Miss Most Perfect Beauty
The Severe Conditions of Roosevelt Empire
“Your Highness, let's stop greeting you. Better now you go to Roosevelt, there is a bad thing happening!”
The report from Lulu messed up the atmosphere of Scarlesia's relief, as soon as they went to Roosevelt to ascertain the trouble that was going on there.
“What is this really about Roosevelt?” Louis wondered as he watched the scene before his eyes now.
“Why can it be like this?”
Roosevelt's condition was much worse than other empires that were also hit by problems, almost all settlements were flattened by land and people were scattered unconscious. Some places were burning fire, the sky on Roosevelt was also dark without knowing the reason why the sky here was different from the sky outside the area at this time.
Scarlesia ran over to take a closer look at the state of the people, without waiting any longer Scarlesia immediately tried to heal the wounds they had received with similar methods before. It turns out that the death toll here is much more, even so the number of survivors is also not small. Then Scarlesia looked at the orphanage where the children she was accommodating, thankfully they survived and not a single one was seriously injured among them.
Then Scarlesia did not forget to ask about who the mastermind of the destruction of Roosevelt, one of the people revealed that the mastermind of this destruction was a man who mentioned his characteristics exactly like Leroux. He said that the mastermind destroyed Roosevelt in just one flick of a finger, not many people saw the action of Leroux and only a few people who witnessed it languid. Upon hearing the confession about the mastermind, they immediately growled together, the annoyance in the heart whack.
Continuing after that, Scarlesia went to Duke Eginhardt's mansion because she wanted to see the situation there. Scarlesia was currently in a state of turmoil not bothering to think about the fate of Father, his two brothers, as well as the workers in the mansion. It had been a long time since the last time he had set foot in the mansion that used to be his residence.
“YOUR HIGHNESS!”
Several servants and guard knights greeted Scarlesia at the mansion. They greeted Scarlesia and gave her greetings, but something was wrong with the look on their respective gloomy faces.
“What is this? Are there any fatalities here too?” ask Scarlesia.
The mansion building had indeed collapsed, but his two eyes did not catch the sight of a corpse or anything. Scarlesia looked at them with questioning gazes, they exchanged glances as if reluctant to tell Scarlesia what was really going on. The aura of the mansion was so gloomy as if a bad thing was happening to the occupants of the mansion, Scarlesia could feel it but she did not want to be prejudiced badly first.
“Actually this is Your Majesty..”.
“AYAAHHHH!!”
Scarlesia flinched in shock at Carlen's voice and Aldert shouted to the father, his feelings uneasy as soon as the cries of his two brothers reached his hearing. Scarlesia quickly stepped inside the ruins of the mansion.
“YOUR HIGHNESS, YOU MUST NOT MEET HIS HIGHNESS DUKE AT THIS TIME!” intercept one of the servants.
Scarlesia ignored the servant's ban, she looked for the source of her brother's voice shouting.
“A-father...”.
Right in front of his eyes, Eldrick was lying weak on the surface of the rubble. His pair of blue eyes as well as his two ears let out a fresh red liquid, the blood did not stop pouring out. Scarlesia's legs are limp and barely able to cope with her body weight. Carlen and Aldert were at Eldrick's side and some of the servants there, they were shocked not to find the condition of the father so terrible.
“What happened to Dad? Didn't I just spread my healing power? Why is Dad still hurt? What's wrong?”
Scarlesia fell down sitting next to Eldrick's body, her lower lip she was biting withstanding the anguish of Eldrick's condition. Carlen and Aldert were speechless, and they tried to call Eldrick out in a loud voice but no answer. Then Scarlesia grabbed Eldrick's hand, which was only cold but his pulse was still weak.
“Quiet Sia! Cool out! Don't freak. We'll find a way out later. Please don't get caught up in your bad thoughts,” cut Aldert calms Scarlesia who almost got into her bad thoughts.
Scarlesia could not use her healing powers because the wounds all over Eldrick's body were directly caused by the power of darkness. His healing power would be of no use here, even if he forced himself once, it would be impossible to treat it. Then unknowingly Eldrick's fingers moved weakly, it seemed that he was beginning to wake up.
“Dad...”.
“My children, are you here?”
Eldrick's right hand was raised looking for the whereabouts of his children, Scarlesia pulled his father's hand and he held it firmly.
“We are here, we are next to Dad,” Scarlesia said.
“I can't see or hear your voices, I'm sorry. I can't do anything for you,” Og Eldrick, his eyes closed blindly and his eardrum ruptured and made him unable to hear the sound of his children.
Carlen and Aldert's cry broke instantly, only this time Scarlesia saw her two brothers shed tears, while she was still trying to strengthen her heart not to cry.
“Dad, it's us. It's okay, I don't need to apologize to us,” Carlen said.
Although Eldrick did not have hearing and sight, they still continued to speak to his father. What they say won't reach Eldrick, but they don't care about it.
“Are you guys trying to talk to me? I can't hear what you guys are saying.”
Although Scarlesia held back her cries, she still ended up breaking apart violently.
“Maaf Ayah, aku yang harusnya minta maaf pada Ayah. Aku tidak bisa menyembuhkan Ayah, tapi Ayah harus bertahan sampai akhir. Ayah….”
“Is my daughter crying? Why do you like to cry so much? There's nothing you need to cry about now. Stop crying, Dad is fine.”
Scarlesia knew her father was lying to her and her brother to stop crying over her. Eldrick is in a lot of pain right now, but he's sicker when his kids cry over him.
“I'm sorry Sia, Carlen, Aldert. Forgive Dad...”.
“For what Dad apologizes? Nothing to forgive. Father is not wrong whatsoever,” replied Aldert.
Eldrick's tears slowly descended mixed with the blood that kept flowing from his closed eyes. A chill was growing in his body, not even he could move his hands properly now. The pain assaulted his heart incessantly, an unbearable pain he was suppressing at this moment.
“I'm sorry, even at the end of my life I can't see the faces of my sons and daughters. I can't listen to your voice, can't grip or stroke your head properly.”