Princess His Majesty the Duke
Chapter 6's

The morning at the aldestrom palace was the same as usual the palace was filled with warmth after the arrival of selena, every morning the duke and cleve took their time to have breakfast together then after them they would do their respective activities.

After breakfast with selena is not as usual not returning to his room after breakfast he said goodbye to clara to play outside clara gave permission on condition that selena must return before dusk comes. Selena went for a walk around the palace until she was not aware of one thing she had walked very far when she did not feel tired at all when she heard the sound of running water she was approaching the sound of a beautiful river a lot of colorful flowers that are growing around the river.

"Well... It's so beautiful but why so quiet? when no one visited to see such a beautiful place" He said while folding his dress and folding his legs he played his left hand into the water and then he splashed towards the flowers that were around the river while busy with it suddenly heard a voice that was heard very loud out of nowhere the sound made himself shocked to splash into the water.

"Kye... "

"Yes.bajuku so wet" he said while trying to get on the mainland selena seemed to object to the dress she was wearing so could not be so free to move, he said, he slowly walked in search of the direction of the loud noise.

Until the arrival of the abandoned old palace of thousands of years old selena who was not afraid of what he now saw bravely he walked open the gate of the old palace towering with all his might his energy opened it so that he could see into the palace.

He walked along the path of the palace where every path was planted with cherry trees and wondered why this tree could live in a place where no one cared for him? he did not take a headache he continued his steps until he reached the middle of the road sounding sound that appeared like being on top of the cherry tree.

"Who's there? " Tanya with a face that was so wary of tightening the rabbit doll that was in her arms her eyeballs could not stop to one place every time she looked to the right she appeared to the left and vice versa.

Srq...

"Come out don't hide like a cat afraid of water "Shout selena with a gaze that is still so sharp in various directions from which the voice moves

"Well, well, I love your little boy's look" There was a man sitting on top of the sakura selena tree turned his face until their eyes met a boy with golden eyeballs,dense black hair and pure white skin stared at Selena with a grinning smile, the rain of cherry blossom petals fell towards selena who was staring at the boy who seemed to be the same age as her sitting leisurely on the tree.

"I'm not a little boy! you are not a little boy either... " Reply selena mendumel upset at the boy who lent her the boy when they were like the same age

"I'm different from you you know! " His speech was relaxed but selena thought he was making fun of and demeaning himself but that was not true because the boy was not a human he was a human snake species legend that has long been extinct for centuries the duration and scientists can only confirm if the snake human species is only 1 percent likely to live in the human realm.

"What's the difference between us and the kids?"the question was plain but made the boy laugh out loud he could resist the amused hearing the word selena

"You don't believe it, I'll prove one thing" The little boy suddenly disappeared from his place and immediately confused and looked around but around him there was no one and only himself.

Khakk....

Elsewhere in a room filled with piles of books neatly arranged on a bookshelf sat a man in the middle of a large table filled with white papers and letters from various kingdoms he seemed to be busy with everything on his desk he sat so elegantly on his oversized chair that he seemed busy being accompanied by a middle-aged man who helped re-examine the sheets of paper signed and stamped.

"Sir, you can rest for a while if you are tired" said aston see the duke's face that looks pale like never before involved brighter even though he put on a flat face though

"I'm fine, it's just that I have a bad premonition" replied the duke with a face that looked so worried he kept feeling bad since he walked into his study

"You can be special.... " The words of aston who stopped when a knight entered without knocking on the door and made the duke and aston look surprised were clearly seen the face of the duke who was annoyed to see this that had never happened before him

"Sorry mister duke clara told sir felix that miss selena disappeared from breakfast with you and the young master of cleve" she bowed her knees in the company of the other knights, the duke who heard it pounding the table so hard he rubbed his left eye he knew this feeling was very unpleasant.

"Do a command search for the servants to search around the palace and the knights search in various areas of the palace" The duke's word to the knights he immediately sat on his chair as soon as his world was destroyed hearing the missing utterance like 8 years ago.

The flashback

Where a family that looks so happy is enjoying togetherness in a room that is so magnificent, so, on display a beautiful painting on the bed there is a husband and wife leaning their back to the bed rest accompanied by a handsome and cute boy sitting in the middle between the two looks once from the stomach the distended mother was carrying a child in the stomach of her second child from her beloved husband.

"Dad please teach me like this young prince" said the boy, smilingly pointing his index finger at the fairy tale "The clever young prince. " His parents laughed and heard his little son ask the father who wanted to be like the young prince in the fairy tale.

"Do cleve want to be like a clever young prince? cleve doesn't want to be like Dad? " Task the father to his son who stares at him innocently his sparkling eyes are shown to his parents.

"No want! I want to be like this young prince he's smart in everything let's just busy writing and sleeping with mom, huh I don't want to be like dad" Her reply innocently while shaking her head invited laughter from her mother but not for her father loudly showed herself truly feeling under the forced smile.

"Cleve can't be like that, father is a very important person for this world he is a protector for everyone cleve will know someday how important father is in the eyes of everyone"The mother gently rubbed her son's head with a gaze so soft and warm that's the figure of her duchess saena.Cleve just silently did not answer he also approached her father lowered his head then without speaking which makes his father confused why with his son, Cleve immediately hugged his father adding to the confusion.

" Pardon my father, cleve was guilty of "His speech while circling his small hand to his father's neck in a very soft voice, the mother smiled gently at her son.

" Really "Answer cleve by looking into his father's eyes with a sparkling gaze because his father's words "he will cross the line of the young prince who is in the fairy tale book. " The father nodded with a smile seeing his son return to his cheerful little family figure.

After such a long joke suddenly the knight army came hastily they entered the duke's room without knocking on the door first and it made the duke so familiar and angry yet the duchess calmed her husband down to hearing the reason for such a sudden army of knights first.

"Felix explain what all this means? " Task the duke with a sharp look he got up from his bed and approached the knight army as soon as the troops felt a cold aura appear

"Felix explained to the master, suddenly a army of soldiers out of nowhere attacked the southern region and the middle Empire the emperor ordered for you to immediately take care of all of it" explained Felix who was brought to his knees right before the duke

"You prepare the horses to go immediately to the central region prepare the soldiers, knights and royal witches to come to the battlefield I will follow after this" His answer rubbed his frowning forehead after hearing Felix's explanation, Felix who got the order immediately carried it out before the knight troops left their duke's room apologized to the duchess for being presumptuous to have entered without knocking and disturbing your togetherness with the duke master and master youthful.

After the knight troops left the duke's room immediately walked closer to his wife and son who were in the arms of the mother for fear of seeing the crowd even more to the knights.

"I have to go stay in the palace for a while don't travel anywhere in this pregnant state I'll be home as soon as it's all over" The duke held out both his hands stroking the red cheeks of his wife and son

"Alright take good care of yourself make sure you come back safely" replied the duchess caressing her husband's cheek, the duke gave a kiss on the wife's lips then on her son's forehead before leaving her little family.

"Cleve take care of your mother and sister father will go home after everything is done, if cleve take good care of mother and sister until father comes home cleve can be a young prince" He stroked his two cheeks his son stuck to each other's forehead as a sign of promise for the duke and cleve by sticking each other's forehead.

"Good father" he replied innocently he did not understand the current situation he who innocently only understood if his father only summoned the emperor to the Imperial palace

The duke left the palace today to protect the emperor as a guardian knight for the world and gave all his protection to the emperor. After a few weeks after the duke left the aldestrom palace to carry out the orders of the Emperor as well as as a knight for the Empire and protect the others despite life as a bet but for a knight "To die on the battlefield is more beautiful than to die in bed" Yes, it is the knights he will be happy if he dies on the battlefield.

At the aldestrom palace the duchess saena ordered the butler to prepare a horse carriage for her to go to the place where duke aland was when the servants had prevented her because the place where the duke was located must have been very dangerous for her the Duchess is pregnant with her second child.

"Miss you don't have to go see the state of the duke master he will definitely return home safely later" Said a middle-aged woman standing next to the duchess saena but saena did not listen to her she only smiled gently at the middle-aged woman

"Mother...would you go see Dad? Cleve also wanted to join the cleve will protect the mother when on the road "Snapnya run to approach her mother who was walking near the lounge chair that stood right in the window to see the view outside the palace

" Mom will go alone dear, if cleve join cleve will be afraid to see it so cleve silent in the palace keep well as clara"Jawab mother rubbed her short hair sitting in the lounge chair it. Cleve also did not answer again he knew if his mother did not allow him to eat no decision his mother still he followed for him his mother is everything whatever he would obey her even though half he did not understand

The next day the duchess left the palace the palace servants faithfully stood in front of the main door for the duchess to leave the palace their faces looked sad and worried. But the duchess only smiled and waved her hand after the horse carriage slowly walked by the cleve in the carrying of a middle-aged woman who was always known as the trusted man clara in the aldestrom was none other than her what can be solved, cleve with his tiny hands waved his hand a little tear that almost fell from the tip of his eye but he wiped.

After a few weeks the duke and half of the surviving and wounded soldiers who were still able to be treated finally returned to the aldestrom palace after completing the task of the Emperor, of the many exhausted-looking knights who arrived at the aldestrom only the duke was the one who put on a face as if nothing had happened he walked with a happy gaze towards his camp.

But it stopped when Clara asked about the duchess to her "Why is the duchess not with you sir?" Instantly the duke fell silent, frowning at Clara why she asked him that question, duke who only understood if his wife stayed in the palace just smiled he did not respond to clara's remarks maybe for him it was just a joke that his wife made for him.

But in fact not until the room only emptiness that there he immediately walked to the cleve room and found cleve who fell asleep with a body that sweats a lot.

"What happened to cleve? why is his body so hot? call the royal physician RIGHT NOW" The Duke gave the order in such a high tone that he sounded out the room even more so with his words "right now" as if his tone was full of emphasis the students immediately called royal doctor clara to help other servants take care of cleve situation.

Duke asks clara and Aston for an explanation about what really happened? until his son is as he is today as long as he leaves the palace and where his wife is usually he will be most worried about his sick son but the duke has not found his wife until this time.

"Young master doesn't want to go out of the room after the duchess leaves the palace to meet you! we had already forced the young master to eat but the young master had refused him to this day" Clara replies as a butler who can be trusted by the duke who heard her feeling upset and one thing that is questionable if his wife wants to see him why until now he did not meet.

"Where is my wife if she wants to see me? Until now I haven't seen her" The Duke spoke in his big chair carrying a sleeping cleve after taking medicine from the royal physician, remaining cold, cold, bring and also relax his emotions stably however he is currently talking to people who are old from him.

"Master if I speak too presumptuously it looks like madam saena is missing when she wants to visit you" Aston replied

"How is possible! she must have been accompanied by knights to visit me why she disappeared, my wife is not an ordinary woman where she might not be able to fight the one who would kidnap her" The duke rejected aston's remark on how a duchess might go alone to the battlefield and it made no sense that the duchess was not an ordinary woman she was a princess of the western Empire the son of the great King nan strong was incomparable to him to fight against the small things.

But after months the duke lost his wife and had searched every point of the area he had visited his wife did not find any results. And the duke's family only lives with two people who are the duke of aland and the young master of cleve, cleve also did not behave as before when there was a duchess saena he would be spoiled tenderness adelio family also began to disappear windows that once bright illuminate the inside of the palace is now tightly closed until the palace so dark and the two figures who were once soft, friendly smile then disappeared and only remaining cruelty.

Flashback off

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