Chapter 1

(Queen Luka, Queen of Momoiro kingdom, is currently sitting at her tea table when she summoned her loyal servant. While her shiny aqua eyes were still glued at the gold teapot in front of her, she spoke to her summoned servant)

-Len, my loyal servant, I, Queen Luka, is feeling distressed when she sees the trash. Will you make that trash "disappear" out of my sight?

"Certainly My Queen… How can Len dispose it for you?"

-Kill the sole heir of the Aoi kingdom, then return here with his head placed in a box and offer that box to me at my 23d birthday party!

(Luka's expression lightens up a bit from a blank state on her face short while ago)

(Luka's face changed to a questioning look as she looked at Len)

-Will you do it for the sake of this kingdom?-

"Yes, I'll do it, your Majesty"

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Long line stretches up to the far end of the castle gates as aspiring performers lined up. Queen Prima, the queen of Aoi Kingdom decides to hold an "audition", thus gather performers all over the country of Aoi as well as performers of Midori kingdom.

Since Queen Prima wants the best performer for her son Kaito's engagement party with Miku, the princess of Midori kingdom, she decided to promise an award for the chosen performer as a official performer of the kingdom as well as a piece of land – a farmland rich in healthy soil and farm animals.

The offers are tempting enough, thus performers came by the thousands. Queen Prima was delighted to see the people gathered. But everything went to chaos when all of them force themselves to enter the inside of the castle, to go see queen Prima personally and perform for her.

This enrages the Queen and she decides to gather the performers outside of castle gates and makes her soldiers organize the line of performers. Each performer was given a number based on who came first. The queen put her throne just in front of the castle door, with her son's throne on her left side and princess Miku's on the right side. After three of them have taken their seats, all of the performers were summoned and gathered at the front of Queen Prima, just leaving a space that would be used as a stage.

Prince Kaito continues to yawn relentlessly ever since the performance started. None of the performers caught his interest, very contradicting to his fiancé's attitude towards them. Miku was delighted with the whole performance but Queen Prima looks at her son instead of Miku. Queen Prima knows that Miku easily appreciate things whether it's an abstract art, a simple street performance, or a small garden that's why Queen Prima doesn't even bother to ask for her approval. But Kaito, her son is different - ever since the start of the audition, Kaito keeps on yawning or resting his cheek at the back of his hand, with a bored expression on his face. Prima halts the performers and asks them to leave immediately as soon as Kaito begins to yawn.

Queen Prima keeps on rejecting performers, as a result, the vast number of performers an hour ago decreased miraculously down to twenty performers. The performers one by one performed in front of the Queen, but all were rejected flatly as none of them attracted Kaito's attention. Queen Prima wants to give up, commands her guards to close the castle gates when suddenly a beautiful girl with golden locks that fell past just above her shoulders, with messy bangs that goes at random direction that matches her hair and a pair of shimmering emerald eyes.

She is wearing a light peach Lolita dress adorned with ruffles and laces at the bottom seam of her dress, carrying a medium-sized harp with her as she approaches the castle gates at a fast pace. Queen Prima commands to stop closing the gates as she notices the said girl, lets her enter the castle. The girl slowed down her pace as she noticed that the gates are re-opening. She then went inside, and placed herself at the "stage". The girl bowed down lightly and spoke:

"Your majesty, forgive me for being late"

"So what is your name, young lady?"

"It's Len Kagamine, Your Majesty, a gypsy who overheard the conversation with regards to the gathering of performers in your land."

Princess Miku taps the Queen's right hand and began to whisper closer to the Queen's ear the moment Princess Miku successfully taken the Queen's attention.

"My Queen Prima, this would be dangerous! That gypsy in front of us is an outsider of this kingdom! We can not be sure about her ulterior motives towards the kingdom my Queen!"

Kaito overhears Prima and Miku's conversation, thus replied in low voice, almost like a whisper.

"Miku, nothing would ever happened to this kingdom, you're just being paranoid. Besides that girl is alone, and is bringing nothing but a harp so what can she possibly do? Besides she was surrounded by castle guards so she can't harm us."

"My son Kaito has a point. So Princess Miku, just relax…and let's see what she can do."

Queen Prima returns her gaze to the girl in front of her, and instructs her to perform.

Len Kagamine, dressed up as a girl, sits at the nearby stone and began playing his harp. After a short interlude, he began to sing with his harp playing.

"A chest – piercing pain"

"Dripping from the point of a sword"

"Harboring only warmth"

"Countless voices were lost"

Kaito, The Prince who was seated at the left side of Queen Prima stopped his yawning, and his eyes glued to a gypsy in front of him. Her voice just captivated his attention, and her music blended well with it. Her hair and the bottom end of her gown just flow gently with the wind, which in the Prince's opinion made the gypsy a goddess. As Len continues to play "her" music, Kaito's aqua eyes sparkle, and red streaks on his cheeks began to form. Queen Prima has taken this as nothing but "her son likes the gypsy's music." But Kaito think differently – he's falling in love with the gypsy right in front of them with an angelic voice and goddess – like beauty.

When Len finished up his performance, Queen Prima announced that Len would be the official performer of Aoi kingdom.

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Kaito's POV

My mother, the Queen has dragged me again to one of her crazy antics – and that is to force me to marry my childhood friend, Miku. Honestly, I'm a kind of person who's not interested in ruling a kingdom, or to marry a princess. Don't get me wrong, I find Miku attractive – but she's not who I wanted to be with, as she was like a younger sister to me. I and Miku have been childhood friends, and she loves it when I play viola at the balcony of her room, and she will listen intently at me while sitting on her favorite golden chair, at the far end of the balcony. I love it when Miku hugs me and gives me praises right after my performance. But I never dreamed of spending the rest of my life with her, yet my mother has other ideas.

For the bond between Aoi and Midori kingdom to grow stronger, the king of Midori kingdom and my Mother decided to plan an arranged marriage. I the only son of Queen Prima will have to marry the only daughter of King Al, King of Midori kingdom, as stipulated to the agreement without my consent. Miku says she's okay with it but I refuse. I prefer to marry someone I chose to be with; and besides, I was only twenty and Miku was sixteen, so I assume that both of us still haven't fully grasp the concept of marriage, maybe Miku thinks that marriage is just any other political schemes her Father engaged himself with. But me, I see marriage as a "life-long commitment with someone", and politics should stay out of it.

After I reached the age of twenty-two and Miku reached the age of eighteen, my mother decides to announce the wedding in public during my birthday, at around nine in the morning ringing the huge bell clock to gather her citizens, proclaiming that the wedding will be held six months after my birthday, which is happening right now, February 17. I felt a huge disappointment on that day and wished that time would just stop. Ironically, Miku was happy when the wedding was announced, much to my disappointment.

Just right after the public announcement, my mother arranged an "audition" for the performers who will perform on "my wedding" the whole morning until three in the afternoon. (And I almost choked on that thought). The audition was announced rather quickly and the audition was announced without putting much thought about it, but my mother was still happy at the result – as it turns out that many complied with the announcement, causing chaos to the kingdom. That sight is kind of comical to me, too bad it was short-lived.

The performers begins to do their stunts the moment my mother instructed them to. So far, none of them caught even the slightest of my attention, as most of them were nothing but standard performers and performances like what they are showing can be seen on the streets. I want to see something different, but too bad all of them were just the same in my eyes. I didn't even realized that thousands of hopeful performers left the castle after series of failed attempts to get my attention – until I spotted a blond girl wearing a Lolita dress that blends well with her features, and carries a medium-sized wooden harp as she approaches the castle gates in a fast pace. As I set my eyes onto that girl, I know that I found someone who I wanted to be with.