LUNA: The Rebellion

70: Life After the War

After the war, Midnight had a long long list of the things he needed to do and finish. Una niyang ginawa ay ang magpagaling.

So he slept.

For three consecutive nights, he slept because that was what his body had wanted. Along those nights Day had treated him too. But the kid could only heal his wounds and injuries, and boosted his regeneration abilities. His eyes, medyo matatagalan pa bago niya ito maibalik sa dati. Noong nagising siya, wala na siyang ginawa pa kundi asikasuhin ang mga kailangan niyang asikasuhin sa lalong madaling panahon.

The clean-up after the war was worse than the war itself. The retrieving of the bodies took a week, and from there on, they needed to total the death toll for every race and get the overall count of the total warriors who died during the battle. They had a public memorial to honor the fallen warriors at the end of the day. Midnight needed to reward every family of the warriors who joined the battle, patay man o hindi. Pagkatapos niyang asikasuhin ang mga mandirigma ay kinailangan niya naman asikasuhin ang pagiging Emperor.

Kasi magkakagulo na kung wala pang uupo sa pwestong iyon. The Imperial Court was already demanding for a coronation to happen and Midnight couldn't risk another problem to occur in the middle of everything. Dumagdag lamang ang mga gawain niya nung naging Emperor siya ng walong kaharian.

It took him a year to oversee and handle the aftermath of the war, another year to fully regain his eyes and vision with the help of Day, and another two years to study and obtain what was needed to get his wife back.

Countless of sleepless nights. It was as though the problems never stopped appearing, and though these were less violent and depressing than the ones he had before winning the war, the burden he carried weighed the same. What Midnight really wanted was his wife. She was what he needed to make things easier for him. All of this would have been fun with his wife around to help him in managing.

"King Druse is inviting us for a dinner at fortnight? Seryoso ba siya? Kinampihan niya iyong dating Emperor diba?" Taas kilay na tanong ni Killian sakanya mula sa pwesto nito sa bintana sakanyang likuran. "Paniguradong hindi papayag si Radu"

After being coronated as the new Emperor, Midnight had been receiving thousands of letters from the other kingdoms, inviting him over or permitting them to enter his kingdom to visit him. Gusto man tanggihan ni Midnight ang mga imbitasyon, kinailangan niyang puntahan ang mga ito. Midnight visited the royal families of each kingdom to discuss political stuff and other unnecessary things. He had every power to order them to come to him instead but he rather not let them enter Severus. He could have issued a general meeting but he preferred discussing things personally with each one of them. Ngayon na bago pa siya sa posisyon, gusto niya munang isa-isahin sila.

Solely for the purpose of seeing their reactions when faced one by one.

Oh, he delighted at the way they all changed how they treated him. As a Demon King, he was scorned and resented. As an Emperor, he was still though, ngunit patago na. They all hid behind their true colors. Baitbaitan sila ngayon sakanya.

Cayden and Zarax were an exception though. They treated him the same. Which he appreciated.

Tiniklop ng maigi ni Midnight ang papel sa ibabaw ng kanyang lamesa. Kanina pa siya nagtitiklop ng mga papel, kaunti na lang at makokompleto na 'rin niya ang ginagawa. "Wala akong planong pumunta. Nakakatamad" Ika niya sabay pakita ng ginawa niya kay Killian. "Look. This is kind of nice"

Blanko siyang tinignan ng anghel. "I don't get you. Instead of getting flowers—- which we have a lot sa mga hardin na mayroon tayo—-  gusto mong pahirapan ang sarili mo sa ganyan?"