"Hey Soraru," the raven-haired turned his head to look at Kuro.

"What?"

"How would your bloodline continue if you're going to marry Mafu in the future?" Kuro laughed as she saw the albino's face turn completely red while the raven-haired had a small blush.

"W-Why are you even asking that?!" Mafu exclaimed as the red eyed blonde grinned.

"Just curious~ though I'm guessing you can probably use a spell to create a child."

"K-Kuro!"

"Oi Kuro, shut up." Soraru said in annoyance as the female laughed again.

Lon just watched the three interact, giggling at their banter, but she felt something was off despite the cheerfully atmosphere around them.

She looked at the necklace that was hanging from her neck, cupping her hands around it and closing her eyes she was seemingly trying to concentrate on something. She continued to repeat the steps a few times, wondering if something would change but got nothing.

Soraru noticed the female's worried demeanor, he walked to her, leaving the other two to their teasings, and gave her a worried look.

"You okay Lon?"

"I just feel uneasy for some reason," she said as she opened her eyes and let go of the necklace, looking at the raven-haired, "I thought maybe this would help me see why but I can't really do anything without having a specific thing in my mind."

Lon let out a soft sigh being giving the male a reassuring smile.

"You don't have to worry about it."

Soraru, still unconvinced, patted the female's head, causing her to give him a slightly annoyed look.

"You know I'd still be worried about you."

"Hey Soraru, quit flirting with Lon when you already have a boyfriend," Kuro fake glared at him while the raven-haired just rolled his eyes.

Mafu frowned a bit, Soraru thought it was because of Kuro's comment but he saw the albino seemed to look around.

"Do you guys feel a bit, I don't know, uneasy?" Mafu asked as he gave them a confused look.

"You feel it too Mafu?" Lon said as the albino nodded his head and headed towards the exit.

"Oi Mafu, wait up," Soraru and the other two followed the albino to wherever he was going.

They were back in the castle, Soraru tried his best to politely decline guests' requests for small talk as they continued to follow the male.

They were a bit further away from people, the sounds of the party going on were still within earshot, as the albino continued to look around for something.

"Where are you leading us to Mafu?" Kuro finally asked causing the male to stop and give them a sheepish smile.

"I'm not sure myself," he awkwardly let out a small laugh, "but I just feel some type of bad magic somewhere."

"And you think that blindly walking towards it is a good idea?" Soraru rose his eyebrow as the albino shifted his eyes away in embarrassment.

"Oh, right..."

"Maybe we should go back to the others," Lon suggested, "it'd be better if we regrouped so we don't have to worry about something."

A loud screech echoed through the halls, making the four jump and step back a bit as they quickly looked around to find the source.

Kuro spotted a maid slowly walk back out of a room just up ahead, their hands covering their mouth as a look of horror painted their face.

"Something bad happened..."

Lon grabbed her necklace and clenched it in between her hands, she tried to concentrate on all different types of things until one of her thoughts allowed her to sense something. She widened her eyes as she felt a small weak presence, hanging onto the thread of their life, drift away.

"S-Someone just died there," Lon muttered as the other three gave her shocked expressions.

"W-Wait how can you tell?" Soraru asked as the blonde female touched her necklace.

"Hana's necklace lets me detect auras of people, and...." Lon gave the raven-haired a distraught look, "and I just sense someone's aura disappear....it seemed kinda familiar to...."

Before Lon could even finish the raven-haired had already ran towards the room, leaving the three alone. They quickly followed him, arriving to the sight of a frozen Soraru, staring at the scene with wide, terrorized eyes.

Kuro held her hand against her mouth and shut her eyes while Lon immediately looked away. Mafu could only glance at the older male with worried and saddened eyes.

"T-The queen...." a maid said as she tried to hold her tears.

"H-How'd this happen?" Mafu exclaimed as the knights in the room gave them an unsure expression.

"We just know that she was speaking to guest and such earlier and came here for a short break."

"Soraru...."

Mafu then walked behind the male and wrapped his arms around him into a hug. He's definitely filled with a lot of grief....

"What should we do prince?" Another knight asked, Kuro frowned.

"Hey! How are you just going to make him decide what to do after what happened?!"

"H-Hey Kuro, maybe calm down a bit," Lon advised to the female.

"He's the prince, shouldn't he know what to do?" The knight bluntly stated as the red eyed blonde glared at them.

"He's still a teenager though!"

"Kuro I think you should stop," Mafu tried to plead with the female, "they look kinda annoyed."

"Wouldn't it be better to ask the king to do something?" Kuro suggested, glancing at the raven-haired that was still silent, "I think Soraru should at least have some time to himself to comprehend this..."

"What a pathetic prince...too useless to even do something so simple."

Soraru snapped his head and glared at the knight that had spoken.

"Oi—"

Soraru then felt himself get drowsy, falling back a bit before the albino managed to catch him. Mafu and the other two looked at him worriedly before realizing that the figures in the room all disappeared, except for the queen's dead body.

"W-What?"

Mafu then quickly formed a white shield around them, just in time before a knife stabbed the shield, cracking it a bit.

"H-Hold on what is suddenly happening? Where did that knife come from?"

"I don't know and I don't want to know," Kuro replied as she looked at the albino in concern, "did Soraru just faint?"

"U-Uh....I'm not sure....he looks awake," Mafu said as he shook the raven-haired that was leaning on him, "hey Soraru, wake up."

The raven-haired groaned as he stood up straight and looked at the three with puzzled eyes.

"I suddenly felt drowsy," Soraru then noticed the yellow part of the pendant was shining brighter, "w-wait...."

He looked back at then, fear clearly written in his eyes.

Lon held her hands together on her necklace, concentrating to sense a certain male's aura before sighing a bit in relief.

"Senra's fine, it seems like he became unconscious but he doesn't seem injured. Though that's still concerning..."

Soraru still kept the scared look on his face while the albino got rid of the shield, sensing that things were safe for now.

"We definitely need to meet up with the others," Kuro said, looking at the blonde female and albino, "isn't there a way you guys can bring them from wherever they are?"

"Maybe with the help of Lon's aura detecting necklace I can make a portal to bring the others back," Mafu suggested as the female nodded her head.

Lon held Mafu's hand, her other hand was clutching on the necklace, as she tried to think of the others in hopes to be able to find their auras, while the albino tried to create a portal.

Soraru and Kuro noticed a portal formed and soon the redhead and short brunette fell through. The raven-haired sighed in relief at seeing them, still worried about the others though.

"H-Hey Mafu, if you ever decide to make a portal again can it not be on the ground where we'd fall through?" Sakata said as he got up, the albino sheepishly rubbed his head.

"Sorry..."

"Any reason why—" Urata stopped once he saw the queen's body, "w-wait....what happened?"

"Eh? What is it?" Sakata was about to look before both the raven-haired and short brunette quickly covered his eyes, "e-eh?"

"How protective you two are," Kuro commented as the raven-haired glared at her.

"Oi, not now."

"Shouldn't he know though?" Lon asked as the two older males made uneasy expression.

"Maybe it'd be better to tell him instead of letting him see," Mafu stated as he shifted his eyes away, "the sight's kinda....."

"I'd rather die than let him see that."
"I agree with the shortie."

Sakata managed to pry their hands off, freezing as he saw his mother's body limp on the floor. He immediately turned around and buried his face in the short brunette's neck.

"......."

"Er, I guess there's no point now...." Kuro awkwardly said, the air in the room was heavy and filled with dread.

"So...." Urata hesitatingly said, wrapping his arms around the redhead before continuing, "what exactly happened?"

"We don't know," Lon began to say, "we just heard a scream and came here to see.....this...."

"There were knights and maids but then they kinda just disappeared into the air," Kuro added, she pointed at the albino, "then Mafu formed a shield to protect us from a knife that was somehow thrown at us by no one."

"There wasn't a sign of another person's presence that could've thrown it at us." Mafu stated as the short brunette rose his eyebrow in slight disbelief.

"So a knife was just floating around and decided to attack you?"

"Yeah that sounds crazy but we're in a place with magic and weird creatures and people disappearing so what can you expect." Kuro retorted as the male rolled his eyes.

"I fainted a bit so Lon decided to sense something and found out that Senra seems to have become unconscious for some reason."

"Eh?!? Is Senra okay?!?" Sakata exclaimed as he quickly turned his head to look at the raven-haired in worry.

".....I hope so..."

"Cause that's so reassuring to hear," Urata sarcastically said, he then pondered about something, "though he's with Shima so he should be fine.....right?"

Soraru just shifted his eyes away in unease, he wasn't sure whether the blonde was with the purple-haired. Shima would make sure he's fine...so if Senra isn't fine then something happened.

"Anyways after all that we then had Mafu and Lon try to find you guys and bring you back with the portal." Kuro said as she crossed her arms, "now we need to find the others too."

"Shouldn't we be more worried about Senra?" Sakata asked, "I mean niichan fainted because he felt Senra also fainting so something's definitely wrong with him...."

"Let's go find Shima," Soraru said as he began to walk out of the room, "I don't like this feeling of unease in my chest....a part of me thinks that maybe Shima and Senra aren't together at the moment and that's worrying me."

"What about mom's....." Sakata trailed off as he glanced at his mother's figure before shifting his eyes away.

"Were you just planning on leaving her like this?" Urata questioned as he rose his eyebrow, the raven-haired awkwardly shifted his eyes away.

"I don't think this is the time to start forgetting things Soraru...." Mafu said as the red eyed blonde muttered.

"But he is old so it makes sense."

"Oi."

"So what exactly should our first priority be?" Lon asked as the short brunette crossed his arms.

"Isn't the obvious answer to find someone and tell them? Leaving her like that is just...."

"Obviously that but how can we trust anyone in this castle after witnessing what we saw?" Kuro stated as she waved her hand, "who's to say someone wouldn't try to pin the blame on us?"

"But we're all witnesses and can back up each other's alibi," Mafu pointed out, "I doubt they wouldn't believe the six of us."

"Well then let's go find someone," Lon said as she began to leave the room.

"Wait, wouldn't it be better to have some one watch over," Soraru said, "in case there's more than one person in on this and they try to come back for some reason."

"I'll stay with niichan," Sakata volunteered as he nervously played with the sleeve of his prince outfit, "I'm kinda worried about niichan staying alone."

"Well be careful you two," Kuro said as she followed behind Lon as the two left.

Urata looked at the two princes, a small pitiful expression could be seen in his eyes. They seemed to have gotten over it a bit quickly, but I can tell that they're just trying to hide it....

"Shouldn't you do something?" Mafu whispered as he nudged the short brunette, gesturing his head towards the two males with a small, sad smile.

Urata rose his eyebrow, the albino made a wrapping his arms motion which made the short brunette give him an annoyed look.

The two princes saw that the short brunette seemed hesitant about something, debating a thought in his head before sighing and hugging the two, surprising them.

"E-Eh?"
"Huh?"

"Say anything about this and I'll kill you. That includes you Mafu."

The albino just giggled a bit as he walked out of the room. Sakata then grinned as he hugged the male back while Soraru just playfully rolled his eyes. Urata let go and awkwardly waved goodbye as he left to catch up to the other three.

"You know, it makes sense that he'd be the one to comfort us," Soraru pointed out as the redhead titled his head.

"Eh? Why?"

The raven-haired just stared at him for a while until it sinked in the younger male's head. Sakata glanced down before looking up at the raven-haired with a weak smile.

Let's just hope that Senra and the others are okay...

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A/n

Hope you guys enjoyed the chapter~