Philip ignored the floral imperial guards, but the fact that they even pointed their spears at Tenshi irked him
He knows that the guards won't be able to do anything to Tenshi, but his male instinct to protect Tenshi was activated. His negative aura started to grow slowly
At this point, the hooded figure was alarmed and she unhooded her head and revealed her appearance
She has complete yellow hair, golden dandelion eyes and flowered iris, and a wrapped floral handkerchief above her head. She wears a floral dress under the hooded coat with blue and white colors
*GASP*
Everyone around the crowd gasped in unison after seeing the person's identity
"The Flower Empress?!"
"What's she doing down here?"
"Are they going to put us in prison?"
"No one from the Skylar Castle comes down here"
"The Flower Empress of all people?!"
"That's why there are a lot of floral imperial knights around here"
"Why is she meeting with these foreign people?"
Everyone that's witnessing the scene had their own reaction and opinions, of course, the girl, which is apparently the Flower Empress, ignored them but Philip was confused at their comments
The Flower Empress raised her hand and she exuded a domineering presence
"Stand down!"
The floral imperial knights backed off and retracted their floral spears
"Good choice"
Philip exclaimed after the guards backed off, but they immediately became angry and tried to immediately apprehend him for disrespecting the Flower Empress
Philip turned his head towards the highest ranking imperial guard and glared at him
The imperial guard stoppes and backed off immediately due to extreme fear. He fell on his back and pushed himself away with his feet until he bumped into the crowd
"I said stand down!!"
The Flower Empress gave a command once again, but this time, she seemed to be controlling the floral imperial knights as they stiffened before walking away
"Don't trigger them like that!"
The Flower Empress spoke towards Philip
"Also, I don't know who this Mei'er you're talking about"
"Really? Then maybe I had the wrong person, my bad..."
"..."
Philip could see that the Flower Empress is agitated and excited
"Well, we gotta get going and find her mother"
"..."
The Flower Empress was shocked and Philip began to turn around. The [Blood Wings] erected from his back
"Too bad, she has obtained the Crystal Flower recently"
"Crystal Flower? What's that?"
"It's a legendary kind of flower. Only one of its kind"
"I only heard of legends about that!"
"Who has it again?"
"Does he know something about it?"
The crowd went in an uproar and the commotion became louder
"!!!"
This was the final blow to the Flower Empress. She reached her arm with eyes filled of worry
"Wait!"
Philip smirked and turned back around to face her
"Hm? What's that?"
"..."
"Let's not talk here... Let's go to the Skylar Castle"
The Flower Empress pointed upwards, straight to the roof of the giant flower
"Sure!"
Philip walked towards the Flower Empress and held her by the waist towards him. The empress was surprised and subconsciously let her body go to his side. She was her arms tucked to her chest with the flower basket and her face is full of confusion and shock. Her mouth is forming an upsidedown triangle from confusion
"Let's go!"
The [Blood Wings] flapped down and Philip darted upwards towards the roof of the giant flower
"WAAAAAAHHH!!!"
The empress cried out as the petals on her flower basket began to fly away. Tenshi followed through and left a trail of yellow aura
"Empress!!!"
The floral imperial knights cried out after they realized that the empress was abducted
As they were flying vertically, the empress couldn't help but let go of her flower basket from fear. She swung her arms and wrapped it around Philip's neck
"WAAAAAAAHHHH!!!"
Tenshi saw that the flower basket was falling and she caught it. The basket looked ordinary but Tenshi saw in a fraction of a second that the basket looks like an important object with a sentimental value to it. It also has some kind of crest engraved inside the basket
"This is too faaaast!!!"
Philip, Tenshi, and the empress zipped past through the stem of the flower, into the roof of the flower and around the petals on top, until they reached the top of the flower
From there, they could see a see of clouds floating on the surface of the petals and seeping through the gaps between the petals. Above the flower is the stigma connected to a giant floating island. Several waterfalls are falling from the island and watering the flower
Above the giant floating island is an ordinary large castle. This is the Skylar Castle, named after the giant flower under it, the Heavenly Skylar Flower
"Haaah... Haaah..."
The empress tried to catch her breath after she experience flying for the first time
"Hm... Your empire is astonishing"
"T-thank you... I never saw my empire this high. It is indeed beautiful"
The empress's eyes shone from the breathtaking view
"Hm..."
Philip began imagining something as he looked down on the Skylar Flower. Tenshi reached Philip in the air and flew behind him. She was then shocked after reading Philip's thoughts
Apparently, he was imagining a scenario of a giant meteor falling down from the sky and smashing the flower, or an orbital strike of a beam of light disintegrating the entire flower, or a giant fireball coming down from the sky, or the [Blood Singularity] eating down the giant flower, or cutting it down with Sword Concept
'Philip! Chill! Stop imagining things!'
'Oh shit! My bad haha'
Philip shook his head to remove his thoughts of the destruction of the Flower Empire
"I am Philip by the way and this is Tenshi behind me. I am the Fate Controller and she is, well, my wife. We are humans that visited the Spirit World"
"Oooh, I see"
"..."
Tenshi blushed behind Philip and she covered her mouth from embarrassment
"I can't give you courtesy here, but I am Bari, the Flower Empress of the Flower Empire, the Skylar Empire"
"It's an honor to be of your presence"
"No need for honorifics, you already kidnapped me"
"Ah, right"
Philip and Bari giggled at each other while Tenshi was watching them with warm eyes
"So, are we going to talk here in the sky?"
Bari asked in concern and excitement
"Hm... I never been in a castle before in my life, much less a castle of an empire... We could talk in your throne room"
"Are you sure? If we're going to have what we call the Presence of the Empress there, all floral nobility will come and become the jury. They're all going to chew you out when you're talking to me. Besides, this is going to be my first time talking to someone outside of the empire without them"
"That sound so troublesome"
"It is! You have no idea"
Bari was trying hard to force Philip to have a talk to him outside of the empire and he read this from her body language
"I would like to be in your presence in your throne room, your highness"
"What?! Geez, you're doing the honorifics on purpose to force me to do it... Fine, I guess I have no choice..."
"Thank you"
Philip then leaned forward and flew down the castle. Tenshi followed behind him
'Hey Tenshi'
'Yes Philip?'
'I thought we have to hurry up, but I guess we'll have to take our time'
'Is there are reason for the change of mind?'
'Initially, there are some troublesome individuals coming towards here, so I wanted to leave quickly after controlling Mei'er's fate... But after seeing Bari, I just saw something important within the castle, I just found my next goal'
'Oooh, I see... But what about those incoming individuals and those troublesome jury'
'I'm not too sure... I know it could be fun and it could be frustrating as well... But we'll deal with it once it comes. Else, I'll just kill everyone'
'That sounds serious... Are you ready to kill?'
'Maybe... We'll cross the bridge when we get there'
'Yeah... You've killed some beings, but we can't call them humans to have a significant effect on you, right?'
'That's right'
'You've also killed some people indirectly as collateral, so that doesn't count, does it?'
'No... Well, these people are spirits right? So, I can kill them without feeling bad or guilty'
That was a lie
Even though Philip can just manipulate his emotions to remove his sense of guilt towards beings that he kill, there is still a specific emotion that he can't manipulate yet since he never experienced it before. He still felt bad by killing future Saykeraborne and degraded Sai, as well as the village people in Camille's hometown in the past. The only person he didn't felt bad is from cursing Cedric until before death
'Right... Don't push yourself too much, okay?'
'Yes, of course... I would like to ask for your help'
'Of course!! I got you... That's one of my purpose in coming to your life'
'Heh, thank you'
'Of course! I love you'
'...'
'Hello?'
'I-I love you too'
'Hehehe~'
Without to anyone's knowledge, the [Love Shard] were flying in between Philip and Tenshi while spinning and rotating rapidly
Bari was look at Philip's face while he is hugging her from the front on her waist tightly. She still has her arms in front of her, trying to keep her large chest from touching Philip
"Should we enter from the entrance or through the window"
"Oh! Let's get naughty and enter from the window"
"Alright, incoming!"
Philip flapped his wings and they darted towarda the largest floral tainted window. He put his hand on top of Bari's head and shielded her from the impact. A thin film of blood energy wrapped around them. Bari burrowed her head into Philip's chest and slid her arms around his back and locked it on his back
'Guh!!!'
Philip screamed in his mind and Temshi heard it. This caused Philip to roll and turn his back and smashed the window through
Philip didn't control his speed and they were about to crash on the carpet, so Philip twisted his body and tried to land backwards on his feet as he tried to carry Bari in a princess carry, so that her legs won't smash through
"Kyaaa~!"
Philip accidentally swiped his hand across Bari's butt to put his arm under her knees
"Fuck! Sorry!"
"..."
Bari blushed and felt embarrassed after Philip accidentally touched her butt. At that point, Philip landed gracefully on the ground as his feet planted flat on the carpet while carrying Bari on his arms
"Are you alright?"
Philip asked Bari with concern
"I'm alright"
"Phew! That was dangerous! First time I've done it also!"
Philip went ahead and slowly put Bari down with her feet first
"Thank you"
Tenshi then slowly entered the hole that Philip made and landed slowly. She was pouting the entire time after she heard him scream in his head when Bari hugged her tightly
'...'
'Ah... Hehe'
Philip just giggled in his head
'If only I have bigger breasts'
'No no, I was just surprised by the softness! Yours is still perfect though!'
'Right right... Well, it doesn't bother me too much! As long as you're happy hehe~'
'Okay... I hope I could do something to make you happy...'
'As long as you're with me... I'm already happy'
'...'
Before Philip could reply in his head, a commotion erupted in the throne room
"Excellency Empress, what are you doing here?!"
"Who are those people with you?!"
"Are we being invaded?!"
"Are you a hostage?!"
"We just received the news that the Excellency Empress was abducted!"
"The kidnappers are here!! Alert the Skylar Empire!"
"Off with their heads!!"
"Put them in the guillotine!!!"
"Torture them!!!"
"Break all of their limbs!!"
"How dare they come back from the castle after kidnapping the Excellency Empress!"
"Gouge their eyeballs!!"
For some reason, all the floral nobility is present in the empress's throne room and they began judging Philip and Tenshi without respect in front of Bari
'!!!'
Tenshi flinched and reacted strongly after her [Soul Link] with Philip was suddenly and forcefully cut off
"Philip?!"
Tenshi called out to Philip loudly