Part Title 11

This chapter's song is: wave by ateez!

~time skip to 11 years old~

It's been five years since I've been practising magic. I've been training every day since then and that magic book from before was actually a grimoire that teaches me how to fuse my elements together. I can use plenty of cool spells now with my most powerful spell being a black hole. I've learned never to use that spell after what happened last time... Let's just say that a quarter of the trees in the forbidden forest are now gone thanks to that spell.

Anyways, it's been a month since my 11th birthday and it was annoying! I was woken up before sunrise and the party was so extravagant that there was a literal parade for me. The crown prince has become increasingly annoying AND handsome...

Gosh darn the male lead... Ace has been visiting me on a weekly basis ever since the supposed "assassination." The royal family even sent some guards to protect me since I was the fiancée of the prince.

It took me months of begging my father until he got rid of the guards, and that was only because he triple strengthened our protective barrier in order to make sure there are no weak spots.

Anyways, it's nearly time for the Twins' birthday. I've been working my butt of on learning protective magic in order to stop rin's death. In the novel, rin died from a tampered chandelier when she was running to Len, Len was also going to be assassinated but the heroine supposedly knocked out the glass that had poison in it from his hand. So all I have to do is stop rillaine from being crushed and get rid of the poisoned drink.

I'm now in the Fassiere boutique with my mother to pick out some dresses for the ball tomorrow. It was a looooong shopping spree and I almost went blind from all the hot pinks and jewels. It took me an hour of waiting for my mother to stop shopping, she wasn't even buying anything, she was just browsing through them. In the end, we finally got our dresses. My dress was still being moderated so we went home with only my mother's dress.

(the mother's dress)

As soon as I came home, I was put through the torture Spa again and I didn't even eat dinner. The worst part of being a noble is that this is usual when you have an important event. As soon as I lay in my bed, I was out like a light.

I woke up to Lillian shaking me gently awake.

"My lady, it is time to wake up, we have much to do," I woke up grumbling. I looked at one of the maids who was polishing my shoes. It seems the dress came. As usual, I had a bath and wore my dress. My hair was styled with two locks being braided and a ribbon tied into the back. My dress worked well with my goal since it was easy to move in.

(What she looked like)

I have to say, this body is really cute! It works with almost any colour and style. I'm so blessed to have these looks even if it's the looks of the villainess. Anyways, I meet my mother and father in the carriage and we're on our way to the destination of operation Gemini. (That's the name I made for this since the twins were born in May, it's also really convenient)

When I got out of the carriage, my mother and father both went to where all the adults were hanging out. The nobles all split into groups of social status, age and magic. My parents were talking with the King and queen and I was led to where all the noble kids were.

"Sylvi! Hi!" I look over to a big oak tree and see rin and Len holding hands on the swing.

They were wearing matching white and yellow clothes. Len looked calmly at his sister while she was radiating positivity like the sun. She would've made a much better heroine than the real heroine.

"Hi, Rin and Len! Wow, you look just like a fairy!" I was having a mini cute attack at how adorable they both looked.

"Thanks! I love matching with Len!"

It was so nice to talk to Rin, I can't imagine how hurt Len must've felt when she died. But I'm here to change that!

"Hello Sylvia," I look over to see Monique and Violetta walking towards us.

(Violetta)

Violetta wore a dark blue and purple dress with open toed boots. She had her classic braided lock with black ribbon and it was tied in the back like a rose.

(Monique)

Monique had a similar violet dress with a blue sash and a hairband. She wore lacy heels and had a golden locket around her neck.

"Hi Monique, how are you violet?"

"Violet?" Violetta says curiously.

"Well, Violetta is so long so I thought a nickname would be better. Violet or Vio sounds nice," I explain.

"I wish I had a name that could turn into a nickname, there's really no way to shorten Monique," Monique sighed.

"What about... Niki? The Nique in Monique can be shortened by Niki. Niki also means lucky in the holy language," I say.

"That sounds lovely! Mon means wisdom and Nique means calming in Gria as well!" Niki exclaims.

For those of you who don't know, Gria is the language of the old world. Before all the countries, gamaria supposedly was a land for the gods and they spoke Gria to each other. Eventually, they made the species and yada yada yada present day.

Gria is now the language of the gods but only the most powerful gods spoke the holy language. Only high ranking nobles such as Monique can have such an important name. Even my name, sylviana is in Gria: Syl for shine, via for fortune and ana for fate.

"This is a great party! I can't imagine what your debutante is going to be like," Niki says.

"Since Rin was born in May then she should be turning 14 a month before us," Vio says while counting her fingers, "But since Sylvi is born in April then she should be the oldest out of all of us so she'll turn 14 first. Bit the Royal debutant is hosted at the end of summer break so we should all be 14 by then."

"Wow you've thought about this a lot," I say.

"Why of course, a debutante is one of the most important events for a girl and it only happens once in your life," Vio replies with a smile on her face.

By the way, a debutante is for noble kids to make their debut in noble society. It's also to establish connections and if you haven't already, find a fiancée. I'm not too keen on the fiancée part but then again, I'm still engaged to ace so...

"Rin, you have cake on your face," Len sighs as he grabs a handkerchief and wipes her face.

"I can't help it! The cake is triple chocolate with vanilla frosting, it's my favourite!" Rin replies as she takes another bite out of her cake.

"What am I going to do with you," Len sighs. From what it sounds like, Len is annoyed but in actuality, he has a faint smile at his sister stuffing her face. He truly seems to care for her which makes me even more determined to protect Rin!

I've been on the lookout for two hours and so far so good. I've not seen any assassination attempts made yet but I'm still on the lookout, I was so focused until I heard...

"Sylvia" I shiver at the voice and see ace standing behind me.

"How are you, my fiancée?" He says in a sweet tone. Help.

"I'm... Doing well your highness," I reply. Please go away you annoying prince.

"I'm quite sure I've told you before to call me by my name," Ace said.

"I couldn't possibly do that, your highness."

I went back to my mission until I felt my hair being touched. I looked back to see the crown prince twisting a lock of my hair around his finger.

"Y-you're highness what are you doing?" I quickly say, I couldn't swat his hand away for fear he may behead me.

"I'm so upset. My dear fiancée won't call me by my name," he pouted. Is he serious?!

"I said I can't call you by your name your hi-" I was interrupted by a sigh.

"I guess I should just keep toying with my fiancée's hair until she says my name."

"E-excuse me your highness?!" I could feel myself getting redder.

"Hmm?" He moved his face closer to mine. I realise he wasn't going to stop until I give in so I took a deep breath.

"A-ace could you please let go of my hair." Oh god, why was I so embarrassed?! Ace's smirk made me blush more as he finally let go of my hair. Am I going to jail for blushing at an 11-year-old? Technically I am 11 physically but I'm 29 mentally!

As I was recollecting myself I heard someone calling Ace's name.

"Ace! So this is where you were!" I look forward and see a boy with fiery red hair approach me and ace with a group of boys.

"Yes, I was just talking to my fiancée," Ace said casually. Could he please not say fiancée all the time!

"Oh, so this is your fiancée! My name is Mason Redcliffe, nice to meet ya," I look at the boy who has his hand extended to me with a smile. Wait... Mason the capture target?!

A boy with light orange hair punched capture target #3 on the head.

"That's no way to greet a lady,"

"OWW! Aiden! You're so mean!" Mason was rubbing his sore head with both hands.

Wait... Why is Aiden here?! I bet he could see my shock as he bowed and introduced himself.

"Sorry for that, my name is Aiden Florence. I'm a representative for the church, please excuse my friend's poor behaviour,"

"N-no the pleasure all mine," I reply. I knew that the capture targets were friends but I had no idea that they were friends this young!

I wish the Otome game told me more about this stupid world. I know using my past knowledge is a cheat but I think I deserve this cheat since my destiny is to die! Screw this, I need some cake.