Hi~ This chapter will be kinda shorter because the next chapter will be a bit different~

Again, thank you for all your support. I hope people still enjoy this story.

I don't know what else to say though honestly, I feel like every chapter I keep repeating the same thing, but oh well.

Anyway, just enjoy the story. Do review if you like it :D

The meeting ended, the people scattered back to their own job. Including Feliciano, still as Lovino's body double, and his bodyguards, Alfred and Gilbert. It was a day like any other, the sun had begun to set at that time. The three of them made their way back to Lovino's room, passing the royal garden in the process. Feliciano stopped in his track for a while to admire the scenery. After he had become Lovino's body double, he had spent most of his time confined in the palace, mostly in his room, and he would admit that he really missed the natural scenery that was full of green and colours.

Gilbert seemed to notice Feliciano who was looking at the garden and he approached him, "You seem tired, do you want to take a short walk at the garden, Lo… Prince Vargas?" he initiated, still trying his best to maintain formality in front of his colleague.

Feliciano was a bit surprised by the offer, but he gladly took the offer. It was something that he needed, some kind of rest to his mind and he bet Lovino would not mind him taking a bit longer than expected. Lovino had said the meeting tend to drag on anyway. "I guess I will do."

Upon his answer, Alfred raised his suspicion. Lovino had never even once take a walk in the garden or something similar since ever he started working there. He remembered when he was still smaller, the prince had mentioned that he did not like the garden, to be specific, he did not like places with a lot of plants and trees. When Alfred asked about the reason, he only mentioned that he felt unsafe and Alfred never asked him to take a walk outside anymore. Much to his knowledge, the prince also prefered to spend his time in his studies or the libraries when he was bored or mentally tired.

Alfred's thought was quickly interrupted. Just when Feliciano took a step on the garden itself, an arrow was shot from the distance. The arrow went straight to Feliciano's head, but Gilbert and Alfred was quick to move. In a split second, Gilbert unsheathed his sword and slashed at the pointing arrow. Alfred positioned himself in front of the prince, his sword unsheathed as well, but knowing that Gilbert had made the move, he remained in the defensive stance.

Feliciano was really shocked at the sudden occurrence. He had not seen the arrow coming at all. Only after Gilbert moved and the arrow fell into the ground that he realised that he was targeted. He had expected this to happen sooner or later, he was a body double after all, there was no reason to get a body double except to cover for this.

Assassination attempt.

Of course, someone was clearly targeting, Lovino, the Prince. He thought that he had prepared his heart, but he was still really scared when the real thing happened right in front of his eyes.

"Sir Jones, escort him back to his room. It should be safe there. I will pursue the attacker." Gilbert commanded, his tone left no space for argument even to Alfred who was much more senior than him. But Alfred knew that it was one of the best course of action to take now.

Alfred said nothing and he gestured for Feliciano to retreat to his room. Feliciano retreated at last and Alfred followed, still highly on guard. Gilbert stayed still, he inspected his surroundings carefully, trying to pinpoint the direction where the arrow came from. He remembered it, the angle, the elevation, the speed from which the arrow appeared. He concluded it to come from one of the tree further at the back. He rushed to the direction, his long sword on his side, ready to strike anytime soon.

By the time he reached there, there was no more trace of anyone being there. On one of the tree branch, hung a bow without an owner. Gilbert clenched his fist. He just missed the attacker. Without wasting anymore time, he took the bow with him and returned to make his way back to the room. He was worried that there maybe more than one attacker.

Feliciano and Alfred made it back to the room safely. There was no trace of other attacker on the way and Alfred had instructed for Feliciano to stay inside the room, while he himself waited for Gilbert outside, standing on guard at the same time.

Inside the room, Lovino had woken up because of the noises from outside. There seemed to be some panic going on and he was convinced when Feliciano came back, his face pale and he looked as if he just met a ghost or something.

"Feli, what just happened?" he asked. The other boy rested his back on the door, his breathing ragged from running. He was still scared and he held his hand on his chest, trying to regulate his own breathing and calm down. Lovino could see that something definitely happened and he brought himself up from his bed and approached Feliciano, gesturing for him to calm down and letting him to sit on one side of the bed. He waited a bit until his breathing become more regular and he ask again, "What happened, Feli?"

Feliciano tried his best to calm himself, he knew he could not falter over something like this, "It was nothing much, Lovi. There was an attack, I was just caught off guard for a bit."

An attack? Lovino did not expect anything like that to be the answer. He was naive. Despite given body double, Lovino did not actually think that someone would really attempt to attack him. Attacking him means the same as rebelling against the kingdom anyway, who in their right mind would want to declare a war with his Kingdom? Guilt and fear sprawled across his heart. He just put Feliciano in danger. But not only Feliciano, he was also in danger.

"A… are you okay?" Lovino stuttered, worries and fear were mixed in his voice.

Feliciano could feel that Lovino was slightly panicking and at that moment, he felt that it was true that when people said you would feel better when you see someone in a worse condition than yourself. Feliciano somehow managed to calm down, "I'm alright, Lovi."

Lovino did not really buy it but he was interrupted when loud voice was heard from outside.

"Sir Jones, is everything alright?!"

That loud voice was definitely Gilbert's, Feliciano and Lovino could recognise it easily.

"Ah, I should at least tell Gilbert that we are alright." Feliciano mentioned as he stood up, but he stood up too fast and his leg gave away, causing him to return to sitting position. Lovino did not miss any of that and he walked towards the door, "I'll do it, Feli. Just rest for now," his voice still full of concern.

The sound of the door opening soon caught the attention of the two bodyguard who were guarding the place, Lovino came out of the room, he was on his guard, aware of the possibility of another attack. It was not that he was useless, he had learned swordsmanship and some other self defense mechanism before and he was actually quite good of it. But the whole situation did caught him off guard.

Gilbert approached Lovino as soon as Lovino came out, "Lovi, are you hurt anywhere?" he asked, voice full of concern. By that time, Alfred had surrendered reminding Gilbert to use formality with the prince because he would just forgot the next time.

"I'm alright." Lovino replied softly. Gilbert could see that he was physically alright, but he did not seem to be faring very well mentally.

"It's okay, I won't let anything like 10 years ago happened again." he reassured Lovino with a soft voice, preventing Alfred from hearing that he had mentioned the incident.

Something suddenly clicked in Lovino's mind. Again, what's with the incident? Was there any connection between the incident and what just happened earlier? He did not know what exactly had happened and he did not know what happened in the past either. Now, he was reminded to ask this to Gilbert whom he had believed would provide him with at least an answer.

"Gilbert, I need to talk to you. Can we move to the studies?" Lovino said, his fear subsided but he was still very wary about the whole situation. Gilbert complied and they moved on to the study. After assessing the situation once more and ensuring that it was safe enough, Alfred left to report the incident to the king and his attendant.

Lovino sat down and settle himself in the studies. For a while, there was a moment of silence. Even Gilbert could not bring himself to break the silence, looking at the prince who seemed to need some time to settle down.

At last, Lovino opened his mouth, "Gilbert, you said you already know me before we met the previous day?"

"Eh… Ah, yeah." Gilbert was a bit taken aback by his question, he just never expected for him to ask that kind of question.

Lovino continued, "You see, to tell the truth, I have no memories of my childhood. To be exact, I did not remember anything from 10 years ago and before that. Not even about the incident."

Everything seemed to make sense to Gilbert now, when he met Lovino again after ten years and he did not recognise him. He had thought that Lovino had just forgotten about their promise. However the moment Lovino mentioned that he did not remember about the incident, something clicked in his mind. The incident was the cause of it.

Memory loss.

"I want you to tell me about it. What is this incident that everyone keeps talking about?" Lovino demanded.

Gilbert hesitated for a moment, if the incident had caused some kind of memory loss to the prince, would telling him be a good answer? Also, Lovino seemed to be different after the attack just now. Before he had a chance to think properly, Lovino continued, "This is not a request. This is an order. Tell me about the incident 10 years ago."

Gilbert was not a man to think much into things and he decided to comply, not that he had the authority to refuse the order. If anything happened, he would just make sure that he was there by his side. And thus, Gilbert started his story.

Next up is a special chapter : Story About The Past

Notes : May take some time cause I just got a job~