Kira~

What a beautiful name. But that wasn't the original name or should we call the given name of the first princess of the northern empire.

"Princess Kyrana, his highness, prince Adira is asking for you." the lady dressed in maid uniform with the hair tied in a bun told that black-haired princess from the other side of the door.

Upon hearing that, that princess quickly put on the dress just to go and see her older brother, the first prince of the northern empire.

"Hmm...hmmm..." a sound of begging with the lip being sealed with a chain echoed silently in the room of that princess, the dark and gloomy room with not a single light shone into. Blood was dripping from that man who was tied to the chain on the bed into the cup.

Kyrana who was only half the size of that man looked cold and indifferently staring at the blood dripping one by one on the surface of the blood inside that golden cup.

"What do you want??" she took off that chain from that man's lip, just after a second she did that, he immediately jumped on her and bit her neck till it bleed, and yet that four or five years old princess didn't even let a slight of pain shown to that man and immediately stabbed him in the neck.

"You imbecile...now I have to get dressed all over again." that was how the royalty lived when all the empires haven't agreed to peace yet.

That man was only one spy among hundreds who was sent to kill the leader of the northern empire.

Kyrana dropped the blade to the floor and walked out of her chamber after wiping off all the blood from her blood and hands.

"Greeting, your highness." she grabbed her dress and bowed down to the man with white hair, his white hair wasn't even noticeable anymore with all the blood of those spies which splattered upon it and his cold face.

"You should have killed those immediately...why did you keep one to torture?"

"Me? Keeping one?"

"It'd better be one, if I ever find you helping the spy...you'll know what happen, right?" the princess smiled tossing her hair to her back and deciding to take out the corpse of all of those spies who her brother killed to her experiment room.

"Kyrana...let's visit his majesty this afternoon."

Kyrana dropped the corpse from her hand in disbelief hearing her tyrant brother suggesting something utterly ridiculous like that.

"I'm busy...and I don't really want to meet all of his one thousand concubines."

"It's actually two thousand. Anyway, we'll need him to sit on the throne since those royalties from the south will come to our empire soon."

"You mean those muscle brains?? Hahaha, I wonder what it feels like to kill them..."

"We need to seek peace with them, don't go overbound." the brother smirked walking up the stair to the throne caressing the cold throne which one day he would be able to sit on.

"You should tell yourself that, anyway...it's the day, right??"

"Let's just do it at night today."

"Suit yourself...but it would be difficult if those bastards already prepare themselves..."

"You worry too much...and don't you know...blood is thicker than water..." the brother giggled staring from the glass window of the throne room to those brats who knew nothing about greed or ambition just playing all day under the beautiful sun and listen to their mother, the concubines singing their lullaby to them under the pretty moon.

If her older brother is the tyrant, then she is none other than the witch standing behind him to kill all of his enemies...except only one person.

"Here's your food." Kyrana tosses the bag of cookies into the hole in the wall, a chewing and crunching sound was heard along with the scream of the human she tortured inside that room.

Only that person behind that old wall was able to escape from her killing intent, they only lived for two whole years because of her curiosity.

"I'm all treated now, I can get out tonight." the sound of the young man came from that hole, he kept murmuring even though he knew he would never get any response from the princess.

The princess was quite disturbed by him and opened that wall using the secret lever behind the bookshelves.

"I wonder how you were chosen as a spy, you brat."

"I'm clearly older than you."

"If I can get you out of here, I wouldn't keep you here for two years...your fate was already sealed when you came to our empire." her eyes glared at that man sitting on his knee with the blindfold covering his eyes.

"I don't believe in such thing as fate, as long as we--"

"Urgh, I heard that more than a hundred times. Just stop already. Working hard??? What's that? In my life, there's always the one who killed, and one who died."

"Your life is just weird." she stepped on his thigh when he muttered that jokingly at her. That brown-haired young teenager who appeared plain and ordinary was the first one who almost killed her, he didn't show any killing intent at all when he ran at her with his dagger.

"I won't be able to keep you here anymore, tomorrow, there will be people entering our empire, so when they come back, you will disguise yourself as a knight and leave with them."

"You won't miss me, right?"

"I wish you just disappear already." she closed the wall and left her experiment room. She flinched with her heart almost jumped out of her chest when her older brother leaned his back against the wall of the exit.

"You seem to smile every time you leave the room, is there someone in there?"

"I just enjoy torturing people, that's all."historical

"Hmm..."

"Since when am I that untrustworthy??? YOU seem to be very suspicious of me now and then."

"Yeah, after all...you never even trust me one bit even if I was born from the same womb as you."

"I trust you, prince Adira!!! There was never one time I ever doubted you." she said with a serious tone to that prince staring deeply into his eyes.

"Now, now...I was only kidding."

"You shouldn't play around too much." she was relieved as her counterattack was working when seeing him giggling like that, but she became nervous again when seeing him clenching his fist tightly hidden behind his back as he smiled at her.

"I only have you, little sister...as long as you're here with me, I can do anything. It's just too hard for me if you ever betray me one day."

"I won't. I will help you till you sit on that throne, and till that man dies..." both of the siblings glared at the warming and bright eldest brother of all of the children of the concubines of the emperor. The one and the only prince who received a lot of attention and love from the citizen and was even called the dragon's child, prince Ember.

"Kyrana, Adira!!!" that foolish prince didn't realize who he was smiling at, the stupid prince who was born from the empress's womb was waving his hand smiling warmly and cheerfully at the two siblings who only knew the word kill. He should only love the other younger sibling, but that prince kept loving his siblings without knowing the definition of the throne yet even though he was the one who saw the blue sky first.

"Your royal highness~" they put on a smile naturally bowing down to the eldest brother. Their brother hugged them tightly with love and patted the princess's head making a mess than even patted the shoulder of the tyrant prince too.

"Are you learning about animals again, my little sister?" to hum, the torture room, the room with the suffering of the spies was only the animal room for him as he will never be able to know the truth behind that door just like everyone else except Kyrana and Adira.

"Yes, they are so cute...your royal highness."

"Oh come on~just call me brother~" that stupid prince chuckled without a care even though the prince in front of him was clenching his hands so hard behind his back.

Kyrana glanced at the hand of her brother, and grabbed it holding it to calm him down as they came so far and they can't blow their cover.

"Brother~by the way, how is her highness, the empress?"

"She...is sick." of course, Kyrana knew, she only asked since she found it enjoyable to look at those puppy eyes full of the suffering of the crown prince when she was the one who poisoned the empress.

"I wish for her to get better soon, big brother." Prince Adira muttered to the crown prince with sympathetic eyes

"Every disease has its cure, so don't worry. You're both so adorable..." he hugged them again since, in his eyes, he only saw them as the younger kid who worried about him.

They waved the crown prince as the crown prince needed to do the state affair. Kyrana brushed off the cologne of the crown prince from her dress and her older brother took off his jacket throwing it away with only two hugs from their only enemy.

"Poor him...the cure only heal people but if we poison her every day, which cure will be able to save her life?"

"I really look forward to seeing that man crying."

"Me too." and that was only the beginning of how three hundred of the emperor's children were reduced to one.

To be continued....!