Note: not from Nara"s point of view.

A red-haired woman in her early 20s is sitting in the guest room of the royal palace. She has dark tanned skin and is wearing a beautiful red one-piece dress.

A man with green hair and a slim body wearing a white robe and a golden crown comes into the room with another man who looks like his butler. He sits on the sofa in front of the one that the woman is sitting on and signals the butler to leave them alone.

After the butler leaves the man starts speaking, "It"s an honor to be in the presence of a dragon princess. What brings you here today miss?"

"Hmm... skip all the flattery and formal stuff, you know it well that we don"t like such things," she said looking irritated.

"Yes, I apologize."

King apologizing to someone is very rare so the woman may be a very important person.

The woman didn"t reply to the apology and said, "I am here to ask for your help, father has asked me to keep an eye on something so I want to go to the Magic Knight Academy in the Singa city."

"An order from the black dragon himself!" the King said looking socked.

Looking at the king"s reaction the woman asked, "Yes, is there a problem?"

"Of course not! our kingdom owes a lot to the black dragons, we would never decline any request from him. It just so happens that the elven princess is coming to study there so I am also sending my youngest daughter there so that they could become friends to help in diplomacy between the nations." The king replied.

"Hou, the elves making a move, that"s rare. Anyways I will be changing some things at the academy so hope you don"t mind," The women said while smiling broadly.

★★-- Back to the main story --★★

Note: Nara"s point of view is back.

We have finished all the preparations and we will be leaving tomorrow. Tonight we are having a feast together with Andrew and Martha. Andrew will be a bit late because he needs to prepare horse carriages and talk with Jabal about the work they are planning to do in the city. They probably want to know about the price of crops and make deals with the merchants since the harvesting season is coming.

All of us are sitting around the table and Miss Lily, Miss Rose, and Martha are cooking in the kitchen.

"I can"t believe, we will be leaving for the Singa city tomorrow," said Sistina looking excited.

Nina had a different reaction, she looked a bit sad and said, "Yeah, but we will be leaving this village and staying at the city if we pa.s.s the entrance test at the academy."

Marina was almost about to cry after hearing Nina so Ronald said, "We are only going to for some years, we will be back to the village after we finish our studies at the academy."

Nina realized what she has done so she quickly added, "Yeah, don"t worry about it too much, we can choose where we want to work after finis.h.i.+ng the academy so it will be fine."

"And your big sis Arica will be there so don"t worry about it too much," Arica said to cheer everyone up.

While we were talking, Andrew came in saying, "h.e.l.lo everyone, are the preparations done?"

"""YES!"""

We all replied at once. We were asked this so many times that it has become a habit to reply like this.

Since the dinner was ready we all sat around and started eating.

"I can"t believe everyone has grown this much, I remember teaching everyone how to read and write," Miss Rose said looking a bit sad.

I could understand her she raised everyone since they were little so she will obviously be sad to see them go.

"Yeah, I am most surprised about Nara though, he couldn"t even read and write when he came here," Martha said while looking towards me.

"I am surprised to see these kids too, even n.o.bles aren"t this talented. Guess this is the result of working together with friends," Miss lily added.

After we finished our dinner Andrew told us that he and Jabal will come and pick us up early and we need to be ready.

We went to our room to sleep early so that we could wake up in time but I was just thinking about the adventure that awaits me in the Singha city while laying in my bed.

The next day Sistina woke me up saying, "You guys are such sleepyheads, how can you sleep so calmly at times like this."

Everyone except Arica was already awake before me. "Well, I slept late because of all the excitement so what do you expect." is what I was thinking but I didn"t say it out loud.

"Okay, let"s get our things and be ready before they come. Sistina can you wake Arika up too?" Ronald said while looking towards Sistina.

"Okay but she is even bigger sleepyhead," Sistina replied.

After everyone woke up we collected everything and went to the dining room. Surprisingly, Martha and Miss Rose were there cooking breakfast. Matha probably came to see us off.

Nina had a sad face while Marina and Sistina were almost about to cry while we were having breakfast. Martha, Miss Rose, and Miss Lily comforted them.

Right after we finished breakfast, Andrew came in and asked, "Are you guys ready? Jabal is waiting outside so let"s hurry."

"Yeah, we are prepared," Ronald replied for everyone.

We all went outside and said our morning to Jabal, excepted Nina who usually didn"t get along with him. Maybe she doesn"t like muscular bald men or something

We had drawstring bags that were common in this world. Andrew took our back and put them in Jabal"s cart which had things that they were planning to sell in the city and a big light, I was curious about it so I asked, "What is this light, Jabal? It"s a bit bigger for a normal magic light."

"Oh, that"s just monster warding light. Monsters don"t come near the road during the day but at Night they can attack people so we carry this. Monsters don"t like this light so they don"t come near it," He said putting his hands on the chin.

We had one carriage and a cart with a roof with 2 horses pulling each. The carriage was big so all 6 of us could fit in. The horses had magic harness which allowed them to walk a long distance without getting tired.

"Okay everyone, take care of each other and stay healthy," Martha said making a teary face with a smile.

"And don"t forget to eat and sleep well, and don"t work too hard," Miss Rose added with teary eyes.

"Take care, everyone," Miss Lily said comforting Martha who had started to cry.

We got on the carriage, I was sitting between Arica and Ronald. Sistina, Marina, and Nina were in front of me.

We waved our hand and said our goodbyes as soon as the carriage started moving. Marina and Sistina were crying too while Nina was holding her tears so we comforted them

After a while, we left the village behind and came to the forest area.

Next Chapter: The Journey to the city.