I Don’t Want This Bad Ending

Evelyn knit her brows at the response that she heard from Gil. Her brows began to be more narrowed as she heard Chrisfold mischievous reply.

'They should be thankful that we only put a small hole there… If I heard them talk again, I'm going to smash the whole place.'

Evelyn felt shivers in her spine. It's because Chrisfold is the type of person to do what he said. Still, she ignored what he said as her spirits unexpectedly caused troubles.

"Well, a little heads up would be nice if you decided to act on your own!" she said in her head as she replied to the two spirits who acted like a terrorist.

"Let's go… We should see what is happening too." Silvester broke the silence in the room.

"You're right, we should go too…" she decided to let the two off as they needed to act their part in this orchestrated act of befriending the saint.

'We need to keep the enemies closer, so we can stab them when they least expect.' she thought.

***

"Oh wow…" Silvester let out his real emotions as he saw the majestic white walls with a hole and rubbles coming from it, and the scale of the broken wall is enough to pass the second story of the temple of light in the east wing.

Saint Elise noticed them.

"Your highness, it's dangerous here… You should go back to the Palace." 

Elise was hinting them to leave as they needed to see how big the explosion and how much the East wing of the temple was affected. And because they don't want outsiders to witness the inside of the temples.

So, before Crown Prince Silvester can reach the walls and see what was inside, she obstructs their view.

'I need to divert their attention. There's a lot of statues inside that need casting from the black mages' she thought.

That's why she needed to get them out from here, and the reason she excused herself in the first place. But Silvester who read her thoughts and actions won't let that happen. So, he immediately acts like a prince who is concerned about his constituents.

"This is preposterous! How can someone attack this holy place?!" His voice is a bit louder because there's also nobles who are here and are visiting the temple. He wants them to gather where the explosion happened and make many more witnesses.

"As a Prince who is concerned about the hurt Priest, I will volunteer myself to rescue the others." he said which made the corners of Elise mouth twitch.

"Your highness, you don't need to do that… we have the temple priest, they can do that job. We can't let someone from the neighboring Kingdom be involved in this dangerous situation." Elise said, still standing their way.

Then, the attendant chimed in.

"Her holiness is right, your highness. This is quite dangerous and we can't let someone as important as you be in this mess."

Elise smiled like she was sorry and it can't be helped but inwardly she was telling them to get out this instant.

Silvester's mind is thinking of ways to stay a bit longer before he can leave with an excuse of not getting in the way of the investigation.

The other members of the temples watch the important visitor, Crown Prince Sil and their Holiness talk to each other, as well as the company of the Crown Prince.

The priests are not the only ones who are watching this scene quietly. Evelyn also observes how Elise will handle this situation and seeing her push her cousin, SIlvester with gentle words can say that she grows up and knows how to stand her guard up.

'She knew who to be wary huh.' she thought.

'Well, she won't rise to this position if she didn't know who to be messed with and not… but she clearly made a wrong move when she messed with me.' Evelyn continued to think.

Her sunset eyes that are dyed with blessings and became chestnut hue are looking at her surroundings with sharpness and colder than the north pole.

She and Silvester's blue eyes made contact and she nonchalantly gave a sign to leave the place. She already saw what was inside the temple that seems to be the storage of the statues.

And besides, it's not good for Silvester to be tangled with them this early. It's alright to befriend Elise first with the intentions of getting her guard down with him.

Silvester read Evelyn's eyes and stopped himself from sighing. He also knew how to give up if the other party is not comfortable and it will also bring a negative effect to them. So, he agreed to Elise's words.

"You're right, your holiness. I should let the others do this, if you need assistance then let my attendant know. She will be here in the Kingdom of Levingstone for a while as I still have things to do, I'll excuse myself first. May the light be with you... " 

He pointed to Evelyn and smiled like he was sorry that he couldn't help them. He did this because this is the only way that he can give Evelyn access to the temple and see the layout if she ever needed to sneak in. She can also be with Elise if needed without raising suspicion.

Elise looked at the lady knight with a black masked that covered her nose to her forehead. Evelyn then bowed as a sign that she acknowledged Silvester's order and also giving respect to Elise, the saint.

Elise then smiled. She was happy that Silvester knew how to stop persisting and back down. He also gave her a way to contact him.

"Thank you, your highness. May the light also be with you…"

They bid their goodbyes, Silvester is still smiling and when he turns around, his usual cold eyes and face can be seen. Sir George who was there silently observing the Crown Prince is always at awe whenever he sees him act like a charming Prince when he is brutal and cold to his subordinates.

'And he's only smiling genuinely when she's with Miss Adelyn… I mean Lady Evelyn.' Sir George thought and he switched to looking at Evelyn who is walking besides Silvester and are whispering to each other.

'She's also amazing, she escaped her marriage and the trap that they laid before anyone can touch her she made her move, and now she's back without anyone knowing.' 

Sir George continued to evaluate Evelyn who is promising for her age and planned everything on her own at such a tender age. Well, all the noble children that he knew, all of them have a sharp sense and a matured demeanor.

But Silvester and Evelyn are the people he saw that at such a young age could have planned a downfall of other aristocrat nobles without them knowing that they are trapped in a honey-trap.

'Scary kids…' he thought.

Of course, what Sir George was pointing to was when the Crown Prince made his official move to take the throne that made the second prince of the Perspiru Kingdom to lay low. While in Evelyn's case this moment.

He remembers what he saw when he looked at the knight with a black mask covering her face when they were in front of the wrecked temple that god's knows why it exploded. 

He stiffened at the thought of seeing those cold eyes. The moment that she's silently observing the structure he felt that his small hairs in the back of his neck stood up.

It felt like he was seeing the calm before the storm.

***

After what happened in the temple, the citizens and devoters also learned about it. It made a big fuss but they eventually calmed down after the temple gave an official statement saying that some evil being attacked the temple and that the god of light would punish those people.

It was funny but everyone trusted what the temple said and the incident died down less than three days after it happened.

Silvester also needed to go back to the Perspiru Kingdom as the issue of the temple of light spreading their statues has reached his ears and been confirmed by his trusted subordinates that stayed in the palace.

Before he left, he gave a magic communication device to Evelyn.

"Eve, here… if something happened just poured some mana here, it will connect with my video communication device"

"Oh…"

Silvester smiled, even though he just got to see his cousin, Evelyn, they needed to separate again as they have issues that needed to be dealt with.

But Evelyn is just amused by the glass ball that seems to be the said video communication device, she only sees the red earring before that Sir Edrich gave to her during the journey in stygian ruins.

'So, this is like an old medieval fantasy type phone…' she thought.

She knew that there are things like this but hadn't got the time to buy one because she didn't need it before because she can telepathically communicate with Gil, her wind spirit. And now, she got one because of Silvester.