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Yuno soon went back to her room emotionally drained. After comforting Hana and watched her fall asleep, she had finally headed back. But there was something telling her at the back of her mind that she needed to tell Jin about this so she halted in her tracks and Sendo glanced at her curiously.

"Your highness?"

Yuno sighed and headed down to the throne room instead. "Come on. I have something I need to talk to Jin."

When she entered the throne room, all eyes were on her with Sir Kamiya at the front and Jin with an irritated look on his face.

"Ah, your highness." Sir Kamiya bowed at her with false respect. "I was just saying to the king that you are too kind on that slave when she is only a tool to be used and discarded when its usefulness is gone."

Jin visibly tensed at that as Yuno's fist trembled. "And what about it? I treat those under me the way I want to. It has nothing to do with you."

"But the people are already expecting her to be treated as any slave should. We will be ruin those expectations if she remains under you." Sir Kamiya said with a haughty smile.

"That is one expectation I would willingly destroy." Yuno glared at him and turned to Jin. "Your highness, you told me that once Hana is under me, it is entirely up to me to see fit as to how I should treat her. Are you going to stand for this so-called knight to slight me?"

"No, I won't." Jin said with narrowed eyes, clearly irritated with what Sir Kamiya is saying. "Sir Kamiya, I recommend that you apologize to Queen Yuno or the consequences will be server."

"But I only answer to Yoshimitsu Kaidou. If you want me to apologize to her, I will only do so if he tells me to." Sir Kamiya smirked.

Everyone watched with baited breath as Jin took a few deep breaths. Much to everyone's surprise, he spoke calmly. "Fine then. If that's the case, then I will make a deal with you. If you can catch the so-called princess who visited us yesterday. If you can personally bring her here, then I will overlook your crime. But if you don't by the end of three days, you will pay the price with your life."

Tougorou Kamiya's mouth dropped open at the proposal. "Wait, your highness, there's no need to give him such a…"

"Alright, I accept."

"What?!" Tougorou spluttered. "Son, do think about how dangerous this is…"

"Don't worry, daddy. I'll bring her back." Sir Kamiya smirked.

"Then why don't you start from here?"

Everyone spun to the entrance as Mia smirked and placed a hand on her hips. "Since I have not stepped into the throne room, you can take this chance to bring me in before I step on foot inside."

"How did you get there?" Jin ask as he stood up.

"I came here through the same way I did yesterday to deliver a message to you from my mother…but that can wait." Mia said nonchalantly. Yuno observed her with interest. There was no spite or malice in her words but only playfulness.

'This is certainly one weird princess.' She thought to herself.

"Very well then." Jin cleared his throat. "Sir Kamiya, since she's offering you a chance to capture her, I suggest that you make most of it."

"But of course." Sir Kamiya smirked and drew out his sword. With a yell, he ran at her, brandishing his sword. Mia let out a breath and her eyes became sharp. With a flick of her wrist, one of her short swords flew out of its hiding spot in her skirt and parried his blow. She drew back her open palm and knocked away his sword before planting a kick straight at his head, sending him flying a few meters back. Sir Kamiya pushed himself up and glared at her.

"I'm still waiting." Mia grinned as she folded her arms and pretended to wait.

Sir Kamiya growled and lunged at her, raising his fists with the intention of punching her. But Mia blocked each punch and slammed her open palm on his heart just like how she did on the soldier the day before.

"Kyosuke!" Tougorou Kamiya squealed as he dropped down beside his son and rolled him to the side. Sir Kamiya grunted and spit out blood while glaring at Mia.

"I hope you don't underestimate me again." Mia said coldly to him before stepping into the throne room. "Since I am done with him, care to get down to business?"

Jin snapped his head at her and quietly nodded. "But of course. What is it that you want this time?"

Mia flicked her wrist and her sword flew back into her skirt. She reached into one of her sleeves and took out a scroll. "My mother asked me to give this to you." She tossed it at him and he caught it deftly. "Make no mistake. I'm just a messenger carrying out my mother's orders. If you want to know why, just surrender the Jade Crown before it is too late and you will never hear from me again."

She bowed and took her leave. Jin watched the door for a few minutes and gestured for Yuno to follow him. "The court is dismissed for the rest of the day. Get Sir Kamiya to the infirmary."

As soon as they got back into their room, Jin broke the seal on the scroll and opened it, reading it together with Yuno.

"The princess' mother wants me to meet her next week?" He frowned. "And I should bring only two of my trusted people if I want to know where Muraku is."

"So what are you going to do?" Yuno said worriedly.

"I should go and see what this is about." Jin said grimly. "Also, she's giving me a chance to let me know Muraku's whereabouts as well as her history with my grandfather."

"But for what? He's your brother, isn't he? And you promised him that you won't find him but you broke it when you sent Sir Kamiya to capture him." Yuno pointed out.

"I know." Jin groaned as he ran his hand down his face. "But on another hand, this would be the perfect opportunity to find out what happened between her and grandfather or I won't be able to look at him the way I did before."

"Alright, I understand that. But who are you bringing with you?"

"Isn't it obvious? You and Hana are my most trusted people." Jin shrugged. "But you don't have to come if you don't want to."

"If that's the case, we'll go with you." Yuno promised him. "But before that, you need to talk to Hana. She's badly shaken up by what Sir Kamiya did to her."

"I will. But ironically, I'm thankful to Princess Mia for indirectly teaching him a lesson." Jin chuckled. "I doubt that he would even be able to catch her in three days. After that, I'll throw him into the dungeons for as long as I can."

"Normally I would be opposed to this but he was not only disrespectful to me, but to you too." Yuno giggled. "But for now, you should worry more about Hana. Take some time off to see her and let her know about this."

"I will." Jin nodded and headed out of the room. Once he was gone, Yuno's smile dropped and she sat down on the bed.

"I really hope that Sir Kaimya will be put behind bars. But if Jin really does that, then our chances of exposing his grandfather will be gone." Yuno said to herself. "I might as well find another way to prove to Jin that his grandfather is trying to get rid of me."

She got up and paced around her room in deep thought when an idea occurred to her. 'Jin may be angry at me for this, but I can only look to Aidara for help. They are my only hope to break Jin away from Yoshimitsu Kaidou's influence and if possible, give back the Jade Crown, whatever it is, to Princess Mia and her mother before things get out of hand.'

"Hana, open up." Jin knocked on her door. He waited for a moment and Hana peaked out. She frowned when she saw him and was about to slam the door shut. But Jin stopped her by pushing his weight on the door. "Hana, I'm sorry I did not step in to stop Sir Kamiya from harassing you. But if he found out about what happened between us five years ago, he will definitely tell grandfather about it and he will kill you."

But this made Hana even angrier and pushed harder to close the door. Eventually, Jin managed to push open the door wide enough for him to slip in. Once inside, he quickly locked the door and turned to Hana who refused to look at him. "Hana, would you please believe me? I really want to keep you safe."

Hana turned her head sharply at him and grabbed her writing pad. "Even if it meant that he might take further advantage of me?"

"Don't be silly. I would definitely step in if he even thought of that." Jin growled.

"Is retaining your position as king more important then?"

"No, you are. But you have to understand that even if my grandfather is in coma now, the moment he wakes up, Sir Kamiya will be too happy to expose our relationship and he will kill you." Jin tried to explain.

"Past relationship." Hana corrected him. "I no longer saw myself as your lover the moment you tried to use me to get Aidara's hideout's whereabouts. I told you before, the Jin that I fell in love with is the one who knows that he is not a puppet and will not allow himself to be corrupted by others."

"Then what do you want me to do before you'll forgive me!?" Jin shouted in frustration.

"Let go of your hate and anger in your heart and again, prove to me that the Jin I fell in love with is still there. Otherwise, you will continue to stay under your grandfather's influence." Hana simply wrote. "Yuno and I really hope that you will break away from him and see the wrongs of your actions. Otherwise, you can never forgive yourself if you ever regret it in the future."

Jin could only stare at the paper and clenched his jaw. "Fine then." He turned away and rested his head on the door. "The princess from Lambary came again. She wants me to bring two of the people I trust the most to meet her mother. I want answers as to what is her history with my grandfather. So I'm going to meet her. I already talked with Yuno and she already agreed to go with me. If you want, you can come too."

With that, he unlocked the door and left the room. Once he was gone, Hana sat down on the bed, filled with disappointment. 'Not even I can convince him to stop. I guess that it will take a huge blow for him to understand. But I really hope that it does not have to come to that. On the other hand, there's more to Lambary than what meets the eye. What could be so terrifying about them that even Yoshimitsu Kaidou is afraid of them?'

So yeah...Hana and Jin's relationship is still very rocky. One moment it's fine, another moment it's tense. The hate-love thing is still there by the way.