The moment she uttered my name, i was in complete shock, no one should have known of that name outside of me and Shizuno, i was certain that neither of us two had the chance to tell another person about it .
Did maybe the vice captain heard me talking about this in my sleep yesterday, the look she had in her eyes was that of awe and eternal worship, something that wasn't possible to assign with her just hearing about it randomly, she looked at me as if she knew me, no it seemed that she not only know me, but she maybe very acquainted with me, before i say or do anything else .
Something was once again swirling in the back of my mind, i was now very familiar with that feeling, i was recalling something .
( Recalling Of Old Memories ) :
Normally in my dreams, i was either on the battlefield or inside the alleys of the city training, but this time the things in front of me was different, i was in a bloody castle, the reason to why i describe it as bloody, because it was currently filled with stains of red blood everywhere .
From looking at it like this, i was able to tell that not much time had passed since it was formed, the castle was empty, i was walking in unhurried manner still clothed in black leather trousers and covering my head with a cape, i wasn't able to judge how old was i at that point of time, but my stance while walking seemed to entail that i had matured a lot .
I reached for the throne and sat on it while crossing my fingers together and leaning in front as if contemplating about something in my mind .
The metal doors of the castle entrance suddenly opened and a soldier clad in armor asked for the king's permission to enter, from all the way up the throne i motioned that i gave him permission .
Three to four guards began to come inside the spacious, empty and quite creepy throne room, but they weren't alone they were pulling a woman with blue hair and hazel eyes, cuffed by chains and being pulled forcefully to walk forward .
Her eyes were foggy as if she was already dead inside, her face were bruised, she wore scraps of what the me in the vision presumed to be scraps of her original clothes, barley covering her up, but not enough to cover the bruises all over her body .
She looked to have suffered from grave kind of energy, she was unable to steady her legs when she was walking, one of the guards seeing her struggling like this, decided to fix this by thrashing her forward forcefully, increasing the severity of her injuries even more as she fell in front of the throne sobbing quietly, she seemed to have some problems in her throat as well by the sobbing voices she was making, i frowned at the guards actions .
Another one of the guards seemed to be aware of how wrong was what the comrade of his did, hurriedly bowed in front of me and said that the guard was a newbie here, but even before he finished saying this, the head of that heartless guard fell to the floor, while still having a sadistic smile on his face .
The other guards bodies shook all but one, he was the guard that spoke before for the sake of his comrade just now .
The girl still hadn't even raised her head, she didn't even react when the head rolled all the way next to her feat, she was still staring with an empty eyes towards me, those eyes of hers i have seen a lot of them in the battlefield, mostly from those who lost a limb or were no longer capable of fighting, it was a look asking to be given a merciful death .
The guards have already dropped the chains on the ground, i appeared in front of the girl now on the ground, the other guards looked shocked and all kneeled down on the floor, bowing their heads down, afraid to meet my eyes, i reached out my hand and touched that girl cheek and found that her body was completely cold as if i was touching an iceberg, no a corpse would be more fitting .
I asked about what was going on here and none spoke before i repeat my question one more time, the same guard said while bowing his head to the ground as if ashamed of what he was saying .
The girl in front of me was once this kingdom crown princess, the only heir to her father throne, but she and her family were plotted against by her uncle, resulting in her being captured and tortured by the guards almost on a daily basis, the girl mind collapsed before her body did, most people had been notified that she died a long time ago .
What brought her to me like this today was that they were uncertain of how to deal with her, most of the prisoners have already gotten out and escaped, all but her, so they brought her here to me, he mentioned that guard was also a son of one of those mercenaries that plotted against the royal family, resulting in her capture and was newly recruited to the palace .
At this point the guards who was saying all of this was sticking his head and face to the floor, completely unable to raise it from the shame he was currently feeling .
The girl facial expression hadn't changed in the slightest, both her expression and eyes were blank as before, after hearing everything that i needed to hear, i asked the guy knelling in front of me to summon all those that were part of that conspiracy against the previous King and his family .
He seemed to be shocked at first, but then he involuntarily looked at one of his kneeling comrades, that comrade felt his gaze and began shaking or at least he tried to, but even though his body was shaking, he was long dead, another headless corpse fell .
The other weren't able to react to the shock and most of them collapsed on the floor, i looked at him and gave him 2 hours, in those 2 hours he will need to bring all those whom i asked him to bring here and i might think of sparing him, doing not and i will kill him and everyone he might have ever met even once in his life .
After he got a taste of my killing intent, he began to hurry get out of the room running, not even gathering his belongings like the sword and the shield, after he got out, i was still caressing the cheeks of the girl in front of me, trying to get any sort of reaction out of her, but to no avail .
Few minutes later, the guards who collapsed just now woke up from their slumber, i told them to go ahead and get out of the room, but asked them to uncuff the girl first before they leave, they looked at each other in bewilderment, a few seconds later i was introduced to the fact that her handcuffs keys were long gone .
I almost killed them all just by releasing my bloodlust, i was angered by what they just said that i blasted them out of the room using nothing but brute force and a little help from Paradox or at least i thought so, but i got the feeling that he was faster than what i can ever be using Paradox .
After they got out of the room, i healed the girl completely, then i uncuffed her, the moment i uncuffed her, i was shocked when i saw that the girl in front of me had an uncanny resemblance to the Senpai back in reality without the glasses that is .
The moment i healed her, she directly appeared behind me and i didn't even know when she reached for the sword of that chief guard, but she did and she thrusted the sword in her hands in my chest with pure hatred in her eyes unlike before .
The me in the vision collapsed on the floor, then the girl who was now on top of me began to sobb and cry her eyes out, yet not a single tear came out of her eyes, i waited for here to finish releasing all the frustration she had built in all of these years, then after a thirty minutes or more, she finally stopped crying, only then did i ask her about if she was fine now .
She jumped out of scare but i held her steadily in place and i then pulled the sword out of my left shoulder and told her that i was born with my heart on the right side, then i healed my energy, she was muttering about how come I was still alive, i removed the cape that i wore and me and her both gasped at the scene we saw .
A body filled with scars all over it, all of these looked quite fresh as if the blood in them just got coagulated, then without doing much he used another spell and all those scars disappeared,he then told her that what she just saw was the result of today's fight and that any of those injuries was stronger than her attack just now .
She just stared at me with wide eyes, the current me was seeing this and wasn't able to help but become surprised, his grave injuries were really mortifying, but what really shocked me was the fact that he seemed to be at most 14 or 15 years old and he wore no armor behind that cape he had on before .
He pointed at the right side of his chest and asked if she wanted to try again, the girl just dropped the sword in hand and shamefully lowered her head, he then laughed hard and loud that his laughter kept echoing in the empty hall, this was the first time that i saw him act like this, i thought that he was always stern and all serious .
His laughter suddenly tensed the girl, he soon stopped laughing and said that she indeed made the right choice if she had tried to attack him again, he might have chopped her head up, that made the complexion on the face of the girl in front of him turn to become quite ugly .
He then asked her what her name was, she answered by saying that she was former princess of this country, her name was Evelyn, in a quite the bitter tone .
He shook his head and said that she should introduce herself properly as the Queen of the kingdom Lady Evelyn .
She thought that he was making fun of her, so with a pained face she told him that she was no Queen, but he insisted that she was .
A sudden knock on the door caught their attention, she tried to stand up but he was still fixing her in place, he then gave the order to whoever were outside to come in, the door was opened harshly and over 80 person cuffed in Mana binding cuffs came into the room .
Once they witnessed the current situation, they began to try and talk their way out of this situation by offering to give a huge amounts of wealth and numerous concubines to me if he were to spare them .
He didn't spare them much of a glance, his only words were :
" Why aren't you kneeling in front of your Queen, guards make them all kneel down right this instant .
Without hesitation the chief guard gave the order and the sound of all of 80 people knees hitting the ground sounded, then the guards followed suit and they too kneeled on the ground and they respectfully greeted their new Queen, burying their faces on the ground, she seemed to be shocked and also embarrassed about her current situation and position, but i brought her out of her trance, when i asked her about what she wanted to do with those guys .
Her eyes widened then her face hardened and without any hesitation, she began her spellcasting, she used a spell that summoned a huge flames, those flames engulfed all the prisoners in cuffs and incinerated all of them to ash in seconds, their scream of agony and plead for mercy fell on a deaf ears .
After she used her magic, she lost conscious and fell into my embrace, this time she wasn't acting, she was really tired .
The scene in front me suddenly shifted to play another different kind of scene, or more accurate to say that i was having flashbacks of different scenes being played in front of me one by one .
I thought that when she had woken up, she asked why i helped her and i just smiled, then the scene shifted once again, another scene showed that we were getting married, both were being coronated as a king and queen back in Alvarez my home kingdom and the first kingdom i had conquered .
Then another shift in the scene showed me and her having the best time in our lives, then the final scene shift came, i was shown that she laid in bed, looking to be quite old and sick, in contrast to how i looked, i was looking like a 20 years old, i held her hand and told her that if she wanted i can make her live longer .
She said that she really wanted to live with me for all of eternity, but that her essence weren't protected like how mine was, so she preferred things to end peacefully like this, her last words were that she will always love me and that she hoped that if there was really a next life, we will meet again and will fall in love again until death do us part, then she passed away .
With this the vision ended and i returned back to reality filled with ton of a strong and different emotions, the sadness of losing her, anger that i wasn't able to keep her, but for some reason all those emotions seemed to be oddly familiar, as if i had felt them before .
( End Of The Recalling ) .
The first scene that my eyes saw after i returned to reality was myself on the floor and the same girl with blue hair and hazel eyes appeared sitting on top my waist and smiling at me with the same brilliant smile that i once saw in one of my vision, she was muttering a few words that affected me deeply to the point of tears, sha was saying :
Until death do us apart, you remember right, my beloved king .
" Evelyn, i.... .
She silenced me from saying anything and began to bent forward towards me, just as we became inches away from each other, a loud coughs sounded from the captain ruining the mood at the last minute .
What kind of crazy thing are you doing now, Kanzaki, you need to get up right this instant and that goes for you too Ryuu .
That was enough to break us out of the momentarily trance that we both fell into, Evelyn wasn't showing any intent on responding to the orders, but i felt that something was wrong with me doing this, so i got up while helping her to get up as well, both holding hands with one another .
Leaving all the people present to look at us with shocked faces and bewilderment and a little bit of envy as well .