In the emperor’s palace, sitting alone in the main hall, Dylan was staring into the distance.He was thinking of a five-year-old girl with curls like golden sunshine and an imagination that soared higher than the birds.This little girl, being his granddaughter, spent more time with him than her parents.She made his days bright and frolicsome, the kind that coaxed the flowers to bloom and birds to serenade.They would go on little adventures everyday.As she spun in circles, asking nature to spin with her, Dylan would spin for her, both of their arms outstretched.After she was breathless, she’d fall back on the grass and stare at the sky and show him all the things she would see in the clouds. “Look there. A dragon is going after a fluffy sheep. Do you think the sheep will escape? Look over there. A ship is passing by. Is that a horse or a unicorn?”She would say both smart and innocently foolish things.Her sweet little voice was absolute enchantment, and Dylan’s heart would often

The capital city was surprisingly silent that whole day, as the nobles and the royals discussed how they should proceed with what the emperor had done.Before evening, they came to a decision, and then spread the news throughout the empire.Everybody was supremely shocked to hear the news that the emperor had tried to molest his own granddaughter, the princess of the empire.And that his punishment was ‘death by guillotine.’The news was a great shock to all those who had been blindly supporting the emperor, and they all felt like they lost their power and purpose.“Hahaha, so it was all an act?” Dracarius was laughing in his estate while eating lunch with Minerva. “I thought so, but even after I knew that you’d do something to flip the script, I still fell for your act. If even I, who knows what’s exactly going on, couldn’t see through your act, then I’m sure no one else will believe it even after hearing the truth. You really pulled off something ridiculous. Now, the empire will be

Ulmer brought a full case of wine bottles to the house because Rever and Mirianne wanted it. They asked him to join, but Ulmer politely refused them because his wife Ayana and her family members didn’t drink alcohol. He believed that it would be offensive to them, so he chose not to drink it.He was never a good drinker, so it wasn’t hard for him to abstain himself from drinking. Perhaps, it would have been a little more difficult for him to abstain from soft drinks.Ayana, once more, prepared the best lunch she could for him with the vegetables she got. Ulmer happily ate lunch with her.Suki, on the other hand, brought a glass of water and gave it to Kale, saying it’s wine. He refused to drink it. Seeing them both, their parents laughed merrily.Just as Ulmer finished eating, he felt two presences outside the barrier. “It seems we’ve got new guests.”“Just send them away like you sent the knights before,” Ayana said, wrapping her arm around Ulmer’s arm in a protective manner. She did

In the capital city, at the gallows, the nobles and the rich families have gathered along with more than half of the officers and knights of the kingdom.The event today was unprecedented. It was being projected through special devices, which allowed a live viewing from the citizens across the vampire from their own towns and villages.Most of the younger generation people who were forty years old or less were cursing Emperor Dylan for trying to violate his own granddaughter.For rape, the punishment was death penalty.Now, the emperor was about to get his head severed, so everybody anxiously waited to see this once-in-a-lifetime incident.The older generation people, however, had seen Dylan’s achievements with their own eyes, and they were finding it hard to believe that their hero had been reduced to this, death at gallows.The royal family members were all in the back. Neodus climbed the stone stage where the guillotine machine was installed.His father, Dylan, was standing with hi

“Regina… you do things only when you’re motivated to do them,” Dylan said. “You’re lazy, and you leave things for chance. You’re not fit to become the queen. If I had really violated your niece, then you should not lessen my punishment no matter what I do. Some actions don’t deserve mercy.”Regina’s jaw hardened.“Neodus… you seek the throne so much you do not appreciate what you already have,” Dylan added. “And you’re afraid to make a mistake, and you don’t have the heart to correct the mistakes you made. To put it short, you yourself don’t know who you really are and what you really want. Even if someone like you sits on the throne, you will not make anyone happy, including yourself.”Neodus gripped the hilt of the sword even more tightly. “What about you? For the past two decades, you barely left the capital. No matter what the people talked about you, you acted indifferent, as if you didn’t care. That’s not befitting of an emperor. You became inactive and disinterested, which puts