~5 Years Later~

Ambrose's P.O.V.

'I'm so glad that the entity switched Athanasia and me back to our original bodies instead of staying in each other's for who knows how long,' I thought after training my mana and lying on the grass outside the back of Sapphire Palace. 'That entity even asked us to call him Argen.'

Since Athanasia and I are five years old, we both agreed to give this life's Jennette a chance even though she will not be acknowledged as a member of the imperial family. She can however prove she will not be like her mother and attempt to ruin the imperial family with her greed for power.

As for Argen after switching us back to our bodies said that he needed to do some more research and he decided to put it on hold just for us. We are still waiting for his return since he said the research is very concerning with the balance of this world.

However, some of my friends do not exist in this timeline, and that made me sad. Especially, when one of those friends had become my wife in the other timeline. Argen did however tell me they only exist as other people and not the people that had once been in this timeline, which brought me hope that I will still meet them once more.

*Time-Skip*

Athanasia and I finally met to play after her mother-and-daughter time was finally over, and we were going to play hide and seek when I felt a presence that felt awful that it had made me bend over like I going to be sick.

"Ames?" Athansia asked concerned not feeling the presence like I did.

"Run!" I said after gaining back from the wave illness. "Run, Athy, to father and uncle."

"What?" Athy asked scared before I pushed her away from where she was standing when a hooded cloaked figure appeared and attempted to grab but grabbed me instead.

"Quickly!" I yelled out trying to get out of the figure's hold, who was now running.

I watched as Athy ran as well even though she hesitated at first, but knew she was not strong enough to help me physically. As the figure got further away from Sapphire Palace I used my mana to get the unknown cloaked figure to let go, as well as to signal my location to father and uncle.

The unknown cloaked figure did indeed let go, but before I got up I noticed something about the figure, whose hood fell back that made me freeze in place. Their description matches similar to that of the history books before the empire became an empire, for their description is that of a demon.

"My, my, you are indeed your ancestor's descendant." The demon said smirking like he gained a toy, before saying while looking. "And based on how you're freezing up, you know what I am."

"A demon," I said with a whisper and fear.

"Hehe, you are indeed very similar to your ancestor," The demon said before grabbing ahold of me once more and taking out a veil from his cloak. "Good night little prince."

I fought as he forced the substance down my throat all the while hearing the knight guards, father and uncle's calling for me, before seeing nothing but darkness.

~Backtrack: 30 minutes Ago~

Claude's P.O.V.

Paperwork and more paperwork.

'At least,' I thought looking over at my older brother and right-hand advisor. 'I'm not the only one suffering.'

"I hope I'm not late, but there is a great big problem," Argen said popping in with a look of distraught.

"What is it?" I asked feeling extremely worried about what the entity had to say.

"I found out what was causing the imbalance of the world, and came across that you two accidentally destroyed the seal that was hidden in the throne by your two's ancestor the first emperor of this empire, Emperor Amarprakash," Argen said worriedly. "The seal is an amulet that was hung on one of the lion statues on the throne, that was supposed to be under a disillusion magic but that chimera at the time found it somehow. When she was captured she was wearing it, and it was taken off of her in Siodonna by Diana's relatives which was then used as a tribute for Athanasia to symbolize that she was avenged and buried with Athanasia."

"But when Anastasius and I went back it was in the throne room where we were fighting," I said as it dawned on me what happened to that amulate. "We accidentally destroyed the throne when fighting Aeternitas's evil spirit."

"That's pretty much what happened," Argen confirmed.

"What was the seal for?" Anastasius asked fearfully.

"It was to seal the demon within another dimension," Argen explained. "Amarprakash was from the former Holy Land the youngest son of the Emperor of the Holy Land to be exact. The Hold Land was destroyed by..."

"The demons." I finished for him. "I read the history books about the first emperor, actually everyone in the imperial family is required to read it."

"Yes, the history books," Argen said with a laugh. "Doesn't tell everything that happened, especially when the imperial family after the third generation of the first emperor no longer wields the divine magic of ancient times like the former Holy Land, and it came back within both of your children."

"How did I not notice?" I asked with dismay.

"Well," Argen said sighing with sadness. "That wasn't exactly your fault even though you ignored them pretty much their entire life."

"It explains why Ambrose had a white phoenix familiar," I said rubbing my temples.

"Athanasia had a black and blue direwolf as her familiar," Argen said. "Which was seen as a guardian that protected the former Holy Land, while the white phoenix was seen as the connection to the heavens to the Holy Land."

"What is going to happen now?" Anastasius asked with concern for his family. "Now that the seal has been broken."

Argen winced and had a saddened look that said a lot about what was to come.

"That's what I'm here for," He said still with a sad look." The malum balance is going to have one of your children be taken by the demon and will made to live a similar life as the first emperor, Emperor Amarprakash, who pretty much lived in a nightmare in the demon empire which was taken back by the demons recently."

"I thought you were the only balance holder?" I asked feeling angry at what was going on.

" I am the divina balance of this world, and thus held responsible for holding back the malum," He explained. "I and the malum balance are not the primary balance who is neutral in the divine and evil balance, and thus can not help either of us."

Before either Anastasius or I could say another thing, I heard Athanasia calling for help and we both ran towards. Athanasia had a look of despair on her face and was panting heavily from running over to us.

"What happened?" We both asked her once gotten some control over her breathing.

"Ambrose, he's endangered." She said panicking. "Some unknown man in a cloak jumped the tree and Ames pushed me out the way and the cloaked man grabbed him."

Anastasius and I both looked at each other before we ran towards the crown prince's palace while calling for the guards about the intruder. When we arrived we saw a figure holding onto Ambrose and had a vial in his hands that was forcing whatever substance down his throat.

"STOP RIGHT THERE, YOU ARE TRESPASSING ON IMPERIAL GROUNDS!"

When the distance became smaller we all noticed what the figure truly was.

"A demon!" I said with surprise before understanding what the entity of divine balance means by one of his children would be taken away by a demon. "Kill it, and save my son, your crown prince, from this demon."

"Hehehe," the demon laughed before disappearing with Ambrose, making me fall to the ground in despair at losing one of my children once more.

*Time-Skip*

Third P.O.V.

Chaos is what was going on in the empire when news about the young crown prince was stolen by a demon, and it is unknown if was dead or alive. The royal family was devested of losing one of their children and ordered a search party to find him, and a great big reward would be given if they brought back the demon that stole their crown prince alive.

The (New) Holy Nation was notified about what happened in the empire and promised to help them find the young crown prince. They were even starting to prepare for another holy war with the demons after saving the crown prince of the Obelia Empire along with others that may have been stolen by them.

A/N: Thank you all for being patient with this update, and I hope you continue to be patient for future updates.