Before anything and everything that will happen, though I am pretty sure the palace is still the same just without me bringing a new wife or two Everytime I went out of the palace for a while and come back from my journey, let me tell you a very simple reason why is the capital of Valentine is divided into two cities.
First of all, the main capital and the residence of the Queen of Valentine is the City of Vampires led by my sister in which is considered the industrial capital of Valentine and the "other" or the "second" capital of Valentine is my city, the military innovation city The City of Devils, though the name is pretty grandiose, that's just how really it was, seems like my ancestors is bad at naming and the name of the cities sucks that most of our towns and cities got renamed.
Going back, why does the Kingdom have to have two capitals? Why not just one in order to avoid difficulties in administrating the two cities? Well simply because the two of us are part of the Rulers, a group of individuals that holds charisma and strength in their race and is considered as the administrator of their respective race, the Rulers that is just down to Seven now so I will call them the Seven Rulers are individuals with a lot of secrets that cannot be shown to anyone that didn't pledge their life or loyalty towards them, that's why my city, well of course is open to public but have "underground" things that cannot be known by my sister.
Public facilities located in my city like the Magic Academy among others are of course not in the scope of that secret and the "Soldiers Factory" secret by the Academy is a secret of us both and not just me, well it is really complicated and I will take forever to explained the whole picture and secrets of the Twin Capitals of Valentine but I will make sure to showcase it, but for now, that's the basic outline.
There are really just secrets of me and my sister that cannot be uncovered even if we are siblings.
While I am monologuing and explaining about those things, of course me, Ophiuchus and Chris are currently walking our way to my palace, in which is maintained by the maids,.except for the floors designated as "forbidden" or "restricted" to enter, so I am planning on making the maids clean that place, but like I said the places are either restricted or forbidden so I will make them enter my genjuts- I mean illusion spell and erase their memory of the time that they have cleaned the said places.
Of course it's not like they will be inconvenienced in any way or form by erasing a memory of them sweeping and mopping around a god-damned floor right? So it's not like I am doing something bad to them, well I am doing something but it's not bad. (Wink Wink)
Anyway, after about 30 minutes of walking we finally arrived at the palace, the palace also have an obsidian theme like how the palace of my sister is, we entered the gate of the palace and I can't help but feel nostalgic.
This place is where my wives and I talk, laugh and make love with each other, memories upon memories started flooding in my mind as tings of pain started to well up in my heart like thousand needles piercing me without stop.
My wives may be considered as concubines but they are not restricted by that title, they do not have complete dependence towards me and thus making them more true to their feelings towards me. Some of them are someone who is once a village chief and someone who is once a princess, but they do not discriminate, they are strong and jolly individuals, they really are.
Suddenly I feel two hands in both of my shoulders and started patting it, I looked at Ophiuchus and Chris in my back as they comforted me.
"It's fine master, It's fine."
"It's not your fault."
They said as I took a deep breath and continued walking, that's right, even though it's painful, even though they are now gone, I cannot bring them back anymore, but I have to atleast find the surviving ones. My best bet, no, my sure win guess, is Guinevere Pendragon the Chaos Bringer. She is someone stronger than me and is my mentor before she became my wife so her dying because she went on a rampage is pretty impossible to think of for me or for people that knows her.
And the other one is the Poison Princess Arachne, she is someone that gave me a good challenge (This is not a out battle) and is once my enemy turned wife so I know that she is strong, so she is either alive and kicking somewhere spreading webs or got sealed and is in a suspended motion state.
So right now, I have a few set of question to my subordinates. We transversed the floors and reached my well kept office though the bookshelf are now empty, because of that I will make a mental note to fill that up again but for now let's ask questions.
"Hey you two I have questions, first the locations and movements of the Seven Rulers in the past two hundred years of my absence?"
I looked at them as I slowly sit down on my sit and make a cross-legged position, Ophiuchus then immediately went forward and answered with a casual tone that seem to forget that she cried because of me, wich I cannot say so I ignored it and started to wait for her explanation.
"The Archangel of Humility Selaphiel is in the Tyrfing Empire basically having a staring match with your sister that announced to the whole world 200 years ago that she'll destroy Tyrfing, her angels are not present though, The Dragon King sealed the 5th dimension of the world by coiling his body around it making him just a dragonoid, he sealed the fifth dimension so that the humans will not be able to summon heroes from another world so only Nakano Hiroshi the last remaining Knight of the Roundtable is there only hope, Guinevere is still alive but she might nuke Tyrfing if humans ever tried to ask her to be the hero, so Hiroshi, the last member alive of the Knights of the Round Table are there best bet, even though she is just more reasonable than Guinevere and Don't particularly have a good relationship with humans. The Fairy Princess is in her forest to the world for some reason and even I cannot force open their security, no clue about the Demon Lord."
I looked at her with awe, partly because she just summarized all the movements of the 5 of the most secretive individuals of the world but because of one thing, Idun locked up her whole forest to the point that even my super spy of my Black Unit cannot peek through their security, Idun the current Fairy Princess is someone who wants her forest to become an official state, that's why it's strange that she locked it up so suddenly just because of a war.
Idun and I are not particularly enemies and if anything, we are close friends so I will make a mental note to visit her forest and ask what's wrong to her, if there is.
"I see.... My two surviving wives?"
Ophiuchus is about to answer but Chrysaor dashed in front of her and make a gentle and textbook smile that implies "You are not the only one who wants to show off" and then looked at me with another gentle smile.
"My apologies, but Arachne-sama is nowhere to be seen, only Guinevere-Sama is currently the Magistrate of the one of the Vassal Nation of Tyrfing, Camelot."
"What the fu..."
Chrysaor looked at my shocked expression and made a small chuckle before interrupting me. Guinevere is someone who hates the Roundtable because they are a band of motherfuckers who betrayed her brother Arthur, all of them except Hiroshi turned their back to my brother in law and Guinevere went rampant and killed all of them, so it's strange to see her in Camelot of all places.
"No, Guinevere-Sama is just guarding the place in which Merlin the former Wisdom Lord freezed Lancelot with undying ice."
"Oh, I see..."
I thought my wife got NTR'D or something.
Thinking about things like that, I weaved a sigh of relief, it seems like she is just guarding the body of Hiroshi, though I would say that she is still fond of humans, because Hiroshi is someone extremely loyal to Camelot and Arthur, and the moment the Roundtable betrayed him, she also betrayed humanity in an instant that it doesn't make any freaking sense no matter how much I think about it and the only probable explanation I came up with is because Tyrfing, after the Roundtable killed Arthur commenced an attack to Camelot and successfully assimilated it into their vassal nation, she lost her faith to humanity and now her grudge to her former teammates, the Roundtable is directed to Tyrfing and the humans of this world. (If it's not obvious enough she is a person summoned in another world)
After hearing those words I said a "Thank you." And dismissed them for now in order for me to have some alone time to absorb the informations I have just received by the efforts of my ever loyal subordinates.
First, no matter how many things Pandora and the Kingdom or now Empire, Tyrfing that she founded did in the past, she is still inclined and dead set on helping and protecting humans, Idun the Fairy Princess is the same but her reason of helping humanity is because they are interesting, she is sort of an jackass god or something that helps and aids people she founds amusing, but Selaphiel is different, she have a pure and benevolent intentions in helping them.
As for me I don't care about them either way and only my sister have an obsession of pursuing the destruction of Pandora's Kingdom.
And the issue that I cannot wrap my head around no matter how much I think about, why did Idun locked up her Forest? No, of course I know that I already dwelled in this topic earlier but I can't get it out of my mind no matter how much I tried to do so, Idun is someone who have a fixation of making her Forest a country and as for the record, her mother is not too fond of that idea.
They fought for this matter for all eternity and their relationship as a parent and child got wedged because of this, the wedge is so big that the two, at the time of the War of the Rulers have different sides and even though they didn't have any chance to fight and settle the matter in the battlefield, this happening implied just how much determined Idun on making her forest a Kingdom.
So why lock it up after sacrificing the very parental relationship between her and her mother for her goal? Did something happened?
Furthermore it is to the point that the super spy of Valentine cannot infiltrate it, as a friend of course I am worried about her, no matter how much of a contrast the titles "Devil King" and "Fairy Princess" has, she is still someone I consider as someone important...
Wait, could it be... No way, but it makes sense because she is nowhere to be seen...
No, no Idun won't endanger her life that much, that's not the case... I hope.
Thinking about those things, I decided that for now, I should keep in mind all the mental notes I have, to set a proper schedule in the cleaning, to find my two wives or atleast one of them later on before the festival of my "Second Coming" will be held
Well, I sure have many things to do just after I got sealed, but for now there's no rush so I went into my room and slumped on my bed that I haven't seen for hundred of years.
That's right, for now...
"Time to sleep."