The Hidden Knave, Arlecchino In Who Made Me A Princess

Father Meeting

Arlecchino sat on a comfy, blue cushion as Athy pushed each maid out of her room while asking for snacks. The cats circled the penguin on her lap as they looked around warily. This room was clean, shiny, and fitting of royalty. Arlecchino compared it to how her room was before Lucas fixed it, and realized their differences in status once more.

A cursed princess, and the heir to the throne in one room. She was sure no one approved of this. All the maids they saw gasped when they saw her, especially upon seeing the pants Lucas had given her after she refused to wear a dress.

Black shorts, with a large, oversized sweater. All the colors were black and white, while she held two cats and a penguin in her arms. She heard them whisper about how she was dressed for a funeral, and that they expected nothing less from a cursed princess. One of them didn't even call her a princess just because she wore pants.

One glare from Athy made them quickly scatter away to another part of the palace. She huffed and smiled at Arlecchino while running over to her room, and that's how they ended up here. Athy sitting on the ground with her and the kids as she showed off each of her plushies.

"This is mister Claude. He's a mean bear that abandoned his daughters just cause he wanted."

Athy placed the giant, brown bear down. Its face seemed to have a permanent frown as it gazed down at Fremi. The poor penguin flinched, tears in its eyes as it hurried to hide under Arle's sweater. Athy noticed it and immediately picked up the bear and threw it to her bed.

Arlecchino watched her while helping Freminet hide. Athy was quite simple, talking all on her own while Arle watched her. She kept showing her toys, speaking calmly and childlike, but Arlecchino had spoken with enough children to know when they're dropping hints.

"This is miss cat, she's a big sister. But I don't know where her little sister is. The maids took her away, and she's been searching for her sister ever since."

The truth is, Athy didn't know about Arlecchino's existence, until her maid, Lilian, suddenly came back with tears in her eyes four years ago. When Athy asked, Lilian smiled sadly and quietly confessed that she had seen the second princess.

The second what?

There's a second princess!? Athy was shocked to her cor. She had never read about another princess! When she heard that name, Arlecchino, she almost passed out. If that was the actual harbinger from Genshin, she needs to have her by her side!!

If Arlecchino becomes the powerful figure she was in Genshin, Athy can avoid her original end just by holding onto her sister! Who needs Claude!? She just needs the harbinger!

Arle watched her chuckle to herself. The sound and her expression of porudness was all she needed to know that Athy was making a plan inside her head. Lucas only mentioned her magi. He didn't say anything about her as a person...

And now Arle was curious about this 'sister' of hers.

"And this is Lilia. She takes care of miss cat."

A small doll with blue eyes waved at Arlecchino with Athys help.

"Lilian is much better than the mean bea. She doesn't threaten miss cat with death, and didn't separate her from her little sister!"

So she's blaming Claude, the emperor, and our father for her lack of knowledge regarding my existence? The dead threats are interesting. That man didn't seem to even care enough to remember them. So why was Athy so paranoid about the emperor?

The cats looked at her calmly. They had decided she wasn't any type of threat long ago, and were now just yawning and getting comfortable against Arlecchino's legs as they tried to nap.