The Last Princess of the Kingdom of Verdant

25.

“So when will sister teach me to dance?” Anne was impatient to learn. He's been asking this question since breakfast.

“When you're ready Anne.” Chris smiled while still seriously reading the book.

The impatient Anne kept following him wherever he went from the dining room. Anne did not even take off her grip for a second. It seemed he understood why Hans was so happy to bother Anne.

“Then now? I'm ready now.”

“You're not ready Anne.” Chris answered gently, even though he knew Anne was impatient.

“What should I prepare???” Anne had already begun to show her frustration, after a day of not being taken seriously. It's almost lunch and Chris hasn't started teaching him yet. He did not understand why Brother Chris started behaving suspiciously like Hans.

“Do I need to prepare a special teacher to teach miss, sir?” Colin tried to give advice.

“Hahaha, no need Collin. I am not busy either. At least change your shoes first Anne.” Chris closed his book and crouched open the shoes of Anne sitting next to him.

“Please prepare some more comfortable shoes for Anne. At least he should feel comfortable in his own home, right?” Wearing heels is a natural thing, but Chris feels it is not a necessity.

“Good sir, I will set it up soon.” replied Nanny. Nanny realizes Anne is still awkward to wear shoes with heels, but Anne insists on getting used to her.

“Well, you're ready now. For starters, it is better not to wear heels. When you have memorized with all the steps we just practice with shoes.”

Chris helps Anne stand up and takes her to the center of the room. Maybe this is the reason Chris took them to this break room, because this room is wider than any other room.

It felt a little strange to walk without shoes other than in his room. Anne could feel the smoothness of the carpet she was stepping on.

“Collin, please prepare the metronome in beats three-fourths.”

“Good sir.” Collin put the prepared metronome in the chamber and began to sound it according to beats three-quarters, the rhythm used in Waltz dance songs in general.

“Have you ever heard the songs used when dancing, Anne?”

“Yes, I've been to the ball several times in Verdant, but never danced.” He remembers singing and dancing with his mother, but that was not in accordance with the correct rules of dance.

“If you are used to the tempo, dancing is easy. Each movement follows every beat. Before that, don't forget to bow and greet your dance partner.” Chris bowed in greeting, which Anne immediately followed.

“Can you see my hand Anne?” Chris stuck out his hand waiting for Anne to put her hand on it.

“Can be brother, albeit vaguely. Maybe if the carpet has a different color with sister's clothes, I can see it more clearly.”

“Haha, I will pay more attention to it next time, thanks Anne.” Chris did only use a plain white shirt because it would not go anywhere today, and it just so happened that the carpet of this room was made of snow fox fur that was white.

Although he could not see, he could estimate where Brother Chris' hand was and put his hand there. It's his first party at Terra, no mistakes.

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Anne has finally memorized the whole dance movement, after daily practice with Chris. Although he only practiced for four hours a day, he had memorized his steps in eight days. He also still has to follow other lessons from Nanny and Collin. Sometimes she practices magic at night before going to bed.

Nanny and Hans were amazed by her magic, when she first showed it. ‘Hihi, they were already very surprised even though I could only make a small light. They could have fainted seeing Kak Rein's magic.’

‘Hmm, it's been a while since Rein hasn't visited again. Hera has always come alone lately, ah instead I look forward to her arrival!’

Anne dropped herself on the bed hugging her new doll. Hera gave it a few days ago when it came to play. He said it was a sparrow doll, and it looked like Anne.

‘Ngg, do I look round? Am I getting fatter?’

Anne raised her doll, and fumbled her doll. However he twisted and felt the doll, it was perfectly round like a ball. He only found the small beak and tail of this doll. It seemed like this was not made by a puppet craftsman, the shape was too simple to sell.

Other people would not have expected the princess who looked so tomboyish it was collecting many dolls in her room. It even has a special room to play dolls.

‘Oh yes I have not charged my magic energy into the necklace today!’ Anne sat back down and began to concentrate on casting her magic. Today was not too exhausting, he could feel that he still had a lot of energy in his body.

Tok

‘Ah, I just entered a little ...’

“Who is it?”

“Nona is still not sleeping? It's nanny.” slowly Nanny goes into Anne's room.

“What's nanny?” Anne opened her eyes and looked towards the nanny.

“I saw the light of the lady's room is still on, so I decided to check.”

“I'm still not sleepy, did something happen?”

“It's okay miss, better miss hear it directly from Young Master Chris tomorrow.”

“It's okay nanny! I'm still not sleepy. And I'm very curious now.”

“Alright, but miss should go to bed soon after. Tomorrow she'll talk about it with the others.” Anne immediately nodded quickly, already impatient.

“Barusan ... Kent sent a message using magic paper.” Nanny said softly after thinking for a while. He actually did not want to make Anne worry again, especially after Anne was finally able to return cheerful. But she knew this was the reality Anne had to face.

“What is it?” Anne immediately stood up to hear Kent sending word.

“Jasad duchess found miss. The kingdom of Wart that carries and stores it. Looks like he intends to lure the Voinn family to retrieve it, so that he can easily find the ones still alive.” Nanny said quietly as she walked over to Anne and led her to sit back down.

“How about father and sister? They've been found?”

“Duke was also detained by Wart, and was injured quite badly like him. Kent was still checking the area around the battlefield, as there was no news of Young Master Louis.”

“Daddy caught?? How can ...”

He was relieved to hear that his father was still alive, but how could he save his father? Is this also a trap? King Hellios can definitely kill you, especially when you're hurt pretty badly. Why did he let Dad live?

“It seems the attention of the duke was distracted when he learned the duchess had died, so he could get quite severe injuries. The duke loved the duchess very much, it must have been very hard to hear the news ..”.

“What more messages does Kent send?”

“That's it miss.”

“What does Brother Chris think about this? We have to save dad immediately before it's too late!”

“Young Master Chris seems to be going to tell his family about this. Better miss sleep now and talk about it again tomorrow morning.”

“But nanny!” this is a very important thing, how could he sleep after hearing all this?

“Shh ..., it's okay miss. We can find a way out together. Now it's better miss rest, as the lady promised earlier.” Nanny hugged Anne slowly.

“Hhh ..., good nanny ...” Anne was lying down, helped by the nanny.

“Goodnight miss ...” Nanny turns off Anne's room light and comes out.

Anne stared at the ceiling of her room while still thinking about what she had just heard. Why all this could happen to his family. If they weren't the royal family, things would have been easier ….

She hugged her doll again and tried to go to sleep.

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