"Your Majesty!" a shout roared the whole chamber, a ginger haired male entered. The blonde man's scarlet eyes squinted in annoyance. "Marcus." he reprimanded before putting down the wine from his hand.
"Forgive my insolence your majesty, I just got a news. The phantom..." he stalled and bit his lower lip, hesitating to tell his majesty the news he gathered. "The phantom mercenary's leader... It was said that he killed a lot of assassins that were sent by the Flavian Kingdom and he obviously had the upperhand if only he fought more when he got cornered by the cliff of Agnius. However, he didn't hesitate to jumped below the grave of the demons."
The grave of the demons is basically a lifeless abyss. Because of the carcass left by the monsters and humans alike, it secretes a poisonous air that filled the place. It was a result of a 21 year long war. No living could even go near for they well surely die. And that Great war was won by the Emperor of Clementia, the man standing in front of the aide Marcus, his name is Magnus Caesar Lakatos.
Magnus's eyes widen and laughed hysterically as if he heard an impossible joke. That Grim Reaper from the Phantom Mercenary is dead? just like that? No, that's obnoxious, he will not believe it until he sees his corpse. "Sent the private army and find him."
"But your majesty!" going there will be definitely a suicide. He's gone mad for a man! However, Marcus bit his lower lip even more until it bleeds when he saw his majesty's dead piercing gaze. "As you command our imperial sun."
When his aide left, Magnus smashed his table causing the paper works spilled with wine to scatter everywhere. "Don't you dare leave me alone or I'll set the whole world in deep chaos. I may have lost my aura, but I'm still an emperor... Leticia."
"Leticia.."
"Leticia!!"
...
"Lavienne!!"
The red haired woman woke up in a panic as she clutched her chest. "What happened? You were squirming and sweating a lot in your sleep." the woman wearing a humble dress asked.
"I think I just had that nightmare again."
"Do you want me to fetch a physician? This has been going on for a lot days Lavienne." she caressed her sister's foreheard. "I am fine, Loreline."
"Just tell me if you need any more help, okay? You should get dressed now so we can meet with the duke for breakfast. He has probably grown impatient by now."
As soon as his sister went out of her room, her personal maid quickly tended to her. "Grace, who do you think father wants Loreline to marry into?"
"I don't have any idea my lady, but all i wish is for her Lady's happiness."
Lavienne looked at the unfamiliar person on her mirror. I am now Lavienne Aeneas, daughter of the Duke from Flavian. "But I heard something else from the country of Clementia, My Lady. It said that it has been the 5th death anniversary of the war hero and the leader of Phantom Mercenary, Lucas."
Lavienne looked at Grace in confusement. "War Hero?"
"Oh right, My Lady I apologize I forgot that you lost your memory for a momentarily. Lucas is the great hero that helped and protected the emperor of Clementia, Magnus during the Great war of the Demons. Do you know that there are gossips among commoners that the emperor fancied him?" Grace said teary eyed. "He eventually stayed with his corpse for a week like a madman before he agreed to bury his friend. I mean we knew that he grieved for his death but others think it was too excessive for him to not let his body to be burned. It was said that when they found the hero's body, it was already filled with the poison from the Grave of the Demons so it needs to be dealt within a day."
Grace looked as her lady's expression. She couldn't decipher either she was in grimace or it was something else. "There are already popular songs and stories from the pubs about the two of them that they even got popular here in Flavian. There you go my lady, you're good to go."
Lavienne looked at her reflection once again. It's strange to see her hair grew when it was so short her whole life. Her face is without a scar, her skin is fair and all she has is skinny bones. She looks so different from the Lucas the grim reaper that everyone knows of.
She's no longer Leticia, a slave from Clementia nor the disguised as a man, Lucas of the Phantom Mercenary. This body is now her life, She's now Lavienne Aeneas.
The servants opened the door of a huge dinning room to be greeted with a smile of her twin sister, Loreline and younger brother, Xavier. "Come take your seat honey." The duchess, her mother gestured her into her seat beside the duke. "How was your sleep Lavienne?" the duke asked as she sat down.
"Father, she got a nightmare again." Loreline answered with a sigh. "Oh my poor daughter." he sniffed and called, ")Butler! Fetch me the most skilled physician!."
Everyone in her family has an intimidating face or aura but it was actually quite the opposite when they are together as a family.
She has a loving family that Lucas don't.
"I'm really fine father. It will probably just be the same result, they'll just say that it's nothing and just stress."
She will never want to comeback to her old life even if she no longer wields a sword. "Sister. I brought you tea. I hope it will ease with your sleeping." her younger brother even bought her a tea. He probably got it before he went home from the academy.
She's at peace. There were no longer comrades dying in front of her neither was she sourrounded with cunning and vile people who wished for her head.