When we left the room, the door closed. I wanted to take a deep breath because I felt like I could finally exhale. I had been suffocating the whole time, but I found myself in the boy's embrace. Suddenly, he wrapped his arm around my neck and hugged me tightly.

"Ah, thank goodness, you're awake and feeling better. You were suffocating because of me. I didn't know my power would make you faint."

"Ah, Your Highness."

"Not Your Highness, please call me Jamie."

"But—"

He looked at me with a pitiful expression, as if he was begging me to speak to him more friendly. It was hard for him that I treated him like everyone else.

"Okay... Jamie."

"Thank you. Now, come on, let me show you around. You'll like it here. From now on, you're part of my family."

He had changed a lot, maybe because he was younger now and seemed to have found someone he was more comfortable with. He now looked like an ordinary child. I couldn't bring myself to tell him that we would never be considered family.

He grabbed my wrist as if I might disappear at any moment and unintentionally run away from him.

"Come on, let me show you a special place first, a room that's just for me and my friends."

"Your friends?"

"Ah, right. You should know you have six knights. Me and the others will be six of your knights, chosen to protect and control your power because of our family rankings."

"Ah... so they're like you?"

"Well... you can't say we're exactly the same."

"I hope they get along with me."

"They'll definitely like you as much as I do."

He hurriedly dragged me through the palace halls, so excited that he didn't notice he had a smile on his face the whole way. All the servants were amazed to see that smile.

When we reached a wall different from the others, which was white, Jamie placed his hand on the wall and turned an imaginary key. At that moment, the wall, which was golden, transformed into a door and opened. But that wasn't what surprised me. What was behind that door amazed me even more.