Moonlight After Sunset's
The Rose Empress's

"Changing doesn't have to be the same but if it makes you happy then do it."

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The sweet fragrance of roses lurked fragrant in every corner of the pavilion area. The fresh scent also smelled there unabashedly.

"Beautiful pavilion but dear..."

Luna was very sorry for this place, she felt that Duke was too biased and greedy. If this place is well maintained, then there will really be a nice beautiful view in this place.

"Miss, there." Xena directs the two friends to the location where he receives a warning signal from Muna.

They then go to the source of the signal. There they saw Maya and Muna hanging vertically and horizontally.

"Good Miss!" xena shouted frantically as she pulled the sword she was hiding.

"Hik...," cried Dusk in shock. He did not expect that Muna's personal servant was a knight.

"Don't be rash," snapped Muna warning her subordinate.

"Why do you think we stay like this if the sword can handle it." exclaimed Maya with a tired facial expression.

"I'm sorry," Xena looked messed up, she felt guilty as well as confused.

"Stay calm, let me help set you free."

Dusk then circled the area of the tree, he carefully paid attention to every detail of the tree.

"These tablets have a beginning and an end, but where?" mumbled as he watched the top and bottom of the tree roots.

"Let me just." Luna exclaimed while taking out her magic level.

"Choose..."

Not finished Dusk spoke, Luna's magic had already exploded and made a hole under the tree area.

"Jeez Luna, hachi...!" Maya sneezes hard. He shut his mouth because of the flying dust.

"I'm sorry." said Luna embarrassed.

"I told you not to be rash!" muna snapped even more annoyed with the ashes covering her face.

Luna wanted to get angry but she did not do so. she could only hold back her laughter when she saw Muna's blackened face from the dust.

"I have a solution" cried Dusk from behind a tree. He then approached the two and began to draw some tendrils that crossed between them.

Lama Dusk fiddled with the tendrils until he pulled a small tendril that eventually made Muna and Maya fall.

"Done." exclaimed Dusk with a relieved facial expression.

"Finally, I'm free too." The liberated Maya immediately rose from the fall and began to stretch her body.

"Miss, are you okay?" Xena looks worried. He helps Muna stand up from the fall and starts shaking Muna's clothes from the dirty dust.

"Thank you Dusk" cried Muna and Maya almost simultaneously.

"I'm glad you're free, but before that let's follow me to the tulip pavilion." replied Dusk as he stepped away from the place.

"This area is off limits, if we are caught the risk will be great." continued Dusk who was replied with a nod of the head by others.

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The night atmosphere in the tulip pavilion was so calm, there was no commotion either from the servants or the rodents. Even the sound of footsteps can be heard clearly.

"I have to be careful,"

Dusk slowly opened the door of his room which was on the second floor. Just as the window of the room opened the cold air violently greeted her beautiful face.

"I don't know if the night mood in this place is so quiet."

Dusk was early knowing that there were not many servants in his pavilion. But this calm state is a little awkward. Or maybe he just realized it when he really noticed it.

After a smooth landing Dusk immediately left the place. But only a few steps he was already surprised by the figure of Luna who was standing pensively in front of the window of his room.

"Is he not cold?"

Dusk looks confused, although it is still autumn but the temperature is already as cold as winter season.

"What happened to Luna? From the beginning of his arrival he looked sad. It's not usually like this."

Dusk tried to find out but he did not understand at all what the problem was. Luna did not even say anything to him and it made Dusk even more confused.

"Maybe it has something to do with his family."

Dusk carefully left the place. He slowly walked around Luna's room. When Dusk was at a crossroads, he accidentally heard the words of Luna. It really made Dusk shocked even he did not have time to cover his mouth.

"really that? Very devious." muttered Dusk softly while stopping his footsteps. He still wanted to hear more about it but Luna had closed the window, not long after the light in her room was dead.

"Just let time be answered."

Dusk is back on his mission tonight. He was excited and could not wait to explore the place. Arriving there Dusk immediately jumped down Tania aba-aba first.

"I accidentally saw this late this afternoon, when Luna accidentally made the ground around the tree collapse."

Dusk recalled the incident where Maya and Muna were caught by tree tendrils. As he was about to warn Luna not to use magic but it was too late because Luna reacted too quickly.

"At that moment I happened to look towards the hole and whether I was lucky or unlucky, I even saw this place." murmured Dusk with a feeling of pleasure.

"It's a good thing this place is behind a tree if there's no way they've seen it before than me."

Then he opened a small door not far from where he was standing. When the door opened, he saw a long hallway lit only by a few torches.

"What is this place?"

The feeling of twilight mixed, he felt happy and also agitated. I don't know why there was an amused feeling creeping in his heart when he started to enter the hallway.

Feelings that cannot be properly defined. He felt mixed emotions between anger and deep longing.

"This feeling is so alien, I haven't felt it in my whole life."

Dusk hesitated a little in his steps, he confusedly wanted to continue to walk down the hallway or turn back to where he had originally been.

"No, I mustn't let my guard down." murmured Dusk for a moment before turning his body.

"But this is halfway through," he said unhappily.

The confused twilight remained fixed in its place. He looked back and forth between the entrance and the depth of the passageway. Dusk began to speculate. He suspected that the end of this passage would lead him to the secret possessed by the Empress Rose.

"Either what he's hiding but what is clear is that this place managed to make my feelings go awry."

15 Minutes later after Dusk speculated on many things, he decided to continue on this journey.

The twilight continued to step far towards the depths of the passageway. He felt that he would find something big and dangerous for him.

"If it's too dangerous, I'll run away from this place soon."

Long Dusk walked until he finally saw the date child that led underground. Doubtfully Dusk set his foot toward that basement.

Surprisingly there is nothing special that Dusk found at the end of the stairs. There he only saw a large door with various strange carvings on each side.

The door was carved with a dragon image whose every side was pitch-black. Strangely in every dragon body there are rose tendrils with thorns that stick sharp on the body of the dragon.

The dragon looked annoyed but there was no overreaction. She just stared at the rose with Lily at the tip of her fangs. What a strange but beautiful sight.

"What is this place?"

A confused twilight tried to open the door. But unfortunately not a beautiful scenery that awaits Dusk but a black fog that brings Dusk to a long hallucination.

"I have to escape,"

Underworld Dusk began to warn him, but unfortunately before Dusk could react he had been swallowed by the black cloud.