'It seems like the perfect time to sneak out of the imperial household for the first time. I need to know what it feels like to live on the outside, not being blinded by such hypocrisy but by the reality of what's currently ongoing within the empire'
Wilhelm thought after his private lessons for the day have been finished. He thought about those after Sebastian - his private tutor left him inside the room alone. There, he looked again on the outside view only to see that the knights were training on their training ground. While, the butlers and maids were the only servants around on the outside. Looking at such an opportunity to sneak out of the palace he suddenly smirks
He thought that if he became a tyrant emperor whose title was passed down from his father, then he'll be eventually controlling all the people - either commoner or noble. He swears that everyone who disobeys him will feel such wrath and punishment. That thought from the previous days had kept him livin
"I'm glad that I've found you that night. If not, I wouldn't know that the one who had saved me from almost bumping to the carriages. That he would be lying on the path towards our house cause you kind of look creepy, honestly at first sight," Iris said starting a conversation with Lucius in the dining area. It’s where Grey was already eating his food which is apples for breakfast while Lucius was the one who peeled them earlierShe was pouring their glasses with water on their jag. Then, Iris started a conversation with Lucius again after a long silence. There, after pouring water on the glass, she immediately handed Lucius and Grey a glass of water. She put it down near her the glass of water she'll drink. Lucius, upon hearing such words, from Iris after being silent for a while, looked up to her with an unbothered expression. Iris, in return sat in front of Lucius as she looked brightly smiling at him after realizing that he's a nice guy after he talked with her litt
'So all in all those bastards just want to trick someone to save the lady they cornered when in fact they're partners in crime, huh?'Wilhelm thought when he looked at how the lady that was about to save them was cornered instead. They immediately cornered her and the lady who was being cornered earlier was laughing hard enough. Afterward, she puts something inside of the lady's mouth making her gulp with the sudden act"Ugh!"The lady – who was Iris herself – shouted. She was in pain but everyone just laughed at her and was about to do something to her when Wilhelm took a step to save her. He unconsciously took a step making a sound of hitting a bottle that was beside his feet. Then, later on it made the bad guys turn to look at the guy"Oh, oh oh! Looks like this girl has some company, let's see if you can catch the guy Elvie," one of the bad guys said eyeing Wilhelm while licking his lips and looking at the messy lady who was their partner
After a while Iris had woken up from the long sleep. She thought she was still in her room as she gently rubbed her eyes. When the rays of the sun strikes her figure she blinked her eyes to avoid the brightness. When she clearly avoided the rays of the run, she yawns and stretches herself. Then she looked around completely surprised knowing that she was already in the forest instead of her room'Wait, did I teleport? What in the world---- Oh I remembered that I had already said my goodbyes with Grey and Lucius. I was about to enter the market when some bad guys cornered a lady but I can't remember anything else from then on’She thought as her head slightly hurt when she tried remembering such things. Her head hurt because one of the after-effects of the aphrodisiac that was shoved into her mouth earlier. The after-effects were forgetting how she was pleasured early on. She can’t remember that one thing ever again unless she keeps on wanting to remember it
"Holand's Fuel, hmmm," Wilhelm whispers through the busy streets of the black market where they were currently.He is observing the surrounding secretly while taking a sip on his hot coffee. He’s sitting across Nigel, his attendant which is also his shadow knight. The whispers and the footsteps on the streets seemed to be heard everywhere. Seeing the people walking, he knew that they have their dress code like there's always black clothes attachedWilhelm sees the sign across the café where they were in as he took another sip of his hot coffee that Nigel ordered earlier. While his attendant was alert at observing things, pretending to also take a sip of his hot coffee. Upon seeing the sign, he was curious about how many people entered the place – showing a token to identify such peopleIt's lucky for them about entering the said market because of Nigel had stolen a token from someone he attacked earlier to enter the market with Wilhelm –
After Iris went inside the market to do her part-time job, Grey immediately grabbed Lucius' hands and dragged him inside their house after looking at the back of Iris walking towards the market. Grey sensed something after he looked at Lucius and that was his sad eyes, he felt that he was sad so he needed to divert such feelings. So he held his hands and dragged him insideEven at such a young age, he never lacks such understanding because that was what his family had thought of him. That everyone had some problems on their own that's why they became who they were. It's not like they became like that just because of themselves but they became like that because of something that triggers themAs a young child, he knew very well that his parents, as well as his sister, work their jobs just to have some food and money to buy them food and necessary things for a living and he understands those. Sometimes he saw other people come to inexpensive stores to buy something after
"So all in all, you’ve already found out about the man who was anonymous for a long time, huh?" Derius, the duke of the Maxwell duchy, said to one of his shadow knights that reported behind him as he is facing the large window in his built property on the underground marketHe was actually inside the underground market pretending to be on a business-related meeting outside the empire on his family. Because it's the easy way to stay on the underground property he bought while doing such things behind his family's back - as well as building training ground on its basement"Yes my lord, it was on the commoner's village and it was the one with a brown roof among the small houses there. He had lived there for about 10 years or more now. As far as I've conducted from my inquiry on the villagers there, he had also built a family when he first moved in there," the shadow knight said respectfully kneeling behind the duke as Derius only smirked while imagining the things h
That night was the most tragic night that Iris could ever imagine in her whole life. The way she saw everything that had happened from their precious house to her precious family, she couldn't help but be in a dream where all that had happened was just a nightmare. That all she could do is dream of a nightmare inside her tiny world, so in her mind she kept sleeping and sleeping until she never know what world she's already in. If she's in the real world or still in her tiny hope of dream worldWithout further hesitation after resting, Lucius took her. He was carrying her in a bridal position as he took the bag to his other shoulder carrying it like a mad man. Yet his gorgeous face was never scratched one bit even if his whole body was bloody - wounded and injuredHe breathed hard enough to continue walking to the dukedom where he knew that the young woman he was carrying resembled the family. With great pain and sudden dizziness, he never let it overrule him. As he sti
On an early winter day, a family of three was happily looking at the ocean near their estate in the countryside. The two parents hugged each other with a young child was beaming at the ocean in the middle of their hug. They were all full of smiles and laughter"The ocean had always been a relaxing place to view from here," the gorgeous lady said while looking at the two most important people in her life beaming in return to her. While she genuinely smiled at them as the cool breeze sways her hair making her more astonishing with the color that was being bathed at the sunlight's rich hueThe two people in front of her suddenly were surprised at the beauty she gives to them. Though, they immediately shrugged those thoughts as the man patted her shoulder while smiling brightly"Yeah it is relaxing and beautiful just like you Romina," said the man who was holding their young son on in his shoulders while looking at his gorgeous wife smiling. Afterward, he remo
Early morning, inside the imperial palace All were seemed like doing their normal routine as the servants do the assigned tasks they were doing. While the emperor was busy with some paper works, the empress, on the other hand, was having her morning tea in the garden with her two princesses.Wilhelm, being the crown prince, must have already woken up and have already attended his first private lesson for the day. But because of his exhaustion and curiosity of reading the book, he went to sleep only after he finished reading half of it as he put it again on his bedside table's drawerThat night was the night that he barely have time to sleep considering sleeping at past midnight just by reading a book. There, inside his room he was peacefully sleeping with his messy silver hair all over his gorgeous pale face pointed nose, red thin lips, and perfect body. He sleeps in an unusual position but that doesn't matter to him, what matters is that he got to sleep comfortably. Even if it means
░37░ Gordon'I know that the duke was behind this mess, but why? Guess I'll just have to play along with what game he's leading us into'He thought as he looked seriously averting his sight at the house and looking from afar with such distant cold lonely eyes he had'The world is full of evilness. Yet, there’s only rare people who do good to another'He deeply thought as he sighed a long one. He was now walking back to where he was before being followed by the knights respectfully. He went there until the knights had left the burned house and set their feet a meter outside of it continuing to bow in front of him.After walking out of the burned house, he immediately looked at the small book inside his pocket containing all the information about the commoners living inside the village. When he looked at the name Victor Polly his whole body went numbed and paused for a moment'That's why his name felt familiar with the overall information that I've gotten about him from one knight - it
Never did everyone in the village could imagine what would have happened to the house of their commoners' friend - Victor. He's one of the responsible people there. He’s everyone's friend and companion. No one would have held a grudge against him in the village so everyone was confused, hurt, and pained about what had happened to him and his family. They can feel his loss that greatly affected the whole village regarding that he’s one of the good people they’ve all known in their lives.Especially that the family never offended anyone there. All of the family members were hard-working with their own money. So they have no clue why did it all happen. The village that morning went to confusion and worry. Their reason was - they might think that if there was one house in the village that was composed of a friendly person got burned - then the next thing they'll know was one of their houses will be the next targetMurmurs and different expressions c
It was two hours before it gets midnight that the fire inside the commoner's village had happened and the other neighbor didn't notice such fire because their house was a bit far from where the other neighboring houses were. The incident was only founded by a - hunter man that hunt's prey animals at night inside the villageThe man shouted and shouted until all of the people came out of their houses and only then that they find a house burning inside their village. That made them shocked and surprised at the same time as it was the first time that a fire inside the village happened for a long time. There, the villagers knew that they can't report to the town at the moment because all were closed. So they have no choice but to look at the raging fire until the hunter man shouts for them to take water from the near lake and pour them all on the house. All cooperated except for the children that were shocked as they were prohibited to go outside for the night.The others
'What the hell did I just read?'And before he could even process everything he heard some footstep nearing where he wasDamon wanted to process everything about the information that he had finished reading but he can't seem to face process it all. For the moment, he was left standing at his position because he had already heard some nearing steps to the secret place thinking it might be the duke. He can’t seem to moved, like his whole body was paralyzed the moment he had red those information from the duke. He feels like it was another’s diary. He felt like – it was a diary of a long forgotten person within the empire. There, he was unconsciously shocked that the book that he had held tightly in his hands earlier had now already fallen to the floor. Yet, his sight was focused elsewhere with his mouth wide open.With the sudden footsteps that he's hearing, he immediately went back to reality as he shook his head, closed his mouth
"They remind me of Yragus Mestia, the emperor's brother," the witch said reminiscing the past"Wait, Yragus Mestia? Yragus, Yragus, I've heard that name before it was a different Yragus, it was Yragus Gordon. The empire's previous emperor from years ago but why was it called Yragus Mestia here? Considering it was based on true characters that or maybe the book was lying? Did Mestia exist in the first place?"Aiden whispered through the silence of the night. He was truly shocked by the information that the book had when it wrote the name of the brother's emperor. He knew that the name Yragus was the one that implemented, for the people in the empire, to build schools - and that was because he was fascinated by the idea that nobles should also socialize as a matter of young acquaintances and so the empire built the Yrag Academy. But the Yrag academy was now known to be Hermonia. Aiden knew of those because his tutors taught him while he was reading the empire’s his
'So this night, another tragedy happened to one of Lucius' missions, and to think that I could witness him like that - bloody all over his body - injured and wounded. His body is bleeding all over but he still managed to come here with a bag and a young woman. Speaking of that young woman, Lucius was never wrong when he say something like his instincts about me - and the way that he said about the young woman having similar features as the duke was true. I never expected this. It is rare for the late duke to have something resembling him that is unrelated'Grindel deeply thought as he was looking outside through the window in his office at the Killford duchy. He was smiling sadly at the scene that he just witnessed earlier thinking about Lucius. How he had fainted with almost running out of breathing - while still holding the young woman in his arms.He knew that the duke was a rare kind so he needed to investigate the young woman – but not right now bec
Inside the Maxwell DuchyIt was already night that Damon had entered the duchy. He was never searched by the servants as well as his tutors because he had notified them in advance about him being sick and he needed time alone to recover himself from such illness. He knew that the duchess and his two sisters will be worried to him but he asked them not to call any physicians, he just let them know that he wanted some space. Then, they give him that. They can’t oppose him when he seriously said those words because they know how bad it was for them if he was angered in the first place, lucky for Damon that the duke wasn’t in the household.Not wanting to make the same problem arise the servants - as well as the duchess and Damon’s two sisters - continued to their routine, including his private tutors. They were notified by him to only come next week for his tutoring because he wasn’t feeling well. It’s true that Duchess Emerlize Maxwell was w
"So tell me all the details, did you all succeed in killing Victor and putting his house on fire?" Derius, the duke of Maxwell duchy, said to one of the shadow knights he ordered – who was kneeling and bowing in front of the duke’s back. The duke, on the other hand, looked at the outside underground market built in his room as his own built property beside a caféHe was informed by the shadow knight, that the name of the man that had been long anonymously sending him his illegal activities, was Victor Polly. Never did he knew anything deeper than that man. All he knew was he’s a former spy of a ruined noble. But he’s originally one of the throne claimers that Arthur left to live in a faraway land – yet he also didn’t expected to find his death at the duke’s hands"Yes my lord, we killed him and all of his family together inside the house as well as setting fire on the house. We leave it like it was done with an accident,