As it became dusk, everyone was leaving for their own respective home. They bid farewell to each other but they all felt Daisy"s farewell was meant forever. Maybe they all are imagining too much or the evening light made her expression seems so.Drizella sigh in her heart-why do I have such stupid friends? They don"t even notice anything.- Drizella gives up in the end.
She kept rotating her head around looking for something and that something is her sister and the first prince. He would have to go back with Francis or a search warrant would be issue tomorrow morning. She doesn"t want any trouble coming her way before she solves her current problem.
"Mama where is Stacey?" Drizella asks with a worried face.
Clara: "Don"t worry so much. Marquess Tremaine"s man is watching over them."
Clara just finishes talking when two shadows appear from the forest, walking towards them. The shadows are Anastasia and Lucas with a knight Drizella doesn"t know the name of behind them.
Lucas was carrying some sort of thing in his arms. They are white with gray spots and as they both got closer, Drizella got a better look, seeing that they are snow mushrooms. She doesn"t get why a prince would need so many snow mushrooms. It"s not like the castle doesn"t have any snow mushrooms since they are very common during winter time. Even if his mother is a baker, snow mushrooms just don"t go well with bread.
"Mother. Sister. I"m back!" Anastasia waved her hand with an extremely adorable smile.
Drizella smile back with a wave of her hand. Even though her lip is smiling, her inside is crying out in pain.
She pleads in her heart that her sister hasn"t done anything outrageous.
A paper white bird came flying in the wind towards them. It landed on Cinderella"s open hands. The paper bird unfolds into a paper. On the top of the paper was the t.i.tle "SLAVE CONTRACT" and towards the bottom was a stamp with three blood thumbprints. Slowly a red printed word "INVALID" appear across the whole paper.
Cinderella rolled up the paper as she stuffed it into her hand marking.
Seeing her actions, Drizella almost fainted. She really felt like they and she are living in a different world now.
Just then she realizes her hand also has a marking. Gazing at the marking, she wonders if she could do the same but also worried that instead of what happened with Cinderella... her hand would bleed with blood almost like a knife cutting into her flesh.
She really queries how those people that transmigrate can get used to things really quickly. And most are sent back to the past or to a world where there"ll be a female or male lead to protect them.
...While she... Drizella looks around, shaking her head... nope. No leads to support and stand up for her. Maybe she is still too young... not interesting at all. Those leads always have this one word "interesting" before falling in love with the transmigrator.
"Is something the matter?" Cinderella politely inquires seeing Drizella absentmindedly staring at her hand.
She smiles again shaking her head as she drags Anastasia behind her. Hiding her from the sight of the first prince, Lucas.
Since a carriage can"t pa.s.s through the thick forest to where they were, Marquess Tremaine has to use a scroll. This scroll is almost the same as the one Mister Bachhuber use, only instead of red markings, it is blue.
As he mumbles some unknown words, Cinderella grabbed Lucas and Cain as she walks to where Marquess Tremaine is standing. The two knights also follow along standing behind them as they stood in the middle and a magic circle form.
Drizella was so observed to trying to understand what Francis was mumbling that she didn"t see Lucas stepping out of the magic circle and pulled Anastasia towards him.
When she realizes Anastasia was already away from her and the knight named Kyle was pulling Lucas back into the magic circle.
She quickly seizes Anastasia"s hand with all her strength, stopping her from entering the circle.
Lucas bring his hand up into a pinky swear action as he said, "Promise me that you"ll marry me!"
Anastasia mindlessly entwines her pinky with his as she answers, "O.k. I promise. Only if you lose your fatty body, be strong such as having abs, courageous, handsome, to my liking and care about me more than anyone then I promise."
They both sing together, "Pinky promise, hope to die, swallow a thousand needles if you lie. Finger"s cut!"
Lucas slowly disappears from where he was with a bright smile on his face. While Drizella"s face was the face of a screaming monkey.
Is...is this what love at first sight...marriage is?!
"My youngest daughter criteria are very high for a husband!" Camilla was shocked by her daughter"s boldness.
"Of course!" Anastasia proudly proclaimed while giving Drizella a wink.
Camilla gives Drizella and Anastasia a life lesson, "A promise always have to be kept. That promise will be engraved into the deepest part of your soul and what you swear upon would happen." She covers Anastasia"s ears as she continues, "So when Anastasia promise to eat a thousand needle... will happen. That is the universal law."
"Mama you"re lying! I just told Stacey the pinky promise... because..."
Camilla sigh as she patted Drizella on the head, "However as long as one side of the promise is unfulfilled the promise will be invalid. And Daisy saw how high Anastasia"s criteria is right."
...
They all landed outside of the palace gate. The two stationed foot guards put off a strong front but relax when they realize the intruder was exactly the first prince.
"You"re really going to follow through?" Marquess Tremaine questioned.
Lucas with his wobbly body answered, "Of course. She"s the first and will be the last."
Marquess Tremaine noted, "Looks like she already notices your true self."
"Yes. She"s more impressive than what she did at the Awakening Ceremony." Lucas walks through the opened gate and towards the palace.
Cinderella can only keep her wondering in her heart about who this "she" they were talking about is as she sits on her own carriage.
Francis"s fingers tip through the doc.u.ments in his hand as he sits on his own carriage.
Sparkling white s.h.i.+mmers swish next to him as an elderly woman in a faded blue hood cloak over a simple blue dress tied with a large magenta bow on the front appear next to him.
Her white hair is tuck behind her faded blue hood cloak. Even though she"s elderly, short, and obese, her skin is still a fair color.
She chuckles as she softly said, "Never in my dream, would I think you"ll use that contract in that way."
Francis nodded, "Why are you still in that form, grandmother?"
"No. No. It"s not grandmother, it"s fairy G.o.dmother." She waves her wand as the doc.u.ments in Francis"s hand landed on hers. "Oh. This... you decided to make her the successor. It"ll be hard for a woman to hold onto a status such as Marquess, especially a woman not related by blood. But I can see why you choose her. Have faith in yourself and hope."
Francis nodded again, "However, with a little makeup, a little persuading everything will work."
"Oh. Look at the time. A child is calling." saying so, she waves her wand and a twinkle she disappears.
...
Drizella woke up from her sleepless night sleep. She stares at her own reflection on the basket of water. She opens her mouth for a smile but realizes she can"t seem to smile.
"Sister, what... haha r...you...haha... doing?" Anastasia questioned as she saw her sister playing with her own cheeks. She (Drizella) was squeezing and widening her cheeks, making funny faces.
Drizella realizes what she has just done was so stupid. She can only resign as she pa.s.sionately replied, "NEVER. NEVER, smile for the whole day! Got it! Or you"ll become like ME right NOW!"
Anastasia quickly nodded her head and try to flee away from her weird sister right now.
"Wait right there. We need to have a talk about what you promised yesterday. This could kill every generation of our family! You hear!" Drizella yelled towards her fleeing sister.
"I"m just saying what you told me!" Anastasia"s last sentence as she flees into the house.