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Sakura, Jun and Leilani all arrive at their meeting of an audience with King Hiroaki, completely unaware and unsuspecting of what his majesty really has in mind for the both of them in the long run. Sakura bows at everyone from almost all around the throne room in the castle. Upon finally approaching the king, himself, Sakura and her daughters all bow to his highness and Prince Matt, who is at his father's side in the man's final hours. The king asks his captain of the guard to speak for him before he would say what are only a mere two to four hours away from that of which are King Hiroaki's final words.
Captain Wisemon: Madame Sakura Motomiya. Did you or did you not_ lie through your teeth to his majesty, King Hiroaki Ishida, and use his imperial highness as a form of ammunition to obtain a future of which you are and have always been incredibly undeserving for the past several weeks both before and since our kingdom's masque?
Jun sends Captain Wisemon a look as though she is wondering just that of which the captain of the guard is speaking. Of course, Sakura is quite confused as ever as to what just he means. Leilani, however, knows exactly what the captain of the guard is asking her mother as to the things she had done over the past few months. That is when the king finally chooses to speak to Madame Sakura for himself.
King Hiroaki Ishida: I would suggest that you choose your next words carefully, madame. They may very well be your last.
Sakura suddenly sees that she is on the trial of the royal court instead of hers, Jun's and Leilani's presence at the royal palace being that of a mere royal invitation, as the king apparently seems to no longer trust her. Sakura knows that she has to say something in her own defense. She simply has to make it good enough for the king to believe. She tries to rise up from bowing herself at his highness.
Sakura Motomiya: A woman would do practically anything for the love of her daughter, your majesty.
King Hiroaki looks less than convinced with what Sakura had said about having lied to him through her teeth for the sake of her daughter, Jun.
Sakura Motomiya (continued): Perhaps, I did get a trifle carried away.
That was when Jun up and double-crosses her own mother just to try to convince the king of her own non-existent innocence in the matter of having lied to the king just as much as Sakura had in the past several weeks from just before the occurrence of the masquerade ball.
Jun Motomiya: Mother, what have you done? Your majesty, like you, I am just a victim here. She has lied to us both and I am very much ashamed to call her family.
Leilani only rolls her eyes at her sister's mention of being just another victim in her mother's tangled web of deceit. Not one person from within the room believes a single word from out of Jun's mouth.
Then as if the two of them could not look any worse than they already do in the presence of the king, Sakura actually pushes Jun aside at the very idea of her own daughter trying to sell the woman out to be sentenced to death or worse.
Sakura Motomiya: How dare you turn on me, you little ingrate!
Jun Motomiya: Do you see? Do you see what I have to put up with every single day of my life?
A gunshot is fired at the ceiling from Captain Wisemon's guardsman pistol just so that he may silence the both of them to spare his king the effort of it.
Captain Wisemon: Silence, both of you! Right now! Good God! Are they always like this?
Leilani finally speaks to the royal court and to Sakura and Jun's surprise, it is nothing good about the two of them.
Leilani Motomiya: They aren't always like this, captain. They are actually worse than even this… much, much worse than this, I'm afraid, Captain Wisemon!
With just those two comments about both her and Jun from her other daughter to the kingdom and its present king's most trusted and loyal-to-a-fault captain of the guard in longer than even a millennia of royal guard captains, Sakura suddenly gets the feeling that Leilani had very well been a part of this apparent plan to set her own mother and sister up for such a humiliation.
Sakura Motomiya: Leilani, darling, I'd hate to think that you had anything to do with this humiliating turn of events for both your sister and me.
Leilani denies any such knowledge of King Hiroaki's true intentions for her mother and her sister.
Leilani Motomiya: Absolutely not, my dear mother. I've only come to this event at the royal palace for the food, and nothing else.
Leilani suddenly turns towards the royal physician and his son/apprentice, Joe Kido. They stare at one another slyly, yet longingly. Then, his majesty, King Hiroaki, speaks to Sakura once more for himself.
King Hiroaki Ishida: Madame Motomiya, you are stripped of your power, your hierarchy rank, and your title. And you and your god-awful daughter, Jun, are hereby banished and to be flown to the Isle of the Hated on the first available plane… sooner if my captain of the guard can manage it.
Captain Wisemon sees precisely what his king is suggesting and is willing to go along with it, but feels as though not even death, itself, would be enough of a punishment for the most god-awful mother-daughter duo in the history of his home kingdom. Of course, Grand Duke Myotismon is incomprehensibly on the side of Madame Sakura Motomiya and her horrible and god-awful daughter, Jun, for one reason or another.
Grand Duke Myotismon: I don't think these two women are being given enough of a chance, my liege. Surely, they deserve another chance to earn your trust. I certainly trust them.
The king is not amused with Grand Duke Myotismon's playing around with his throne any longer and has had just about enough of the grand duke's disloyalty to his own king.
King Hiroaki Ishida: You know what, Grand Duke Myotismon? Since you're so keen on these two evil women being shown even one form of mercy, you can just join in their punishment. Captain Wisemon, would you be so kind as to fly the grand duke out of our kingdom and far away from my throne?
Captain Wisemon: Your majesty, I am even more willing to go along with your request to fly this terrible mother-daughter twosome out of the kingdom now that the less-than-loyal excuse for a grand duke that Myotismon has turned out to be is now going to join Sakura and Jun in their joint punishment from his majesty. Of course, my only true issue against it all is that I cannot help but feel as though not even death could make as suitable punishment for this terrible trio, and a flown-out exile to the Isle of the Hated does not feel like it would be enough of a well-deserved punishment. Forgive me for these words, my king, but I wonder if someone else in your throne room may be capable of coming up with a punishment more related to the sins of these three.
As out of line as the king feels his captain of the royal guard has been for the first time in his service to the kingdom, King Hiroaki actually ponders Captain Wisemon's idea of giving Sakura, Jun and the grand duke a different punishment that is far more connected to the transgressions of the three.
King Hiroaki Ishida: Captain Wisemon, I have heard many an idea from my palace staff in my days as both Prince and as King that they have consistently tried to get me to consider even once. I must say, however, Captain Wisemon, that this idea of yours is possibly the craziest, the nastiest, the single most underhanded idea I have ever heard from any of the palace staff. It's just littered with all three of my aforementioned adjectives, that I cannot help but…
The king pauses for a moment or two to add a dramatic effect before speaking once more to his captain of the royal guard about this plan of his to give the trio of pure evil in the center of the room a far more fitting punishment that would be a lot more closely related to their treasons against the crown and the throne.
King Hiroaki Ishida (continued): … love your idea of a more relatable punishment to the transgressions to pieces. It is so perfect, that I don't even know why I didn't think of it before.
Captain Wisemon: Very well then, your highness. Grand Duke Myotismon, Sakura, and Jun Motomiya, you all are to be flown into exile on the Isle of the Hated on the first available plane, sooner if it can be done… that is, unless, by some miraculous twist of all three of your fates, someone in this very hall were to speak up for even just one of you.
Sakura, Jun and the grand duke all wear panicked expressions on all three of their collective faces and look around from all over, desperate to find someone, anyone, who would speak for even just one of them. As Sakura and Jun's bad luck would have it, not even Leilani opens her mouth to speak for them. Grand Duke Myotismon, however, seems to be on his own in the process of finding someone to speak for him against the punishment of being exiled via plane to the Isle of the Hated. As Sakura and Jun become more and more desperate for someone to speak up against them being flown to the Isle of the Hated, the two of them both back away from the throne room in which they both had once believed themselves to be welcome near at the beginning of their arrival at the royal palace. Sakura was the only one to mention the trio's desperation.
Sakura Motomiya: There do seem to be quite a few people out of town.
Suddenly, a voice sounds from behind all three of them.
Voice: I will speak for Madame Sakura and her daughter, Jun.
The entire audience bows at the sounding of the voice from the other end of the throne room. Sakura and Grand Duke Myotismon just turn the other way to look at the face behind the voice. Much to Sakura and her daughter, Jun's, surprise, the voice from behind them and the grand duke belongs to none other than Sora Takenouchi, the girl who had been living as a servant for them in a household that was once her own before they took it over and demoted her from a resident to a servant.
Sora Takenouchi: Sakura is, after all, my own stepmother, and her daughter, Leilani, is my stepsister, as a matter of fact.
Sora approaches her stepfamily and the former grand duke in a queenly gown of purest ruby red. Sakura knows exactly why her stepdaughter, Sora, was suddenly dressed as a royal.
Sakura Motomiya: Your highness.
Sakura bows like a royal subject as she calls her own stepdaughter by such a title, and Prince Matt suddenly speaks from beside the king's throne for the first time during Sakura and her daughters' royal trial under the guise of a visit to the palace.
Prince Yamato 'Matt' Ishida: Jun, I don't believe that you've met… my wife and your new queen-to-be.
While Jun wears what is quite possibly the unhappiest facial expression in her life, Leilani smirks at her sister for having learnt her lesson about hunting the future king's heart as though for sport. Then, Sora speaks to Sakura in a rather silent, raindrop-like voice that only she and the grand duke seem to hear what Sora is saying.
Sora Takenouchi: I just want you to know that I will forget you after this moment and never once think about you again. But you, I am very certain, will think about me every single day for the rest of your natural born life.
Sakura just wants to know one little thing from Sora now that the woman is forced to listen to the girl who is still her stepdaughter.
Sakura Motomiya: How long might that be, your majesty?
Sora turns her face towards the throne upon which her new father-in-law currently sits still clinging onto what remains of his life with the royal physician on standby for when he would enter the end of his life.
Sora Takenouchi: All I ask of you, your majesty, is for you to simply show her the same courtesy of which she has bestowed upon me. And I wish nothing but for the same courtesy to be shown to my stepsister, Jun, and the grand duke, as well.
Grand Duke Myotismon exhales a breath of which he does not even realize he is holding in. He thinks that he and the two ladies which whom he has to share a punishment of some sort are going to get off easily, but he does not know to what Sora is referring when she says for him to join in on Sakura and Jun's 'courtesy treatment'.
