Mission 1 : Destroy This Kingdom (14)

"Her Highness,"

The man lowered his head for a moment, then thrust the food package in front of Reina who was still staring at the man with a surprised look.

"This is food for Her Highness for the past 2 days. Your Highness do not worry, before the sun sets tomorrow, Your Majesty will be released from this prison. "

The man continued talking, completely oblivious to the emotional ripples in Reina's eyes.

There were thousands of feelings of turmoil that immediately hit Reina's heart. Seeing the face that overshadowed her dream made hatred and hurt control over Reina's heart again.

Without Reina realizing it, she was already standing, and with a single swing, her hand slapped the cheek of the man who was standing in front of her.

The man's eyes widened, he held his cheek and looked at Reina with a look of shock and confusion.

"Go, before I do anything worse to you!."

Said Reina coldly, turning her body as fast as she could and tightly clenching her fists.

Reina's crazy side asked Reina to lunged at the Demian-faced man, shredding his body to bring out anger and disappointment.

However, Reina's sane side kept reminding Reina not to do that. Moreover, when she had just slapped the man, Joana's flash of memory popped into her head.

"Lorein."

Joana's happy voice when calling the man made Reina realize that Joana has a good relationship with him.

But, arrgghh.

It felt like Reina wanted to scream. Damn it, why does Lorein's face have to look so much like Demian's?.

Reina glanced at Lorein out of the corner of her eye. Instead of leaving, Lorein stood still in his place.

"Get out. I don't want to see you at all."

Said Reina again.

After not seeing Lorein's face directly with her eyes made Reina feel much better. Reina's head suddenly hurt thinking about what if she would see Lorein more often after this. It seemed impossible for Reina to keep turning her body when she was talking to Lorein.

"Why, are you angry with me, Anna?"

Lorein's sad voice echoed through the room, entering Reina's ear drum which suddenly ached. Even his voice was very similar to Demian's.

Aarrggh, Reina trully would go crazy if everything continued like this. Of course Lorein and Demian were different people. But, what they have in common is completely absurd. There was no way Reina could face Lorein without remembering Demian.

"Please Anna, believe in me. I've been trying to beg uncle to release you immediately, "

Said Lorein. He even inched forward, pulled Reina's hand then hugged Reina's body tightly,

"I won't be able to see you sad, Ann, you know that."

Lorein buried Reina's head in his chest. He then gently stroking Reina's hair.

"You know, Rei, I'll never be able to see you sad. I think I could die if you're sad. "

Demian's words suddenly echoed in Reina's head, making anger and disgust fill her heart again.

Roughly, Reina pushed Lorein's body,

"Go, I said go!"

Shouted Reina.

She then walked away from Lorein, sat hugging her knees in the corner of the dusty prison room.

The prison room was suddenly silent, no sound was heard. But Reina could feel that Lorein was still there.

"Very well, Ann. I will go. I just want you to know that I really love you, Ann."

Finally Lorein spoke after a long silence. His voice sounded trembling, as if he was very hurt by Reina's attitude.

After that, the creaking sound of the door closed, indicating that Lorein had just left.

"He's not Demian, Rei. He's Lorein. "

Reina was still hugging her knees, muttering those words to calm her raging heart.

Yes, he wasn't Demian, he just had the same face and voice as that damn man.

***

Lorein ale Romano is Reina's adopted cousin, or rather a soldier who has the honor of being the adopted son of the Marquess Romano family.

Marquess Romano, who was a distant relative of Duke Alairez, had no male ancestors at all, so the Marquess decided to adopt a son as the successor of the family line. And Lorein was chosen thanks to Duke Alairez's recommendation.

The reason is of course because Duke Alairez appreciates Lorein's perseverance and hard work during his time as a soldier under Dukedom Alairez.

Being a soldier under Dukedom Alairez made Lorein often meet Joana. Lorein's friendly and pleasant attitude made Joana and Lorein very close.

Joana, who felt that she had found the figure of an older brother in Lorein, made her often tell stories and poured out all her sadness due to her father's cold attitude to Lorein. Even when Joana was sick, it is lorein who is on Joana's side. Until finally their relationship broke after Joana fell in love with Galaes.

"Too similar, is god playing joke with me?"

Reina supported her head on her knees. She felt a lot calmer after desperately inducing herself that Lorein and Demian were two different people.

And based on Joana's memory, Lorein is a very good man. He really didn't deserve Reina's ill treatment just because of his resemblance to Demian.

Haha, it felt like Reina wanted to laugh at her current thoughts. In the past, Reina's mind had managed to deceive her by saying that Demian was a very good man.

Reina sneered in her heart, the point is, there are no sincere men on this earth. They all exist only in comics or romantic novels.

Reina took a deep breath, slowly got up from her position and picked up the food box given by Lorein.

Right now, all Reina has to do is make sure her life in Ethreal runs perfectly in order to launch her revenge. Regarding the similarities between Lorein and Demian, Reina must be able to control her feelings.

And the first thing Reina did was fill her stomach. Because all this time her stomach had sounded asking to be filled

***

As Lorein said, Reina was indeed released the next day when the sun was about to set.

Of course it wasn't Galaes who picked Reina. Based on the information Rosie told her, the king was busy taking care of his concubine who fell ill due to being too worried about the crown prince's safety.

The palace doctor gave the king strong advice to do something that would make her worries lessen.

And to prevent his beloved concubine's health from getting worse, the king finally issued an order to make a new palace which was located quite far from the main palace.

The modest palace was ordered to be finished as soon as possible. In order to make the feelings of his favorite concubine calmer.

Ah, by the way, the palace to be built was not built for the concubine, but for the empress. And for the first time in Ethreal's history, the empress was expelled from the main palace..