Chapter-4[Lilliana D. Avarice]

I am Lilliana D. Avarice. The daughter of Duke of Aurora Kingdom, the princess of Avarice Dukedom.

From my birth, I heard everyone saying that I am cursed because of my black hair as everyone in my family was born with blond hair, which makes them think that I am cursed. And from the time I was born, my mother become bed sick all the time.

But do I care?

Yes, I do.

Only my Father, Mother, Brother, Uncle Sebastian, and Aunt Evangeline are the ones who are nice to me and everyone else looked at me with contempt and disgust.

I am intelligent, way too much for my age. I could easily understand many things which shocked my parents a little but they were happy with that.

But it was not for everyone, the other maids and butlers in the house become scared of me. They always talked behind my back or some brave ones even did it in front of me.

And I am only 10 years old.

I learned how to ignore that but it still hurts sometimes to see and hear them talking like that.

And, today I am going out to travel with Uncle Sebastian and Aunt Evangeline in our territory.

I am excited to go out as many things in the territory are excited to see and it's been a month since I traveled out like this.

Uncle Sebastian, an old Uncle but he has a buffed-up body like my Father and he has silver hair too.

While Aunt Evangeline was a beautiful red-haired woman wearing a maid's clothing that looked gorgeous on her. She also had square glasses on her eyes, which made her look quite strict.

Uncle Sebastian helped me climb on the carriage as my height is quite small, even for a normal kid of my age, I am quite small.

Meanwhile, Aunt Evangeline without any care sat beside me and looked at me with a questioning look as I stared at her.

"Good Afternoon, Aunt Evangeline!" I greeted her first.

A dark aura started to come out of Aunt Evangeline's body as she stared at me.

"Young Miss, how many times had I told you that I am big sister, not the Aunt for you." Aunt Evangeline said in a low tone.

I was scared the first time I heard that but now?

I am used to this.

I smiled at her and stayed quiet.

I know that Aunt Evangeline is older, older than even Father as I saw sometimes Father be talking politely with her and asked the reason.

And He answered me that Aunt Evangeline is an Elf, the race that lives at the foot of the World Tree and she had been serving our Family for 3 generations, making her older than my Late Grandfather.

Aunt Evangeline seeing my smile turned her head away.

So, she knows that I know her secret now.

I don't know why she kept quiet about it though?

"Young Miss, should we leave now?" Uncle Sebastian's voice came from the front as he is taking over the leash of the horses.

"Yes!" I answered excitedly.

Last time, I found that Bakery where the sweet aroma of bread was coming but wasn't able to eat as we were already late so this time, I want to eat the bread from there.

"Where do you want to go first Young Miss?" Uncle Sebastian asked again.

Should I directly go to the bakery or not?

Let's just directly go there!

"Uncle Sebastian, please go to the bakery that I wanted to visit last time," I answered.

Uncle Sebastian nodded and started controlling the leash making the carriage move.

I looked out of the window.

Right now, we are in Avarice Family, which means my family's territory which is a little away from the Royal Capital, and far away from the border.

I looked out of the window as it seemed like Aunt Evangeline is not gonna talk right now.

Looking out, I saw the carriage going through the streets and people giving way for the carriage and many people looked at the carriage with excited expressions but when they spotted me looking out of the carriage, all of their excitement died down and frown and disgust appeared on their face.

Why do they hate me this much?

I never even talked with any of them...

Suddenly, I felt a hand patting me on my head making me look at Aunt Evangeline in surprise but I felt happy.

"Come here." Aunt Evangeline said and I went towards her and let her hug me.

I absolutely hate it whenever anyone looked at me like that.

I never did anything wrong to garner their hate, I just stayed at home for most of the time but even then, I am hated.

But I also liked it whenever someone comforted me like this.

I felt being loved.

After some minutes, Aunt Evangeline released me and I sat beside her quietly.

After 5 minutes, the small window in the front opened, and Uncle Sebastian's face peeked inside.

"Young Miss, we have reached." Uncle Sebastian informed.

I nodded and the door of the carriage opened and I walked out, looking at the Bakery filled with many commoners and some small nobles who lived in our territory or work for Father.

The moment the carriage arrived here, everyone that was out of the Bakery looked in our direction and many people bowed their heads but I saw clear contempt and disgust looking at me.

I ignored everyone along with their greetings and walked inside with people making way for me, Uncle Sebastian, and Aunt Evangeline.

Looking inside, I saw many people whispering while looking at the counter.

Some even continued to say bad words too.

I walked in and saw the owner of the bakery lifting a boy, who looks to be a year or two younger than me, having the same black hair and black eyes looking at the Bakery Owner with determination as he moved around to free himself from the Bakery Owner's grasp.

Seeing the boy, I become fascinated. He has the same black hair and even black eyes but his eyes showed determination.

I decided.

He would be my partner.

Just like me, he owns black hair and black eyes.

"Could you please release him?" I called out to the Bakery owner in a soft tone

Everybody focused on me. Even Uncle Sebastian and Aunt Evangeline.

Some of them recognized me. Not everyone in the territory knows who I am as I am staying in the mansion most of the time and when I am out, I am incognito or just staying in the carriage. Many people recognized me before because of the rumors and the Family Sign on the Carriage.

The boy looked at me with his eyes wide open in disbelieve.

'Looks like he also had the same lifelike me...' I thought.

But I will save him.

The Bakery Owner quickly released the boy making him fall to the ground.

I glared at the Bakery Owner who sweated hard from my glare.

I then looked at the boy and saw how skinny his arms and legs are making me feel bad for him.

I walked towards the boy with Uncle Sebastian and Aunt Evangeline following behind me.

I gave my hand to the boy who looked at me in surprise but took my hands.

The silence that was maintained till now was broken but it got quiet again as Aunt Evangeline glanced at everyone else here.

"Would you come with me?" I asked the boy in a hopeful and expecting tone.

The boy showed a surprised expression and glanced behind me and his expression suddenly turned a little weird before he got on one knee and took my hand, making me jolt a little in surprise.

"It would be my pleasure, Young Lady." The boy said slowly.

His voice was soft and it was nice to hear him calling me Lady.

But I am surprised. He knows the basic etiquette of being a butler and his tone was respectful, the same that Uncle Sebastian uses with Father.