Emperor Min Yoongi ascends the throne with a vow to avenge the untimely death of his father. It is a promise that will take he and his consorts to battle through fire and water, and to bring back the dead on a quest for the truth of what happened on...
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Yoongi was in no mood to be taking anything seriously that day, and accordingly, he was sitting sideways on his throne in his dumb grey hoodie and ripped jeans, playing paper scissors rock repeatedly with Jimin at the moment when Wonwoo entered the throne room. The castle guards, particularly those who guarded the throne room, were the best that we had - they were a solemn, resolute bunch who took their job seriously, and that was a good thing because they had a serious job to do. However, even they were struggling to keep a straight face at the emperor and his king consort's childish antics.
"If you two are quite finished," I interrupted the two of them, and Yoongi turned to see that Wonwoo was waiting for him awkwardly. He grinned at me cheekily, before swivelling his legs around to sit properly on his throne, and suddenly he was really the emperor again. It was as though a switch had been flipped inside of him, and even the hoodie and jeans didnt spoil the effect.
"Wonwoo-ssi," he nodded to him, as solemn as a judge now. "I trust you are well after yesterday?"
"I'm perfectly fine, your majesty," said Wonwoo. "Hoshi said you wanted to talk to me about Danni-ssi?"
"I do," said Yoongi. "First things first, where is he at the moment?"
"He should be here soon your majesty," said Hoshi, "I asked someone to fetch him from the army base after Wonwoo."
"Good," said Yoongi. "Wonwoo-ssi, I wanted to ask you... you seem to know Danni-ssi fairly well, but I take it you don't get along?"
"No, your majesty," Wonwoo shook his head a little ruefully. "He can't follow orders at all. He runs off by himself with his soldiers, and I never know where he is. He rarely does anything stupid, but he never tells me what he's planning on doing until it's already done, and I can't work with that when I'm expecting him to be somewhere else. The rest of the army have to pick up the slack because he and his soldiers are MIA."
Yoongi seemed to brood on this information for a moment.
"I want you to know I'm not telling you you're wrong, Wonwoo-ssi - I hear glowing reports of you from Hoshi, but I'm just trying to understand where Danni is coming from. If he takes his subordinates with him, they must place a lot of trust in his capabilities, yes?"
Wonwoo reluctantly agreed.
"I guess that's true," he stated.
"I think he's in the wrong position," said Yoongi. "If I were to take him and a few of his subordinates out of the army for the foreseeable future, do you think you could easily replace them?"
Wonwoo's eyes widened, and he nodded eagerly.
"There's a young woman who we've wanted to give a leadership role to for a while, and to be honest, your majesty, apart from the small contingent who defected to Jeoggun, our people are loyal to the throne. There are plenty of willing soldiers."
