4.

Simon found himself alone in the middle of the streets, with his father nowhere in sight, and his headache was increasing.

Shit.

What has he done? He is really a fool to run away like. that, why did he forget that he is just a vulnerable child.

"Child, are you lost?"

Great, Just great.

Simon looked at the lady with a sweet smile, too sweet for her own good, he had this feeling that this lady was a piece of bad news.

"No."

He didn't fail to notice how her smile fell a little after he had said that, now he saw fifty percent sure that she was a child stealer, just great now he has to deal with this as well.

"Oh, where are your parents?"

"There." He pointed his fingers backward.

The woman looked in that direction, "Where?"

"There," Simon said but then suddenly his head ached not now, not now please if he fainted here then he will surely be abducted and might never be able to see his father again, oh god no, he never hated himself more than now.

He was a grown man and yet behaved like a child and now he was going to suffer this is why parents teach their children not to run in-crowd.

"Child? are you okay?" the woman asked and moved forward. She wanted to touch him but he suddenly ran. away, god knows where he was going but he ended up in an alleyway.

Great, he wanted to just cry now.

"Child?" Goddamn this woman is so persistent,

"what do you want?" he asked.

"I just want to take you to your family."

"I can go on my own bitch, now get lost."

He said, and the woman was shocked for some time before she spoke again and this time she was angry, "what did you say you mutt, I am done being nice. I am going to sell you to the cruelest merchant."

She said and raised her hand, but Simon ran past her without her being able to catch him. He had fast reflexes after all, and thankfully he had seen his father. "FATHER!" He yelled at the top of his lungs and Yug saw him after a few seconds. Yug ran towards him, but he was quite far. The woman, on the other hand just pushed him forward.

Making him fall to the ground, his head was spinning, and he suddenly felt powerless, and dizzy and he didn't notice the horse carriage running towards him, "Simon GET UP!"

Yug yelled and ran towards his son as fast as he could in the crowd pushing people Damian also did his best to reach him Yug's heart stopped when he saw the horse carriage coming at him at full speed with no intention of stopping, "SIMON!"

Yug yelled. His heart nearly stopped beating when he saw the carriage approaching. Simon even Damian was anxious he was almost there but still not close enough to reach Simon, "YOUNG MASTER."

Simon saw the carriage but his body was unable to move he was just too powerless, 'Oh goddess please don't let me die so easily' he thought as he saw the carriage too near, but before anyone could do anything, a man picked him up from the ground and moved out of the carriage's way.

Simon gently opened his eyes, feeling himself floating in the air, he saw the face of the man that saved his life and when he did, he couldn't take his eyes off him, he kept on staring at the man he had longed to meet.

The person he wronged the most and the person he desired to see so much, he was the same just a little bit younger than before, same eyes same mole, the same face, same face as Sean. the man caught him staring and asked, "What are you staring at brat."

Simon smiled, typical of him to behave like this hate on the surface and love on the inside.

Simon suddenly hugged the man and the man's eyes widened and his body became stiff, "I missed you Rune!"

Rune Kyro Demir was the commander of the Northern Army, the area under the Amedio Dukedom. And he was also the second younger brother of Marchioness Diora.

The man who had always called Simon a brat and had often said that he was troublesome and what not but his actions were always different from his words, in his last life Rune's entire family was ruined because of Simon.

Simon's one lie that Rune was abusing him made Yug make his life a living hell, Yug had taken command of the Army and demoted him but the temple made and the royalty didn't let Rune go that easily was demoted to the status of that of a commoner and he was made to work like a servant all of this was done to lessen the power of Demir family that worked under the Amedio Dukedom and were neutral like them.

And this is what would happen to those who were neutral: just one mistake and the temple, royalty, and nobility will make sure to ruin these people

And because of the temple and royalty, even Yug couldn't interfere much. Even if Yug wanted to help Rune, it would only invite trouble, but Simon knows that Yug had always taken care of Rune from behind the scenes.

And even after all this in his last life, it was Rune who had saved his life by taking the sword that was aimed at Simon in his heart.

Simon hugged him tightly as he remembered the past. In this life, Simon will never let Rune go through any such problem ever.

"SIMON!" Yug came and snatched Simon from Rune before hugging him tightly and after that, he put him on the ground and was ready to slap him, "HAVE YOU GONE MAD HUH WHO TOLD YOU TO RUN LIKE THAT, I WILL BREAK YOUR LEGS IF YOU ANYTHING LIKE THAT SPOILED BRAT!"

However, Yug didn't slap him because Simon was already sick and pale so he just picked him up before he looked at Simon's savior and when he did, Yug paused, he just stared at Rune and Rune stared at him.

Both were having this staring competition, there was longing, but there was anger as well.

Now that Simon remembers Yug and Rune never confirmed their relationship, there was always this understanding, this weird attachment and glances that made it obvious that they were in love and obvious to only those who paid attention.

Like Simon's mother who had told Simon to accuse Rune in the first place because she wanted to break dukedom and she started by breaking the bond between Amedio and the Demir family, Rune and Yug never made any move, and the entire empire thought that these two hated each other and Simon thought that two, and the way they are glaring at each other with hostility also shows that they hate each other.

"General Rune," Yug said, but the tone of his voice was rather firm and sounded angry.

While Rune just moved back and smirked his smirk, was more like an angry smirk, "Greetings, duke."