The Werewolf King's Bride

(From Blue's Perspective)

"Your Highness, please let me tie your hair. Do not move so much," Ruby said as she was tying my hair.

I was getting ready for my date with Dem. I wanted to take my mind off things and relax. Besides, it had been a long time since we went on a date.

"Make a braid," I said.

"I always make braids when Your Highness spends time with His Highness," she said. "His Highness likes braids after all."

Ruby made a side rope braid with my hair. I was surprised at how good Ruby was at almost everything. She could do anything, unlike me who knew to do nothing much. Well, I did not need to do many things now anyway.

"What will Your Highness do without me? Who will take care of Your Highness?" Ruby said as she was finished with my hair and started putting ornaments on me. "I am really worried. Your Highness, please let me choose your next personal maid. You can give me a list of the people who can be your personal maid and then I will choose someone since I know all of their capabilities."

"You are worrying too much, Ruby. Okay, you can choose my personal maid. No, rather than that, I will have a few maids this time."

"Right," she nodded. "I think that's a good idea since one maid won't be able to take care of Your Highness properly. I will choose them, then."

"Alright," I said.

Actually, I was planning on taking a personal maid. But it was not going to be right away. A personal maid was going to be someone who was trustworthy. For that, I needed to spend some time with that person first before making her my personal maid, or know a bit about her at least that would make sure that she was trustworthy.

"Baby, are you done?"

My cheeks heated up as soon as Dem asked it. He came in without knocking first as always. I told him many times not to call me these kinds of things when someone was around. But he almost never listened.

"I just need to tie the ribbon of Her Highness's dress. Then she will be ready," Ruby said.

Ruby had gotten used to witnessing Dem being very affectionate to me. At first, she used to get embarrassed. But now it was a normal thing for her.

Dem pulled my cheek as if I was a baby. "Why are you so cute? You seem to get cuter every day. This hairstyle looks good on you and also matches your dress. It kinda matches your personality as well. Your nails look good too.

Did you paint it? It looks natural."

"I painted Her Highness's nail with a natural color because the stone in the brooch of Her Highness's dress is of the same color," Ruby replied.

"Are you done, Ruby?" I asked tiredly.

"Should I make a butterfly with the ribbon?" she mumbled.

"... Anything is fine. Honestly, why are you even thinking about something like that?" I sighed.

After Ruby was finally done with my makeup, it was time for us to go. Even though I knew that we were going to ride by carriage, I was still saddened at the sight of it. I preferred a horse ride. But in that way, my dress would get wrinkled. And besides, Dem and I would have to ride the same horse since I could not ride a horse by myself.

Perita told me she was going to teach me how to ride a horse as well after a few days. I was a bit excited about it.

Dem offered me his hand and helped me get into the carriage. He sat beside me as the coachman closed the door.

"Should I draw the curtains? I don't think that man will appear again. I have a feeling that he doesn't want you to see him when I am with you," he said. "It's not like he is afraid of me since he is a dark mage. He is more powerful. But perhaps he knows that it's better not to get me involved for some reason."

"I guess so... And no, don't draw the curtains. I want to see outside," I said.

It was different seeing the outside than it was during the daytime. The stores looked even more beautiful now. When we crossed the famous water fountain, I saw couples, kissing and praying.

"Couples pray and throw a gold coin in here. It is said that if they do it, their love will remain like the first time they met and never break apart," Dem said, leaning close to me as I was looking outside the window. "It's just a belief and it makes them happy even though it has no base. You know what happens to the coins?"

"What?"

"They are collected and then given to orphanages," he said.

"Orphanages?" I repeated, surprised.

"It's my plan. I mean, the water needs to be cleaned to enhance the beauty. Before, the coins were given to the workers who clean the water. They actually used to steal most of the coins. A gold coin is not less at all, I mean, to most people. So, I planned on giving those coins to orphanages.

So, when the water is cleaned, the beta stands here all the time to make sure not a single coin is taken away. The fountain has a magic barrier around it that cannot be seen with naked eyes. It prevents anyone from falling in the water or touching the water. When the water needs to be cleaned, an Imperial mage breaks the barrier."

"Why do you call it cleaning when they are just taking the coins away? You make it seem like they are cleaning dirty water..."

"It's the same thing. That much coin is the same as dirt," he shrugged.

'Ah, I forgot how rich he is and how much he likes to spend money. These gold coins are surely like dirt to him.'

"The air is quite chilly. You sure you aren't cold?" he asked.

"No, I am fine. Ruby gave me a coat in case I am cold. I will just wear it if I need to," I said.

We were going in a different way. Or I would have shown Dem the place where I had seen that dark mage. I could not call him my father easily because I felt uneasy whenever I did that.

"That's the central clock tower," Dem said, pointing towards a huge tower with a clock on top of it. I was surprised that there were clock towers here as well. "You can go up there, but you have to climb all the way up. The clock tower has a magic barrier as well that prevents anyone from using magic inside and a few feet around the tower."

"I see... It seems it's a famous spot. A lot of people are climbing the tower even though it's that tall," I said.

"Yeah. They feel a sense of accomplishment when they finish. Not everyone can enter the tower though. You need a reservation and ticket to visit it."

"Is it also a way to earn more?"

"Of course. It's only natural to use what we have to make more money."

His morals were really questionable. Well, I could not blame him completely since I had started to feel that way as well after I started dealing with paperwork.

"By the way, why didn't you meet the designer?" he asked.

"Well, I wrote her a letter and told her to meet me tomorrow. I had too much work in hand. So, I could not meet her," I said.

"I told you that you don't have to push yourself. Just do as much as you can. I will take care of the rest," he said.

"I am taking care of ten percent of the work only. You deal with the other ninety percent," I pointed out. "You work more."

I was planning on taking twenty percent of the work by next month. It was not hard since I could learn quickly because of my photographic memory. Read today on m,v,l,e,mpyr

"It's surprising how fast you learn. People need training for years before they can handle these kinds of work. But it took you less than a month only."

"I guess it's because of my memory... Talking about my memory, my brother from that dream also has this kind of memory. You think there is a reason we both have this kind of memory? Is it because we both are the children of a human and a dark mage? Besides having more black mana, perhaps we also have a photographic memory because of this?"

Why did I not think about it before? Even for a photographic memory, my memory was just too abnormal. It must be the reason.