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Chapter 17 Part 1: Echoes of the Past
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"Achoo!"
Lying on the inn's bed, Anna suddenly sneezed.
The girl's blue eyes fell upon the silver‑haired girl across from her.
"Esther, no luck yet?"
"Got it! Sister Anna, I sensed explosion magic coming from this direction!"
"Great. Let's set out now!"
Anna didn't hesitate. She immediately took Esther and hurried after the trail that revealed Lu Fei's presence.
It had been over ten years.
She could not wait to see him.
To leap into his arms and act spoiled.
To hear him call her "Sister Anna."
…
With the Count gone, Lu Fei carried Sena back to the room only to find Maria gone as well.
Only a letter remained.
Opening it, he saw a single line: "Mr. Lu Fei, the crisis is not over. We will meet again. Love, Maria."
With Sena and Liliyana in tow, Lu Fei glanced at the still‑unconscious Anya and took her along as well.
The Count's disappearance would cause a brief chaos and panic it was better to leave.
In the carriage, Anya slowly woke.
When she noticed her situation, her face changed color.
She still recalled a bit of what had happened yesterday.
That little bit was enough to turn her lovely cheeks alternately red and white.
"You're awake, Lady Anya."
Sena gave her a glance and a look of disdain.
"Since you're up, get off the carriage."
Anya looked at the short girl, and anger immediately boiled up.
"Where's that Lu Fei? Where is he? Have him come see me!"
"I'm driving outside, my lady," Lu Fei replied lazily.
Fuming, Anya yanked open the curtain and grabbed his collar. "What… what did you do to me? You rude scoundrel!"
"That's a massive injustice. You were the one who took me for some 'His Highness Prince Angus' and kept saying you liked me and even threw yourself into my arms, you know!"
"I didn't lay a hand on you. You're perfectly fine. Shouldn't you be thanking me?"
"Thank you my foot! You and Maria orchestrated this, didn't you? Even your blond hair is dyed y‑you shameless!"
Anya erupted.
This had happened a few hours before Lu Fei and Maria made love: Maria had given Lu Fei a hair dye, turning his hair blond; then Anya had been tricked into drinking an aphrodisiac, took Lu Fei for Angus, and threw herself at him.
At that time, Lu Fei had not yet made love with Maria and naturally did not trust her enough to violate Anya as instructed; he had only knocked Anya out.
As a noble lady, she wasn't stupid.
She quickly thought through the sequence of events.
Blocked by her, Lu Fei couldn't see the road, so he reached out to take her arm and have her sit down.
Anya, startled like a frightened rabbit, crossed her arms over her chest and glared at him in shame and anger.
"Rude lout, what do you intend to do?"
"I warn you, I am the viscount's daughter a noble. I may not outrank a count, but my younger sister is Prince Angus's fiancée, the future queen!"
"If you dare touch me, His Highness Angus will not spare you!"
"And how dare you impersonate Prince Angus that's an insult to nobility, an offense punishable by beheading!"
Anya kept prattling on; her delicate body trembled as she spoke.
Lu Fei was speechless.
"If you keep squawking, I'll toss you off."
"You're lucky I'm a responsible man who doesn't take advantage of a drugged woman. Otherwise want me to send you back to Maria now and have her arrange 'Prince Angus' to accompany you properly?"
"Shameless!"
Anya cursed, then suddenly covered her eyes and began to cry.
"I treated her as a sister yet she tried to humiliate me… u‑u‑ugh…"
Lu Fei: "…"
"You're nothing like Sister Anna. All you do is cry when something happens."
"What did you say? I'm not as good as Anna?"
Anya bristled at once.
"What else?"
Lu Fei flicked his ear and retorted calmly, "Besides crying and making noise, what can you do right now? Even the little girls in this carriage are steadier than you."
"You… you dare talk to me like that I'm nobility! Believe it or not, I'll have the guards take your head?"
"I don't believe it. Go on call them. We're in the middle of nowhere. I'd like to see how you call them."
Anya's face froze; she shrank back into the carriage and looked to Sena and Liliyana.
She couldn't help showing a bit of pity.
"You were kidnapped by this shameless man too, weren't you? Beast he won't even spare such little ones."
Hearing this, Sena was instantly annoyed.
"Who's the same as you? Liliyana and I chose to follow him. He's my man!"
"Huh?"
Anya stared blankly at Sena's under‑1.4‑meter height then at her baby‑faced features.
"Beast!"
"You laid hands on someone so small you're not human!"
Anya exploded.
Sena almost lost it.
"I'm not little! I'm an elf. We're not the same as you short‑lived races, okay!"
"But you look like a dwarf no matter how I see it."
Critical hit.
Eyes brimming, Sena left the carriage and sat at the driver's bench, hugging Lu Fei's arm.
"Do you think I'm a dwarf too?"
"How could I? I knew you were an elf from the start. Speaking of which I was thinking of visiting the Elven homeland. Will you lead me there?"
Sena trembled pain flickered over her face.
"Why go there?"
Because she was a special case short and that place held memories she'd rather not revisit.
"To see my younger sisters. Not sure if you've heard of them they're twins: Amy and Elly."
Sena's eyes went wide.
"You're joking, right? Those are our ancestresses. Both serve as High Priestesses of the Elven homeland and are over a thousand years old. You say you're their brother are you yanking my chain?"
"Believe it or not once we find Sister Anna, I'll take you both to the Elven homeland. Don't worry, Sena. Whatever happened before, you have me at your back now."
Sena sniffed and looked at him with complex eyes.
"Are you serious?"
"You're really Lady Amy and Lady Elly's brother?"
"As real as it gets!"
"…"
Listening to the two, Anya also widened her eyes. She poked her head out and stared straight at Lu Fei.
"How do you even know Anna? And calling her 'sister'? I don't recall such a younger brother."
"If you want to be my 'sister,' I'm not interested," Lu Fei said with a sidelong look. Still, he explained offhand, "Sister Anna is my wife."
"Heh, you really got into pretending to be His Highness Angus, huh? Anna is the prince's wife!"
"I'm a prince too."
Lu Fei shrugged.
"How could you be a prince… Ah! In your eyes the royal crest!"
Anya clapped a hand over her mouth, staring at the emblem shining in his pupils.
It was proof of royal blood. Rumor had it this crest contained a mysterious power that made the royal line the strongest among humans.
Every royal was a powerful mage or warrior; one had even become a sage.
"Impossible the king has only one prince, His Highness Angus! Where did your crest come from?"
"Born with it. Believe me or don't."
"I don't mean I don't believe… You do look so much like His Highness Angus it's just… why? Are you the king's bastard son?"
"The hell with 'bastard.'"
Lu Fei pouted and shot her a look.
"Don't talk nonsense."
"I am true royal blood. My mother is the queen. My father is the king."
"Only, because the kingdom's devices couldn't detect my unique mana, they thought I was a magic‑less waste and abandoned me."
"At once, they announced the crown prince died in infancy."
"So that's how it is?"
Anya's eyes softened.
"But still… how did you meet Anna? She's my younger sister. Growing up, only Prince Angus traipsed around behind her. I've never seen her set foot outside the estate."
"Because we knew each other in a previous life."
"…"
Anya shut her mouth.
This man's words couldn't be trusted.
After sulking a bit, she glared at Lu Fei.
"So… where are you taking me?"
"I wasn't planning to take you. If you want to leave, hop off. Earlier, I only took you along because I killed the Count things were chaotic I didn't want some scoundrel to drag you off for a freebie."
"No need to thank me I'm just that kind."
"Thank you my !"
Anya spat.
"Meeting you is bad luck."
"That should be my line. If you weren't Sister Anna's real sister, I wouldn't bother."
"Who asked you to?"
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