"oh you still have to report to my father! and i can still be your heir, after all, i am the ugly stupid spoiled princess!" after faes finished speaking she closed her eyes resting her head on the headrest behind her.
shiva still had many questions but when he glanced at faes he kept quite. faes still was not cured of the poison and must be tired.
"your highness! you woke up!" emma exclaimed as she noticed sky opening her eyes. faes too sat up straight glancing at sky worried.
"eh?" sky blinked and then sat up groggily by emma's help glancing around. when she saw faes sky smiled sweetly
"sister faes!" emma picked sky up before taking her to faes both sisters holding each other happily, elated that they both were fine.
"baby you have to rest but first take the medicines and eat something" faes spoke ignoring her burning body as she motioned for emma to bring something for sky to eat.
soon sky was eating herbal porridge with dry fruits sitting in faes lap.
"little faes you should rest too" shiva spoke after sometime worried. faes had refused to take medicines for the fever and even anti poison potion.
"i will rest in a while, why don't you contact royal father now? i am sure he will want to speak to me too; it will save me some trouble too" faes muttered the last part as she sighed. faes was delaying meeting her family as much as possible till now but it seems that she have to eventually jump into the politics and mess.
"if you are fine with it" shiva replyed "i will talk to his secretary to schedule a meeting-"
"no need i will call royal father directly" faes stopped shiva before calling her father connecting her watch to the tv in the room so that the whole room was visible.
shiva was alerted as he hurriedly tidied himself up straightening his back and standing properly. he looked like a clumsy student about to give their first interview!
....
king augustus was currently in a car heading back to the royal palace after his meeting with some officials. his butler was currently with him along with his assistant as he read through the report of the meeting.
as his watch rang he glanced at it instantly his face lit up as he picked up the call. but once he saw the scene in front of him his face turned grim.
"greetings royal father" "greetings your majesty" faes and sky greeted sitting on the bed in hospital gowns. although faes face was still covered with the mask he could see that both the princesses were too pale!
sky was pale and had to even sit with faes help even in her lap while a dragon in maid outfit fed her some porridge. on the other hand faes skin was pale, her eyes red while bandages covered her body; faes also have to take support while sitting and helping sky~
"what happened?" king augustus asked worried and furious that the two girls were in this condition. he can also see shiva in the room standing near the end clearly afraid of something while he too had some minor bandages around himself.
"greetings your majesty king augustus monesterio de altai!" shiva greeted bowing followed by faes and sky's companions before shiva began talking
"the battalion was under attack. we successfully defended the battalion and village farcas. it was all thanks to her royal highness that we are still alive" shiva said
"what?!~" augustus mind went blank for a while before getting confused but the fact still didn't change that the two girls were injured severly
"royal father, we are fine; the enemy had a vital refining stage cultivator, nine elemental strengthening stage cultivators, ninty king establishment stage cultivators along with nine hundred noble and knight establishment stage cultivators." faes spoke knowing that her father was not going to listen to shiva and her thought was correct as her father paled.
"its fine- we defended the battalion and village without any casualties. although many got injured in the fight" faes continued not giving her father any time to speak despite him being the king~
"they were actually not here to capture the battalion or anything but for sky and me. the red poison cult and we have some old enmity that brought them here but they arent going to bother us again for the time being or so i thought" faes spoke but her voice changed from confident to angry as she sensed a spacial fluctuation in the room.
"what? you!" shiva exclaimed as a young boy with red hair and eyes appeared in the room near the bed. gray and others instantly pulled out their weapons surrounding asuna who stood near the bed grinning.
"looks like i came at the wrong time anyways- good afternoon your majesty king augustus" asuna spoke. he had healed from the wounds he had suffered thanks to his half vampire body and healing pills and potions the cult provided to him.
"who are you?" augustus asked the youth; after noticing everyone's reactions he wasn't a friend that was sure.
"tsk! you haven't reported to him yet?" asuna asked shiva shaking his head before turning to augustus in the tv screen
"i am the vital refining stage cultivator who attacked the battalion yesterday"
hearing this augustus heart sank, a vital refining stage cultivator and that young! it was clearly not a good sign for his kingdom. but before anyone spoke faes glared at the boy
"asuna behave yourself! why have you arrived here?" faes asked but asuna merely smiled before pulling out two files from his storage ring handing one to eli who was standing between her and faes.
eli passed the file to faes after checking that everything was normal as asuna spoke
"i came to get your sign on the contracts and deliver this months promised items" asuna spoke tossing a storage ring to eli.
"what contract?" augustus asked as faes read the file confused.
"oh right! asuna wait for a while we will discuss this later;" faes told asuna before turning to her father
"where was i- yeah the cult came for me and sky. to recuit us both into the cult just like always. but i refused and hence they attacked;" faes cleared.
"you agreed to join them?" augustus asked grimly
"ofcourse not! i wont join the cult that killed papa!" faes immediately refused before her eyes widened and she pressed her lips tightly seeing that augustus face looked pained and guilty.
"i apologize don't take offence royal father" faes said.
augustus was sad because faes used to call him papa in the past but now she didn't even speak casually to him much. calling him royal father distantly as if they were strangers. but he could understand her emotions hence he stealed his heart and nodded, he doesn't need to feel jealous of king aiden after all he was already dead.
"what is HE doing there then? and what is that contract?" augustus asked bringing them back to the topic at hand.
"the cult leader and i had an agreement to not meddle in each others affairs anymore that is this contract along with few others, as for asuna he is my new assistant the cult have sent to work for me" faes spoke.
"assistant?" shiva and augustus exclaimed together with everyone else while asuna grinned