A Noble Journey

The carts stopped, the priest noting they were stopping in the small town to change at their Inn, letting them know he had sent someone ahead to make the preparations. A few minutes later the three male Nobles would be in a changing room, Dan leaning against a wall visibly upset. The other two already putting on new pants, they went through the assortments of their large travel cases.

"At least you could take off that huge fur cloak, it's not like this was supposed to be a high-maintenance social like in the city."

Ian stated, looking at Dan resting his back against a wall next to the doorway, still dawning his all-white attire and cloak.

"Greeting the helpless village as one of the four royal children demands presence, how else would their savior look other than perfect?"

(You...are something else. But it's not like he's the only one. Money and power go to almost every noble's head.)

Ian thought to himself in regard to Dan's egotistical statement.

"Hm? Lord Raizo, correct?" Dan questioned out loud, earning the attention of the male who had been silent for the trip so far. Somewhat surprised to hear his name he looked curiously at Dan.

"We're all on this trip together so if it's easier to call me Shin, it's alright."

"Alright, Shin Raizo it is. The question, what gave you that scar?"

"That's not the type of question you just ask somebody, Dan," Ian interjected into their conversation to point out Dan's obvious rudeness.

"It's alright actually, he's not the first to ask."

"It's also weird because outside of your clothes, you are oddly buff, the scar goes from your shoulder to your back. I don't think many would get to see it. Almost like you intentionally hide it but everyone must wear clothes so that assumption fails."

With Dan's mention, Ian looked, seeing the scar on Shin Raizo's back he had failed to notice prior. To Dan, it looked odd because it surprised him yet Ian could tell.

(He's toned like an athlete or a warrior. Maybe the scar was an accident.) Ian noted mentally as he looked over the body and scar of the youngest male in the room.

Dan Aifried: "When I got father's council to group us for this trip, all of our names are from noble families so that includes yours but-"

Shin Raizo: "But you've never seen me or my family at any socials or events? In truth my family adopted me. A noblewoman and a Great Priest took mercy on a child is all to my story is."

Ian Maliago: "Makes sense then, those who work for the Temple and Rise to the greater ranks are treated almost as equally as Nobles...With you being the exception Dan."

Dan Aifried: "Then it only makes me want to ask even more based on other thoughts I've had and a few rumors. Shin, did you get that scar from a demon?"

Ian Maliago: "Dan, what noble ever leaves-?"

Shin Raizo: "Hm, it was simply an accident long ago." Shin said as he finished putting on his shirt and abruptly left the changing room. Ian standing shirtless stood in slight shock.

"Do you think he was for real?" Ian questioned the Aifried noble.

"Probably but he didn't exactly say no either. I had to ask for myself though."

"Why is that?" Ian questioned. Dan raised his hand to his chin in thought, letting silence fill the room for a few seconds before he spoke once again to answer Ian.

"Ian...Let's just say I dug a little deeper than I should have back in the city. I just have some questions now that Shin probably can't answer. I may just have to have a chat with the Priest."

Dan said ominously as he walked out of the dressing room. Ian silently watched him leave, visibly confused by Dan's last statement.

In The women's dressing room...

Sheilia would be seen visibly pleased with herself, twirling in her newly changed outfit.

"I like fancy dresses but they're way too much, take up all the moving space if you ask me."

Sheilia said, having switched from her formal dress to a sleeveless top attire accompanied by a skirt, knee-high socks, and a hat.

"I look cute! I'll be making one hell of an impression as a cute Noble girl."

She announced, striking a small pose but suddenly her expression shifted to being one of shock as she saw Cana pulling up her bike shorts, tightly fitting black short shorts. Watching Cana's partially exposed breasts when she stood up straight, bouncing on her heels to help snug them on nicely. Cana wore a black fabric across her chest, containing her chest only, it left much of her torso exposed under what appeared to be something similar to an elegant red vest covering just her shoulders. Sheilia's expression became sour with envy as she watched her friend bouncing up and down to wiggle her shorts and skirt over the slightly longer thin black material she wore underneath the clothing on her lower body. Subconsciously Sheilia couldn't help but place her hands over her own chest in envy. Cana fitted on her top and vest leaving her stomach exposed yet her top left her cleavage partially exposed in its glory. Noticing her friend looking from the side, Cana turned to face her friend with a playfully smug smile.

"...Flat is justice..."

Sheilia said while glaring at her friend Cana who held a smug smile on her face.

Cana Sigfried: "Medium is premium..."

The two held their expressions, their focus on each other breaking hearing Aisellia giggle and speak.

Cana & Sheilia: (I forgot she was here for a minute.)

"You two must be really good friends, you remind me of me and my friend Laura a little."

Aisellia said, her voice traveling to the other side of the dressing area where the other girls stood by each other. Cana and Sheilia turned their heads to look at Aisellia undressing, pulling her shirt over her head. Seeing her breasts lift with her shirt, the two girls were in awe. Both were drawn back once Aisellia removed her shirt fully, seeing her large breasts drop back down and rest naturally in her silk lace bra.

"She has mountains of life!"

Both Cana and Sheilia quickly exclaimed, their eyes locked onto Aisellia who still underwent an outfit change. Aisellia now having her shirt in her hand noticed the two looking at her with jealousy. She looked confused at the two who now both held their hands on their chests.

"Sheilia THAT'S what unfair really looks like..."  Cana proclaimed as she and Sheilia looked over Aisellia's voluptuous figure and assets.

Aisellia smiled playfully at Cana, placing her fingers between her hips and the waistline of her skirt, seeing Cana's eyes move down to her waist.

"Oh? Are you curious Cana?" Aisellia said teasingly before sliding her skirt down to her ankles, leading the two noble girls to dash over to Aisellia, closely inspecting her full figure.

"Soft thighs and a supple booty! It jiggles for no reason!"

The two noble girls simultaneously screamed. While the two regained themselves, both silently watched Aisellia, tuck her assets away and get dressed. Awestruck at the sight of her large breasts, cupped by her lacey bra, seemingly smaller once secured away.

"Damn Aisellia, how is that bra holding all that boob? When we get back to the city we're hanging out...I have to eat what you eat or however you get a body like that!"

Cana said enviously before the girls shared a laugh, sealing up their travel cases and finishing the final touches and adjustments on their outfits. Aisellia finished getting dressed.

"Proper positioning and compromises is the answer. I simply enjoy looking beautiful, makes me ultimately feel great. Like looking in the mirror and being like, Ooo Yes! That's me that looks that good"

Aisellia took a pause, glancing over to the two girls, noting Cana had as much cleavage revealed as her, the only difference being the notable one between the women's sizes. Sheilia had her own methods of appeal. Aisellia saw Sheilia's skirt was in fact a Mini-skirt to reveal the majority of her legs, while her thigh-high socks drew attention to her lower body to entice attention. These brief observations alone made her giggle. Even if their motivations differed from her own Aisellia could see these two enjoyed having more than a basic appeal. Although they were Noblewomen of the highest class, they were all delighted to indulge themselves in dressing more sexy than they were permitted inside the capital.

"I mostly eat meaty and high-sodium dishes in the middle district but I think my daily exercise evens it out. I have a friend who works at a restaurant. Noble places just have expensive tiny dishes so I only eat at those places if I have to. All of us High-Noble daughters know the lifestyle, Courtesy dinners, Noble parties, and Parents enforcing that we meet their business partners or their sons for dinner for good business relations. Sometimes a girl just likes to go to a middle and eat a whole steak in a rowdy tavern. The noise is strangely calming!"

Aisellia admitted through her sudden laughter, reflecting on her memories. Shelia enthusiastically took a step closer.

"Whoa! Everybody talks about how dangerous the lower grounds are for Nobles! They are so violent it's dangerous for nobles to travel beyond the checkpoint without an armed guard, but to sit and eat at a busy establishment?! Geez, just who do you have as your knight?!"

"I have no knight to speak of"

Cana took a couple of steps forward, standing closer to Aisellia than Sheilia was. Cana curiously tilted her head as their eyes met and wasted no time speaking her mind

"So you've denied every man that's ever loved you huh?"

"CANA?!" Sheilia shouted. Alarmed and unsettled by her best friend's confusingly bold question.

"What?! Stop yelling at me! She said it herself! We're all High-Noble daughters. Sheilia Ciest, of the Ciest Noble Accounting Corporation, what's the current population of Freya?! And...simple numbers for me please."

"Just over six hundred million as of this fiscal year..."

"Now out of that number, how many are nobles?"

"I'd estimate just over a million given the birthrate over the last decade. Cana please get to the point already please."

"Hey hey hey! I'm almost there!"

Cana said confidently. Aisellia tilted her head curiously and smiled amused by Cana's very animated movement while she was speaking back and forth with her friend. To Aisellia it seemed like this would be common comical engagements between them. For every step forward in the conversation they made, Aisellia's smile grew and so did her amusement and patience for them.

"Now Sheilia! How many are High-Noble Families? Who's wealth makes regular nobles beg for even just our favor, our signature? HELL Aisellia! No Knight with your physique and beauty? For Temple's sake."

"And you're wondering how a woman like me doesn't have a single knight?" Aisellia questioned cheerfully.

"Well...Yeah! A Knight hired from the Academy or a noble family with a lineage of Knighthood swears loyalty to your family in return for favor, legacy, and honor. We all know everyone simply wants to come up in the world and I can tell we all respect that...but"

"But that leaves a White Knight, Someone, who swears their white cloth to you—signifying their loyalty and dedication to you alone. Even for a daughter, her will overrides that of her parents or other high nobility. Those in love who swear to keep their virginity on the possibility of being chosen one day as their husband or wife or otherwise...until death. I've battled myself on the thought and had more offers than I've cared to track. On the occasion I'm not at home, I have a friend in the middle district. Practically everyone down there either sees her as an older or younger sister. We've been friends for years so around then I started helping out just like her. As a noble, I was treated poorly at first but with my friend being the fighter she is, no one could touch me and with a woman, at a special tavern we call Momma, everyone stopped disrespecting me. So now I can eat all the hearty meals I want because Momma says I'm good for business! I attract a crowd and I have money. It might sound bad but it's simply the reality of the situation we have fun with. So if you ever get tired of tiny dishes, I could take you ladies any time."

Aisellia smiled playfully. A look of determination came over Cana and Sheilia simultaneously.

"Get ready Sheilia, we're gonna start seeing the middle-class area and eating poor people's food!"

"Ready! We'll fill out more like her!"

The two said looking at Aisellia's body, both simultaneously nodding in agreement with each other. Aisellia giggled at the two.

"Well...they're not poor exactly." Aisellia humbly noted to Cana.

"Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't mean it like that!"

Aisellia Rae: "It's ok, I knew what you meant. I can tell you two aren't like the other 90% of Noble girls. Our city is massive and the financial difference between High, middle, and low class respectively is exponential."

Sheilia Ciest: "It's one of the reasons me and Cana wanted to go on this expedition, not just to broaden our horizons as noblewomen."

Cana Sigfried: "But also to see the world how it really is, most nobles as you said, just get stuck in their stuck-up world. Nobles stay in the highlands and live lavishly, with the guarded blockades blocking districts from one another, nobles don't ever leave there. They just hire someone to go outside of the district for them. Some things work out though. Sheilia and I have been friends since we were little girls. Our families have always been close."

Aisellia Rae: "It's sad but true. Nobody, even the middle class ever leaves the city and those in the low quarters..."

Sheilia Ciest: "Simply can't..."

Aisellia Rae: "Sheilia?"

Sheilia Ciest: "I might be the princess type stuck in a tower every day but I've done my own research into the city. With Cana's help of course."

Aisellia Rae: "Then it's settled, since I work for my parents, my business pass can get all three of us passed the district gate. I'll show you two a few nice things. Some things aren't as bad as the nobles make them seem, even with their struggles they are more lively people than most nobles. And of course, we can eat at a few places."

She said winking her eye, leading Cana and Sheilia both to smile at each other before running over to Aisellia, each taking a hand of hers.

Cana Sigfried: "From this day we're all in it together!"

A few minutes later...

The male nobles and the priest could be seen standing next to the cart they rode in the line of cargo in an orderly fashion. The three girls stepped from the building and walked up to the group. The male's heads turned, only for the priest to quickly turn away with a blushed face.

"I'll be riding in the front cart today to be at the head of the arrival, It's far more pleasing to be greeted immediately by an ambassador of the capital." He said while hastily walking away towards the front horse-drawn cart.

"Did even the Priest just get turned on? I guess we are just a bit overloading for a man of the cloth."

Cana mumbled. Aisellia snickering over the matter and the fact they were thinking the same thing, they confidently returned their eyes to the male nobles who stood faces flushed red and their jaws dropped. Shin snapped back to reality, catching himself and simply hopping into the back of the cart. Ian and Dan however stood stuck, unaware of how hard they were staring but the girls smiled in confidence together side by side.

"Ok, guys your few seconds of free gawking are up!"

Hearing Cana's declaration, the two snapped out of their trance-like state, fixing their posture, Ian and Dan raised their hands to their mouth and awkwardly coughed, but as much as Ian's body wanted to, his eyes glued to Cana's cleavage, Dan's were locked on Aisellia's. Noticing this Aisellia folded her arms under her breasts and turned slightly away from the boys, having Dan's jaw drop again and earn Ian's gaze as well.

"Dan, pick up your jaw and stop now. You don't get any seconds." Aisellia demanded of him.

"Why not?! Looking is free and it's not hurting you..."

"That's up to me who is free to look...not you...Gosh, I hate this fucker!"

"All those fancy dresses get stuffy. Even though they look extravagant they're kind of uncomfortable." Cana interrupted, slightly irritated by Dan's comment before Aisellia took the lead in calling him on it.

"Don't be such a bigot Dan. Our skin has to breathe in the heat. Feminine clothes tend to be suffocating, tight, or outright uncomfortable in the name of fashion. It's a terrible idea to go into an incredibly hot area and there's no room for your body heat to vent."

"Yeah, are you two such kids that you're offended by a woman's natural body? Does it offend you we want to look a little sexy when we can?"

Cana chimed in smugly, leaning forward purposely to lure Ian into peeking down at her exposed cleavage. She smirked mischievously catching him unable to withhold himself from instinctively looking before frantically shifting his eyes away, knowing Cana was watching his face the entire time. Aisellia, holding her arms folded under her chest began walking towards the cart, her outfit's construction of a neckline leaving her chest plenty visible through the opening.

"I think they are Cana." Aisellia began by supporting Cana's train of thought and continuing the notion.

"Nothing wrong or shameful about the appeal of a woman's body. If you got it, it's okay in my opinion to show a little or a lot, whichever a girl can be more comfortable with herself in my opinion. Everyone has ways they enjoy dressing, I think it's simply awful to be prejudiced or judge someone based on the manner they like wearing their clothing. When you can judge actually terrible people, like Dan there."

"Hee-hee, I believe so too Aisellia!" Cana agreed before following her new friend into the cart, followed by the guys. Sheilia however stood, her face riddled with envious rage, her hands being placed on her chest, glaring as they made their way to the back into their cart.

"...Flat is justice."

A short time later...Shin was sitting up front with the driver, taking the priest's former place. Ian sat quietly, his eyes attempting to look in any direction other than Cana who sat across from him. It looked painful, trying to keep his eyes from straying as she sat speaking to Sheilia who sat between Aisellia and herself on one side of the cart. At his breaking point, he assured himself a glance would be fine. His eyes slowly shifted, his eyes widening at the sight before him. Now across the border into the new country, the dirt road they traveled on was bumpier than the stone streets they were used to. The moment his eyes looked at her cleavage his eyes caught sight of her breasts bouncing with the road, seeming each time to almost spill out of her clothes, or at least that's how it appeared in his eyes.

"Hm? Ian, are you stuck again?" Cana questioned teasingly. Ian's eyes shot up to meet with hers, realizing he was caught, and quickly turned his head.

"I uuuh," Ian responded attempting to look away but ended up viewing Aisellia's chest whose were much larger than Cana's, having a larger bounce to them. Aisellia quickly glanced at Ian as well, shortly breaking then returning her ice-cold glare to Dan, watching him to ensure his eyes were elsewhere except her of which he seemed frozen stiff to ensure his eyes were held away. Aisellia began noticing Ian's gaze once again, slowly turning her head, and smirking.

"Try to ease up a little Ian. We may blame you, but it's not your fault in the slightest."

"We're aware of our figures and how they look in these outfits. Honestly, it's part of the reason we like these outfits. Nothing wrong with liking what you see as long as you're not rude or creepy about it. Just a girl tip for you."

Aisellia and Cana shared a playful laugh at the expense of the males.

Cana Sigfried: "You are a man who just sees what he likes. Women aren't as stupid as to wear things like this and not expect some glances...well some are. As long as you're not rude, a glance or two isn't bad or anything but that's totally up to the girl you're dealing with. So be careful."

Aisellia Rae: "Quite frankly I think it would be an interesting development if you weren't struggling to keep your eyes off them as you were. We didn't do it for you guys, of course, honestly speaking,

Aisellia smugly revealed quickly causing Cana to blush and evade her eyes to no one but Aisellia's notice

"For the sake of my healthiness as a man, I must also-!"

Dan exclaimed, feeling he would get away with it as Ian did, aiming to turn his head and fully gaze upon the women's bodies but his face was stopped by a single of Aisellia's, pressing against the side of his head thus stopping his head from turning fully.

"Eyes stay outside the cart creep..." Aisellia sternly commanded. This move caught the other nobles by surprise, Dan fearfully following her command was even more of a surprise to the nobles. But he growled under his breath.

(Stupid bitch...How dare she touch me after being so entitled. I'm still royalty and the most important envoy on this trip. An Aifried gets what he wants one way or another Aisellia.)