World Ixion/SAGA

Side Story – Happiness Cookie

This is the story of how a certain country girl came to study in a place she never thought of entering.

It was a normal autumn afternoon until a girl fell from a tree and badly hurt her leg, people gathered in a matter of seconds to check her condition.

Out of the crowd, a girl about eight years old came out and approached the injured girl, put her hands on the wound and a bright light emanated from them.

In just a few seconds the wound and the blood had disappeared. The girl was happy to help, but when she looked at the newly healed girl's face she screamed at her with a look of disgust.

"Dirty half-breed!!!"

The girl got up and ran off to her mother who had arrived, suddenly murmurs could be heard in the crowd, they were all hurtful comments despite having helped someone.

The girl got up and went home crying, some time later she met a man who gave her a letter of recommendation to enter on scholarship to the academy of a certain country called Altfode.

The now young girl was happy about it. She spent her days waiting for the entrance to such a place, she thought there would be people like her who could perform a miracle called magic.

She was glad from the bottom of her heart for that, the girl's name was Irisdina.

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Having arrived at the Altfode Kingdom academy, Irisdina was smiling.

In a modulated voice, so that only she could hear herself, she spoke.

"So this is the place where I will be living for three years.... It is truly huge!!!"

Irisdina was a commoner, from the moment she arrived in the city her eyes opened and shone like stars. Everything was new and majestic, even the simplest things made her gaze in awe.

As she walked inside the academy she noticed a sign that said she had to go to the auditorium, she was glad to be able to read something so complicated, being a commoner things like knowing how to read or write were indifferent to her. But since she was coming to a place dedicated to education she thought it was a good idea to make an effort to learn those things that in her life as a commoner she would never use.

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Irisdina was sitting near the middle of the seats, she watched the headmaster bow in front of a platinum-haired boy. She wondered who it could be, but her curiosity ended there.

As the boy finished speaking, he concluded by welcoming the new students.

Irisdina got up from her seat to go get her things at the front desk of the girls' dormitory when she noticed something out of place.

It was a boy in not only black uniform, his hair was also black, he was running in a hurry for some reason. That was the first time Irisdina saw a strange color like that in her life.

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It's been two weeks since the school term started and Irisdina has been discouraged, it's because since the day before school. She was summoned to a meeting of freshman girls.

They were given advice on how to live at the academy and what to do if a nobleman wants to lay a hand on them.

She was frightened not only at the possibility of that, but much more at the senpai's bizarre words.

"If you're looking for a noble, make sure it's at least a viscount. They have stable territory and the possibility of promotion to count thanks to their superiors."

"On the other hand if they choose a baron... their life will be miserable, they are poor, they have debts and the possibility of promotion is in a century only!!!"

"If an earl or superior chooses them as a mistress or their betrothed gives them the go-ahead as a concubine, then they will have heaven on earth as long as this nobleman or aristocrat is not an oppressor."

The look of fear grew bigger come Irisdina's face, then she heard that some nobles, three of them were making a fuss at the door.

The trouble ended without mess, but she couldn't sleep well that night.

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Irisdina was sent to bring some items from a room of the noble classes, she had to do it alone since no one else wanted to accompany her from her classroom.

She told them that she had magical power and everyone in her class especially a boy with brown hair and green eyes, gave her a dirty look.

It was very heavy what she was carrying and sometimes it fell on the floor.

She was starting to feel stress and anxiety little by little, suddenly she got a scare from a scream coming from a room.

"Maaaasteeeer~ I'm shocked!!! I really was a fool, no, a stupid one!!!"

She dropped her things, but because of the scream she didn't hear the items fall, she looked out the half open window and could see a black haired boy again, she couldn't see his face except for his eyebrows which were also black.

She didn't give it any more importance, she gathered her things and continued on her way.

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She was in trouble now.

She had come to use the kitchen in the north building of the academy, her hobby was baking cookies, they were not very good, but she liked to do it, it was because she read in an interview that cooking and even more so cookies, were a way to introduce herself to someone.

She also wanted to try to get along with her class, so after buying some nuts in the kitchen of the girls' dormitory. He headed for the only place where he could bake, but on his way three boys blocked his way.

"This... Could you guys let me through...?

The boys looked at each other and then one of them spoke up.

"Yes, she'll do."

After hearing that, a shiver ran down Irisdina's back. She wondered if this was what she had heard at the girls' meeting there.

The boys insisted, but Irisdina refused.

"This... I... I... I can't..."

More and more panic came over her, she wanted to run away, but she didn't know what would happen if they caught up with her next.

Then one of them tried to grab her by force....

"Tchh, this commoner won't respond nicely, let's grab her by the legs and take- dahhh."

...but something unexpected happened.

Suddenly all three fell silent and collapsed to the floor. Smoke could be seen coming out of their mouths and their hair stood on end.

She wondered what happened and then she heard a voice coming from down the hall.

"Okay, today's act of justice was a success, let's go back to the dormitory to rest."

Hearing that, she immediately went to see who it was that said that, but saw no one in the distance until a door opened and someone came out of it with a wheeled table he was carrying.

"Umm, I don't know what you're talking about so I'd better forget it."

He seemed to be talking to someone, but there was no one around him, maybe he stepped forward and in a part where he couldn't see her, but what he did see was once again a boy with black hair and a rude tone.

As she left his field of vision, Irisdina went to the room where she was, there it said a name on the sign to whom this room had been lent.....

"Rudel van Bradford" she muttered those words.

Looking one last where he was headed some strange words escaped her for her.

"So there are nobles who defend others..."

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Thanks to a supervisor who was in charge yesterday, she was able to find out about he mysterious student by the name of Rudel.

It seemed that he booked the same room at the same time today.

She thanked the supervisor by leaning over making her big breasts fall and bounce a bit thanks to gravity. The supervisor saw that and was glad from the bottom of his heart.

After that he went straight to the kitchen of the same building, making sure not to run into those guys and proceeded to bake some thank you cookies.

They were ready after a while and the time was getting closer by the second.

She put them away in a small box and hurried out to meet that person.

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"I-I wanted to thank you for helping me yesterday."

She was finally able to meet that mysterious person she had seen so many times, he was an average guy, a simple country baron, his body was slim and his regular height taller than her that's for sure.

His only feature that didn't fit was his face, his eyes looked like those of a hunter aiming at his prey, he looked like he hadn't slept in days because of the shadows under his eyes and even his disheveled hair seemed to say that he didn't care about his personal hygiene.

"Th-this one, I baked you some cookies as a thank you. I don't know if you like pecans, but, it's the only thing I could get from my dorm kitchen and the kitchen in this building is the only one open to students so... this..."

She stammered in panic because it was the first time she was talking to a noble, she didn't know per se what to say the girl.

"Is something wrong?" -he asked the boy because of her behavior.

She already knew his name, but still it would be rude not to ask the person in question directly.

"C-can I know your name?"

She just wanted to know his name to thank him, but another feeling emerged out of nowhere in her, that feeling was longing.

From her village to the academy she had been alone without company, but that's why it occurred to her to use this opportunity to try to get friendship.

"Rudel. Rudel van Bradford, third son of a baron."

Hearing the young man's name, her eyes widened in thought not only because there was a response but also because it seemed to work her impromptu plan.

Hastily arranging her black uniform, of commoner status, a bit of her bob style blonde hair being the only cut they could have in her birthplace and finally opening her light blue eyes which shone with light as did her smile.

"Nice to meet you Rudel-san, my name is Irisdina."

That was the day where she just by wanting to bake some cookies, had achieved her greatest happiness.

Unfortunately that happiness never had to have happened since her destined meeting had to be with someone else, the protagonist of this world, an RPG game. A world where she would become his wife and queen.