My name is Serastia Byron, and I am the eldest daughter of the Byron family.

My father is the prime minister of the kingdom, and I have a gentle mother and a caring brother.

Born into such a wealthy and happy family, this happiness may really be a blessing that I have cultivated in several lifetimes.

However, there is always a price to be paid for being too happy.

I was born different, I had white hair like an old man, and red eyes like the vampire in the story.

My appearance is special, and when I was born, I was looked at strangely by the outside world, and some people even called me the cursed child behind my back.

Despite this, my family still loves me very much, and my father, mother, brother, and family members are always taking care of me gently, considerate of me, and saying that one day there will be people who understand me and agree with me.

However, I didn't take my family's word for it.

Therefore, I shut myself in my own world, and if I could, I just want to be alone and away from the eyes of outsiders, and read quietly in my own world.

I love to read, and there are all kinds of wonderful stories in the books that make me forget the reality of this injustice, and my favorite book is the book of Count Dracula.

Because, the wife of the handsome Count Dracula, Lady Mary, like me, had long white hair, as the Count said when he first saw Lady Mary.

"Your long silver hair is beautiful! Can you let me touch it? ”

Lady Mary, who was cursed in the story, blushed and smiled, and I, who was also cursed, would never have been able to experience this feeling.

After all, there is no such thing as Lord Dracula in the real world.

One day, my father said to me.

"Serastia, go to the banquet in the city!"

I've never been out to any banquets so far, because I don't go because I always get strange looks from outsiders! So rejected the father.

However, my father, who doted on me, did not follow me this time.

"Serastia, your identity is a nobleman, a nobleman who can use magic power, so after the age of 15, you will definitely have to leave your parents to enter the magic academy, and you can't always lock yourself in your room all the time, because the organizer this time is hosted by His Royal Highness Chris, the eldest prince who is gentle on girls, so there should be many noble ladies of the same age as you, and it doesn't matter if you feel uncomfortable, it's okay to come back early, but you have to slowly get familiar with the outside environment!"

My father said, "Yes, I have to be forced to enter the magic academy after I am 15 years old, and I can't stay in my own world forever.

In the end, I mustered up the courage to decide to attend this banquet, because I had to be familiar with the outside environment, not only for myself, but also for my family.

Then my brother accompanied me to the first banquet since I was born.

The prince's banquet was held in the castle, where many people had never met before, and although there was a disturbance at the beginning of the banquet, and the noble lady stepped on the prince's foot in public, my brother and I came relatively late and did not see it with our own eyes.

Then, when I was unexpectedly separated from my brother, I was immediately surrounded by several aristocratic ladies, all of whom looked at me with disgusted expressions.

"The Son of the Damned dares to come to the prince's banquet!"

"Even if you don't look at your disgusting appearance, it's a shame that you dare to stand here!"

They scared me, I was so scared.

I know all these things about being disliked and hated, but I directly faced the bad words of several noble ladies.

Sure enough, it shouldn't have come, as long as you stay in your own world, this kind of thing won't happen.

"Get out of the way! The pestle is in the way here! ”

Turning around, a girl with the same sharp eyes as Master Dracula in the story drove away all the big ladies around her with one sentence and one expression.

I didn't know what was going on, but I knew that this sharp-eyed girl had helped me.

You can't say thank you without thanks, I thought to myself.

I plucked up the courage to talk to her, but I accidentally bumped into her and soiled her dress.

Apologize to her first!

However, when this girl saw my appearance, she was completely stunned, I am afraid...... I was also frightened by my unusual appearance.

"Today's weather ...... Not bad! However, this girl mentioned the weather, probably just to cover up the panic in her heart!

"Your long silver hair is beautiful! Can you let me touch it? ”

However, the next words did surprise me, and they are the lines spoken by Lord Dracula in the story "The Hundred Years of Love of Count Dracula" that I have read many times.

Looking at me with her aqua blue eyes, I couldn't help but see her as Lord Dracula.

"Lord Dracula......"

Then the girl grabbed me by the shoulder and asked me several questions desperately, and I was at a loss.

Why? Didn't this girl look at me with the same unusual gaze as everyone else? Instead, she looked at me with sparkling eyes, and I had never been treated like this, and I could only nod my head in response to her questions.

"This young lady? Is the housesister causing you trouble? ”

Then my brother came, and the girl was embarrassed to let go of me, and my brother immediately protected me behind me, I guess my brother thought I was being bullied!

In order to clear up my brother's misunderstanding, I whispered to my brother that the girl had helped me and that I had soiled the girl's dress.

My brother apologized on my behalf, but the girl didn't care.

"Rude, I'm Elisabeth Ibecar." At this time, I learned the girl's name, and my brother also reported to the house.

Then the prince also came, and when I thought that this was the end of the matter, the girl rushed over and held my hand.

"Miss Serastia, I have a lot to discuss with you about books, could you please come to my house and play?"

What's going on? I couldn't understand the situation, so I unconsciously agreed.

However, even if the agreement is made, I still can't tell if this is reality or the world in the story.

After returning home, my brother told his parents what he had agreed upon, and his parents were very happy, and his mother even secretly wiped away her tears. But I still can't tell which side is the reality.

When the appointed day came, my brother accompanied me because he was worried about me, and I felt a lot more relieved to have my brother with me.

When I arrived at the gate of Ibecar, I saw Elizabeth waiting there, but the servants who accompanied me were also quite surprised when they saw me.

I thought I was used to this kind of thing, but I always felt that the courage I mustered before going out was gradually disappearing.

Perhaps, I was tricked, and it was the wrong choice to visit.

However, Lord Elizabeth, who saw her brother, was stunned for a moment, and then,

"This is the case, thank you for coming, come on, please come into the house!" Regaining her smile, Mistress Elizabeth took me by the hand and jumped up and down to lead me to the tea-room, and introduced me to her brother and sister.

And prepared snacks and tea for us.

Is it really a welcome to me? Aren't you playing tricks on me? Am I here for the right time?

At first, I was really uneasy, but after actually talking to Elizabeth, the uneasiness suddenly disappeared.

It's the first time I've talked to someone about a story in a book, about my world, and it's like a dream, but it's a short dream.

It was late afternoon when I noticed the time, and my maid reminded me many times that it was time to leave, and Lord Elizabeth personally sent me and my brother to the door.

"Your long silver hair is so beautiful, can you let me touch it?" Mistress Elizabeth uttered this line from Count Dracula to me again.

At this time, I still don't have any confidence, how can I be beautiful with such disgusting long white hair?

Then I asked Miss Elizabeth the question that had been bothering me since the first meeting.

"Lord Elizabeth! Don't you feel sick to see my appearance? ”

As long as I go outside, I will be looked at strangely by others, and secretly curse for my disgusting appearance, so I don't have any beautiful place at all.

"No, it won't! I think it's beautiful! Mistress Elizabeth smiled at me and touched my white hair.

"But it's really beautiful! I can swear to Count Dracula! ”

I was surprised to believe the words, but there was no telling of lying in the aqua blue eyes of Lord Elizabeth.

The people who helped me at the banquet were like Lord Dracula, like Lord Dracula, and Lord Elizabeth.

"So, I'd be glad that Serastia could still play at my house, and it would be nice to be my friend if I could."

Mistress Elizabeth held out her hand to me.

"Someday, Serastia will make friends who understand you!" I've never trusted my parents who have said this to me countless times.

Because how could such a person appear! How could it be possible to say to me that I am called the Son of the Damned, to be beautiful and to be friends!

At last, Mistress Elizabeth stretched out her hands and took my trembling hand tightly, and then smiled very happily.

On the way home, my brother, who had never seen a smile before, smiled and said to me,

"It's great to make friends!"

Oh, yes! Friend! It's something I can't even think of, something I've always wanted to think of.

My heart pounded at the thought of Elizabeth's gentle smile, as if Count Dracula had smiled at me in the story.

After that, I visited Elizabeth a lot, and my world gradually widened.

Not only Lord Elizabeth, but also her sister Miss Slokay, her brother-in-law Lord Scott, Prince Becas and Prince Lloyd, gradually became acquainted.

The wise, gentle, and well-behaved Miss Slokay once told me that she had shut herself up in her room before, and that it was Lord Elizabeth who dragged her out of her little room and allowed herself to discover the beauty of the world.

So, can I discover the beauty of this world like Miss Slokay?

Well! Possible...... I've found out.

"However, I won't give it to you, sister."

It's just that I don't quite understand what Miss Slokaj's last words meant.