Chapter 78: Nobility
Cordelia POV
I went to Perseus when the princess went to socialize with the others and elbowed him.
"She's not the 4th girl you kissed, is she?"
"Ew, no." he shook his head in denial "Don't make this weird."
"So who's the other apart from me, Emma, and your own sister?"
He rolled his eye at the last person, he really wants to forget the fact that his sister got drunk and sort of force herself on him, apparently she sobered up after that and it became a constant nightmare for them.
The clan found it a nightmare at first, but they found it funny and try their best to keep it in their memory every time they forget it.
"Oh, you'll find out later, she's also a nature spirit." he then just walked away to do whatever he normally do.
We spend the rest of the day with the princess and went around in our tour and go to places near our hotel, and like the rumors, the princess is not known at all, she sneaked out of the castle and spoke in a casual manner, no one even knew who she is.
She later gave us a farewell and head back before the queen send someone after her. Though she waited till Perseus came back to the group to do so, Perseus tends to wander out and no one can really stop him, and even if he was attacked, worrying about him is useless.
"See you tomorrow, so better dressed nice." she instructed
Perseus then opened a warp portal for her.
"This should take you to somewhere nearby the world tree, it should be safer for you to go through here." he said "Say hi to your mother for me."
When the princess left, everyone let out a sigh of relief.
"You know, I'm impressed with how many connections you got."
"I know right, but if you're all this nervous in front of the princess, you might pass out in the presence of the queen." he joked
Later that night, like my brother said, I saw Perseus sneaking out of his room and warped away, after I confirmed that, I just messaged Emma, set my alarm, and went back to my room to sleep, I'm going to need it if we want to meet the queen.
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Perseus POV
I'm personally not going to go to the world tree yet, I'm going to investigate their royal treasure hall located nearby. It is heavily guarded during the night, the front of the hall is used as a tourism spot.
I managed to get past the guards and made myself invisible and went light speed to a secret personnel room.
By going so fast, the magic detectors shouldn't pick me up, I even use illusion magic on myself to make sure that I look nothing like myself just to be sure. I looked on their map and find my way to the actual royal treasure hall which is also heavily guarded, but as I go through the vents.
I saw no glass cases of jade piece that resembles any part of a key, only gifts from diplomats that are made of jade. But in the distance, I did see a map, it's a blueprint of the world tree that is made on this large scrolled and half displayed, but I saw enough to know that there's indeed a secret room right underneath...the throne itself.
I don't know what it is, but it might just be the jade piece, so I went back to my hotel and got my rest before the next day. I see many other rooms as well, hopefully I can just use my connections to the royals to get permission to explore this and get them.
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Since I have to wear something that represent my culture, I had had an easy time deciding. I have to wear formal clothing either way, so suits...well my dad's a Greek and my mom's Japanese, so those were also options.
I decided with a kimono because I don't want to wear the suits and the Greek clothing...besides, I look better in a kimono.
I had a black haori and nagagi with a dark grey hakama. I also have a family crest of a crossed dual chokuto. Though what stands out is my black mask and black gloves.
The wooden sandals are a bit of pain to wear though.
"I really though that you'd just wear a black suit." Craig commented
"I hate suits, so I thought I went with my mom's side, the lesser of 2 great evils."
"So you're part Japanese?"
"Yeah, you're never going to see me wear these again, expensive to make, these are S ranked cloth and everything."
Man, I look so cool, hopefully I'll be popular, I'm really trying my best to be popular here.
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Cordelia POV
And here I thought I would stand out with my beautiful robe, Perseus went ahead and made himself look like some sort of prince...I mean, he technically is. His silver hair looks good in his black kimono an his light brown skin gives him this...exotic vibe.
Let's just say that despite the mask on his face, when we arrived at the castle in front of the world tree and went inside, he attracted almost every female servants and nobles inside.
But before we went into the throne room, we got one last inspection. The teachers and Perseus are allowed to bring weapons in their spatial storage and rings, as for us, we were asked to take them out and are warned that we are to be killed if we take out anything that resembled a weapon.
"Sir, you can put on your mask and gloves black on once you shown us everything under it." the guard said
Perseus then took off his mask and his glove. His face is still his handsome self, but on this hand, there is a blue drawing of his crest. The guard was surprised by the mark, including me and several other spirits in the same class.
The sign of nobility, but...it then glowed once he injected his mana, the proof that he's a noble from the nature spirits...
"You should recognize this crest from the directory." Perseus said "It maybe new but it should be good enough since you can't even recognize it on my clothes.
"Of course, your grace." the guard responded immediately "To think the duke has returned to us, I'm beyond pleased by your presence."