"LORD SOLARIS, please stop punishing Princess Solenn and Lord Winter."
Solaris remained unfazed even though Kelsi, Jason, Roarke, Maddox, and Braxton were kneeling before him.
His eyes remained focused on Winter and Solenn who were in the glass room that he'd like to call as the "Punishnt Chamber." He and the other Keepers were in the "observation room" with the clear view of the glass room.
Whoever gets inside the room will experience the pain that their Mana does to other people.
So right now, Winter was shivering in cold while Solenn was being literally roasted while they knelt in the center of the room. They couldn't move even if they wanted to because each of them was locked up inside a transparent cube.
Of course, it pained him to punish the two most important children of their clan. But they had to be punished for putting the Supre's life in danger.
Solenn's mistake was gathering information that she shouldn't get her hands on.
On the other hand, Winter was being punished for telling the Supre sothing as important as the duke getting married without thinking of the consequence. They knew better than making Lady Rosenberg angry.
Our Supre isn't perfect. Her major flaw is her uncontrollable anger. No matter how many years passed, it seems like her wrath will always be sothing to be feared of.
After Lady Rosenberg's outburst of temper, she fainted.
Right now, the Supre was being taken care of Lady Luna and Wong in Lady Rosenberg's ho.
"My lord, it's my fault," Braxton said with his head still hanged low. "It was and my big mouth. Lord Winter and Lady Solenn wouldn't have heard about the information I got if I didn't talk about it. Please punish instead."
"Please punish us and spare the young rulers," the other Keepers said.
"Our punishnt will co later," Solaris said. Of course, the adults who were supposed to look after the young rulers must be punished as well. And yes, that includes myself.
"Lord Solaris."
Solaris turned to Lady Luna who just entered the observation room. "How is the Supre, Lady Luna?"
"Tilly is conscious now and she has cald down," Lady Luna assured him. "She's currently talking to Wong."
He let out a sigh of relief, then he turned to the Keepers. "The young rulers' punishnt is over."
It was the Keepers' turn to let out a sigh of relief.
Then, they bowed to him before they all moved to get the young rulers out of the Punishnt Chamber.
Kelsi and Maddox imdiately rushed towards Solenn and wrapped the little girl in a towel.
Jason, Roarke, and Braxton ran towards Winter to wrap the young lord in a thick blanket.
Despite the Keepers' concern, Solaris could tell that both Winter and Solenn were just fine. Even though both the young rulers had the body of a five year old child, the soul inside their bodies weren't young souls.
It pained him to rush the maturity of Solenn and Winter when they hadn't really experienced how it was like to be a child. But unfortunately, the son of the Supre Fire Mage and the daughter of the Fire Archmage didn't have that kind of luxury.
Soday, they will lead the Fire Mage clan together.
"Lord Solaris."
Solaris turned to Lady Luna and he noticed that she was serious. "What can I do for you, Lady Luna?"
"Can we talk, Lord Solaris?" Luna asked. Even though she looked shy and nervous, she still looked determined. "I'm ready to hear your side of story now."
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TILLY almost choked on her saliva when Wong suddenly knelt and bowed to her.
She just got out of her room and was about to fetch Winter in the temple when all of a sudden, the de facto leader of the Keepers showed up and kneeled. They never got along so seeing Wong do this in front of her almost gave her a heart attack.
Is this a new form of bullying?
"Lady Rosenberg, I apologize for the shaful behavior that I've shown during our last interaction," Wong said in a slightly more polite tone than usual. "I will properly apologize to Lord Winter and Lord Solaris, too."
"Rise, Wong," Tilly told him. "This feels more awkward than usual."
Wong just silently stood up and faced her properly. "I'll accept any punishnt that you'll bestow, Supre."
Oh, that was a tempting offer.
"Do you an that, Wong?" she asked with a raised brow. "What if I ask for a ridiculous request as punishnt for your attempt of hurting my son?"
"That's a tricky question," he said, his face as blank as ever. "You know that even though I'm rude to you, there's no way I can turn you down. But that doesn't an I won't complain."
"I know," she agreed while nodding. The mory of her five years in Solarium was still crystal clear in her mind. A huge part of it was her almost every day banter with Wong. "Let ask you questions then."
He just nodded as a response.
"Between saving my Brother Wixx and making a binding vow with Princess Nia to force her to work with which do you think should I do first?" she asked seriously.
"Saving the Red Phoenix, of course," Wong said without missing a beat. "While your plan to force Princess Nia to work with you is a brilliant idea, I still believe that saving Lord Wixx must be your top priority. And most of all, I believe the Red Phoenix will prefer it if he gets saved by his precious little sister."
She nodded while absorbing the Keeper's answer. Well, she already expected that from Wong so she was neither disappointed nor surprised. "If the majority agrees that I should save my brother instead of descending down to the empire, what would you do if I still choose to return to the Royal Capital?"
He groaned in complaint. Obviously, he already got what she ant by her questions. "Supre, no."
"Supre, yes," she said playfully. "I know that saving my brother is also important. But if you think he'd be happy if I were the one to save him, then that ans you really don't know Brother Wixx."
His brows furrowed in confusion.
"My brother will definitely feel ashad if I went and saved him," she explained. "I know that he wants to find where he is. He even lured Luna to his temple to give a clue. But that doesn't an that he wants to personally save him."
"You're not just saying that to convince that you shouldn't go, are you?"
"Have I ever lied to you?" she asked. "Did I lie to you in the past as Soleil Rosenberg?"
"No," he said bitterly. "The night you left us to save the Black Serpent, you didn't even give an excuse. When we asked you why you were abandoning us for a man who couldn't even protect you, do you rember what you said?"
"I love him," she said that seed to surprise Wong. "No, I haven't retrieved my mories yet as Soleil Rosenberg." She did for a while, but then Aku Moonchester took them away from her again. "I just know that I will always follow my heart no matter how many tis I am to be reborn."
"You're still the sa fool that I rember."
"I don't really care about what happened between Soleil Rosenberg and Kalel Nystrom in the past," she said. "The mories that I have right now are the mories of my life as Tilly Prescott-Nystrom." Both the previous one, and the current one. "I'd like to think that Kiho and I were different from them."
"Does it make a difference?"
"Of course," she insisted. "My Kiho has never betrayed in this lifeti. When he found out that I'm a Fire Mage, he didn't hesitate to betray the emperor for . Not even once did Kiho make feel that I'm second to anyone I was always his top priority. I will never forget Kiho's love just because of the mistakes that Kalel did in the past."
The Keeper smiled bitterly. "Are you saying that you're choosing to live as 'Tilly Nystrom' and not as 'Soleil Rosenberg,' Supre?"
"I am Tilly Nystrom, the Supre Fire Mage," she said clearly and firmly. "I will not neglect my duties just to rebuild my family, and I won't let my family suffer just because I'm leading a clan. I don't deserve this position if I can't protect both." She put her hands on Wong's shoulders. To be honest, she wanted to ruffle his curly hair but he was too tall for her. "Wong, you don't have enough faith in , do you?"
Wong's face turned red in embarrassnt. "It's not like that, Supre"
"You ought to have more faith in , Wong," Tilly said with a smile. After she retrieved her mories as Tilly Prescott-Nystrom, her mind hadn't stopped working to co up with many ways to take back what was hers- both her position as Duchess Nystrom and Kiho's wife. It wasn't just for her. She was doing this for Winter, first and foremost. After all, she wanted to give him a happy family in this lifeti. "Now, shall I bestow you your rightful punishnt?"
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LUNA was nervous but she was hoping it didn't show.
Right now, she was in the tea room with Solaris. They were sitting across from each other with a round table between them. But even though they were literally that close to one another, they still couldn't look at each other's eyes properly.
If Tilly was here, she would have already laughed at us for being so awkward.
Solaris cleared his throat to get her attention. When she finally looked at him, he smiled and put his teacup down on the coaster. Then, he broke the silence first. "Lady Luna, what is it that you want to talk to about?"
She sipped her tea to calm her nerves.
After finishing it in one gulp, she took her ti putting the teacup down on the table.
Yes, I know I'm being clumsy but I can't help that I'm nervous.
"Please take a deep breath, Lady Luna," Solaris said gently. Her clumsiness was probably making him worry about her. After all, she didn't usually act like this. "And don't force yourself if you aren't ready yet."
"I'm ready," Luna insisted, then she took a deep breath before she finally opened up the topic that she had been avoiding for quite so ti now. "Solaris, was I really Lord Wixx's lover in the past?"
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