there is no law that emperors must be fair || jing yuan ✓

Sunday's Confession

It was long into the night after you had spoken with Gepard. Your list of allies seemed to grow at such a lightning quick speed. Though, so far, there was one ally you hadn’t gotten.

“Sunday… why do you want me to befriend Blade? And why are you interested in the keys? I mean, you didn’t even show any interest in them until Gepard came here with the one my father had.”

Sunday hummed to himself as he materialized next to you. His head sharing the same pillow that you were lying on, you both just staring up at the ceiling together.

“Blade will be a big help to you…”

You frowned as you sat up, “will he be a help to me or to you?”

Sunday sat up as well, eyes flickering in the lamp light, “what are you trying to say?”
“What you did back there, what was it?”
He cocked his head to the side furthering your frustration towards him ever so slightly, “when you said not to forget who your enemy was you tried to do something. It was like when we first met… like I was in some heavy fog with no way out. Like you were trying to cloud my mind.”

Sunday smiled at your words as he fully turned towards you, “like this?”

There it was again, a dull throb in your mind and what felt like a heavy blanket trying to cover something. His words sounded weird to you too, it was like-
You shook your head, your eyes narrowed, “you can control people.”

Sunday leaned back against your headboard, “controlling people is such a nasty way to put it, y/n.”

“But that’s what you’re doing!”

You got out of the bed then and tried to put some distance between yourself and him, but when you looked back at the bed he was gone. It wasn’t until you felt a hand on your shoulder that you jumped and spun around looking at Sunday who had that damned amused grin on his face.

“Why Sunday? Before I help you anymore, you need to tell me everything.”

Without missing a beat, Sunday went to go sit on the chair that by your table in the room, his legs crossed and one of his elbows rested on the tabletop.

“Blade, more or less, did something he shouldn’t have by tampering with the flesh of an abundance emanator. I’m sure you know what emanator’s are, right?”

You nodded and he continued, “his body will be used to revive me because his little abundance curse is the only thing that will withstand the ritual.”

“And the keys.”

“Needed to unlock the gate that I’m currently locked behind.”

“And why was it that my father had one of the keys and Jing Yuan the other?”

“Before the emperor went ahead with his little conquering spree, there was a time that the each land respected each other as allies. Your grandfather was good friends with the Emperor.”

“I thought you were helping me simply because you wanted to, at least, that’s what you made it sound like before…”
Sunday rested his chin in the palm of his hand, “and you believed it, didn’t you?”

You crossed your arms over your chest, “why were you locked away?”

“The Emperor and I… had a disagreement.”
You quirked an eyebrow which was when Sunday finally looked away from you, “I want to bring my sister back is all. In my old country, she was killed by … an unexplainable monstrosity. I want to bring her back, but only aeons had control of death and feats such as reviving a human. So I tried to cut corners. I kidnapped an emperor’s bride to be and used her as a sacrifice only for it to fail and the princess dying in my arms. The Emperor in his rage killed me but not before I managed to gain a few abilities of an aeon. Before sealing me away he had me reset her body for things to begin anew again, but with my new powers I didn’t know how to control them and ended up sending her into the future instead.”

Sunday finally looked back at you, “and oh how that emperor tore the world apart to find her again, but in doing so I guess he also became mad like his teacher and friends before him.”

“Became mad?”

“You know what mara is? The disease that strikes the long living species? Well, he did start showing signs of it, but it’s not too bad right now… though, he does kill a few people here and there.”

“Does the Emperor even remember the princess he’s looking for?”

“No, he’s forgotten her face a long time ago. No thanks to the mara, of course. If he did remember, then I’m sure he … wouldn’t have killed you.”

You furrowed your brow, “what do you mean by that?”

He didn’t answer though as someone hastily knocked on your door distracting you, and when you went to look at where Sunday was… he was gone making you roll your eyes.

Well whatever, I got some new info on Jing Yuan and Sunday. Apparently they hate each other, Sunday killed Jing Yuan’s fiancé, Jing Yuan killed and sealed Sunday away but he managed to make Sunday with his new aeon ascension abilities to bring back his dead girlfriend, but said girlfriend was sent to the future due to Sunday not having full control which then lead Jing Yuan to look for her, but over time he was struck with mara…

And now I’m his fiancé… wait, if I find the princess he’s looking for, then I may be able to get out this marriage!

You smiled at your revelation as there was another knock on your door.

“I’m coming! Just a moment please!”

Grabbing your blanket from your bed, you wrapped it around yourself. It was still pretty late into the night so you wondered who it could be.

“Hopefully not Jing Yuan,” you muttered to yourself.

Grabbing the handle, you twisted it and opened the door.

“Princess! I’m sorry for disturbing you at this time, but I just had to see you!”

You blinked and took a step back. Before you was a woman slightly taller than you, she had long white ears, beautiful silver hair with blue highlights, and a charming smile on her face. And her eyes, unlike most you have seen around here, were filled with an unparalleled kindness.

“I’m General Feixiao, I hope Gepard has already filled you in on everything?”