"Explain to me brothers, why?" Tears continued to stream down her face, she shook her bead. Obviously trying to convince herself that this wasn't true.
"Blair, please. You can tell us the truth, did they hurt you just to go here?" Another man blurted out, Ashleah was about to speak up when Nash suddenly held her wrist, shaking his head.
"What? They are trying to make us look like we are the bad guys here, Nash. It's not like I would just let them do it to us—"
Nash sighed and held her wrist a little tighter before looking back at the siblings right in front of them, Ashleah though that Nash wouldn't answer her but in a whispering way, he answered back.
"Just watch and don't worry Ashleah. It's not like they can run away from us anymore, Lady Dallas is already with Prescott, the Count and Countess is outside, the knights are also around the mansion and this very room. Let them talk, Princess Izel." He said, making her stop.
There she realized that for a moment, she forgot that they may be waited for this moment to happen, that Blair might never knew that her brothers were doing such things.
"Brothers, you told me that you were doing your best to get out title and make money for us ever since out parents died, but not in this way! I cannot accept this—" Teary-eyed Blair couldn't even finish what she was saying when one of her brothers kicked the flower vase beside him, creating a loud crash noise.
"Do you really think that we wished to do this? It was older brother's idea, for we don't want you to live a life that you are not used too! And the fact that we couldn't even fight our lust, yes Blair, your brothers are wrong. Very." He said, and at the last part everyone inside the very room heard his voice crack.
"You all cared for me but we could've helped each other through this kind of situation but what? What did you guys do? You took the toll on your shoulders, completely ignoring me and leaving me with our Auntie's that only cared when we had money!" She cried out, one of her brothers was on his way to hug Blair but the woman quickly shook her head and went at Emperor Adler's back.
"Lady Blair, are you okay now with talking with them? Not even trying to hear their side?" Ashleah's Father asked, Blair yet again shook her head. The Emperor sighed and nodded his head. "You can tell all of your reasons all you want, you can say sorry all you want. Still, that doesn't change the fact that you still did those horrific acts."
"Blair, w-we are very sorry." Another man blurted out as tears continued to stream down his face. He sarcastically scoffed to himself and slowly wiped the tears away yet, he failed. It still continued to fall down one by one.
"We know that our apology can't change anything, but please remember that we, your brothers did all of this for you." The man who looked like their older brother spoke up.
After a few minutes of silence, Emperor Adler raised two of his fingers and pointed at those men, meaning that Gab and Kian should start arresting them one by one.
Kian was about to walk to the nearest man beside him when Blair suddenly spoke up after a few minutes of silence from her. "I love you, my brothers.. So so much, still what you did is wrong and you did those other things because you wanted it, not because of me."
After that she quickly walked out of the room, still crying making Ashleah want to run behind her, which she did because Nash lets go of her wrist and nodded his head.
Meanwhile, as Princess Izel ran behind Blair, one of her brother chuckled sarcastically and clapped his hand slowly. "I do guess that this is the end for us." He blurted out, Kian quickly wrapped a rope around his wrist since there were no handcuffs before.
"Your Majesty, I have a wish for you to make. If it's alright." The older brother spoke up as Gab tied his wrist too, Emperor Adler nods his head, as the man in front of them took a deep breath and spoke about his wish for the very last time.
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"Princess! You've been really busy these days! You too, Uncle Nash and Uncle Axis. Axis is very upset with you guys!" Axis with his pouted lips and croseed arms against his chest welcomed them as soon as they entered the Imperial Palace from the event earlier.
The trio chuckled at the young man in front of them, ever since the closing of auction, Aziel changed a lot. He was now recovering slowly yet surely, the only difference was the weird dreams he was having lately.
"My, my. I never knew that I would see Aziel like this again." Axis said as he picked up Aziel and pinched the young man's nose, receiving a groan from him.
"Uncle Axis! That kind of hurts you know!" Aziel complained while he held his nose and massaged it, making Ashleah giggle due to his cuteness.
"It looks like Aziel missed playing with us hmm?" She tilted her head, but for Aziel, his eyes beamed, Nash and Axis looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders for they already knew what was bound to happen at this very moment.
"1.. 2... 3.... GOTCHA! RUN!" Ashleah tapped Nash's shoulder earning a groan from him, and Aziel quickly got off from his embrace and ran off.
"Uncles chase us okay!?" Aziel said running off to nowhere, Nash looked at Axis who shook his shoulders and waved at him before running away.
"Ah! Seriously!" He said laughing, before running his way to find where the others are.
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"May this serve as a warning for everyone who will try to do such horrific acts just as them. Do not worry, ever since we caught them, they knew that we would do this. All of them accepted the fact that this is their punishment." Emperor Adler said at everyone who was watching the beheading of the brothers.
"Blair, if ever you are watching with the crowds. I want to say that, you are very brave and we won't let you down, we will help you with all the might we can." Princess Izel spoke up and took a deep breath and looked at the knight who was going to do the beheading. "Please before we start, the children may go inside."
After hearing those little footsteps, Princess Izel looked around the last time and looked at the Knight again and nodded her head meaning that he should start the beheading of the brothers.
"How about you Princess Izel? You sure you want to see this?" Duke Deoncan behind her whispered, he sure was concerned because the princess may seem like she was so collected, still, shs can hide her fears for others.
Princess Izel with her trembling pupils looked at him, she gulped and tried to smile yet, she completely failed after it. She shook her head and Duke Deoncan already knew what he needs to do.
In a quick pace, he stood in front of Princess Izel, and looked around making sure that no one was looking at them. He held her hand and intertwined it, squeezing it slowly trying to calm her down.
"Calm down, close your eyes and cover your ears if you want too." Duke Deoncan said softly, but they never knew that those simple gestures would create huge impact on others that saw it.