After Fonfon left, Alstroe and I garbed ourselves with dresses I am not used to. A plain collared light blue dress with no sleeves that sways up to my knees. It has a floral motif as there a ribbons swirling like a flower on the hem.

Alstroe wears a dress with puffy sleeves decorated with frills at the ends. Her dress is buckled with a ribbon on the waist and it over the overall yellow color of the dress is checked white stripes. The dress the sways up to her shins look quite novel.

Of course, having the upper hand of height, I toyed with Alstroe’s silver hair.

I tried knotting it into a bun, twin tails, a ponytail, braid, two-sided braid, low ponytail and one of my most favorite hairstyle, high top ponytail with a ribbon. Although the ribbon looks ridiculous back in my world, it is nothing but additional grace and charm in this world.

In the end, I settled on the ponytail with a big ribbon.

Alstroe’s eyes widen as she stares at herself in the mirror. More like, she is had various expression while I was fiddling with her hair and thinking of what’s best to style it.

“Waaaah!~ Cute!~”

“Ehehehe! If you want, I can stroke it like a curl in the end or twist it like a drill.”

“Drill?! That, that! Do that Asagao!”

Although I said that, most thing I can do is to use some hair gel from Mimosa and give the finishing touch. On a side note, Mimosa gave me more concoctions, beauty products, soaps, and shampoo the last time we saw each other.

Even toothpaste are now given a variety of fruity flavor as I suggested when I was still working as her apprentice in her lab. I am glad I was there to stop her from making a meat flavored toothpaste…

Taking out a hair gel with a strawberry scent and squeezing out a valid amount, I started dabbing it to Alstroe’s silky silver hair. The hair gel doesn’t leave any unpleasant stickiness and smoothly attaches itself to her hair.

The hair gel made Alstroe’s hair more lustrous and shiny. After confirming that the gel was equally applied to her ponytail, I started swirling it. Swirl, swirl and swirl until the hair get fixated on its vortex of swirls.

Well, it is poorly made so I guess it won’t last half a day. I know that a real hair drill needed a lot of time to make.

As I made the finishing touch of curving the tip of the ponytail, Alstroe’s face brightens as she sways the ponytail left and right to see the makeshift hair drill.

“Amazing and it smells nice!”

“Glad you like it, dear customer. What would you like to do now, Madam?”

“Ehehehe! I wonder?~ I’ve been lacking a certain needs as of late.”

“What would that be Madam?”

“I want some snuggle from Asagao!”

“You’re so spoiled, Madam!”

“Ehehe!”

I lean my head forward and look below where Alstroe is looking upward. With some laughter and giggles, we playfully touch noses. Our small laughter and giggles resound the whole room mixed with the chirping birds and the calming sound of wind rustling the curtains.

However, because we were occupied with each other, we didn’t notice that someone was watching us and it was too late before we notice her standing there with a huge grin on her lips.

“Excuse me, Madams, King Ashfon is waiting in the dining room for breakfast. If I would allow myself to speak, continue so but time is pressing.”

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It was Lily, one of Fonfon’s Royal Guard.

She was particularly apt and adaptive of situation. I’ve heard that she has been traveling with Fonfon since she was ten years old. It was not her power and strength that boasts about being one of the Royal Guards.

She doesn’t even hold a candle against Violetta, however, it was her quick and fine thinking to judge situation and knowledge of how to deal with Fonfon are what made her fit for the situation.

She is one of the people, together with Fonfon, Violetta, and Edelweiss with the heroes that welcomed me into this world.

But if there’s something that I can say about her, she is like Higan in terms of preference. She is an open lesbian…

“Um…how long have you been there?”

“Me? About the time you started playing with her hair I guess. It was quite fun to watch the two of you. It’s like watching bonds of two sisters.”

“Geez! You should have said something! Right, Alstroe?”

I turn to Alstroe to search for a back-up, however, she only returned a grin towards me. I get the feeling that she already know that Lily is there but didn’t say anything about her.

Alstroe’s Ki didn’t completely disappear as I previously mentioned. There’s a portion of Ki inside her that keeps her strength to the minimum. She is still stronger than your average soldier and can pound a stone wall with her bare fist even with her size.

“A-Anyway, we’re going down now so please wait for us downstairs!”

“Yes, Madam. I shall convey to our King that you and Miss Alstroe are having a fine bond with each other so he doesn’t have any rights to be pushy.”

“Please stop teasing!”

“Bye!”

I must admit, we do take our sweet time but I think we really didn’t spend too much that he needs to push us.

Then…I peek at the clock...

More than an hour has passed…

This is when I realize that girls who are in such delicate years of age start spending time for themselves by making themselves pretty is justifiable. I don’t like to admit it myself but I do feel like preparing myself like a girl is becoming a bad habit.

No, I am a girl now. I just can’t keep complaining about every single detail about my gender-bending situation, not that I jumped from an otherworlder to a princess.

Realizing that we really spent too much time playing around, I beckon Alstroe out of the room now and head towards the dining room to eat some breakfast.

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“Say, Violetta, can we just keep her?”

“Don’t be ridiculous! Not only she still has a legal guardian but she is also way past the legal adopting age. And also, don’t talk casually about it as if you are adopting a puppy!”

“She is a perfect little sister too in my opinion. Asagao alone sways my cloud nine, however, if we add little Alstroemeria, we can reach new heights and dimension of cuteness and adorableness.”

“What the hell are you saying? What are you going to do if Alstroemeria returns to her original form?”

“…Still a viable little sister.”

“Are you sick or something?”

We are currently sitting in front of the dining table and such topic was brought up. From the conversation alone, they are rather taking the matter seriously but the if you think hard about it, it is just Fonfon being obsessed with little sister.

Yeah, wait…

When did he become this obsessed with it?! I don’t want to think ill of Fonfon but I wonder if he hit his head or something.

Suddenly, his gaze shifted to me.

“Say Asagao, do you want Alstroemeria to be your little sister? Age wise, you are older than her.”

“Geez! Don’t ask me! I already have little sisters of my own!”

“……”

“……”

“W-What?”

“What did you just said?”

I tilted my head from his question.

Come to think of it…

Ah!

He still doesn’t know that Higanbana, Casablanca, and Hibiscus are my biological sisters from Astlan Lionheart!

Violetta places her palm on her forehead and heaves a heavy sigh. It is the sign that I said something I should not have. Realizing what that meant, I feel like I made a huge mistake, however, it is something that I will not keep a secret.

I promise to be always honest with him as my pledge as his little sister.

“You see…”

I recounted the story of where I met Higanbana, Casablanca, and Hibiscus and how I came to know that they are my biological sisters from the same father. Taking the chances, I also told him about Senya, the ancient dragons, the pirates and so much more.

I also told him the truth about Topaz since I can’t lie to him. I also told him about Mimi whom who became my contractor.

Ah, well, I kept the thing about me and Ichirou in the dark. It’s super embarrassing and I still haven’t moved on from that rejection yet. There is still a lingering feeling of dismay and disappointment that needs closure. I can’t bring that up myself since it is really embarrassing!

After the summarization of my story, Fonfon’s who is listening with a default blank face looks down and covered his face with his hand.

“I see…Is that so?”

“Is there something wrong?”

“……”

“Do you find it unpleasant?”

“No…in fact, I started contemplating something in the middle of your story.”

He said…

Alstroe didn’t even mind our conversation and kept stuffing her mouth with food. Since becoming smaller, she becomes more of a glutton in which I considered that her body must be seeking food for energy to replace all the lost Ki inside her body.

Violetta was all sigh and can’t remove her knitted brows as I tell my story. I don’t think I said something bad but she just kept making a sidelong glance at me as soon as I am happily telling about the people that I met.

As if drawing himself from the chair he is sitting on, Fonfon looks at Violetta with serious eyes. Violetta, seeing that Fonfon has come to a conclusion, sighs.

“Ashfon, don’t tell me you are actually thinking that is the case. I am pregnant so don’t make me overdo things because of your delusions. It’s not part of you but I can feel that something else is developing inside you.”

“I don’t know about that Violetta. I am not going to cause you any trouble as I am also concerned with the child inside your womb. However, this conclusion of mine…”

“Please don’t…”

Fonfon grandly stood up from his chair and looks at everyone in the room with serious eyes that akin to a hawk observing its prey.

“Asagao, your little sisters are my little sisters too then! We can even count Topaz and Mimi in it if you want! With that, I am going to have a lot of little sisters from now on!”

“Wait…that’s a little…!”

“Violetta, send letters of invitation to all of my little sisters! Call Ishtal, Lily, and Edelweiss to prepare for a party!”

What?!

He just returned and he hasn't even made his appearance to the public yet!