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"Aah!" Irene screamed as burning wood fell upon her.
"Irene!" her relative shouted in despair.
WHOOSH
BLAST
However, another flame in the shape of a sphere flew towards it, destroying the would-be end of the blonde woman.
She looked to where the fireball came from. "S-Sir Ronald!? Sir Joshua!?" she gasped, seeing the familiar men. "What are you doing here!?"
"There's no time to explain!" Ronald shouted. "We're getting all of you out!"
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Ronald reminisced for a moment before looking back at her daughter, Alicia, with her mouth agape and in shock. Well, it was how you expect her to react.
"Hmm," he hummed. "Where to begin?"
"I believe you should explain to her about my homeworld first, dear," Irene, his wife, said.
"Right." Ronald faced his daughter and paused in awkwardness.
"Um..." Alicia too was a bit embarrassed after shouting in surprise.
Owen simply sipped his tea, waiting for the long night silently.
"You know your grandfather, Allister?" Ronald asked.
"Yes," Alicia answered. Her grandfather, Allister Illyer, was her mother's father. "...You mean?"
"Yes," Ronald nodded. "He's a duke from a world called Spiri Raia in a kingdom called Kirash."
"Kirash?" Alicia muttered, not repeating the last word her father said but because she has heard that name before.
"Now, there's a complicated situation happening in that kingdom. But long story short, this Kirash kingdom was in a political war as the king at that time was about to pass. There were two princes that were heir to the throne, the first prince Albert al Kirash, and the second prince Van va Kirash."
"Wait," Alicia stopped. "Albert... Kirash... Uncle!? And what is with the 'al's and 'va's between their names?"
Albert Kirash was Alicia's uncle who was a part of the family for marrying Alicia's aunt, her mother's younger sister.
"Yes," her father nodded again. "Your uncle was a prince. Also, nobles and royalties in Spiri Raia have two or three letters of their first name as a middle name, no capitals.
"Anyway, simply put, the first prince, your uncle, was the good guy while the second prince, his half-brother, was the bad guy.
"Now you do know your uncle correct?"
"Yes." As far as Alicia remembered, her uncle was a good, hard-working, and honest man.
"And that's the problem," Ronald deadpanned. "He was too good.
"The second prince, Van va Kirash, was the opposite of your uncle, unscrupulous and manipulative. However, that made him quite the schemer too.
"In the battle for the throne, he managed to coax a lot of nobles taking your uncle's side to him be it bribery, blackmail, promises, and the like. Those who refused suddenly found their household 'mysteriously' destroyed.
"And that made Albert's power to claim the throne weaker as his number of supporters diminish. To make matter's worst, the king preferred the second prince over the first - as he favored the mistress who gave birth to him-, so that didn't help him either."
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Wizards of the Otherworldly Court: Alicia Part 1
Fantasy"Why are my hands getting warmer?" As far as Alicia was concerned, she was the daughter of a rich businessman attending high school. Then, she feels off and at the same time, she's not. One week later, her best friend brought her to another world(s)...
