people, they were experienced Aura Knights from the Medeia kingdom. They are also trained to be servants to be prepared for undercover missions or to be able to serve and protect the master at once.

When entering the mansion, there was a large hall with luxurious interiors and decorations all over. The floor is decorated with a red carpet, coupled with a central lampshade and wall lights that illuminate the entire hall until the room looks very elegant.

At the end of the hall there is a pair of white stairs with a beautiful pattern and on the surface of the stairs is also slapped a red carpet that shows the impression that not only the hall is decorated, but the hall is also decorated, but the whole room is also very well decorated.

The hall residents were filled with people in luxurious clothes and beautiful looks. They were the upper-ranking nobles of the kingdom of Medeia and the envoys from other kingdoms. The knights who came from other kingdoms were also present but did not use their armor. The knights were dressed up by the servants of the mansion and wore the same luxurious clothes as the nobles. Although the knights were not nobles, they were treated well. It gave the impression that the kingdom of Medeia always welcomed the guests well, even though they were not nobles they were nevertheless given good treatment.

The nobles of each of their envoys chatted with other royal envoys as well as the local nobles. They talked and toasted and drank together. Every noble who spoke to each other at the party always had a troupe behind him.

The entourage behind the nobles were knights in luxurious clothes who looked like nobles. It signified that the nobles were distrustful and wary of the surrounding environment. Despite being in a party with tight security, they always had to protect their master.

The princesses of the kingdom of Medea socialized with the nobles as well as envoys from other kingdoms to establish their relationship for the sake of the kingdom's survival, except Luminas. Luminas prefer to be alone in the corner of the room and enjoy their tea’ rather than having to socialize with others, unless the person greets and approaches Luminas, and the other person is, he would greet them with a most friendly smile. Therefore despite Luminas being a loner, she remained popular among the nobility due to her beauty and hospitality.

While enjoying tea, a man with jet black hair with striking yellow eyes approached Luminas, he was the prince Dustin Van Selene of the Selene empire.

“Dustin Von Selene greets princess Luminas”

Prince Dustin smiled and slightly bowed to pay his respects.

Then to greet the prince, Luminas got up from his seat and bowed to pay his respects again.

“Ah, Luminas Von Medeia greet back prince Dustin, please sit”

Luminas said this while giving her a charming smile. Seeing Luminas smile, prince Dustin blushed.

“A-ah, a k-honor meet one of the royal beauty”

Dustin blushed, talking falteringly. Seeing the behavior of prince Dustin, princess Luminas responded with a small laugh

“Fufu, you are very good at praising princes. It was an honor to be praised by one of the princes known as the imperial prince and also one of the disciples of the Magic Tower” master

“A-ah You are too flattering me”

Prince Dustin pulled out a chair and sat in front of Luminas, after which Prince Dustin sat down and Luminas sat down. When faced with Luminas, Prince Dustin's face heats up, he looks like a teenage boy who just fell in love. He stuttered even more when he spoke. Even though Prince Dustin stuttered, the conversation still went smoothly.

“Luminas Princess, do you want to drink with me?”

A servant came to them and brought drinks, and Prince Dustin took one.

“Ah thank you for your goodwill. But sorry, I did not drink anything alcoholic, I only drank tea.”

Princess Luminas refused subtly with a soft voice. Hearing Luminas' apologetic voice, Prince Dustin blushed back. He felt bad because it was as if he had forced Luminas into something he did not like

“A-ah ? I'm sorry princess. I-I'm not forcing the princess to do something she doesn't like. I-I'm just-“

Prince Dustin spoke stutteringly, he looked like he had committed a great sin.

“Ah, it's okay Prince. It is precisely I who apologize, for having rejected the kindness of prince”

Luminas tried to appease the prince who looked like he felt guilty.

“T-no it's not princess's fault! It was entirely my fault, princess need not feel guilty!”

The prince felt more guilty. Then suddenly the princess clasped the prince's hand

“No, that's not what I mean. The prince also did not need to feel guilty. Why don't we talk while we enjoy the things we love each”

Luminas smiling brightly. Seeing Luminas' bright smile, and while holding her hand. Prince Dustin was terrified of happiness and felt he was the luckiest person in the world.

‘Ah, she is a goddess. The goddess descends from the sky. So dazzling'

They also talk while enjoying each other's likes. The conversation went very smoothly, prince Dustin also looked very happy. After a long conversation with Luminas, Prince Dustin decided to resign because he felt bad for the princess.

“Ah, it looks like I took too long the princess”

“Ah is okay, it is nice to be able to chat with you”

Prince Dustin got up from his chair after exchanging a few words. He bowed and paid his respects before resigning, Luminas also got up from his seat and paid his respects again. The prince waved his hand and turned around hinting until he met again. Luminas responded with a smile and waved her hand back.

After prince Dustin left, Luminas' expression turned cold again. It was as if the friendly Luminas who spoke to the prince of Dustin had never existed. He murmured in his heart

‘Dustin Von Selene..’

Dustin Von Selene was the fourth of six children. Among his brothers, in addition to having a beautiful face, he also has great magic talent. The Selene imperial family had always scored great warriors throughout the history of the empire, not that there were no witches, it was rare for the Selene family to have such a talented magician.

Dustin is a magician with a rare talent, although compared to all magicians, Dustin's talent is still superior. The Master of the Magic Tower became tempted to see Dustin's talent and wanted to recruit him into the Magic Tower, He offered the position of being his direct disciple. The emperor, Dustin's father, voluntarily handed Dustin over to the Magic Tower. The emperor thought that it was a golden opportunity to establish a connection between the Selene Empire and the magic tower so that he did not hesitate to sell his own son to the Magic Tower.

His father was Elios von Medeia. He attempts to match Luminas with Dustin in order to establish a relationship with the Selene empire as well as with the Magic Tower.

In the eyes of politics, it was an incredible move like hitting two birds with one stone. Luminas also admitted that it was the best decision, but he still could not accept it. Luminas considered, like the emperor Selene, his father Luminas also sold him to the Selene empire for the sake of the Medeia kingdom without considering Luminas's opinion. Shortly after this event, the engagement between Luminas and the prince Dustin of the Selene empire was decided.

Given this, the expression of Luminas cooled down. Not because he disliked his father's decision, but he determined it without considering his opinion.

As Luminas was deep in thought, he came to his senses from his daydream when he heard a small voice like someone pulling a sword from its sheath. Luminas stared more intently, he saw a man from his entourage prince Dustin approaching the prince of Dustin carefully and without a sound.

Seeing the strange sight, Luminas immediately responded and shot towards the prince Dustin. The man who was approaching the prince of Dustin suddenly lunged towards the prince of Dustin with a sword in his hand. He drew the sword very quickly. However

*STABS

Blood dripped onto the floor. However, it was not the blood of the prince of Dustin. Rather it was the blood dripping from Luminas' hands that caught the sword with bare hands. He covered his hands with mana so that his hands would not be hurt. But because the knife is also flowed, the sword is able to injure the hand of Luminas.

The man collapsed with just two attacks from Luminas. Although Luminas was only a girl who had a weaker physique than trained men, she was a Magic Knight. The magic knight is the one who is able to implement the circulation where the aura simultaneously casts magic.

All the guests, especially the entourage of Prince Dustin were very surprised. Prince Dustin's entourage began to put up a fighting attitude and drew out their swords. But instead of being wary of the attacker, they took a stand to face Luminas. It turns out that the entire entourage of Dustin's princes were assassins sent to kill the prince of Dustin in Medeia.

‘They total 15 people... Lots of’

Luminas muttered to himself, 15 trained assassins are too much for a 15 year old girl to deal with. But since it happened in the palace of Medeia, the knights of Medeia should have helped their struggling princess. Luminas glanced at the knights who usually stood along the walls of the hall, yet they had no knights standing guard in the hall. Then Luminas glanced at his sister, Agnes. Agnes grinned in response to the gaze directed at her from Luminas.

Luminas instantly understood, that this was-

‘Planned healing’

But Luminas did not panic, instead she put on an even colder expression. It was an expression that a princess was not supposed to have, it was the expression of a murderer. Luminas mounted the horses, preparing to draw his sword. He looked at his enemy deeply.

‘They are in alert condition’

The Luminas enemies were all on standby, which meant that they were ready to fight. They are all trained killers.

‘Then I have to..’

Luminas gripped the sword tighter he got from his enemy. Luminas concentrated mana at its feet, as breezy as the wind blew. Then Luminas muttered in a soft voice.

“Wind Step”

Luminas shot towards his enemies. His steps were amazingly fast yet without sound. Like a man who walks on the wind, fast but silent. The assassins were on standby and put up defensive positions.

*Tangs

The Luminas sword and the assassin clashed. Luminas cast a wind spell on his sword making it sharper, but the assassin still resisted his attack. Without reducing the power from his sword attack, Luminas took off one hand on his sword. He formed his hand as if holding something. Luminas muttered back

“Wind Blade”

The empty Luminas hand formed a sword-shaped wind. He drew the wind sword towards the man. Out of surprise, he was completely unable to respond to the surprise attack from Luminas. He did not think that there were people who were able to fight at close range while casting magic. His stomach was pierced, he vomited a lot of blood. However, the attack is not over. The wind sword stuck in his stomach started to rampage and tear apart his entire internal organs and create a huge hole in his stomach. He died instantly.

The assassins - no, the whole guest was shocked to see Luminas killing the man viciously. As some of them were unable to fight, they were only able to remain silent while their knights were on standby to protect them so that no one would help Luminas.

After killing the humans, Luminas' gaze was not at all daunted. Normally, when someone who had never killed, let alone an immature girl, they would definitely be shocked by their first murder, even if it was someone who liked to kill them would at least show a reaction. But Luminas did not, he instead looked at his enemies getting sharper. It was as if he was only focused on eliminating his enemies.

The assassins who were surprised his comrades just died, they shouted furiously. Three people shot towards Luminas. The three people are people who are used to working as a team, so the difficulties faced by Luminas are very high. The first person swung his sword from above, and Luminas fended it off with one hand. The second person darted from beside him and slashed his waist Luminas. But Luminas stretched out his hand and a wall of water appeared blocking and holding the sword. The third person moves in as the one executing the attack. He emerged from behind Luminas and thrust his sword towards Luminas. However

“Ice Glacier”

Luminas muttering. The air became cold instantly, even one's breath emitted dew just like in winter. A sharp chunk of ice emerged from behind Luminas and stabbed the third attacker to death. The other two were shocked, then Luminas muttered again

“Water Thorn”

The water that was holding back the second attacker's attack turned into sharp thorns and pierced him mercilessly. Then Luminas spun 180° at incredible speed and slashed the neck of the first attacker until his head was cut off. Despite killing in a terrifying manner, Luminas did not budge at all. People thought Luminas was so shocked that he was speechless. But the assassins who looked into Luminas' eyes felt a different feeling, let alone being surprised, his eyes signified that he would mercilessly finish off his enemies.

“M-monster”

The assassins were shocked to see Luminas doing so. From strength to killing aura, they were all overwhelmed by Luminas. The assassins attacked together while shouting.

“M-DEAD YOU MONSTER!!”

“MATTHEW!”

Attacked by 12 people, Luminas still did not budge. He very calmly formed different fighting horses. Luminas flowed his mana into the hands, as well as chanting sharp magic and wind magic that added to the effectiveness of his sword. Luminas closed his eyes.

‘Fokus’

Although his eyes were closed, everything was still clearly depicted on Luminas' head. He opened his eyes, Luminas darted, and swung his sword. They all look slow in the eyes of Luminas, or Luminas alone is too fast? The luminas attack the enemy like they are dancing on stage. Luminas sword movements look light and beautiful, like there is no energy in the movement and are only shown for aesthetics.

‘Couple Dance Sword Technique, First Formation-

[Beauty]'

*CHWAK CHWAK CHWAK

Very quickly a sword slash tore through and tore through many enemies at once. Their bodies were cut and torn apart, their eyes and mouths were still open, they seemed to be unaware that they had died because of the rapidity of their deaths.

From the Luminas attack, only 2 people were left alive. Actually Luminas were able to finish them all off, but Luminas deliberately left it to be introgated.

“M-back off, j-don't get close!!”

“T-please don't kill me. I-I'll give you the information”

The assassins fell down, they retreated slowly in great fear. They pleaded not to be killed in exchange for information.

‘Killers willing to provide information? They seem unprofessional. Who sent a lowly man to kill a prince?’ luminas think

“Information? Did you say you'd give me information if you let you live?”

The advancing luminas slowly approached them, the tone of Luminas' speech making them extremely frightened.

“Y-yes yes! We will give you all the information!! Who sent us, and who's in

*SLASH

Head's down. His eyes and mouth were still open, suggesting that he did not expect his death.

“You think I'll just agree? Now it's your turn”

After finishing off a person without even blinking, Luminas let out an extremely cold voice. It was so cold that it made his opponent freeze in fear, as if there was death in his voice.

“HIIIIII!”

A remaining assassin fainted with a frothy mouth from fear.