"How did this happen?"
In front of Alice, a dark purple long-haired woman, a pair of golden eyes, had a beautiful face with an ideal posture ranging from; about 172 cm tall, but a slender waist, a large F Cup-sized breast behind a purple dress sitting on a chair, to a long, long-haired woman. Looking into Alice's crimson eyes with a serious face.
She is none other than Lisa, the mother of Eri, Alice's friend who played with her previously using male and female wooden dolls that have differences in their hair even though they do not have a face and gender, not even wearing clothes for the wooden dolls.
"I'm sorry if I wanted to know, but who are you, Alice?"
Surprised to be seen in Alice's face. It never occurred to her that Lisa was curious about this.
"I...."
There was a doubt on her face, she didn't want to reveal anything about herself in the past for fear of disrupting the balance of the world he lives in today. Because as Alice remembers, the reincarnators who have memories of her past life in their world, she don't want to tell anyone not to defy the rules of the world they live in today.
True, Alice knew very well that she did not know whether the world's system of things was the same as some of the stories in the novels she had read when she was Nia before or not.
Before continuing into their conversation, let's flash back to the day before it happened between the two of them in Lisa's room, unnoticed by anyone.
On the night before the day of the meeting, Gerald enters Lisa's room with a serious face behind his smile fixed on his lips, his eyes slightly open from his narrow eyes showing azure eyes staring straight into Lisa's golden eyes.
"What are you doing here, Gerald?"
"This is an important matter."
"Important matter."
"Yes," Gerald nod, who believes that this is not a trivial matter but important because it concerns the future.
Knowing that this conversation is going to be serious, Lisa allows Gerald to sit down. Gerald, who sits in a chair overlooking the bed, looks at Lisa behind his open squinty eyes after Lisa peeks from inside the door to the hallway to make sure no one hears their conversation.
"What's wrong?"
"This is about the conversation I had heard from them, the faction in the Yamada Family."
Hearing Yamada's words make Lisa know that something is under a plan that Edi is leading, Ken's father hopes that this problem is not as serious as he thinks it is.
But instead of being relieved by Gerald's explanation, Lisa was surprised when she heard the explanation.
"They started moving to kill Miss Alice."
"Huh?!"
Her surprise was clearly visible on Lisa's face.
Surprisingly, she thought she was thinking some absurd questions, such as; "What the fuck is that man thinking?!" "Really?!" doesn't he know that her is his son friend?!" Something like that fills Lisa's head without her being able to answer it.
Understanding Lisa's ignorance, Gerald explained that the woman sitting on the side of the bed looked at her with a curious face would not be confused anymore.
"From what I hear, Mr. Edi's original intention was to marry his son to Miss Alice. But because his son refused but wanted to be a knight by her side, Mr. Edi had no choice but to use this method."
At first glance, the complicated expression between being confused and irritated into one on Lisa's face makes her scratching her purple hair many times frustrated.
"He's out of his mind. How can he force this to marry his son who doesn't want to marry Luna's daughter?"
Because Lisa doesn't say anything, she calms down from the feeling and looks at Gerald with a serious and calm face, crossing her arms while staying on the side of the bed.
"Where did you hear this, Gerald?"
"I know because I use my familiar."
Shown in one of his fingers on Lisa, a small reptile similar to a chameleon on all five fingers in Gerald's right hand, Lisa takes a close look at it and nods contentedly.
Because the reptiles were chameleons on all five fingers on Gerald's right hand using camouflage in a transparent form, allowing them to sneak into any place unnoticed by anyone.
But, imagining it makes cold sweat run down Lisa's back. Doubtfully, she asked him.
"You didn't do that for a pervert, did you?"
"Where there is. I can't be as young as I used to be, Miss Lisa. If I do, I don't look authoritative but a pervert on the loose."
From the suspicious and disgusted look on Lisa's face turned into a relieved face upon hearing his explanation, making her a little calm even though she still doubted Gerald's words.
"So, what do you want with this discussion?"
Knowing that the conversation was getting serious, Gerald didn't waste any time so he looked seriously at Lisa with his azure eyes behind his sharp open squint.
"I want you to train Miss Alice to learn magic so she can protect herself. If you don't have time, I want you to take some time to help her."
"....."
Although it sounds pretty easy, but for Lisa it was hard because she didn't want to get involved in the problems that happened between the two factions of the Nishimura Family and the Yamada Family.
If she is involved, it is possible that she will put her daughter in harm's way allowing her to lose her daughter after losing her husband a long time ago. Imagining it made her hesitate to reach out to help him.
But, Gerald's words didn't want to stop there to persuade Lisa not to lend a hand to Alice.
"I understand if you don't want to be involved in affairs that are not your concern, but please understand this. Your daughter is close to Miss Alice, if she finds out anything bad happened to her friend then she will blame you for being her mother who didn't help her."
Those words were able to wake Lisa up from her doubts.
Indeed, her daughter, Eri, was close to Alice. If she loses her close friend Lisa, her mother will be scolded by Eri for not being able to keep her best friend from harm as the strongest person.
"Why don't you do it yourself?" There is no tone of hatred or resentment but a calm tone while looking at Gerald with a questioning face on Lisa's expression.
"If I do so, I will have the consequences of not only being hated by them, but also being expelled from this kingdom as an advisor to His Majesty Arga."
Understandably, if Gerald's position is very difficult to help Lisa, Lisa also feels that if she helps Alice with this, she and her daughter will be involved in their problems as well.
Since she was on the verge of being confused, she didn't know what to do.
On the one hand, she wants to avoid the pain felt by Luna, Alice's mother and Lisa's friend from losing her daughter when she dies. But on the other hand, if she helps her, then the quiet life of her and her daughter will be disrupted.
"Well, if you don't want to help then I'll do it."
Not wanting to involve Lisa who does not want to get into trouble between the Yamada and Nishimura factions, Gerald decides to do so despite the risk, making Lisa surprised to hear it.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure. But, I don't know whether it's good for you or not, regardless of whether you're friends with the mother from Alice, and your daughter is friends with the daughter."
Hearing these words from Gerald made Lisa realize that if she could not back down, she had to move forward as Luna's close friend while preventing the sadness that happened to her daughter, Eri so that the two of them would not cry in sadness.
"Alright, I'll do it," Lisa insisted with a determined face, her eyes blazing with enthusiasm that made Gerald smile in relief at her.
Of course, Gerald did not intend to urge Lisa to help him. He just told Lisa everything based on logical reasons if it really happened. Not only did Eri lose her friend, Alice, Luna would also lose her daughter, which made Lisa filled with guilt and regret.
Because Gerald did not want that to happen to her, he was relieved to know that Lisa was willing to help Alice make her no longer have to intervene at all.
"If I get any more information, I'll tell you, Miss Lisa."
"Fine," a long sigh was heard from Lisa after hearing a heavy discussion from her. "Thank you so much for telling me this."
"No problem," Gerald returns to his usual stance with smiley lips, his eyes again closed tight because of the squint while he chuckles.
That's what Lisa remembers, she also wants to know about something from Alice.
In other words, she can remove the curiosity that builds up in her mind to get a straight answer from Alice while helping her to enlarge her capacity so that she doesn't get killed easily.
"I was a little girl."
"Little girl? If I was stupid, I would've convinced myself you were a little girl. But, my daughter reports your actions are really strange."
"A strange act?"
Not understanding what Lisa was saying, Alice's mind began to think something was wrong here in the first place.
This place, it's more like an interrogation than a serious conversation makes Alice not understand why Lisa, Eri's mother, wants to have a conversation in her room without anyone's knowledge, including her mother, Luna, and Eri, her daughter.
"What do you mean, aunty?"
A long breath was heard from Lisa, and she knew that she had to explain it to Alice to get her to make her tell the truth.
"When you passed out, I saw you in a dying condition that was almost out of nowhere. While you were talking to your father, Ren, in the lunch hall, my daughter overheard your conversation from outside about your physical training."
A cold sweat ran down Alice's back. She did not expect Lisa to know this to investigate her, not knowing what she meant and what she was doing to her.
"Please answer honestly, Alice. Are you a reincarnator?"
Suddenly her expression was tense, her whole body seemed to be soaked with cold sweat when asked directly by Lisa.
In a way, Alice wants to tell Lisa the truth, but she still doubts whether this will bring good or not. But on the other hand, if she doesn't tell, then Lisa is a dangerous woman who gets answers through her curiosity, making her do it again to corner her like she is now.
"I... I'm not a reincarnator," replied Alice, filled with doubts.
Instead of gaining Lisa's trust, she gets a suspicious look at her making her even more tense.
For a moment, her body was dying to yell at her to get out of this room, which was an interrogation place. But her instincts tell her otherwise, she can't leave the field of battle. If she does so, Lisa's suspicions are getting more correct, there's a chance that next time she'll corner Alice again.
Even so, Alice does not want to admit it immediately but calms herself and then continues her words to dispel Lisa's suspicions.
"If I'm a reincarnator, why am I weak? Shouldn't a reincarnator be born from someone given everything by gods and goddesses?"
Immediately Lisa was silent, she knew what Alice was saying was true but she still did not want to accept it as a reasonable form. Instead, Lisa considers it a defensive statement from Alice.
"Hopefully she doesn't ask me any more questions," Alice hoped that she could be free from this room by wishing Lisa hadn't asked her any more questions.
"Let me be blunt, I don't care if you're a reincarnator or not because I want to know the honest answer from you, not to use you but to dispel my curiosity."
Lisa's words sound sincere, there is nothing to hide from her while looking directly at Alice, letting Alice who realizes that she cannot help but lie but do this to protect herself from harm.
"Your curiosity?"
"Yes," nodded Lisa who looked convinced. "I want to know the origin of the reincarnator, I wish I could learn a few things from there."
There is a deep curiosity seen from the enthusiastic eyes behind Lisa's golden eyes, with a happy expression with a broad smile making Alice realize that she hid this longer and would be discovered.