I am Hibiscus Prasiolite, twelve years old and I am half human, one fourth spirit elf, and one-fourth magic elf and I have a twin name Casablanca Prasiolite, likewise, the same as me. Our overall features are almost identical except for our hair and skin color.

I am confident to say that Casablanca is much prettier than me because she inherited the majority of magic elf traits such as having a pretty white skin, blond hair and elemental magic expert. Because of that, people tend to admire her even at such young age and expectations were made.

There’s a huge difference on how people treats us but despite that, I chose to focus my attention to Casablanca and pour my love to my family.

Ever since we were young, I always love Casablanca and I always wanted to be by her side at any time of day. She likewise feels the same as she would always feel lonelier when we are separated from each other.

Because of all the attention she receives, Casablanca tends to trust anyone so I thought it was really dangerous for her to do that but I cannot scold her and thus, I became the one who labels people if they are trustful or not.

I became the one who stares at her back as she moves forward at her own pace. At the school, she always tries her best to stand up to everyone’s expectations and for that reason, it was harder for people to approach her.

As such, she develops an attitude of grandiose that would always speak highly of herself to cope up with her plight.

It greatly troubles Casablanca as she only wanted friends to talk to. It was a little painful for me to know that she is not satisfied by my company anymore but as long as she is happy, then I would gladly support her.

Things such as love letters from our peers were passed on to me to give to her since we are twins. Some letters were addressed to me but I think they meant to write Casablanca’s name as some people seems to mix up our names.

I just threw those letters away since it would cause misunderstanding.

I am not modest enough not to say that I didn’t get any attention myself. There are also some people who would daringly confess their infatuation to me even though sometimes, there are five to six years older than me.

But…

“Um…Hibiscus…I…I like you…!”

“Eh…?”

“Please, would you accept my feelings?”

“Um… are you a pedophile?”

“Urk!”

It was a really bad experience for me. I just told what I had in my mind that time and made him run away while crying. Also, I don’t like him because he was too skinny and feminine. It’s the only complaint I have when it comes to elven race.

If I have a preference over a man, I say I want someone like Papa!

But being stuck in the elven capital where Mama is the leader of the Elven Forest United Federation, we are treated as very important people and thus, the places we can go is only limited inside the forest.

One day, Casablanca and I have something to do outside the capital so we hired adventurers for a guide since we don’t want to disturb any guards on duty. Casablanca was confident of the people she hired but there’s this pit of doubt in my guts that the people she hired aren’t trustworthy.

That’s when we met him.

Susanoo…

It was the moment our life changed and become somewhat livelier.

I already like Susanoo since the first I laid my eyes on him. He is pretty much like Papa to be honest because of their resemblance in appearances such as black hair and eyes. Also, Susanoo is really tall and manly and his body isn’t skinny at all.

It seems Casablanca also likes him and became attached to him.

I want Mama to meet him so we persuaded him to come with us even though he looks like he has something else to do.

But then, things led to this and that and we separated from Mama and Susanoo handed us over to a woman named Priscilla.

Ahhh… She was so refined and skillful with her hands. She taught us many things and many work related duties. Casablanca’s bad habit slowly fades from the might of Priscilla who, even as a maid, has more dignity than a king.

We met people who are called heroes too!

There’s a twin like us in them and they are very cool as they showed us how they fight with spear and bow. They are Sir Shouta and Miss Shouko who are also elves.

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Their name was really weird but they said that they are summoned heroes and their race was due to mutation from world crossing. Casablanca doesn’t seem to really understand it but I can’t say I did.

There are also more of them as we become apprentice maid for Miss Priscilla in the dragon capital.

There’s Sir Mito and Miss Rose who seems to be an item but doesn’t seem like their relationship would progress at all. They look so good together even though one is a mutation of a dragon kin and one is a mutation of a fairy kin.

I also met a dwarven mutated guy who is so tall name Dreg. He was so big but quiet and gentle. He loves reading books and he is good at looking out for others.

There are two people who always lock themselves inside their rooms. One is Miss Ruri who was traumatized about something…is what Miss Priscilla told me and one is Sir Shun who does a various magical experiment.

Sir Shun is doing his experiment with a demon kin mutated Miss Bacarra.

She has large breasts and voluptuous body like a Mama! Casablanca and I love indulging ourselves to its softness and Miss Bacarra is fine with it and she is so gentle and kind to us.

Overall, we learned from them as we work every single day that we forgot that we were supposed to attend school. I really don’t know the exact circumstances of our city and I am worried about Mama but I know that she is strong.

Also, Susanoo and Miss Priscilla did something incredible to the army of dwarves driving them away.

During our stay with the heroes, we get to know more about dragon kins as we talked to some of the guards and even officials.

Unlike us elves, they are very family oriented and there are various factions but the other ramblings are too complicated for me to comprehend so more or less, I dismiss some of the information inside my head.

Casablanca is likewise, cannot understand most of it. But I am glad that we are living under a roof and fed and taken care for our service.

And on that duration, we are constantly compared to one particular child they cherish too.

A girl named Asagao.

They said that she is smaller than us but she is quiet and intelligent. She was also a summoned hero like them but they deemed that she is too young to fight so she stayed back at the human capital where she is safe.

I thought that those peaceful days would continue and the problems that we have will fix itself but… Casablanca and I are still ignorant of what problem this world faces.

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We met with Miss Asagao in a middle of a disaster.

She was so cool…is what Casablanca and I thought. She told us that she’s older than she looks and she is capable of fighting.

She is a little weird but she protected us with her life on the line.

But, contrary to what everyone said about her, there is something more to Miss Asagao than we thought.

We witnessed how she lost someone she loves and we also saw how resilient she is as she bounces back from such sadness. Her heart was so strong that it moved me. She was really brave and courageous and she didn’t let the death of her beloved servant and master chain her down.

And that’s only half of it.

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Worried about Miss Priscilla, Casablanca and I separated from Miss Asagao and Miss Violetta who is an acquaintance of the heroes and Miss Asagao herself but we already missed them and they are not in the place that Miss Violetta indicated.

In worry for Miss Asagao, we followed where she left to but we are clueless too.

That’s when we felt a strong power coming from a tower as we got out of the dragon castle which is now desolated.

Casablanca and I climbed the tall tower which took us a bit of time since it has such steep stair.

When we got to the front of the door, instead of pushing our way, I suggested to Casablanca that we should just check what’s happening before bursting out.

As we peeked, we saw Miss Asagao… whose arm legs are covered by something metallic. She was fighting a man… A man that gave us an eerie feeling that I even started sweating in my back…

Casablanca wants to recklessly charge but I grab her by her sleeve and shook my head.

She immediately understands it as we don’t have the power to interfere, even though in front of us, Miss Asagao is being pushed to the ground…

But even so, she was so powerful that all of her attacks were able to shake the whole tower. She even tried to destroy it but to no avail, the destruction of the tower didn’t happen.

I don’t know what happened but as we watch, the man who is fighting Miss Asagao that time…

That man…met gazes with us in a split second…

My instinct screamed…

And at that time, Miss Asagao was losing…

Before we knew it, everything went blank as we lost consciousness…

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I hold the sleeve of Casablanca as she was about to reach her hands out to the man.

When we woke up, we are in an unfamiliar cave and the man that Miss Asagao fighting was in front of us. It was chilly stare that entered my sight as I met his eyes again…

We didn’t want to go with him but we don’t have any choices…

But because of him, we were able to meet up with Miss Asagao…

This and that happened again and we were about to engage in a battle with the man who Miss Asagao called Nil.

Casablanca steps up to fight by materializing her weapon which I am curious of when did she had one like that. But, I am also in no position to ask as cube shaped object came out from my palm. It intensifies my magic output and makes my spirit summons stronger.

I can’t let Casablanca, who is trying to be brave even though she is scared inside to stand on by her own. I too stepped up after her to fight too so there will be someone to watch her back. If we can protect people we loved, then I am willing to fight too.

But if I can support Casablanca too, then I am willing to give up my life for her.

Thank goodness that the battle didn’t break out and another man appeared before us.

Not as cool as Susanoo but he is strong too and I can feel that. Miss Asagao relies on him. His name is Sir Ichirou.

He is the one everyone talks about who was with them before they arrived the dragon capital. They said that they lost him during their travel so I am kind of excited about what he is like.

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We’ve been in all sorts of troubles during our adventure in a very hot place.

Casablanca and I were able to know more about Miss Asagao but…

I have my doubts…

It’s not that I don’t trust Miss Asagao. I can’t see her as an older sister or someone older. She’s cute and adorable like what everyone said about her but…

If I were to believe her story that we are all related as siblings…

I can’t…

I want to but there’s something inside my heart that refuses me to believe in her wholeheartedly. Casablanca may have but I can’t…

Somewhere inside me, I can’t tell what it is and it’s hurting me…

Do I really don’t want to believe her or there is something about her that I don’t like. I don’t believe that is the case but…

It’s also painful for me that she is getting closer to Casablanca but I have to support Casablanca on whatever she does.

Because I love her and I will support her and give her all the attention she wants.

Like the sun hiding behind the moon to let her shine brighter than me.