Who made me Penelope Judith?

30. Athanasia and Jeannette

~Lazy author does time skip~

~Nobody is complaining~

~Everybody approves~

~Nice~

~Let's get it!!!~
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~ 30 fucking years later~

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~jUsT kIdDiNg~
~Yes sorry~~~
~I drank wee bit too much coffee~
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~8 painful years later~

Felix sighed longly as he walked in the sunny streets of Obelia. It was one beautiful day. Shining sun, clear sky. The citizens were all very happy. Everybody was in a good mood. Felix gave them a warm smile as they saluted him, bowing their heads and waving as he passes by.

He volunteered himself to accompany the staff on a few errands because after all, why not. If he had stayed in the Emerald Palace, it would've just been as suffocating as ever with the moody emperor. He likes to get out once every while, helping the maids on their little tasks, inquiring on the well being of the villagers, perhaps telling a few kids some stories....

The Emerald Palace had become such a sad place compared to the lively capital.

The knight's smile nearly fell as he reminisced on the old times when the palace was still somewhat lively as well.

When he was a kid, he remembered running around with Anastacius and Claude, ditching their training and stealing from the kitchen, each then earning respective scoldings from their own mothers. They liked playing hooky a lot. And then Penelope came along after a while and on some days they'd play Uno cards, which have become a trend for nobles nowadays somehow. Those were the golden days where there was only laughter.

As they grew up, everything changed. There were...drastic changes. Anastacius took Penelope and then the two of them have were wiped from Claude and Felix's lives on the same day. Claude had killed Anastacius and Penelope had rode a carriage away and wasn't seen ever since. The knight and the new emperor haven't talked about it. They didn't even avoid it the subject, it just never came to their mind to even make allusion to what happened around one another. It was taboo.

At that time, Felix had thought that Claude was lost too, that with the disappearance of his fiancé and the toll of having murdered his own brother added to the death of his mother, he would've cracked.

Yet not one tear, he became an ice cold emperor.

The palace workers barely recognize him anymore. Even Felix didn't feel like he knew him.

Claude went into alcohol, sex, perhaps even drugs...He had built himself a complete harem of the most beautiful women of the world. The Ruby palace was quickly populated and Felix learned to avoid the area because it was too awkward and suffocating to him. He didn't like that place at all. Claude had completely changed and seemed to have fallen into a pit of darkness. Felix begged him to stop, but the blonde merely told him to back off if he didn't want to be stripped of his position.

But then, during a late hours visit to the capital with Claude, a few months after his coronation, a miracle had happened.

A true miracle~~~

They heard it at the same time.

"Felix? Claude?"