Moonlight Princess 01 EN

Hello, I’ll be picking this novel up from now on.
Nice to meet you all.
I’ll be translating this novel from the start.

Two things to note before reading, first is I’m not native English speaker so my grammar, vocabulary might be unplesant to read but I’ll do my best to translate so that it doesn’t look like it is an edited MTL.

Second is that I used web novel version of this novel as the source, not the light novel.

Have fun reading!

Translator: Keeez

Chapter 1: Garbage dump princess.

Under the setting evening sun, a lone woman is wandering.

Dressed in luxurious crimson red dress, her long hair looks as if they’re gold threads adorned with a little bird-shaped ornament.

Not only just her clothing, her walking manner is also straight and elegant as well.

Just by looking at how she walks, anyone could clearly see that she’s a noble at birth.

However she, Arue Aquila, the first princess of Aquila Kingdom, is heading toward a place unbecoming of her appearance.

Which is a dirty stone building of small size, situated in the middle of the forest in a corner of the royal palace.

Standing in front of that building is an old gardener, upon noticing that Arue is approaching, he hurriedly run up to her before bowing to his master.

“Oh my if it isn’t Arue-sama.
How may I serve you today?”

“I had just a bit of free time, so I sneak out from the party preparations.”

Arue replied back while cutely sticking her tongue out, like a child doing a mischief.

The first princess of the kingdom she might be, but she doesn’t take an arrogant attitude toward her servants.

Especially toward this gardener who knew Arue since her childhood, which made her acts very openly to him.
Seeing Arue acting appropriate for a girl of her age made the gardener’s wrinkled face turns into a smile, then he said jokingly replied as if to lightly reprimanded her.

“You mustn’t do so my lady.
Tonight’s event is an important one, as it is to welcome the prince of a great kingdom after all.
You’re a princess so you shouldn’t be doing something like this.”

“I really do not wish to attend such a formal event like that.
And if there’s truly a need for a princess to attend, then there should also be one other princess attending as well, isn’t that so?”

“Umumu……”

As Arue said so in a slightly stronger tone of voice, the gardener couldn’t replied back so he can only mumble quietly, troubled.
Normally this is something that should never be spoken of.
Currently in this Aquila Kingdom, the legitimate blood relatives are only the queen who governs this kingdom and her only daughter, Arue.
Or so that is what the kingdom officially declared.

“I’m sorry.
I didn’t mean to blame you.
It’s just that when I think about how that girl is forced to live in such a place, and yet only I can live in such a gorgeous place is, well, you know.”

“You’re such a kind person Arue-sama.”

“No I’m not kind at all.
Even if I am indeed kind, that wouldn’t be enough.
All I can do for that girl is comforting her.”

Arue mutters, lowering her face down as if in self-mockery.

“The sun is about to set my lady.
I suppose Selene-sama is awake by now.”

“About this, my mother……”

“Yes, of course.
I will keep this a secret.
Since this is all we can do for the lady.”

“Thank you.”

Arue thanks him, and the old man turns around with a sincere attitude before unlocking the door of the building.

Together with the squeaking sound of the rusty iron door, the foul moldy smell comes out, sticking to her nose.

Arue immediately frowns upon smelling such an unpleasant smell that she has never been used to no matter how many times she comes here.
She continues through the dimly lit stone corridor and walks up the stair leading to the second floor.

This building is a warehouse that is used by the servants to store worthless antiques, broken stuff, cleaning equipment and so on.
Although there are many rooms in here, but since there are no items of value stored in here so this place is not cleaned and maintained very well.

It is truly as if this building is the garbage dump for the royal palace.

However, in the innermost part of this building there stood a door that is clearly different from others.

Instead of rotting wood, this door is made from iron and is sturdy, there are geometric patterns drawn on it.
Arue reaches her hand to the pattern.
Then the pattern faintly emits phosphorescent light, and the door unlocks with a clang sound.

This magic is for preventing intruders from entering the room as it guards the nation’s most important secret that shouldn’t be known to the public.
And it is also a special seal that only those of royal blood can unseal.
Arue didn’t immediately opens the door even though she knows that the door is already unlocked, instead she first knock on it.

“Selene, Selene, are you awake?”

“I am awake.”

Arue gently calls her through the door, and a voice that sounds as if the angel herself was singing, replied back from the inside.
That adorable voice made Arue breaks into a smile as she slowly opens the door.

Beyond the door is a really, really small square room―― or rather, it should be more appropriate to call this a prison.

A simple bed, bare minimum daily necessities, and only a single small window for letting the light in.

In the middle of the room is a little girl dressed in shabby clothes, standing.

She’s rubbing her eyes sleepily, probably because she had just woken up, her soft white hair is a bit disarranged.
Arue smiles wryly before patting on her head and start fixing her bed hair with her fingers as a comb.

Her name is Selene Aquila.

The second princess of this kingdom, never known to the public.

“Nee-sama, today, busy.
Okay?”

She answered with faltering pronunciation, speaking as if she’s trying to connect each words together to form a sentence.
The girl named Selene walks up to where her big sister is, looking up at her big sister with crimson eyes.

Arue always felt at ease whenever those caring eyes of her are looking at her.

Selene is the only person who genuinely look at and treat her as a girl, not a princess of a nation.

Yet, for such a kind-hearted little sister of her to be forced to live in such a place like this makes her angry.

From other people’s perspectives, Selene is like an abnormal existence.

In contrast to Arue and her mother who has blonde hair and blue eyes, Selene’s entire body, from her head to her toes, is pale white without a single mole, so much so that it’s as if it’s transparent.

Her pure white hair is at around shoulder length, her skin is as smooth as a pearl.

Her beauty is exceptional, as if the god had blessed her with overwhelming love, those pair of eyes are glittering like rubies.
Her flower buds are yet to bloom as she’s still eight years old, but one can never predict how big of a flower it’ll bloom into when she grows up.

If only Selene’s abonormalities has been only in her appearance then it probably wouldn’t creep anyone out, rather they’ll create a rumor about how an angel has descended upon this kingdom.
Then, why is it that she is hidden away in such a place?

The reason for that stems from Selene’s speeches and behaviors.

Selene is strangely mature in her behaviors.

She had never cried once at like ever since she was born, nor had she flings her limbs selfishly and trying to get her mother’s attention.

From the moment she was born, she has always look at the world as if she’s looking for something.

Even though no one had yet to taught her these things, but she’d fold her own clothes, clean the dishes, and tidy up her room neatly, and she’ll never do anything that’ll trouble the adults.
All of her actions are un-childlike.

Despite all that, she have difficulty speaking com