A/N: The chapter ahead is raw, which means not been proofread yet nor edited.
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"No... That's not true... I will know. I will know! She is not mine! You're making things up. You are making things up!"
Prince Zodiac rolled his eyes and scoffed, "I don't lie and I won't lie. Mommy didn't like that thing because it's a girl. She was about to kill it as soon as its genitalia developed, but you came and called her, so she just forget it. But you, you knew. And you used her. Now, where is she?"
"I don't know..."
"Wahahaha! It's his daughter? There are rumors that they fucked! Oh, and that she's that thing's eldest son's sex doll, too! Your daughter is a whore! How you like that?"
"SHUT UP!"
But Prince Maximilien guffawed louder to irritate him and annoy him.
Now, Dryllivan is confused. He's lost. His initial plans were ruined, and now, his latter plans will be affected by this revelation. His daughter, Sun... She was his daughter.
"And what about it?"
Prince Zodiac's brows furrowed. Dryllivan changed his personality. No, he just... Dryllivan Sacremore is as complicated as their mother.
"If you what you said is true, then she's nothing but an artificial bitch. As long as she's not a pureblood Sacremore, then I don't give a fuck about her. I don't know where she is, and even if I do, I won't tell you. At least her fate isn't different from her mother's. Only loved by her father when on bed because she looked like her mother."
The Princes found themselves raising their hands over their heads, more than ready to strike Dryllivan with their hands and magic and guns. Of course, they're much smarter. If they break the case, then he will be freed. They don't know what he will do and what he's able to do, so they won't break it.
"This rat didn't know the situation he's in at all."
Dryllivan licked his lips and smirked, "Feisty like your dad. Not the one that turned into a monster, though. The other one, the eldest brother."
Prince Zodiac clenched his fists and jaw and was about to land his fist to the case when Prince Valerian stopped his hand.
"You are looking for your sister, is that right?"
Prince Valerian's eyes were glowing white, sparking blue of electricity.
"I will find her. Then I will direct a show just for you. All the things that had happened on Mommy will happen to her. Or we will give her to the man you hate most, LIFE DRAGUNOVV. He will rape her in front of you, and all you can do is scream and beg him to stop, but he won't."
"And once he's tired and sick of her dirty body, we will give her to the Veils. Then, they will breed and breed, and you will have monster nieces and nephews. And if she's pretty enough, I will use my guns to fuck her cunt while your stupid head is watching closely." Prince Maximilien.
"The worst way to humiliate a woman is by defiling her body. That's what you did. That's what everyone did to our mother, so that's what will happen to yours, too."
Prince Zodiac pressed his fingers lightly on the case, as if he's measuring Dryllivan's face.
"Does that make us evil? All the things we said. But who will dare criticize us? We're men. We rule over women. Because we're stronger, our words are the absolute. But not in our culture, because women are above us. The Matriarch, my greatest and favorite grandma, did all that. But you, you don't respect women. Therefore, we won't respect your sister. We will destroy the last family you have."
Prince Zodiac pushed his brothers back to their thrones.
"Celia, send Cecilia. Tell her to bring other people with her under House Xirquit and search for the imposter."
"But... My Prince, Cecilia is looking after Prince Vars,"
Prince Zodiac tap his foot once, "My words are the absolute."
The Earthlings got deja vu and glanced over the Mistress of Death.
Celia bowed and scurried to do what she was tasked to do.
"Now, where are we? Your question is answered and even gave you a revelation. How are you going to pay for that, Uncle?"
"Huh? P-Pay? I thought...with His Equal's memory fragment...?"
Prince Zodiac scoffed, "But I can't call that mine, can I? The memory fragment belongs to His Equal. So, pay the price of the truths I just gave you, with extra charges for the revelations. How are you going to pay me?"
Emperor Maxism tweaked his hair and fell to his knees.
He's been tricked!
"I will bring your brothers back!"
"Of course, you will. That's already given. What else?"
Emperor Maxism screamed in frustration and shook his head, "But my Prince, I don't have anything else to offer! The dragon land, the records, His Equal's memory fragment, and my promise to bring the Princes back!"
"You're lying to me."
Emperor Maxism stopped from rolling on the floor and stand up.
"Your Imperial Highness, please spare what's left with me. I am keeping them for a reason. Some secrets are best kept hidden. I have plans of my own just as you do, so please, don't take all my aces away. I beg you."
One thing about Emperor Maxism is that not only he's a snake through and through, he's also good with making transactions and playing safe. All while being true and honest.
"What plans?" Prince Maximilien.
"To avenge your grandma, my sister, Aviana Lavender. I have a newfound mission, and that is to find Sun and get my son's Core Essence, build a good relationship with the dragons, be a good friend to the Ki'zaar, and so much more," the Emperor answered with his head bowing to the Princes.
"You're quite ambitious," Prince Maximilien hissed, "And greedy. And a leech."
Emperor Maxism raised his head quite high to smirk at his grandson, "There's still a lot I have to teach you."
"I don't want to learn anything from you!" The Prince hissed while rolling his eyes. The Emperor knew that the Prince will sooner eat his words.
"I am elated that you wish to form an alliance with us," Prince Valerian took over the conversation with a straight face, "But you wish to also use us. Am I right?"
"A give-and-take relationship," the Emperor straightened his back to look at the Prince directly, "Both side are the givers and the takers. Yes, I will use you. I will use your power, your strength, and utilize you to the maximum of your everything---and you can do the same to us. The Vernignac Empire will not only be your ally but also your partner. I will support you with my utmost capabilities. There will be transparency between us, just like how transparent and honest I am to you as I admit that I will use your forces. Have faith in me and trust me."
The Prince crossed his leg, resting his hand over his knucklez to think things through. Prince Valor and Lord Feryzen are expecting what his decision will be. The Prince is wise. Certainly, like the Ki'zaar.
"I know you have doubts. I know you think that you have no need of us, but believe me, you will. I will be a pathetic hypocrite if need be; for my goals and ambitions, I will be a good dog to you. Just please, lend me your strength and support. We are a family."
Prince Maximilien had a disgusted expression drawn on his face when he heard the Emperor's last phrase.
"Return to your seat. I will think about it. First, I will hear my advisers and subjects."
Emperor Maxism's face light up with hopes and expectations.
"Thank you, Your Imperial Highness."
"Don't believe him! He's tricking you!" Prince Maximilien warned his brother, who smiled at him and said,
"You're alike. Should I to you?"
Prince Maximilien gritted his teeth, "I'll see you cry once he betray you. Loser!" With rolling eyes, he went back to polishing his guns.
"Don't fight. I'll see to it that he won't have the guts to betray my sweet Valerian, because I will pull it all out before he could," the eldest Prince mediated while watching the Emperor's back as he he return to his seat.
It was a threat. Not a warning but a threat.
"I didn't know you had the same twistedness in you. What changed you, I wonder? You weren't like that before," Dryllivan Sacremore suddenly remarked with quite the smirk.
"What changed you?" The Prince returned the same question, then grins, "You're so bitter, bed-warmer. And a loser. You lost to a newbie in a swordfight? My Dad is so effortlessly better than everybody else."
It wiped the nasty smirk off Dryllivan's face.
"He won by cheating."
"How?" Prince Zodiac was invested, "You're a swordmaster with a Bloodline. He's an Earthling who can't awaken himself. And yet, with a simple trick, you lost to someone like that? Just accept the fact that you're a loser, Sacremore. Losers deserve to be wiped out, that's why your lineage is gone."
"Kuya," Prince Valerian called him with a shock and soothing tone.
"What goes around comes around. Look what became of your mother. A whore to Princes, a breeding pig just like your grandmother. She's my whore; sometimes, she's loud, but most of the time, she's just an empty shell. I should ask her sometime how it's like to get passed around. Like mother, like daughter."
"I WILL CUT YOUR FUCKING TONGUE! TAKE IT ALL BACK!"
Prince Zodiac tapped his foot once to freeze Prince Maximilien from attacking Sacremore. Dryllivan Sacremore is provoking them intentionally, so that either of them will lose their minds and break the case imprisoning him and preventing him from regenerating and using magic. Watts Xirquit, that damn genius, managed to create something like it.
"How about we ask YOUR mother about what's it's like to get passed around?" Prince Zodiac fired back as he try to hold back his laugh.
"A freak. She even tried to seduce the Earthlings and knights to save herself. Is your father even your true father? I mean, maybe you're a bastard?" He added.
Prince Valerian heaves a deep breath, "Please, don't compare your mother to ours. My mother is a dignified woman. She carried heirs to every empire in this godforsaken world. She gave birth to future emperors, Sacremore. You're just bitter because she didn't bear one for you."
If only he's whole, Dryllivan Sacremore would be clenching his fists by now. Worse, drawing his sword to slice the Prince to pieces.
"Maybe he's sterile that Mommy had to create his disappointing baby artificially. And to think he's given her a daughter and not a son. What a failure!" And the third prince followed his brothers' taunt with a mocking laugh.
"Your mother is a slut!"
Dryllivan Sacremore provoked them but it didn't get into them, because they knew their mother is an honorable and dignified woman who birthed Crown Princes, conquering and uniting Empires using her name, blood, and flesh.
She is the symbol of fertility and motherhood to them. The Princes knew better; Sacremore is a bitter man because he's a pathetic loser who couldn't get his affection reciprocated.
"Emperor and Kings reproduce and they're honorable. Glorified, celebrated. But to Queens and Empresses, they are criticized and labeled as 'whores'? It's time for you to wake up to the fact that women has more value than us men. You can't accept that because you're a misogynistic motherfucker who was never loved by his mother."
The Princes gasped from their eldest brother's vulgarity and claim, "But you're misogynistic, too!" Prince Maximilien pointed out.
"If they're acting like bitches. With all honesty, I am a gentleman."
Prince Maximilien winced, "They are not greater than us. We are, because they're weak! Mommy is weak. She's a crybaby!"
"Maximilien!" Prince Valerian called him out.
Prince Zodiac put his hand between them to end their little quarrel, "Let's debate about this some other time. For now, let's move on to the next peasant. Who's next?"
As they hesitate and shoot glances to each other, a lady rose from the ground with shaking and bleeding knees. She's limping on the way to the Princes' feet and they didn't expect to see her. After all, it's her.
The reason why Prince Ivailo and Prince Ambren got sent to Heaven.
"My Princes..."
They can't tell who she's pertaining to. Her sons, or the Princes before her?
She submitted before them and pressed her forehead to the ground while rubbing her palms over her hand to beg.
"Please, return my sons. I'm sorry. I'm s-sorry... I-I know I have nothing to offer---But I can be a slave. I will sell myself to you, my soul, just please, let me have my sons again. I miss my boys so much---"
"No. It's a no for me."
Prince Valerian glared at Prince Maximilien.
"I don't like Ivailo and Ambren since they're annoying, but I hate you. Maybe because you're fucking dumb or what. I hate innocence---I hate your type. So, no. How about you and your husband fuck and create more babies? That's so easy."
Aurora swallowed all that.
"Did she really have to torture my baby? My newborn! How would you feel if it was you? Your brother? She could've at least spared my youngest boy! He's innocent! But what did she do? How could you accept a mother like that---"
Princess Aurora touched her face when Prince Maximilien teleported in front of her to slap her face.
Mistress DEATH tried to hold her eldest son back, but Prince Izaac removed her hands on him to go stand by his wife.
"And how could you accept a son like Izylidas? That trying hard son of a bitch bed his niece, had been a rebel ever since, and was actually not affected by the brainwashing technique but what did he do? You failed as a mother, Aurora. What Mommy did to your sons is justified. You deserved it."
Princess Aurora bit her lower lip until it bleed as she hopelessly gazed at the heartless Princes.
"Did she experienced the same thing before that she did it to me? Was any of you...thrown around, slammed to walls and ground, crying your little hearts out in pain, and screaming breathlessly? A newborn who could only cry his pain, bleeding to his d-death and... Did that happen to you, too?"
Between her sobs, her unhinged laughter sneaks in.
"That can't be. All of you were cursed, after all! Blackened, hard like stone! Of course, you wouldn't know that!"
Prince Izaac made it to his wife in harmless, steady steps, only to be pushed away.
"Don't touch me, you incompetent fool!"
Their eyes widened. But not more than the Prince's.
Princess Aurora stand up while giggling like a broken doll. Her shoulders fell, but her head is looking up.
"Fine. I give up. I give up. I don't have...what it takes to fight you."
Her breathing became calm. She turned away and began striding lifelessly.
"My Love, where are you going---" The Prince was astounded when his wife slapped his hands away.
"If only... If only I didn't marry you... If only I kept this love to myself... If only I let you be with Polaris... I... I wouldn't be hurting like this at all. Izaac, I hate you and your family. I hate that I am here."
For the last time, she looked back to the Princes, eyes devoid of emotions and life. Her head fell low and went on until the doors behind her closes.
She hugged herself. Her palm felt the blade she's hiding underneath her sleeves.
Prince Zodiac thinks that he knows it all. He thinks he's smart enough and has seen enough, but he's still a child. He thinks everything is dancing on his palm, that he's got full control, but he's wrong.
He should've known better than to incur the wrath of a mother.