As we walked into the estate, I noticed the Marquis wasn't with Terry, so I asked, "Where's the Marquis? I was told he would be visiting today as well." "My Father had some last-minute business to take care of and entrusted today's meeting to me." "Speaking of business, I thought you worked as a magic teacher at Red phoenix academy. So why are you working with your Father in the magic trade?" Terry pulled a sly smirk at me, "I don't see how that's any of your concern." I couldn't help pulling a frustrated look at Terry, "Well, I have to make sure you're qualified to judge our product and not just blindly assume things about it. I know you have a history of wrong assumptions." Terry pulled an amused but slightly annoyed face at me, "I seem to recall nothing but sound judgement on my part. However, I do recall meeting a lively child who didn't understand proper manners. As for my qualifications, all your magic talent is all the evidence I need to show my knowledge and skill of magic
Hearing him talk about this ability I apparently have, I couldn't help my curiosity and asked him, "Did your Mother tell you how to use the ability?" Terry stared intensely at the mana shard while looking like he was lost in deep thought, "No, she only told me what I could expect if I awakened my eyes. Needless to say, she was disappointed when I didn't." As Terry said that, I could see the depressed look on his face, "I'm sorry to hear that. It must have been hard on you, feeling like you let your family down." Hearing me say that, Terry let out a light sigh and put the mana shard in his pocket, "Nonsense, me not awakening my eyes never meant I let my family down. On the contrary, my Father holds my talent for magic in high regard. If he didn't trust my abilities, he would have never entrusted today's meeting to me alone." Seeing how Terry was acting, I couldn't help but think, 'He's put his guard back up. He let it down for a moment when I asked about my abilities, but now his eg
Later that night, after the maids had finished getting me ready for bed and left the room, I sat in front of my dresser mirror, staring into my eyes, 'He told me I have the ability to change my eyes, but I have no idea how to even begin.' I started to try and practice whatever I could think of to try and discover how to use the ability. Finally, I began to focus and make my mana flow around my body while focusing most of it towards my eyes. As I did, my eyes didn't change colour, but they did start to glow brightly, 'It didn't work... And I didn't know my eyes glowed when I used my mana now.' I stopped my mana flow and started to try and think of a new method to change my eyes. But, as I did, I couldn't help but think back to when my eyes were still magenta only two days ago, 'Even though my pure pink eyes look mesmerising, I just can't help but miss my old eye colour...' Thinking about my old eye colour, I closed my eyes and remembered what they used to look like. While trying to
While Terry and Larry were talking, I finished getting ready after 12 minutes. As I rushed down the stairs, I was met by Jasmin waiting for me at the bottom. When I got to the bottom of the stairs, she walked up and told me, "The prince is waiting for you in the back living room, miss." "Thank you Jasmin!" I rushed into the living room, but when I got inside, from what I could see, it was empty, "Larry, are you in here?" Hearing no response, I left the living room and returned to Jasmin, "Larry isn't in the living room." Jasmin looked surprised, "I did tell his highness that he was allowed to explore the estate while he waited. He must have done precisely that." I let out an exhausted sigh, "Ok... I'll go look for him." I looked around the estate for five minutes before I saw Larry talking to someone by the front door. Unfortunately, the way he was standing, I couldn't see who he was talking to. I walked up behind him as I heard him saying, "Of course!" Curious, I asked, "Who
I put the gem back on the shelf and kept exploring deeper into the store, but the deeper I went, all I found was more of the same, "This store doesn't seem to have a lot of variety in what they sell." Larry looked around the room, "You're right, but don't worry, this is only our first shop. We'll be visiting plenty of others. This one was designed for the common dragon in mind and not nobles like us." "I also wanted to ask you, do those mana accumulators come in different qualities like mana shards?" "They do, actually. Like mana shards and gems, these come in low, mid and high-rank. Unfortunately, the ones sold here are more than likely all low-rank." "What are the differences?" "The higher rank ones have a greater accumulating effect and use less mana to work since they're of a higher purity." "Do you know anywhere that sells them? I think I'll buy a high-rank to try at home." "Unfortunately, I don't know, but we'll be visiting many shops today, so with your eyes, you should b
After a while in the carriage, we pulled up outside the estate. As I got out, I noticed Larry wasn't behind me, so I looked back inside the carriage and saw him talking to one of his guards, "Larry, aren't you coming inside?" He turned around and smiled, "I have something I need to discuss with my guards. I'll meet you inside after I'm finished. I'll try to be done within 20 minutes." "Ok, as long as you don't leave me waiting too long, I'll be in the back living room where you were waiting for me earlier today." Larry decided to tease me a little and said, "I'll look forward to seeing you waiting in there instead of me this time." I turned red from embarrassment, "Would you stop teasing me!" Larry laughed, "But it's so much fun seeing your flustered expression." I pouted at him, "You do realise if I accept our marriage, I'll have over a thousand years to get even with you for teasing me so much." "And I'll have over a thousand years of happiness seeing you every day." His comm
After a while, a maid came into the room, "Miss, lunch is ready if you and his highness would like to make your way into the dining room." "Thank you, we'll head in soon." the maid then curtsied and walked out of the room. I looked at Larry and asked him, "Shall we go have our lunch now?" Larry smiled, "Of course, you talked so highly of your chef that I'm looking forward to it." "I'm glad to hear it." As we got up and made our way to the door, Larry asked me, "What happened to that guy from earlier? I think you said his name was Terry." When I heard him ask about Terry, my mood quickly got ruined, "He had some business he had to take care of, so he left." "Was that what that private discussion was about earlier?" I hesitated to answer for a moment, "Yes, it was..." Larry noticed I didn't seem too happy talking about Terry, "Did he do something? Remember, I'm the king's son. So I can help you if he's done something." "No, no, it's fine, I just don't like him much, but he hasn
After that day, I started to feel even closer to Larry. We started going on more regular dates almost every day instead of every other day for a week. The main upside to how busy I'd been with Larry was I had barely seen Terry for the entire week. I only saw him once briefly before I left with Larry four days ago. I was still annoyed with him when I saw him, so I didn't even acknowledge him. But, with how well everything was going with Larry and me, I, unfortunately, wasn't able to spend any time with Tasha during that time. With how busy I was, whenever she came to the estate, I had already left or was just leaving with Larry. When I saw her the other day before I left, I promised her that the next day I would push my date with Larry back to later in the day so she could spend the morning with me so we could catch up on everything. She told me she would arrive around 8 am, so I waited out in my private garden for her to arrive. I started waiting for her at 7:30. I was only waiting