A time later, I was just playing football in the backyard, when Amari appeared at the door.
"Hey Kai, come here- Wait, how do you have a football ball if there aren't any in this world!?"
I stopped kicking the ball against the wall.
"Oh, I asked Mana to make one! I asked her and she gave me as gift for completing the mission. We should teach Sayuri and Lotte how to play, I'm sure they will love it!"
"Who is we... Anyway come here, Lotte and I need your help."
"For what?"
"To make Sayuri's birthday party of course! It's already tomorrow!"
"OH YEAH!!"
I ran into the house.
Inside, someone were tidying up, putting on some decoration and blowing up balloons. They were Lotte and Sayuri!?
"S-SAYURI!? W-WHAT YOU'RE DOING HERE!?"
Amari said at my side.
"Hm well, she told us she already knew our plan, but offered to help us. And, since she is the birthday girl, it will be easier for us to know what she likes and doesn't like, etc."
Sayuri finished blowing up a yellow balloon and said.
"It's for me right? Then I should command it."
I grinned.
"Alright then, let's make this the best party ever!!!"
Amari:
"We'll be the only participants, but yes!! Obviously!!"
And so, everyone helped.
Everyone was putting up decorations, blowing up balloons, food, putting things on the walls, etc. Everything!
It was very tiring work, but at night, we finally finished.
I looked proudly at the letters "S-A-Y-U-R-I" written in balloons above the dinner table, I was the one who hung that!
Lotte fell to the ground.
"I've never worked this hard in my life, not in the elf gang, not as one of the Raccoon's Killers..."
Amari leaned against a wall.
"Yeah me too... Tomorrow I'm going to sleep until very late-"
"NO WAY!!!"
I screamed.
"Tomorrow, we will wake up very soon so we can make the most of the day!"
Amari:
"Oh you're actually right... We could walk around the city or something..."
Lotte:
"Ah, I know an amusement park nearby, we could go there."
"A-amusement park!? I always wanted to go there! But, this is Sayuri's birthday, if she wants we go!"
Amari:
"I think we could. We have plenty of money after all!"
"Hey hey! Then we could play something called football! It's a very fun game that-"
Amari:
"Oh c'mon Kai, you think a girl would like to play that?!"
"Yeah why not!? Had you heard of women's football?"
Lotte:
"Football?.. We kick a ball or something?"
"Yes! Literally it!!"
As the three of us discussed what to do the next day, Sayuri simply stood there silently, watching with a smile on her face, then said with a look and a very genuine smile, very out of character.
"Guys... Thank you, thank you for being really good friends to me... And I will be a good friend for you too."
The three of us looked at her a little confused, but then we smiled back.
She then started to walk away.
"Well guys, I'm going to sleep... Bye."
When she vanished, Amari said.
"Oh, I've never saw her acting this cute."
Lotte:
"Looked like she was always crying."
Amari:
"It's always hard for an annoying loli like her to admit her feelings, she must have left because of embarrassment..."
Well, I don't know what truly happened, but I'm happy! Tomorrow's gonna be a great.
Next day.
"WAKE UPPPP!!!!"
I was the first to woke up today!
I started knocking on Amari's bedroom door.
"HEY HEY, NO MORE TRAINING EXCUSE FOR YOU! IT'S ALREADY DAY!!"
I just heard a lazy voice say.
"Dude it's 5am... that's too much."
I kept kicking the door.
"No it's not! We said we would wake up earlier!!"
I did the same process in Lotte and Sayuri's room.
In the end, Lotte, Amari and I were in the hallway, fully dressed.
I looked at my sides.
"Uh? Where is Sayuri?"
Amari shrug.
"I don't know. She may be waiting for us in the living room."
"Makes sense!"
So we walked there.
"Hey, Sayuri! We're here-"
She wasn't there...
"Ah? How weird..."
Amari started walking around.
"But, the bathrooms were empty, she's not in the room... Where is she?"
Then, Lotte said.
"Hey, look at this."
On the table she was writing on yesterday, there was a wrapped envelope.
We hurriedly approached.
Amari:
"A letter? That's definitely from her."
"I-It's just to say she is waiting for us in another place right?"
"She wouldn't do such a fancy envelope just for that."
I swallowed hard and opened the envelope, a letter revealing itself.
The letter said the following, which I read aloud:
"From: Sayuri de Scipio.
To: My friends.
Two days ago, when I went to get the money, a letter came with it, a letter for me. It told me to come home by my birthday, or you would all be executed.
It told me to go back home, to the castle of Beatitudo, where I was born and raised.
Yes, that's my secret: I am the 2nd daughter of the Count of Beatitudo, a member of the royal family.
About 2 years ago, I ran away from home. I simply hated that life of studying, having to dress well, and the final point was when my father told me that he had found a husband for me, who would marry me when I became an adult, today.
I didn't want that, so I took money, disguised myself as a common citizen and simply ran away from home, without a clear direction.
To survive, I joined several groups of Suiciders, taking advantage of the wizard skills I had learned, but it always ended in the same thing: expulsion.
Eventually I had to tell them who I was, or they would find out, and when they did, they would always kick me out out of fear, everyone is afraid to face the royal family of this city, they are just too powerful.
That was my life for a long time, joining groups, having them find out about my past and kicking me out.
Then fewer and fewer groups started appearing, I even started trying to look cooler to convince the groups to let me in, putting on the band-aids and even buying the neck gaiter.
The only one who didn't kick me out of fear was Clown, but rather because I had kept this information from him, he considered it a betrayal and a lack of respect towards him.
And then I met you guys, the only group I forced to join.
I had a lot of fun with you guys, seriously I've never liked a group as much as you. Maybe because all the other groups found out very quickly and kicked me out, not giving me time to relate to them, but regardless you guys are without a doubt the only true friends I've had in my entire life.
I only stayed with you for a week, but compared to the other groups it was a long time, and it was a very special week. It was more than enough time for me to get attached to you.
At first I considered myself superior to you, I thought you were just two weaklings who would also be just another temporary group. I had even lost hope of finding a group that would actually like me, and that wouldn't kick me out right after discovering my secret, without developing any relationship with me. But you guys are different.
I don't know if it's because you're foreigners and have the same problem of wanting attention as I do, but you welcomed me so well, even though you were a group with literally nothing, a group starting literally from scratch, you always stuck by me, and always wanted to be my friends.
No, it's not because you're foreigners, it's because you're really good people.
If I received this letter in any other group, I probably wouldn't care, but you guys, the fear of you dying... No, I can't even imagine that.
I don't like being a princess, who will marry someone important, but it doesn't matter as long as you're okay.
The royal family of Beatitudo is extremely powerful and strong, the whole city fears them, I don't even know if the Clown would be a match for them, much less me, or you. So be safe.
About being the best wizard in the world, it's a goal I created because I thought that it would give the image of someone with grand aspirations, that somehow it would make me join more groups. And I think that over time, I really liked the idea of being the best wizard in the world, it seems like a pretty cool title to have, and somehow turned into my real goal, but honestly, I care more about making Kai the Emperor of the world than that. And I don't mind giving up my dream so that you guys can be okay, I'll try not to care.
The wedding has been postponed for a week, so I won't get married yet...
If even with all this, you want to come rescue me, because you don't know how powerful the Beatitudo royal family is, wait. Don't come now, train hard and get stronger, don't commit suicide.
And now that I think about it, they were right. I am a danger to the other Suiciders, I have always been wrong to hide it from everyone, and I have always put the groups in danger. But you, as outsiders, may not understand how dangerous I am, so I will do the right thing this time.
I'll be a good maiden and wait for you as long as it takes, or maybe you'll use the crown to save me, no, you have your own goal, I'd feel bad about that.
So, even if you don't come, I don't care, as long as you're okay.
Thank you, you are truly the most important people in my life, the only ones, I will not let anything bad happen to you."
...
W-What did I just read...
The two looked at the paper in shock and disbelief.
Amari murmured.
"S-She is a princess? A-And and... This can't be real..."
Lotte was equally in disbelief.
"De Scipio is indeed the royal family name..."
I'm shaking and grinding my teeth.
Lotte looked at me with pity.
"Kai are you ok? I know it's hard but..."
Sayuri... how dumb you are?
"WHO SHE THINKS I AM?!"
I tore the paper in half.
Amari sighed and crossed her arms.
"It was taking a while..."
"GODDAMMIT I'M SO PISSED NOW!!! DID SHE REALLY THOUGHT THAT WE WOULD JUST ABANDON HER?!"
Lotte was still a lot worried.
"B-But Kai, she didn't do this for nothing... You have no idea how powerful the royal family is, and-"
"I DON'T CARE!!! You know what, I'm coming there right now!!! To the castle!!!"
I ran out of the house.
Amari shouted.
"You even know where the castle is?!"
"I WILL FIND OUT!!"
Amari and Lotte just stared at the door as I left towards the castle.
Amari with a tired "here we go again" look, and Lotte very worried and confused.
"That idiot! Where is he going alone!? That's suicide!"
Amari sighed again.
"That's what means to be a Suicider right? And yeah, he's an idiot a complete fool, but a honest one."
Lotte opened her mouth for a bit, but then smiled.
"Yeah you're right, of course he would do that..."
As I ran through the city streets extremely pissed off, I couldn't stop screaming.
"SAYURI!!! WHO DO YOU THINK I AM!?!? I AM COMING FOR YOU!!!"
End of volume 1.