HAILEY's POV
I'm Hailey, the second in command for her highness's knights. We have known her for decades. We're literally older than them, but we looked so young that you could think of us with the same age as them.
I knocked her highness because we knew that she's currently not herself. She's that kind of person who gives mercy to anyone regardless of their sins or crimes, but if that person did not regret what he or she did, she's giving that person a punishment, either a light punishment or not, but she never killed anyone. We understand that her necklace is important for her, but we also know that if she kills that thief, she will regret it after killing that thief.
"Why did you knock her off?" the crowned prince Liam asked, while holding her highness.
"Sorry, but that is the only way to calm her," I told him.
"What does her necklace look like? Do you have something with you that will provide the design of her necklace?" prince Yuuma said.
"I have," Ayumi said.
"Show it to us, if you have it," prince Yuuma said.
"The heck with your tone? You want me to beat you?" she replied.
"Beat me if you can," prince Yuuma replied while smirking.
"This f*cking bastard," she said. She's about to kick prince Yuuma, but Ice stopped her.
"Stop Fairy… we need to find her highness's necklace first before she wakes up," he said. I just sighed. Same old Fairy.
"Tch… here is the photo of her necklace, we took a picture of the precious things we had so that if someone stole that precious things from us, we will know that, that is our precious things and that they stole it from us," She said while showing them her phone with a picture of her highness's necklace.
"This necklace is…" prince Yuuto said shockingly.
"Brother, it can't be…" prince Yuuma said, who is also shocked.
"Let's ask father about this, since he also sent Rui to her empire without us knowing the reason," prince Yuuto replied.
"Let's start looking for her necklace," prince Axel said.
"I'll inform our professor to excuse us for today," prince Jason said, then went inside their room again to inform the teacher. Prince Liam carried our empress in bridal style, then started to walk.
"I'm sorry, your highness, but where are you going to take our empress?" I asked him.
"To our private room… why? Do you want me to leave her here while finding her necklace?" He said, then walked again. Prince Gian followed him.
"I apologize, your highness," I said, then bowed down.
"Raise your head, Shadow… don't worry about your empress, she'll be safe as long as Liam's with her… also, calling you by your codenames are inappropriate here, mind if you tell us your names?" prince Axel said. I raised my head, then faced them.
"My real name is Hailey, and our captain's name is Michael, the casanova one is Thomas, while the other knight is Brandon," I replied.
"Then… Hailey, do you know where she last saw her necklace?" Prince Yuuto asks.
"I think it was after she changed her uniform into our swimming attire," Ayumi said, since she is the one who's with her at that time.
"Who's with you when you change your clothes?" prince Yuuto said.
"We're the last one to change our clothes," she replied.
"Our indoor pool has a surveillance camera right?" prince Jason said.
"You're right! Let's go and check it," prince Yuuma said. We then follow the royalties to the room where the surveillance cameras are connected.
"We're here to look for the records of the camera inside and outside of the indoor pool just a few minutes ago," prince Axel said to the guard that's taking care of the surveillance cameras.
"Right away, sire," the guard said, then reviewed the records of the surveillance cameras inside and outside the indoor pool.
"Stop," prince Yuuma said. The guard stopped the video.
"Look… after you went out, someone came in and went out with something in that person's hand," prince Yuuma said.
"How can you see such a small thing in that surveillance?" Ayumi said.
"There's a difference between the moment that person entered and the moment he or she went out of the shower area," Michael said.
"Huh?" we all said in unison, except for prince Yuuma, prince Yuuto and him. They sighed.
"Look," Prince Yuuto said, then take over the monitor.
"Here, when that person enters, he or she is wearing her cloak, but you can still see her hands, then after he or she went out, that person is already covering his or her full body, also, look…" he said, then zoomed in the camera.
"The necklace's pendant can be seen," Michael added.
"So, now… we just need to know who is the person who took her necklace," I said, they all nodded, we're about to play the video again, but someone knocked on the door. Ayumi opened it, she looked shocked, no, more like something or someone caught her attention. We all looked at the door and saw Rui.
"Rui? What are you doing here?" prince Yuuto asked.
"I'm here to inform your highnesses that you should stop now since I already caught the culprit," he said.
"That's nice! We will not face her wrath! We're free!" I happily shouted.
"Actually we're not," Michael said that made me sad.
"What do you mean?" Ayumi and I asked him.
"As if you don't know her highness… you know very well that she will still punish us after this… First of all, both of you stopped her, right? Second, you knocked her out, Hailey, lastly, I disobeyed her order," Michael said.
"Oh.. I hope that she will have mercy on us," Ayumi said, while crossing her fingers.
"I'll ask prince Louis if he could ask her highness to have mercy on us, or if we're lucky enough, I could also ask him if he could tell her not to punish us," I said.
"Let's go and see who the hell took her necklace, I'll f*cking break his or her bone for what he or she has done to us," Ayumi said.
"Follow me," Rui said.
We followed him as he said. I still don't get why that person took her necklace, and what's up with Ayumi that she looked shocked or her gaze at Rui is different from how she looked at us?