chapter 43-44

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43. The person that Edmond azalea
                      fears...


I'm going to find out the truth one way or another....


After stacking all the letters back to the box, I put it to the hidden mechanism again and acted like nothing happened..


Operation breaking in the azalea residence is in action....


The Afternoon sky turned into night, Everyone was soundly asleep, opening my eyes then slowly and quietly removing my thick light pink blanket from my lower body..


I changed out from my night ware and into a small chinese styled black ninja clothes, The extended black cloth connected to the collar covered the lower part of my face then tying my hair in a high ponytail,


I opened my balcony glass door and slipping out from it, heading toward the azalea residence..


Not long after that I reached the said residence, Jumping on the third floor open window and skillfully slipping inside...


Now to find that idiotic 'father' of mine,  where should we start, let's see......


From the right corridor I heard footsteps coming, I instantly used my illusion magic to blend in the dark shadow, concealing myself from being sensed, And who would have thought that the very person I was looking for appeared before me, I smirked...


"Dan, rearranged my schedule for tommorow"


"Yes, your Excellency"


"And tell Evelyn(Charlotte) to not wonder around at night, many nobles have been disappearing lately, and even with the palace guards sent here to protect us we still need to be cautious"


Indeed you should, Edmond azalea..


The duke dismissed dan and proceeded to his room, alone in the hall...


Shall we test out my illusion magic then, Creating an illusion inside his head is easy, it's like the fear test that the headmaster showed us, he taught me how to do it and I Think I got the hang of it...


A white fog appeared around the confuse duke, he was about to call for help when I knocked him out causing him to fell flat on the floor, unconscious and clearly unaware of what's going to happen to him..


Now, show me your fears....


I put my right hand on his forehead and closed my eyes, but when I opened them again, I found myself floating in the void of darkness, directly below me is my idiotic father that seemed to be in the middle of his panic, he looked around but the only things that he found was darkness...


All I need to do is find out what he fears the most and use it as an illusion to get him to talk about what I want to know..


A mysterious white fog appeared around him as I just looked down and watched the scene, then the tensing sound of a persons footstep echoed through the void, A footstep that was getting louder every-second, meaning that it's walking toward him...


A person?? This Edmond azalea fear someone?? Who could it be? The king? The prince? His father or his worst nemesis?


A silhouette of a person was seen behind the white mist that was mysteriously clearing up as if it's making a way for that person, The mist cleared up and there stood someone before my idiotic father, Brown neatly-looking hair, a musculine yet gentlemen-like appearance wearing a dark blue formal shirt, black pants and boots, a white long coat that reached his knees behind him and.........Stunning dark blue eyes...the man held a serious expression on his face, two swords hang from his belt and both his hands behind him,


Edmond azalea trembled in fear due to the intense and pressuring aura the unknown man had around him, it was almost suffocating me as well, fear was very visible in the Duke's eyes as he gazed up to those jewel like dark blue eyes, it made him drop to his knees as he saw the coldness in them..


"Y-y-y-you!?" He stuttered in fear as he pointed at the man


"W--what do y--you want from m--me!!?" He asked, it almost made me laugh at his face...


" Ple--please let me go already!! I promise I won't tell anyone about it!! Please....yo--your majesty!!" Your majesty? What does this means? The current king doesn't look like that at all, the magnolia royal family posses their signature red ruby eyes that indicated them as part of the royal family, but this man had dark blue eyes, it's impossible for him to be the king?! Then who is he?


My thoughts were cut off when I heard the sound of two people leisurely talking to each other and their armors clicking, The palace guards!! Looks like I have to leave now...


I cancelled the illusion and snap out of my idiotic father's mind or dream and jumped out through one of the windows, The palace guards stopped talking and started panicking instead when they saw the unconscious duke laying on the floor, they called for help and rushed to find the culprit which was me...


But too bad, I've already exited the azalea residence and now rushing back home but one question still remained in my head...


Who was that man?


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44. To the Sapphire kingdom!!


"Your going where exactly!?" Butler han asked--shouted actually, I continued to put my letter to victor into the envelope and stamping it with the Everhart family seal then handing it to aki-nee for delivery


"I'm going to the sapphire kingdom, I want to personally met this 'kei-sama' and ask him about something" I explained, butler han never liked it when I kept things from him, his like my strict tutor slash grandpa but it is kinda nice too sometimes, anyway I didn't told him about the recent event that have been going on right now as I knew very well that he won't let me go at all..


"You can just sent out a letter to him, lady iris" he said, I message the bridge of my nose to ease the stress and headache I've been having recently and closed my eyes


"I have already tried that but the knights didn't find anyone named kei in the sapphire kingdom or in the magnolia kingdom as well, it's either he changed his name or his dead" I said, butler han frowned even more and tried to think of a way to get me to stay but even before that happened another guard barge in the room


"Commander iris!, the ship is ready to set sail to the sapphire kingdom, Everything is ready, all we need is the crown prince approval to set sail, my lady!" He said, I nodded and dismissed him...standing up from my chair and heading out from my study room to my bed room to change into a more appropriate attire for my journey...


"Lady iris, are you sure about this?" Butler han ran after me and asked, I turned to him and gave him a reassuring smile,


" It's ok butler han, you don't need to worry about anything, you just need to manage the mansion in my stead, I gave you full authorization of my position so It's alraight, What happened last time won't Happened again, I promise, Your safe And so is everyone else, I'll make sure of that" due to what Happened last time I left the mansion because of the sky army and the whole duke azalea issue it caused a pretty bad trauma for all of the servants and butlers in the mansion, they grew fear that if I leave Again the same thing will happen again, Tsk! That damn Edmond azalea and stupid dipshit king of this kingdom caused them this! And I'll never forgive them for this....


By the time I return with the seventh key in my hand and ending this secret war the first things I'll do is to destroy the azalea family...


Wait for my revenge you damn idiotic father and bitchy heroine...


Enjoy your happy days while it last because The day I return is the mark of the end of your lives...


Sapphire kingdom here I come...

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