Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
It seemed to have been a long time since something like that happened in District K.
A princess from a small European country had come to China to study. In order to get a better experience of life here, she ditched her followers and came in advance. As the relevant departments struggled to put together a welcome party in the relatively short time, the princess—Her Highness—decided to stay in the home of one of the high school students, eating and sleeping there. This was the plot that Sandora came up with.
The girl with a big appetite was stuffing her face with the food in front of her while I tried to stop the convulsions in my face. “I say, Sandora, can’t you find a place to live? Why are you staying here and freeloading off of me?”
With a mouthful of food, Sandora said, “Wu… because I like being with you… I did not expect your Big Sister to make such yummy food…”
Big Sister immediately answered cautiously, “Thank you…”
Until now, my Big Sister still could not believe that I brought a princess back with me.
Seeing my Big Sister acting so unnaturally, I became frustrated. “Big Sister, just relax. Apart from having the identity of a princess, this brat is no different from us at all.”
My Big Sister immediately chided me, “Ah Jun, you cannot say that! Sandora is a princess after all. We have to be respectful. We don’t want to cause any international conflict…”
Big Sister liked to overthink indeed. However, if she did get into a conflict with Sandora, it would immediately be at the inter-planet level of conflict; referring to it as an international conflict was an underestimation.
Over the next few days, my classmates passionately discussed what the mysterious princess who suddenly dropped by was like. Yet, they did not know that the person they were discussing was the elegant, blond lady seated among them; who insisted on consuming three people’s share of food every afternoon.
The reason for this was simple: although Sandora looked every bit the princess and the four foreign bodyguards she brought with her on the first day made this even more convincing, her appetite alone made everyone think it was impossible for her to be the princess.
Three days went by in the blink of an eye. The news that a foreign princess had come to this city to study blew out of proportion. The mysterious identity of this princess was drawing the attention of more and more people. During this time, I slowly found out how Sandora created such an unbelievable identity for herself.
Sandora’s target was Riska, a cold island country in Northern Europe. Its land area was about sixty thousand square kilometers, and it had a population of more than five million people. Due to the cold climate, most people in that country were concentrated in and around the capital, Futun. The rest of the area in Riska was sparsely populated. Since there was nothing special about the country and nobody noble was born out of Riska, this small-sized island was relatively unknown to the rest of the world.
It counted on its prosperous businesses and recently-developing tourism sector to give its citizens a good life. With a single look, one would be able to tell that Sandora and her subordinates came from one of the Nordic countries, with so many migrants and a large area of unmanned ice sheets.
Before this, I did not know the kind of skills Sandora had obtained from the Abyss. After all, I had only seen her in Abyss battle-mode. As for her Abyss skills, I had no clue. It was only the day before that Sandora personally told me what her skills were.
Composition of matter.
This was how Sandora put it for me.
Specifically, she could transform her own will into a direct, causal interference. She could forcibly turn a fictitious thing into reality. With a skill like that, Sandora created her own identity as a princess.
There was no doubt about it; this was a heaven-defying skill. Of course, that was if this was an unlimited skill.
The success rate was less than ten percent; the greater the scope of influence and the further away this fictitious thing was from reality, the greater the damage it would cause to Sandora. Each time she made use of this skill, she would go into a weakened state for twenty-four hours. If she failed, there would also be the danger that the laws of causation would collapse.
With so many limitations, I really did not know whether to call this skill heaven-defying or useless. Yet, I had to give it to the brat Sandora for being so brave. Even in the face of such serious consequences, she was willing to take the risk.
“It’s alright,” she replied, shaking her head when I chided her for taking such a big risk. “I’ve already succeeded, haven’t I? If it matters that much, I won’t use the skill again in the future.”
In a small coffee shop near the city plaza in the middle of the district, Qianqian, Sandora, Pandora, and I idled the afternoon away. After sitting through countless additional classes, it felt weird to suddenly have a day off.
I stretched my neck to the almost-ready, open-air banquet venue. Then, I turned to Sandora and said, “Look at the time. If you still don’t appear, wouldn’t the event organizers be incredibly anxious?”
“It’s alright,” Sandora responded, waving her hand. Then, she picked up one of the pastries in front of me and then pushed it into her mouth. “I’ve already told them that I will appear when the time is right. If they can’t even stay calm this way, then I cannot help them.”
“Sandora,” Qianqian said, looking at her in a confused manner, “are you really a princess?”
“That’s right.” Sandora took the last pastry and stuffed it into her mouth. Then, she snapped her fingers. “Waiter, give me one more serving!”
How come this person looked so different from what she said she was?
Qianqian kept pondering, scanning Sandora, Pandora, and I from time to time. Suddenly, she said, “I suddenly feel like the three of you have been acting weird lately. It’s like I’ve become excluded in this group.”
“That’s because you’re the only normal one among us,” Sandora said with a straight face.
“I really want to have superpowers, too…” Qianqian groaned as she slumped onto the table.
At that moment, we heard movement coming from outside. We looked up and saw a group of foreigners dressed in European medieval royal costumes entering the scene on motorcycles.
“I feel like they should be on horses,” Qianqian said.
I nodded in agreement. “They really look quite stupid riding motorcycles while dressed in Medieval costumes.”
Since the open-air banquet was about to begin, we did not have to waste any more time. We came here for this moment, and we starved ourselves the entire afternoon for this purpose, too.
This was a genuinely free party. No matter who you were and what your background was—as long as you wanted to take part, you could. Of course, there were still security personnel in charge of filtering the crowd. However, we were not filtered out. The story of this mysterious foreign princess and the free food attracted a large crowd. Among them were people who wanted to get a look at this beauty, people who wanted to eat free food, and people who wanted to serve the beautiful woman.
The city plaza in the middle of the district was quite huge, but the crowd that this event attracted was too huge. There were so many people that the venue was almost filled. The four of us squeezed among the crowd, barely able to move. At that moment, I finally understood that the idea of there being ‘free food’ was a complete hoax.
It would be extremely difficult to find the food sources in a crowded situation like that; it would be akin to finding a needle in a haystack. Honestly, I was starving to death… if I had known this would happen, I would have fought Sandora for the snacks in front of me earlier.
After squeezing among the crowd for a long time, Sandora suddenly exclaimed, “There are so many people on Earth.”
Qianqian was amazed. “You make it sound like you’re not from Earth!”
I laughed dryly and said, “This brat is so full of it.”
As I scanned the crowd, I suddenly grew worried. “If this carries on, we probably will not be able to enter the venue before the event ends.”
“If I don’t appear, will the event end?” Sandora rolled her eyes as if not worried at all.
“Do you know a good method to enter?” I turned to Sandora who looked extremely confident. On second thought, she was right. Who was Sandora? What kind of situation had she not experienced before? Why wouldn’t she be able to solve such a simple problem?
Sandora giggled and waved her hand. “I’m done experiencing life. Come with me!”
This brat really does have tricks up her sleeve!
The three of us followed Sandora out of the crowd. Then, we struggled to get to the other side of the city plaza. There, we found a foreigner in a suit, frantically turning around in circles.
Sandora tidied up her messy clothes, straightened her back, and then transformed her poise from that of a mischievous, adorable little girl to an elegant, foreign princess. Then, she walked to the front and chided, “How can they be so rude!”
A few foreigners were frightened by Sandora’s voice. When they saw her face, they immediately jumped in excitement. However, when they realized they were standing in front of a princess, the well-trained security personnel immediately calmed down. Still, they could not hide the excitement in their voices. “Princess, Her Highness! You’re finally here! We’ve been trying to contact you.”
“Alright,” Sandora said, waving her hand. “Didn’t I tell you that nothing untoward would happen to me? I have four bodyguards. That’s it, it’s getting late. These are my friends. Bring us over there.”
“Well…” the foreigners exchanged looks with one another at a loss as to what to do. “That’s not very appropriate, is it?”
“You have questions?” Sandora said in a cool voice. A suppressive force emanated from her body, and the few foreigners immediately stopped talking. Then, they shook their heads and said, “No questions, no questions…”
“I believe it now,” Qianqian said, sticking out her tongue. “Sandora really is a princess.”