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Prologue
“AND THE DEVIL PRINCESS SHALL LOVE YOU ALL the way down to your souls for all eternity… Hee hee… Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!”
Bam!
“Is everything all right, Lady Yul?!”
“Your Ladyship! Your Ladyshiiip!”
“Lady Yul, did you have a bad dream?! Did you wet the bed?!”
Web n_о v_ė l Е n̆ ǔm а̇
“Someone bring the potty!”
The door slammed open and a swarm of maids crowded into the room.
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“Huh? Uh, what? No?!” Don’t tell me they heard what I just said?!
Vio, Fer, and Min—who had long taken care of me—were among the intruding maids, as was Nanny, the head of our lady’s maids. They picked me up, soothed me, checked to make sure the sheets were dry, and even started laying out a mountain of stuffed animals for me to hold while I fell asleep.
“I’m fine! I said I’m fine!” I cried out in protest.
“Really?!” three of them asked in unison.
W ёb̄n о̃ v̄е l̈ Ē n ŭm а
Really!
Even though it was the middle of the night, they had all come into my room uninvited. I did my best to reassure them as I proceeded to kick them out, shut the door with a bang, and sigh.
Once I had calmed down, I became aware of how my face felt hot all the way to the tips of my ears, as if it were about to burst into flames.
My father had been a prince but was now a grand duke, and my grandfather and grandmother were king and queen. I had enjoyed some delicious snacks and felt such exuberance that I started shouting all those cringey things about loving people while looking out the window at the nightscape of the city!
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Nope! I’m going to bed!
Еn̈u m̂ а̀ .і̌d
I buried my face in the gigantic canopy bed and flailed my legs until I finally fell asleep.
***
Huh…?
“Where am I?”
I was now in a strange world.
There were buildings made of stone, iron, and glass that could reach all the way to the sky.
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A big street with all kinds of stores adorned with elaborately made furnishings spread out before me, and there were guardian lion-dogs and dragons made of wood that were painted with primary colors.
There was a house made of rocks that looked like they had just been piled up—perhaps it was a work of art.
I saw a white castle that had a wet glassy look and no joining points to be found.
A battered coach made of gold and an exquisite military tank made out of cookies and candy was there as well.
And there was a carpet soaring through the sky that seemed impossible to ride on…
There were all sorts of things that looked like relics of the past and things that I couldn’t even begin to comprehend. If I had to try to describe it, it was like I was looking at a town full of random structures that came from different eras and locations—and some even defied the laws of physics. And that wasn’t all…
Е̂ńumа
“Is that a department store?”
There were all kinds of different stores in the multi-storied building made of stone, tiles, and glass. Their multicolored signs all had English and Japanese words on them.
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“Did I transmigrate to another world again?” I wondered aloud.
No, that couldn’t be. I raised my hand and saw I still had the same chubby hand of a child. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see that shining golden color of my hair—except it was the body hair of a demon.
Had I been summoned?
I was still wearing the same silky nightgown I had worn to bed. When I looked up, there was a crescent moon hanging in the pitch-black sky.
Wе bn о́ v̂е́l Е n̆um а̇
So where was I, then?
The street lights shone brightly against the dark sky, but I didn’t sense a single living creature nearby.
Such a stupid and nonsensical world could only exist in…
“That’s right. You’re in a dream right now, little lady.”
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As I turned toward the voice, I found myself strangely not that surprised by his statement and readily accepted it as fact.
“Who are you?” I asked.
Ё ṅ umá .i̊d̄
“I see you’re not surprised.”
“I am, but only a little.”
He smiled at my reply. The person—if you could even call him that—looked like a man in his mid-twenties with black hair. Well, not exactly black. It was more of an endlessly dark indigo that reminded me of the darkest color of night. He wore a tailcoat the same color as his hair and, with exaggerated gestures, snapped his fingers as he continued to gaze at me with his gentle red eyes.
“For starters, how about something to drink?” he offered.
A spotlight started shining down from nowhere in the night sky onto a glass tea table and chairs that weren’t there a second ago. For some reason, there was also a crimson skeleton dressed like a maid and a crimson panda dressed like a butler. They poured us tea with jerky movements. The tea, too, was crimson.
“Please, take a seat.”
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I took the man’s offered hand and realized that my nightgown had changed into a dress that looked just like the one Alice wore in that story. I didn’t recall moving at all, but suddenly I was sitting at the table and drinking the tea.
So this is what a dream is like.
And while the man was one of the most handsome men I had ever seen and carried himself with an air of allure and charm… “Hmph. I don’t find you appealing at all,” I said without thinking. Oops, honesty wasn’t always the best policy.
Nevertheless, the man sitting directly across from me chuckled with amusement as he rocked his glass back and forth, as if he were enjoying the aroma the crimson liquid gave off. “Well, that’s to be expected. In a way, the two of us are like siblings, after all.”
The liquid spilled onto the table, transforming into a trembling crimson hamster that then proceeded to start eating all of the confections on the table. Meanwhile, the skeleton and panda dissolved into liquid that then turned into playful puppies and kittens.
“Those with a high affinity to us gather of their own accord to help us. Not that they’ll necessarily do exactly as we tell them to,” he explained.
Е.ń ŭm ӑ .id̂
Was everything made of blood, then? Not that it mattered.
“What do you mean we’re siblings?”
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“I said that we’re like siblings, Yulucia.”
“Oh.”
That’s right. I was Yulucia. The name defined my existence as a demon, yet I was on the verge of forgetting because of this strange place, and my existence had been weakening.
That was a close one. But was that just a coincidence or had that been his intention?
Ѐ n̊ûṁа. і̂d
Or had he done me a favor and reminded me of my name before I lost myself?
“Who are you?” I asked again.
He smiled and tilted his head slightly. “That’s a good question. I have been known by many different names throughout the ages and in the places I’ve visited, because my original name is very long.” He pretended to look panicked for a moment before saying, “For now, please call me Mephi.”
“Mephi?”
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It kind of sounded like a girl’s name. I assumed it must be some kind of nickname, but knowing that much of his name alone suddenly made me feel like there was a great weight on my soul as a demon.
Uh-oh. This guy is bad news.
Е n̆ u̇mа. ǐ d
“I came here tonight because I wanted to talk with you.”
“You want to talk to me?”
“That’s right.” He nodded, and suddenly he was under the spotlight, dancing with a crimson mannequin. “I’m quite interested in you, Yulucia. I’ve never met anyone else like you in all of time immemorial. I never even dreamt of scheming up that kind of secret trick. By all rights, it should have taken you as much luck and time as it does for a lower life-form to become an intelligent being for you to have attained your current level of existence.” With a pop, he was suddenly in front of me again, rocking his glass back and forth.
Now it was my turn to give him an inquisitive look. “I’m not sure how to respond to that.”
“Don’t misunderstand me. I’m not blaming you or demanding anything of you.” As he said that, there was a fire in his eyes. “I have traveled to so many different kinds of worlds and I am quite grateful for the chance to meet you here in this kind of world.”
“And what is this world?”
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“This is the worlds that I know, the worlds that you know, and the world of dreams that everyone knows, and it will exist for one night only.”
“Then are the words that I recognize from the World of Light in my dreams what I know? Or are they words that you know?”
“I cannot say. I have been traveling for a very long time, you see.”
A very long time… A very long journey. Mephi must have been traveling all by his lonesome for an incredibly long time. So much so that it had inspired him to talk to me when he happened to come across me. Perhaps he had once traveled to the same World of Light from my dreams. And what was that he had said about a “secret trick”? I supposed I had an idea about what he might be referring to, though.
Mephi rested his elbows on the table with his chin in his folded hands, an affectionate smile across his face. “Let me give you a piece of advice. Though maybe you’ll think I’m just being a busybody? In any case, don’t overestimate the extent of your power. You’re still so tiny and cute.”
What a scary thing to say. I wasn’t sure if he was trying to scare me or praise me. I knew that weird humans did exist, so I wasn’t going to overestimate myself or anything. I was quite confident in my decision to live a quiet life.
Е̌ n um̈_а
“It’s my wish that you remain as you are,” he added.
“Uh, okay.”
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Now he was saying things that I didn’t really understand.
“Now, then.” Mephi stood from his seat and there was suddenly a crimson teddy bear helping him into a cloak. The man walked over to me and touched my hair. “It’s about time for us to say farewell. Thank you for speaking with me, Yulucia.”
Mephi left a gentle kiss upon my forehead.
The shock of it left me momentarily frozen. Wh-what did this person think he was doing?! Though I was pretty sure he was more than a mere “person”!
Е́n̆u m̀ ã . і̂ d
“I don’t know if we shall ever meet again.” He casually put some distance between us as six bat wings, the same dark indigo as his hair, sprouted from his back. He soared up into the sky of the crimson moon.
“Goodbye, girl who is the same species as me—the very first that I’ve met in tens of thousands of years.”
***
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I opened my eyes to the gentle rays of the morning sun streaming through the silk curtains of my canopy bed. I had only recently gotten used to my enormous room in the grand duke’s manor, though I still wasn’t used to the bed itself yet. I checked to make sure that I was still my tiny self and sighed with relief.
I felt like I had just had this really super-duper important dream or something?!
Е̇ n̂ u m̃ а̂.i̊ d̊
But more concerning to me was the sensation I still felt on my forehead. I touched it and sighed as I mumbled, “Did that guy have a Lolita complex or something?”
And now another ordinary day in my peaceful life was about to begin!
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