Reborn as the Princess' Knight (GL)

Chapter 68: Festival with Vivienne (XV).

Kein's POV

"I have asked the heavens... they want you to pick, little one."

Grandma Chio places the cards into the table, with its back in the front. Vivienne looked at the cards with a confused expression. It looked like she didn't know what to do. "Vivienne, Grandma Chio is asking you to pick three cards."

Three cards.

To represent; The past, present and future.

"Three?" (Vivienne) turns to the cards looking at the design of their backs and took three of the nearest ones that she could giving it to Grandma Chio with that big bright smile that was similar to Rose's. "Hwere you go, Grandma." she politely tells her and the old woman in front seemed to be taken in with her.

"Thank you, dear."

Grandma Chio takes the cards looking like she was in a good mood before settling it back down again into the table. I forget that she's a blind woman... yet she can probably feel the card's magical power coursing through it.

"The first card. The little one's past let's see what we have here..." she takes the first card and flips it over.

It showed a blonde figure of a human that seemed like a lonely traveler under the stars. I looked upon it more closely and I didn't get much out of it. I don't know what this card means- but from the name under the card it's called- [The Traveler].

"Ah... this card, yes."

She pushes it forward to our direction and Vivienne seems to have taken a keen eye to it. Her little hands picked the card up and for a second I could swear it glowed.

The card glowed in her hands-!

I... I have never seen that before. I've been into Grandma Chio's future readings before as well as Rose but when we did it I was sure that none of our cards glowed like that before.

"The card of the traveler, it means the person has been wandering for a while. From miles to miles just to find something, whether it be a person, something of importance, or a goal." (Grandma Chio) explains the meaning behind the first card and notices the glow of her cards used for card reading but makes no comment on it.

"Quite an interesting past... I'm sure you've taken your time traveling, dearie."

Traveling...

Didn't the old lady who was selling Ubie nuts said something similar to it? I couldn't help but feel something was amiss…

"The present card... Let's see what's in store for you- Oh?" (Grandma Chio) flips the card to reveal something called [The Trickster].

I raised my eyebrow at the card and eyed Vivienne like she's going to be grounded for life. With that name towards a card I'm already thinking of something bad. I mean can you blame me? Its named the trickster for a reason- when is it a good one?

"What is this card, Grandma Chio?" I ask her and she stutters moving the card forward to us both to see more clearly. It contained a fox symbol on the card, orange in color and it seemed to have a snickering posture the more I observed of it.

"This is... well-" she looks away as she explains. "A card of the trickster means she won't be easy. Having a spirit of the fox- of course, she'll be good at manipulating and lying." (Grandma Chio)

"And that's the present?!" I couldn't help but yell in worry looking at the card. I don't believe in these things but for some reason I felt really- as in really worried.

"Yes-"

"How about the future- I need to see the future-!" I turn towards the last card seriously waiting for the result as Grandma Chio flips it over.

Time seemed to have slowed down as we saw a familiar card that I could not forget.

"Ah-"

"Oh... dear. Isn't this..."

I stare at the same card that hunted me at my love readings all those years ago... [The Womanizer]. You little bitch of a card- I blame you for giving me such a lucky card- I mean horrible demise in my love life!

"What's it doing in the past, present and future reading? I thought this was reserved only for the love readings-!" I take the card in my hand and now my heart can't stop beating. The womanizer card came to me for the second time- but technically it's Vivienne's future!

Oh no... If Rose finds out about this-

"I knew it! Do you know why she's a player? It's because she looks up to you and picks up on your bad habit of picking up girls! Even ones that aren't even bent!" I imagined her really beautiful but angry expression that looked scary as she pointed a finger at me and declared my death sentence to sleep on the couch.

I gulped.

She's one hundred percent going to blame it all on me! And might even give me a stricter regimen on how to properly avoid women and make clear lines that we're friends- I mean nothing bad with it but its not like I'm actually womanizing anyone!

I waited for Grandma Chio to reply to my question but she seemed to be confused as I am. "You're right- I... I don't get how that got here. It was supposed to be in the other stack of cards so why is it... Has the deities above foretold us about your daughter's future?"

Vivienne? Becoming a womanizer when she grows up?!

Oh hell no!

"Moma?" (Vivienne) asks innocently with her cute voice but after looking at these cards and the meaning of them all- she's definitely a mix of Rose and I- like what in the hell?!

Rose is also a good manipulator but she just doesn't show it- or more like she doesn't use it... and my womanizing card is false... but women still do flock to me at times even if I don't want to.

If before I would've thought this was a blessing but now that I actually found someone I would love to settle with it feels like a curse now.

"Moma...?" (Vivienne) sees my silence so she pulls onto my sleeves.

"Ah sorry Vivienne... I was busy with my thoughts but- I'll make sure that you won't grow up to be a womanizer. Or else... I'll never hear the end of it from everyone. Literally, I love you so please don't do it for my sake." I held her by the shoulders and begged.

Please- please!

I'M BEGGING YOU!

​ NEVER BE A PLAYER! DON'T BE A WOMANIZER! DO NOT GROW UP LIKE THAT! I'M NOT LIKE THAT SO YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIKE THAT! BE BETTER THAN ME!

"Dear... I don't think she knows what a womanizer means... Isn't she quite a bit young?" (Grandma Chio) tells me. That make me break our hug apart, I look at her a little embarrassed and coughed covering my mouth with my right hand.

Right, surely a three year old wouldn't know how to play with people so I have time to prepare for the future.

"I... I knew that." I tell her but Grandma Chio takes her cane and bonks me right in my head. I wasn't expecting the attack from her and even if I dodged the cane would've hit Vivienne so I took one for the team.

Smack!

"Ow..." I held my head feeling dizzy because ouch that hurt! Then again I might've deserved it.

"Not again..." I grumbled, this is not the first time she hit me with her cane. The first time I got a card reading she hit me with it too.

"Moma are you okie???" (Vivienne) stands up from my lap and tries to reach for my head to get a look at it.

"Yes- yes... Moma is okay and she deserved to get hit just now so I'll let it slide." I patted my head knowing the pain would go away in a few minutes. I just sighed. I imagined an older version of Vivienne who was a teenager drawing in so many people by her claws.

She is cute- and she looks like me- so she'll definitely be a handsome or beautiful woman by the time she reaches her teens.

"Dearie now all of the card readings are done for your daughter... What would you like to do next? Would you like to know your future instead?" (Grandma Chio) looks through her cards that weren't used, she stomps her cane two times and the cards fly onto her open palm.

"I'm free for another hour if you'd like to get a reading." she tells me with a smile but I... I don't think I want to get another reading for now.

"Maybe at the festival Grandma Chio. You'll be open right? I want to take one again with Rose. I want to know what's in store for us both, because... I want her in my life." I tell her and she widens her eyes.

"You- Did the two of you reconnect?"

"Yes, just recently... I met her during one of my missions-"

"The card told me she runs of royal blood before you know... though the cards ordered to not tell because you were there." (Grandma Chio) tells me and I'm shook.

So she knew all these years that she was of Royalty? Though why did the cards not want me to know she was royalty? I wouldn't have cared...

"This old lady is blind... so I can only feel what the card tells me, I can see it." she spread the card out again into the table but didn't tell me to pick.

"You knew all this time she was royalty?"

"An old lady... knows how to keep her secrets." (Grandma Chio) laughs heartily to herself and Vivienne looks like she took a liking to her laugh because she began giggling with her. "Hehehe!" (Vivienne)

That was really cute.

"In that case." I stood up from my chair and raised Vivienne up in my arms. "I'll be seeing you in a few days for the festival with Rose this time." I tell her my goodbyes with a smile and left.

"Ohoho... See you by then dearie. I just hope you won't get another womanizer card because that's a deal breaker for marriage even for me." she teases as I was just halfway out of her little booth.

Oh for the love of-! For the last time I did not do that!

And everyone knows I don't do that! Jeez!