It's already time for us to go back home, but before we go back to our residences, we visited the empire of my lovely cousin slash empress.
"You know that we can't use the front gate because of the dark empire, right?" I told Rui. We are currently on our way to Yui's empire, if you're wondering.
"I know, but that is the safest and the fastest way to enter her majesty's empire," he said.
"Why do we need to get there faster than ever?" I asked him.
"Because I saw an emergency flare that came out of nowhere and you know that only her majesty's empire is the only one who's using flares as signals," Rui explained.
"Did something happen?" I asked.
"I'm not sure, but I hope nothing happened," he replied.
After a few minutes of driving, we arrived at the entrance of the palace. The guards opened the gate, then we entered the gate, they parked the car, then we went out of our cars.
"Empress," I shouted. I was about to run towards the direction of the forest, but Rui stopped me.
"Why did you shout the word 'empress' ? What did you see?" he asked me.
"Dark empire," I said. Just one word from me, he releases his grip.
"Your highnesses, we would like to apologize for what we will do today… we will chase after the dark empire's subordinate, so may we ask for your cooperation and go inside the palace and go straight to his majesty," Rui said, then pulled out a sword for him and for me. I got the sword from him and tied my hair.
"Where exactly are you going?" Yuuma asked.
"Ayumi, you should stay, you might get in trouble if you go with him," brother Yuuto said.
"Sorry, but I can't… it is my duty as one of her knights to protect her and this empire for the rest of my life," I said.
"Let's go, Ayu," Rui said, then we both jumped higher.
YUUTO's POV
Hello there, I am Yuuto Takahashi, the first son of Nicholas Zane and Yasmine Takahashi.
We are getting more and more curious as to what is happening in this empire. It is quite confusing due to its enemy, place, and people. The only people that you can see in this empire are her knights, assassins, maids, and butlers… you will not see normal people walking around the streets of this empire. The empire is surrounded by a wide and deep river and this empire is in the middle of the forest. This empire is also using a bridge that is able to be folded. That's why the enemies can't enter the empire no matter what they do.
"What do you think is happening?" Yuuma asked.
"Don't ask us… why don't we go straight to your brother-in-law to know the reason," Gian said. Brother what?
"What the hell are you talking about?" I said.
"He's saying… why don't we go straight to Liam to confirm if something bad really happened," Axel said.
"Liam is not our brother-in-law," both me and Yuuma said.
"Okay, okay," they said while raising both of their arms.
We just shook our heads a little, then we started walking so that we could confirm something.
After a few minutes of walking, we reached Yui's office with the help of her super calm head maid.
"Your majesty, your friends are here to see you," the head maid said after she knocked on the door.
The door opened and we saw the head butler.
"His majesty is not here," he said.
"Where is he?" the head maid asked him.
"Punishing the knights and assassins of her majesty," he said.
"Do you mind if you lead them the way to the training area? I will prepare a meal for them since their majesties, the emperors and empresses of those empires will be here in a few hours," the head maid.
"That's my duty… you can go now and prepare whatever is needed to be prepared for the dinner," the butler said. The head maid bowed to us and said that she will leave us with the head butler.
"Follow me, your highnesses," he said. We followed him.
As we get closer to some place, maybe this is the training field because you will see a mannequin that is made out of I don't know, maybe metal? It looks like metal, we saw a lot of knights and assassins that are doing their planks with both hands stretched.
"Your majesty, your friends are here," the butler said.
Uhm… shouldn't you interfere with what he's doing right now? He is currently emitting black aura and we can feel it. We looked at each other and we only had one thing in mind. There's something wrong in this empire.
"What's the news? Where is Rui and Ayumi?" Liam asked without looking at us. The way he talks is so cold.
"They already escaped… Rui and lady Ayumi are chasing after them, but unfortunately..." the butler said.
"They were also caught in the end, is that what you're about to say?" Liam said.
"No, your majesty," the butler replied.
"Then what happened?" Liam asked and looked at us.
"They were severely hurt," the butler said.
"What?! Where are they?" Liam shouted.
"They're currently inside the clinic… please calm down, your highness, remember the letter? You need to calm yourself because help will be here within a few hours," the butler said.
"Captain Michael, don't let them get up until dinner… make sure that they will only eat a bread as a punishment for not being attentive," Liam said.
"Yes, your majesty," Captain Michael said while bowing.
"Let's go," Liam said. We followed him without asking anything.
"What's happening here?" I ask even though I'm scared because of his dark aura.
"Yui got kidnapped," Liam said.
"She's been what?!!" we all shouted.