PHANTOMENOUS ACADEMY: UNRAVEL S2 (COMPLETED)

CHAPTER THIRTY NINE

"B-but why did the sudden memories of Shane flooded us at the banquet?" Ives asked stuttering. If he was just a normal mage, we wouldn't understand this kind of sh*ts but his the Emperor. His brain was hurting, analyzing everything that happened.

"I misspoke some of the jumbled words making the spell half effective. Shiro was going to kill me but we all fell down when the moon changed its color from red to blue. Indicating that the spell was effective. It made the entire planet silent for a day. After we woke up from a deep slumber, Shiro was nowhere to be seen as Meteora and I were sleeping in the grass. It made us back to normal, but of course, without Shane's existence." Ivanna said and swallowed a lump in her throat.

Ivanna breathes and straightly look at Ives eyes. "That's why Shane was forgotten for more than six years." Ivanna concluded her confession. Ives can't take it all and wanted to kill Meteora for her stupidity. But he calmed himself down and looked at Ivanna.

"I heard that Eclipso was the one who didn't forgot about Shane's existence. What happened?" Ives asked. Ivanna was then dumbstruck when he thought of Eclipso, that wasn't affected when they casted the spell.

"Wait, he wasn't..?" Ivanna asked back to the Emperor hoping he was not clear. Ives nodded at Ivanna before realising something. "I remembered that if a person falls in love, he or she will never forget about that person whom they love dearly. If the Frégrancia Remémbrato spell was casted, the person who were applied in that spell will never be forgotten by their lover. So that means Eclipso loved my daughter so much!" Ives exclaimed while his eyes were wide.

"So that's why." Ivanna pressed her lips and smiled. That's why Eclipso was acting very different in the past six years. It was all due to his sincere love to Shane. "And I committed a crime. I shouldn't have banish Eclipso." Ives said sighing sadly.

"It's okay Your Majesty." Ivanna said quietly. Ives nodded at her and stands up, wiping his uniform and looked at Ivanna seriously.

"I, Ciel Ives Knight will pass an imperial edict. Upon the case of the missing Princess, Ivanna Bolt Akaliene, guilty and is an accomplice of Meteora Eclipse Eroseles and Shiro Yumenaka, both charged of Kidnapping and tutoring the Imperial Princess, Shane Luna Elaynie Twilight Knight II, hereby declared that Ivanna Bolt Akaliene will participate in the court as a witness. After the court, we will discuss the punishment she deserves." Ives said in a commanding voice.

"No!" Ivanna fret. She promised that she would be thrown out outside the Empire. Shane's waiting for her! She can't stay here for how many weeks! She needs Shane!

"What did you say?" Ives asked, raising his eyebrow. Ivanna quickly shook her head and bowed gracefully at Ives. "This subject accept the edict well." She replied without maintaining eye contact.

"Very well. I shall go and investigate again. Thank you for confessing." Ives said and left with a heavy heart. He left Ivanna's cell while crying and soothing the pain inside his chest. He still can't forget the fact that Shane's life wasn't easy as he thought.
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Shin's been waiting for Ives to come back. Gusto niya marinig ang lahat ng nangyari. Wala siyang alam sa mga pangyayari, at wala siyang natatandaang anak na babae. It's like she never knew who's Shane.

Bumukas ang pintuan at pumasok si Ives sa kwarto nila sabay sirado ng pinto. Napansin ni Shin na dumating na si Ives kaya agad niya itong nilapitan at niyakap ng mahigpit sabay tingin sa mga matang pagod at halatang galing sa kakaiyak ni Ives.

"What happened..?" Tanong ni Shin. Ives looked at his wife and smiled. He was breaking down to the point that he's eyes were glimmering due to his tears. He was crying while smiling infront of his wife.

"What happened?" Shin asked again as he noticed that Ives wasn't speaking, more like he was crying his heart out. He was sobbing hard and was shaking non stop.

For the past six years after she, Shin regained her consciousness, she never saw Ives break down like this. Ives was always smiling at her warmly, cold at others but warm at her and Shaun. He never cried ever since she met him.

"I didn't knew, Shane's life was hard. I failed as her father. I failed to protect Shane, I failed as a King. My failure results Shane's life living hell." Ives blurted out while crying in his wife's arms.

"Tell me what happened, Ives." Shin asked. "Shane lived her six years full of pain and hardship. She was tortured to the point that her body was bloodshot. She experienced a life more than the life of a lost soul in Pladiéa. Even the girl who helped her senses her to the enemy's territory. It's all my fault." Ives said while sobbing.

"It's not your fault dear. It's my fault for leaving you, it's my fault for being defenseless." Shin admitted as she looked at Ives who's life wasn't easy. He had to take care of the Empire, his children and his people. She knew, he worked nonstop just for the peace. And now, there's a war going with his own daughter who seeks for revenge.

"It's my fault that I didn't even remember her. She who helped me waked up myself, my own daughter, my saviour. But every piece of her, I don't know. I don't know her personality, her appearance and even the brightest smile you witnessed." Shin said again, caressing Ives hair as her tears rolled down from her cheeks.

"I'm no longer a good mother. I'm sorry Ives."

"I guess we're bad at parenting." Ives said and weakly laugh. He looks up, wipes Shin's eyes full of tears and smiled at her. "Your daughter looks exactly like you. Except for her hair and red eyes, she smile the brightest that you want her to lock up and possessively hide the smile she had to the other mages. Her personality was cold yet, she secretly love you and care for you. She never laugh, but if she laughed a little, you will easily mistake it as a bird's tweeting call. Our daughter is so precious that I want to lock her in our castle. She even had a dragon, just like you had one." Ives explained at Shin sweetly.

"Kahapon, noong nangyari ang banquet. I don't know Ives pero sure akong hindi pula ang mata ni Shane." Biglang sabi ni Shin na agad namang ikinatigil ni Ives. He's eyesight was much more clearer than others, he clearly saw that Shane's eyes weren't red at her right eye but it was pure Silver.

"You said that her eyes were red, but all I can see was pure black in her right eye. Does that mean she had no eye in her right socket?" Tanong ni Shane na ikinatigil ng paghinga ni Ives.