A group of black ninja like group was making plan to infiltrate the castle when Yuri and her group arrived the gates where the crowds were cheering for them.
"Ah, thank you, thank you!" Yuri thanked them and waved to them.
"Hello, hello, it's nice to meet all of you!" She said as smiled at them unaware that they were being spied on.
They arrived at Blood Pledge Castle where Yuri was still amazed by the servants, everyone was lining up along the corridor bowing their heads to them as they walked past.
"Good job everyone!" She praised them.
"By the way this is called the Blood Pledge Castle right? Why such a dangerous sounding name?" She asked.
"It's very good that you are making observations about your land. It originated from the time the Original King became the king of this land." Gunter answered.
"The Original King? His name appears everywhere." She said.
"Of course. He is the great first generation Demon King." Wolfram turned to her.
"The Original King promised to never break the Blood Pledge. The Blood Pledge is the symbol of thanks and friendship. When this castle becomes occupied by invaders, the Demon King promised to defend it with that blood. The Blood Pledge...in other words, Blood pledge Castle only obeys the Demon King. Impregnable...No, it's a flawless castle." Gunter explained.
"So that's how it is. That's great!" Yuri smiled.
"Since it had such a dangerous sounding name, I thought it had a much more dangerous legend or something. Like the Seven Wonders."
"The Seven Wonders do exist." Conrad said.
"Eh?" She said.
"What, Yuri? Are you scared?" Wolfram mocked.
"O-Of course not!" Yuri said and walked further ahead of them where she saw Gwendal.
"Long time no see, Gwendal!" She waved her arms at him but when she saw his serious stern eyes, she halted and hid behind Gunter.
"He has amazing intensity as usual." She said.
"Gwendal won't grab or eat you or anything." Conrad told her.
"Good timing, please present the to His Majesty the reports that piled up while he was gone." Gunter asked Gwendal.
"I'm busy." Gwendal said as he turned his head to look at his surrounding.
"You're the chief so you should know enough to explain everything. In any case, don't tell anybody you saw me here." He said and took off quickly.
"Brother?" Wolfram called out to him.
"What's wrong with him? It's not like him, he's usually calm"
Conrad sighed and point to the direction where Gwendal came from.
It's probably because of that." Everyone turned to look and saw lady Annisina running towards them.
"Everyone, if you all stand still here, you are creating a traffic jam." She told them as she panted.
"Oh, your Majesty. You look well." She greeted Yuri.
"Lady Annisina, you look well too." She greeted back.
"By the way, have you seen Gwendal?" She asked them seriously.
"I was going to allow him to contribute to my new invention."
"Allow?" Gunter ask wearily.
"Which way did he run off to?" She asked them.
"If you hide anything from me, I'll make you guys my guinea pigs." She threatened.
They quickly make a path for her and pointed to the direction where Gwendal ran off too.
"Thank you for being honest." She said and ran off to catch him.
"Gwendal! Where are you?"
"Forgive me, Brother." Wolfram said.
"Rest in peace." Yuri added.
"Don't worry, Gwendal is resilient." Conrad assured them.
"Right..."
As they all covered their years to block out Gwendal's scream of horror.
It was dawn and Yuri was sitting behind a big desk with piles of papers. Where Gunter placed another big stack of paper down on the table.
"Now please sign these documents." he asked her.
"Eh, I still have these much?" She asked.
"This is part of the Demon King's work." gunter explained.
"Fine, I get it. Just sign right?" She said as she took a piece of paper from the stack.
"Advantage Shibuya, disadvantage Harajuku" She said as she wrote them down.
"There."
"Ahh~ Such graceful handwriting. this is the other world's handwriting right?" Gunter asked in awe.
"We will made this Your Majesty's official seal.
"Um...I was joking..." She said as she turned her head and saw a map.
"Is that the map of the New Demon Country?" She asked.
"Yes." Gunter answered.
"So, it's like this" She said.
"What are these lines?" She asked as she pointed to them.
"These are territorials boundaries. they divide the New Demon Country into parts autonomously ruled by the Demon King and the ten noble families." Gunter explained.
"Bielefelt, Voltaine, and Christ among others."
"Is that..." Yuri asked.
"Yes. 'Von' is the surname of the ten noble families. In my case, I'm from the Christ family. So I become 'Von Christ'."
Yuri turned to looked at Conrad who was lying against a wall.
"I'm not from the ten noble families so I don't have a 'Von' in my name. I'm just Weller." He answered.
"Hmm...His name was Von Grantz. So why is he on the human side?" Yuri wondered.
She looked at Conrad who just smiled at her.
"Where is Lady Cecille's Spitzberg?" She asked Gunter.
"Here." Gunter pointed it to her on the map.
"There, huh? has she gone home?" She asked.
"No. She's still on her free and easy holiday travel for love." Conrad answered.
"You guys sure have a troublesome mother." Yuri commented.
"She definitely is." Gunter agreed.
So who's the leader of Spitzberg?" Yuri asked happily but no one answered her. She looked at them and look down towards the floor. 'Maybe it was something i shouldn't have asked.' She thought.
"Her older brother, Stoffel, is looking after it." Conrad said and Yuri looked at him.
"Stoffel?" Yuri thought.
"Ah~ that good looking middle aged guy. He was Lady's Cecille's regent right?" She asked.
"Right now, he is just confined in his territory." Gunter answered.
"Considering his past records, he deserves it..."
"Gunter!" Conrad warned and Gunter stopped talking about him.
"Anyway, the ten noble families have sovereignty over their own territory. but for all of the New Demon Country, the Demon King..." Gunter continued to explain as Yuri began to think to herself.
'Lady Cecille's older brother...that would make him the uncle of the three brothers who don't look like each other. But why? They don't look like they get along well. Could they have some kind of family fight?" She wondered to herself as her eyes unknowingly, turn to look at Conrad. When he looked at her, she panicked and turned to face the other way.
The moon shone brightly in the dark skies, as a man was standing in the balcony where a bony flew up to him chattering.
"I see. So His Majesty is back at Blood Pledge Castle. then tell the others to act as planned." He told the bony who flew off into the night sky.
"Did you call for me Gwendal?" Conrad asked as he rode up beside him. He was getting ready to leave the castle to go into the town.
"Yeah, there's a commotion in the castle town. People are being attacked without any reasons. As soon as the Demon King comes back, this happens." Gwendal said.
"I don't think that's his fault. Don't tell His Majesty about this. I don't want her to worry unnecessarily." Conrad told him.
"You're spoiling her." Gwendal said to him.
"Also, the guards inside the castle..." Conrad asked.
"You don't need to tell me. If something were to happen to the Demon King, it'll create unnecessary chaos." Gwendal said.
"I'm counting on you." With that Conrad rode off.
*YAWN* "Ahh~~ I worked hard today." Yuri yawned.
She walked towards her bed, preparing to take her cap off when she saw a big lump underneath the covers. She freaked out for a bit before pulling the covers off angrily.
"Wolfram!" She cried. He was sleeping on the bed wearing a pink frilly night gown. He opened his eyes lazily and look at her.
"You're late, Yuri. I'm sleepy, so hurry up and get in." he said sleepily.
"Why are you in my bed again, Wolfram?" She asked him and he sat up.
"I had your interests at heart, since you're a 'scaredy-cat'." He answered.
"No! I can sleep alone!" She told him angrily.
"Don't worry about it. We're engaged." He smiled at her happily.
"That doesn't mean you have to act like we're already married!" Yuri ranted.
"The whole country knows that you're my fiancee." Wolfram informed her.
"What?" She exclaimed, took a few steps back and fell onto the floor.
"What's going on? We're both boys..." "Though, I'm actually a girl...but sleeping with him together?' She thought.
"You're a wimp, but I'm by your side, so you can feel safe." He told her.
"How can I?" She ranted.
Two cloaked figures were heading towards the castle when Conrad and his group of soldiers were in town investigating the incidents.
"How are things over there?" he asked when a soldier ran up towards him.
"Your Excellency, I cannot find anything over here." he reported.
The black 'ninja's crept into the castle silently waiting for a chance to infiltrate it.
"You said nothing was stolen?" Conrad asked a villager.
"That's right. I was suddenly hit from behind and I lost consciousness. I could not see the attacker's face." The villager told answered him.
"What do you think this means?" A soldier asked Conrad.
"Everyone who was attacked had nothing stolen from them either."
"If theft wasn't the objective then..." Conrad thought silently when he realized something.
"Could it be...?" he guessed and ran out of the house.
"Your Excellency?" His soldiers shouted behind him.
"I'm going back to the castle." he told them as he mount his horse and rode off towards the castle.
In the room, Yuri was sleeping in a bad position, with Wolfram's fist on her cheek. Unknown to the sleeping duo, the 'ninjas' had already infiltrated the castle and was advancing towards them. They proceeded towards the room door but retreated back to hide behind a wall when they heard footsteps approaching. It was Gwendal, clutching a sword by his side. He stood in front of the door with his sword standing firmly in front of 'ninjas' retreated and went the other way as Conrad rushed back to the castle.
'I hope nothing bad has happened.' He thought.
Hey, everyone, I'm back with a new chapter! I've also made a lot of modifications and editing to the others chapters too. It's been like, I think a year, since I stopped updating? HaHa! Well, now I'm continuing this project again and I hope I get a lot of reviews too! Please? (Smiley Face)