『Mirror, Mirror』

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Standing by the front doors was a figure donned in a tailored black forked dress coat with blue satin inner lining, a black jabot with a dark blue bowtie layered over it, completed with a gold pendant tying them together.

Jack was dressed in noble attire, consisting of a frilled dark grey dress shirt, black vest with matching lining as the dress coat. He wore white slacks tucked into a pair of dark hard leather military boots, and a satin blue sash as a belt wrapped around his waist.

In his hand was a classic silver etched pocket watch, watching as the hand ticked as the time passed. He could hear each of the individual gears moving, as it clashed with the giggling of the two twins playing out in the yard with Eve and Shizu.

Glancing up from the watch, his electric blue-violet eyes rested on Arche as she emerged from the West Wing and into the central foyer. She was dressed in her normal attire as she hadn't collected her things from her parents house.

Not that there was much to collect. She had sold her valuables in order to pay her parents debt, which only continued to grow. That and her mother gifted her items to calm her down, which didn't really help.

So as she padded on over to Jack, she glanced up at him from under her blonde bangs which traced her eyebrows. Her blue eyes seemed to shine up at him, reflecting the angelic radiance of his skin.

"Where did you get that?" Arche asked with a light laugh, reaching out to feel the satin lining of his coat. "Did you make it or...?"

"My sister made it actually, a few years ago." This item was pretty high in class, similar to that of the maid outfits that the Pleiades wore in the Great Tomb of Nazarick. So it was essentially as powerful as armor made from Mythril composite combined with other magically enhanced metals.

"Oh?" Arche smiled faintly, feeling how soft it was with her bare hands. She wasn't wearing her gloves this time around, knowing that Jack would want to hold them. It was something far more expensive than her parents ever had even as nobles. It was so finely produced that one would think it was a legendary suit, which in her mind seemed a bit preposterous.

"Shall we?" Jack offered his arm for her to hook onto, along with his hand open at the end.

Arche's lips tugged to the side slightly, smiling a bit more as she hooked her arm into his, grasping his hand once she did.

With that, Jack would turn and press the door open with his free hand, without a problem at all.

The two made their way through the courtyard, passing by the fountain. From the corner of their eye, they watched as the twins were playing with his 'sisters.' Though it was mostly Eve and Shizu chasing after them. Eve trying to capture them and Shizu trying to hug onto them in order to cover them in stickers.

It was definitely an interesting show to watch as they made way for the gate.

Within a minute or so they were leaving the property. Jack opening the front gate with his hand, much like he had done with the door, as they casually escaped onto streets of Arwintar.

"So... Did you enjoy the bath?" Jack asked as he looked down at her, continuing to take the lead.

"Mhm..." She'd nod, layering her upper lip over the lower. "Did you take a bath?"

"Shower," he responded with a light chuckle, his free hand combing through his hair. "Wasn't half bad." Jack hadn't taken a bath or shower since he had first arrived. Though he had quickly noticed, his body didn't seem to smell all that bad either prior to taking a shower.

The two of them watched as a carriage bugged on by them, almost hitting Jack, not that it would've done all that much damage. His eyes simply glared at the back of it.

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