Crown Of Lies || Kim seungmin

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The sound of hurried footsteps echoed through the halls alerting Seungmin of a visitor.

"Prince.." Changbin entered the room, moving away the massive curtains of silk. " The ceremony is about to begin."

"Already? I still haven't had my breakfast, Changbin." Seungmin pouted. "can't we wait a little bit more?"

"Your Highness, the prince of Mycenae is already here so we have no choice. " Changbin felt bad seeing Seungmin sigh and putting away his bowl of cereal.

Seo Changbin was Seungmin's right hand man. One of the people he could trust blindly and although Changbin always addressed him with honorifics, Seungmin was always against the idea.

While Seungmin wore his outer robe, carved with beautiful goldens within the black fabric, his brother Hyunjin rushed in.

"Why are you still not ready?" He whined. "oh? Changbin Hyung is here?"

"Yeah I came to call him too."

"Let's go, you all lack patience so much!" Seungmin chuckled, walking out of the room, hanging each of his arms around the other two .

"Why do we need to do the peace ceremony every year?" Hyunjin was grumpy.

"Do you not enjoy it? I love meeting Channie Hyung and it's fun!" Seungmin commented.

Changbin trailed behind them along with Hyunjin's best friend, Han Jisung ; a royal advisor.

"Honestly, no." Hyunjin sighed. "I hate Bang Chan, he pretends to be so nice and more than him I hate his brother Jeongin! So pretentious!"

"Hey Hey, they are our cousins!" Seungmin protested.

"If we had normal relations then we wouldn't have to do these peace ceremonies, Seungmin."

"That's on our parents, what's that gotta do with them?" Seungmin reasoned.

"Doesn't matter, my feelings aren't going to change!"

Seungmin shaked his head as they came out on the main balcony, the king and queen were already there. Across them was the king, queen , the two princes and their right hands of Mycenae.

"Do well." The king patted Seungmin's back. "We have to appease the public and maintain the peace and Hyunjin, don't create more trouble. "

Seungmin and Hyunjin nodded as they walked down a flight of stairs leading to the main lawn , they waited as Bang Chan and Jeongin came there too and all four of them climbed up on a carriage.

"Channie Hyung!" Seungmin hugged Chan as soon as some privacy was given to them. "How are you?"

"I am doing fine, Seungmin. How are you and Hyunjin?"

"I am good too!" Seungmin said while Hyunjin just kept quiet and looked outside the window.

"It's okay, Hyung." Jeongin scoffed. "Hyunjin always behaves like he is better than us. "

"Innie." Chan said sternly and Jeongin rolled his eyes looking at Hyunjin before shutting off.

"Atleast I don't pretend like I enjoy meeting you all." Hyunjin snapped making both Seungmin and Chan sigh.

This would happen every time the two met, it's like they were born to pass snark remarks at the other.

"How is Mycenae? I miss being there!" Seungmin asked.

" It's really pretty! The pollution has gone down so stars are visible at night and there has been so many new flowers this spring!" Jeongin's eyes lit up talking about his kingdom.

"You should come over sometime, seungmin." Chan suggested.

"Yes! I will talk to mom and dad about it."

"We are here." Hyunjin muttered as the cheers of the public became louder and louder, they could here the shutters of thousands of cameras go off.

"Are you guys ready?" Chan asked one last time before they would go out and perform before the people.

"Yes!" The rest of them shouted in confidence and the four left the carriage with glamour, walking confidently among all the chaos going around them.

"The princes of Cyrene and Mycenae are going to perform their yearly ceremony, wishing peace for another year! "

The announcement was made and cheers were heard, Seungmin sighed, like every year , people seemed to be scared of him.

"Are you okay?" Hyunjin asked Patting his shoulder. "We are about to start."

"Yup." Seungmin let out a smile before going to his position as the Prince's took their swords in hands, getting ready.

Several fireworks were fired in the sky and the whole venue was filled with loud cheers as the Prince's performed, dueling with each other. It was an elaborate performance to show how when they dueled it only bought out half of their potential,

But once they were all together against the enemies which were played by other trained swordsmen of both the kingdoms, they would stand victorious.

The message sent was like an expectation because the reality was that Cyrene and Mycenae were always in bad terms.

Originally they were together, the father of both the kings established the whole kingdom but as soon as he was dead, the two brothers had a great fight.

The fight soon turned into a war and people chose sides, officials chose sides and soon were formed two different kingdoms from the heart of one.

The separation also made it impossible for the princes to grow together, therefore even though Jeongin and Hyunjin were inseparable as kids, they grew up to hate each other's guts.

Now, seventeen years later, the kingdoms were said to be merged . It was decided that either Bang Chan or Seungmin would take the throne as they were the crown princes, decided by the public votes.

As Chan and Seungmin stood against the enemy on the stage, gracefully showing their skills with the sharp and shiny sword, the whole crowd was gaping at them except one person .

Shin Jaeun pushed herself through the crowd, trying to get herself home with all the groceries she had bought.

"What's with you all seeing this exact same act every year? " She yelled but no one heard it among all the shouts. "Stupid royalty!"

She finally breathed in relief after crossing the street where the performance was going on, angry at the inconvenience it caused to normal people.

Jaeun turned around one more time and tried to look at the Prince's, she sighed when she saw the faces covered.

"Atleast show the faces if you are going to create such a commotion!"

"They will, once the king is choosen." A passerby said.

"Idiots." Jaeun scoffed. "Do they think we will vote based on Visuals or what?"

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