The Reincarnation Of The Poor Princess
Twenty Four (24)

In a room with simple decorations, Xylia was staring at her wrist filled with dagger scratches with an indecipherable look of eyes.

"Are you sure you want to visit that guy right now?"

The voice of a little boy known to Xylia made her flinch. Xylia immediately hid her dagger-infested hand, but the little boy had already seen her first.

"What are you hiding from me? Show me," he continued.

His tone sounded unfriendly.

Xylia immediately shook her head, then said, "I'm not hiding anything from you, Zhio."

The little boy, Zhio, clicked his tongue, a little annoyed. Her fiery red hair swayed slightly as her pair of legs stepped over, approaching Xylia, while her sea-blue eyes stared intensely at Xylia.

"You're lying again" he said, then grabbed Xylia's wrist, which had been scratched by a dagger, and then started healing her using her magic. "They're after you again, yeah."

Without needing to ask Xylia any details, Zhio already knew who had injured the little girl. This has become Xylia's routine. After he travels with the king, he will come home wounded, and Zhio will be in charge of healing his wounds.

"Yes," Xylia replied as she looked at her recovered wrist, without any scratches. "I met them in the capital earlier."

Zhio's eyebrows shot up when he heard Xylia's words. He looked at the one-year-old girl below him in a daze.

"Why did you go to the capital?" tanyakanya.

"It's just a coincidence" Xylia replied briefly, then scratched her non-itchy nape. "Your Majesty dropped me off in the middle of the journey, so I took a short walk and finally reached the capital, then they found me and chased after me, finally I. well, I did, get hurt," Xylia explained.

Hearing that, Zhio narrowed his eyes, looking at Xylia suspiciously.

"You're like this because of that guy, aren't you?"

Xylia jerks.

Zhio pretended not to see Xylia's reaction, he went back on, "I told you, don't do things that make you suffer. Even if you're hurt, that guy didn't ask about your condition, did he? He didn't see you either, did he?"

Zhio's words containing traces of truth made Xylia lower her face, her expression looking gloomy and sad.

"Not so," interrupted Xylia softly. "That's because the Princess doesn't know anything...."

"Don't defend him" Zhio said firmly.

His expression implied a deep dislike. His eyes turned sharp.

"Seeing how you get hurt every time the king takes you away, that person must be dangerous. If he's harmless, how could those people hurt you just because you're a "protector" to a member of the royal family, there's got to be another reason."

"Mr Princess is not dangerous at all!"

Xylia retaliated loudly, ignoring the fact that Zhio―sang a powerful magician of unknown origin―can kill her at any time. This time, Xylia raised her face, looking at Zhio with an extremely pure look of firmness.

"This is my own will, I want to protect the Princess. Even if I get hurt, you can heal me very quickly, right? If you don't want to, I won't force you. But, one thing I always tell you and you need to know: The Princess is not dangerous at all, so you don't try to vilify her name in front of me" Xylia continued.

Zhio looked at her for a moment, then clucked and said, "Collapse."

Then, he stepped towards the door of Xylia's room, then left Xylia alone there.

"Mr Princess is not dangerous at all. Absolutely harmless," he murmured, along with his footsteps leading to his wardrobe. "Because of that, in the past I've always hurt him. I'm the one who's dangerous, not the Princess."

After that, a long breath came out of his lips.

"Bhhh .... I feel sorry for doing that in the past."

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After Zhio surveyed Xylia's room, he took a walk around the duke's residence. Some people greeted him kindly, but he paid no heed to the greetings of those he passed by. His mind was only fixed on someone, a person who was very glorified by Xylia, the First Princess of Evergard Kingdom by the name of Stella Al-Teona Evergard.

"Huh. What kind of person is he?" muttered Zhio, feeling curious about the person Xylia protected to the point that the little girl was willing to sacrifice her life just for the sake of that person.

After that, Zhio disappeared from the duke's residence, and finally appeared in a flower garden belonging to someone.

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Not sure, lunch hour has finally arrived. Stella's red eyes slowly turned purple. Stella who witnessed the discoloration in her eyes in front of the mirror instantly felt astonished. The world is full of miracles. After that, Stella began to straighten her hair. After feeling her hairstyle looks neat, Stella rose from her sitting position and stepped towards the door of her room, then surrounded her room.

Moments later, Stella arrives in the living room, and finds a woman sitting on one of the sofas there. Needless to say, that woman was the witch that King Shavir had sent to be his magic teacher.

The woman who saw Stella's arrival immediately got up from her sitting position, then paid her respects.

"Give respect to Princess Stella. May the Kingdom of Evergard always be blessed" he said in a gentle tone.

Hearing the woman's very gentle tone, Stella could barely believe that the woman was a witch, if the woman was a mother then she would believe.

"My name is Azalea Orma."

"...!"

Azalea Orma's.

Stella slightly furrowed her brows when she heard the woman's name. She felt she had heard the name somewhere, but Stella did not know when and where she heard the name.

After being immersed in her thoughts for a few minutes, Stella finally found out why she felt familiar with the woman's name, the name was mentioned once in the fairy tale book she read. Azalea Orma is the only friend of Alexa, Stella's mother in the world.

Prior to her marriage to Shavir, Alexa used to be a very talented and well-known witch in and outside the Kingdom of Evergard. Their first meeting was when the Kingdom of Evergard held a banquet for the success of Shavir―, who was then Crown Prince of― in a war with the northern kingdom that monopolized the trade of the Kingdom of Evergard.

After going through various obstacles due to their unapproved relationship, Shavir and Alexa are finally engaged, then married when Shavir inherits the royal throne.

Unfortunately, after giving birth to her second child, Alexa reportedly died. More mysteriously, several maids and female royal doctors, who accompanied the queen when she gave birth to her second child, disappeared as if swallowed by the earth.

The terrible tragedy that befell the real Princess Stella began when the queen reportedly died.

'My mother's only friend in this world is now in front of me, and it was sent directly by that Shavir, Stella's inner self while observing Azalea. 'Why did that person send Azalea as my magic teacher?'

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TBCS!