Who Made Me a Princess

“Uya.”

I couldn’t help but shiver when I thought of the ongoing rumours about the human known as ‘Dad’ .

I have only gotten the informations from the maids, but I already knew that he was a huge psychopath. I tensed up every time the maids come to clean my room and whisper about him.

The place I’m staying right now was called ‘Ruby Palace’, where the emperor’s concubines stay at.

In one words, it was the king’s harem. However, one morning, he killed all the people from the Ruby kingdom.

The reason was unknown, however it was sure that something has bothered the emperor and made him kill all of them himself.

My mother Diana was invited to the imperial palace banquet one day as a dancer, somehow attracted the emperor’s attention, and gave birth to me.

Diana, however, unlike any other citizens, passed away during giving birth. She didn’t have a chance to become the empress professionally and had only left the newborn me behind.

After that, that emperor hid himself and blocked me out of sight. The maids in the Ruby palace took care of me since then.

Hmm, when I mention it like that, this really is one sh*tty bean house. Put all the other matters aside for now but what is that damn dog emperor doing ditching his own child behind?!

Anyways, now I was living at the place where chaos happened.

Arrgh. I could not have a nightmare when I first heard about it. Leaving a baby like me stuck in one room… This was definitely a bad, bad habit.

But I was more scared of that emperor who I didn’t even know his appearance of than the horrible things that had happened to this palace. Just like people who were killed in this palace, won’t he go mad again, suddenly appear out of no where and kill everyone while saying ‘You die!’? Including… Me?! This is great. What a great future I have just when I was born as a princess.

“Uwaa euu.”

Ah, right. Have I mentioned my name before? In the past life, the head of the orphanage had given me a name uncaringly, but in this life, my mom had made it herself.

That name was ‘Atanasia’ (Sorry, her real name is Athanasia, but I’ll use Atanasia for some of my reasons.). Tremendously, my name had a meaning that was ‘Unknown’.

I’ve heard it from Lilly from last night, but it was a luxury name for the lowly treated princess.

Of course, it had to be the same name as that unlucky bad-futured princess from that romance novel.

I wonder if a human known as ‘Mommy’ made this name, meaning for me to live long and happy within that beast emperor’s hands.

Sniff. However it made me feel very wrong that the character Atanasia in the romance novel had a fate of a terrible death at the age of 18.

Moreover, out of all death incidents, why death by the emperor, her dad himself! It weren’t like this before, but why do this romance novel keep popping up in my head after I have turned into a baby?

“Euuu euuu.”

So when I opened my eyes, I was in fear from the thought of that human described as dad would visit me.

Click!

I thought I was going to die just then. It was fortunate that the ones who came in the room was none other than the maids from the Ruby Palace. The maids stared at me and whispered to themselves with complaint visible in their eyes.

“What’s this, she’s not sleeping.”

“Do we really have to be here? She will not be able to move anyways.”

“You know Lillian. So annoying.”

Oh, there they go again. Whispering complaints while staring at me. Let’s not do this to each other, we are all jammed in the Ruby Palace after all, right big sisters?

“I’ll just think of it as resting for a while.”

“Isn’t she going to cry again?”

“Hurry swing the crib to get her to sleep faster.”

It’ll seem like I cry all day if someone listened to it. If there’s any other babies who can cry any less than I do, then make them get here!

Lilly was worried that I wasn’t crying as much and was just mumbling, but those big sisters would always whisper these stuffs whenever they come to see me.

I was pretty sure that they were treating me like this just because I didn’t have any importance to the emperor.

Am I lonely because of it? Not at all! It was a dream to live as a princess like this. I would be able to play all day long even if I snatch some golds here and run off. So, please, forget about me. I don’t want any of the attentions. I don’t!

“She’s not even an interest of the emperor, though her luck is good.”

That was correct. Even though I was only fed warm milk in a bottle, since it was a palace, I would get 3 whole meals a day! Sleeping here was also very comfortable, adding to that, the room was filled with gold.

If this continues without me entering the emperor’s eyes, I wouldn’t have to worry about the lacking of foods. Even though if this repeats, this wouldn’t be such an invaluable life.

If I grow up like this, I’ll find a chance to run away after scratching (Means stealing/packing) some gold.

So let’s focus on growing up first. If this was the case, eating and sleeping healthily and excersizing just like Lilly mentioned was very important.

Hiya hiya! I had kicked in the air with my legs to strengthen them.

“Even if that’s the case, she’s still very weak that she could die with a flick of a hand.”

“True. Why out of all places were we hired here… Oh right, did you hear? It’s a story about a ghost in the Ruby palace kitchen. It makes its appearance every night.”

“Goosebumps. We don’t know when we’ll be in the ghosts, too.”

Whisper whisper.

They kept on whispering while glancing at me from time to time. As for me, it wasn’t that I didn’t completely understand how they felt.

Even I, the princess of this kingdom was afraid to stay at a place where you could die any day. If I gain some valuables, I’ll get out of this terrible place!

I once again motivated me of my choice.

***

“Eh he he.”

I was very happy! When I smiled happily at the object in front of me, Lilly smiled gracefully as if she was very satisfied.

“Do you really like it that much?”

“I lwike iwt! (I like it!)”

Oh yeah, oh yeah! Uh huh, uh huh! Alright! Praise for my gold! How pretty it is!

Looking at my precious golden round ball, I was exited that I performed all my cuteness, loveliness, and charm. I was sure I looked attractive. When I laughed and rubbed my cheek on it, Lilly must be happy now too that she planted a kiss on my cheek.

Time went by and now crawling on the carpet wasn’t as hard as it was before. Every time I crawled, I would always look at the gems and golds with round and sparkly eyes.

The walls had gems installed on it, and even the walls were gold. Wait, it is real gold and gems. It must be, right?

Anyways, seeing me reaching for valuables all the time, Lilly must have gotten the idea that I liked sparkly stuffs.

Since then, Lilly would bring other toys made of golds and gems and made my eyes go big and round in surprise. I thought that Ruby palace lacked of budgets and didn’t care at all about my toys.

“I’ll bring new toys later when you grow sick of them.”

Lilly’s face that was always beautiful looked more dazzling today when she spoke those words. Lilly, you are my everything!

“Gya. Uwaa.”

I played with teh ball, crawling on the carpet. Lilly must have brought this ball for me, who could only crawl, to roll them on the floor.

I’ll keep this well for later when I run off. Ah ha ha! Ahhh, drool!

Ruby Palace was very peaceful. I was uneasy at first, but as months went by, I realized that my dad, the sh*tty emperor stayed quiet and had stayed out of my sight. This was enough to prove that there was a possibility of him forgetting of my existence.

Of course, the others who were scared of him coming to kill us all had calmed down a lot. However the rumours of the kitchen ghost stayed alive.

I ate, exercise, and slept well that I was growing healthy and quickly. Thanks to Lilly’s care for me, I never once suffered a major illness as I was growing nice healthy.

I still wanted to be able to walk soon. Because when I could, I could start collecting the valuables. I don’t know if it’s just me, but it seemed like the decorations in my room was disappearing one by one.

Did Lilly think that I would drop or lose it so took them away? Wahh. No. My precious. Hand me my precious gold back!

“Wahh!”

I stopped playing with the ball, and started crying to call Lilly.

My butt felt moist. Sniff. Embarrassing, but should change my diaper.

***

“The wizards from the tower possess strongest powers out of all the other existing wizards.”

I was reading with Lilly the storybook with ill.u.s.trations while in a comfortable position within Lilly’s embrace. They called it a storybook, but it was actually a history book of this kingdom reduced into one storybook size.

For me, I had a lot I’m curious on of this place, so I listened to it calmly. However if it was any other babies of my age, they wouldn’t be able to understand this difficult-to-understand plot.

Mmm. It seemed like Lilly was highly interested in child education.

The book Lilly was reading to me now was very thrilling, so I paid my fullest attention to the story with my sparkly eyes mode on. Something that caught my highest interest though, was within the following.

And that is the existence of wizards! Its said that wizards exist in this world! I had always thought of this world as not a normal U.S.A, however I really didn’t think it would be this abnormal!

“Ish! (This!)”

When Lilly was about to flip the page,  had stopped her hand by pointing at an ill.u.s.tration. In the ill.u.s.tration existed a tower covered with tangled spiky vines.

‘”Depending on the might of the wizards from the tower, erasing a country from the map is known as not even a work for them.”

I was thrilled of the existence of magic. I want to see it too! I want to see magic!

“That’s why its said that they are freezing their own hearts.” (Like a frozen heart.)

Ah, that’s when I felt that this boring history book was turning into a real storybook. The black tower of the wizards Lilly was telling me about was intensely exciting.

“If ability, not a reason, and passion, not stoicalness is within a person’s heart, than that strength can be used in a good way rather than for the bad.”

“Woah.”

“There’s a story in the record of Obelia and the tower’s wizards. The reason for why Obelia’s current dynasties (Rulers) needed to rebuild it on the ruins was because the tower’s wizards had destroyed Obelia.”

This record have a big possibility of being only an exaggeration, but fun was still fun.

The things I have to do later in life had increased. I’ll see magic with my own two eyes!

With my hearts thumping in excitement, I had listened to other stories Lilly read for me. It was until something had caught my very interest.

“Wats ish? (What’s this?)”

What… Is this?