A pair of slender, tanned hands placed themselves onto the huge wooden door and forced them open due to frustration. Ebony eyes scanned across the room and focused themselves towards the empty desk. No piles of paper were to be seen and the desk was as neat as it was the day before.

The 27th Demon King rubbed the surface of the table gently before slumping himself onto his chair. He messed up his dark strands of hair vigorously and stood up from his chair. Yuuri turned, took a look at the deserted courtyard from the window behind him and turned his eyes back towards the desk. The youth felt lost, confused and angry all at once. Those negative emotions could no longer contain themselves inside its subtle vessel and it began to overflow out of the young King.

"The castle is deserted; no work for me to be done today and almost everyone here is trying to avoid me. Just what is going on here? Damn!", Yuuri yelled and slammed the desk with great force that it frightened the bearbee which was tailing Yuuri behind him.

Yuuri messed up his hair once again, slumped back onto his chair and sighed.

"What's the point of having a King if he isn't allowed to do anything?" Yuuri screamed with the feeling of uselessness within him and banged his head onto his desk.

"Nogisu…" The bearbee whined with a hint of sadness, as if trying to console its King.

Yuuri stayed at that very position for a few minutes until he heard footsteps approaching his office. Without thinking, Yuuri yelled in anger towards the visitor.

"There is no need to see me when there is no point of me doing anything at all! So don't you dare come in?"

"What are you blabbering about?"

A familiar yet an unexpected voice made Yuuri lift his head up in flash. There stood a blonde, his hair shone even brighter due to the sunlight beaming from the window. His pale right hand rested on his slender yet masculine built which Yuuri had always admired but sometimes, envious about. There stood his accidental fiancé, Wolfram Von Bielefeld.

"Wolfram? What are you doing here?" Yuuri asked a minute after staring at Wolfram with bewilderment. Wolfram's right eyebrow rose with annoyance.

"Why can't I be here? Don't I usually check on you to make sure that you are not slacking off from work?" Wolfram replied as he walked towards the desk.

"But I thought you were ignoring me?" Yuuri exclaimed as he stood up.

"Why would I do that with no apparent reason?"

"You… Well, I thought you didn't want to talk about what happened last night."

"Don't be ridiculous, I'm not a woman. I ran out of the baths because I did not realize my wounds were reopened. I did not attend dinner because I unexpectedly fell asleep."

Yuuri fell silent and sighed with relief, but his frustration returned when he realized that Wolfram hadn't told him what was going on in their country.

"By the way, have you seen Gisela? I've been looking for her since this morning and strangely, the castle's awfully…"Wolfram was interrupted by an angry sentence from Yuuri.

"Awfully what? Quiet? Deserted?"

Wolfram blinked in surprise as he saw Yuuri hopping mad without a known reason but he replied,

"Yeah. What's wrong with you today? You're looking grumpy." With that sentence, Wolfram gave Yuuri a mischievous smirk.

"How do you expect me to react then? Act as if nothing is going on and everything's fine like you?" Yuuri slammed his desk as he stood up in rage and bored his ablaze eyes towards Wolfram.

"What? Who the hell are you to accuse me of what I'm…" Wolfram stopped yelling when he realized that Yuuri does have the right and Wolfram was disrespecting the King. Wolfram continued in a more softer and uninterested tone,

"I'm sorry Your Majesy. You may think whatever you like." Wolfram closed his eyes and turned his head away from his King.

"Don't call me that!" Yuuri ran towards the blond and grabbed Wolfram's shoulders in anger.

That had caused Wolfram to face Yuuri and what he saw was Yuuri's face, covered with his dark, charcoal strands of hair. Wolfram felt Yuuri tensed and decided to approach him in a much gentler way.

"Yuuri, just tell me what's on your mind instead of throwing a tantrum."

"Well, how about you tell me what's going on now in Shin Makoku?"

At this point, Wolfram was confused. He did not reply as he felt that Yuuri had more to say but instead, Yuuri lifted his head and what Wolfram saw made his heart flutter with sadness. A tear was shed out of one of Yuuri's eyes. Wolfram quickly regained his posture and made sure he was making a direct eye contact towards Yuuri.

"That's the very reason why I came here. I had wanted to ask you the same thing."

"Eh? You don't know what's going on?"

Wolfram shook his head lightly and replied, "I see no soldiers carrying out their daily marching routines, no Big Brother, Conrad, Anissinna or the others ever since this morning. Although I did saw Gunther running off somewhere. Since I can't find my troops anywhere, I figured I should see you."

Yuuri started to relax and released his grip off from Wolfram's shoulders.

"Ah, and the bearbees. Considering them to be here at this point of the season, I knew something was going on. " Wolfram added in as another bearbee flew passed wolfram and reunited itself with its own kind behind Yuuri.

Yuuri did not reply though. He was staring at Wolfram's torso and was in a deep thought.

"Ne, Wolf. Those injuries of yours. Are they healing?" Yuuri finally broke the silence with that question.

"That's the reason why I was searching for Gisela. My wounds won't heal. They should have healed a month ago." Wolfram replied, appalled.

Yuuri stared at his palms for a moment and smiled broadly.

"Wolf! I'll heal those wounds for you."

"You know, this is the first time you said that to me."

Yuuri blushed slightly for Wolfram to notice such a small detail but replied,

"Did I now? Ah, come on Wolf! Remove your top!"

Wolfram gave Yuuri one of his angelic smile and started to remove his blue blazer elegantly in soft detail. Yuuri continued to watch as Wolfram started to unbutton his clean white shirt. He finally unbuttoned the last button of his shirt and folded it neatly before placing it on a table. Wolfram sensed Yuuri was watching him the whole time and he turned to face the King.

"Never seen people undress before?"

"N…No no! It's just that, I've always find you either already sneaked up onto my bed with your negligee or suddenly barging into the same bath with me but I never had thought about or seen you undress before."

"Ah, and so? What about it?"

"I never thought you would undress in such…how do I put this… Um, beautiful and gentle way?"

A pregnant pause befall on them.

"Ah, what am I saying, doesn't make any sense! Okay, Focus…"

But what Yuuri saw was unfathomable. Wolfram had tried to stop bleeding by bandaging himself but the blood seeped through them. Yuuri gulped and carefully tore the bandages away. Yuuri eyes widen in horror and he felt as if he wanted to puke. He brought his hand onto his mouth to get rid of the feeling.

"You okay, Yuuri? You don't need to do it if you can't .Don't push yourself too much." Wolfram asked worriedly when he heard Yuuri gasped.

"You must be joking! And leave you to bleed to death? I'll be fine, I can do this. " Yuuri replied and he took a deep breath.

Before he decided to heal, Yuuri started to clean up the blood so that he could see how deep the wounds were. Each time Yuuri laced the cotton wool onto Wolfram's pale skin, Wolfram could not help but shudder.

"Now its my turn to ask if you're okay." Yuuri chuckled as he continued leaning up the blood.

"I'm fine! Don't ask!"

"Hehe! I'm not even touching your wounds yet!"

Wolfram did not reply.

"Don't tell me, you're sensitive to touch?" Yuuri joked.

"I said don't ask!"

Yuuri chuckled but did not pry and continued to carefully clean up the blood.

"Finally! Wow, what kind of fight have you gotten yourself into?"

"I've told you. Bandits."

"Don't tell me they're ninjas and threw shurikens at you?"

"What?"

"Nevermind. I'll start closing your wounds now."

Yuuri placed both of his hands onto Wolfram's wounds on his delicate back and focused on getting his maryoku out of him. Wolfram gasped in pain but said no more.

"Bear with it okay?" Yuuri said as gentle as he could.

"As if I need you to tell me that." Wolfram replied as he bit his lips to endure the stinging pain but relaxed as Yuuri's soothing maryoku had finally seeped into his wounds.

"Amazing. As expected from the Maou." Wolfram moaned as he felt the soothing power of Yuuri's healing powers.

"Aww, it's not that great… You know Wolf? You made me feel useful again."

"Oh?"

"Ever since I came back here, everyone have been avoiding the subject of the matter to me. I knew something was going on but since I don't know what's going on, I could not do anything. I felt so useless."

"I know how that feels, Back under Mother's rule, I wanted to help to fight but I was still inexperienced. Watching Conrad and Brother doing their parts just made me feel worse. They get to help serve Shin Makoku while I was stuck learning with Susanna Julia."

Yuuri could not see Wolfram's face but he knew Wolfram was feeling remorseful. Yuuri started to lessen up his maryoku as he had finally finished closing his fiancé's wounds.

Yuuri rubbed Wolfram's back unconsciously for a moment and he reached out for his hand. Yuuri brought his own body touch Wolfram's back and wrapped one of his arms around Wolfram's neck and his left hand held onto Wolfram's right fist. Wolfram tensed to the sudden embrace and tried to turn but did not dared to. He felt Yuuri's breath close towards his left ear and he heard a soft whisper.

"At least now, we're not alone."

And just outside the office's closed doors, stood four abashed young maids, trying to keep their excitement contained within themselves. As soon as they could no longer hear anything else, they gleefully left the scene, chattering away.