Beloved Princess

The grim prince

"Alvin!"

"yes?"

"can't you tell me about dad's childhood?"

"myaa? no no, I still love my neck, mister putri" Alvin refused.

"hmm I'm so curious about Alvin"

"in this empire where anyone can talk about the emperor, what else is this in his own house (palace)"

"yahhh even though Alvin is my only hope😞" said Rere lethargic.

"haduuh don't be sad so dong, I feel this sinful"

"yes, but I'm curious about Vin"

"that's just a little bit, huh? I told you so much"

"really? does Alvin want a story?" Rere was immediately excited.

"yes . so this is the beginning of my meeting with the Emperor when we were about 7 years old, my father was a finance minister who was trusted by the previous emperor, the princess must know that as a noble being given the opportunity to meet with princes is a rare opportunity.

My father took me to the palace and told me to be friends with one of the princes, the princess's own father was the second prince born from the first concubine of the emperor, the marriage of the emperor with the empress who was landlocked by politics and the marriage of the emperor with Ano's mother who was in love certainly created different things.

According to the news of the emperor was very fond of his first concubine, so it is not surprising that the empress and other concubines are often jealous of the princess's grandmother, Ano and Felic are the emperor's children who most often experience murderous experiments compared to other emperor's children, but they both always survive thanks to the protection of the princess nenel.

Until Ano was 5 years old, the attempted murder of himself killed his mother, the Emperor was very angry and blamed Ano for the death of his beloved wife, since then Ano's happy life began to change.

Ignored by his father, in the excommunication of his brother, in the torment of his stepmother even ignored by the ladies and gentlemen, the princess knows that the father of the princess was once a bright and jolly child"

"really? but people say you're cruel" Rere said innocently.

"honestly, his cruelty was his way of protecting himself"

"protect yourself? what's that supposed?" Rere confusion.

"maybe the princess does not know that life in the palace is actually very dangerous, especially the life of the father of the princess first, every day always faced with death until the angel of death itself may be tired of meeting the father of the princess"

"🤨🤨🤨"

"ano's life from the age of 5 to 8 years was very heavy, until the arrival of a time when Felic was seriously ill due to poisoning, for Ano his sister was the only family he had, he was the only family he had, I don't know from where the great power appeared in Ano's body, he said..."

"mem?"

"i don't feel good about it, princess"

"please Alvin don't be half that way when it's a story"

"the princess is too young to understand what I'm saying"

"no! I'm a big one" Rere denied.

"well .in Ano's 13th year he had 3 brothers and the Emperor"

"d-dad?" said Rere in disbelief.

"hmmm . the notoriously quiet and gloomy prince Veano committed murder for the first time, and yaaa at first no one believed the news but soon after the older brother and his 2 younger sisters were also killed, only Ano and Felic were dying"

"then what happened to you?"

"Ano was in court, my father participated in the trial and did the princess know what Ano said?"

" ... " immediately shook his head.

"what's the problem with having that rotten fly, they've all been bothering me for years and I've only tortured them once, but because the flies were too weak they instantly died in one pat"

"dad said that?"

"iyaa, Ano spoke so with cold eyes, even she also revealed a strange smile in the middle of the trial, so people had time to spread rumors that Ano was in the demon race"

"in the demon rasuki?"

"some of the priests were called by the prime minister and many of the rituals they performed for the exorcism, Ano followed all of those rituals without rebelling in the slightest so everyone felt weird, like, if it was true that Ano in the demon rasuki would surely he would go berserk receiving such treatment, but Ano just calm down until the end"

"truss?" ask Rere, get curious.

"uh uh? dad said that?"

"hmm . I myself participated in watching the ritual, and I think the ritual aims to bring down Ano, but in fact they all failed to bring down the child" said Alvin manggu manggut.

"how did you become emperor?"

"yes of course because only your father inherited the blood of the emperor"

"hmm🤔"

"Felic couldn't be emperor because she's a woman"

"then how did Alvin become my friend?"

"ahh yes I forgot .. when we met at the age of 7 years Ano's condition was very alarming, his thin body was empty view and he was really unkempt, not well maintained, at that time I thought he was a servant's son or a gardener"

"truss?"

"emm because I was sorry to see him I gave him the food I was eating" he said awkwardly.

"trus?????"

"yes, Ano ate it with a kind of greedy gembule who just found the treasure"

"then?"

"aiissshh princess! I told you I just wanted to tell you a little story, why does the princess keep asking?" Alvin's getting tired.

"do you refuse a princess' orders?" said Rere arrived with a serious tone.

"uh uh? nope-no"

"continue your story now"

"ahh well but promise me that my head is separated from the eating body of the princess must be responsible to my son"

"yeah! quickly continue!" rere said, getting impatient.

"after I found out that Ano was the second prince I immediately prostrated for mercy, however my thoughts at that time had insulted a prince, but Ano just looked at me and left, just like that, and after telling my father I finally found out that Ano was a neglected prince, but strangely I became more and more interested in him"

"interested how?" rere said he didn't understand.

"how ya? I think Ano has its own charm, although I often ignored me continue to approach him, I always bring a basket full of food when I meet him, and I also several times brought clothes for him because his clothes were really seedy, and if the princess knew first his body was much smaller than mine"

"but now?"

"now I feel like a stump man next to him😑"

"hmm so that's why Alvin's close to dad?"

"yes it's possible, all of it just happened without my guessing"

"then how did Alvin respond when he found out that his father had made a brother and his father?"

"as a person who knows a lot about it to be honest I agree if Ano gave them a lesson, but when Ano heard about it I didn't believe it, a child with a small body and bones just like how could it help a great emperor and have many bodyguards outside?"

"did you ever tell Alvin about it?"

"no . I don't dare to ask him myself either"

"hm"

"what is the princess afraid of?"

"fear? to who?"

"father of the princess"

"no! I was very clingy with my father"

"kasian why?"

"now that I know the reason you're being so cold, you must be suffering and so lonely, I hope my presence can give you a little warmth in your heart" Rere said sincerely.

"the princess does have a very warm and sincere heart, sometimes I wonder how the devil seems to have such an angel-like daughter, do not let the mother of the princess is a holy priest who lives in the temple" said Alvin.

"well, my mother could also be a demon like my father" Rere said.