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13.14 Black Pawn's Downfall

10/25/2020 6:52pm

A/n: Why 13.14 instead of 13.13? Just don't like the number guys.. Though it's practically the same in count. hehe. Just bear with me. okay? 😁.
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Later that night after the conversation between Sandhya and Jamal when princess Bida begun her labor. Everyone in the empire began to worry about Princess Bida's baby, the first prince who would ever born since the emperor reign.

But not everyone would celebrate with this joyous occassion. Especially, Princess Aabha who plotted a scheme over this trivial event. She knew that if she ever let the child live, the position of being the heiress will be done for her. So getting rid of the child and benefiting on its wasteless life are best option for her.

That midnight, five of her paid assassin sneak into Princess Bida's quarter and watch as she poured all her strength in giving birth to the child. While the assassins where in Princess Bida's room, Princess Aabha went to sneak inside Kairav's room carrying the special dagger in her hand. This dagger were laced with the flower extract of the Miracle White Lotus her servant took from Kairav when he was busy arguing with an Acharya.

Princess Aabha smiled visciously as she raised her dagger on the sleeping figure when she heard the announcement that the prince was finally born. Her smile turned wider as the panicked and shouts in the room become silence after a long while. As the moon shines, the evil glint in her eyes shone as she about to stabbed the sleeping man. But everything took faster than what she realized, on the moment she blink her eyes. An arrow impaled her wrist making her dropped the dagger she was holding.

"Ah. You're too slow you know? I thought I would die before you could even shoot that arrow!" Kairav complained the glaring Sandhya. She was glaring at him not Princess Aabha.

"No. I'm not the slow one here, she does. I don't know why she even prolonged your ultimate death," she rolled her eyes at screaming princess. She kick her annoying face as she laid on the floor.

"You--!" Princess Aabha was about to speak when the emotionless Sandhya step on her already bleeding wrist. The princess scream can be heard throughout the entire building but Sandhya couldn't care less.

"So you want to live longer. Is that your wish?" Sandhya asked in a monotone voice.

"..."

Her smile widened after seeing the greed in the princess eyes. "I can grant your wish but don't regret anything after granting it to you"

Princess Aabha tremble in fear after seeing the glow in Sandhya's cunning eyes. "No. I don't want it anymore! I don't want it anymore!"

"Guards!" Sandhya called with a smile. Several men went inside the room and took the resisting princess. "No! You can't do this to me! I'm the princess--hmmp!"

"Take her to the underground dungeon. Make sure to gave her the 'best treatment as long as she lives'", her smile brought only horror to Princess Aabha heart.

The men nodded as they dragged the screaming princess away from the room leaving Sandhya and confused Kairav.

"W-What did you do to her? Who are you?"

Sandhya smiled sadly as the sun beggining to lighten up the sorroundings. After a long silence, a loud cried of a baby can be heard from the other room. She sighes knowing that everyone is safe.

"Who else? I'm Sandhya, the one you found after the sun disappear. And sadly, the one who'll disappear after the sun's appeared", she mumbles as her body begans to disintegrate in the air.

"No!" Kairav shout in horror as he walked towards Sandhya and held her but it no use she's still fading.

Sandhya laughes. "After being with me for years. You knew this would happen, so why surprised now?"

Kairav only shakes his head as his tears fell on Sandhya's cheeks.Yes he knew all along since the day he saw her as baby but he never wishes for her to die. That's why he always found other way out, other chance to lift the curse. Just to be with as a normal person, and to grow old with her.

"To lift the curse. The curse must passed to another by means of not the untainted soul but the person who gave it", Unfortunately, it was Sandhya's incarnate who passed it to Prince Kairav after not receiving his heart even she's a Goddess. The Miracle White Lotus is just a facade, but giving the cursed is no easy feat. The price of it is the life of the caster. But even so it was treaten as curse, the caster only save Prince Kairav from a deadly plague because she loves him so much and not the other way around.

"You're free now from the curse. You can live a normal life now", she whisper as she hold his wet cheeks.

"No! Don't leave me. Please. I'm begging you. I don't care about the curse anymore as long as you're here", he beg.

Sandhya weakly laughs. "In the end. You still don't say you love me"

As she says her final words. The sun finally rise from the horizon and her ashened body emerged in the passing wind.

"Sandy! We win! It's all thanks to you" Jamal opened the door happily but to only see a crying Kairav while holding Sandhya's dress.

"Where's my sister?" he asked confused. Kairav didn't answer him, hearing nothing but the agony in his heart.

Jamal, sensing the truth, could only kneeled down and weep for the lost of his beloved little sister.