The Fake Princess's Soul Contract Duke

Chapter 6: Eating Breakfast Together

Last night, Alianora couldn't sleep. Even though his body was changing position by 360 degrees, he still could not go to dreamland.

His mind could not be taken at all to rest for a moment, busy himself thinking of strange things that he could not understand at all. First Thalia's body, then the behavior of Thalia's dear sister, Estelle, it makes her unable to not think about it. As a result, she was only able to fall asleep when the sun had begun to rise, and yet she finished dreaming, Mary had already knocked on her bedroom door.

I don't know, he was very tired of all that stuff, but on the one hand he also found this all very interesting, especially the character Estelle.

"Ha...tells I've gone crazy.", muttered Alianora with a smile.

"Miss, I'm sorry if I'm presumptuous but...is there anything I can help you with?" Mary asked carefully as she was about to pair the dark blue dress with her.

"uh? Nothing, Mary. Everything's fine. Nothing to watch out for."

Mary scrutinized Alianora's expression for a moment before letting out a soft sigh, "Alright lady, if you need any help then you can tell me."

Alianora simply nodded as she asked if Mary had heard her previous talk.

After the incident last night, Alianora could no longer ignore the character of Estelle the soft and innocent girl. If you want to say, she was completely innocent, this was not the first time Alianora felt but the second time since she had first seen the memory of Thalia's life.

Throughout, Alianora sees that Estelle often does the same thing she experienced last night. Where Thalia was grieving in her own room, whether it was when she was punished or after something bad, Estelle was always there to accompany her, hold her arms, and also say soothing words, as Alianora had heard, then the slumped Thalia always felt comforted by it all.

Alianora shook her head.

How could there be someone who felt comforted after hearing such sentences?

Instead of being amused, Alianora felt otherwise.

He found it was not an amusement, but a mockery, that in this world Thalia could not possibly get love from anyone, even her parents just threw it away.

'Thalia you're so poor, so pathetic.', rather that's what the boy wanted to say, isn't it? , Alianora thought to herself.

Estelle taunted Thalia, and she did so while putting on her sympathetic face and smile.

Thalia, how did you miss all that?

Heh, from the past until now humans have never changed.

"Mary, tell me was 'me' always like this?"

Mary was silent for a moment, "...Miss, sorry but...what did you just ask?"

Alianora turned to face Mary, her eyes clear.

"Honestly, you must've been thinking this 'me' is stupid, right?"

Mary widened her eyes and she bent her body which began to tremble before Alianora.

"A-ah.I'm sorry, miss, t-but how could I. I not dare to think so, miss..."

"Hm? Whynot? I'm thinking the same thing, and I'm sure everyone is too, including you."

Alianora smiled as she looked straight at Mary, who had already turned her face away, not daring to stare or respond to Alianora's words.

" 'I'm a fool, and I don't want to be like 'me'. From now on, I'm gonna change everything, and you Mary're gonna have to help me. We're gonna be a team, you understand?"

Mary still did not understand completely, but she tried to follow the direction of Alianora's conversation.

"Well, lady, whatever it is I'll do."

Hearing that, Alianora smiled and moved closer to Mary. He pulls Mary's hand, hinting for Mary to crouch down which Mary easily does.

"Hm, good answer, as expected by my chosen servant. Well, then, I hope you won't let me down, okay?"

Mary immediately nodded without breaking her eye contact with Alianora.

His feeling was very confused, yesterday nonaya said that he had to be relaxed but his non-action now made him completely unable to relax.

He was nervous again, but on the other hand he was proud.

Finally after such a long time, the lady he served could become a powerful figure like this.

"Okay, now as the first thing that changed my life, how about we take a walk out, hm?"

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Alianora and Mary walked down the long corridor of her house.

Honestly, since his resurrection yesterday in this mansion, he had never seen the outside view, and he had been eager to do so.

Unfortunately, yesterday his mind was processing all the information he got plus he had to go through these various events - it made him forget to go around.

Now he intended to go for a walk, but his stomach that had not received anything today rang out loud, until Mary who walked behind him slightly gasped.

Finally, he was forced to head to the dining room, with a heavy heart.

But what makes him a little disturbed is the view of the servants and soldiers of Nauchwanstein Castle to him. Every time she passed by the servants, butlers, or soldiers, even though she did not look directly at them, Alianora knew that they were indeed using their eyes to the fullest towards her.

From end to end, they observed him walking with shocked gazes, all of whom looked at him like they were seeing a ghost.

Alianora felt astonished by all that, the gaze that these castle people gave Thalia should not be like this. He still remembered the disgusted and low gazes of those servants in his head, and to see their expressions now was very strange.

But Alianora doesn't care. They could look at him as they pleased, the important thing was that they did not bother him.

"Miss, get here first."

Alianora raised her head and directly stared at the two golden-carved large door leaves.

After telling Mary back, Alianora glanced at the two soldiers beside the right and left of the door.

Highlight their eyes were flat, but Alianora could see how their straight eyeballs were moving a little with curiosity,

They tried to ignore Alianora completely, and Alianora knew that.

Alianora pointed towards the door with a flat expression,

"Hey, why don't you open the door for me? Do you want me to wait here until tomorrow?"

One of the soldiers responded flatly,

"Sorry, miss, but the Duke and Duchess and Miss Estelle are having breakfast now, you can come back later."

Oho, look at that! They also need a lesson. Thalia, you can thank me later.

Alianora took a slow breath and her face turned dark,

"Let me be clear once more, it seems like your stupid brains cannot catch what I said just now. I said, open the door now, okay?"

"N-miss, but-"

"Hey if you look at me like that one more time, I'll pry out your eyeballs and give them to the dog, you want?" Alianora whispered to them with a sadistic face.

"Miss…!"

"You think I'm incapable?"

Alianora's gaze was so cold and cruel that it made the two soldiers' body hair stand up.

With cold sweat running down, they finally opened the door.

The light beam from within instantly washed Alianora's face, making her frown.

In front of him was the Duke and Duchess Sheridan, as well as Estelle who looked at him with a look of surprise.

Alianora turned her face away from the three people who were still fixated on staring at her, towards one of the empty seats beside Estelle, then sit there sweetly and call the waiter to ask for the same food they ate.

"Good Morning, Dad, Mom, and Elle."

"Sister..you...here?", the look of wonder on his face almost made Alianora choke on her laughter which she managed to swallow back.

"Yes, Elle, are you surprised, hm?"

Kalisto put back a glass of red wine next to her, "What are you doing here?"

"Oh, of course for my dad's breakfast. Can't I be here?"

Elle quickly adds to Alianora's talk, "A-ah, no, sister. Of course you can be here whenever you want. Even if you start eating with us, we can have a meal together every day, can't you, mom?"

"Hmph, make it as you please."

This time, these cold words came out of Annabeth's mouth that didn't even glance at Alianora at all.

Kalisto also returned to eating his breakfast quietly.

As he had already seen in Thalia's memory, Thalia's parents had absolutely no desire to acknowledge Thalia as a child. They even hid the bitter truth about Thalia's birth from everyone including Thalia herself. Whatever Thalia did, it was none of their business at all, and they would never care.

Moreover, coupled with her non-existent magical talent, it made her even more neglected by her parents, and therefore Thalia began to shut herself down slowly from the outside world, the first of which was from her parents. She was rarely seen coming out of her room, and was never seen eating with her family in the dining room, and her parents did not care at all about it, because indeed they never wasted time glancing towards Thalia while eating.

Alianora just remembered all that, no wonder all the servants were staring at her like she was out of her mind. However, Alianora was happy, she felt like she had made progress. A great first step to change the course of Thalia's life.

She would still be Thalia, a kind and meek noble daughter, but she would not be a foolish and innocent Thalia, the road was taken three times Thalia and all failed.

So why not try something else?

When Alianora's breakfast arrived, Estelle who had just been silent, finally tried to melt this frozen atmosphere.

"Oh yes, brother, tomorrow is the most awaited day, the day of your baptism! I can't wait, hehe! Brother must be like that too, right, sister?"

Baptism Day?

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Wait, did he say tomorrow?

"Elle, don't yell while eating."

But Estelle only laughed at her mother who looked at her with a resigned smile.

Alianora was still deep in thought.

It was unexpected that the first important day of Thalia's life was tomorrow.

The day that all the noble children were ten years old, received the blessing of the Light God Ilios.

People call it Baptism Day.

Once when the war ended and the Kingdom of Angris was formed, the Light God Ilios decided to return to heaven, but before that, he did not forget to bless the whole of Agris and the people in it.

Since then, this tradition of blessing has been observed every year to commemorate the day, and is also considered a tradition of baptism of children.

It was only after they were baptized that they would be recognized as one of the members of the noble family of the Kingdom of England. Therefore, this baptismal event is also known as the first debut for noble children.

But for Alianora, today is more worthy to be called a problem, because from that day on Thalia's misfortune began.

It was fortunate that he had been able to adapt to Thalia's life in a single day.

If he was an ordinary human and not a god who already had hundreds of years of experience in precarious situations, perhaps he would fail to anything that would befall him tomorrow.

Even so, imagining that tomorrow he would have to face people, especially the other noisy ten-year-old brats made his feelings less than good.