"Argh, where the fuck am I?"
Holding her head, Yui mumbled, slowly she lifted her eyes to see a pair of sunset eyes blinking in front of her who slowly approached her.
"Oh my god."
Yui quickly covered the lady's mouth and told her to keep quiet and they both fled the scene.
"Your highness! Where did you go."
"I just went to help the children with their little wounds."
The lady looked at Yui with concerned eyes doubting her answer but Yui laughed it away, patting the lady's shoulders.
"Sandra, I am ok. Did you find any news?"
Two years have passed and all Yui did was hide with Sophia's twin sister's help, Sandra.
Sandra helps Yui to hide her identity because that is what she asked her to do the reason for not wanting to meet any of her friends or even Gael.
"It says that the Archduke is coming back to the capital."
Holding the newspaper in her hands, Sandra handed it to Yui, pronouncing the headlines.
"Then I must compose myself too," Yui mumbled resting her chin on her fingers as if thinking of something.
"What are you planning."
Sandra asked agitated, noticing her conceited smirk as if she isn't thinking something simple.
"Your highness, you must tell me."
Yui then took her robe and left Sandra running at her insisting to tell her plans.
"Sandra didn't I tell you to call me Hannah from now on."
"But."
"I will go home now, bye my lady."
Yui stood before her and ceased her following her further leaving the lady inside her room.
Arcus's announcement of leaving his position is not because of his loneliness or regrets rather he wanted to spend more ordinary life with Yui.
Both of them went back to where Yui used to live with her grandma.
They remodeled the place together, bought new furniture, and all limited to at least two servants that could help them with household chores.
"Father!" Rushing inside the yard Yui run toward Arcus's arms like a kid.
Carrying Yui, Arcus swirls her around the air giggling at each other.
"Father! you are going to hurt yourself if you do this every time." Yui said holding her father's arms.
"What is so wrong with playing with my child."
Wrapping his arms around Yui, Arcus responded with yet another beaming smile.
His strong physique and beautiful face came back after recovering from the poison injected by Kaizer in his body.
Such a youthful image can capture more young women despite their age.
"I'm an adult now."
"Who says that? My baby is still a baby."
Thud,
After a while, Yui and Arcus's sensed a presence staring at them not too far away with a basket full of fruits falling to the ground.
"Y-your majesty, what is this?"
Flabbergasted, Karin covers her mouth with her eyes both opened wide as she cannot utter any words to understand what she had witnessed.
"Father, did you forget to active the barrier again?"
Yui whispered and Arcus averted his gaze scratching his chin. Yui looks at him with disbelief.
"H-how?!"
Another astonishing truth was revealed before Karin's eyes as Yui uncovered her disguised.
Karin took a sip from her teacup, breathing heavily to calm herself and bring her composure back.
"I was extremely worried when his majesty wished to leave the palace, so I sent bodyguards and maids with you but you refused only bringing two."
She began to explain her story and the two quickly listened to Karin while enjoying their tea.
"I even make sure to build a palace for you at the location you selected but when I come to visit the place, they said you told them that you sold the palace."
Arcus averted his gaze, looking outside the window as if he didn't know what to reply.
"Your majesty! Did you know how furious I was to hear that!"
Massaging the temples of her head, Karin looks stressed because of the news she just brought with her.
"And now I heard rumors that the money you receive, you use it to live secretly with a mistress!"
"Oh my, I cannot believe the rumors got that extreme!" Yui exchanged glances at her father smiling.
"Well, it can't be helped, my looks are still so young."
Bang,
Startled, the father and daughter went quiet after Karin hit the table perplexed by their nonchalant behavior.
"This is a serious matter, your majesty, and your highness."
Taking another sip of her teacup, Karin's expression turned dark scaring the two.
"I have no excuses, your majesty," Arcus responded scratching his head and Yui just went on enjoying the desserts.
"Let's drop the formalities, Arcus."
Dropping her teacup, Karin crossed her arms and legs exhibiting a dark smile.
"You are not going anywhere either, Yui my dear."
Holding a piece of cookies in her hand and the teacup in her other hand, Yui was about to flee with the situation.
"Today, you will both come with me to go back to the palace."
"Agh, father this is why I told you to always keep the barrier up." Downhearted, Yui covered her face with her palms.
"I'm sorry my dear, this father of yours is getting older," Arcus replied with the same expression as his daughter.
"Ha, I know how long you have been wanting to live like this but two years is enough."
Yui explained to Karin what happened that day when the seal was about to collapse.
Rauv did get most of her powers but he still left a little on her which able her to retrieve all her memories.
When she appears in the human realm once again, she immediately plans to hide and decided to surprise them.
However, when she met Arcus in good health, she decided to run away with him until two years passed by.
"Do you know how much everyone suffered when you left?"
"I know but that is their punishment," Yui replied ominously smiling lifting her finger up and majestically white petals fell down the sky.
At the same time that their carriage passes by, Gael's team had reached the capital gates witnessing the majestic petals that remind him of one person.