His Royal Highness

From The Land to the Sea

The Ball ended at two in the morning, everyone left and it was just my royal court, I made the door appear and we all entered the round table room. I sat down in my chair as everyone else sat down, I sighed as Akuma and Satoru glared at each other.
"What a fun night huh!" Satoru said.
"It was very enjoyable." Nanami said.
"I think we need more parties like that." Mother said.
"Let's get down to business." Akuma said, everyone sighed.
"Violet has everything." I said as I rested my head on my hand.
"As most of you know, Rin has betrayed us." she said, it was silent.
"I never thought she had the guts to be your maid when I was a spirit watching over you." Mother said.
"Did she report anything back?" Nanami asked.
"Yes, she did." Violet said, I sighed.
"Bring her." I said.

Delta and Hak came in with Rin in chains, they put her in the middle of the table so everyone could see her. She turned and looked at me and tears started to flow down her face.
"I'm so sorry Lady Aria!" she said as she bowed.
"It's Her Majesty." Akuma said Rin sat up.
"Rin, you are here because you chose to side with the enemy, I want to know why before I decide what to do with you." I said.
"I... I felt alone... you stopped calling for me for a while and only called for Violet, I knew it was because she was able to deal with everything but... but I'm still your maid too!" she said tears flowing down her cheeks.
"Because I was not calling for you... you choose to take the side of the woman who cursed Your Prince and turned him against his people and even me... you could have come and talked to Violet and I would have summoned you more... but you choose to give our enemy our secrets." I said, and she bowed.
"I'm so sorry, I don't know what I was thinking." she said, I felt my anger growing Satoru sensed it and stepped in.
"What exactly did you give them?" he asked her.
"I told them about your plans to block their existence out of the country... that is all I was able to learn about." she said.
"Did they ask you to do anything?" he asked her.
"Yes, they wanted me to get close to Her Majesty and get more information than I had, I was told to make her as weak as possible without getting caught." she said.

Make me weak? Do they know of my weakness? Not even Levi knows about it I have only told Akuma, Satoru, and Violet, they must have thought I'd confide in her as well about such things. I was growing tired of this unneeded war with a woman I didn't even know, I just wanted to bring Levi back.
"Strip her of her memories of ever being my maid, give her funds, and let her live her life how she wants." I said they all looked at me.
"Don't you think that is a little too nice?" Akuma asked me.
"Do you want me to kill her?" I asked him, but he didn't respond.
"How about she serves prison time and then you do that." Satoru said I thought about both of their opinions.
"She will spend five years in prison and then her memory wiped of ever being in contact with me or anyone around me." I said.
"I see no issues." Arianna said.
"Me either." Akio said
"Treason usually ends with death, but I think there will be enough of that with this war." Nanami said, I nodded.
"Then it settled." I said as I signaled for Delta and Hak to take her to the prison.

After we handled that issue we had another one to deal with, new information that was found by Hak and Delta, and with this information, we could have even more allies than before.
"How do we know this place can help us?" Mother asked.
"We don't but Delta believes there are people on this Island that can help us." I said.
"Did she tell you what type of people?" Father asked.
"No, she barely got close to the island she said it was like me being mad but even scarier." I said.
"Power that is scarier than you?" Akuma said as he started to think.
"And you are planning to leave on this journey?" Arianna asked me.
"Yes, and I know what you're gonna say... Akuma is staying behind to handle all that as Proxy King." I said.
"I guess that's acceptable." Father said.
"I'm bringing Satoru, Namami, Delta, and Hak with me." I said.
"And the rest of us?" Arianna asked.
"I need you to continue the original task, we have much to prepare for but if we get these so-called powerful allies... we may end this sooner than later." I said.
"HAKI!" Akuma yelled as he shot up from his chair.
"Akuma!" I said as I held my chest.
"Sorry, I was just thinking the only power that could make Delta want to turn around is Haki." he said.