The Defiance Of A Pair Of Lilies

20 «Rebirth, and straight into Sorrow»

Third month, Fifteenth day, Four thousand Eight hundred and Ninety ninth year.

It was the day that I was born. Into this world that I was familiar, yet so unfamiliar with. For the first seconds that I was able to think, there was only one question that I had the will to ask.

Was Kazuki happy…?

And just after that, I heard the voices of three people. But my eyesight was too blurry to make out anything. There was a simple color that I saw though. Pink.

"Your majesty, she's a princess!" One spoke. I was then carried to someone who held me with care filling their grasp.

Your m-majesty? P-princess…?

"My daughter, she's already so beautiful." The man who carried me said, which meant that he was my father. The only thing I could make out about his face was that he had blue eyes and a head covered with blonde hair.

"Athan, let me hold her." A woman's voice came. She sounded weak and tired. And by just that I knew, she was my mother who laboured and birthed my small, newly born body.

W-woah!

The sudden movement made me slightly dizzy, almost as if I could puke, but I didn't. "Careful, dear." She spoke.

"Mhm." My father let out, I could only imagine him nodding as he gently let me down on the bed my mother laid on.

My mother had the most contrast among all the things in the room. Her hair and eyes made it so. Slowly, my eyes cleared. And I saw the full beauty of my mother. Her face pale and sweaty from exhaustion, though not in the best shape, still looked as beautiful as the moon. Her hair which flowed naturally seemed as if it was a river of darkness. Even her eyes were as beautiful as the night sky, dark yet filled with light.

So... gorgeous!

"Ufufu, You're right. She's beautiful. She even has the same eyes as you." Mother smiled at me. Then she went deep into thought. "I don't think I want to name her Athanasia now…"

"W-what do you mean?" Father replied.

"It just doesn't seem right. She's too beautiful. And I really want her to have a fitting name." Mother continued to think.

"Then what name do you think fits?"

"What about Naomi? It means 'Honest Beauty'." Mother smiled at Father. "I want her to become our honest little princess!"

I could hear Father sigh. "If that's what you wish for, then I shall gladly grant it."

After that, there wasn't much of importance that happened. For the following days, mother took care of me and only asked the maids if she needed to. She was really clingy while I was still a baby. There was not a single day that I was left to be taken care of by a maid.

When I could finally crawl, I would always go to the shelves that were inside the room. It was basically my sign that meant that I wanted to hear a story.  Since I wasn't able to read the language and only understood when it's spoken, I wanted my mother to read it for me. That and the fact that Mother's voice was so calming. Soon enough, I was able to read a majority of the words with ease. Thanks to that, I could read books by myself.

Also, there was magic in this world as well. But it was a lot more systematic compared to what I was used to. Yet all the basic tricks that I knew still worked here. The magic system here was oddly similar to the one on Earth. But I shrugged it off as some coincidence.

And the fact that I had all my past memories intact made me a little happy. My memories of Kazuki was basically the reason I started reading in the first place. He once told me that everyone has to make use of their situation whether bad or good. Plus, he was the one who taught me a lot of the things I know. I couldn't remember how we died though. I don't even know who killed us. I just knew that we bled to death.