Reincarnated to save the lost little star

Chapter 4: A tour in our grand duchy

"Lady, please get up. Today, you will stroll the around the center of the grand duchy with lord Leonard and his grace. We have to get you ready." The maids tries to wake me up, I wasn't ready to get out of bed but when I heard the word 'stroll', I sprung up from the bed. Freedom is the best! Imagine being tied up for two years, unable to do anything. I had it worst than going to prison. At least prisoner can walk around. Well, I can't because all I can move was my eye balls. Now, I'm desperate to explore!

My maids are trying to get me ready, you know, bathing and getting dress. It feels so awkward. I'm still trying to to get use to people taking care of me. It's not bad since I was quite lazy to begin with, but, you know.
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And finally! Today is the day I got to explore this world. And this will be my first time meeting my brother officially. I have seen him before when the demon control my body. It wasn't a very pleasant meeting. Leonard have shoulder length silver hair and red eyes three years old child with a face of a future lady killer. Our first met was a year ago, it was dinner time. We are suppose to have a peaceful dinner, but of course.. the demon doesn't agree. It threw baby food and those food land on my brother's face precisely. And around six month ago, I broke his favorite wooden sword he made. It was just a stick actually, yet he got so upset. He probably hates me now.

"Let's go" I tell my maid to walk me to daddy.

Leonard's pov

We are now in the front yard, waiting for that monster to arrive. That monster is my sister. Ever since she was born, my life turn into a mess. Ever since she was born, nobody cares about me anymore. Father has very less free time and the free time he used to give me, she stole it. I heard that the reason father take us outside was because she wants to go. If it was me asking him, he would brush me off saying he's busy. I was back from the capital yesterday. I'm tired and I want to rest but I can't let go of this rare opportunity, his grace never gets out of his office unless for work. The maid said that he wants to take me out so I could get to know more about our people. This is the time I could spend with my father. It could have been better if we could just leave without that monster.

Third person' pov

When Astoria arrive, they went to town by a roofless carriage with a lot of guards follow
it on horses. Sitting in the carriage, Leonard was avoiding his sister while she was sweating bullets thinking of a way to talk to him and a clueless expressionless father sitting across two children.

The carriage headed on the road toward the bustling town not far from the castle. Soon, they arrive the center of the town. The grand duke seems to be familiar with his people since many greets him along the way. Some even got on their knees and bow to him.

"Where should we head to first?" the grand duke asked his two children.

The boy shift his body and his eyes sparkle at the question, he thought that they're going to follow their father around while he's at work. Seemingly, the grand duke was taking them for a trip!

"Market!" The girl suggest excitingly. Market is one of the best place to see culture and see people interact.

The boy did not oppose to the idea since he didn't know where he want to go either. What is a market? He's a three years old, the only places he knows was home, main castle, church and town which mean outside their house

"Do you know what is a market Astoria?"

"I know, Wendy tells me stories about market. They have a lot stuff" She lied. Astoria remember her last life, of course she knows what's a market.

The sound of merchant selling their goods and product hits their ear as soon as they arrive the market.

"Dada! Dada look! What is this?!" The girl point at the beautiful stones.

"It is magic stone Astoria, for people who wants to use magic without using mana, they can use magic stone to do magic. The magic stones only holds basic magic. There are many different types of magic. We classify it into 3 category; basic, rare and unique. Water, fire, earth and wind are considered basic. Light, darkness, thunder, illusion. Unique is when the person was given a magic that very few or none have had before. This is basic of magic, you will learn more when you reach five."

'Holy molly! A real magic stone. I read them only describing then stone as colorful rocks. This colorful rocks are beautiful. Though they have rocky surface but these are so sparkly.' She thought.

"My lady, what you see is only a low quality." The old merchant see the young lady interested in the stone, from her attire she is clearly not a robber. He grabs a pocket and show her high quality stone."This is high quality fire stone."

"Wow" both kids look at the stone curiously. the stone is red, it has smooth surface with cracks inside which reflects lights and makes it shiny.

Then they continue to walk around the market. Both kids asked a lot of questions and their father answered, and they bought a lot of stuff to help the economy. It was a great bonding time.

As they are walking back to the carriage, Astoria accidentally heard a conversation of two men which was odd that she didn't have to listen carefully yet she catch all of it.

"Man, another slave dealer was killed."

"Making money from something like that, they must have see it coming."

"But this is the tenth now, people are scare who might be next. All the slave they catch was gone too."

The singing of the prayers from the church resonance the street. She felt a chill on her skin when a man in black hood with a symbol on the back walk passed her. She shrug it off, she probably think too much.

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A/N: And that's it for today! Thank you guys for reading XD

Good luck all of you!