Arthur was surprised as he realised that the Queen Of Diamonds was pregnant.
"You're about to have an heir?" Arthur asked like with his own kingdom the need to have a heir was especially strong when the king had no siblings.
Francis seemed startled by Arthur's question, and answered it with a simple, "Non."
"But your queen is pregnant, and unlike you she doesn't seem to sleep around." It came out harsher than Arthur meant it to as he had been horribly confused by Francis's answer.
"You mustn't tell anyone, but that is not my child that she is carrying." King Francis answered him.
"But how?" Arthur had never seen the sweet woman that Lilli was as the type to cheat on her husband.
"She loves someone else, and I have given them my blessing." Francis answered easily; it didn't hurt him that his queen loved another as it had never bothered him, in fact he was happy for her.
"Kings and Queens are supposed to love one another." Arthur declared; he had certainly loved Alfred, and Alfred had loved him.
"Royalty doesn't always work that way." Francis sighed; a part of him did wish that he married someone that he loved, but he had chosen Lilli out of all of the women that his mother had prepared for him for her sake; he had done so, so that she would be able to be with her love in the castle with out ignorant people keeping them a part.
Lilli had loved Vash for a long time despite the fact that they had grew up together like they were siblings when they were only step-siblings; their parents had married each other while Vash and Lilli were still young which led to most people assuming that they were indeed related as they had to be the only family that was this way.
Queen Arthur of The Spades Kingdom frowned at Francis's answer, and turned away to consider that; Alfred had always believed that Kings and Queens were supposed to love one another that was why he had married Arthur after discovering him on one of his many travels through his kingdom.
Arthur had not really believed that Alfred loved him at first, and he had doubted Alfred's reasoning on love between the royals after a while though Alfred had him convinced.
While the kingdoms were preparing a search party for the murderer and a secret funeral for King Alfred, the murderer hadn't simply stopped there.
He had managed to sneak in to the Clubs Kingdom's castle, and was preparing for another king's death.
His dark eyes that reeked of evil caught sight of the heirs of the Kingdom of Clubs, Natalya and Katyusha. Katyusha had backed away from power years before in fear that she couldn't handle the king's duties and had let Ivan become king; she had even helped pick him out a strong wife.
He moved towards the two; why settle for just the king when you could destroy the potential future kings as well?
Katyusha had moved in front of her younger sister, and cried out in pain as her body became a bloody, limp mess.
Before she died, she had called out one, last thing, "Run!"
Natalya ran towards her brother, but a swift knife pierced her flesh anyway; her arm fell to her side, limp and useless.
She changed direction towards the door, and prayed that Elizabeta would protect Ivan; Natalya had never been a slow runner, so she managed to leave the castle grounds quickly and easily.
The murderer ignored her in favor of the king.
King Ivan was startled by the sight of the mysterious person that he could only see the eyes of; they appeared red in the dead of night, but that may have just been caused by the emotions with in them.
Ivan moved to defend himself, but he was not fast enough as the knife dug in to his flesh hard and far enough to hit something vital and kill him.
Elizabeta moved to be a powerful queen and defend her kingdom even though she wasn't considered queen since her husband had died.
She managed to injure the man that then vanished with a chilling remark, "No royal is left to rule this kingdom."
That was when she broke down; Natalya and Katyusha were dead too?
Elizabeta would be killed for having not protected the kingdom as she was called to do, so she left hoping that the cabin that she had once called home was still inhabited by the man that she had once loved.