"I now announce the verdict of Maxineirah Shinoe Alde Levyne Zachrono." the Empire's judge said in a loud voice that could be heard in hundred meters around the Palace.
Drenched in sweat and blood, there was no emotion that could be trace on my face. The Emperor could not really help not to torture me until my last breath. He still sent someone this morning to torture me again because he could not rest easy knowing I would have a peaceful time before death and I felt like it was the longest and most painful torture I ever receive. Or was it because my body could not hold it anymore?
I feel like I already died a few times in that cell. I still breathes but my heart, my emotions and the look in my eyes died too long ago.
The place was crowded with judgemental and hypocrite people. Many people gathered infront of the Empire’s Palace just to watch how the ex-soon-to-be-Crown-Princess has deeply fallen from grace. How did the society became like this? When did it all started?
When I was kicked off to be a Crown Princess and future Empress? That even the title of the Queen had rejected me? When our Household fell? Or when the Prince that was Crowned now to be the Emperor did not even gave me a glance and favored another woman from a small Kingdom? And when I became the laughing stock of all the people in the Empire from the nobles to the commoners?
It was nearly dawn and the land has a bloody color of pale red that reflects the sky starting to turn blood where the sun starts to settle down in the West.
"The sinner Maxineirah Shinoe Alde Levyne Zachrono, an ex-soon-to-be-Crown-Princess was found guilty-"
My face was blank and as pale as dead. Tired of feeling pain even underneath my bare delicate feet were full of my favorite red roses but with its deadly thorns and white plain dress looked like a rag, soaked in my own blood.
People eyed me maliciously and loathfully.
I became thinner and paler after a long time. My blood was not enough because of every night's torture and this roses with thorns under my feet hurts like hell but it seems that I did not care anymore. I felt numb for all the physical pains.
My excellency of my stature from nobility and future Empress of this Empire was long time gone by now.
People eyed me maliciously and loathfully. Should I be thankful that I did not become their Empress and they were not my people? It feels like it was better that I would end up this way than to rule over someone like them.
"-engaged in immoral activies, treason to the empire, assaulting the Crowned Princess, 3rd Princess of the neighbouring Empire, Princess Charminia Aspatria Vanessa Adelaide Strangford, daring to assassinate the Emperor, poisoning His Majesty, the late Emperor and Her Majesty, late Empress, allied with the Empire's enemy, conspirators of the Princes second Prince Aspall, third Prince Caston and fourth Prince Apregio who tried to destroy peace and economy of our Asthal Empire.-"
I feel nothing, unlike the people who were happy watching me suffering. They despised me and hated my existence as a total villainess in their eyes.
I could not fathom what did I do wrong. Or did I ever do anything? When?
I did nothing nothing wrong but to their eyes, I did. That I was the cause of their own downfalls and I did not had a choice but to accept their whims they kept pushing me.
My bright red eyes seems to be lifeless. My old sophisticated, full of dignity, grace and stronghold presence were all gone in a blink of an eye. I was staring blankly at nowhere but my presence still exists in the place. I wanted to run away from this place but could not. Or was it better to die right away?
My life was ruined -our family was ruined to nothing and my will to live vanished in the thin air, only waiting for my death time to ccome.
Were they too happy seeing me suffer severely, were they not?
I kept myself silent and did not utter any words because defending myself would only worsen my situation. My words was like a curse for them. A curse that cannot be lifted.
My life was ruined, my family were all dead and our name almost gone. Were they still not happy on what I ended up? Or the only thing that would make them happy was to see my death? I am already ready to die anytime anyway. What was the use of my life? I do not want to serve these cruel people who only knows how to criticise other's life and blame others for their own downfalls.
The way they looked at me were blazing, a descriminating one and their eyes full of joy seeing someone being miserable.
Why did this things kept happening to us?
"For such unhumane acts, and doing such things to the Royal Family, she and the line of her family-"
What happened...
"-will be rip off from their titles,-"
...to me...
"-all the wealth of the family will be confiscated-,"
...all this time was...
"-all their achievements and all history will be eradicted from this moment forward,-"
...a mistake...
"-and will be divided solely for the Empire's use and its people."
...and my only...
"Maxineirah Shinoe Alde Levyne Zachrono will be severely punish. And thus, she will be-"
...sin was...
"-EXECUTED."
...loving him.
I held my head up and glanced at my side not too far away from my place. There, I saw, the man I loved wholeheartedly... with the woman he love the most and a child on his lap. Their fruit of their 'love'.
All the pain I felt rushed inside me like a river. From the hardships my family went through, the sleepless nights full of nightmares, painful days from my wounds and bruises to the death of my family, and unimaginable memories.
I could only laughed dryly while hurting seeing the picture. My chest was bleeding from the pain. I cannot shed tears here.
I would not, not infront of these people.
'You are the only purpose of my life, you are the sole reason I existed in the first place and yet, you offered your life to the girl you just met.'
'I sold my dignity as noble hoping that you will even give me a glance to see my worth to you but you did not.’
'I put you first over of all things and yet I have never been, even the least of your thousand choices nor countless priorities.'
'I am out of your many choices.'
'Who is she? Just a Princess of other Nation.'
'What is with her that I do not?'
'Obviously, I am the best choice for this Empire.'
'I am from a high ranking noble. I’ m intelligent, obedient, beautiful, and attained and received high education.'
'I was chosen by your father, the late Emperor, to stand beside you as your counselor and Empress who will lead this Empire to prosperity..'
The two soldiers standing beside me grabbed my shoulders and dragged me like there were no thorns at all under my feet and the path I was walking was the same clear path as them. I did not even know how did I managed to walk until we reached infont of two large wood with a blade under and on the top of the woods –the guillotine -even with the torns in my pathway were dugging out my bare feet.
If I were just given a chance and live a new life...
One of the guards held my head and placed my small neck on the wood.
I looked up the bloody sky and before I returned my gaze infront but a man wearing white and black cassock stole my attention, he was situated in the Palace’s tower’s roof, gazing at us who were below him, watching the current event.
His cassock and blue hair was dancing in the air with a rhythm. His eyes were like small ball of blazing sun that even we were far apart from each other, I could see clearly his beautiful eyes in the distance.
I would not wish to meet...
A tear escaped from his right eye and I only smiled at him before he vanished from his spot like a bubble. Not wanting to wach any further.
The Emperor raised his index finger and swiped it down on the air. That became the signal to let the rope holding back the upper wood with the sharp blade go.
I closed my eyes and I, Maxineirah Shinoe Alde Levyne Zachrono died.
Nor love him again...
Maxineirah Shinoe Alde Levyne Zachrono, a flower of the Empire, born for the sole heir of the Empire, treated as the villainess blamed for immorality, a trash of the empire and executed for the sins I have never commited...
...such was once my name everyone knew me before.