Ning teleported back into the throne room of the Yorshan palace. The room was empty for the most part.
From what he could see, the captain and the queen were gone. 'Was I out for long?' he wondered as he looked around, but there was no one there.
"Follow me," he said and started walking.
Janean who had teleported back with him started following him.
"Aaagh!" people shouted in the hallway and started running away from Ning. Only then did he realize just what a ruined state his clothes were in.
The lightning and various other attacks had created holes all over his shirt and the blood of the ones he had killed was still fresh on his skin.
He looked no different from a man that had returned from a massacre, just like he was.
"Stop!" Ning ordered one of the servants that were trying to run away at the sight of him.
The woman suddenly fell to the ground and started crouching as she started shouting "please don't kill me," over and over again.
Ning sighed. "System, fix it please," he asked. In a flash of light, the shirt he was wearing was reformed and all the blood that was on his body was gone.
"I'm not going to kill you miss," Ning said as he crouched down. "Please look at me."
The woman still kept shouting the same thing without turning, as she thought her death was here.
Ning sighed. He grabbed the woman's head and simply turned her into his servant.
The woman finally stopped being scared and turned around to face him. "What do you need, young lord?" she asked.
"A while ago, the captain was here to meet the queen. Do you know where he's gone?" Ning asked.
"The captain? Captain Merkel is executed at the front gate right now," the woman said.
"Wait, what? Executed? Why?" the news hit Ning like a truck. He couldn't fathom why that was hearing at all.
"The captain apparently did something horrendous in the throne room, so the queen is executing him," she said.
"Wait, so he isn't dead yet?" Ning asked.
"He should be hung anytime now," the woman said.
"Good, I can save him," Ning thought and turned to look at the woman. "Take her to the front gate."
At the same time, he vanished and arrived in the air outside the palace.
There was a crowd of people outside, all looking at the captain that had his face covered in a black cloth.
A man was putting the rope around his neck and getting ready to put it on the wall next to them.
Ning didn't know why there was an execution platform ready so soon, but he didn't care much about that.
He turned his eyes at the woman in white with anger on her face. Once he saw her, he dove down.
Ning slammed onto the ground, putting fear into the heart of every man and woman that stood there.
Everyone immediately started moving backward while the queen fell down to the ground from the impact.
The anger in her eyes switched to fear when she saw Ning.
Ning stared into her eyes, trying to understand if this was the woman he had dominated earlier today or not. However, there were just too many things weird about this, that he decided to do it again.
Ning grabbed her head and got ready to—
"Master, what are you doing?" the queen asked.
"Eh? What did you call me?" Ning asked in surprise.
"Master?" the queen asked.
The people around started in shock and started whispering amongst themselves at the fact that the queen was calling someone master.
Ning on the other hand frowned. 'Something's wrong,' he thought. An Air Cutter was released from his back that flew towards the captain's head and severed the rope that was right on top of him.
"Everyone, leave. There's been a misunderstanding here. We have caught the murderer of the prince," Ning shouted.
The crowd got even rowdier with their murmurs.
"Tell them to leave," Ning said to the queen.
"Everyone, Leave!" the queen ordered.
Everyone, even the executioner nodded and started walking away. The guards tried to stay behind, but the queen forced them away too.
The captain slumped to the ground and planted face first as the cloth over his head loosened.
"Captain? What? What's going on?" the queen panicked when she saw his gag and the rope around his neck.
"You were going to have him executed," Ning told her.
"What? No, I would do no such thing," the queen exclaimed.
"Yeah, I'm starting to get that," Ning said as he looked at her.
He walked up to the captain and undid his bindings. The captain was completely out of it, probably because he was drugged before the execution. So, Ning touched his head and healed him completely.
"Wake up, captain. We have a job to do," Ning spoke up as he nudged him.
The captain, completely dazed, looked around at the open sky and suddenly got up. "What… what happened? I…" he tried to remember the last thing he could.
He remembered a bunch of people holding him as the queen shouted at him for blaming the prince's death on her, and then…
There were no more memories.
"Where am I?" he asked as he stood up.
"You are at your execution," Ning said. "Had I been a couple of minutes late, the queen would've successfully killed you."
"Master, no, I would never kill the…"
"I know," Ning said as he turned towards the queen. "You would've never killed him. You don't have the heart for it."
"Yes, I—"
"But she does," Ning said as he stared into the queen's eyes again. "Don't you?"
"What are you saying, master?" the queen asked.
"I'm not talking to you," Ning said. "I'm talking to the woman hidden inside of you. The one that is capable of killing her own husband, and killing her own son."
"The other queen of this kingdom," Ning said. "I know you can hear me. Come out."
