After Serenity walked out of the teachers' room, she was heading to her room when she noticed two people approaching her,
Two students are walking hand in hand . The woman was Baial, her class president, and the boy with white hair and red eyes with a mole under his left eye is Jin Right her ex fiance.
Serenity's eyes started twitching the second she felt them. she intended to pass as if she didn't see them ,'Juat don't annoy me and we are good'
Baial suddenly opened her mouth and with her sarcastic tone it was inevitable she would anger her,
"What did the teacher say to you?...You didn't go complain to her, did you?"
'A pair of dogs' Serenity didn't answer her and kept walking her way, and apparently baial didn't like it,
"..."
"Hey, I am talking to you. Stop right there?"
Baial tried to grab serenity's hands, but Serenity grabbed her fingers squeezing them in her hand instead.
"Ugh..let go!.....let ..go..of my hand..."
It was getting painful, so Baial tried to free her hand, but serenity's grip wouldn't loosen up.
"What the hell are you doing?...It hurts, you idiot. Let go of my hand." Baial tried to punch her in the stomach to distract her so she could free herself.
"Ugh...take this, you bitch,"
She raised her other hand ready to throw her bunch, but serenity easily dodged the path of the blow away by turning behind her and .
"You!"
with all her force she pulled baial closer and landed a swift slap on her face turning it bright red instantly
-slap-
"You seem so familiar with such moves, huh?"
"Don't think for even a second that pushing me into the lake will pass without a punishment just like that? Dream on..." She increased her grip's force gradually and pulled her closer
"Your face doesn't look so even , let me help you with the makeover ", she said and quickly switched to giving her one slap after another untill her face swell beyond recognition.
On the other hand jin who has a narcissistic strike got ahead of himself,
"I know I am perfect, but don't fight over me; it's not cool,"
Serenity didn't even look his way and without hesitation she pulled him closer by grabbing his hair then let go just to slap him exactly the next second.
-slap-
"Ew, that's so greasy. Act a bit like a man, can you?" Serenity said in clear disgust
Jin tried to fight back for himself but it all ended tragic,
"You bitch, why the hell did you hit my face—"
Before he could even continue, she landed another slap on his face. She looked troubled and started cleaning her ears
"That was a close call; my ears can't really take all this pollution...ew, I really don't understand how people live like that."
"Stop you chat, eh?" Suddenly, baial said but her face was swollen red like a tomato her words came out mostly unidentified.
"What was that?!" Serenity asked full of confusion staring at the mentally hurt baial
Serenity didn't care and wanted to slap jin again, but Baial suddenly grabbed her hand; at that moment, she snapped angrily at both of them.
Serenity removed her glasses and threw them onto the ground clearly up to no good,
"What the hell?! You think you're in a better situation than him?...Come here, both of you. I've been meaning to do this since I came here. I finally got my chance. You're both done for. No one is leaving till I am satisfied,"
Then she pinned both of them onto the grounds and launched a bunch after another with both her fists; she kept hitting till their bodies were full of bruises,and their faces were unrecognizable from the beating they suffered. Only then did she leave them be.
"I don't usually hit people but ....that surely felt so refreshing" Serenity said, and satisfaction was clearly shown on her face.
"I'll leave you two dogs to eat each other; don't involve others in your dog fight, you hear me?" she said.
"You four-eyed devil, iam not a dog, if it weren't for the fact that the school rules don't allow using magic inside educational buildings, you'd have paied the price long ago. Wait till I report you to the teacher; you are done for," Baial said thinking her words intimidated serenity.
Serenity's voice shifted to serious; she felt wronged as she said, "Rules, you say?...Why didn't these rules work before when you were constantly bullying me, huh?"
"Th…that's different."
"No! " serenity walked to get her glasses from the floor as she continued speaking words that have absolutely no soul in them ,"...It's not any different; it's just that right now the victim is not me but you. We just changed our roles that's all"
The indifference in her tone send chills down her spine, making Baial feel so uneasy.
"Y...you...stay away from me, or I'll call the teacher," Baial felt the urge to hide from serenity for the first time she seemed to have lost the will to fight and was genuinely scared.
She stared at the glasses in her hand and spoke with a voice colder than they have ever heard ,
"Call the teacher, you say?"
Serenity put her glasses on and kept staring at the sky outside with a blank expression,
"Fine by me, you can call the teacher... but then we will see if the teacher will take your side, who's only been hit once, or my side, the victim who's only retaliating against your constant bullying,or maybe you didn't consider the fact that i myself am an uneasy target....what do you say we should do?"
Jin finally managed to process what just happened to him and couldn't take the humiliation of beeing hit by an official admirer ; he exploded, saying,
"Why are you hitting me too? I didn't even touch you before, and also you were the one following me in the first place...I am now telling you I don't love you stop playing that hard to get game with me It's useless, and I already have a fiancé."
'It would have been a problem if you had loved her ,but thankfully you didn't.'serenity thought she raised his chin with her indix for their eyes to meet and coldly said ,
"What a coincidence; I also never love you from beginning to end. It was all for that mole under your eye."
She reached out to touch the mole under his eyes and just kept staring at it, recalling a past memory that formed another picturein her head.
That qick memory refresh unconsciously changed her expression to an alluring attractive one with a mix of sadness
Jin heart fluttrered as his face blushed when he saw that expression and shoved her hand away instantly,
"What the hell are you doing?...Th...this is..."
He closed his grib over his chest feeling utterly lost and confused,
"Ba-dum...Ba-dum...Ba-dum..."
He tried to calm his confused heart but all in vain,'I can't believe she made me blush with only one touch...she has neither looks nor power, yet I am....i just can't get her expression out of my head ...but thinking about her face maybe it's not that impossible between us?......what the hell is wrong with me?'
Jin's thoughts confused him, as he's never been through something like that before but what was more frustrating was nothing more than all this mess in his head was caused by no one but serenity.
Serenity looked at her hands that he shoved away. She just sighed and pulled them away,
"Pooring"
She got up from the grounds, saying,
"I want to end this once and for all. What I am about to say I'll only say it once, so listen carefully: I don't love you. No, to be more precise, I never did... The mole under your eye is exactly the same as the person I truly wanted. That's why I kept following you and never really hurt you; it's just so I can see that same mole on your face everyday."
"Wha—"
"But you are nothing like him so no need to drag this game anylonger i have already wasted enough." Her every word cut a deep wond to his fragil pride leaving him bewildered by his inferiority
Serenity didn't care to comfort him since she was already busy with her own thoughts ,
'I can't really pour my obsession onto him; the me in the past found safety with seeing him cause he reminded her of her safe zone , and I can hardly blame her , but iam different...'
Serenity raised her left hand and closed her eyes kissing her ring finger,'no matter who he is he is not you'
Baial raised her hand politely asking ,
"So what you are saying is...Jin was just a stand-in for another man all along?"
Serenity didn't respond but stared at her in silence
'No words are neded her silence is an answer in itself' ,Baial looked at Serenity in disbelief.
She thought in her mind, 'Serenity's simping for Jin is a well-known fact; the whole school can bear witness to it, but who would have thought she was just using him to remember another man ... saying "I love you," but it's not for you but for someone else's shadow ... No normal man can take such a heavy blow.'
Baial had a bitter laughter on her face while saying,
"You are really cruel,"
Serenity answered ,"Does it matter? Aren't we all the same?...In the past you did bully me because of love. In my eyes love is meant to be selfish."
Baial felt her words were so cold but a hint of sadness, she couldn't help but wanting to ask , but in the end she abandoned the idea,
"Selfish, you say...I really pity the one you like; he's up to one hell of a relationship,"
"..." serenity didn't answer that instead she turned at Jin,
"As for the engagement...I guess you still didn't receive the news." She had a sly smile on her face. "hmph…soon enough everyone will go back to his own place."
She suddenly clapped her hands and said, "Now that the love thing is now cleared, let's get back to what we were doing."
"What are you going to do?!" Baial said in a frightened voice as she looked at her creepy smile. She knew she was going to suffer heavily, but before Serenity touched any of them, a sudden voice snapped her back.
-TING, TING-
Her phone received a few messages; she let go of them to take a look, but her face appeared to have received quite the shock from their content. 'No wonder the kid is so clueless '
She glanced at them before she started replying quickly, but after she finished, she gave Jin a strange look.
'It seems the news about the broken engagement still hasn't reached that fool. It looks like his situation isn't promising, but then again, it's not my fault, or is it? Should I just tell him? .... I feel like I am a bitch a lot recently...' She felt wronged about everything.
The two on the ground saw her face twist and she hardened her fist. They thought they were about to be beaten again, but luckily that didn't happen,
Serenity suddenly turned at them with cold expression calling,
"Hey you..."
Baial jolted from the ground, she was clearly taken aback from her sudden call saying,
"W...What?"
"Not you...him," she said.
"W…what do you want?" Jin asked.
Serenity looked at him for a few seconds; she seemed not so sure if she should say this or not, but she talked anyway.
" whatever...if I were you, I would call home right away; the situation doesn't seem promising over there."
"Why?! what happened?!" Jin asked.
She dusted off her clothes. "That's all; there is nothing more to say...you are on your own, kiddo."
"W...wait, explain yourself?"
Jin was confused by her words; he didn't know the hidden meaning behind her words, but she left them and walked away and he was honestly so afraid to go behind her.
Serenity used her phone and made a call.
"Assistant Liu, I know they did wrong, but there's no need to go to such lengths."
Assistand liu connected to the other end started explaining his situation,
- It's her majesty's arrangements. She also ordered; he should apologize to you, and if you didn't forgive him, there is a death penalty for those who offend the royals waiting for his whole family. -
"No need!" Serenity freaked out from how easily he said that .'that life dept is not mine anyway why should i press this matter any further?'
"Let me be clear: cancel the engagement and leave them alone. The trauma they suffered is already big enough," she said.
-If that's the case, then as your majesty wishes, but what about the apology?... Her majesty said it's a must-
Serenity shoke her head in disbelief and impatiently said, "I forgive them, okay? Leave the poor people alone, will you?"
-as you wish-
"Wait a second." Serenity suddenly called
-Any orders?! -
"Don't inform them right away; wait till tomorrow to do it, okay?"
Assistant liu on the other end of the phone was so stunned he stuttered in his speech for the first time,
-U...huh...o...okay, I guess-
"I still have things to do by then."
Teet-Teet-Teet
"IN GLADIA"
At the royal palace, Assistant Liu was somewhat dumbfounded by her words; he never expected such requests.
He turned to Queen Luna behind him, who was drinking her tea leisurely in the garden, and he greeted her with a simple bow.
"All done, your majesty," he said.
Queen Luna put down her cup and looked at Assistant Liu, then asked, "Assistant Liu, tell me honestly, what do you think about Serenity's change recently?"
"According to the investigation we ran; recently the princess was constantly bullied at her school by some of the admirers that jin right had, and nobody did anything to help her." He explained and placed the file in front of the queen to take a look at it at a later time
He continued " Apparently, someone spread rumors at school saying that the agreement restraining them was done for her; everyone seemed to believe it, so her highness ended up being an outcast. No one seemed to be willing to befriend her."
The queen looked at the cold tea on the table with a blank expression,
"No wonder she walked away so resultly"
Assistant Liu saw the queen's lost expression, but he expected such results; after all, no mother would settle down when seeing her child getting hurt, so he just continued what he was saying:
"The most recent event was when those same admirers pushed her into the lake, she almost drowned even though she can swim. I don't know why, but the teacher who saved her said she seemed like she was fighting against something but even though the princess herself said she just had a foot cramp." "
-bang-
The cup her majesty was holding shattered, injuring her hands. Assistant Liu hurried beside her and used a healing potion to treat her wound.
"No need to worry your majesty, no matter the truth what happened when she fell into the lake , it doesn't seem to matter , whatever it is a life or death experience or something else it won't change the fact that her highness changed, and it's actually a good change" he placed the empty bottle in his dimensional ring and saw the queen's face expressionless unfit for what she just did
Assistant liu couldn't understand or read her at all her actions are one thing but her face is another story, but instead of beeing stuck like that he reassured her ,
"just the fact of her royal lineage is enough to tell that her life will be full of danger , excuse my rudness when saying this but the ptincess is usually so pathetic and weak always act like a frightening cat ....but the her we saw when she came last time was one that stood her grounds with no fear even in the face of your killing intent , she was clearly diffrent but only then did i have this thought for the first time ....she is truly from the royal BLOODLINE "
The queen seemed surprised by his comments on her daughter: "It's rare hearing such complaints coming out of you. I get from this that you recognized her in a way."
"I just recognized her demeanor, that's all." Assistant Liu smiled, but he just remembered the call from just now that gave him chills.
"It can't be right?" he murmured to himself.
"Let me ask you ... do you think she hates me?" Queen Luna asked with concern clear in her eyes.
"She doesn't; worry not," he replied without hesitation.
The queen was dumbfounded by his speech and asked, "What makes you say so?"
He hesitated for a second but replied anyway, "You may not like my answer, but I think the princess takes after you. She is the revenge type, so since she was willing to take the initiative to call, that means she doesn't hate you as much. Rest assured."
The queen looked at her already healed hand with distain then said with a voice deprived of emotions,
"I never really expected much when It's about that daughter of mine ...i can clearly remember that i used to be so fond of her but i don't know when ...but all my feelings and emotions for that girl faded away as if she is not mine "
Assistant liu seemed genuinely surprised by her sudden words,
"Excuse my rudeness but i don't really understand what you mean?!!"
"Forget it, all is okay as long as she is fine," she said but deep down she thought,'i never really feel like she is my daughter, while iam sure i gave birth to her i just couldn't help it...i can't be a mother for that girl, maybe my anger is just because ,logically ;as a mother i should be angry'
The queen suddenly gave her assistant a side-eye, saying,
" what do you mean revenge type? I am not that petty."
Assistant Liu settled for a smile, but in his brain he was so furious. 'Not pity my ass. Tell this to that poor cont family you almost wiped from existence. You're the most pitiful person I've ever seen, and I thought there's no possibility of meeting someone else like her. It turned out she gave birth to that someone.'
He was fidgeting like crazy in his mind ,'Originally I sent those messages to the princess so she'd take pity on them, but for real, she asked me to wait until tomorrow?.... Doesn't she know what will happen in a day? That poor cont family is in for one hell of a night. You just had to mess with these demons.'
'My deepest condolences; I hope you pass by the night safely,' he seriously prayed for their lives as he was really sympathizing with their situation.
Back to "REGIS"
Baial said as she touched her sour face after Serenity disappeared from her sight,
"Haa~,...what the hell is wrong with that idiot today? She felt like a different person"
But Jin, on the other hand, was confused, thinking about what she had just said: "Is it possible something happened at home...?" he murmured.
"What did you say? I didn't hear clearly; say again, "Baial asked.
"Nothing, excuse me," Jin said, and quickly got up and left her alone. He couldn't stop feeling uneasy thinking that something might have happened to his family
'if serenity does have the ability to force a contract over royalty then she had to have the means to do so', hung on this thought he wanted to make sure they are safe as soon as he could.
Baial wanted to follow him, but her sore face and arm were hurting so much she could barely move.
"Poor guy, he just got the shock of his life; anyone in his place would feel lost after hearing a woman say that to his face." She looked in his direction, feeling pity for him.
"Naa~, it's not like they were dating; he's actually quite lucky." She then touched her face without realizing, and it hurt like hell.
Instead of following him, she heads for the nurse's office to get treated.
"Ouch, what does she eat to possess such strength...aww~...my face hurts me so damn much; I need some ice."
As for Jin, he walked straight to his room to call his parents and make sure everything was ok. He was happy the call connected fast, but that happiness didn't last long.
"Fath-"
-You ungrateful son, what the hell have you done? - His father screamed at the top of jis lungs from tje other end of the phone. It was clear from his voice that he was furious. Even Jin, after hearing him, got flustered.
Usually his father never raised his voice at him; it was the first time, so he had to defend himself and inquire about the situation,
"I didn't do anything. Father, what really happened?"
His father angrily said - Her majesty called off the engagement and banned us from the capital; our family is under investigation for taxes.and your uncle tried to ran away with the mony but got himself caght worsening our situation, At this rate we are finished. -
Jin fell to the ground in horror ,"Are they trying to kill people? This is so unfair. What the hell did we even do?"
His father went all sobbing and crying from exhaustion ,-You ask me?...Then why do I ask?...You ungrateful son, think carefully about what you have done recently. According to Assistant Liu, the princess almost died because of you.-
Jin hurriedly said, "That's not true. I never even saw her, so when and how did I try to kill her?"
-I don't care; we are in this mess because of you, so either you find a way to solve it or never even think about setting foot in this house that is if we survived.- from the tone of his voice there was no hope for their situation.
"I...I know...I apologize...I will apologize to her. If she accepts my apology, then it will be over...right?" Jin hopefully said, but reality hit harder.
-Keep dreaming. If this matter can be solved with a simple apology, why would I torment myself?...Assistant Liu said you should apologize to the princess and earn her forgiveness, or you and your whole family will be executed for the crime of attempting to murder a royal. You must earn her forgiveness; it's not a choice. You are on your own. -
He ended the call with his father with news that terrified him. He felt his father's helplessness, and for the first time, he felt despair.
Jin grabbed his head in the middle of all this mess. "What the hell did I get myself into? I shouldn't have accepted that engagement in the first place"
He cried his eyes out, wondering why it had to go to such lengths. Then he thought of serenity, and his phone fell to the ground breaking into half.
"She called it...she really did…karma...that's my karma."