Chapter 3: Norto the great

          As one could guess from the invitation from her fiancé to a comedy show, she accepted. Svaria was now ten years old. She and Luie had been engaged for about 4 years now.

          Bryndis wasn’t made queen after her awakening. In fact, she didn’t want to be queen all that time ago either. So, when the nobles asked if she wanted the crown she refused.

          It turned out a dead high lord had poisoned her because she wouldn’t recuperate his feelings for her. He had died 35 years ago. The King had had Svaria trained to be a queen.

          What this entailed was her going to the castle and being taught how to act like a proper lady. This entailed how to walk elegantly, how to eat properly, how to read like a proper lady.

          Most of it wasn’t all too helpful. Though, she did learn how to seduce men. This was just in case if Luie wasn’t in the mood or if they didn’t get an heir soon after the marriage.

          It was rather weird that they were teaching a young girl on how to seduce men, but ok. Though, if we’re being honest, most of the lessons on that were what one could call tame.

          And that was even considering what was found to be lewd in this world. Ankles were seen as private. Exposing any cleavage to the world to see was considered scandalous.

          All things considered; it was tame. If she actually had to seduce Luie, she would just stand in his room and slowly take off her clothes and making constant eye contact with him, while he tried to hide his boner.

          And if you are wondering no, the child versions of these characters will do nothing of the sort. Oh, if you’re wondering about the newborn son of the king, his name was Garry. And he was the cutest little boy ever.

          Svaria was currently in a carriage with Luie who had just started to grow. He was a head shorter than Svaria. That was simply because she was half CSGS.

          He had his hair cut short. While his body was small his personality wasn’t. that could be seen through the giddy smile plastered on his face. His blue dress clothes were stylish for this world.

          Svaria looked down at herself. She was wearing a black dress that went down to her feet. The poofy sleeves and tight waist hurt her a bit. She still looked like a child though. Her hair was pulled back into a braid that swirled into a circle and was pinned aback her head.

          She looked at the young Garry and back at Luie. He seemed nervous and happy that the girl he liked was looking at him. He found her to be the most beautiful thing in this world.

          Then Garry looked at his older brother and spoke:

          “Are you two going to kiss like mommy and daddy do?” he asked.

          Luie blushed and looked down at the ground. He seemed to be embarrassed as all boys are. Svaria saw this and tilted her head. She really didn’t care about sex or the like as she had been trained in her past life to resist such things.

          Though, counting two young children kissing as sex was a bit much. She stared at him, and he flinched as though his soul had been pierced by a harpoon. He looked up only to see her right in his face.

          He tried to push her back, but she pecked him on the lips with a kiss and sat back down on her seat. His face went beet red, and he began to smile like the child he was. Svaria then smiled at this and looked at Garry.

          “Does that answer your question?” she asked.

          The young boy giggled and nodded his head. He started to laugh as if kissing was a thing to laugh at. Svaria liked Garry. He was kind of a strange child. But a child that was worth having as a brother-in-law.

          The ride went smoothly. That was until Luie started to fiddle with his tie and he began to fidget nervously. This was the first time he would go and see Norto the Great.

          Svaria had never been to one of his shows before, but everyone said they loved them. When the carriage stopped and they got off, Luie held out his hand to help Svaria get down.

          This got the crowd around the amphitheater to ooh, and, ah. Everyone knew the face of the second prince. And everyone knew the face of his bride.

          They soon got in after a small wait time and delved into the dully-lit amphitheater. There were multiple layers of seating and the three of them had the highest seating in the entire place.

          The number of people seated there astonished the group of three. Svaria had seen bigger back on Terra but not here, and the two boys had never seen this number of people period.

          As they got up to the seats they were shown, the stage lit up with light and the viewers went to the edge off their seats. It took a couple of minutes, but the air finally roared up as the man they all came to see walked slowly up to the stage.

          Svaria could see the man with her enhanced vision. He had red eyes and short ears like hers. His skin was pale as a corpse. His gate showed that he was a master of whatever he put his mind to if that makes any sense.

          The man spread his arms out and bellowed.

          “NORTO!”

          Everyone except Svaria roared in delight and clapped. She clapped as well, but something was strange. His voice was hypnotically calming, and she was almost put to sleep as soon as she heard it.

          He prepared a joke, and he shifted his weight onto one leg and made a thinking face.

          “Wah, wah wah woh whoh?” he asked.

          The whole of the crowd laughed as if this was the joke that killed the mustache man. Svaria couldn’t help but laugh as well. He sounded like the adults from Charlie brown.

          He then seemed to remember something he forgot and pulled a handkerchief rope for his pocket, only it didn’t end. He seemed vexed by this but continued to pull. Finally, it ended and he read whatever was on the last one. He smiled and nodded his head.

          His next joke seemed like a real kicker as he couldn’t help but laugh as he said something that even the nanomachines couldn’t translate.

          “Wah wah wah?” he asked.

          He couldn’t keep in all his laughter and some of it spilled out. This caused the others to laugh as well, and he finally said the last bit.

          “Wah,” he then burst out laughing and doubled over on the ground.

          By this point Svaria was just part of the crowd as they laughed at his funny way of speaking and his jokes that seemed mostly sketched and not really improve.

          But the fun was not meant to be. For some noble ladies saw Svaria and the others up above the from the ground floor and began to gossip. Their neighbors did not miss this and quickly started to laugh at them. Soon the whole of the ground floor seemed taken by whatever joke the ladies had made.

          Norto the Great did not miss this and he looked at them. He pointed to the ladies with a smile on his face as if he was out of the loop. They ladies looked shocked to be addressed by this wonderful man.

          “Wah woh whawhaw?” he asked and tilted his head.

          “Well, that young rat that the second prince picked up is here. As if she could understand the pure comedy of your jokes oh’ lord Norto!” the ladies said.

          This seemed to make Luie mad, and he stood up and shook his little fist in the air. This caught the attention of Norto ad he looked at the three of them. When he made eye contact with Svaria. She could have sworn she saw the same drive as her and Luie in his eyes.

          He smiled and looked at her and the two princes. He then looked at the thee ladies and pointed a accusing finger at them.

“WAH!” he bellowed.

          He then seemed to make another joke and everyone except for the people on the ground floor started laughing. He flung his hands to his sides and started to scream.

          It was a strange below, as if he were not human. Everyone, even Svaria, seemed to find this funny and they started to chuckle like children again. That is, everyone except for the ground floor.

          He then jumped off stage and started to rip apart the crowd. This was with his bare teeth or his hands, no one was spared. Though, he didn’t even try to get the people who were on the upper floors.

          Soon, the city guards came, and they soon stopped to join in on the joke as well. They said things like, “just Norto being Norto, ah ha-ha!”

          Norto the Great killed everyone who had laughed at Svaria and the princes. And that was the end of the performance.