Ethereal - 𝔈𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔩

Prologue (After Ark's Death)

First Timeline (End)
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The death of the youngest Decroix put a shock to the whole kingdom, a young boy, still a child was killed mercilessly by his own family.

  The whole kingdom was in chaos, people began to mourn on the death of an innocent child.

For two years, the whole kingdom went into depression, the busy streets were much quieter, children are nowhere to be seen when they usually play in the streets, even the plants and trees were much duller than usual.

     Helios was the first to began to suspect Eros, after the death of his ex-fiance something was not adding up and so he began investigating secretly, watching Eros actions.

  Noelle was the second to notice that everything is much duller and gloom, his food tasted much more bland and it seems the flowers in his garden look like they're dying.

  Xavier was third to notice it, there were no quiet steps roaming the Decroix manor, the walls seems bleak and every dusty part seems more prominent.

    Alessio as well began to notice something missing from their manor, the sweets that was usually stock up we're now slowly getting smaller.

He asked the chefs to make some but it didn't taste the same, when he asked Eros to make some seeing that he said he baked the sweets, Eros slightly panicked but agreed to make some more.

When Alessio ate it, it was bad, it didn't have the same sweetness of the stocked sweets and he began to suspect Eros didn't baked it as well.

Lucius was the last one to notice, the halls were much quieter, gone was the soft humming he always hear, the soft and quiet piano he always hear passing by the manor library or the gentle flute that always helps him sleep at night.

These men began to feel everything is wrong and something is missing. They would notice every little details that they usually can ignore easily.

It frustrates them, there's an itch in their mind telling them that something is missing, but what is it? What's something they're missing?

It was when Helios visited the Kingdom Church when he saw some of the citizens bringing flowers behind the Church.

His curiosity pulled him and there he saw, the carefully perfect preserved body of the youngest Decroix. They had put his body in an open casket surrounded by white lilies.

He finally saw Ark and was mesmerized, even in death he never realized how beautiful his ex-fiance is.

His silver hair perfectly framed his pale skin and feminine frail body.

The priestess was shocked seeing him there, "Your Majesty, what brings you here in our church?"

Helios took a minute to reply just looking at Ark's dead body before speaking quietly, "I.... You preserved his body?"

The priestess nodded solemnly, "Yes, the citizens wants to honor Young Master Ark, seeing he died unjustly."

Helios look at the priestess with confusion in his eyes, "Unjustly? He poisoned Baron Eros, why is it unjustly?"

The priestess looked at him disappointed,
"the young one had never poisoned that liar of baron, Young Master Ark had already predicted that he might get framed for suspecting Eros and it seems he was right."

....what?....

Ark predicted his own death, even when it hasn't happened yet, he already knew he was running out of time and yet he still accepted that no one would save him.