Reborn as a Mind-Reading Empress
Chapter 140: Suddenly Engaged [Bonus - ]

Chapter 140: Suddenly Engaged [Bonus Chapter]

Seeing Alwin’s magic work so effectively so many times, Arabella was assured that her older brother was indeed fine now. All she had to do was meet him in Medeus once they head there for the yearly assembly.

It had been bothering her a lot but she had been trying to push the thoughts aside until she meets them in Medeus.

Arabella had misunderstood her family a lot in her past life. She stopped caring about them when she was so focused on her revenge. But now, she wanted to meet them again and try to understand them better than she did in her past life.

Alwin could just teleport them to Lobelius anytime, but both Ferdinand and Raymond were against it since visiting her home soon after marriage would imply that she was not treated properly in Valeria. Thus, meeting them in Medeus was the best option. And she had been secretly looking forward to it.

Being busy kept her mind off it but seeing families get together after years of separation in Safiro reminded her of her family and somehow made her miss them.

Her thoughts were distracted when Alwin spoke.

"This greedy little thing! Stop it!"

Alwin’s hand was suddenly wrapped in Blanca’s hair after her wings had regrown.

"She’s sucking up my mana so aggressively without even asking permission."

[I already healed her to the point she could heal on her own. I already used up more mana than I did healing the Safirans and yet here she was shamelessly stealing more mana from me after I healed her wings.]

"Do you see now why she can’t stay here anymore?" Alwin glanced at Esmeralda.

"I’m sorry. Blanca must be overwhelmed that she could finally fly again so she’s eager to fully recover," Esmeralda repeatedly apologized.

Blanca hadn’t woken up yet but she was apparently half-conscious and knew she was sucking up mana from Alwin.

"Hey, stop it already!" Alwin tried to free his hand from Blanca’s hair but as soon as he was able to get rid of the hair, more wrapped around his hand.

{Brat, stop it before I cut off your wings myself! Don’t make me regret healing you.} Alwin threatened.

{You merciless pervert! This is my consolation. I can’t get married anymore because you touched my wings! Didn’t you know you shouldn’t touch a pegasus’ wings?!}

Arabella blinked repeatedly upon hearing such a conversation. She almost laughed out loud at how Alwin’s face twisted at being called a pervert. He was clearly never called one before.

{I just did it to heal you. And that rule only applies to pegasus of marriageable age. You’re still a kid.}

Alwin glared at the sleeping pegasus. Blanca clearly looked too young to be of marriageable age. She looked like a foal just several months old.

{I’m already of marriageable age. I just look so small because I had been sleeping all the time instead of growing. My growth stopped because I was conserving my mana for healing my body.}

{Stop it with the lies and stop stealing my mana already before I decide to burn you to ashes. You ingrate!}

Alwin freed his hand again but Blanca was persistent and her hair extended and wrapped on both of Alwin’s hands this time.

{You meanie! I know I’m just a pegasus but my mother always told me that the Queen of Estrella loved our kind. You should be punished for ruining a young girl’s life before it even began! I’m already a thousand and two hundred years old!}

{What?!!} Alwin paused and blinked repeatedly.

’EH?!! She’s that old?!’ Arabella was dumbfounded as well.

"She says she’s a thousand and two hundred years old," Alwin glanced at Esmeralda.

"Eh? I thought she was just 800 years old," Esmeralda blinked repeatedly. Vines from Esmeralda wrapped around one of Blanca’s feet to communicate telepathically.

{Blanca, are you really 1200 years old?}

{Yes. I lived with my parents in other places for 400 years, lived in your forest for 100 years, and stayed asleep for 700 years.}

Alwin turned pale upon hearing those. Apparently, Blanca was a highborn pegasus.

Arabella learned from Alwin and Esmeralda’s thoughts that depending upon the level of their mana, long-lived races can transform into human form.

Those who can transform were considered highborn. They composed a great number of the population of those who were in the ruling class in Estrella and can get married to other races since they were no longer limited to their original form to procreate.

Blanca was highborn but was just stuck to her original form because of a lack of mana and having to recuperate.

And to the pegasus race, touching the wings was a form of asking for marriage which was why it was forbidden to touch their wings once they were of marriageable age unless they were proposing marriage.

Although he did it to examine and heal her, Alwin touching Blanca’s wings was considered sexual harassment since he was not asking for marriage.

If they would consider it as a proposal, then Alwin and Blanca would already be engaged since Alwin touched her wings for too long to be considered just a proposal for the pegasus kind.

{I... I was just trying to help.} Alwin tried to get out of the situation.

{Even so. You have to take responsibility since I cannot get married anymore!}

Arabella realized it could be related to the matter of purity for humans.

For Arabella whom everyone thought had lost her first time to her first love because she eloped with him, people thought she wasn’t pure.

If she had truly lost her chastity, she wouldn’t have been able to get married to someone as high-ranking as Ferdinand if he didn’t propose to her. Her family would have had difficulty arranging a good marriage if she wasn’t famous.

However, due to her famed beauty, a lot of royalty would still have proposed to her to keep her as a trophy. But she wouldn’t be as highly honored in their marriage since she lost her first time to someone else compared if she had lost her first time to her husband.

This was how royal society worked in most of Eliora which was why Arabella and her fellow princesses were strictly educated since their chastity was important for marriage.

’Who would have thought the long-lived races also had this things?’

It would be worse if Blanca wouldn’t be able to get married at all just because of a single touch to her wings.

But would Alwin truly have to take responsibility?

[What should I do?! What should I do?!!] Alwin was panicking.