The Queen of Vasellica Moon's
The Visible Conceit II

...Love comes to those who are still hopeful after the disappointment - who still believe after the betrayal, and who still love after they are hurt....

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"Molie can you find Apollo's palace in the middle of the pine forest?"

Lucy sees her best friend; staring inside as if begging the fox to help her.It will be very difficult for Lucy to find the location of the palace, because he believes Kendric has installed a magic pattern so that the location can not be penetrated. But Lucy believes that Molie will be able to find her.

"I beg ...,"

Molie drew himself closer while stroking Lucy using his head as a form of attention. "Daughter, get on my back. I'll take you to his castle."

Lucy listens to Molie-she riding her dashing fox. And in a fist, Molie immediately jumped high and far through the colorless wind herd and then fell landing very well right in the middle of the pine forest. His four gallant legs ran very lightly as if resting on the snow was not a difficult thing for him.

The movement of Molie so fast that Lucy must protect her face from snow flakes that feel sharp and when the wind blows increasingly strong coupled with the aggressive movement of Molie, the movement of, the feeling of the wind touching Lucy's skin increasingly feels like a thorn that erodes her skin.

The vast forest with minimal lighting from the sun makes this forest much darker and gloomy, especially with the condition of towering trees as if to reach space.

Molie ran north, jumping over some large rocks buried under the snow. Within 10 meters, Molie had taken a swing to jump back. With an unclear distance of sight Lucy only realized that Molie was taking a fairly extreme direction.

Because in front of them was a high-cliff-with the river downstream that had frozen beneath its ravine.

"Daughter, hold on very firmly to me" said Molie, who was joined directly by Lucy.

When the preparation is ready. Molie just jumped back to the bottom. And when the first blow as Molie's footing to land, managed to crack downstream of the river is quite large. Fortunately the crack did not make his ice sheet crumble.

Molie again ran along the river to a place that would lead them to the old palace of Apollo. Molie knew exactly how Kendric's magic would work to trap his opponent, therefore he chose to take a detour past his edge.

Lucy's necklace given by her mother. The light and a star-shaped magic pattern broke the magic that tried to cover his palace - now it has been seen again.

Molie ran over to scrape the distance, then slowed down the pace when they had made it to the front of the gate.

Lucy came down from Molie's back. The same place and environment felt familiar to him. He remembered there was a hole near the large wall as the gate of his palace. Lucy went down the wall until she found the gap.

And as his feet climbed the vast courtyard of the palace, there he really understood why Robert wanted to prevent him from entering and instead he made the place a hunt because many wild animals as the reason.

Although he did not possess the Demon gene perfectly, he was still his descendant, so the scent of blood and the sensitive feeling of the number of deaths he had killed was so good he could feel it.

No matter how great they hide or without the need for a corpse lying in his yard, Lucy already knows that so many lives have been lost in this land.

Lucy approached her palace feeling nervous. He opened the main door-walking blankly as he climbed each of the steps that had an upper-floor branch, the look on his face no longer showed a friendly smile but a flat gaze - walking straight up each staircase to the top floor.

The magnificent palace without any occupants occupying it even though it was a servant though. Lucy looks so limp that she has to hold on to the ladder divider, when all Lily's sayings about her whereabouts and what's inside become clear, and just find one thing to prove that Lily wasn't lying to him.

Lucy managed to enter the fourth floor area that looks much more rundown and unkempt than the previous floor. Funny steps get heavier when a gold-plated door becomes the most interesting thing in the middle of the darkness, making him even more frightened.

Afraid that all this was just the game, afraid that what Lucy was trying to believe would be a foolish assumption. Lucy stops at the door, but must muster up her courage to open the door and becomes increasingly anxious that what she sees is what she least wants to know.

Both of Lucy's hands became cold sweaty and a small vibration was clearly visible from her fingers. Lucy took a deep breath trying to calm herself down so she was ready if all that was true.

Lucy touched the golden door slowly making the whistle of the door sound enormous. Molie does not choose to follow in, he just sits quietly while watching Lucy walk into the darkroom room with a lantern that he had taken because it was hanging on the side of the door.

The first thing Lucy saw was darkness, probably because some large curtain drapery dangled from above and fell on the floor very thickly. It is very difficult for the Sun to break through. But that doesn't mean Lucy can't see well.

Instead, his attention was focused on a large framed object displayed facing the door. A portrait painting that looks very old and shabby but well maintained, became the first thing he managed to see.

Lucy approaches a painting that may be an object that has previously been a legend rumor in the Apollo region. Carefully, Lucy directs her lantern closer to the painting so that the light is able to show the face of the painting.

Lucy was speechless when the beautiful face that had truly become so familiar in her dreams was now very well described before her. The figure of the woman he kept seeing over and over again so that he was fed up with the instructions given about her, he said, the woman who had the fate of living a terrible life and had to die was killed at the hands of a human just because of an absurd accusation.

The mane of her black hair and also her dark night eyes that are as beautiful as pearls, is the face that Lucy had admired-sang Goddess Vernitysha. But Lucy is disappointed not because of the relationship between them but rather, she is disappointed that who is the most liar here is her own lover.

"Lucy ....,"

The gentle call that Lucy has always liked now sounds like a mockery, when the figure that Lucy is considering is present at a very time - whether it should be said to be fitting or it is a really unlucky thing.

Within five meters of him stood. A couple tied up in Mate's relationship stare at each other in the middle of the room. Kendric rushes out of the border in such a hurry that the newspaper sent by Sylvia is the most urgent thing, that Lucy is now beginning to figure out the Alabasta disaster.

Of course Kendric knew this could not be ignored, so Kendric with dark eyes finished off the holy spirits who had been exposed to the curse of Krhanos and immediately ran towards the palace of Apollo.

Somehow having to convey it, his premonition said that all was over, his beautiful days with his beloved Mate would soon be over if he ignored an object that was stored worthily on the fourth floor of the Apollo palace. While trying maybe Kendric really wants to keep it a secret because it concerns the figure of Lucy who has become part of the destiny of a Robin.

"This time, what secret do you want to show me?"

"Lucy I don't mean to cover anything from you. I, I-I-" Kendric looks like he's clenching his teeth, he's too mute to be able to explain all these lies.

Seeing Kendric who does not have the confidence to be able to say everything makes Lucy furious and very, very disappointing.

"You know Kendric, rumor has it that you have a painting of a woman you love. Great news I didn't know about that." Lucy walked over.

"But I don't believe the rumors at all, because I know that the woman in the painting isn't your Mate and I'm the Mate you've been waiting for a long time, that's what you told me first. Or if it's true that you love me just because I have such a resemblance to him as Robin, I won't take issue with him. I'll still love you Kendric-hiks!"

"But the thing that makes me most angry, and disappointed, is when I find out who you are in this world through other people. A fact that even-maybe, I wouldn't have known if nobody had told me."

Lucy pointed while saying all her accumulated annoyance to the man before her.

"Baginda Kendric Athananysous Helios? His Majesty the Emperor? Sun God?" Kendric silently looked at all his Mate anger that was really beyond his shadow.

"When did your name change? Since when did your title become Maharaja? And since when is your status a God in Imorrtal this is Kendric!"

Kendric growled, he could not help it anymore let alone look at his Mate to cry like that. "Yes! The name, title, and status you asked me about, it was all me. I am the Emperor of the Gods, I hold all the destinies of living beings. But how would I say that if I were the one you hate the most, how would you believe and accept me if I were just part of the God caste that you completely ignore."

"I wouldn't know if you didn't say it. Kendric, you know best why I hate Gods." Lucy clutching Kendric's clothes.

"Because the Gods didn't say which destiny and choice I should make. If you really want me to be with you, where were you when I needed that answer? Where were you when I got hurt just because of Mate's game, if Harlie wasn't my Mate-you should have said it in the first place so I didn't misunderstand you."

"Kendric, I'm suffering, I'm hurt feeling claustrophobic while trapped for hundreds of years just to hope there's a backlash from a guy who's not really my mate."

"Lucy, how can I not ignore you if every moment your expectations are shown just for her-you want your feelings to be reciprocated while I'm your Mate?"

"That's why I need answers and explanations, if indeed you really loved me not from the first time you came and prevented it."

"If I say that, will you just believe me?"

"Yes, I'll try to believe it. Kendric, don't you think how crazy I was when I was - a Vasilissa, a woman who was destined to be accepted in the hearts of Kings; toyed with just because she was born special, she said, his love comes like a killer and I have to choose one among dozens or even hundreds of kings."

"You've just faced Harlie, only one King. What if the kings wanted me, would you ignore me as well and reason for not being able to see her Mate together with the other men? Whereas I just need your position to be my trust, I need your figure-show that you deserve to be Mate and Vasilias for me."

"Lucy I proved it. As you said to me, I love you sincerely, I don't ignore you, I don't reject you, I don't turn away from you---"

"But you betrayed my trust, Kendric! Hiks, you can be naive, you can be selfish. But you need to know, the problem is-you can't tell me the truth."

"You are indeed the Emperor, so easily you retaliate against Harlie for his treatment. Keep it a secret what's going on out there, as if everything would be fine if I didn't know it. No matter how strong you are, how tall your status is, it is meaningless if you are too cowardly to tell the real reason!"

"Lucy me, I just want you not to get hurt any worse - and I just want you to stay with me, is that wrong?"

Lucy shook her head, "you're not wrong, but you can't be that greedy, did you ever give me a chance to argue, without having to use the word parable when what you want to ask is your own figure."

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"No, right?! Now answer me. What's your business out there and your reason for not letting me out of the Apollo-region because there might have been a major disaster out there?"

Kendric could not deny it anymore, too many lies that he covered so that the fear of losing his figure became real.

"really. Earth, Darkness World, and Imorrtal are not doing well. But believe me, I intend to say it all after finishing all this. You just have to wait and stay well in my palace, just a minute I'll show you freedom."

"If you think like that, you don't really set me free-you just get a little more in my way. Then, if I keep quiet, you can solve Alabasta's disaster?"

Lucy understands more and more why she can't find out what the Alabasta disaster is, because Kendric is too covering up the truth.

"Now I understand it. The reason you didn't allow me to interact with Tyrsha, is because you don't want me to know anything about Vernitysha--- Because this disaster is about Robin but you're keeping it a secret."

Lucy is devastated and helpless when there are too many secrets she hides from her. Lucy just wants honesty in their relationship, she just wants to be useful but instead becomes a silly joke like this.

Lucy becomes devastated when she remembers Harlie's remark, that she was born a Princess who knew nothing about the things around her.

"Lucy, I admit to being wrong---" Kendric tried to reach out to his girlfriend, regretting his naive stupidity. Being very selfish just because he was the Maharaja.

Lucy rejects Kendric's attention, she brushes aside as the warm hand tries to grab her to wipe away the tears of suffering. "I need some time to myself, Kendric."

"No, oh I really regret it. Lucy please don't look at me with your---- hatred"

"I don't hate you, I can't hate you because I love you too much. You told me to hold your hand, I held it. You told me to trust you, I trusted you. It's just," Lucy took a few steps back from Kendric.

"- I'm too disappointed in your attitude, Kendric."

Lucy's words slapped hard on a Kendric.The sentence she feared the most actually sounded very sloppy from the mouth of her lover and the most scratched her heart to feel guilty, the most, when Mate said she would always love him even though she had lied to him.

He tries to torture Harlie for his brengs*k attitude, while he is also not much different from Harlie if he still hurts Lucy.

"Back me to Darkness World."

"Lucy, if you need time alone, you don't have to go back---"

"I won't force you to say everything now. But don't ever meet me, before you're really ready to tell the truth - including the Robin you're hiding most from me."

Lucy walks past Kendric leaving all sorts of very complicated feelings to their relationship. Hearing that, Kendric fell to his knees in front of a painting of the woman he was very fond of.

"I can't say that his job as Robin was a sacrifice to prevent destruction. I won't be able to see it end-to-end like you, Mother."

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