My eyes bulged out as Hiroshi entered. He was wearing his Kuro soldier's vest and trousers. He was also well equipped. But he looked different.
Maybe it was the robe he was wearing that was tied on one of his shoulders and hung from his back. Behind him came Kairo, then Koji, Takashi, Kondo and soon almost half of the Kuro soldier's important leaders had arrived one by one.
I looked at them with quizzical brows and it seemed the emperor and the empress were equally confused like me.
They all stood in lines both sides of me as Hiroshi said with a slight bow toward the emperor, "Your Highnes, apologies for being late but will you excuse us for I have to take my sister to her groom."
My head snapped at him as my heart thumped loudly inside of my chest. So... He was my acting parent? My guardian?
I didn't know why but I felt tears coming out of the corners of my eyes because I felt so happy that he was performing his duties as my brother. No one had done that for me.