Duchy of Sanerio, Abelia
"Duchess, this is the reports from the land this month"
Butler Kira gave her a pile of papers that shook her of how tall the pile of paper is considering it's the second pile of papers she had this day.
"Tell me this is all it" she said, pinching the space between her brows, stressing how massive the paperworks is.
"Yes this is all,Duchess" The butler said. "There is a notice here that the land of Baron Benard is now considered yours after the Marchioness of Trian refused to take the land" He added
"Why so? It would be great for the marchioness to have the land since it has been a long greed of her parents to have the mining" She said while reading her paperworks.
"She said that she won't ever step her shoe on the land that almost ruined her precious sister" Lisa smiled as she heard Alice's reasons, she's so glad both of the daughters of the former marquis have a better heart than their parents.
"Well then, list it to the land that my brother will own" She said
"Pardon Your Grace?" The butler was quite shocked.
"My brother is a Mage Master now, It will serve as a part of his gift. So I want you to bring me the list of Land that Sanerio has, including my late mother's household" She ordered.
"Certainly, Your Grace," Butler Kira said, as he went to the inner part of Lisa's office to get the list of lands that Sanerios has before going back to Lisa as he gave her the booklist of Lands and title own by Sanerios.
"Lets see...Marquisate of Verona-Cassidy-Collymore etc etc...Countdom of Elrod-Finnegan-Dawson blah blah blah, Earldom of Levine-Gray-Lennon-Finea.." Lisa paused as she saw a familiar name. "Earldom of Finea..."
She is sure she heard it somewhere before but her finger couldn't point it out for her. "Kira, do you know where the Earldom of Finea is?" she asked her butler.
"As far as I know, Your Grace, it is from the southeast part of the kingdom..it is a little far from the capital because it is near the border of Kingdom of Medria" She explained.
"How..how did it become my land?" She asked.
"It became the land of Sanerios after the whole family of the earl of finea died years ago, Your Grace" "It is part of the oath of the earl, that he insisted upon to the duke when the earl took an oath of loyalty to your father" he explained.
"Insisted?" Lisa got confused.
"Yes Your Grace..The late earl insisted to give the land of Finea to the duke when he died" He said.
"Why haven't I received any news nor reports from the land of finea ever since I became the duchess?" She asked, the butler seemed to be a little uncomfortable, which made Lisa a bit more curious. "What's wrong?"
"The...Land of Finea is...inhabited Maam" Kira paused "3 years before you became the Duchess, the land of Finea was doomed by the curse" "The curse is so powerful that by just one day everyone including the crops and animals died, and soon after the family of the earl died"
Lisa looked back at the butler with silence for a few seconds, she remembered now. It was her inside dream. She thought it was just a dream, but it happened before. Before everything she has disappeared, before she lost her smile as quickly as she lost her family.
"Did everyone including the earl and his family have a burial?" she asked in a sad tone.
"Not everyone Your Grace," Kira said.
"Why?"
"After the curse has been lifted off the ground..Some knights including me went to the land" "Unfortunately, the curse wasn't made by mistake or by some magician.." "It was caused by a demon who infiltrated the land..." Lisa widened her eyes as she softly gasped.
"Does that mean it's..."
"Yes Maam, it's genocide" "We saw burnt corpses of people that had been infected by curse" "Women and Children have been hanged on the front gate of the mansion as the whole place is blood bathed stain" "The mansion is wrecked and the earl was beheaded" he explained "It is in a very gruesome state when we arrived there"
Lisa felt like throwing up. Her inside fire was fueled as it grew bigger that made her lightning roared in a sunny day's weather. Demon will never walk this place ever again, she said to herself
" I will pray for them in Eleanor Palace later" she paused controlling her emotion "Then the corpse of the family of the earl has been found?"
"Yes Maam, except their youngest daughter" "It is said that she was the first one who got the curse, we searched for her body everywhere but we couldn't find it" He said as he lift his hand to get the folder on the drawer that has the portrait and identity of the cursed family fly to his hand and give it to her.
"By youngest, is she the same as our age by that time?" She took the folder in his hands.
"She is Your Grace...I didn't know you would...I mean" He stopped talking, as Lisa opened the folder as she saw the half burnt family photo of the ruined family.
"Is this them?" She touched the old portrait.
"Yes Maam" he confirmed.
"How sad that this family was cursed, how sad that this family is one of our arms before" she said "It could have been better" she sadly said.
"Indeed Maam"
"What is the name of this girl?" She asked, pointing to an awfully familiar face of a girl on the portrait.
"Her name is Salina Han Finea, Your Grace"
Main Palace, Abelia
"Hey girlfriend"
Lisa heard Jungkook's sarcasm, laughing and walking towards her. They have been summoned by the King that the pristine force of Iremia will have a meeting.
She watched him in her natural bitch face but her inside is exploding with butterflies flying all around her stomach. Seeing him and calling her girlfriend even though it's a sarcastic joke was enough to complete her day.
"Your Grace" she said, when he arrived in front of her.
"Man you're so serious, smile a bit baby" he creased his brows, biting his inner cheek before tilting her chin a bit ignoring their surroundings before he reached for her cheeks pinching it.
"Ifh you're goin cho annoy me the whole day, Imma fhukin flip-aaaaiissshhh that hurts!!" She rubbed her cheek glaring at the man who pinch her cheeks a bit stronger, now laughing at how cute her tiger face is.
"You're cute sometimes," he said.
"And you're an ugly asshole every time" He gasped loudly to her claim.
"Agghh! My heartu~" he dramatically held his chest "I wouldn't have millions of fans loving me if I'm not handsome though, and how could you date an ugly asshole?" Lisa looked at him with disgust but deep down she wanted to smile like an idiot.
"It's just a rumor Jungkook, the entertainment is handling it" She said as they started walking towards the meeting room.
"Yeah right they're handling it alright" he nodded.
"What do you mean?" She asked confusedly.
"Bighit will confirm our relationship to be true and will say we're dating for a year" Lisa stopped walking, grasping the information "It is for the better, the fans would be more furious when they know we're not dating...after those pictures I don't think they will see it as just a friendly photos and think negatively of you more than me...So I had to accept their deal before anything happens to your career" he said.
"What kind of deal?" She asked "Why am I not informed about this?"
"As I said It's for the better Lis, your career just started..I don't want to be the reason of your downfall" he explained "I accepted their deal to act like a couple for a year, because most of our fans actually support 'our' relationship" "Yoongi hyung was there for you, we couldn't risk your exposure to the public that's why they didn't invite you" "I hardly got inside the building, I'm sure they will corner you more, there's a lot of sasaeng there too"
He slide his finger on her side head to hook the strand of hair to the back of her ears, that he noticed that it's becoming his habit when he's talking to her.
"So my brother knew all of this?" She frowned.
"Yes" He noticed her irritation "He hasn't accepted the deal so he probably will say it to you soon, he's kind of busy with his promotion in rank.. he probably didn't had the time to talk to you"
"He could have just told me earlier" She sighed. "I guess he forgot"
"I'm really sorry for what happened Lis" "I didn't know they've been following me" "I hope you're not mad at me" Jungkook said.
"Why would I be mad at you" she smiled "I should be thanking you for not leaving me behind" she said.
"I'm the Shield okay? Trust me! see this?" Showed his muscled bicep "They have to get through this before they could touch you"
"Thanks but I can protect myself" Jungkook hissed at her.
"Aishh!" "I'm the man in this relationship!"
"But I'm stronger than you tho"
"....."
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"Blessing and Prosperity to the Sky of Abelia"
They bow their heads down to the monarch and allow them to take their seat before they take their own seat around the big circular table that has the stones of Iremia hanging on top center of the table. From the King's left is Jennie, Taehyung, Jungkook, Jimin, Yoongi, Chaeyoung, Lisa, and Namjoon as the person on his right.
"I called you all today because I received a message that the whole Elgonia wanted to see the power of the Sword and the Shield, and royals from different kingdoms would like to give their blessings to you" The King look at Jungkook and Lisa, who is attentively listening to him.
"Like any other Iremia you two will have a tour to all of the Kingdoms and express your unity with them" "I suggest you could go there after the first snow falls" "The former Duke of Sanerio, made a huge impact from that seas—"
"Your Majesty, this is not what we talked about earlier" Namjoon went impatient from his father's alibis to not to talk about the war.
"Then what do you want to discuss? Your absurdity about the war in a different world?" The King gritted his teeth, Namjoon kept on bugging him about this war that wasn't even their own.
"Father, I can sense the intention of the devil in that war" "Wars are work of Evilness and Greed! That's what happened to Kalgoa 50 years ago! And we all know it happened because their evil within conquers their heart" "Don't you think this is our war as well?!" Namjoon stood up mad, speaking louder than the voice of his father.
"And even so, why would we help a world that didn't belong to ours?" "We have our own war to discuss! And our own place to protect!"
"But Your Majesty, isn't the mission of Iremia to protect people from the devil?" Jennie turned her head to her father, "Isn't that reason why the Goddess gave us the power? To make the demon king fall into his deep sleep?"
"The reason why the Goddess of Elgonia gave us the power is to protect ELGONIA from the devil!" The King shouted which made Namjoon sit "How are we going to protect our place if we are to help a world full of mere mortals and land that wasn't supposed to be a place of magic, IREMIA is destined to protect ELGONIA!! and it will remain as it is!"
"Pardon me Your Majesty" Lisa joined in "But I will speak in this conversation as a Sword, not a Duchess" "I agree with the Crown Prince and Princess" All of them look at her.
"The instinct of Thera Odigo never fails you know that, I know you can feel that this war wasn't ordinary and I am quite disturb that you are keeping a blind eye about this" The King pierced his eyes towards Lisa who looked unbothered by his gaze.
"The land of mortals indeed possess no mana at all" "But for the past months I've been there, there are things that I realized" she paused.
"How did my brother end up on earth after he disappeared? or" "What happened on earth 50 years ago for Vita to pose a mission to the Former Duke of Hynassy?"
"My grandfather?" Jungkook asked her, and she nodded
"Yes, perhaps do you know why, he was sent there?"
"I don't know" He said "No one ever told me about it, I didn't even know the real me before you broke the seal of my power" Lisa turn to the Marquis and Earl.
"We don't know about it either," Taehyung said and Jimin nodded.
"Haven't the Dowager of Hynassy told you about it?" Chaeyoung asked them.
"I think I asked her grace about this before, and I'm sure it wasn't about the Korean war that took place probably 60 years ago" Jimin said.
"Then what do you think it is?" The King asked him, Jimin went deeper into his memory to remember what Grandma Ahn Hi and him talked about until he remembered something.
"Her Grace wasn't entirely sure about the Duke's mission but she said something that concerns..." He paused to remember "Sena?"
"Sena?" Yoongi asked "You mean the God of Hope and Fortune?"
"God who?!" Taehyung and Jimin shouted at the same time and looked at each other.
"What's wrong?" Namjoon asked them.
"I'm sorry we lack the knowledge of history we weren't really academic, but they say the duke has been saying that name before he died" Taehyung said. "They say he want everyone to look for Sena"
"Why would the Duke want to search for the god that already lost his wings?" The King asked. "Sena is the twin brother of the Goddess of Elgonia, and during the Great War he sacrificed his winged power and his position in Heaven to become a mortal to help the people of Elgonia" "But after that Sena is believed to be dead since his body became mortal, and ever since then the first generation of Iremia came down to the world"
"Then what if he wasn't dead?" Lisa asked, but mostly to herself, and silence accumulated in the whole room.
"That is... possible" Yoongi broke the silence. "I'm not sure with this but, I think there's a reason why the Goddess gave that mission to search for her twin brother".
"W-what if the demon king resides on earth?" What Chaeyoung said made Lisa ponder on her thoughts, until a realization hit her.
"The new lair of the demon land" Lisa widen her eyes "Salia..." She stood up, surprising everyone. She began biting her index finger, terrified is written all over her face.
Demon land and an extreme power wickedness could only exist if there's a deadly amount of evilness. Because demon can hear the evil within a person.
Jungkook stood up going to her, he took out the napkin on his pocket and pull her hand before she could bleed her index finger "That's not a good habit, Your Grace, don't bite your finger"
"Jungkook" She unconsciously said his name casually in front of the King "The demon will attack us soon"
Jungkook looked over to her face, a bit trembling and shocked. Demon will attack them? He couldn't even use his power completely and now she's telling him he's about to go to bloody war.
"You're joking right?" No answer. "Duch—"
"Demon can only walk into the land if an evil or a curse conquers a land, or if evil within ourselves is overpowering our soul" "The Demon King knew everything from the very start, and they're watching our actions from the shadows"
Lisa left out a sarcastic laugh with a smug crept into her face "I bet they're laughing at us by how foolish we look like right now"
"This can't be! We have to be prepared!!" The King stood up from his seat with a blood rush into his veins.
"Crown Prince! Summon the Royal Army to the Valley of Honor!" "Princess! make sure that the crops of the lands are not tainted with curse! We cannot allow this evil eat our soul!" "Mage Master! Train the Mages in full capacity, I want everyone in the Valley of Honor as soon as possible!!"
"Yes Your Majesty!"
Lisa stood still terrified, still crept on her face which made Jungkook grow worried for her, that even though she's there and everyone is already in chaos with the King's commands to the arms of Iremia she couldn't hear it. It is like she is stuck in her own world.
"Your Grace, you okay?!" He continued getting her attention. "Lis—"
"She knew..." She looks up at those sapphire eyes in full of worries.
Her jealousy for Ji Ya can be heard from the depths of farageih. Salia knew Jungkook loves Ji Ya, that's why she's determined to swing her sword at her.
Everyone knows that the only fragility of Iremia is through their emotion. And if Ji Ya died back then, Jungkook's power would kill him because he loves her, his heart will shatter and his power will control him, and if it did kill him, her power would also...
Kill her.
The Demon knows her weakness is him.
A/N:
We have a very spicy chapter coming 👀 who do you think it is?