This is just a preview of one of the chapters I'm planning to do as the story is officially on pause until the prequels are finished. Yes, this is actually a chapter but a preview and you won't know much about it since I haven't thought of names here.

Melior, Capital of the Crimean Empire

"Is there anyone want to confess? Once you step out, you should be treated fairly and with mercy. Otherwise, I will kill people." Pelleas Imperius words even hit the young Emperor Ramone who tensed up at the thought and the entire court just shakes in fear.

Pelleas can see this and decided to do something that he can lure them, "Good then. Invite Empress Julia!"

Pelleas soldiers nodded and dozens of them intrude the palace, killing servants after servants that stood in their way that the captain of his troops grabbed the pregnant Empress Julia by the head and even up the stairs that even make her belly ache in pain.

"Your majesty!" the soldiers dragged her as blood started was staining the path while she was pulled. After seeing her dead father on the ground, she cried, "Father!"

She was presented in front of Pelleas with her thrown to the stone ground as she pleaded, "Your Majesty."

Emperor Ramone Rindell eyes widen as he stood from his throne, "Prime Minister!"

Pelleas turns to Ramone as Julia cries out, "Save me."

"Prime Minister," Ramone voice weakens and stutters as he walks towards Pelleas with his finger pointing at Julia, "You should spare her life. She's carrying my child. It's after all the blood of my ancestors."

The entire court are disgusted by the action by Pelleas that even they wanted to speak out but couldn't as Pelleas reply, "Your majesty, do you remember? Back to the days, who was the first to raise up and save you from the huge rebellion? Who saved you from the grips of two factions tearing the entire Crimean court apart?"

Weakly, Ramone replies, "You did."

Pelleas sighs and pulled a blade out, causing Ramone to fall back, stuttering and shrink at the sight of the blade which Pelleas place it on the ground in front of Ramone. Pelleas kneels and explains, "Your majesty, this blade killed tens of thousand rebels in order to save you from being thrown out and even save the Crimean people! I risked my own life and the people under me to save you and now you call me a rebel that you have to allow some plot to kill me. So..."

Pelleas bows his head to the ground while on his knees while Dryce Imperius was watching for Pelleas states, "Take up the blade and kill me."

Ramone stood up and replies, "You misunderstood me. Prime Minister, the empress's father did those things outside the palace. I know nothing about it. Please don't wrong me on this."

Annoyed by this attempt to talk it over and Pelleas rose his head and yells, "You are the emperor! I'm just your servant! Only a servant can be wrong. The Emperor should always be right!"

Pelleas watches Ramone face as Ramone looks completely clueless and absent-minded as Pelleas brings the pressure, "Take up this blade!"

Ramone shook his head which absolutely annoys Pelleas as he yells with his all, "Take up this BLADE!"

Stuttering, Ramone slowly went for the blade that Pelleas place in front of him and pick it up. With everyone watching, he feared many things such as Pelleas' eldest son Dryce Pelleas was eyeing him then he looks back to see one of Pelleas' commanders watching him with a tight grip of his halberd. With that stare from the two, he yelped and drop the blade that Pelleas allowed him to pick up, disappointing everyone including Pelleas as he shook his head.

Pelleas stood up and then mock the emperor Ramone, "All my years, I seen Queen Elincia hired a bunch of mercenaries of a famous General, and eventually got aid from both the Kingdom of Gallia and the Begnion Empire to win against Daein and became a renowned princess. Geoffrey, the husband of Queen Elincia, help pushed Begnion out of Crimea and seize Crimea away from Begnion. Heroes like them have an heir that can't even do the simplest thing to pick up a blade to execute justice."

Pelleas laughed, "Anyone wants to stand up to it?"

No reply from the courtiers and the nobility as Pelleas sighs, "Fine then. We should begin with the daughter of a guilty servant."

With this, it alerts the entire audience, Empress Julia, and even Emperor Ramone that Pelleas captain command his men, "Give me a rope."

Emperor Ramone kneels and grabs Pelleas by the leg and plea, "Prime Minister, please!"

Pelleas looks down and comforts the emperor with a soft tone, "Your majesty."

"She didn't know anything." the emperor continues to plea for her.

"Your majesty!" Empress Julia cries out before a piece of cloth wraps around her neck.

"Don't do this, Prime Minister." Ramone cries as Pelleas gently place him back to the throne as Pelleas counters that he only wants to know who conspire with the Empress father.

Shaking out of fear and the life-sucking out of his wife's body with his child, he cried out, "I don't know anything Prime Minister! Empress Julia knew nothing. Her father did this all himself."

Pelleas was getting annoyed with this attempt as he already knew the Emperor was also in the plot but too scared to talk to Pelleas about it or too timid to control Pelleas. The conflict between Pelleas and the Royal House Rindell had been at its deadliest as Empress Julia held out with the cloth around her neck tightens that even the courtiers and nobles couldn't ignore.

"Stop!" Pelleas looked over the crowd of nobles as one noble step out with anger rising out of the entire Crimean nobility, "Emperor and Empress are like kings and you are servants. Pelleas Imperius, how can you kill a king as a servant?"

Another noble step out, "The Empress carries the blood of House Rindell!"

"Pelleas Imperius," another noble step out, "you are going to kill the heir of the Crimean Empire! You are plotting treason now!"

Pelleas watches the entire crowd of nobles rise up in anger as 'treason' came up as they have forgotten that he, too, married an adoptive sister to House Rindell even his older brother wanted him to marry Elincia, the great grandmother of the current ruler.

He was warned that if he was going to take over, he would be considering hearing treason from the nobility. He watches another noble come out of the crowd with his fingers pointing at him, angry as a bull and accusingly, "Pelleas Imperius! What you are doing is no different from the actions of your father, Mad King Ashnard Imperius of Daein, when he almost killed the entire Crimean Royal Family in the night!"

"Kingslayer servant!"

"You Daeinite thief, usurper of Crimea!"

"False Prime Minister! Are you in league with your brothers? Daeinite Emperor Soren Imperius or Begnion Emperor Lancelot Imperius?!"

"Traitor to Crimea! Are you taking vengeance over your father's death by eradicating the entire House Rindell bloodline?!"