
A person with a handsome face hiding behind leaves on a tree, he was smiling faintly at a crowd of red-eyed people, they were lavender and his team. The man smirked and followed where the lavender went, apparently their goal was the same. Meet someone they think is important.
But the girl's footsteps came to a halt when she heard a loud echoing voice nearby. It was unmistakable that it was the sound of people fighting each other. Lavender also felt a powerful magic aura roaming around here.
Without further ado the girl darted straight to get close to the source of the sound but she could only be silent when she saw a protective magic created before them, made him unable to go in and see what was going on.
The kekkai looks bluish-colored curved with a transparent lump shape neatly arranged to cover part of the forest. It was unmistakable that the color was a kekkai made by a great saint so that anyone could not break through it.
"Cih bother!" lavender grumbled, then he clenched his hands in front of his chest.
"I can release this magic easily." Said a cloaked man who was suddenly already beside Lavender.
Prince Kenn, who is still affected by lavender magic, pulls Lavender into his arms to protect him from the suspicious foreign man.
The man smirked, "Relax I don't want to deal with you guys, so you're safe,"
"Looks like you look familiar, have we met before?" ask lavender suspiciously.
"Of course, often,"
"Then actually"
"Who are you? did you just want to say that?" ask the man to Lavender.
That person undid his robe and made lavender flinch. Lavender was silent, suddenly the look on her face was tense. It was obvious that Lavender was very afraid of that person and hated him very much.
"A-dad.." murmured lavender with a trembling body.
"Tsk! you're too weak even your own father you don't recognize him,"
Duke Claoudie Kethzie was smiling at her daughter and held Lavender's chin up a little and lifted her up to look at her.
"Well, you have the same red eyes as me, unlike the outcast, your mother thinks you're my son,"
Lavender stiffened her jaw, then she brushed off her father's rough hand.
"Don't insult my mother!" the upset.
Duke Claoudie smiled faintly and turned his gaze towards the transparent kekkai before him.
"You poor boy, very thirsty for love but dear in your life never got doused with that unclean thing, besides I wouldn't give it to you even if you were my daughter,"
Lavender fell silent while holding back the upset in her heart.
"I won't let you hurt my sister!" lavender.
"My goal is not Alexa, but someone I've wanted to kill for a long time" Claoudie said.
"Sorry Uncle, but you better be careful talking to my future wife" Kenn said with a fierce look.
"Oh since when did the magic come off," murmured Lavender's astonishment.
"So you're the one who hypnotized me yeah,"
"Well, I'm not using you for anything bad" Lavender said.
"Well, I'm actually quite tired of just watching you guys but I honestly really want to tell you something, if my daughter who will be the future queen is not a good person" Duke Claoudie whispered to Prince Kenn.
Surprisingly the Kenn prince who heard that was not surprised but just nodded slowly. "I know, but as evil as he is, he still has a heart, unlike yours," count Kenn retorted.
"What do you know about me, anyway,"
"See, but from the way you treat your daughter, it already shows most of your personality,"
"Well you're right, I'm really bad, but being a good person is not my destiny" Duke Claoudie replied in a calm tone.
Prince Kenn himself flinched, he saw for a few seconds that Duke Claoudie's gaze looked very hollow and lonely but then he returned to a hateful gaze.
"Prince Kenn.." - Lavender.
Prince Kenn cleared his throat, "Well if I think it's not a bad thing to be a lavender slave, I just have to teach him more kindness," prince Kenn said as he clasped Lavender's hands in a cold sweat.
"Well, I'll let you two go free and won't bother my daughter again, Lavender I'll really give you up but. If she's alive later after I use it for my berserk tools," duke Claoudie replied with a sly smile.
"What did you just say?" ask Lavender.
"What do you think I would have kept you for so long if not for my current use" Claoudie replied.
"You really are!" prince Kenn's anger suddenly ignited his emotions.
Duke Claoudie who saw panic and anger on their faces laughed loudly. Not long after that he pulled Lavender's hand rough.
"Follow with me my beloved daughter" he said of course with a rejection from lavender who did not want to come with his father.
"No!" lavender then brushed off the rough hands of his father.
"I don't want to help bad dad!"
"Aren't you also evil, too, too, when our goal is the same, to meet with people we 'love',"
"Does that mean mother?" ask lavender.
A sly smile accompanied by a row of clearly emblazoned teeth was engraved on the crater of the handsome man Lavender called the father.
"Don't go with him!" prevent Kenn from taking Lavender's hand.
Lavender was so worried, she was silent to think, she really wanted Prince Kenn to stay by her side but she also really wanted to meet the figure she missed, Claire's mother.
"I'm sorry prince, but. I want to meet my mother, I've done a lot to get back to seeing her including dirty ways, if I give up now, my efforts are just in vain..."
"But I feel uncle will only use you,"
"I know, it's kind of annoying, but if I don't come back, I'll let you be with the girl" Lavender said as she turned the other way.
"You mean Lily?"
"Get up" Lavender replied, then moved to her father's side.
"But I guess I'm only interested in you, Lily is just my friend" replied Kenn.
"No.. You're just fucking me, aren't you?" lavender said with a faint smile. Prince Kenn flinched because it was his first time seeing a sincere smile rising from the lips of the beautiful woman. Though clearly every time lavender only issued a smile to seduce and have a purpose or a cynical smile.
Claoudie warmly welcomed her daughter's decision with a faint smile, after clasping her daughter's hand Claoudie went into the kekkai just by using her strength to penetrate it.
Prince Kenn followed but the kekkai refused him even though as powerful as his magic was, it would not be able to unlock the protector created by a saint, nor could he just resignedly let his fiancee fight alone.
"Lavender. I'm really good to you, but I'm also interested in you, just so you know that, make sure you come back safely." said Kenn.
Lavender closed her eyes slowly, she wanted to turn around to see the figure she loved but she could not do anything about it, she could not fight her father.
"I hate the love you showed me, it's so sickening, just so you know someone who says like that isn't really going to be faithful, someday he's going to betray you," duke Claoudie Kethzie says to Lavender.
"If you can, I want you to love me too" murmured lavender to her father. Lavender spoke as if she wanted to cry but she could not do that.
"Of course I'll love you, after you've killed someone" Claoudie said, stroking her daughter's long hair.
"If it wasn't Alexa and mom, I would have done it" Lavender told her father.
"Good, smart boy." praise Duke Claoudie on then hug his daughter slowly.
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After a while, they arrive at the place where Shun and Alexa are. Lavender was not surprised by the situation in this place which was already like a crater with a large hole that jutted into the ground.
While Alexa is still safe in her place without getting hurt but it looks like she's not okay. The girl looked very worried.
"That's it," said Claoudie, staring at a man who was his opponent, Prince Shun.
"Simply I want you to kill them both" Claoudie told Lavender.
"Can't, prince Shun it is..."
"Hmm?"
"He was someone of great value to Alexa, besides he was the prince of Arrenthia who was of great merit to the Frost kingdom, killing him was akin to putting forth war on the kingdom of Arrenthia,"
"I don't care, you just have to get rid of them, wouldn't it be a good sight if that prince Shun died in front of him,"
"Dad you really don't have a heart,"
"Botherwise, just do it, get rid of them, anyway if you don't want to do that, I'll order the black sect army I sent to kill prince Kenn and his friends,"
"Alright," Lavender replied could not resist.
Duke Claoudie grinned at the sight before him. "I retract my words, finish them off when I command you" he said with a frightening grin.
"Alright," Lavender replied again.
"Don't forget to use your heirloom weapon, I'll see from here, how you've developed all this time" whispered his father to Lavender's ear.
Lavender received her sword again with trembling hands, it had been a long time since she had used this terrifying weapon. This was a precious object of his that had long since escaped his grasp, he hoped that this thing would not get worse, just like his father.
From now on Lavender will fight to fulfill her ego, to achieve what she wants to achieve and protect the people she loves.
For someone she loves and someone she misses as well as someone she keeps secretly in love with.
Some people say that love is blind, this is what Lavender feels. When he loves them he will do anything to earn it even at the cost of his own life or that of others. To be honest she was just a girl who was hungry for love, and they were the ones who gave her a little meaning in her life to make her blind.
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