After the announcement we went to Runoy and proceeded to request him for his help for the 'Thorns of Liberation' .

"If we can may we buy or take some of the Thorns of Liberation your honor?", dad started with a bow , Runoy glared at dad for a while "How do you know about it?", dad looked a little troubled from his question but before dad could reply Runey suddenly came barging "You could at least give them that after they helped us so much", "Helped? How did they even help us? They almost got you seriously injured", Runoy argued but Runey whispered something in his ear which immediately made him take a huge sigh with a face of discomfort "Well we'll go and discuss this back in the castle" . Runey smiled and dragged us towards the carriage . 

As Runoy was walking beside Princess Vieira towards the second carriage Runey suddenly jumped "Why's she coming with us!?", "She will be staying with us until her departure for the Great Elven Kingdom", Runoy replied "I'll be sure to not disturb you Respected Ruler", she bowed while Runey just looked the other way .

As we were travelling back to the castle Runey was even more talkative than before mostly because of Princess Vieira "I mean she's a bit weird isn't she?" she kept rambling while we just gave a doubtfull smile then dad suddenly interrupted "I don't think that she's a bad person though", "I'm not saying that she is a bad person I'm just a little off by brother casually getting along with her", she replied with a slight tone of discomfort "Jealousy huh", dad laughed but she didn't take it very well .

Meanwhile in the carriage behind them ,

"I'm sorry for my loving sisters' protective behaviour", Runoy said with a calm posture

"Protective huh", I laughed it off

"I hope you won't take offence",

"Oh it's no problem , To be honest I wish I had someone like her", I said with a little tone of grief which he probably noticed .

"What do you mean by that?", his look became serious and protecitve but before I could reply he suddenly bursted out "I mean she is perfect and the best sister you could ask for so it's no wonder you would want someone like her", with a little blush , which surprisingly also made me blush *COUGH* "Looks like we're about to reach the castle hope you don't mind this small talk of ours Dear Princess", he added with a small bow .

I had thought that it would be somewhat easy to stay here without any regrets but I feel like I'm gonna be wrong .

We came out of the carriage with Runey somewhat calmed down , we didn't really take a good look at the castle when we went out but looking at it now it was definitely suited to be called a Rulers' caslte with its' majestic decor and structure . 

"So shall we go inside?", Runey asked with a smile but her cheerfull expresion suddenly converted into a deadly glare not towards us but behind . When we turned around to see what she was glaring at , It was Runoy helping Princess Vieira to get off the carriage "She really hates her huh", I whispered "She really can't stand them being together", Vanessa added .

"Shall we go inside?", Runoy asked with his calm tone as ever but Runey just glared at him "Di- Did I do something wrong?" Runey just turned around and started stomping away "I- Is she mad at me?", Runoy asked not even knowing what he did "You should talk it out with her", dad advised Runoy then he suddenly turned to Princess Vieira and bowed "I'm sorry to have to leave abruptly Princess but I believe our maids and butlers will be more than happy to help you around the castle" "O-Okay", Runoy then quickly left calling out Runey .

After a moment of silence a gang of butlers and maids suddenly came out of nowhere giving a sincere bow which startled us a little "We welcome the valued guests of Mr. and Mrs. Diamonds we will be more than pleased to help you all around this wonderfull home of our Dear Ruler and Most Beautiful Ruler who is the only one deserved to be called Beautiful" "I think they were forced to say that last part", Vanessa whispered which gave me a chuckle .

The butlers and maids helped us around the castle and also showed the rooms we will be staying at but that didn't really matter I guess cause we will be gone as soon as we get the things we came for , "I wonder where Mr. Diamonds is", Princess Vieira said with a blunt expression "They're probably discusing something important", dad replied .

"Runeyy , are you mad at me because of Princess?", Runoy chased 

"N- No , Why would I be mad", Runey finally turned back to reply his continuous questions

"Your expresion is saying otherwise", Runey was still pouting with an angry look

"Well whatever just give me the 'Thorns of Liberation' for Sholji and the others", she reached her hands out

"They're are quite rare you know but why would they even want those do you know?",

"I- I don't know but look what I found", her face suddenly brightened up trying to take something out of her coat

"What are you even searching for?", Runoy asked in curiosity

Runey took out the orb that she had found on the peak of Mt. Low which was still glowing as bright as ever .

"H- How did you get that!?"

"With the help of Sholji and the others"
Runoy came closer and Runey stretched the orb out to him "You should take it to become even stronger" but Runoy put his hand out in decline "N- No , you should take it I'll be fine as long as you're fine anyways", Runoy gave a warm smile "But should I? Won't it be more useful if you take it", Runey said with a look of uncertainty "You should , Mom and Dad would've wanted the same plus the orb seems to have accepted you", Runoy put his hand under hers' and pushed the orb into her chest , Runey started to glow and give out a warm sensation with which the surroundings felt as comfortable as diving into deep waters without the concern for drowning or coldness . After Runey stopped glowing she griefed "I miss them", "I miss them too", Runoy hugged his sister with the same feelings as her "But we've taken back what was ours and now you're even the Kingdoms' heart they would be very proud" "Y- Yeah" Runey smiled with tears in her eyes .

We were out in the garden of the castle playing when suddenly Runey and Runoy came with pouches in their hands , "I believe these belongs to you", Runoy said with extending the pouches towards dad "Th- Thank you your honor", dad kneeled but Runoy suddenly took out one of his gloves and  took out his handkerchief and infused it with his mana and gave it to dad , everybody was surprised with his action as it was considered one of the highest form of respect a Ruler could give and he did it with a straight face throughout the whole process , dad without even asking bowed and took the handkerchief and the pouches "I'm honored", Runoy also bowed out of respect I guess .

After that we all went to the front gates to finally go back to our inn "Do you really have to go already?", Runey pleaded us to stay "We need to plus we can't stay in the Rulers' house as if we're royalty ourselves", dad replied "I wish you fortune in whatever you need those thorns for", Runoy said with his calm and perfect expersion as always "Even if we don't know each other very well I hope we could meet again", Princess Vieira smiled giving each me and Vanessa a pat , we had became closer over the evening by playing with each other but suddenly Runey snatched both me and Vanessa into her hug with sticking her tounge out at the Princess which made everyone chuckle . After our farewells we got onto the carriage that was especially ordered for us by Runoy and before nightfall we reached our inn tired and exhausted so we immediately went to sleep .

The next day we again woke up early and immediately rushed off to Kreks' tower in order to cure Vanessa , when we reached the tower it was locked again but before dad could even knock on the door Krek came out flying with joy "Is that what I think it is!?" then he immediately dragged us all inside and immediately took the pouches from dads' hands and started inspecting it "Yup this is it" "So you can cure her now right?", dad asked calling him out "Yes!" he was definitely excited to see those thorns , Krek called Vanessa over and took three of the thorns and started to place two of them in both of her shoulders and one at the top of her head while Vanessa just stood awkwardly and then Krek suddenly sprinkled water on the thorns and at her face after which they all started to glow "Hey! I don't think that's the healing method" "I know" we suddenly became worried when Vanessa suddenly started to cough uncontrollably with black and red smoke coming out of her mask , googles and even some parts of her body . "What did you do!?", I shouted but he just said "Trust me , it'll work" and started to spin around in happiness "Have you lost it!?", I shouted in anger again but dad suddenly stepped in-front of me "She- She's gonna be fine" when I looked passed him I saw Vanessa calming down and now instead of black and red smoke coming out of her white and yellow lights were going inside her "Wh- What's happeing to her?", I asked confused "I've gotta say you found one of a kind this time", Krek couldn't hide his excitement with all the jumping around "So you really mean", dad said shocked , I still didn't know what was going on but after I saw Vanessa was okay I calmed down a bit , "Yes! She has the power to bend everything to her will with just her words! I had heard about these talents but I just thought that these were myths , Her 'Oath of Evil' wasn't evil it was just the disguise of the 'Oath of The King' a talent which has only ever been a rumor but never recorded in the history nor sighted by anyone!" "Wh- What is he talking about?", I pulled dad "O- Oh , Shekrit I want you to never ever leave her okay", dad had a look of seriousness that I had never seen before "Do you remember the chart of talents that I taught you before", dad asked as if the world depended on my answer "Ye- Yeah", I replied "Well you can throw it out the window in this case" "Huh?", I was flaberghasted as it took me so long to memorize it "If the highest ever talent could go beyond the chart you'd call it Miracle talent which does not have levels as all talents that fall into this category are deemed to be equal I didn't teach you this cause this kind of talented people come up only every 1000 years or so but if you go even above it you'd call it unknown which there is no history of and Vanessa has that kind of talent which means..." "Which means?" "That she is once in never kind of talented person" "What does that even mean?" "You'll understand it in the future" as we were talking we suddenly heard the sound of weeping coming from somewhere when I looked at where it was coming from it was Krek mumbling "If only... if only you were born 50 years earlier" "What happened to him?", I aksed dumbfounded as the old guy who was just jumping around earlier was now crying "O- Oh you should leave him be", dad replied .

After some more time of weeping , getting shocked , Vanessa being fully cured and everybody finally calming down dad asked Krek about the orb that Runey found "I think that was the Kingdoms heart core" 

"Huh?", 

"Mrs. Diamonds found the core orb with us"

"Oh , I'm glad that she was the one who found it"

"What is a core orb?", I asked curiously

"It's the energy source of the whole area on which the Kingdom lies , basically one third of the life source of Nicht Allein", Krek answered still wiping his eyes "Her parents tried really hard in order to let it not go to bad hands"

"What do you mean by that?", dad asked

"You probably forgot already didn't you , their parents were backstabed which led them to die and I heard that the boy was also almost killed but they atleast managed to protect both their children and the orb"

"Oh , I forgot I guess"

After that we decided leave for our home back to the woods .