"So?" they asked in unison.
"The truth is that his first wife did not cheat on him, but she was set up by the dark empire… she was drugged and the dark empire's emperor took advantage to ruin this empire, same goes for the second wife of the third emperor," I said.
"What's inside the letter?" Axel asked.
"The letter speaks the truth and leaves him some evidence that will prove their innocence… the letter contains the wishes of the two empresses before they died," I said.
"What are their wishes?" Jason asked.
"Their wish is for the next ruler of the Flame Medusa's Empire to be merciful, to be someone who protects the innocents, and someone who will only use the cruciatu palace if it is the dark empire or someone who is gravely sinned," I answered.
"So that's why you're using the cruciatu palace? But why didn't you use it when you captured him?" Brother Yuuto said.
"Because I don't want to use those torturing materials, sister Lea is still pregnant, and no one can use the cruciatu palace other than the royalties of this empire," I said.
"Ok, we get it… but can you remove your arm from Liam's arm?" Yuuma said.
"Why should I?" I asked.
"Because we're against this," brother Yuuto and Yuuma said.
"Why are you against it? Look at brother Gian, he's letting me do whatever I wanted… that's why I love him," I said.
"Haha, you know that we don't want to limit you princess, no, empress… that's why we're not forcing you to do the things you don't even like," brother Gian said.
"Gian!" Brother Yuuto and Yuuma shouted and looked at brother Gian as if they would kill him out of jealousy.
"Both of you, stop acting like you're jealous even though you really are… remember that your sister became part of your aunt Amanda and uncle William's family too," father said.
"Y-Yes, father," they said.
"Why are you going to torture him? Do you want to know the secret ingredients that they use to add in the poison that you made?" aunt Savannah asked me.
"That's not what I wanted to know, aunt," I said.
"What do you want to know from him?" father asked.
"I wanted to know who their boss is," I said.
"Didn't mom, dad, sister Lea, and big brother Louis inform you that it's our uncle?" Liam said.
"Oh~ what you all know is where the lies came from… those judgements are the reasons that bring a conflict to each family," I said. They looked confused.
"What do you mean? Our spy told us that they are our uncle and auntie," Liam said.
"Who told you that? They're not your uncle and auntie… In fact, they're safe somewhere in one of the Flame Medusa Empire's people… they're living in one of our loyal people's residences to make sure that they're safe," I said.
"You mean, someone's giving us fake information?" mother said.
"Yes, mother… according to my assassin, they're furious because I hid the Park Family's relatives that no one knows where," I said.
"Is that the reason why they're after you?" aunt Jin-Ae asked.
"Apart from that… he is also the leader of the powerful mafia that killed a lot of innocent people that me and Charles, my ex boyfriend who died because of them, kept on defeating… we're killing his subordinates whenever they're going to kill someone or if they have an illegal transactions," I said.
"So, Charles became your boyfriend? Why didn't we notice anything when you're still a secret agent that both of you are in a relationship?" father asked.
"Because the enemies might use that opportunity to bring us down if they discover that we're in a relationship," I said.
I felt a cold aura from Liam.
"You're not supposed to be jealous of the person who is already dead," I told him.
"But he's still your ex," he said. I smiled a little.
"He's my ex, but who is the current one?" I said.
"Don't tell me that you're in a relationship with someone else?" he asked with jealousy. Pfft…
"Liam… you offered me your heart, but I didn't offer mine yet due to some reasons… who do you think am I talking about?" I said.
"I thought you're in a relationship with someone… If I saw you with some other guy, or that someone's flirting with you… I will definitely not let them go easily," Liam said.
"Don't worry… I turned everyone down before… you can ask brother Gian for confirmation… a lot of men are visiting our house just to ask for my heart, but they were all turned down by me because of how brother Gian looked at them, as if he is going to kill them," I said.
"You did the right thing, bro!" brother Yuuto and Yuuma said to brother Gian.
"But why didn't you glare at Liam?" they asked brother Gian.
I sighed.
There they go again.
"Why should I? I can feel that he's good enough for Yui, so why not?" he said.
"Yuuto, Yuuma," father said with authority. Brother Yuuto and Yuuma act like they zipped their mouths.
"Your highness, we've arrived," Rui said. I saw Ayumi outside the palace door reading a book.
"Ayumi? Why are you here?" mother asked her. Ayumi closed her book and greeted us.
"Greetings, royalties," she said.
"Ayumi, I told you not to greet me anymore… we're your relatives so don't lower yourself from us," father said.
"And I told you not to be formal to me… I don't want to see my friend bowing to me just because I am her superior," I said.
"Okay, okay… by the way, the bastard is inside already… also uncle, auntie… I'm here because I am one of her knights," she said.
"Then, shall we head inside?" I ask.
"Yes" they all shouted.
"Wait… I'd like to inform you that because of the blood and because the maids that are incharge of this palace don't want to clean blood stains, the smell inside is unpleasant... but don't worry, the tools that we're using are automatically cleaning itself," I said.
"No problem… just do what you need to do," father said.
"Then let's go inside already for some torturing," I said. Rui opened the door, then we entered the palace. Rui and Ayumi lead the way to where they put that bastard.
"By the way, did you check on the other knights?" I ask them.
"We did, but Captain is the first person to wake up when we get there," Ayumi said.
"Where is he?" I ask.
"He's embarrassed twice already, that's why he told us that he will go to Fire to receive a punishment," she replied.
What?!! It's not his fault that the enemy attacked us!
I stopped walking and went to the nearest window and flared the light to summon Fire, the leader of my assassins.
"Yes, your highness?" he asks when he gets here.
"Where's Captain Ice?" I asked him.
"He's currently in our headquarters to receive his punishment," he said.
"Release him," I said.
"But, your highness~" he said, but I cut his word using Rui's sword.
"It's an accident… release him at once or else you will be the one who will receive my punishment," I said.
"Y-Yes, your highness… I will release him at once," he said. I let him go then he left the cruciatu palace.
"Your highness… pointing your sword to someone is inappropriate even if you're the empress," Rui said.
"Father… take Rui with you when you get back to your empire… he's always lecturing me and I'm sick of it," I told father.
"But he is right," father defended him.
"Tss" I said, then I threw Rui's sword to him. He catches his sword then we continue walking.
We are now in front of the torturing room, but before we enter. I looked at Liam.
"Yes?" he asked.
"Choose your torturing material," I told him and I pointed out the torturing materials that he might use for this situation. He went near the selection of torturing materials and he chose the whip. Why is he choosing the whip? That's the least torturing material that will hurt a person, among the torturing materials that we have.
I was about to speak, but he spoke first.
"The best way to torture someone is to start from the weakest one right?" he said.
"How did you know that I'm going to ask why you chose a whip?" I asked him.
"It's written in your face, my empress," he said while smirking.
"Oh… then shall we head in?" I said. They all nodded, then I nodded at Rui and Ayumi. Both of them opened the door and I saw the Dark Empire's spy, who was sleeping while being tied up in a chair.
"Wake him up," I said. Liam started to swing the whip and it hit the spy immediately. The spy opened his eyes and looked at me as if he was going to kill me. Rui and Ayumi stayed on guard for safety purposes.
"I told you that I will not speak even if I die," he said. I smirked, then laughed evilly. The others looked shocked. After laughing, I sighed, then smirked evilly.
"Do you really think that you're the one who will be tortured?" I asked, then laughed evilly again, but just a little.
"Who else would it be? I'm the only person that you captured, so who else would it be?" he said, which made me laughed again.
"What if I told you that we have your sister? You're still going to refuse?" I said.
"Y-You're l-lying! My sister will never be captured by you and your subordinates!" he shouted. Liam whipped him hard enough for shouting at me.
"Don't shout at my empress," he said, while emitting a dark aura. The other people who are with us are now looking around the torturing place as if this is an amusement park or a museum.
"Sad to say, she's been caught by us,"
"You're lying!" he shouted again. Liam also whipped him again.
"Bring her in," I ordered Rui. He nodded, then he brought the spy's sister, Julia.
"Julia? How?" he asked in confusion.
"I'm sorry, they discovered that I stole the poison inside her highness's laboratory room… I'm sorry," Julia said.
"Willing to speak now?" I asked him.
"Liam, make sure to not let her talk more than what she said a few seconds ago," I added. He then nodded.
I looked at the spy and asked him.
"What's your name?" I asked him.
"Jacob"
"Who is your boss?"
"Brother, don't~" Julia's words were cut off because Liam hit her.
"I will not reveal who my boss is!" he shouted.
I was shocked when I saw a fast whip hit him.
Liam
"Liam, he's not telling me who is their boss," I said, then acting like I'm sad about it. Liam emitted a dark aura. Darker than before, and I saw that everyone felt it because they looked at us.
"Speak or your sister will be hurt," Liam said.
"We will never speak!" both of them shouted.
Liam changed his torturing materials into a spiky whip. That will hurt a lot.
Liam hit his sister.
"Don't speak, brother! Don't speak even if I die!" Julia said. Julia is now covered with blood.
After a few minutes of whipping Jacob's sister, he finally decided to speak.
"STOP! Please stop," he shouted, while crying.
"Are you going to reveal who your boss is?" Liam asked.
"Y-Yes! So, please, stop hitting my sister," he said.
"N-no, b-brother," Julia said. She's now laying on the floor.
"We're calling him Demonic A," he said.
Demonic A? Who is he? I'd never seen him before, but I heard about his name.
Demonic A, who are you and why are you doing this?