Luna: The path is far and dangerous, but the profit is worth the risk. You pay 1 gold coin to buy a leaf from some certain place in Yggdrasil and then sell it in our market for 5 gold coins.

Lord: Hey, Almond. Let plant a lot of that kind of trent, will you. We got 1 gold coin a leaf. The whole tree can give us 1,000 or more.

Iris: This magic board has a price tag of 500 gold coins? What does it do?

Luna: Oh, I forgot this device exists. You write some message with a recipient's name, and the message will appear on the recipient's magic board. You should buy one so our kingdoms can communicate at any time.

Shopkeeper: Here is the best robe with protection boost you asked for. It was made for our queen but she said the attribute boost is a bit too low for her. +150 physical def +100 all resistances +20 hp regen per second, at a price of 2000 gold coins.

Iris: It's just our pocket change, right?

Almond: It's just about 2 days of our revenue, let buy it. Better wear it now, my lord.

Lord: It looks cool on me, right? Hope some bandits won't rob us for this expensive robe.

Almond: It doesn't look that expensive, and practically everything has its cost.

Lord: Well said, Almond.

Iris: Hmm...even my petal can barely penetrate it. Must be a real thing.

Almond: I'm sure the shopkeeper won't dare sell us a fake robe. The grand advisor of his kingdom is standing with us.

Lord: It seems magical items and accessories are an important source of income for your kingdom.

Luna: Yes. However, these shops are private businesses The queen get only a part of its sale value through tax and various tariffs, and we have expenditure too. Officials at all level requires salary, including me, Ira and Angel. Unlike your country where everyone is working for free. Overall, I think the queen might be even poorer than you on a personal level.

Lord: It's good we have those slave trents, right, Iris? Oh, I have already distributed some of the gold coins to these maidens. I'm not a slave lord, OK?

Luna: [giggle]

[On the street]

Iris: It's almost evening. Let call Angel and go home. We can come here again anytime. We have Angel now.

Luna: Nothing to be seen at night. People here sleep early.

Iris throws a stone onto the floor, calling Angel.

Angel: Hi, time to go home, I guess.

Lord: Goodbye everyone.

Luna & Ira: Bye.

A young girl in magician's dress run in.

Alicia: Hi, my name is Alicia. The queen instructed me to go with you to your castle as our kingdom's ambassador, if you allow it.

Lord: Oh, welcome, we have a lot of vacant rooms in the castle for you, let go. Our maidens can learn more about human from you too.

Angel warps everyone back home, including Alicia.

[Luna and Ira talking alone]

Luna: Hmm...new girl? I never saw her before.

Ira: Me neither. Probably new girl.

Luna: Perhaps we should go have some fun at their castle for a few days.

Ira: I heard fruit and vegetable there are very delicious too.

[Radish market]

Lord: Oh, you can't teleport me to the castle directly?

Angel: The destination must be in the vicinity of the places I have visited in the past. Your castle is out of range.

Lord: Welcome to our castle then. You are welcome to rest a night, or as long as you want here.

Iris: There are many vacant rooms in the castle, as most of the maidens sleep in the lord's room, and trents sleep outside, or where they stand.

Almond: Angel, I can give you a room, permanently, as long as you teleport us from time to time [giggle]

Lord: Priscilla must be mad if we try to steal her personnel, Almond, but then again, she might already know this and all of what is going to happen.

Astille: If you stay, I will give you some legendary grapes.

Angel: Sure. I will stay for a while. You flower girls are so cute.

Iris: Oops...I think we left our coachman and other human servants in Morroc.

Almond: Don't worry about them. They are grown men. Plus, I have ordered them to return to the wagon post if they can't find us for a few days.

Violet: Let go home, then.

Jasmine nods.

Almond: Let our lord and the magicians ride the giant trent and we walk, as usual.

Lord: The giant trent is still waiting for us around here? It's like 2 days already.

Almond: He is a tree, my lord.

Lord: Oh, yeah, yeah, I get it now.

[The castle's grounds]

Almond: Please wait here while I prepare 2 bedrooms for our guests.

Iris: Or you girls can sleep with us in the lord's bedroom. [giggle]

Ruby: What can you do, Alicia?

Alicia: I am an offensive magician. What I can do best is shooting magic beam like this...

Alicia shoot a powerful ray into a nearby tree, piercing a hole into its trunk.

A faint voice from somewhere: .......a...r...r...h.............b....e.....e.....c....h...e....s

Alicia: Eh? You girls hear something?

Iris: Please don't worry about it, Alicia, but please try your magic on non-living things like a rock, not a tree, while you are around here.

Ruby: And that big book of yours?

Alicia: It's the book of knowledge. Its pages can sometimes show any knowledge you want to know. The rare item given to me by my family.

Angel: I'm sure it's rare. Even me never heard of it before.

Almond: The rooms are ready. You can ask the maidens or the trents I assigned specially for you if you need anything. Please enjoy this place as your own home.

Lord: Good job at welcoming our guest, Almond.

Almond: I will be in the library for a while [giggle]

Iris: For this amount of books, she won't come out of the library until next month.

Angel: Oh, I almost forgot. Here are more white stones. Use them when you need me.

[In some dark corner of the castle]

Lord: Holly, I was searching for you all over. I...

Holly: I understand my lord. Please excuse me.

Holly is running away.

Lord: Holly, stop. Your lord commands you to stop.

Holly stops.

Lord thinks: [Aha, I know this trick will work on you]

Lord: Now please stay completely still. Do not move a muscle, Holly.

Holly nods.

The lord kisses her cheek.

Lord: Here is my apology. Sorry I forgot you. Next trip you jump in immediately, OK? If you miss it, then this time it's your fault.

Holly nods and smiles with some tears still in her eyes.

[Dinner table]

Wevil: Eat this grape, Alicia. Our special menu.

Alicia: The food here is so good. I want to live here forever.

Iris: Sure, Alicia. Please live here, so we can learn more about human, in order to serve our lord better.

Alicia: So, you all are the king's officers? This kingdom's officers are mostly women like in the magic kingdom.

Iris: We all are his concubines.

Alicia: Wha?

Almond: What? Why do you seem so shocked? King of Midland also has a lot of concubines. Other kings throughout human history often have concubines.

Alicia: I'm sorry. I don't go out of magic kingdom often, and history isn't my favorite subject.

Angel: You don't seem to know much about this place. I'm not sure why the queen sent you here as her ambassador.

Alicia: The person she planned to send got sick all of a sudden, and I'm her replacement.

Angel: Oh, that makes sense.

Lord: Don't worry too much, Alicia. You can slowly learn about this place. I don't need top-notch ambassadors.

Astille: I'm not his concubine. I'm his adopted daughter.

Alicia: Oh, you look like you are 7.

Astille: My body has stopped growing for quite some time and I think I am stuck in this form forever no matter how old I am. Then when will I be allowed to do what adult can do.

Alicia: Hmm...seem complicated. I don't have the answer to your question, little one.

Violet: Could you explain a little bit more about this, Almond?

Almond: Human laws prohibit marriage or physical relationship with a child. The definition of a child is a human younger than 15 to 18 years old, depending on country. The year separating an adult from a child is called 'age of consent'. Human adult will be punished severely if they have physical relationship with a child younger than this age of consent, even when the child is willing to do it.

Ruby, whispering: What is physical relationship, sis.

Iris explains it to her.

Ruby is blushing.

Alicia: So, how old are you girls?

Ruby: Me 7 months [giggle]

Alicia: Wha..?

Violet: We were born from a big tree. Most of us are born fully grown. I'm just 1 year 1 month old.

Alicia: I'm lucky to meet you girls. You are so interesting and very cute too.

Ruby: You are cute too, Alicia. May I sleep in your room tonight?

Angel thinks: [Hmm...her knowledge of this place is way too low, even for a replacement. What was the queen thinking?]

Almond: I don't think our lord plans to follow this human law, right? As human and us are very different.

Lord: Uh......

Almond: Otherwise, none of us would pass the standard.

Ruby: I can't........I don't........It's.......

Ruby runs out of the room.

Iris: Let me translate. She said she can't accept it because she would have to wait too long before.....uh.....you know the rest.

Iris: Look. We are already fully grown and very beautiful like this.

Iris jumps onto the dinner table and spin herself, showing off her beauty.

[Bedroom, almost midnight]

Lord: Holly, it hurts, stop. I am bleeding.

Holly: I don't care. I love you so much.

Lord: But I CARE! Damn it.

Holly: Feel my thorns. It's full of my love. Where there is love, there is pain.

Lord: I'm sure they don't mean this kind of pain, damn it.

[Midnight]

Lord: What a bloody nightmare.