Years.

It had been 5 years since that wimp of a Maou proposed to him.

It had also been 4 years 3 months 2 weeks and 4 days since Wolfram found out he was in love with said wimp.

But it didn't really matter anyway because Yuuri didn't feel the same way.

Or if he did he never showed it.

At first Wolfram believed the double black merely needed time to adjust to this new world.

That idea faded after he had been there for over a year.

The blonde then believed that Yuuri was secretly in love with someone else in the castle.

Needless to say all hell broke loose and Wolfram became a little bit too possessive.

After that came theory after theory after theory on why his fiancé wouldn't love him but in the end there was only one answer.

And that answer broke the blonde's heart.

The Maou wanted a girl.

Simple as that.

He wanted boobed girl with mood swings and the ability to give birth not a flat chested bossy spoiled prince who would do anything for him.

Of course the prince never expressed his heartbreak with anyone; though, Greta saw through his façade and was at his side when needed.

It still hurt even with his adopted daughter's support and Wolfram continued to always be beside his clueless lover.

His attitude never seemed to change even if his feelings for the double black were locked in a small box never to be expressed.

That box stayed locked for nearly a year until the faithful day that Anissina decided to create the world's first maryoku powered key finder.

Doesn't sound dangerous, right?

Wrong.

Well, no one knew that until the first time it was tested.

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For once the castle wasn't plagued with the sounds of backfiring inventions or the tortured screams of Gwendal, for the inventor was busy working on her newest contraption which she called: The-Finder-Of-All-Locket-Objects-Unlockers-kun a.k.a. the Key Finder.

Upon the announcement of the new invention, people had been arriving in Shin Makoku for months bringing odd looking containers to be opened.

There was even a coffin that someone brought but no one asked any questions.

Every maryoku wielding person in the Blood Pledge Castle was avoiding Anissina in fear of being used as a guinea pig to power this new horror.

Wolfram was one of those hiding and he was currently taking refuge in one of the last places anyone would look to find him: the kitchen.

Surprisingly, to the maids, the blonde had offered to help out with the food preparations for the present guests.

Of course no one was going to argue so there he was knee deep in dough, baking tomorrow's bread.

Oddly it was extremely relaxing to the blonde and he focused all of his energy into the task.

Wolfram had been baking for over 12 hours strait when, unfortunately, a certain noble found him.

Chuckling evilly to herself the woman took out her 'special' whip and wound it around her son ignoring his struggles and cries.

The former Maou then strutted out of the room dragging along her youngest child.

Once they had reached their destination she released Wolfram, opened the door grandly, and shoved him inside; revealing the other previously captured occupants.

There looking trapped were Yuuri, Greta, Gwendal, Günter, Conrart, Murata, and (of course) Anissina who was rather thrilled.

Also occupying the room was a giant machine that looked like a 14th century guillotine armed with a computer and lasers.

Very disturbed, the flour covered prince took refuge behind his daughter in an attempt to not be beheaded and/or physically assaulted by his mother.

Looking astronomically pleased Anissina paraded around babbling on about her new invention.

Naturally the blonde spaced out, ignoring the woman's words; well that was until he saw Murata and Günter being strapped into electric shock chairs.

Now he was curious, poor saps.

Pushing multiple buttons the crazy lady ran around calling out to the crowd gathered on in the courtyard below.

Peering down the prince realized that everyone had their 'boxes' ready.

Maryoku flied wildly in the room as the machine drained it from its two suppliers.

Yuuri yelled that the whole thing was crazy but no one seemed to acknowledge their king's word, all of them being too enthralled by the now humming machine.

Dramatically the woman pulled down the handle.

…

For a few milliseconds nothing happened… then Wolfram's world came tumbling down.

There was no noise.

There was no shining light.

There was no feeling.

The world just seemed to end as the key to the forbidden box, 'Hellfire in Frozen Land', was ripped violently from his body causing him to crumple to the ground;

... dead once more.

Muahhahahahahahhahahahah~!

I have found that it is exstreamly fun to kill off Wolfram.

I know I'm a horrible person *shrugs* but you'll just have to see what happens in the next chapter!

Thank you for reading and I own nothing...