104 Yes, Your Highness (1/2)
”These wounds won't seem to heal. This pain is just too real, There's just so much, that time can not erase...”
-Evanescence, My Immortal.
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Knowing that this Illusory Valhalla, is not what it completely seems... that everything shown is indeed hand-picked, but not altered, I reached the innermost part of the garden, and there my sister is, playing the atypical princess, alone, in her usual velvet gothic dress, that matched perfectly with her purple-colored eyes.
A refreshing scene that if it was not because of the Patriarch's Paradigm Shift, perhaps I could never see again. I have to thank him later for that... but it's not like I want to be here either, so he still reserves the right to be severely punished.
Seeing her reminds me of Shiro, who is still in hibernation for using her Paradigm Shift and I hope she's okay in Celes's provision. Not that I doubt that Herrscher though. Now then...
”Oh, Jaiden!!! Come here! Why did you suddenly disappear, you jerk? From a world business dominator, do you now wish to be one with those presence-concealing Ninjas?”
Seeing me approaching without taking into credibility the borders of her castle, she looked at me, as if she just saw the harshest being alive for leaving her with a valid reason...probably.
Yet, she's the hash one, even without a taint of melodramatic means... leaving me completely, even without warnings. Even without saying the least of Goodbyes...
”Yow,” I responded, out of instinct with a little hand wave, as I have had also forgotten how I greet her back then. Yet, what's clear is that all I'm missing right now is a piece of grass or a cigarette in my mouth, to sound and look alike to that of the MAFIA Dons.
”'Yow?'... Jaiden, is that supposed to be a statement that you're now ready to integrate yourself to outside cultures? Hmph! And there you were the other day, spouting about defeating older brother by using internal resources alone.”
Ah, right... She knows probably more than anyone else, about my self-proclaimed, ongoing rivalry with that man around these times. Well, aside from being a delusional princess, she also can become the best advisor there is at certain circumstances, giving me advice from books that she read, and by books, I mean not those that seven-year-olds typically read.
Raging from philosophies of Socrates to David Hume and history books (which I have always hated) is all you can find in her collection, not Cinderella and the Seven Dwarves nor any of the young-kids' fictional stories. And it's not like my family deprived her of those things, nor is it because she's against the idea of princesses falling in love at their early liberty. She just hated it, seeing how unrealistic and subjective the events are.
And lookie here, where I am now. Something that Jean would probably hate even more.. ullaged in both surrealistic and subjective events, in another world with an entire city, a genius classmate, an adoptive little sister, and a Goddess. Petty Riddance.
Oh, and did I mention that Jean finished reading Leo Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' at the age of five? A book that even in my current age still appears uninteresting... Probably not. And I'm saying this proudly, how enigmatic the personalities in my family are.
But, a kid, not even in her teens talking like this, is still somewhat implausible, especially when I got myself acquainted with how they should 'normally' act, the moment this household lost it all, with me gaining more neo-perspectives, with the help, of course, of my conservative grandma, who in my first years with her, has done her best to introduce me to some 'possible' friends and ultimately failed.
Well, it's an understatement if Jean will not act like this. After all, being enclosed within this household truly can develop your maturity in no time. Not to mention the austere and stern home-schooling system, coalesced with that Xerxes' guidance that straight out seems to deprive us of our youth, but just wanted us purely to learn things that are out of the norm's picture. Not that we didn't prefer it though...
”Well, whatever... If you're gonna do it again, I will punish you accordingly okay?”
”Ahahaahaaha. Well, yes... your highness.”