All Hail The Queen

X. Past life

"What happen to Keira?" Aiden questioned in concern.

"I sent the White Crows to get her and let her join her other siblings in safety, but none of them can find her whereabouts," Scarlet said, causing Aiden to scowl.

"What makes you concerned?" Ragna sourly cuts off. Since Aiden is the famous consort of the person who caused him to suffer for five years, Ragna does not completely know him and does not trust him.

"Impossible, I order some people to protect how she could be gone." Ragna and Scarlet arched an eyebrow at Aiden's response.

Like Ragna, Scarlet never imagined that Aiden would defy any of her commands, and since she didn't remember giving him any orders in the first place, his assistance for Keira had to be given behind her back.

Actually, Aiden detested it when [Scarlet] would do terrible things to the kids because it brought back memories of his upbringing. He was raised in the capital's slums and endured a difficult life before meeting Scarlet at the age of fourteen. Although the kids weren't his, they were still the children of the person he loved, so he chose to love them as his own.

Therefore, he continued to send people to look after and protect the children under the Queen's back, but it didn't work the first time around when [Scarlet] found out the maid who he had sent to aid the first princess. Despite this setback, he continued to help the first princess and the other children but this time, he became more secretive and diverted [Scarlet's] attention from the children by offering to sleep on her bed in order to appease her sadistic streak. That's why it's unbelievable that the seventh princess has disappeared; when [Scarlet] sent the seventh princess in the Pet Shop, he intimidated the owner right once and sent his people to the princess's side and those people were experts.

"Have you discovered her whereabouts?" Aiden persisted in his question, his attractive face displaying concern.

"Ragna has found her; we are now going to her location." Scarlet smiles reassuringly, recognizing that the knight is sincerely concerned for the child.

"I'm coming with you!" Aiden declared.

"We don't need you." Ragna snorted as he then transformed into his wolf form.

Scarlet sighed and rubbed her forehead.

"Aiden, I want you to stay in here and keep the place in order while I'm gone," she added, looking around as the he knights tie and confiscate the rebels' weapons.

"Will you be okay?" Aiden inquired, gently running his fingertip across her flower-covered face.

"I will." She weakly said as she climbed Ragna's back, with Aiden assisting her and grabbing a strand of her hair to kiss.

"Go." He whispered.

Ragna snorted and began to gallop, and as they were on their way to their destination, Scarlet checked the quest screen.

[Side quest #1: Find the lost puppy.

Clear Conditions: The Seventh Royal child is missing find her before the countdown ends.

Time Limit: 4 Hours (Countdown: 01: 35: 53)
Compensation: A bottle of Anti-demon worm
Failure: Death of the Seventh Child]

Demons.

Scarlet recalled that they are the major villains in the [book], and Aira, the main protagonist, was summoned to this world to vanquish the Demon King and his army and purify [The Dark Haze] that engulfs the world. It's a rather cliché plot, but the novel became famous because of its R-18 content.