I Refuse to Be a Valkyrie!

Alice lay on the bed, dressed in an elegant white coat over a knitted dress and leggings. Her lustrous platinum-blonde hair spilled down her back, and her entire body exuded an air of supreme nobility...

Yet at that moment, she was deeply troubled and plagued by a headache.

Coming to the Door

"Princess Your Highness, are you all right?"

Seemingly having heard Princess Alice sigh beside her, the maid attending to her asked worriedly.

"I'm fine... cough... cough..."

Princess Alice had just begun to reply in a helpless tone when she started coughing uncontrollably before she could finish. She was extremely frail now.

"Princess Your Highness, your body has grown even weaker since yesterday. Will you really be all right if this continues?"

Hearing her princess cough, the maid could no longer hold back. Her princess had always been in poor health, unable even to move, and could only use an "Ethereal Body" to move about freely in her place.

An Ethereal Body... in the world of magic, it was called plasma—a soul duplicate created by manipulating psychic power.

However... continuously using such a soul duplicate would only make her already frail body grow weaker and weaker.

"Go to the guest room!"

Princess Alice did not answer, merely responding calmly.

"Yes."

When the maid left the room and entered the guest room, she saw another person identical to Alice sitting elegantly on the sofa.

"Princess Your Highness..."

The maid was already accustomed to this. Since Alice could not move, she usually acted through her Ethereal Body. Another advantage of using an Ethereal Body was that she could instantly travel anywhere she wished to go.

Princess Alice swayed her gleaming platinum-blonde hair and spoke to the maid in an unsteady tone. "Help me prepare several cups of black tea... make both