0.07: The division of gender?
The castle was filled with a festive atmosphere as the royal family came together for a dinner celebration. Tedashii and his companions were warmly welcomed and treated like royalty. As Sanji and Queen Mikoto entered the room, trumpets sounded, and all eyes were on them. Sanji had transformed to look just like Cheyzar, with his hair swept to one side and his eyes the same lime red as Tedashii's.
"HAIL KING CHEYZAR! HAIL KING CHEYZAR!" All the ladies chanted his name, which did not please Tedashii.
"I wish someone would kick him off his high horse," Sasha said to Peachy.
"If he heard you, no one knows what he would do." She replied.
Tedashii could not stop staring at Sanji out of disappointment as he kept stirring the spoon in his glass.
"My prince. Your food will get cold if you don't eat." One of the ladies said. He stopped spacing out and looked at his food. He then remembered that tempura and curry rice was Yuri's favorite.
"It was big sister's favorite meal…" Konami said as she took Peachy onto her lap.
"Is the departing of Lady Yuri still bothering you?" Her maiden asked.
"A little bit. I don't know what is going on with Sanji."
Tedashii couldn't eat at all. "Sorry, maiden. What is your name?" He asked.
"Oh, My! We maidens aren't allowed to be called by our names, prince. The queen would end me." She said, hiding her face behind her hands.
"It doesn't matter. What's your name?"
"Uh... it's...Brianna, Motsubi Brianna, my prince."
"Wow, that's a cool name. I'm Ted-...Uh, Fugin Fushigiri. A pleasure to meet you."
Brianna began to blush as he held his hand on hers. Steam fumed out of her head, and she was as red as a tomato. He let go, thinking he was hurting her…in a way.
"Whoa! Are you alright?!" He asked, then held her forehead to see if she had a fever. "Damn! You have a fever; let me take you to the infirmary here."
"Oh no, no, no, no, no! If you sideline me from the others, they'll get wrong-" Tedashii grabbed her by the hand and ran with her toward Sanji and Mikoto's throne.
"Dad! Mom! I'm taking my maiden to go for a walk. Can we go out of the castle for a moment?" He asked.
Sanji didn't know what he was up to, but he also had no reason to stop him.
"But sweetie. The castle is already big enough for walks. Is it necessary to go out…and let alone with your maiden?" Mikoto said. Brianna looked down at the ground, and Tedashii was now mad.
"You said one thing, right, Mom? She's my maiden. And as long as she is, watch what you say to her!" Tedashii said, keeping his arm around her shoulder.
Mikoto and Tedashii began to have a stare fight and growled while frowning at each other. Sanji just pushed them both apart and sat on his throne.
"It's alright, son. Go and walk around with your maiden. Just don't get into trouble with outsiders or get injured. If you run into trouble, leave it to Brianna. She knows the protocols when dealing with the juggernauts."
Tedashii thanked Mikoto and left with Brianna. Mikoto was ready to disagree, but Sanji kissed her on her lips.
"Give the boy a little freedom. How do you expect him to explore? Who knows, he might live up to be like his father." Sanji said, as his eyes glowed while he looked at Tedashii.
(*Clears throat!)
Someone was trying to get their attention. It was Lady Williams, and she arrived just after Tedashii left.
"My queen. May I have your permission to speak to the king privately for a while.?" She asked with a smile on her face.
"And why would I allow that? Can't you see we are in the middle of-"
"That's fine with me. Mikoto, do you mind giving us some space?" Sanji asked.
"But SWEETIE!! We were BONDING!"
"It has to do with Yuri. Lady Williams has some Intel that I'm afraid I can't share with anyone."
She breathed deeply, swallowed the rest of her wine, and walked away to speak with Doku. Lady closed the door and then took a seat in front of Sanji.
"You seem to be holding up the part as king very well, Sanji Misaki!" She said.
"What do you want? I chased Yuri out of the castle just as I promised."
"But that is only one of the three things I asked you." Lady then pulled out a shard. "You know what might happen if Mikoto gets your visual shard, right? Everyone will finally know the truth!"
Lady had already told Sanji she knew his real identity since they made eye contact during their first encounter. And that's why she wanted to use her evidence as her strings to control Sanji like a puppet.
"You know what I promised you. You only beat Yuri because of the memory tag I gave you!"
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*BACK DURING THE BATTLE*
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Yuri was still celebrating, with the relief that she comfortably beat Sanji. The ladies still were against it, but it was well expected from Doku's eyes. Sanji used Rotanoria to stand up, but Lady told him to stay behind the walls so she could talk with him.
"By the looks of it, you don't know how to use your sword. Are you even the real Cheyzar?" She said.
Sanji stopped moving as he thought he had finally got caught. "Y-Yes! Of course I am. Who dares question m-"
Lady showed him a memory shard.
"…? What is that?"
She then split it in half, and smoke poured out of it. When Sanji looked closer, he saw the time he and Tedashii were on the Galantica. And that was all the evidence she needed to prove they were not from here.
"..."
Sanji was speechless.
"Now, you will tell me the truth, or else this goes public!"
Sanji went down to his knees. This might force him to quit if it led to his execution.
"...My name is Sanji Misaki. I'm from the real world, and so are my comrades. The other boy is Tedashii Katsuno, with his sisters Konami and Yuri. Sasha Os-Blancos is also with us."
"Well, I don't care about all that. Just confirm for me this…are Tedashii and Konami Fushigiris? Because, unlike you, they do have eyes."
Sanji shook his head. "That I don't know about. All I'm asking is for you to please-"
Lady began to laugh.
"Hahahahahahahahaha!!! What, not tell the queen? Your arrival has brought so much setback to my plan."
Sanji looked up at her and witnessed her devious smile. "You…are also from the real world."
She turned back while lifting her hair, and he did not see the forfeit button.
"No, I died here long ago because of THAT BASTARD Cheyzar. Suddenly, I woke again but realized this was a playback of his son's memory. So, my goal was to stop any good guys from the real world. But when I heard this crap that Cheyzar returned, I almost quit. Then I saw it was nothing but an immature poser."
Sanji looked away from her; then she dropped a shard on his lap. But right before he picked it up, she held a sharp tentacle to his head.
"What you see is one out of four of Cheyzar's memories. I will give you all of them, resulting in you becoming just like the real Cheyzar!"
Sanji picked it up. He looked through the glass and saw how Cheyzar used his sword.
"A verbal sync? Just like Tedashii! No wonder my spiritas did not work on it. Thank you so-"
"Not so fast. The queen will figure you out before you can keep this act going. Do as I say, and I might consider giving you the other three. Then you can become the REAL Cheyzar!"
Sanji was ready to decline such a non-convincing offer but remembered that he was fighting Yuri. So his decision had to be now or never.
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*BACK TO THE PRESENT TIME*
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"Yes, I didn't forget. I told you I'm working on the other three." Sanji said.
"Hope you didn't forget. You have to evict Tedashii as well; let me execute Konami and then ensure my absolute safety while doing so."
"I'm still unsure about the second one; the other two are fine. And why do you want me to evict Tedashii? He is the prince; that won't make any sense!"
Lady turned around and walked to the window.
"My plan has already been set well. He went to see Yuri. She will ask him to defeat you and take your throne. When that happens, I give you the second shard; you beat and evict him, too. Konami won't be on your side anymore, so that she will challenge you. You fight her, and I'm sure you won't need help. You beat her, then announce her execution out to Punk Knock; Tedashii finds out, and then he and everyone else will come to stop me. AFTER THAT, I WILL ALREADY ABSORB BOTH THEIR IMMORTALS AND FINALLY BECOME A MORTAL AGAIN!!"
"..." Sanji kept looking at her after hearing her plan. "YOU NEVER TOLD ME YOU WANTED TO KILL THEM!!"
"Oh, don't worry. I'm going to let you and your girlfriend live."
"And Sasha?!"
"Who?"
SLAM!!
Sanji slammed the table. "How did you expect me to be aboard with this?!" I'm not going to."
Lady pulled out the memory shard again, and Sanji kept his mouth shut.
"That is why you will do EXACTLY what I say. Or are we having seconds thought, GREAT Cheyzar??"