Time Lapse.

Asina stood at the door of a large gate; her voice was meek and polite. She was standing at the door, watching him in a bed, just sleeping and not uttering a single word for many years. Kakui Asina was in deep comatose.

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Many years ago, on the same day as they ran from the royal soldiers alongside Yuuka and Frey ken. To protect Milize, he ran while carrying her. He was left behind and stabbed by a soldier.

His wound was deep and looking fatal, but he successfully escaped the chasing soldier and reached for help. He ran towards a large mansion, tracing blood falling on the ground, but in the estate, he ran to a small-looking toilet near the villa.

The toilet was broken and ruined, but it had a lot of features that made it look suspicious. Still, no soldier would ever enter it due to the extreme case of research about these areas. There was no hidden path through these, according to the search teams.

He moved inside the toilet and entered a bathroom that opened to another door by pressing the water plug. As he entered through the door, other people standing there rushed, and Kakui put Asina down.

"Get a medic!! We need urgent help."

Still, it was too late till he arrived for medical attention.

Asina, who was in her arms, was red with his blood. Tears were rolling through her eyes as she tightly held her Father's clothes. She was scared of everything around her. Only one person's arms gave her comfort.

But that man was dying, and there was nothing she could do, as doctors carried him, and Milize just sat outside alone. In hours, countless worried people came by when Milize sat there. Was watched everyone come and go.

Everything was happening so fast to her as if time was moving too fast. People's words of encouragement, frustration, and sadness went by too fast.

Eventually, everyone went away, and Anju came running in; she, too, was in tears. Along with her standing was an old man, looking in his thirties.

He had a badge on his uniform written his name, Foal Zestus.

Walking alongside him was a little boy with blond hair. The boy's expression was stoic and unwavering to the situation around him.

The old man walked up to Milize and Anju, who just sat beside her,

"Hello there, Anju and..., I think your name was Milize right?"

Milize just nodded as the old man could not tell the name of the two twins.

"I am Foal Zestus, a trader of the rebel command. I work together with your Father to bring happiness to the country."

Milize did not give any reply and just continued listening.

"I understand the two of you love your Father very much and I want your help saving him. Will you help me save him?"

The two girls nodded immediately with innocent and high-pitched expressions on their faces. Seeing the two boys standing beside Foal was turned back and went back to the alleyway they came from.

"Lucius! You could have given these girls some company. They are alone here."

All this did not stop the kid from walking. He continued forward in faint ignorance.

"Did I tell you Yuuka was with Milize the whole day? They talked. You could learn more about him from them."

Listening to the words, the boy stopped in his tracks and immediately turned around with a severe expression on his face.

He came running towards Milize and asked him curiously,

"Were you the one talking with Yuuka?"

"Yes."

'So, you can speak. I thought you were Dysarthric. Well, that type of Guy is he, I have heard a lot of praise about him but I don't understand why they praise him so much, Why not me or you? I haven't heard your name from anyone."

Lucius went on the barrage of questions that overwhelmed Milize in a second. Anju acted at the moment, protecting her sister from his sudden attack.

"Hey, keep quiet? Do not you see, she is worried. What type of man are you?"

Seeing all the kids taking and getting their minds out of this terrible situation,

"These things were never meant to be seen by these kids."

He moved and entered the room and disappeared from the sight of kids who talked around and had their own fun together.

Time passed with the three of them, and as they talked, most of their conversation was surrounded by their mentor's ideas and thoughts. All the while, many people who had visited before came back and sat on the seats.

Lucius recognized many of those but did not call them out. The only one he called out was,

"Hey, Diksha. Why are you here?"

Another young lady, with a small face and dark skin, she looked very charming and bright from her face, and another lady walked beside her. That everybody greeted with a deep nod.

"Hey, Lucius. I just wanted to visit the capital but heard something important was going on. So, Icame to see."

"It's a lot of danger. You should be more careful."

Listening to Lucius's change of tone, Anju released something and had a smug face.

"I think someone really likes someone here?"

"Hey what are you talking about."

Listening to Lucius's words, Milize understood what was going on and started to smile out of embarrassment for Lucius.

The children happily talked to each other even in such a tense environment. They had found their happiness in each other.

But this happiness would soon end,

"..."

The room door opened, and everybody started paying attention to them,

The doctors came out of the room, telling everybody the grave news.

"Kakui Asina has passed due to blood loss. We could not save him."

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Fun fact- Lucius seems to be into dark-skinned girls.