The Devil's Kingdom

Preparations for The Final Battle

Reaching at the hideout, master immediately informs Shin to inform everyone about an urgent meeting.

My body suddenly feels heavy to walk even a step. There's a sick feeling forming in my stomach. I remind myself.. No, No my body, you can't waver like this now. I've trained you & my mind both for this very moment. If I can't make myself stone right now and stand, then neither will I nor will these people are ever going to get freed from this torment.

I remember what once Jungkook had said to me when I'd asked him..

" How do you keep your emotions aside while harming someone you don't want to but you've to.. because they're fighting & protecting the wrong side! How can one do that? "

" Focusing on one single thing, that's important, which is the reason why you're standing in that battle! And not any other thoughts. " he had said.

The reason why you're standing in that battle.

Why I'm standing in this battle.. ?

To avenge my family? To kill the wicked? To save Jungkook and his brother? To free the King from his own demons? Free this Kingdom from the reign of cruelty and devils?! .....Yes.

I've come a long way from my childish oath of revenge. I still remember, the first night of our marriage how I had promised that infront of Jungkook. Shame fills me. I was such a fool to say that so heartlessly to him without knowing about his part of pain. I was such an idiot.

" Is it good? "

A voice from behind me brings me back to the present. I look back over my shoulder and see Shin walk to the front of me.

" Are you saying something? " I ask him.

" Yes. I was asking how's your daydream that you're watching standing here for a while now with wide open eyes?! "

I look down as I exhaled a heavy sigh.

" You're sighing a lot lately! " Shin remarks. Well, I can't deny that.

" Wait, are you missing your husband that badly? " his words made my cheeks heat up.

That word My Husband.

And suddenly I could feel my heart pounding like drum out and loud. I hadn't have felt this way since I'd left the palace, since I'd been away from him.

I gulp.

Shin smiles when he sees me getting all stiff and nervous like that all of a sudden. " You do, right. "

I look away the other way trying to avoid him. He was opening his mouth to say something about my husband again when I saw Yena walking up the stairs of master's cottage in a hurry.

" You- " Before Shin could've said any further, I interrupt him shouting out " Yena!!! " and quickly walk away from Shin saying " The meeting was urgent, remember? "

Walking away from him, I join Yena before she immediately asks me " What had happened? Why master had called all of us in this urgency? You were with him, right- "

" The Coronation is within three days! " I stop her chained question that doesn't seemed to have an ending by telling her the reason, otherwise it wouldn't have stopped.

Shin & Yena both have become my friends. All of them have become my friends but these two are the most proper definition of the word my friend, especially Shin. The only person after master who doesn't treats me differently, just because of my status as a royal, is Shin! And on top of it, wife of the Crown Prince. The Crown Princess whom hardly anyone knew.