The Hidden Princess
Severe Depression

Xaveryn lying covered in blood on the ground, Reiner arrived just in time. Soon Reiner lifted Xaveryn's body and took her to the room for treatment. Reiner and Annita looked so anxious, however Xaveryn was his niece. Carefully Reiner bandaged the wounds all over Xaveryn's body, the girl's pulse and breath he could still feel even vaguely.

“How is this? What if something bad happens to the Princess? I cannot forgive myself if the life of the Princess cannot be saved.” Annita was really panicking instead of playing, the feeling of shock was still real while she watched Xaveryn jump down.

“Just relax, I won't let that happen, Princess I can definitely save.” Reiner convinces himself to save Xaveryn.

Various efforts were made Reiner until finally the pulse and rhythm of Xaveryn's breathing began to irregular. From here everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, now Xaveryn's life was no longer on the verge of death. Then Reiner asked Annita to speak to him with four eyes, it seemed like there was something Reiner was about to talk about.

“Actually what happened to the Princess? Why did he go so far as to end his life?” ask Annita.

“It seems that the Princess is experiencing severe depression, is there anything that made the Princess depressed before? It is very unnatural for a five-year-old to have suicidal thoughts. This means that his mental condition is really at the most severe stage,”, Reiner said, asking.

Annita was fixated on hearing Reiner's explanation, Annita's body slowly decayed, tears streaming down from the corner of her eyes. Annita did not expect the problem would be this bad, she did not expect Xaveryn to have a mental disorder without her knowledge.

“Mr Princess always said she wanted to meet with the Emperor and his three brothers, she wanted to get out of the tower because she was lonely while in this place. However, when I sent letters to the palace, the Emperor always replied that he could not meet the Princess. Is it possible that it caused the Princess depression?”

Reiner thought for a moment, this problem was not as simple as it seemed, as the doctor knew for sure that the root of the problem was not just that.

“Yes already, you go rest and re-stabilize your messed up emotions. Let me take care of the Princess,” said Reiner directly obeyed Annita.

Reiner came to Xaveryn's room, the golden-blind girl still showing no signs of coming to her senses. Reiner watched Xaveryn carefully while drifting in his own mind thinking about Xaveryn's problem.

“Is that the only reason Xaveryn ended her life? I'm not sure, a kid as small as Xaveryn doesn't really understand that. But, what's the matter exactly? Xaveryn was previously very calm although she was often moody due to loneliness,” muttered Reiner.

Suddenly in the midst of Reiner's seriousness, Xaveryn's fingers moved, cold sweat pouring from his forehead. At that time Xaveryn looked very agitated, her whole body was trembling for no apparent reason. Immediately Reiner did another check, he tried to call Xaveryn's name but there was no response from her.

“I don't want to live anymore .. I'm so tired .. why would a god give me a miserable life like this? Let me die, don't turn me on again .. I'm tired ..,” Xaveryn wafts in her sleep.

Reiner was stunned to hear Xaveryn mutter, at first he thought Xaveryn was having a bad dream but the same thing continued to mumble Xaveryn until her tears fell down the pillow.

BRAKK!

The leaves of Xaveryn's room door were shattered once a burly man came breaking through the entrance. The blazing red hair of the man seemed to shine among the dim light of the room, his two hazel beads glazed as he found the little girl helplessly lying on the bed. As Reiner rose from his position, he was surprised to see his brother, the Emperor, coming suddenly without notice.

“How is my daughter's condition?” jonathan Graziella – Emperor Graziella or none other is the Father of Xaveryn.

Jonathan hastily comes to the tower after news of Xaveryn, no matter outside in a rainstorm, he keeps crashing into bad weather to meet Xaveryn. When Jonathan looked anxious, his whole body wet with rainwater, the robe he was wearing was covered with blood. That meant, Jonathan had just returned from the conquest of the territory, but he could not wait any longer to meet Xaveryn.

“Your Majesty, at this time the Princess is still unconscious, I have done the maximum possible treatment to stop the bleeding in her head. Although the Princess fell from the fourth floor of the tower, miraculously she survived without severe injuries. But, that is not what I want to discuss, actually the Princess is experiencing severe depression. He was desperate to end his life because of the amount of pressure that hit his heart so far,” explained Reiner.

Although they were both Big Brother Sisters, Reiner still spoke formally in honor of Jonathan as Emperor Graziella. Hearing Reiner's explanation, Jonathan couldn't help but feel his shock, thinking that his daughter had been fine all along but the opposite was true.

“Depression? Why does Xaveryn get depressed? Looks like it's my fault I locked him in this tower. I'm really stupid,” shriek Jonathan.

“This is indeed your fault, Your Majesty, a child of the same age as the Princess should have received the full attention of her parents and siblings but you instead locked her in the tower. I don't understand the way you think, is it possible that from the very beginning you really wanted to kill the Princess? Such a small girl is prone to loneliness, you must understand it.”

Reiner boldly said that this was all part of Jonathan's fault, he didn't say it wrong because that was the reality he saw. Jonathan locked Xaveryn away from the baby in this tower, until now many people thought that Princess Xaveryn Graziella had died lonely in the tower located far from the hustle of the capital.

“Then what should I do now? Xaveryn won't die, ‘kan?”

Reiner let out a rough breath. “Let's talk outside, Princess still needs a total break.”

Reiner took Jonathan out of Xaveryn's room, they talked late into the night, even Jonathan did not sleep at all thinking about his daughter's condition. But something even more surprising happened the next day. Xaveryn again disappears from her bed when Jonathan visits her in the morning. Jonathan panics instead of playing, he searches for the whereabouts of his daughter and manages to meet her in the bathup on the condition of a slashed wrist.

“XAVERYN!” Jonathan rushes up to lift Xaveryn from the waterlogged bath. The clarity of the water in the bath was filled by the color of Xaveryn's blood, the girl again attempted suicide.

“REINER! CALL REINER NOW!” jonathan shouted an order to a knight.