“So bored…”
The study room on the second floor.
Azalea rested her lips against a quill, lying listlessly on the wooden floor, staring blankly at the scenery outside the window.
Misha was busy researching, Lorabel was practicing swordsmanship, and Aurora was performing some strange ritual in the courtyard.
Only she was left alone in the library, reading a romantic novel.
And it was unfinished.
“Ugh, get out of my head!”
‘Snap.’
The more she read, the more annoyed she became. She decisively shut the novel and carelessly tossed it onto the bookshelf she had classified as ‘forbidden books.’
Stretching out on the floor with a big yawn, she prepared to rest her head on her crown and take a nap.
Her crown had been specially modified by the kingdom’s top craftsman; the inside, pressed against her hair, was lined with the finest feathers.
If she flipped the crown inside out, it would make a high-quality pillow.
Just as she was about to enjoy a beautiful nap, the warm sunlight shining on her suddenly vanished.
The golden glow that filled the library dimmed noticeably.
Could it be about to rain?
She opened her eyes slightly, then was startled and jumped up immediately.
“What’s that?”
A thick branch was slowly growing upward, its lush green leaves blocking the library window and cutting off the sliver of golden light that had been shining in.
Just as she was puzzled, the laughter of three girls came from downstairs.
That voice was… Miss Aurora and two other girls!
Ah, here comes something fun.
She hurriedly grabbed her crown from the floor, flipped it inside out, put it on her head, and rushed downstairs.
“Student Eve is really amazing!!”
“To think she could make the seed grow so fast— the books say only the Elven Queen can do that. It’s unbelievable…”
“Not that amazing, hehe.”
“But really, I didn’t expect this little medicinal herb to grow so tall…”
Looking at the bamboo-like herb that had already reached the fourth floor, Aurora couldn’t help but feel amazed.
“All these branches and leaves are top-grade medicinal herbs! We won’t be able to use this much. How about… selling the extra at the academy’s witches’ market?”
As Saga finished speaking, another girl’s voice came from nearby.
“What? What’s so interesting?!”
The three looked over to see a blonde, blue-eyed girl standing downstairs, her eyes shining brightly as she gazed at the herb reaching toward the sky.
“This is… a Wood-Shake Bamboo? How did it grow so tall??”
“Um, may I ask who you are?”
Saga looked at the girl, who seemed familiar, especially when she noticed the silver crown embedded with jewels on her head…
She glanced at Aurora and quietly pointed to the girl.
“Ahem, let me introduce myself.”
She straightened her posture, the cheerful expression disappearing and replaced with a solemn demeanor.
“I am Princess Leonos I Azalea of the First Kingdom.”
“You can just call me Azalea!” She smiled as she said the last sentence, as if it were a casual remark after a formality.
“Princess Your Highness!!” Saga was so shocked she almost lost her composure.
She had wondered why the girl looked so familiar—turns out she was a princess from their own country!
“Princess?”
Meanwhile, Xiao Mo seemed indifferent. After all, coming from a small country where royal family members often visited the city and mingled with commoners, seeing a princess was nothing unusual to her.
Saga hurried over, intending to kneel in respect, but Princess Azalea anticipated the gesture and stopped her.
“Hey, no need for formalities. We’re not in the First Kingdom now, so there’s no need to be so constrained.”
“Besides, you could say we’re actually classmates, hahaha.”
“Classmates? Princess, are you studying here at the academy too?”
No one in the academy had heard of a princess attending any class, especially not a princess from such a major kingdom.
In fact, the princess didn’t need the academy’s teachers at all. For theoretical knowledge, she had Misha, the kingdom’s top genius, as her tutor. For practical skills, she had the kingdom’s foremost Paladin, Lorabel.
She just didn’t bother to study.
“Actually, I came here with my teacher. Ah, enough about that…”
She looked again at the towering Wood-Shake Bamboo and asked, “What kind of magic did you use to make it grow this big?”
She suddenly recalled the experience at the apothecary earlier and turned her gaze to Aurora.
“Could it be that you, Miss Aurora, did this?”
“Hehe.”
Aurora didn’t say a word, just smiled quietly, but the meaning was clear enough.
“That can’t be! Your magical power hasn’t fully recovered yet; you shouldn’t use magic so quickly.”
“Honestly, I don’t even know if this counts as magic. I just dripped a bit of blood onto the seed, and it turned out like this.”
“Dripped blood?”
Azalea looked at Aurora’s palm and indeed saw the deliberate bite marks.
“It’s better to bleed less, after all, your body hasn’t fully recovered.”
Though she didn’t understand the principle, her mind couldn’t figure it out, so she decided to leave all the research to Misha.
“Hmm… this Wood-Shake Bamboo looks like it might fall if it grows any taller.”
“Better cut it down quickly.”
“True…”
Watching the Wood-Shake Bamboo continue to grow upward, Saga seemed uneasy.
“Let this princess handle it personally!”
With that, she summoned a golden axe into her hand.
She swung it hard, and the Wood-Shake Bamboo wobbled precariously.
“Again!”
‘Smack.’
Another heavy blow made a notch in the slender branch, but inside the cut, something seemed to be there.
There were small pairs of eyes, colorful, blinking.
But the princess seemed not to notice and raised her axe to strike again.
She shouted in an exaggerated, theatrical tone, imitating lines from her storybooks: “Behold my Infinite Flaming Axe!”
“Wait!!”
A shout made Azalea’s axe freeze mid-air.
She blinked her bright blue eyes and asked, “Isn’t the move’s name cool enough?”
“No, it’s not that.”
“I think I saw something inside that bamboo?”
“Something inside?”
Azalea put down the axe and stared wide-eyed into the notch.
“Looks like… nothing—whahhh!”
Before she could finish, something seemed to get into her eyes.
“My eyes! Something got in my eyes!”
Seeing no water nearby, Aurora said, “Let me blow it out for you!”
She hurried over, gently pried open Azalea’s eye, and carefully blew on it.
“My eyes, ugh ugh ugh…”
“Is this… phosphorescent powder?”
“Miss Aurora! Come see!”
“Inside here… it seems there are many fairies?!”
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