Monster Princess

That night, I brought a mana stone and kept on watching my past until late at night.

—Arbella, you said you were going to see flowers. What are you doing there alone?

—I’m looking for rabbit grass.

The voice and soft laughter from the video wet my heart today.

—Why are you looking for rabbit grass?

—Eung, it’s a secret…

—Is this a secret you won’t even tell this mother?

—It’s not… …Actually, yesterday my nanny taught me how to make a crown with shamrock, so I want to make it for my mother today!

—Oh my. For me? Thank you, sweetheart.

However, the happiest girl in the world in the mana stone’s video has now been nowhere to be found.

There is no one who would always hug me and love me like when I was young.

No matter how hard I struggled, the past that I could never go back to made me sad.

In the end, it was something I couldn’t tell anyone, but that night I said goodbye completely to my sparkling childhood, secretly squeezing tears alone.

Obviously, that was the longest night in my 14 years of life.

6.5: Small changes

“O, oh no. First Princess?”

Viscount Torsen was bewildered when he saw Arbella, the first princess, who appeared in the class of the third princess Liliana.

“What is the first princess doing in my class?”

“I heard that Torsen’s class was so impressive so I came to attend today.”

Arbella, sitting cross-legged in a chair, said, tilting her mouth crookedly.

“I heard that you can enjoy a lot of things if you attend?”

The owner of the room was Liliana, the third princess, but the presence emitted from Arbella, the first princess, was so intense that others couldn’t even look at her well.

Viscountess Torsen thought about what the hell was going on. Then he came to a reasonable conclusion.

‘Ah, you must have come to see the fourth princess get hit with a whip!’

Liliana, the third princess, also enjoyed watching Judith, the fourth princess, being whipped, so it was possible.

Anyone who is alert would have noticed that Liliana, the third princess, is sweating on her face and Arbella’s eyes shining fiercely like a viper.

However, if he was such a quick-witted person in the first place, he would never have whipped a girl named after the imperial family, no matter if she’s a half imperial royal in the palace.

“Then we’ll start the class.”

Torsen’s work regained its composure than when Arbella first entered the study room of the third princess.

Seeing Judith smiling with a gentle face enough to still look foolish made Torsen feel more comfortable.

“So, third princess? Let’s review what we studied last week.”

However, he was also nervous to receive the eyes of the famous first princess from the front.

“Tell us about the background of the Treaty of Elexia between Camiullita and the neighboring Cino Kingdom and the Borleo Empire.”

“That, that…”

This time again, Liliana, the third princess, failed to answer.

“Oh, my. You must have not reviewed enough.”

Viscount Torsen was used to this situation. So he didn’t hesitate to call Judith again today.

“Then fourth princess. Will you come forward?”

“Yes!”

Viscount Torsen always beat Judith with a stick first, then gave the correct answer to the question and proceeded with the class. Therefore, Judith would like to study quickly, so she would put out her hand without hesitation.

At last, Viscount Torsen’s hand with the stick went up. And just when the whip was about to hit the back of Judith’s hand……

“Ha, it’s amazing.”

A low, gloomy voice chilled the air in the room.

Before they knew it, the whip and the hands of Viscount Torsen were wrapped in Arbella’s mana and couldn’t move in the air.

“Viscount Torsen, do you have many lives?”

“Wha, What?”

“How dare you disrespect the imperial family in front of me?”

Viscount Torsen was startled when he met Arbella’s blue eyes from the front.

“What should I do with that cheeky hand who forgot his duty as a subject and inflicted harm on the body of a member of the imperial family?”

At that moment, the whip began to swell.

The bent stick painfully clamped the embarrassed Viscount Torsen’s hand.

“Eu, Ugh! Pri, Princess…!”

Realizing that something was wrong, he hurriedly fell to the floor.

“I, I’m not like that. I’m just doing what the third princess told me to do…!”

“Really? Are you going to slap my cheek if the third princess tells you to?”

“Heok! How can I do that!”

“That’s what you’re saying right now. Were you lying?”

On that day, Viscount Torsen was equally whipped as the number of times Judith was beaten by him. Of course, Arbella’s magic whip was much stronger than when she punished the robber with her bare hands.

“The teacher who is being swayed by the words of the young princess and acting so recklessly, I will report this directly to His Majesty.”

After dealing with Viscount Torsen in that way, Arbella’s sharp gaze reached the third princess Liliana.

“Liliana!”

“Hiik!”

“Are you crazy? To use Judith to accept those punishments, you are doing all the strangest things new to the history of the Camiullita Imperial Family!”

“Yo, you’re wrong, sister!”

At first, Judith was excited to hear that Arbella was observing the class, but was bewildered by the unexpected situation.

“Tha, that’s what I wanted! I also want to take classes.”

When Judith stood up for Liliana, Arbella looked startled.

“The next time you do this again, know that you will be whipped.”

Arbella, who spoke coldly to Liliana, turned to Judith this time.

“And Judith, you…”

“Yes, yes!”

Judith was nervous to see Liliana being scolded and shed tears.

Arbella shut up while trying to say something to her. Even in this situation, when she saw the child’s face looking at others, she felt like she had boiled potatoes stuffed into her throat.

A fierce conflict broke out inside her mind.

Arbella swept down her face roughly, reciting curses inside her head. Then, she brought up something that didn’t suit her even if she thinks about it herself.

“Tell me if this happens again in the future.”

“Yes…”

“And if you want to take a class like that, I’ll give you a separate teacher.”

“What?”

Judith opened her mouth in disbelief.

For some reason, Arbella chewed her tongue because she wanted to take back what she said just now.

“I knew it was like that.”

Arbella turned around and left the room. Judith just stared at her as she walked away.