Sir & Princess

Prologue

𝕿he winds blew calmly, clouds cruising about in the sky, and the man accoutred with a set of medium armor and a sword strapped to his hip was resting on a rock.

It was the late 1600s, a time when science began skyrocketing to the moon. Turns out, there's a force acting on every object on the planet that brings them down.

This man, Sebastian Payne, was on a mission. His mission, was to locate and bring back his pet dog that ran away.

Like a greedy pirate, he would sail the whole ocean to find treasures. But in the end, blindness always envelopes the pirate and he would start living in the fool's paradise.

He leaned his head down to scratch it and then raised it to look at the horizon over yonder.

His face, chiseled, with a few small scars here and there, gazed at the falling sun. His verdant green eyes and short raven black hair were the most notable traits on his head.

[The night is approaching, i wilt findeth a suitable area to rest mine own corse.]

His Elizabethan English, widely known as Shakespearean English, reverberated in his head. His accent was rhotic.

Sebastian stood up and looked behind him, he glared into the forest with an analyzing look. He stood at a height of six-foot one-inches tall, a height that was rare back in the day.

[Th're art beasts in this f'rest, howev'r, th're is eke a cave atop a mountain ledge I can rest at.]

He remembered when he went on an expedition with a squadron of knights to this place. They slept on a mountain ledge and a cave that housed no beast withinn it.

When he started walking, a purple magic circle that looked broken appeared under Sebastian.

The magic circle wasn't small, no, it covered the knight and almost extended 100 meters beyond him. However, the circle was unstable and was shaking uncontrollably.

When Sebastian realized it, he stumbled in shock.

[Witchcraft?!]

Suddenly, a radiant purple light that illuminated the whole field of grass impaired Sebastian's vision.

When the light died down, every object in the magic circle that was not connected to the earth was gone. Rocks, grasshoppers, Sebastian, etcetera.

Sebastian felt his body being ripped apart into tiny particles and be shoved into a small hole the size of a microorganism. The other objects and living beings underwent the same process and went through the spacetime continuum tube.

Sebastian felt weird sensations. Even if most of his senses were obsolete at the moment, he felt the sensation of traveling at extremely fast speeds.

A loud noise that sounded like two huge boulders grinding each other rang out and the particles in the tube reconstructed into their previous states.

Sebastian's closed eyes shot open and he saw a grey ceiling while laying on his back. He slightly turned his head right and left. He perused the room he was in until his eyes widened from seeing a kid standing a bit away from him.

His whole body was numb and unmoving, but he could make subtle movements on certain parts of his body.

Her attire was purple themed, and it was skimpy. He thought the outfit was unsuited and inappropriate for a child, but that thought instantly turned to hostility after realizing she was a witch.

"Ah... I did it!" The little girl screamed in glee. Then she held her stomach as a piercing sense of pain struck her.

"Kuh... Bonii! Where the hell are you?!" She screamed in agony, calling for someone while bowing her head and gritting her teeth. Her happy mood certainly didn't last long.

Sebastian couldn't understand what they were saying at all. To him, it all sounded like professional gibberish.

Suddenly, the door bursted open and another girl, barely five-feet tall, entered the room in worry.

"Tis' I, and I have come to assist you!" The girl donning a red and black themed outfit shouted in valor.

"Hope is lost..." Her soul slithered in between her lips depressingly after she saw who came in and her face lost all color.

The kid fell on her side and barely held onto her consciousness. The one with horns gasped in horror and knelt down to check on the witch.

"Shion-chan! Shion-chan!"

"B-Bonii...." The witch managed to blurt out with great effort while slightly lifting her head. Then it plopped down with a strained groan coming from her mouth.

In the next moment, a bleached white skeleton literally slid into view from behind the doorframe and studied the inside of the room.

A knight, rocks, critters, a fallen witch, and a crying demon.

[No doubt... She tried that spell.] The skeleton guessed what happened, and he was right. His voice was that of a man.

"I told you not to use the spell so carelessly." The walking and talking skeleton went towards the girl and hoisted her over his shoulder.

"Bonii-san... Is she going to be okay?" The horned girl asked in worry after she also stood up.

"Of course. This happens way too often for her not to."

Then, the skeleton carrying the witch left. But before he did, he looked at the knight on the floor.

Sebastian's eyes were as wide as it could be, and his jaw was loose from utter shock.

[A witch, a demon, and a walking skeleton! Is this... Hell?] He thought to himself. The only logical answer he could come up with, was that he descended to hell.

"💀"

The skeleton just stared at him with his empty eye sockets. A chill ran down Sebastian's spine from the unchanging face of the skeleton.

The undead skele-guy twisted his skull forwards and left with the unconscious witch.

The demon shifted her head to Sebastian on the floor and glanced at his face with curiosity.

"Ummm... who are you?" The girl asked in a foreign language.

In that moment, something struck Sebastian as he stared at her seemingly young face.

It was not love, nay, it was pain that went through his whole body like electricity.

His teeth gritted with great strength, making his gum slightly bleed. His eyes tightly shut itself as certain muscles twitched non-stop.

"Are you okay, Mister Knight?" She asked with worriness and a slight bit of indifference.

Sebastian could only mutter out gibberish as his jaw muscles convulsed and his throat expanded and contracted unusually.

His eyeballs rotated upwards and his eye sockets were filled with the whites of his eyeballs.

Bubbles began flowing out of his mouth as the pain suddenly skyrocketed.

The twitching of muscles turned hardcore as his whole body moved by itself.

Then finally, his brain was hit with a grand migraine and he fell unconscious.

The demon, Ayame Nakiri, started worrying even more. Sure, he was a stranger, but seeing someone suffer so greatly would make anyone with any semblance of sympathy brood.

His whole body turned limp and no longer experienced pain. His eyelids were wide open and his jaw was loosely open as well.

[I guess I should take him to Choco-sensei.]

She knew next to nothing in treating an injured person. Walking up to Sebastian and squatting beside him, she propped him up on her back and walked towards her friend's nursery room.

Ayame hummed a cheerful tune while strolling down the hallway. A smile was etched on her face carrying Sebastian.

Who knew that this day would mark a revolutionary discovery that would change the witchery and sorcery world, and the living byproduct from said discovery would change the demon's, Ayame Nakiri's, world.