It was like looking at a hero from some children's storybook. He arrived in the nick of time to save the princess in distress.
And she would be lying if she said her resolve wasn't shaken for a brief moment. With just a few words he managed to instill a sense of surety and safety as if everything was going to be alright.
But Princess Ceni wasn't the naive child the original owner of this body was and quickly snapped out of it.
"Father sent you?" she asked skeptically.
The entire capital city was under siege and yet this man that should have been at the forefront of the battle against the invaders looked like he had just woken up from a beauty nap. There was not a drop of blood or a single mark anywhere on his shiny new armor.
'No matter how naive she was even this little girl would have seen that. He is obviously hiding something and maybe even working with the invaders. But do I have any other choice? It's not like I can change the outcome of that day.'