Chapter Seventeen

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We entered the city of Fuuga and then people who saw us looked in disbelief and shock when they saw Akio and I.

"The emperor is alive! The emperor is home!"

"Long live Emperor Akio!" The people cheered as we shyly smiled before we waved back to the people.

We got to the palace as the tiger was escorted to its den. When we dropped in front of the palace, everyone who saw that it was Akio dropped down on their knees and bowed to him.

"Long Live Emperor Akio! Welcome home!" They all said even Sosuke and Mahiro bowed down too with a relief look on their face.

"Rise." Akio said before they all stood. Akio stood by my side and then he held my hand with a smile on his face.

"Let us celebrate my return. Consort Minoru found me and has brought me home. As a special reward, I have decided for her to be my empress." Akio announced making everyone to bow to me as they told us long may we live.

Heavens, it felt good to be back in a soft, warm bed. I hugged my pillow in joy as I blushed at the memory of earlier today.

Akio was going to make me empress but I wasn't really interested in such a position. I only accepted it because it met that I would be Akio's first and only.

I was still in joy when I felt two hands on my hips making me jerk as I burst into laughter.

"S-stop tickling me." I laughed as Akio tickled me hard with no sign of trying to stop it.

"A-chan stop!" I demanded before he paused and my eyes widened when I realized what I said.

"You finally remember?" He asked me as I blushed hard before I looked away.

"F-for a while now." I responded before he kissed my lips passionately then nipped on the bottom before pulling away.

"Will you tell me everything that happened?" Akio asked and then I nodded as I sat upright.

"Well I can't remember everything but from what I could remember, after I separated from you I was captured by those men. They didn't know I was from noble blood but since my looks was value in the market I was sold out as a slave." I explained cringing at the memory of the wicked man who bought me.

"I was pampered and treated well among all slaves but I wasn't given freedom and forced to live as a pleasure slave. I was too young for anyone so I was kept in the shadows till I was ten. The master was cruel and heartless and tried to force himself upon me before I killed him. That was the same day that I met the bandits and they took me in and treated me like one of them. I guess the suffering was what made me forget everything." I narrated before Akio gave a sad smile and then held my hand.

"I regret being unable to protect you then. If I had been then you would have had an easier life. You sacrificed your freedom for me." Akio apologized as he gripped my hand warmly.

"I don't regret anything. You became a strong emperor and you never stopped looking for me. I also made friends and a large family." I paused at the thought of family but no memory came to mind.

"Do you wonder about your real family?" Akio asked me as I looked down at my hand and nodded.

"Can I meet them, if they are still alive?"

"I'm sorry but they were all assassinated after you went missing. No survivals except you." He informed me making me to tear up.

From the unclear visions I saw, I was very happy with my family, especially my mother whose voice always echoed in my ears. I couldn't remember her face but I could remember her song as she sand to me a song about spring.

Akio hugged me and comforted me while I cried because I lost the only way of knowing my real family. I could imagine the look on their faces when I was missing and all they could do was search in hopes that I would be found. I had missed more than eight years of my life with my real bloodline. The Hayato family, the family I thought had abandoned me or died when I was younger.

"Can you stay by my side." I requested before Akio laughed and then laid on the bed with me in his arms.

"I'm never letting you go Peaches." I laughed before I looked at his eyes.

"It's Nagisa." I responded before we both laughed.


Mysterious Pov
"You promised me you would get rid of that uncultured consort!" The lady who I was working with complained as I laughed and then faced her.

"It is not yet time. Have a little patience, the patient dog eats the fattest bone." I said before she cursed softly but I was able to hear everything.

"If that woman becomes the empress then all my plans would be ruined. I will never let another woman have Akio. Killing empress Nanase was difficult and her son is a pain in the ass but being defeated by a stunning lookalike is humiliating. If you don't do as I want before the ceremony, then I'll just kill her."

"Don't you dare! We have a deal and we will stick to it. I promise you that we will both have what we want, it's only a matter of time." I said before she glared at me and then scoffed.

"Well you better keep your promise or your life could be next." She said before she barged out of our secret meeting room.

I took a painting of consort Minoru that I had taken time to draw. She looked so beautiful in the light with her sapphire blue eyes staring at the pond that glittered in the sun.

"Soon we will be together love." I said before I kissed the picture with a wild grin on my face.

"Soon..."

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