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1st Secret [Voice]

[After examining the journal she received, Cinderella realized that it could some how play and record audio messages. Which is just fine with her since she doesn't feel like writing anything down. She's way too annoyed for that and she certainly sounds the part.]

Whoever took me from the airport and dropped me in the middle of what looks like the set of a pirate movie, I'm going to hunt down and shove my high heel up their ass. At least they could've brought my luggage with me! How do they expect a girl to survive with out her Versace, Prada, or Gucci!? [Not to mention her spare gun, knife, and extra ammo that were enchanted so that TSA would ignore them were in there. Those would have been very handy in this place.]

If I end up missing Fashion Week in Milan I'm going to be extra pissed. [Well really, she was just starting a mission but no one needs to know that. Still, it will cause a huge mess back home if she were to go missing before she even starts.] I'm a busy woman, so I don't have time for this crap.

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No shit Einstein! I hate them with a passion. You try wearing those things day-in, day-out and then having to treat blisters while picking splinters out. And yes, I very much rather go barefoot.

Great, I'll keep that last bit in mind. [Good thing she always knows to keep that urge with her. Note to self: get extra bullets for the gun she does have with her.]

Sorry, I can't relate to that. Never had money or anything to ensure any type of shoewear until a few years ago, and by then it was enough to get real shoes.

Anyway, don't worry, as I said, you don't have to wear them. Neither will have to go barefoot unless that's your current state.

[Which he seriously doubts.]

So, got any questions that haven't been answered yet?

Didn't have money for any shoes either. I just had a bitch of a step-mother who made me wear them.

As for questions, I have a ton of them. Like where is here and how does one get by?

If she was a bitch and made you wear those things that hurt you so much, why didn't you just fuck off from there?

[Because that was absolutely an option. At least it always was an option for him. One that he always took until Shun begged him to stop running away.]

As for your questions, if by "here" you mean this world in general, we have no name for it. All we know is that it's in a different planet or even a different dimension than any of the worlds we're from. If you mean specifically the island you're in, that's Isla Empieza.

You have different options to get by, but that depends on what exactly do you mean with that. Though, really, unless you have sailing knowledge your best bet is to find a crew that will have you and join them. Trust me, you don't want to stay on that island for more than a couple of weeks. That rule applies to most islands in fact.

Something about respecting my father's dying wish and having nowhere else to go. Don't worry, I got back at her and my step-sisters though it did bite me in the ass later on.

Huh... Well that's interesting. [It sounded like some parts of the Homelands.]

Looks like I may have to start looking for a crew. The only experience I have piloting a boat is with a speed boat.

Your father's dying wish... Did he have in mind her being a bitch and all that when he made that wish? And there are plenty of places to go, just not a particular destination. Either way, if you say that you got back at them I guess that's good for you.

[Though the part of it biting her in the ass later on makes it sound like she didn't really get the best deal.]

Then yes, the ships here are quite far from speed boats. I'll warn you, though, make sure you know where you're going. You don't want to regret it later on and have to change ships.

More like she didn't show her true colors until after he kicked it. [Which made the woman even more of a bitch.] And back in those days, it wasn't easy for a young girl to up and leave. Most likely she would be caught and brought back home if she did.

Oh really? What kind of islands should I steer clear of?

Then I'm quite sure his dying wish didn't really involve you enduring that woman and her brats. And running away as a child is never easy as far as I know, been there, done that. At least you can say that you survived that.

[He still doesn't think it was worth it but it's not as if he knows anything about this girl, so he shrugs it off.]

Isla de la Passion.

[The answer comes quickly, before she even is done formulating the question, in fact. His tone is serious, firm and clipped. The "no nonsense" type of tone, this isn't a joke.]

Normally I would never suggest running away, but if whatever crew you're in ends even suggesting going there? Grab a boat and get away from there as fast as you can and never look back. Or just use the fucking Nav to go to another ship, whatever you do, never set foot there. Unless you want to want to throw yourself to the trash together with your former title, that is.

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Like I said, it wasn't so simple for women back in those days. Wish it was though or else I would have bolted out of there a long time ago.

[But then you Mundies wouldn't have your beloved tale and she probably wouldn't even exist.]

Hmm.... Judging by the name and what you just described there at the end, it sounds like an island where people end up doing the "Walk of Shame" every morning. Yeah, I don't need an island to help me with that.

[Ikki never cared much for tales, so he wouldn't have minded one tale more or less. He snorts slightly.]

"Back in those days" and nowadays last time I checked. At least in my world, there's still too many people treating women as if they are different from men aside from the obvious.

[Which he has never understood. Seiya's and the others' gentlemen habits of not hitting a woman or not giving their all just because of that. As if a woman couldn't be dangerous or deadly, as if women were weaker and had to always be protected even when they were enemies. As far as he knows, the only thing that makes women "weak" is their obsession for emotions and love, but then again, even guys have that weakness more often than not.]

Ironically there didn't seem to be any difference between women and men when they were all slaves.

[He mumbles the last part and one can almost visualize him shrugging.]

There are other places you may not like to step into, but that one is the worst. Though... I suppose that if clothes are important to you or something like that, you may also want to steer clear from Humildad or you may end wearing those wooden clogs.

[Cindy personally doesn't mind when men think of her as "weak." It makes her job so much easier when she has to kick their ass into next week.]

Right. Humildad equals Clog Hell. I'll be sure to avoid it at all costs.

Thanks for the information, sweetie. The name's Cinderella, by the way.

I'm Phoenix Ikki-...

[Wait. Cinderella? Wooden clogs? A bitch of a stepmother? There are way too many beings in the universes with an awful mood.]

In my world there's a story named like you, with a very similar premise to what you described. In the story, though, "Cinderella" is a derogative name, an insult because the protagonist was often covered in cinders due the work she was forced to do.

I don't suppose you have another name that's less an insult, do you? I don't particularly mind but I prefer to use my own vocabulary when I want to call people derogative names.

[And yes, that's basically all he cares about. As little as he minds insulting people, it kind of loses its point when that's how they are called.]

I know the story, since I lived it after all, though the Mundies tend to leave out several details.

[Like the reason why the magic only lasted until midnight, or that Charming was a cheating bastard.]

And no, "Cinderella" is not a derogative, it's my actual name. If my stepsisters and stepmother wanted to insult me, they used more colorful terms. But hey, if it you don't want to call me that, people also call me "Cindy" or "Cin."

[She lived the story... It makes sense actually, gods who are considered myths walk around the world and are still very present and definitively very real even when some humans doubt them. Why wouldn't fairytale characters also be real and have had their stories just ripped and used by people for their own convenience?]

I've never been one to care much about those stories, but I always found them too simple. Specially knowing the kind of shit life can throw around.

[The name thing surprises him, though.]

I don't know if your parents had a peculiar sense of humor or if names like that are actually the norm in your world. If you don't mind I would prefer to stick with "Cindy". But if you actually prefer your name as it is I'll respect that and go with it.

Trust me, the actual events were anything but simple and there was just as much shit being thrown around.

[Mundies would be surprised about what really happened in their beloved fairy tales.]

They're actually kinda normal. I was married to a guy named Charming after all. And I won't have made the suggestion if I minded. Most people tend to call me that, and it makes blending in the Mundane so much easier.

With the things you have suggested about your life, I'm willing to bet that he didn't take much from his name.

[Or maybe he did, weren't all the princes in fairytales actually known as "Charming Prince"? He always found that curious, either people didn't bother to give the guy who saved the princess a name or it was the same guy with a hobby for using women. He always thought it was the last option given how his own father was.]

Cindy, then. Though you'll find that blending with the natives of this world isn't as easy as blending with the Mundanes as you call them. You will probably blend without problems with the rest of us, though.

Oh he did live up to his name. His first two wives would agree with me on that. The problem was he was too charming and didn't know when to turn it off.

[She gives a short almost bitter laugh.]

I've already noticed about how hard it is to blend in here. I'm wearing a Gucci dress while everyone around me is wearing wool and cotton. I stick out like a sore thumb!

So basically he was an asshole. Sounds like my father, though he didn't ever try to marry as far as I know.

[He chuckles.]

Even if you wore the same clothes as them, they would probably notice. I've been here long enough to notice that even with clothes people will sooner or later know. Either way, as pirates they already don't always like us even if they don't know we're foreigners.

Not just any asshole. He was the prince of all assholes. But he had to at least love his first two wives at some point or else he wouldn't have been able to break their curses. Me, all he did was see if my glass shoe fit.

Yeah, I'm starting to notice the "not liking us" part. I just punched out some jack-ass. At least I didn't break a nail.

He had that over my father then, since he at least loved two people. My father didn't love anyone but himself probably and he used women for one or two nights before abandoning them, whether they got pregnant or not.

[Though now that she talks about the first two wives and their curses... Maybe he had been right as a child when he thought that Prince Charming was always the same guy.]

By the way, in case you didn't notice yet or no one told you. The Navy is definitively the opposite of our friends. They are most likely to shoot you down first and then ask than anything else.

[Oh, child Ikki would have been more than right, and Cindy would have confirmed it.]

Sounds like a real winner. [Oh the amount of sarcasm in that one short sentence! And his next statement brings even more!]

This place just sounds better and better by the minute!

[Well, at least she's no stranger to people wanting to shoot her. Good thing she's tough to kill.]

And there's more to the fun. Has anyone told you about the monthly parties we have?

[He sees that sarcasm and matches it with his own, just so she knows full well how he still doesn't have good news.]

Something tells me that these "parties" don't involve getting dressed up, dancing and getting drunk off our asses at the end of the evening.

Oh, they do. At least the getting drunk part, it sounds like a good way to deal with it all.

[He chuckles bitterly.]

Though it's adviced to wait for the end of it all, whenever it comes. Well... With your background you probably have heard about curses, haven't you?

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