A TALE OF FIRE AND ICE

The One Who Remembers It All

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"SO, WHAT DO you need from me?" Forrester asked Luna while they were having tea in the attic. "I'm sure you wouldn't be here if you have nothing important to ask of me, Luna."

Luna sipped her tea before she spoke. "I'm here to ask you to accompany Duke and Duchess Nystrom in their short vacation in Oakes, Your Holiness."

"Oakes?" he asked, then he nodded his head. "Ah, yes. House Prescott owns the land of Oakes. I didn't know that Lord Prescott was generous enough to give his whole territory to his son-in-law."

"He needed to," the witch said. "Giving that much wealth and power to the duke and duchess can protect them from the royal family."

Well, that was smart.

House Prescott was one of the oldest and the wealthiest families in the empire. Even before he fell into a deep slumber, more than half of the empire's economy already depended on the businesses ran by the Prescotts.

Taeyeon Moonchester wouldn't be that foolish to destroy House Prescott on a whim.

"Why do you want me to accompany the duke and the duchess?" he asked the witch.

"I can't join them so I want you to be my proxy, Your Holiness," the witch said bluntly. "I figured you'd be the replacement since you need to train Duchess Nystrom anyway."

Kids these days sure are rude, huh?

"Alright, I'll join them," he agreed. "Like you said, I need to keep an eye on the duchess."

"How about your duty as the saint?" the witch asked curiously. "You just woke up. I'm sure that there are a lot of people who need to meet you, Your Holiness."

"I'll take care of that," he said. "Is there anything else that you need from me?"

"Your Holiness, you didn't answer my question about your origin."

"Ah, I was hoping you've already forgotten about that."

"I won't force you to answer my question if you can't," she said. "You just have to tell me to stop asking you questions about your life."

"Are you kidding me?" he said. "This is the first time that I met a person who knows my real identity. I have to brag about being a son of the sky god."

"So... you're not denying it?"

"Your reaction is boring."

"I've already talked to a god," the woman said. "Meeting a son of another god isn't that shocking to me anymore."

"You're so brutally honest."

She just shrugged before she sipped her tea. "I'm curious about one thing though. Were all the previous saints in the history your brothers?"

"Yeah, they were my half-brothers," he confirmed. "The sky god is quite the womanizer, you know? He creates as many children as possible with mortal women to have more chances of making the perfect child that could end the Moonchesters for him."

"You sound bitter."

"Are you saying that you're not here to punish the Moonchesters?" she asked with furrowed brows.

"I don't really care about my father's resentment towards the Moonchesters," he admitted. "I mean, it was my father's fault for letting the first Moonchester to trick him into believing that the Moon Serpent was an enemy that needed to be killed. But even though it was his fault, he still wants his children to avenge him? Hah. I'm not his puppet."

"Then, what's your purpose for becoming the saint?"

"I just want to live an easy life," he said casually. "But my peaceful life was cut short when my Holy Scepter was stolen from me. Worse, my divine power was even sealed. Without them, I can't live the way I want to. That's the only reason why I've decided to stand up to the Moonchesters."

"Are the Moonchesters the ones who stole your Holy Scepter?"

"That's my hunch," he said. "But it seems like the emperor lost it after getting it stolen from me. And now, he wants to "help" me find the Holy Scepter to "save" his beloved princess."

"I'm confused," the witch said. "His Majesty lost the Holy Scepter after he stole it from you?"

"He asked another person to steal my Holy Scepter," he explained. "Since I'm the sky god's son and the sky god is the Moonchesters' nemesis, the emperor can't touch my Holy Scepter."

"When did you lose your Holy Scepter?"

"A little after the first Supreme died, I think."

Luna's eye widened in shock. "That long already? I thought you lost it before you fell into a deep slumber."

"I fell into a deep slumber because my sealed divine power got depleted after losing the Holy Scepter for this long," he explained while shaking his head. "It's actually a miracle that I was able to wake up just after two decades of resting. If it wasn't for the new Supreme's flame, I would have still been sleeping in the altar."

"So, Duchess Nystrom's flame was the one that woke you up, Your Holiness?"

"You can say that," he agreed. "The Supreme's flame filled in for my depleted divine power. After all, the Supreme's flame came from the Red Phoenix– an ancient god. To simply put, the Supreme's flame is just as divine as my power."