“Happy Birthday, Lowell!!”

“Thank you, everyone…”

This day, Lowell is celebrating her eight birthday.

Like her previous birthdays Weiss, her Teacher Aurel, and some of her Mom and Dad’s close acquaintances are invited.

“Happy birthday Little Elle.. This is our present for you!”

Her Mom and Dad hands her a wand.

Because Lowell used her wand everyday, it’s durability decreased to almost zero.

Since it’s much cheaper to buy one than repair it, her Mom and Dad bought her a new one instead.

Lowell's first wand is now being stored as decoration.

Since they noticed she didn’t have a wand anymore, they bought her one.

“Thank you, Mom, Dad!”

Lowell hugged her Mom and Dad.

After that, Teacher Aurel presented her present.

“Here’s my present this time.. Well, it’s the Taming Book you wanted.”

Teacher Aurel hands her the Taming Book she wanted.

“Thank you, Teacher!”

Lowell hugged the taming book while thanking her teacher.

“You’re welcome.”

After seeing Teacher Aurel give her present to Lowell, Weiss starts to butt in.

“My turn, my turn! Here Lowell!”

Weiss hands her an expensive-looking pendant.

“What’s this?”

Lowell looked at the pendant curiously.

“I dunno.. but Dad wants me to give this to you…”

Weiss’ butler, who rarely makes a move, starts to speak.

“Our master wants you to accept this gift. Its a gift for being good friends with our young master.”

“I-I see…”

Lowell accepted the pendant with reluctance.

Now, it's her Big Brother turn to give her a present.

“This is… my gift for you..”

He handed a violet pointy hat, which he hid by his back. When Lowell saw it, she immediately liked it.

“Its not much, but please accept it..”

“Gladly!”

When her Big Brother handed her the hat, she instantly wore it happily.

The hat’s slightly bigger than her head, but she think it’s good since it can wear it even if she grew bigger.

“It’s made of the same material used on our robes, so it’s a little expensive, but I can’t find a size appropriate for you.. Please bear with it..”

“No, Big Brother. It’s the best present I received! Thank you brother!! You’re the best!!”

Lowell started to hug her Big Brother gleefully, making his face flush red.

Lowell thought his facial expression was cute.

“Wawawawa!”

“Wawawawa!”

Both her Big Brother and Weiss is in panic.

Why does this frequently happen nowadays?…

Lowell thought as she asked Weiss.

“What happened, Weiss?”

Lowell started to look at Weiss with confusion.

“T-this isn’t fair! Qazar!Let’s fighttttt!!”

Weiss started to shout, but it’s a frequent occurrence, so Lowell didn’t mind it.

“Aren’t you misunderstanding something?!!!!”

Qazar starts to run outside while Weiss was chasing him.

When they came back after a few minutes, both of them are running out of breath.

After eating, most of the guests departed.

Only her Teacher and Weiss are around.

Lowell started to ask Teacher about her wedding.

“Teacher, what day next month is your wedding day?”

“Oh? I thought you were notified? I made you my ring-bearer for my wedding..”

“Ring bearer? What’s that?”

“Its the one who holds the rings that would be used for the wedding vow. It would be a good experience for you to be one.”

“A good experience..”

Lowell tried to think of any reason, but in the end she gave up.

Since it would make Teacher happy on her wedding day, it’s not a bad thing to do it.

When her Teacher and Weiss left, she started to open the other gifts.

Most of them were dolls, clothes, and a few books.

Lowell is really grateful since some of her received gifts are usable in her studies.

Lowell's already sleepy, so she bade goodnight to her Mom and Dad since they said they’ll finish cleaning the dining room first before they go to sleep.

Lowell also bade goodnight to her Big Brother since he started to sleep on a different room.

She asked him to sleep with her because Lowell felt comfortable sleeping with him, but he strongly insisted to stay on the other room Belle and Louis gave to him.

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After that day, her Mom and Dad lets her go wherever she wanted.

Both of them decided that Lowell should get a change of pace since all she do was study.

Since both her parents and Teacher Aurel agreed, she walked around her village with Big Brother.

Weiss, who heard Lowell had a day off, asked her to play with him.

But after he arrived and saw Qazar, he started to look at him as if irritated.

Her Big Brother, in return, tried to avoid his gaze.

What really happened between both of them to made their relationship like this.

Lowell thought she should make them friends again by using this day..

When the three started strolling around the village, most of the people’s attention was directed on them.

Lowell positioned herself behind both Big Brother and Weiss so she could avoid most of the attention.

Having a silver hair is rare in their country, but Weiss’ position as a noble was the main thing that attracted their gaze.

The person in question was… having a battle of tounges with Big Brother in front of me. He was staring strongly at Big Brother’s face while Big Brother looks at the other direction, avoiding his gaze.

Her Big Brother Qazar starts to speak weakly.

“Why are you here, Qazar? It’s Lowell who’s having her break today, wasn’t it?”

Weiss replied sarcastically.

“Well, Mother and Father asked me to accompany Lowell… and even Teacher agreed..”

Soon, Weiss starts to mutter some inaudible words.

“Teacher, you traitor….”

Qazar ignored Weiss and noticed Lowell.

“Lowell, what are you doing at our back?”

“Ah-?! N-Nothing!”

Lowell felt some unfamiliar gazes directed on her.

Weiss also noticed.

“Yeah, what’s wrong?”

Lowell started to hear some whispers like “Isn’t that Louis and Belle’s daughter?”, “So she’s friends with the noble’s child”, “She celebrated her birthday yesterday”.

Now, most of the attention was directed towards her.

“I-It’s nothing!!”

Lowell hid her face with her hat and started to charge forward without looking at her way.

Both Qazar and Weiss followed her.

It wasn't long until Lowell hit something.

“Waah-!”

She bumped into a person, making her slump to the ground.

Since her hat was still covering her sight, she didn’t get a good look on the person’s face.

“I-I’m sorry!”

“Are you hurt?”

The man grabbed Lowell's hand and lifted her up.

Lowell tried to look at his face, but the rim of her huge hat blocks the view so she only saw his smile.

“No, sir.”

After hearing her response, the man nodded.

“That’s good. Well, then. I shall go off now.”

“Thank you sir!”

Lowell removed her hat to bow and see his face, but she was one step late and only got a glimpse on his back.

He had red hair and the words ‘K.F.E’ was embedded in his shirt's back.

He had two swords which is placed on both of sides of his waist.

Both her Big Brother and Weiss, who was following Lowell from behind, was sweating profusely and had a frightened expressions on their faces.

Lowell saw at and became curious.

“Why are both of you sweating so much? I only ran a little distance, right? With your stamina, you shouldn’t sweat that much, right?”

“You didn’t know that person you just bumped?”

Weiss, who was like a fierce tiger bickering with her Big Brother a while ago, said it on a trembling voice.

She became more and more confused.

“I don’t know, but I think he’s a good person.”

Her big Brother, who was just as frightened as Weiss, starts to speak.

“Next time you see a person with ‘K.F.E’ on their clothing, please avoid them at all cost.”

“Eh? why?”

“‘K.F.E’, or also known as ‘Kingdom’s Free Enforcer’ are elite warriors within the Kingdom who pledge their alliance towards our Kingdom. These elites are unrestrained people who allied themselves to our Kingdom for protection. Because they’re unrestrained, they are allowed to kill whoever they want as long as that person made a blunder towards them. Most of them were vicious criminals who moves at the sidelines. Since you spent most of your time on our home, you didn’t encounter any of them. In Blanc City, the only known ‘K.F.E’ was … huh?”

After thinking awhile, he starts to mutter some words.

“‘K.F.E.’, Blanc City.. I see… it must be it..”

Lowell and Weiss noticed his face which shows that he discovered something.

“What is it, Big Brother?”

Weiss became impatient as he spoke angrily.

“Spill it out.”

“It’s nothing, really. I just thought of a possibility.”

“Possibility?”

“That the bride’s groom was visiting her future wife’s employer.”

Both Lowell and Weiss looks on Qazar, confused.

“Just get to the point, Qazar!”

“Yeah.”

Lowell agreed with the impatient Weiss.

Whose groom would… Groom?

Lowell had realized what her Big Brother wants to say.

“It’s Teacher’s future husband!?”

“Eh?!”

“I know that Lowell might not know it, but also you Weiss?”

Her Big brother’s starting to look at Weiss with disdain.

It looks like he’s trying to return the favor of Weiss being annoying earlier..

“Eh?! It’s not that I didn’t know that there’s an Enforcer around.. it’s just I don’t have any interest on them..”

Weiss starts to mumble weakly, accepting his defeat.

“Shall we return?”

Lowell asked both of them since the man’s destination might be their house.

It would also give us some knowledge about this person.

“No, let adults talk first.. We’ll have our chance later. Since it’s your break, let go stroll some more… but please don’t run again. You might get us in trouble next time…”

Qazar starts to look at Lowell with worry.

“Okay~!”

Since there’s no more people around them because of the man’s passage, they walked around leisurely.

After walking for a while, Weiss spoke again.

“Hey, Lowell… are we gonna walk around aimlessly? Where do you really want to go?”

“Hmm…”

Lowell started to tell them her intention.