Chapter Four

Nanami sat on the throne where the previous leader of Namor lives their life in diligence. No one has ever seen Nanami's faces, as for the living beings already long dead before they realize who the one who slaughter them in a month ago. Somehow the emptiness in her heart began to spread wider and wider, as loneliness was the only companion that accompany her for a day and night.

She regained her consciousness when there weren't any human or breathable lives surrounding her. Although the reaction given by her instinct wasn't exactly like Cynthia's, somewhat she manage to remain sane, while dipping the bloodstain in her fingers, showing much satisfaction over the innocent life's taken away.

She still can't forget both moments. A betrayal by Cynthia, and the rampage on this new capital. She wouldn't have imagined that Cynthia would take this far just to exile her, instead of letting her become a wandering soul, she was sent into a realm of unknown.

That what's she thought at the beginning, soon she realize she had just come back to the place where she was supposed to be. Her birthplace, her real parent residual in this realm, as her return was greeted by rather wicked or used by her blood kin, seduce her into darkness, triggered the remaining consciousness within her soul.

Surprisingly, upon arriving in Namor, she regains a physical body. Although she never really care much and what happened during her incapacitated moment. Now she is just satisfied with a body that wholly belongs to herself. Ditched by her twin sister, it wasn't something pleasant until now, where it still becomes her unresolved grudge of a betrayal act done by Cynthia.

She can't do anything to reply to those grudges. Not when she is still stuck in this realm while her sister roaming free in the realm where she can't return to. Not until the news stuck into her ears, bringing her news regarding the update of the scout team.

Someone came rushing in while not caring nor fell for whatever punishment might he or she get in return for the news it obtained from the scout. Nanami who sat still on the throne, wasting her day by lingering in her world, realize the intruder of her kin and react accordingly to the trespass act.

"Bad news, my lord! Someone used the ancient magic and manage to trespass to our realm!"

That the first sentences heard by Nanami upon the information received from one of her minions. Although she waiver to fall a judgment to her minion upon delivering such nonsense update, she came to her senses and tried to ask for more details regarding the trespass individual said by her scout.

"Any idea who'd landed in our territory?"

"It's a girl. Said she was one of Your Majesty's relatives."

Nanami hasn't had received something so trivial upon her arrival in this realm. Knowing someone who appear right out of nowhere, sent by the unknown force that penetrated the force field activated by her father. No one should come across her mind except the one that should be closed to her. Said by the informer that the trespasser was one of her relatives, she can't think of anyone except her.

"She finally made up her mind, chase to here, knowing something precious to her was in my possession."

"Pardon me, Your Majesty?"

Not knowing what was Nanami mumbling about. Her minion was confused upon her whisper which was still hearable in this silent hall. Nanami just draw a smirk which looking at the random wall in the hall. As if she looking at something that only she knows, retain as a secret among them.

"Where are those maggots hiding right now?" Nanami threw her question randomly, expecting someone in this room could give her an answer immediately.

"A northside riverbank, far away from our castle. They put up some fragile security measurement just to wad us."

Someone who holds a better title, an advisor to the newly obtain kingdom. Answered Nanami's simple question while bowing himself toward their queen.

"Great! Shall we go and greet them now, Serpentine?"

Nanami shows her eagerness to reunite with Cynthia, who banished her return to this world. Sitting on the cold chain wasn't her style, at least she like to wander around, just like what Cynthia did in the past, pressuring her nemesis while having some fun enjoying the torment.

"May I dare to suggest otherwise, Your Majesty."

Serpentine counter proposing Nanami wild idea, Nanami safety will be their priority. Since her ascent to the newly obtained kingdom, their armies couldn't afford to lose their queen if the scout were receiving short information from their enemy camp base. Rather than allowing Nanami to intercept their enemies, he suggests that Nanami should let their front line infiltrate the basecamp and seize the foreign person who has been told as her relatives.

"What your concern, Serpentine?" Nanami shows her dissatisfaction through her speech although her action is done in another way.

"We still don't know if the said 'relatives' of your hold a threat to you. Since it was something that came from a foreign realm, we can't risk Your Majesty's welfare while not knowing our enemy strength."

"Enemy strength?" Nanami sigh as she relieved those words again from Serpentine speech.

"Please allow us to capture her and present it to Your Majesty as our wills of loyalty," Serpentine bow himself, together with the rest of his pawn, plead for their odds of capturing Cynthia alive.

Nanami sits casually on her throne while relaxing herself, drawing a sinister smirk knowing how witless they are. She didn't know if laugh off their stupidity or admire the loyalty shown by her newly appointed minion from her father. Yet in the end, she has to make her firm decision while not budging her minion intention of showing off while not knowing what they're going to face later.

"I'd decide to leave her into your custody, Serpentine. Please help me take good care of her, and…"

Nanami walks down from the staircase, away from her throne, drawing near to the Serpentine who still bow himself, forcefully pulling up his chin, warding off her warning toward him. If they can't manage to capture Cynthia or harm Cynthia in any form that leads her to serious injury, none of them will be spared even if they successfully indicate of capture her alive.

"…remember, she must be well and alive upon arriving in my castle. There is someone eagerly to meet her before their despair."