Rose Stands for Nobility

Chapter 1

As I slowly opened my eyes, I found myself staring at a familiar ceiling.

"My room?" Getting up from my bed, I wondered if everything that happened so far was real. "Was it all a dream?"

But the more I thought about the guns that suddenly transformed into four men, my head started throbbing in pain.

"Ugh, what a mess of a headache." Placing a hand against my forehead, I've considered this possibility. "Maybe I ended up drinking to my heart's content with Oz and got a hangover from all of the drinks."

"Yeah that's probably-" Lowering my right hand, I blinked and the smile I once wore fell at an instant. "Uh."

There on the back of my hand was the rose scar.

'The very same rose scar that.'

I blushed recalling what had happened, specifically the parts where I had my hand kissed by four different men.

'THAT WERE ACTUALLY GUNS!'

I whispered to myself in shock while slapping my burning cheeks in disbelief. "W-Was it really a dream?!"

Soon the sound of creaking wooden floorboards sounded, and a faint gasp echoed from the entrance of my room. "Emi, you're finally awake!"

I shake out of my wonderment to find a blonde girl with glassy blue eyes that looked ready to cry. "Lulu?"

Lucy Luna Walker or Lulu. Like Chris, she's a fellow medic working in the medical wing with me. However unlike Chris, she gets pretty emotional easily. Especially when it comes to people she cares the most.

And soon, I was suddenly glomped by that very same Lulu and thrown back into my bed. "Oof!"

"You had all of us worried!" Lulu sobbed while choking my neck with her own arms wrapped around me.

"So-" But she didn't give me a chance to apologize. Lulu interjected my words and told me something I've completely ignored the whole time. "You were practically in bed for a whole week!"

I stared at the blonde crying on my clothes in shock. "A...A whole week?!"

Was I really knocked out for a full week?!

"Lulu, can you tell me what happened so far this week?" Seriously, I'm completely out of the loop on what's going on so far.

"Well." Lulu explained what happened starting from the moment I fainted right in front of the four guns. Apparently I was caught by Brown Bess according to Lulu's words, but she kept describing him like a knight in shining armor who elegantly caught the fair maiden.

"I get it already, so can you keep explaining without adding in your flowery fantasy into the mix?" I told Lulu, slightly annoyed by the constant mentioning on how romantic it seemed.

"But Emi, he carried you all the way to your room! Not even letting any of the other guns hold you." Lulu paused for moment and held a look an 'aha' expression as if recalling something important. "Though Kentucky seemed ready to nab you away from Brown Bess if it weren't for your state."

Or so I thought it was an important memory.

Continuing on, Chris and Lulu did the best they can to lower my sudden fever right after Brown Bess had placed me in bed. Around that time, the said four guns were asked to report to General Grandbard and General Sara on who they were.

"According to the generals, their souls were called out by the master that bears a rose scar to help protect them from harm. And that's you, Emi."

I point to myself, still unable to believe this stuff was really happening. "M-Me?"