The Prince's Beloved Servant

Changed Beautiful

"Grafin, will your daughter be at the village matchmaking event tonight?" edbar asked an elf who was famous as a carpenter in the village.

Grafin took his daughter's hand. They had just returned from the forest with food supplies. The habit of residents there is to greet each other if they meet other residents. However, Grafin knew that Edbar's purpose was to question his daughter.

"I don't think Yuri should come. He will only embarrass himself" Suna told Edbar's wife.

"Yes, no one will want to be with your daughter, Grafin. How will it be?" Hobbo the stonecutter followed mockingly.

"My daughter doesn't fit in with the young man of this village. He'll get a much better companion later" Grafin said, holding back his anger.

"Let's see the brewer in our village can boast of his mixtus daughter. Let's see who Yuri's gonna be with."

"She deserves to marry an ogre. Haha."

Yuri tightened his grip on the father, signalling that his father would not have to serve the men. He was not at all offended by their words. In his old life, even though he was beautiful and a talented artist, many people also blasphemed him. According to Yuri, blasphemy comes not because there is something wrong with yourself, but to people who easily make fun of and try to bring others down.

"Dad, what's the matchmaking event?" ask Yuri.

"It's a once a year event that is usually done by villagers. Usually, young people come to know each other. If anyone is interested in each other, they will be married off. You don't have to come if you don't like."

"I'll come, dad," he said.

Grafin looked at his daughter with a serious look. "You sure?" tanyakanya. He couldn't let his daughter get more insults from people.

Yuri smiled. "Let's just calm down, I won't get hurt by their words. I will stand firmly on my own feet. I'll prove if they can't look down on your daughter, Mr. Grafin."

Grafin was so impressed with the confident attitude that now grows in Yuri. He embraced his beloved daughter with great affection. "Dad proud of you" he said.

"Do I look like my mother?" ask Yuri.

"Yes. You're as brave as your mother."

Arriving at home, Yuri immediately carried out her plan to create makeup in the land of elves. He prepared various materials previously purchased from the city market. Although his college had stalled in the department of pharmacy, the knowledge he obtained while in college he still remembered. Yuri also used to make soap and lipstick. Indeed, there were some ingredients that he could not find there, such as instant dyes. He outsmarted it by using natural materials found in the forest such as flowers, leaves, or roots.

Grafin glanced at his daughter who looked solemn. He was cooking for lunch. Yuri said that she was not yet able to cook so her father took the place of cooking duties. The cuisine that Yuri made according to Grafin also tastes strange, not the food habits in the village.

"Yuri, you should eat first. Continue your work later."

"In a moment, Father," replied Yuri.

Yuri looked serious making a matching lip dye on her lips. He placed a metal container on boiling water to melt a mixture of beeswax, vegetable oil, and butter shea. After melting, he put in the dye he took from the red flower juice and added a little fragrance seedlings. The lipstick dough he put in a small container and will be stored until cold so it is ready to use.

Yuri stretched her achy hands. Finally, the makeup tools he wanted were finished. He approached his father who had prepared food in the dining area. As usual, their meal was bread and meat. Yuri was almost bored because he had not felt the name rice for a long time.

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Yuri daubed the new makeup kit she made onto her own face. Dati began to powder, lipstick, blush, eye shadow, until the eyebrow dye he could create perfectly. He smiled with satisfaction at his own work. In a situation full of limitations, his brain could be forced to be more creative to create something it needs.

The look on her face completely changed, much prettier than the first time she used makes up sober. "Yuri was supposed to be like this" he murmured.

"Yuri ...."

Grafin was silent as his daughter turned around. What he sees now is so amazing. "Aire ...," he wrote. It was really like seeing Aire come back to life before him.

It was a miracle that her daughter could be beautiful with things she made herself. Yuri dresses up so much like her mother, Aire.

"How's Dad, am I pretty?" ask Yuri.

Graphine shed tears. He was so moved to see his daughter perform in her best version. "You're very beautiful, Aire's daughter" she said.

Yuri chuckles to see her father crying because of her appearance. "Why Dad, now you can admit that your daughter is beautiful, right?" tanyanya while wiping the tears that dripped on the cheek of the father.

Grafin. "My daughter has always been beautiful. You're the best daughter we've ever had" she said.

"How, can you take me to the party now?" ask Yuri.

"Are you sure you want to go? You want to meet the young people of this village?"

Yuri smiled. "Yes, of course. Who knows if any of them would be suitable to be father-in-law's son-in-law."

"Ah, they're all ugly, daddy's daughter should get a better man than them."

Grafin doesn't like the villagers. He did not expect his daughter to be in a match with one of them. The elves who were unceasingly insulting his family. He is the only midget who can survive the ridicule of the people who demean him. All he did to stay close to Aire. His wife's body was buried there. No matter how hard life is lived, until death Grafin will still survive.

Note:

Mixtus: mixed ancestry between noble elves and common elves or midgets.

Midget: dwarves that have a body size shorter than elves

Ogre: the damned who like to make damage and riots. Elves who choose to commit suicide can turn into ogres, a type of human with a muddy body and a smell. They were elf predators for the sake of a long life.