Chapter 28: Faking It
"You, shut up!" The assassin swirled his body and kicked Bowen's head, instantly rendering him unconscious.
"Eh? Why did you beat him?"
Davis revealed a frightened expression on his face, but he could tell that someone was now targeting him.
"Haha, Prince Davis, no need to worry. I've been tasked by your imperial father to rescue you and this guard just won't let me take you away from here. My name is Tyke." The assassin removed his hood.
He possessed a handsome face that made him very easy to approach.
"Is it true? But why does my imperial father need to rescue me? Davis questioned.
"You don't know your highness? The war between our Loret Empire and two other Empires, the Raven Empire and Tritor Empire is ongoing for more than a year!"
"Really? Will my imperial father be able to win?" Davis asked worriedly.
Inwardly, he became astonished as he finally knew what had and still has been plaguing his parents for so long. He had tried to find out before, but no one surprisingly let out a word of it.
Unlike modern earth, the information could be easily suppressed as long as people looked the other way, and the imperial castle was an enclosed space where information could be easily contained or let out depending upon the brass.
"There is no way our Emperor will be able to win against two Empires, that's why we are going to escape!" Tyke explained.
"Uh? Okay, so father did send you to rescue me, yay!" Davis cheered. His expression was as he had entirely believed him.
"Yes, your highness, let's go!" Tyke equally encouraged but sneered inwardly, and he felt somewhat pleasurable to trap a Prince with cheap tricks.
"Okay!" Davis smiled as he held Tyke's hand over his own accord.
Tyke almost laughed, but he kept his cool and smiled refreshingly at the prince. They looked as if they were father and son, happily walking while holding each other's hand.
Tyke felt increasingly wanting to tease the prince. He didn't think tricking a child of higher status can be this addicting and easy. His lips were slightly twitching, wanting to remove his own facade so that he could see the stupid expression on the prince's face. His eyes lit up as he thought up a plan.
Just when they were at the entrance, Tyke suddenly uttered. "Ah! Prince! I just remembered that I was sent by the invading empires and not your imperial father!"
"Eh? You're lying!" Davis made a surprised sound and an expression that said that he didn't believe him at all.
Tyke slowly turned around, his face filled with scars while not looking handsome anymore. He wanted to see the terror on the prince's face so that he can finally proceed to knock him out and abduct him.
Davis suddenly let out a mocking expression, his lips curving into a grin.
"Eh?" Tyke became astonished as he realized that the prince didn't seem to be terrorized.
"Why don't we end this farce? Mister Casper..." Davis calmly spoke, his adorable eyes becoming abnormally sharp.
Tyke's pupils dilated as he immediately felt that something was wrong and jumped back. His instincts as an assassin were screaming for him to retreat.
However, his eyes that were wide open turned soulless, and before long, he then started spilling out any information about the current situation he knew before he clenched his heart and died.
Davis removed Assassin Casper's spatial ring and bound it as his own. He then erased the soul marks of his father and mother using the power of the Death Book.
During the experiments, he noticed that the Death Book inside his soul emits a dark and perhaps an evil like energy which is especially useful to corrode and exterminate souls.
With this kind of energy at his disposal, he found it extremely easy to get rid of his parents' soul marks that hovered in his soul sea like a floating rock in the ocean.
Bowen accepted and quickly went to check inside the Prison, only to find Davis fainted beside the assassin's corpse and a prisoner's corpse.
Bowen instantly went aghast but then saw some words written on the wall that looked like a dying message.
"I hope that with this, the Loret Empire will forgive my sins."
Bowen belatedly understood and checked that the prince was still alive and only fainted. He promptly reported it to Hendrickson, who then relayed it to Logan.
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"Emperor! We've found the prince fainted in the Imperial Prison along with two corpses! One seems to be a prisoner while the other seems to be an assassin."
"What!?" Hearing that, Logan was so ecstatic that he couldn't believe his ears. After all, he thought that Davis was abducted.
"Yes! What I've said is true! I am at the Southern Gate of the Imperial Capital with Clara. Bowen made his way to secure Davis and escape!"
"No need! We won the war! Return to the Imperial Castle as quickly as possible with Bowen and Davis!" Logan commanded excitedly.
"What!? Did we truly triumph this war?"
Hendrickson couldn't believe his ears. He remembered that the situation was in despair... How could it possibly change?
But there was no way the Emperor would lie to him, especially when the safety of Clara Loret, the First Princess, depended on him.
"Yes!!"
Hendrickson immediately changed his course and headed back to the Imperial Castle while informing Bowen to return to the Imperial Castle with Davis hurriedly.
He trusted the Emperor's words, so he tried to return as soon as possible.
Logan hastily returned to Claire, who was still trying to get away from their encirclement while launching flaming attacks at them. However, due to pregnancy, her attacks were so weak that it was unable to harm the Family Heads of the Noble Families and the others.
They just passively defended, trying to quell the Empress's anger with words.
When Logan saw her, he immediately sent a soul transmission to her.
"Claire! Davis is safe!"
Claire, who stopped attacking upon sensing Logan's return, became ecstatic but also despaired that she lost Davis. Her heart sank, but when she heard Logan's words, she had an angry yet confused expression on her face that remained lit with hope.
"What!? You're lying! How!!?"
She cried and believed that Logan was lying, just to make her calm down.
"Really! Hendrickson and Bowen managed to find Davis fainted inside the Imperial Prison, let's go back to the Imperial Castle and meet them." Logan excitedly explained.
Claire became stunned, 'A misunderstanding?'
She then became so ecstatic that she immediately left in the direction of the Imperial Castle before Logan could even catch up with her.
Claire reached the Imperial Castle, and just when she entered, she immediately saw the unconscious Davis, who was being carried by Bowen.
"Davis!"
Claire immediately took Davis from Bowen and wrapped Davis in her arms as she hugged him tightly, shedding tears of joy.
Logan also arrived and finally let out a contentful smile when he saw the spectacle. He then heavily heaved a sigh of relief as he thought of successfully avoiding the worst possible outcome after that mysterious 'senior' had saved them.