“The Past: Madness Of The Emperor”

“YOUR MAJESTY!!! JUST FOR HOW LONG DO PLAN TO STAY LIKE THIS?!”

A lady with golden blonde hair, who was wearing a fine dress spoke to man whose back was facing the wall.

The man was wearing a simple red robe and had neck length black hair, as it wasn’t cutted for a long time.

The man paid no attention to the lady who yelled at him and continued to move his hands, which was holding a colour brush.

“YOUR MAJESTY!! THE EMPIRE CAN’T GO ON IF YOU KEEP BEING LIKE THIS!! THE DUKE WILL-”

“Isn’t that what you people wanted from the very beginning?...Queen?”

The man with black hair turned his head slowly as his sharp red eyes fall on the blonde woman with caramel brown eyes.

Queen Jennifer La Liana Raven.

Jennifer become silent. In the dark room, the emperor’s eyes looked more bloody red as the moonlight fall on him.

.....

He hasn’t come out from his room for a whole month, even the foods delivered to him returned untouched.

Jennifer’s eyes fall on the bed, where a lady as pale as white was sleeping peacefully.

Her shiny silver hair was still shining brightly along with the crown she had on her head.

There was a faint cut mark on her neck, which reminded her that the lady on the bed wasn’t sleeping but dead.

Because of her.

Jennifer felt a shiver down her sprain as she recalled how she had smilled at the former empress before her execution.

She believed she has avenged her sister, all the slaves who was killed by the former empress; not knowing she was just a pawn on her father’s cheeseboard.

It’s been three year since Dalton duchy fall, The duke went to prison and the former empress was executed.

Not letting the former empress burying was already enough of madness even though the emperor himself was confused on his actions back then.

He looked relieved at first, but as days goes by he started to go crazy.

Ordering everyone to summon the empress, who was dead at midnight and then laugh when the knights would answer him while shivering that she was executed.

The emperor would stay silent for a moment before he would laugh loudly.

“Yeah, i killed her...how can she be here... I killed her with my both hands...”

“YOUR MAJESTY!! CALM DOWN!!”

“I killed My Empress...”

“HOLD THE EMPEROR!!!”

The emperor would punch the walls with his bare fist, till his hands would bleed and he would faint.

‘Ele...’

Not a single knight could stop him.

But the next day, the emperor would act normal again like nothing has happened the other night.

He would go to the abandoned palace and sleep on the bed which was full dust; crying all night while hugging the pillow she used to sleep on.

“Come back, empress. I was wrong... Please come back... I will be good this time. I will listen to anything you say...

I won’t hurt you anymore... Please come back, Ele.”

The queen would silently watch the emperor and leave.

This is what she wanted. Why does she feels so sad and heartbroken then?

But Jennifer felt broken and disgusted with herself to the point she went to hang herself when she got to know her father’s plan from her brother.

She loathed herself.

She couldn’t bear the pain of brainwashing a young boy who loved a girl dearly into believing he hated her.

Killing two innocent child’s and blaming the innocent empress.

Making the emperor kill the empress, whom he had always loved dearly.

“I don’t...want to live...”

Jennifer spoke as she tried to wipe her tears and pulled the bedsheet to hang herself.

But as the emperor, who have gone crazy and suffering because of her came to her mind, she stopped.

The duke who lost his everything and the father who lost his daughter.

What will happen to them if she died?

Will the person, who was behind everything achieve his goal and not suffer?

Jennifer went to Alexander for help then, started to plan how to backfire her father’s plan.

She started to eat the foods which was meant for the emperor, as that food contained poison.

She killed Rena, who was a spy of a duke and stopped controlling the emperor’s mind.

Jennifer knew that the emperor would come to his real senses once she stops.

Inside him was a great amount of holy powers, probably the empress’s powers which was transfered to the emperor before she died.

She wanted the person’s who wronged her to suffer, even if she is no longer around.

‘What you said was true empress. Am only seeing your face when i finally met my demise.’

Jennifer and Cedrick started to work together against the duke with Alexander’s help, where the emperor who seemed normal would go more crazy during the night.

He moved the dead empress in his bedroom, dressing her up like she used to do, talking with her like she was listening to him.

But then one day, the group of doctors came to examine the emperor who had stabbed himself with a dagger as he couldn’t bear the pain anymore, a apprentice doctor spoke something which made the emperor go more crazy.

“I think the former empress was pregnant during her execution...”

The young boy, who unconsciously muttered his thoughts loudly was surprised as the senior doctors around him glared at him to warn and shut his mouth.

But it was too late as the emperor, who was silently getting the treatment had heard it and jumped up from his sit to the apprentice doctor.

“YOUR MAJESTY, YOUR WOUND-”

“WHAT DID YOU SAY?!”

The emperor’s hands trembled as he grabbed the doctor’s coller, who was panicking because of the emperor’s fierce gaze.

“It’s- It’s just i could feel another faded lingering magic from her...”

“...”

The other doctor’s hold their breath in as the emperor become silent and looked down.

All the doctor’s there already knew about it the moment they was called to attach her neck again to her body by stitching and froze it after a day of her death.

But they was too afraid to report it, so they kept silent.

Who knew the emperor would go crazy to the point of using his own magic to keep her body frozen and that to in his own bedroom for a whole year?

“Everyone leave...”

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“But your wound-”

“I SAID LEAVE!!”

“Y-Yes, Your Majesty...”

Everyone got out of the room in fear as soon as the emperor roared.

The door closed shut and he fall on his knees and slapped his face violently.

“What have i done, My empress...”

“I not only killed you but also our child...”

The emperor wasn’t crying out loud but tears kept dropping down from his red eyes silently as he knelt beside her frozen body.

It has been two more years since then, the third year of the execution of hers by his hands.

The emperor has gone crazy to the point he could no longer handle the official works, drowning in alcohol all day and talking with her.

Buying dresses, jewellery for her as he kept ordering baby clothes.

Holding a doll in his hands, thinking it’s the baby of hers and him.

The nobles couldn’t kill him yet just because of Jennifer’s protection, who was doing all the works to keep him safe with Alexander’s help.

.....

But his crazyness was just becoming more crazy as days went by.

He actually started to carry a dead body and took her to the garden, saying she was feeling bored of laying down all day.

Who wouldn’t get scared by this?

Thinking about the nobles who is ready to take down the emperor, Jennifer lashed out at him which resulted the emperor to not coming out from his room for a whole month.

The dark sky lightened up brightly as a heavy strom started, making the dark room lighten up for a brief moment.

As the room lighten up as lightening strike on the sky again, Jennifer’s eyes widened in shock.

‘D-Did he did that for the past one month?’

Behind the emperor, There was a big portrait of a silver haired lady with jewel like blue eyes who wore a gentle smile on her face.

She had the empress crown on her head and wore a wedding dress.

That was the portrait of Empress Eleanora Cathain Valentino, drew by the Emperor himself.

“I didn’t even gave her a wedding ring...let alone a grand ceremony, but she never complained. Kept loving me... Was it really necessary for you people to do this to us?”

The emperor spoke as he approached the empress and took her hands on his hands, while his other hand kept stroking her silver hair.

Jennifer just stood still, couldn’t utter a single word as tears left her eyes seeing him in so much pain because of her mistakes.

“Was it really necessary to use me like this to hurt her? Make me hate and kill the person i loved so much? You people didn’t even spared the unborn children’s...Why?”

The more Jennifer heard, the more she just wanted to kill herself.

“You people could just directly kill me and take the throne...why make her suffer so much? She never harmed anyone...”

“...”

“Why?”

The emperor asked as tear drops left his eyes.

“I want to see her smile at me again so badly... I want to see her riding her horse and wield her sword again... See her with our babies...grow old with her...”

“Am sorry...am sorry...it was all my fault”

Jennifer kept on apologising as she kneeled down on the floor and sob silently.

“Am growing old but she isn’t...my hair is growing longer but her isn’t... Am waiting to be burried with her together...but she has already left me, BEACUSE OF YOU GUYS!!”

The emperor turned his head aggressively to look at Jennifer as he spoke his last sentence.

The glasses of the window shattered because of his magic energy, and rain water kept drenching Jennifer, who had many cuts on her body as the glasses shattered.

But she didn’t even moved a single step or flinched.

This is what she deserves.

“WHY DID YOU PEOPLE HAD TO DO THAT TO US?!”

The emperor yelled as he approached Jennifer and grabbed her neck tightly, making it hard for her to breath.

“WE COULD BE A HAPPY COUPLE, SEE OUR CHILDREN’S GROW UP!!

BUT YOU DESTROYED EVERYTHING, JENA!!

BECAUSE OF YOUR MISTAKE!

IT WASN’T EVEN OUR FAULT THAT YOUR SISTER DIED!!

IT WAS YOUR MISTAKE TO TRUST YOUR FATHER!!

WHAT WAS MY FAULT?

I COULD BE WITH THE PERSON I LOVED!

NOT TREAT HER LIKE A SHIT BECAUSE OF YOU PEOPLE!!!”

The emperor kept yelling but Jennifer didn’t tried to struggle.

It was better if she just died, it wouldn’t feel painful anymore then...

“Only if it wasn’t for you... I wouldn’t be a sinner by killing my innocent empress and children with my own hands...”

The emperor spoke in a low voice as his hands loosen up from her neck, before he become unconscious.

“Take me with you, My empress...”

Jennifer looked at the emperor infront of her, who fainted after he finished his sentence and a tear drop left his eyes.

‘Am sorry...but can my sorry bring them back?’

But then Jennifer woke up from her sleep, with the stinging pain in her heart like always.

‘Maybe someday, i could be forgiven by the people i have harmed but my sins will never forget to hunt me in my dreams...’