I Don’t Want This Bad Ending

Adam, George, Izzy, Louise and Edrich looked at each other as Silvester hugged Adelyn and wouldn't budge because of the force he was giving.

While everyone was baffled at what was happening, George was looking at Adelyn intently.

He was there when his highness, Crown Prince Silvester, found the hidden room inside the Royal room.

And there was a little fountain inside that was so out of place because it seems as though a dust never lands on it as the fountain is made of black marble stone.

There was also a stone tablet whereas the letters are from the old age, but Silvester has no problem reading it as he studied the basic letters of the ancient literature.

As Silvester read the words at the stone tablet, he was confused at what it said.

"What thou seek in thy heart can be seen in thou future, past and thy present. If shalt thou seek answers to this, thee should wish with all thy soul but what thou seek should exchange with the blood of ichor's descendants"

Silvester scrunched his face. The Kingdom of Perspiru have long history and said to have a god descended upon them and choose individuals that will lead the Kingdom into peace when chaos started to fall the world.

But no one knew if it was true as it isn't recorded in history and only passed down by the mouth of every King that sat on the throne.

The God was said to be Perula. As he leaves the land of mortal world after leading the land to peace along with the people he chose to be the foundation of the new era, he leaves a portion of his powers and blood to the first King that he chose after the war. 

The only evidence they have is the history of Perspiru where it said as the first King paid tribute to the God who gave light to their land, and they named the Kingdom after its name – Kingdom of Perspiru, meaning the land of peace and spirits. That's why the Kingdom of Perspiru don't discriminate race as long as it's not a monster who harms people.

And thus, the King's always say to their descendants that the blood of the Royal Family of the Kingdom of Perspiru are special but the recent Kings of Perspiru never believe in it.

Silvester bit his lip. He doesn't know if what he learned from his ill father is true but since he's here, he takes his chance.

He needs to learn what happened and if her cousin has really died during the fire incident in the Academy. He needs an answer to his question from Evelyn.

If she had really died that day, he at least wanted to summon her spirit as they are in the land of Stygian which is the world between the mortal and the underworld and asked her questions.

Without doubt, Silvester picked his sword and slash his wrist so that Sir George didn't have time to react and only saw the dripping blood flowing to the blurry water of the strange fountain.

"Your highness…!"

He was shocked at what his highness did and why he was struggling to come to the Stygian ruins that was said that no one can come back as it was the land of the dead.

*drip! *drip!

The blood is still spilling from his wrist going to his palm and dripping from his fingertips. The pain isn't enough for him to stop to find the answers, it was a small amount to pay if it will lead to what he wants. Because he needs to prepare for what will happen in the future.

The blurry water became red as it was stained with the blood of Silvester and along with it the ground shake as a loud banging can be heard from the four walls of the hidden room that he found at the back of the fireplace of the royal room.

*thud! *thud!

"Your highness please be careful!" Sir George said.

Rubbles from the ceiling started to pour and clashed to the hard floor of the hidden room. After a minute of shaking the strange fountain made a sound.

The water from the strange fountain was also shaking and the red blood moved like it had its own life. It formed letters from the ancient language.

"What thee seek isn't far. What thee thought is what the answers to thy question from thy heart. Open thine eyes and thee will see what thy looking for."

Its words are vague but at the same time it was also the definite answer.

"What's the meaning of this?" Silvester asked and pondered.

"What I seek isn't far? What I thought is the answer to the question of my heart?" he continued, then his heart beat harder as he remembered what he thought a few days ago.

He looked at the door, behind the heavy metal door was the only woman at the party. The face she made when she saw the ring that he showed to open the door was the look of disbelief. He shrugged it off, but it was etched into his mind.

He also remembered the solemn face of Evelyn when she said that she has plans after she found out that he was her cousin.

If what he speculates was the truth, then every missing puzzle seems to fit the big picture that he thinks her cousin planned.

Silvester recalled every bit of instances that the lady was resembling her cousin.

"It can't be…"

He ran to the door with all her might. He needs to know if what he thought was the truth as what was said in the strange fountain.

There he saw the silhouette of the lady pacing back and forth, the time she faced the door, and their eyes met each other, Silvester's head rang and saw the words again from the back of his head.

He closed his eyes as the words struck his head.

'Open thine eyes and thee will see what thy looking for …'

He takes a deep breath and slowly opens his eyes. In his vision, his blue eyes meet the sunset eyes of the lady with a mask. Her hair was also the familiar ombre color that he knew, the silky black and the tips were silver-blue. The proof that she was a descendant of Emsworth.

Silvester trembled. He didn't know that what he was searching for so long has always been within his grasp. He ran like a bull. He was afraid that she would be gone when he blinks his eyes for a split of a second.

He hugged her. The hug was firm, his hands were shaking as he held Adelyn, his voice didn't want to come out from his mouth, he couldn't believe it and with force, he tried to let his voice out.

With his quivering voice, he whispered to Adelyn's ear.

"I'm glad… I'm really glad… Evelyn."

Adelyn… no, Evelyn who heard his cousin's quivering voice seems to have weakened. It's been so long since someone called her real name with compassion.

But she thought of how to respond and nothing seems to come to her mind and only the thought of 'how?'

She looked at her shoulder, there was still her disguise. The chestnut locks that Chrisfold bestows to her.

'So, how? Does it have to do with the thing he did inside?' she thought.

As curiosity seems to be winning her over, she decided to brush it off and asked Silvester.

"What do you mean? Whose Evelyn?" she said.

Silvester watched her shocked eyes… in his vision, it was still that familiar sunset eyes.

"I knew you're alive…"

"I don't know…"

She stopped her words. She knew that what she was doing was digging her own grave, she had inflicted enough scars and she decided that she will apologize when the time comes. When everything is settled, she can live life with no harm in her surroundings.

Silvester watched her as she questioned what he said. He fakes a cough.

His emotions overcame his mind and did something in front of his subordinates that he knew he never did, became emotional.

'He seems to realize what he did… Now, tell me that you just made a mistake.' Adelyn… no, Evelyn thought.

She desperately wished that he didn't know and also hoped that it wouldn't.

She laughed at how contradicting her mind and heart is. Even if she abandoned her place because she wants to survive, there are times that she looks back and thinks things through.

The "what if's" that she had swirling in her mind, the thoughts of having a family that she truly loved and becoming filial to her family as she watched them bond and grow old together.

Evelyn smiled. Her smile is bitter, one that was wishing that everything could go back the way it is. Her family that she had when she was a child, alas… it falls apart when some vicious people sealed her memory.

She heaved a sigh as he looked at Silvester's blurry eyes.

"Eve… please, don't deny it. I'm begging you,"

Evelyn was shocked to see Silvester pleading to her, she tried to force answering a no and deny it, her face was crumpled as her resolve weakened with Silvester's blue eyes that tears seemed to stream down in any moment and that her conscience was prickling her.

"Let's talk… but before that let's treat your wrist first"