During the day, three families from different factions gathered in the meeting room.
"So, why are you gathering us here, Luna?"
A man who had brown high and high hair, a pair of light brown eyes, had a handsome face and a regular posture starting from; about 168 cm tall, medium-sized with no muscles of hands, stomach and legs behind a long all-black aristocratic garment with pants of similar color, and a similar color. Edi looked into Luna's crimson eyes.
In front of Edi, which has a long table shaped into a box, looks Luna sitting on her thigh with a red dress along her ankle, she looks at Edi with a serious face.
"I'm here to do what my daughter wants, Alice."
"Your daughter's wish?" Lisa, a long-haired dark purple woman, a pair of golden eyes, has a beautiful face with an ideal posture ranging from; about 172 cm tall, medium-bodied but slender waist, large-chested F Cup-sized, and a long-chested woman. The very prominent seductive hip sits on the left of Luna while on the right of Edi looks at Luna with a curious face.
Luna nods her head, she looks into Lisa's golden eyes without showing the slightest doubt.
"My daughter wants to meet your daughter and Edi's son, see if they can be friends with each other."
"Hmmm...."
Holding his chin, Edi kept quiet for quite a long time.
According to him, this could be an opportunity for his son, Ken, to get close to Alice so that they can have a better relationship as Edi wants. In doing so, not only did Ken get a position as crown prince to become King Arga's successor, but Ken could also make Alice become a Queen in the future Kingdom of Thijam.
If that happens, not only the power he wields but also the wealth he gains easily so that he can live quietly, without the need to do the hard work he does now.
"That man... he's always disgusting."
There was disgust from Lisa's expression staring at Edi who had chuckled slowly in contemplation, suspecting that something bad was in her mind at the moment.
Smiling bitterly at Edi's strange attitude, Luna's eyes turned to Lisa to make the topic of conversation.
"By the way, Lisa, how's your career going these days?"
"Which career is it, the High Wizard or the Alchemist?"
With a naughty smile on her face, Lisa looks at Luna with a squint to find out what she said to her.
"Well, if you don't mind, I'm fine."
"Alright," nodded Lisa who didn't mind being ready to explain to Luna.
"For my career as a High Wizard, I'd say I'm still being sent a letter by them, The Higher, for a meeting even though I've left it to take care of my daughter, Eri."
Nodding on Lisa's explanation, Luna's eyes still stare at Lisa's current golden eyes with a curious face from her expression.
"What about your career as an Alchemist?"
"Oh, about that...." Lisa kept a flirting smile on her lips as she looked into Luna's crimson eyes. "You could say everything's pretty good, it's better when a lot of drug orders are requested directly from me."
"Unbelievable," marveled at Lisa's greatness, by patting her hands with a happy face showing how happy Luna is at the news of her friend, Lisa.
"By the way Luna, when do you want us to have a meeting with our son?"
"Hmmm...."
Thinking for a moment, Luna wants to know when she has a meeting with their child so that they don't get to know each other too hastily.
If held in a hurry, Luna believes that her daughter, Alice, is happy but she does not know how she feels for other children such as Edi's son and Lisa's daughter, hoping that the coercion does not make them uncomfortable.
If it is held later, Luna must choose the right time to have a direct meeting with their children so that they can get close to each other immediately, without any coercion and uncomfortable.
"What if we have another week? That way, our children will prepare themselves better from now on to get to know each other."
"Yeah, that's a good idea."
"I'm fine. As long as they can play together, it makes it easier for us to work as their parents."
Luna agrees with Edi, who feels that her child should play with other children from the Yamada Family from Edi and Christina from Lisa, it aims for Alice to be absent-minded, which makes Luna feel afraid of her daughter's mindset and attitude.
That way, Alice will no longer have the same attitude as Luna knows and will enjoy her childhood life as a friend of her two children from her best friends, Edi and Luna who have children Ken and Eri.
"Forget about it."
A cynical look was shown by Lisa, whose golden eyes glanced at Edi's light brown eyes, with a mischievous grin on her lips.
"Don't tell me that you want your son to get to know Luna's daughter so that you can take advantage of your closeness to her?"
"Ah...."
Immediately, Edi's cheeks flushed red, she was shocked to stand up because she didn't expect Lisa to read her thoughts if she liked Luna all this time, but she was not stated but kept for herself.
"That, right? Your face immediately blushed."
Lisa's seductive desire is higher, she still does it to make Edi express her feelings to Luna at this time so that she doesn't get pinched even though she knows that Edi will hate her later for teasing her.
"Lisa!"
Unlike Edi, Luna does not think that her friend likes her secretly without expressing her feelings for her, thinking that Lisa's mischievous behavior and flirting really makes Lisa just sigh.
"Alright, I get it."
By raising her two shoulders while saying it in a nonchalant tone, Lisa put on a sad face because she could not tempt Edi any further because of Luna's innocence, her friend who had no limits.
"Sorry, I'm overreacting."
After setting his breath not to feel his heart beating again, Edi calmed down again and nodded without thinking about what Lisa had said to him earlier.
"It's okay."
"Tsk... That woman... she's really annoying."
Turning his face back, there was resentment and hatred for Lisa's attitude towards him, making Edi very anxious to kill him with his men so as not to disturb him at this time.
However, he knows very well that killing Lisa is like committing suicide because of Lisa's achievements more than anyone else in the palace since she became the High Wizard and the Alchemist, making Edi think that he can't throw away his men who are useful to him.
"I know what you're thinking, Edi. You must hate me because I teased you, didn't you?"
With a naughty smile that looks at Edi with a seductive face, according to Lisa it's really fun to tease a clumsy man like Edi to be honest with his feelings to feel relieved.
However, instead of being honest, being held, Lisa can't understand why Edi insisted she didn't want to say it.
"You can say it, but you're reluctant."
Unlike Edi, Lisa once tempted Ren, Luna's husband, to fall in love with her in order to have a father for Eri, her daughter and to feel love once again.
But despite Lisa's hard work by flirting, flirting, and spoiling Ren, Ren actually acts rude and cold to her as if Lisa has no self-respect in her eyes.
"Why... Why won't you appreciate what I did to get you?"
Ren, who shook his head clearly in Lisa's mind in the past, breathed a long sigh with a serious face and turned a sharp eye on him.
"That's because you're a slut! You should respect yourself, your feelings, and your future! Not seduce and snatch a husband from your best friend, Luna, my own wife!"
Hearing those words made Lisa realize that her efforts were futile.
Even though she was desperately struggling to get love from Ren even though she had to take Ren from Luna, her friend. But instead of succeeding, Lisa gets angry from Ren, who lectures her, makes her laugh because life is ironic.
"Well, a lot of memories are happening."
"Yes."
Luna, who doesn't know that Lisa imagined her approaching her husband behind her, only thought that her friend imagined her memories with her as a friend without any suspicion.
"I don't know what you're saying, but I know that you almost made Luna sad and desperate."
A squinting look into Lisa's golden eyes, Edi suspects that Lisa almost committed a bad deed that the High Wizard should not have done in this palace because it would disgrace her family's name, Christina, to other nobles.
Well, even though Edi herself doesn't care but wishes Lisa to really do something bad to make Christina's family worse among the other nobles.
If that works, not only is Ren Lisa's husband, Edi can also make Luna his wife. But yeah, it didn't really work out that Edi was disappointed by Lisa's actions that stopped doing it.
"Ah, right."
With one hand clap, Edi and Lisa stare at Luna who suddenly remembers something in the past.
"If I'm not mistaken, we have each other's first views on each other, don't we?"
"Yes, you're right."
Remembrance of her past, a shadow over Lisa when she first saw Luna vividly remembered her thoughts.
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Lisa POV
That day, I happened to be on my way out of the back door who accidentally saw the woman who had a cheerful face with a careless attitude, she helped the maids transport the clothes they washed to dry.
Why would she help him? Isn't she the daughter of King Arga?
I'm the one who's curious to follow him because it's the first time I've seen a woman reach out to the maid, making me wonder why she's doing such a bother that doesn't have any advantages.
I followed them into the backyard, I saw them bend their bodies half a degree to a blonde woman who helped them display clothes on a rope attached to bamboo stuck on the surface.
"Thank you very much, Luna-sama."
"No, I don't... I'm the one who should be thanking you guys because I can learn so much new stuff."
It's humbling.
I want to know why King Arga didn't make his daughter his successor.
Is it because his daughter isn't ready to succeed to the throne? Or is it something else I don't know?
Well, whatever it is... I'll find out for myself because it's really interesting.
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Lisa, who is initially attracted to Luna who is different from other nobles, constantly follows what she does in her daily life.
Lisa initially despises Luna because of her lack of authority as a nobleman, especially as a successor to the throne with royal blood, but after seeing her unbroken determination through the glare of her eyes constantly helping the maids to do their work, Lisa goes from disparaging to respecting her.
The memory stops in her mind, making Lisa smile when she gets to know Luna.
If she had not known Luna, the daughter of King Arga, then Lisa would not have been as relaxed as she is today but would have remained a mischievous woman and a seductive husband, and had the same high authority as any other nobleman after she lost her destination since she lost her love to her dead husband. Vincent left her all alone who had been sown by her at the time.
Unlike Lisa, Edi recalled his first meeting with Luna at that time.
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Edi POV
"Hmmm...."
While I was circling the hallway on the first floor of the maid's lodging area, I accidentally saw a long blonde, sloppy-eyed crimson figure behind her cheap smile.
That woman... She really did not reflect the nobility of the castle, more like she reflected the commoners who had no standing in the palace.
I've seen her for the first time know very well that she doesn't reflect nobility but commoners who, instead of displaying authority, help the maids do their jobs.
Totally ridiculous.
Instead of caring about it, I'd rather go for a dip in the pool because it's useless for me to think about it.
•••••
Two days later, Edi was summoned to the King's Private Chamber not far from the private offices held by the nobles of the Kingdom of Thijam according to the words of one of the two knights who told him.
Upon entering the king's private chamber, Edi is shown by Arga, a young man with brown taperfade hair, and a moustache and beard similar to the brown lion's mane, a pair of crimson eyes, and a white lion's mane. He had a handsome face despite his old age with a body suitable for his proportion; about 169 cm tall, fat but not overweight, sat on her throne above several steps staring at Edi.
Next to Arga, Edi recognizes that the man is Gerald, the king's advisor, while the blonde woman who is not far from his throne is confused looking at Edi with a curious face in silence.
"What is it, Your Majesty?"
Instead of keeping silent at the door of his private room, Edi chooses to kneel before him before Arga raises his hand telling him to get back on his feet.
Edi, who was back on his feet, remained silent to find out why Arga called him here.
"I hear you're interested in knowing my daughter. Is that true?"
"Your daughter?"
The light brown look in his eyes towards the blonde woman next to him surprised Edi at the King's notice.
"I-I'm sorry, Your Honor... I thought she was a commoner so I didn't think she was your daughter."
Arga did not take issue with Edi's mindset by getting angry at him, instead he laughed out loud.
"He's laughing?"
Looking at His Majesty's attitude that he has never seen, Edi is confused that he can only remain silent without knowing the nature of Arga like this in front of him.
Moments later, laughter stopped. Arga holding a smiling beard looked at Edi and Luna next to him.
"Well, that's natural. My daughter looks more like a commoner for not upholding her royal status."
"Your Majesty!"
"Hahaha... I'm just telling you what you want, my daughter so you shouldn't have a problem.
"Still... That's... "
Seeing the woman's attitude next to him, Edi felt that the woman seemed both objectionable and embarrassed when Arga told her attitude that she had not known.
Once out of the King's Private Room, Edi and Luna who talk to each other begin their closeness as close friends from who initially didn't know each other to become acquainted, making Edi truly fall in love with Luna but doesn't want to reveal because she knows Luna already has a fiance.
That's why Edi promised herself to protect Luna from the shadows so that anyone who tries to hurt her will directly make them suffer more than Luna feels.
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Luna POV
I'm happy to have them both as my friends.
Well, even though I first saw Lisa as a seductive woman to whom she met, I remained unaffected by rumors circulating among the nobles about her.
Granted, I admit Lisa has better body proportions than me that can make other people like her. But, I don't care because I believe that my best friend wouldn't do that to my husband, a man who's lived long enough to understand and know me.
Unlike Lisa, for Edi, I think he's more serious.
When first met he, he always had a noble, firm, and always serious attitude that made me unsure whether to approach he or not. But after getting to know her long enough, I started to understand Edi.
At first he was serious, firm and had authority as a nobleman, but upon getting to know him he was quite clumsy, not understanding socialization which made me slowly begin to understand him for the better.
I don't know if it's because of my influence or not, which Edi's been kind to me signifies that he's gone from being clumsy and awkward to being sociable, especially humble and helpful to me.
•••••
"In contrast to Luna, I don't even like that woman."
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
The two exchanged views over each other's dislike between Lisa and Edi, making Luna confident that the two might fight every time they meet.
"Everyone, stop fighting!"
"I can't!"
"Eh?"
Hearing their loud words simultaneously, Luna did not expect that they insisted on fighting with each other.
"Why are you looking at me, Wicked Witch? Could it be that you're upset that you can't get it?"
"Tsk... You... You can't even get her heart for you, you fucking idiot."
The two who frowned each other, they stood staring at each other's faces in close proximity, glaring at each other.
"What did you say?"
"I'm the one who should ask, you idiot!"
"Why do they always fight?"
Holding her forehead because she doesn't understand what they're fighting about, Luna just sits down while trying to figure out a way to make peace without having to fight with each other.
"Somebody please separate them!"
So desperate, Luna couldn't do anything hoping that someone else could separate their quarrel.
But, unfortunately, there's no one but Lisa and Edi.