11 11- Our pasts (1)

" Is it truly worth it to be bodyguards for those princes?" Blaze asked during their morning discussion.

" Why are we going back to this topic, Blaze?"

" I don't know why but I have a feeling like something will happen."

" Me too but I think mine I more about how my hair is going to turn white after meeting them." Aella said pointing at her silver hair.

" Aella, how will yours turn white when it already is?" Ivar teases.

" What are you indicating, my dear sister?"

Ivar then looked at the scary looking Aella and quickly denied what she said.

Meanwhile, Lucy looked over to Tinuviel and asked.

" Tinu, how old are the princes?"

" They are from 18-23."

" So the 2 youngest royals are younger than me, huh? Considering the oldest prince is already 23, why is he not married? I thought people of this country will get married when they are still young?" Blaze asked.

" Do you think I would find out that through my investigation? What if the royals doesn't want to have their son get marry? We will never be able to understand how the royal and prestigious families think. they are all too calculating."

" I agree, but I think it's unlikely. What if the prince has some other problem and the Royal Family wants to conceal it?"

" Well we will never know until we investigate it, so Tinu?" Everest then looked up towards Tinuviel and showed her infamous puppy eyes.

Unfortunately for Tinuviel, she knew that it would happen but still got tricked.

" Fine, you just need me to investigate the first prince right?"

" There's no need for that, Tinu. Wouldn't it be better to find out after we get our positions. It would be much more interesting." Ara suggested.

" I agree, since we know enough about their personalities and habits, I think it would be much more entertaining to figure it by ourselves."

" We will all be assign to a different prince so we definitely won't be having a nice vacation. Good bye to my plan of having a peaceful vacation." Blaze murmured.

" Blaze? You have a plan like that? You definitely know that we won't be having any peaceful days in a while at least, right?"

" And also considering your personality, there will be no peaceful vacation. You most likely will burn down the kitchen or something while we're on vacation." Ivar teased.

" I know but at least let me daydream for a bit. Ivar about me burning the kitchen, it never happened and it was when I just got here!"

" Yes of course, whatever you say, sister."

And with that, the pair once again argue about various topics again.

" They look like the pair we met yesterday." Lucy noted while drinking her latte.

" Uhmm"

" Haha!" The comment made Everest and Ara giggled.

" Let's quiet down, girls." Lucy finally said after awhile.

Immediately, she felt 6 pairs of eyes was focused on her.

She then cast a soundproof spell outside their room to prevent anyone from eavesdropping.

" I get it that we all got reincarnated to a different body but coincidentally looked similar to our previous self. We all know that Tinu, Ivar and I was reincarnated in Caelum, while the rest was reincarnatedmily in Terra. So how about we finally share our back story with each other?"

After her speech, she was met with silence. It was clear that no one wanted to tell their childhood story.

" I think it's a good idea. Since we are still in the beginning stages of our journey, it's best to just get those things off our shoulders and to prevent future misunderstanding when we travel between worlds." Ara was the first to say anything.

After a while, they all decided to do it and Lucy decided to go first.

" When I was reincarnated, my name wasn't Lucy. It instead was Plum, Plum Lyhel quite ugly isn't it? I was born in the Krolelux Empire, that's also why my physical appearance is quite different." She looked around and continued.

" I was born from a family that was earning quite a bit of money. The only downside was that they were extremely biased on genders. Since I was a girl, they didn't care about me. It was tolerable until my father's concubine gave birth to my half-brother. He was cherished the moment he was born because he was a male. Because of that, my mother came to hate me. Saying that it was my fault that she got disfavoured. Since she was the wife, so my supposedly mother was quite arrogant and having an arranged marriage didn't help her feel any better."

She then stopped for a moment to take a sip of her drink since her throat was getting quite dry.

" Because of that, she constantly got these episodes of extreme anger and when she went through one. She would call for me so she could hit me. When she was done, she would then check my wounds and tell me that I was the only one that could calm her but I knew that it was not true. My father knew what she was doing to me but he didn't intervene since he didn't care about me. He was too busy spending all of his time with his concubine and his son that was determined to be the heir."

She stopped for a moment to calm her thoughts.

This was truly a trip down memory lane.

" My brother was surprisingly nice to me but his mother was not. The concubine was very scheming and she was also the sole cause of my mother suicide. Even though, my mother is prideful, she was not the smartest and got tricked by the concubine countless times and finally decided to end her life. After that, the concubine became the wife, thus making me the so-called illegitimate child since my mother was degraded to a concubine after she had died. This was when I was 9. A child that was 9 should still be able to cry when they are afraid of something but I wasn't able to. My hatred towards my father and his concubine was too immense that I didn't have time to mourn my mother's death. Luckily, my stepbrother was there to comfort me although it was not a lot since his mother didn't allow him to be near me."

" After awhile, I somehow became the family's punching bag. Every time, my father or his concubine gets angry they would go and find me to abuse me. It was either physical or mentally, but either way they were very eager to see me break. After those sessions, my brother would secretly sneak in and tend my wounds or just to comfort me. When I turned 10, it was the year that I unlocked my memories. It wasn't very pretty though since I was on the verge of death. Luckily, my hatred was too big and that was the sole reason on how i was able to survive and unlock my memories. When I met God, he was very surprise that I managed to unlock them by myself."

" After I came back from the dream, everything changed since I was more matured and my powers were now strong. The last day of the year before I turned 10, my family took me to the temple for me to get test on my magic ability. Since having a magical element was very rare, I didn't expected to have one and it was indeed true. So when they saw how I can manipulate elements, it was too late. Since my elements are life and death, I can control life forces. Before revealing my magic, I forced my father to sign the papers to get me exile from the house. After get exiled, I joined the Bloodbow guild that was not as strong and famous like now. You guys could probably guess what had happened so who's next?" Lucy concluded and smiled gently while looking at the group in front of her.

The group was quite quiet. Everyone was trying to gather all of the information and analyse them.

" I'll go next." A voice announced.

Everyone looked at the black hair girl and nodded.

" Unlike Lucy, I was born from a slave market. Both my father and other were slaves. I was born during the time when buying slaves was fairly common. Since I was considered to be one of the lesser demons, my fate was to be sold to others and work as a slave. I started to work for a family when I was 5. Even though our family was constantly getting beaten, my parents were surprisingly very caring. Even if they were beaten that they were almost unable to leave the bed, they would always smile and forced themselves to get up the next morning and continue to work as normal."

" I was also beaten when I didn't managed to finish a day's workload or just messing little details. The family had a son and a daughter. Like their parents, they were also very sadistic. They constantly bullied the workers and slaves in the residence. By the time that I turned 10, I was called the Cold Blooded girl in the mansion. Since the demon race has a higher chance of being able to manipulate magic. When the son and daughter was able to manipulate magic, they constantly used that to abuse me. One day, they were abusing my parents, it was extremely bad this time since the daughter's fiance which is the demon heir cancelled their marriage. She kept hitting and whipping them that they eventually didn't make it. The sight of my parents dying really took a tole on my 13-year-old brain. After that, I decided to run away and leave everything behind. That was when I was able to meet Lucy. She was the one that helped me. After that, I was able to unlock my memories and the two of us then worked as a pair in the guild."

" Tinu, do you hate the demon heir?" Aella decided to ask.