YUI's POV
I opened my eyes and saw a white ceiling.
This smell…
I'm in Liam's room? But why?... Oh, yeah, someone knocked me out.
I got off the bed and went down stairs because Liam's room is on the second floor.
As I went down, I saw everyone. By everyone, I mean the royalties, except for my brother and Liam, my knights and even Rui. I smirked and got the capsule for the bow and arrow inside my pocket. When it formed into its original size. I readied myself to shoot Hailey, Michael and Ayumi's shoulders without hurting anyone even if they dodge the arrow.
I released the arrow.
"Lower your heads!" Ayumi and Hailey shouted. They manage to dodge the arrow, but for Michael? He caught the arrow.
"Where did those arrows come from?" Liam said who just arrived together with my brother.
"Empress," Michael, Ayumi, and Hailey said in unison. I turned back my bow and arrow inside the capsule.
"Nice agility you have there… but for some reason, I think I need to increase your training to catch my arrows or the enemy's arrows," I said, while going down stairs.
"Your highness, here's your necklace," Rui said. I felt that someone's looking at us in a different way, so I looked at that person and saw Ayumi. I smirked.
"Thank you Rui… by the way, why're you here?" I asked him, while he gave me my necklace.
"Just doing what should be done, also, it's one of my task to follow you wherever you go,"
"I told you not to follow me, right?" I said, while I put my necklace on my neck.
"Sorry your highness, but I can't do that, that's my emperor's order, so I can't follow what you have just said,"
"Do it or I'll send you back," I said.
"I-I'll try, your highness," he said.
"By the way… where's that person who stole my necklace?" I asked them. All of them looked at each other, that's why I raised an eyebrow.
Are they thinking about me giving no mercy to that person?
"Don't worry, I won't do what I said earlier… so? Who and where is that person?" I said.
"She's inside the punishment room," Liam said.
"Do you mind if I go there now?" I said, while putting my necklace onto my neck.
"We'll go with you," they said. We walked outside, then went to the punishment room.
I'm curious… Why did that person steal my necklace? I know that my necklace is a rare one, but why?
We arrived at the punishment room. Liam opened the door and I saw Patricia.
"Patricia?" I said.
Is she the one who stole my necklace? But why? Why did she steal my necklace?
"Why?" I asked her.
"Because someone wanted to confirm something," she replied.
"Who?" brother Yuuto asked her.
"Even if you give me a punishment and won't have mercy on me, I will not tell you," she said.
"Look here," I said. She looked at me, then I looked into her eyes.
She's regretting her action, and... she's scared?
"Someone threatened you, right?" I ask her. She looked away.
"W-What are you talking about?" she asked me.
"Don't lie… someone threatened you that made you steal my necklace," I said.
"Rui, Hailey, Ayumi call Brandon and Thomas, guard the door outside and make sure that no bullets, knives or even arrows will pass through this room... Michael, stay here, I think we will need the devices given to you," I said, they all nodded. Rui, Ayumi and Hailey went out of the room to call Thomas and Brandon, while Michael, and the Royalties are inside the punishment room, also they're all sitting on the available chairs that they could see.
We stayed silent not until I heard the code that we're using if they're here. I sighed.
"Okay… uhm, Patricia, do you mind telling me who ordered you to steal my necklace?" I ask her, but I can still see that she's hesitating.
If she's hesitating this much, that only means that someone as powerful as the Park Family or the Firm Empire is the one who ordered her to do this.
"Look, as much as possible, I don't want to interrogate you in a harder way… If you think that the people who are guarding the door outside are not enough, we will add the security," I said, then looked at Liam. He nodded as an answer, he's faster than my brother to understand what I meant by my look.
"They'll be here in a minute," he said. The other looked confused.
"I'll ask you again, who ordered you to steal my necklace?" I asked her again. She's about to answer when I felt an object went towards her at a speed of light.
I looked at her shoulder that now has a needle injected to make her sleep.
"Ice," I said coldly.
"Yes, your highness?" he replied.
"Increase your fellow knights' training for this whole year, unmotivation leads to no meal for the whole day on the exact day that they became unmotivated… Also, tell Fire to add a special training for them… tell the headmaster of my previous job to see me once we get back to the empire… and cancel all the things that I have to do on days 17 to 19," I said coldly, while looking at the needle that I took out of Patricia's arms.
"Understood, your highness,"
Why don't you let me live in peace just for a few days? Why do you have to involve my classmates with your evil doings?
I sighed, and handed over the needle to Liam. He took it.
"What am I going to do with this?" he asked me.
"Look at the needle carefully," I said. He did what I said, then after looking at the needle, his eyebrows are now meeting each other.
"They're still not giving up on taking what people loved the most and they never stopped doing evil deeds, even though they're been defeated countless times already" he said.
"Who is it?" the other royalties asked.
"Dark Empire," we said.
"What?!" they all shouted.