After princess Ludia stopped crying and swiped her snot on a pillow, she jumped at me and hugged me without saying anything!
"P-princess?! What are you doing?"
"I'm comforting you, you're not alone anymore little sister. *Sniff* And don't call me princess, just call me Ludia and i'll call you Luna, alright?"
'I think you're the one who needs comforting but whatever, i'll let you hug me for now as long as you don't spread your snot all over my hair' I thought in my heart but i didn't want to ruin the mood.
"It that really alright? I'm but a commoner and i just met you, while you're a princ-"
"Call. Me. Ludia."
"O-okay, i'm sorry Ludia!" She is really scary when she speaks slowly and gives me that warm, heartfelt smile!
I took a quick glance at ludias room and... Just let me say that if i had to guess where we were without any information beforehand, i would 100% say we would be at an armory! The walls are aren't rainbow coloured like i imagined a princesses room's walls to be but instead just bare stonewalls with filled sword hangers! Weapons of all weights and styles are hanging from the hangers and the rooms only lighting comes from torches arranged randomly all around the wall. A ventilation system is built into the room to let out the smoke generated from the torches too. I knew that technology in this world is already not far from my original world from earlier but i can't help but get impressed when i see new magic artifacts...
"Luna, when was the last time you took a bath? Your hair is all ragged and tacky..." Ludia backed off and looked at me with concerned eyes. Huh, what do you mean tacky?
I placed my right hand on my head and felt a slimy sensation tickling my palm! Ewww, that wasn't there a moment ago, could it be that Ludia spread her snot on my head as she patted my head a moment ago?!
"This is your snot Ludia, you're disgusting!"
"Hah, what do you mean? Don't you know that princesses don't generate filthy fluids like snot?"
"You're lying, you just realised it's your snot and tried to come up with an excuse to fool me! You're the worst Ludia!" After i exposed her evil trick, her expression turned back into the scary heartfelt and sincere smile.
"Princesses. Do. Not. Generate: Filthy. Fluids. Do you understand."
"Y-yes... I'm sorry."
"It's okay if you understand Luna. Now that we got that out of the way, where will you live now Luna? I can't just throw you out on the streets all alone, now can i? So i was thinking that we take a bath together and then have some warm supper. We can think about what to do later. Does that sound good to you Luna."
"Yes!" I nodded my head with an excited expression, it's been already over two weeks since i last took a bath so i have a very uncomfortable feeling like ants were constantly crawling on my skin."
"Good, then one last thing before i go find a maid to cook for us. Turn your back to me for a moment Luna."
Luna approached me and started fiddling with the collar on my neck. After a while i heard a click and the collar on my neck fell of on the ground. Then ludia moved the collar away from my feet and started stomping on it. Of course, she is still an eleven year old girl so she couldn't even scratch it with her weight.
"Damnit, you think you're tough huh? Well let's see how you will react after being trampled by this orc lords warhammer!" Ludia giggled to herself as she placed the collar beneath a big warhammer hanging from the wall and tied a rope to the warhammer for pulling it down from a safe distance.
"Luna, take cover!"
"Ludia, wait! I don't think this is a good idea! Just let the collar be!"
"Too late now, hahaha!"
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Cold sweat fell off my cheeks as i witnessed ludia duck behind her bed and pull the rope. What am i supposed to do in this situation?! I'll just duck and cover my head, yeah, that sounds good!
A sound similar to a granade exploding could be heard as the floor shook and the shockwave of the slave collar's mana being released all at once extinguished the torches in the room. Only the sound of windows shattering and shelves falling over could be heard in the darkness of the room.
"Ahahaha, did you see that Luna? The collar exploded! How amusing!"
"Y-yeah, haha...ha..." This princess is scary! I'll remember not to make fun of her! As i finally stood up to look for the door, a maid opened the door and panicked.
"P-princess! What did you do this time?! Are you hurt? Where are you?" A dark figure emerged from the darkness with a smile on her face and giggled.
"I'm fine, i was just experimenting something. Yes, that's it. Anyways, i'll be taking a bath now so go prepare warm supper for two by the time i get out. Also get someone to clean my room for me. Come one luna, let's go take a bath!"
I walked past the maid with a stupefied expression and gave an empathic nod to the maid before joining ludia in the corridor.
"Oh, i think the there's also a hole in floor so check if anyone is hurt downstairs and be careful when cleaning!" Ludia added and the maid started rubbing her eyes and sniffing...
"Luna, do all elves have such smooth and thick hair? I'm so envious!"
Right now i'm sitting in a shallow bathtub so big that even a wyvern could bathe in it if it wasn't so shallow. Ludia is sitting behind me and washing my hair using a shampoo with a strong scent similar to strawberries... Uuu, her fingers massaging my head feel so good. Warm water is pouring down on my head from a faucet powered by yet another magic artifact, washing off the shampoo off my hair.
"Why would you be envious? You're so beautiful yourself ludia."
It's true, i didn't just say it to make her feel good. She has glossy, light pink hair long enough to reach her shoulders even after being tied into a ponytail, you could even say that her hair was as fair as the golden sun during sunset. Ludia has a round, slightly chubby baby face with a fine jaw line. Dark, green and big eyes spaced evenly apart, sitting below well trimmed eyebrows and a small cute nose on top of her pink lips. If she was 5 more years older and more developed in certain areas then maybe... nevermind.
"M-me? Did you call me beautiful luna?" Ludia blushed and hid her face behind her fingers.
"Yes, i did. What about it ludia?"
"Ehehe, to be called beautiful by an elf..." Ludia giggled and fidgeted as we had switched positions and water was pouring on her head. After a while, she calmed down and i decided to ask her something i had thought about for a while now.
"Ludia, where will i live now? I was thinking that maybe i could live with the maids until i leave to home."
"That's obvious, you will live and sleep with me. My bed is big enough for 10 adults to sleep in anyways and dad wouldn't throw out my first friend.
Sleeping with a girl... *Gulp* I never managed to do that in my previous life as i blushed just by making eye contact with cute girls and ended up stuttering, and now ludia is suggesting it like it's as natural as eating breakfast!
"W-what are you saying ludia?! That's inappro-!" No wait, i'm a girl now and a little child at that so why am i even blushing... Of course she means sleeping by literally just sleeping. I feel like digging a hole and sitting there until i'm healed. I let out a sigh and continued washing ludia's hair.
After we finished bathing we dried ourselves with towels and put on clothes that a maid laid down next to the bath earlier. Ludia then walked me around the royal palace and showed me around. We also went by the king's bedroom so ludia could brag about making a friend but instead a concubine opened the door wearing only a see-trough lingerie. As she was about to call for the king, ludia instead dragged me away by my ear and pouted since i didn't respond to her and kept staring at the concubine.
When we arrived back to ludia's room, we had already visited the kitchen, dinings halls, knights training grounds, gardens which i saw on my way here and finally the top of the building where we could see everything in the city.
Everything was cleaned except the huge hole in the floor left there by the explosion. The first thing ludia did was put on hair ornaments she wore before taking a bath, enhancing her cuteness by 10 points!
We took seats on the opposite sides of a table in middle of the room and ludia poured both of us soup from a pot prepared by the maid from earlier. The taste reminded me of chicken soup from earth and i ate two portions before ludia could even finish her first one as i hadn't eaten anything since morning.
"Hey Luna, let's go look at my weapon collection after we finish eating! Dad let me keep the holy sword in my collection and i bought off enchanted gauntlets from an auction last week! You know what they do? They electrocute any living beings you touch with them and i tested it on my brothers after lowering the power and guess what!"
"W-what happened?
"They both peed their pants and cried! Hahahaha!"
"Haha..." This girl is really weird!
"I changed my mind. Let's leave now! Hurry up and finish eating you dummy!"
"I'm very tired of walking around the palace so can we just sleep now? It's already night time too..."
"Muuu... Luna is boring"
After i finished eating my third serving of soup i climbed on the bed by grasping sheets and fell asleep immediately.
Ludia, age 11.
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