Ojou No Tame Ni
A/N: Okay, this is very based on Kagamine Len's Servant of Evil. It really caught me so I decided that to make a fic about it. The events were based on the PV found on Nico Nico Douga (the second PV, I think…). I just made new names for them and some story parts were made up to fit the events which happened on the video.
Disclaimer: I don't own the song and the characters, even if I just renamed them. Well, the OCs are mine though.
Prologue
An hour after the daily noon prayer, marked by the tolling of the great golden bell, they took me out in the open at the Central Plaza where the heat was at its peak and the wind at its calmest. The yellow dress that I wore looked brighter as the rays hit it. Even the contrast between the gown itself and the black roses adorned at the foot of the gown became more evident in the open. My eyes slightly squinted as it adjusted to the sudden brightness. Prisons aren't really filled with the right amount of light.
As I walked on, with four men—two in closely in front and two behind—I could hear all their jeers and angry shouts at me. Some even took the great freedom of trying to hit me with either rotten vegetables or random things…like rocks, without much thought on its size. But the four men all clad in their protective metal armors and armed with swords for certain purposes stopped them in their outrage. There was no need to be physical, one said. Right, at a time like this, injuring me was just a small bonus.
Why was I here? How did I ended up here?
Ah…right, it was to save her…
Ojousama…
My sister…
Death doesn't really matter as long as it was for her sake.
Though there was this outrage among the people, the way to the place was clear. On the moderately wide streets, an aisle was made at the center and the people crowded themselves at the sides. Making a glance at them, I noted anger and resentment on their faces combined with a hint of sinister happiness. Clearly, I have been doing a good job. They still haven't noticed. I must carry on this task without fail. My lady's future and life is at stake.
In spite of the noise that the people made, and the clanging of the metal armors, the town itself was silent. No birds were singing or flying on such a wonderful afternoon. No cat or dog or any animal could be seen. Our Yellow Kingdom used to be a good place where people and nature merge in harmony. The eerie silence was deafening and the houses looked taller, more towering. As if they could inch forward instantly and crush me. The fairytale thought dispersed as the big wooden thing dawned my eyes. I was nearing the plaza. There, I thought, I would be carrying out my finest and most important task of all.
It was huge, the wooden thing, but still it was raised on a platform, like a stage, so that everyone would see the judgment. With two more hours left, I told myself. Just two more hours. Normally, someone in my position would be dead meat nervous by now, with his hear pumping so hard that it seemed like it could break out his chest.
But I didn't felt any of those. My heartbeat was normal, even my breathing. My mind was, almost, at peace. Maybe because I did this, chose this, out of pure free will, realizing well the grave consequences. I can't really remember well when I did that but that didn't matter now. Nothing, except My Lady's life, really mattered now. Even Death itself appealed to me.
My Lady…ever since I knew her, my life revolved on serving her with utmost loyalty. In spite of the things she has done, still, to me, she was a girl. A young woman with a misled heat. She was being used for the evil sought and deeds of the people that surrounded her. Her weakness and innocence was continuously used. If only I was in such a position to reveal to My Lady all of these…but I, in her knowledge, is just a servant of the palace. She was well brainwashed by those greedy people.
And because of that, the townspeople began to plant seeds of grudge against her. How pitiful! If they could only see her behind all these…if they could only know and see her not as the evil and selfish princess but as a girl with the most innocent sounding laugh and looking smile, then, they could have hesitated giving those accusations against her. But I know very well that people blinded by such ideas would not see the light of truth.
Softly as the winds may blow their gentlest, the sounds around me vanished as I started to recount to myself my life, who I really am and what I should have been. It was just a faint memory, my childhood days, but its faintness was rather vivid. If I thought more, I could even still feel everything back then.
Ah…that day…it was like yesterday…
