Episode 6 Alisa's Dream (Part 1)

This is a story that happened before the start of this novel. The timeline is 9 years ago, that is, the 280th year of the Britannia Empire. The story begins with Alisa when she was 10 years old.

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The 280th year of the Britannia Empire.

Pendragon.

While calling for my father, I trot towards my father with the storybook in my hand.

"Father! You are back!"

Seeing my father, whom I hadn't seen for a long time, made me so excited that I couldn't help hugging him when I walked up to him.

However, I was still a little short, so I only hugged my father's thigh.

"Well, Alisa, I'll be back."

My father's gentle voice came from the top of my head, and at the same time, I felt a big warm hand gently pressing on the top of my head and stroking it carefully.

"Father! Can you read me a bedtime story tonight?"

I let go of my father, then raised the storybook in my hand high, and looked at my father expectantly.

"Miss……"

However, standing beside my father now, the housekeeper who has served our family for a long time suddenly said:

"Master has just returned from an expedition. He is very tired now. Let Master go to rest first. If you don't mind, let me read bedtime stories to Miss."

As soon as the steward's voice fell, I said anxiously:

"I don't! I want my father to read it to me!"

The butler smiled wryly, and when he was about to say something more, his father suddenly smiled and raised a hand to signal the butler to stop talking.

"Master, your body..."

"It's okay, I'm not too tired to tell my daughter a bedtime story."

After that, my father bent down and took my other hand that was not holding a storybook.

"Alyssa, let's go, father is here to tell you a bedtime story."

"Uh-huh!"

I nodded vigorously, then took my father's hand and bounced back to my room.

When I got back to my room, I jumped on the bed and pulled the quilt over my shoulders.

And my father also pulled a chair and sat beside my bedside.

"So, Alisa, what story would you like to hear tonight?"

"I want to hear this!"

While talking, I handed the storybook that I had been holding in my hand to my father.

After the father took the storybook, he looked at the cover of the storybook, and then smiled wryly.

"Alyssa, haven't I told you this one many times? Father, I'm about to memorize the contents of this storybook."

I pouted, and then coquettishly said in a dissatisfied tone:

"I just love this story!"

"Okay, okay, as long as you like to listen."

After his father shook his head helplessly, he opened the story book, cleared his throat, and began to read the story aloud.

"A long time ago, there was a country..."

...

"...In the end, the princess and the brave man got married and lived a happy and beautiful life."

After reading the last sentence of the storybook, my father gently closed the storybook.

I don't have any impression of how long my father read, how many minutes? Ten minutes? Or tens of minutes?

I don't know how long it has been.

I only remember that from the time my father read the first sentence, I was immersed in this beautiful story, completely forgetting the time.

After listening to my father read the story, I couldn't help but murmured longingly:

"What a great story..."

"Hahahaha, Alisa, you really like this story. I have read this story at least dozens of times. Are you still not tired of hearing it?"

"Because this story is really great!" I said in disbelief.

"Oh? Then tell me, what do you think is great about this story?"

"Hmm... this..."

I scratched my cheek a little embarrassedly.

At the same time, I felt my cheeks get slightly hot.

My face may have started to turn slightly red now.

My father probably sensed that I was too embarrassed to speak out, so he cheered me up and said:

"Alyssa, go ahead, it's okay. Father won't make fun of you."

"Um..."

Feeling a little encouraged by my father's encouragement, I decided to tell you exactly why I liked this story.

"I...I think the love between the hero and the princess in this story is very good, so I really like this story..."

"love?"

"Um."

I nodded slightly, and then continued:

"In this story, the princess turned a street corner and met the brave man. The two met by such a coincidence. If the princess turned the street corner earlier or later, there would be no way to meet the brave man. met."

"I think this kind of love is great... two people seem to be drawn by fate, and they suddenly meet each other."

After all, I pulled up the quilt a bit, and pulled the quilt to my nose, covering half of my blushing cheeks from embarrassment.

"I think this kind of love is so romantic...I want this kind of love in the future...Being drawn by fate, I meet a certain 'brave' at a certain place on a certain day, and then a series of things happen , and finally fall in love."

After listening to my words, my father was taken aback for a moment, and then burst into a series of big laughs.

"Hahahaha! Alisa hopes that she will be like the 'princess' in this storybook in the future, meeting and falling in love with a certain 'brave' at a very coincidental moment?"

"Father! Didn't you say you can't laugh?"

My father's laughter made me even more embarrassed, so I was so angry that I simply pulled the quilt and covered my whole body under the quilt.

"Hahaha, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, father is not laughing at you, father just thinks you are innocent and cute."

After finishing speaking, the father sighed a long time, and then said:

"Meeting and falling in love as if drawn by fate... This kind of story-like love is very difficult to happen in the real world..."

"but--"

The father suddenly changed the subject and said with a smile:

"Having a dream is always a good thing, so Alisa, don't give up your dream easily. Although the probability of it happening may not be very high, your father will support your dream at any time. "

"Really?"

As I asked my father in a weak voice, I poked my head out of the quilt.

"Hmm! Really!" Father nodded emphatically.

Afterwards, the father took out his pocket watch, looked at the current time, and said:

"Okay, it's not too early, it's time to go to bed, Alisa, go to sleep."

"Uh-huh."

My father stood up, touched my head with a smile, then extinguished the oil lamp, then turned and left my room.

Well, go to sleep.

While saying this to myself in my heart, I straightened the quilt covering my body.

Just as I closed my eyes, I suddenly saw bright beams of light coming in from the window.

"Ah, moonlight!"

After I yelled happily, I kicked off the quilt covering my body and walked towards the window.

When I came to the front and back of the window and looked out through the transparent glass, I saw a bright moon hanging above the sky.

In addition to this round of bright moon, there are countless bright stars in the sky.

Looking at this beautiful night sky, I can't help but be crazy.

Looking at the starry sky, I suddenly recalled the dream I told my father just now.

"I don't know if I can have a love like a 'princess' in the future..."

I muttered.

What would that person be like?

Will it be tall?

I don't know if he is handsome or not.

What will happen to your personality?

Will he be bothered?

...

While looking at the night sky, while fantasizing like this.

Unknowingly, I showed a silly but very sweet smile.