YUI's POV
We walked out of the room and went to the back of my palace. Fire gave me my sword and Ayumi's sword too. As we got closer I saw my knights who all can barely stand up. I hold my sword tightly as we get closer to their direction.
"Who the f*cking sh*t did this to her knights?!" Ayumi shouted. Her old self came back, I guess?
"Your highness!" someone shouted. All the knights looked at me, then surrounded me.
"Don't block my view… and who did this?" I said. They looked at each other and pointed the direction in front of me. I looked at the direction and saw our previous head butler.
'No way, why is he still so young after all those years?' I told myself.
"Long time no see, your highness," he said. I clenched my hand and refrained myself from fighting him.
"Ayumi, you'll fight him," I whispered.
"Why me?" she said.
"Just do it," I said. She just sighed and started to fight Jim, our previous head butler.
Ayumi slashed her sword, but Jim dodged it. Ayumi stood up straight and faced the sword upward, then took a deep breath. Jim ran towards her and was about to stab her, but she disappeared in front of Rafael. Her fast movements are undeniably unpredictable, but for me, it is predictable. She stabbed Rafael from his back, but he did not spill any blood.
As I thought…
I stood up and went near them.
"As I thought, you're not the real Jim… you're just an AI that your master made… sorry to say, but you're a danger to our empire," I said, then stabbed the AI's chest and cut it open. I destroy the tracking device and get the important components of the AI.
"Everyone, heal your wounds, rest for today… and for those who did not get any wound, stay focused and make sure that no one will enter my palace again!" I said.
"Understood, your highness!" they all said.
I felt that someone was looking at me. I looked around and saw the royalties on the 3rd floor of our castle and inside the room of one of the royalties. I looked at Ice and signaled him to go straight to my office together with the royalties and other knights. He nodded and said something to the royalties, then I looked at Ayumi.
"Let's go," I said.
"Where?" she asked me.
"To my office… and it's a good thing that your skills are not yet disappearing from you," I said, then I started walking. She followed me and we went to my office.
"Don't let anyone enter my office… announce their names as usual and do the same thing like I trained you to do," I told the knights in front of my office. Both of them nodded.
"Let's go inside and wait for them, you can do whatever you want inside," I told her, then she nodded. We enter my office.
The office looked like the usual office that every kingdom has. A shelf full of books, a table, a sofa set, etc.
I sat on my chair and wrote a report on what happened today for the history of this empire. Almost all of the books in this room are the history of this empire. Starting from how did this empire was able to survive being an unknown empire for decades already. This empire is originally an abandoned empire, but the previous emperors and empresses of this empire died in an unknown matter, but now, I know what happened. The previous head butlers of this empire escaped from this empire after poisoning every emperor and empresses for decades after the previous empress of this empire discovered the truth. She and her knights fought with the dark empire. They killed almost everyone… yes, almost, because some of them escaped and built their second empire.
*knock knock*
"The crowned prince of the Firm Empire, and the prince's of the Frogerous Empire, Lion Empire, Deadly Empire are here together with your knights, your highness," the knight on the other side of the door announced.
"Let them come in," I said. They opened the door and I saw everyone. I mean Liam, brother Yuuto, Yuuma, brother Gian, Jason, Axel, Michael, Hailey, Thomas, and Brandon. When they entered the knights bowed down.
"Sorry for the delay, your highness," Michael said. (Ice knight).
"You may raise your heads… is Sugawara Rui here?" I asked.
"As far as I know, he's not yet coming back from his mission, your highness," Michael said. I sighed. I stood up and went to the window. I opened the window and fired a flare in the sky to call for Fire. I left the window open to let Fire come in.
"You may take your seat, royalties," I said, then they sit on the couch.
I sat on my chair again and put the important components of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that we... no, more like they fought a while ago.
"What is that, your highness? And why does Fairy always sit comfortably on your couch?" Thomas said. (Casanova knight)
"Do you have a problem? Mr. Casanova?" Ayumi asked him.
"If I were you Thomas, I will not speak any further or else, I will be killed any moment," I told him before he could speak, but not in a cold way.
"That's if you're me… but then again, you're not me that's why she can't kill you," he replied.
"Speaking comfortably and not respectfully to her highness as I see… I think you want to f*cking undergo another training with me? Mr. Heartbreaker?" Ayumi said. Hmm… looks like she regained some of her memories or maybe all of it.
Thomas is one of the reasons' why I erased her memories. She and Thomas are actually in kind of a relationship, but Thomas broke her heart and she almost killed herself because he cheated on her and he told her that she's just nothing to him and that he just played with her.
"Stop arguing," Carlo said, also known as Fire, who had just arrived and was still sitting on the windows' railings. He stood up and kneeled in front of me.
"You called for me, your highness?" he said.
"I wanted to know where Rui is?" I said.
"He's currently on his way back to your palace, your highness," he replied.
"You may rise… wait for him at the back of our empire and bring him here immediately," I said.
"Understand, your highness," he said, then jump off the window.
"Did you just say Rui? You mean Sugawara Rui?" brother Yuuto asked.
"Yes, that's his name, but why?" I asked him. I saw Michael closed the window and went beside me. I sighed, he's always like that… he's always staying beside me.
"He is from our empire… how did you know him?" Yuuma said.
"He is one of the people who followed me a few weeks ago… he told me that his emperor sent him here, but I didn't know his purpose," I said.
"Did you already meet our parents?" brother Yuuto asked.
"Throughout the years that I lived, I only met Liam's parents a few times already," I said.
"My parents?" Liam asks.
"Well you wouldn't know about that since aunt Serenity and uncle Lukas did not tell anyone about my secrets, and I know it's rude to open a conversation about the things that we talked about, but to inform you, your mother told me that I will be her soon to be daughter-in-law… Do you have any idea why she told me that?" I asked him. The royalties looked at each other while my knights together with Ayumi were shocked.
What's wrong with them? I looked at them confusedly.
"I think we should move out of the room?" Ayumi said, everyone nodded and left the two of us inside.