The world is a big place, there is always a chance, where you will not meet your loved one.

That's where the Fate come's in. She's a bitch.

"A goddamn bitch!!"

"What did you say?" THe man driving the carriage asked.

"Nothing.!"

Leo locked in a cage of animals was cursing his fate... or just cursing at fate.

In the forest, he was nothing beside a lost boy, but outside, he was a prince. He understood that after all this time, he may be considered dead, but he didn't thought even his hated fiance will not recognize him.

'And that traitorous Kyubi..... see how I keep you starved!! But damn!! I sure changed a lot.'

Remembering his fat self and how the old man Daikran called him, he thought of laughing at himself.

"I am still that fat prince....a fatty."

"Keep up your mouth shut." the carriage driver ordered angrily.

"Yes sir."

"*oink* *oink!!."

The cage Leowald was locked in belonged to the pigs.

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"How dare of that imposter!!"

Throwing away her short sword in the carriage, fumed Maisei.

She didn't like the prince, but she knew him closely. He acted all cute in front of his mother, but when alone with her. He always puked obsinities at her. Even pathetically playing pranks on her. And the boy thatt tried to take his identity showed a wide smile on his face.

In the Corner Katherine was petting Kyubi with her hands, completely ignoring her comrads conversation.

"My aunt say's that anger will only hurt ourself... so stop getting angry at that beggar...or.. or spy whatever he is"

"Yeah Mai!! don't worry.... we will give him to the guards. He is already degraded enough to steal from children.... and trying to take the late prince's identity.... he will face execution." The red haired swordswoman Marilyn was fired up for some reason, She kept slashing the katana in her hand up and down like a kid.

"But... his sword is wierd!!" She fiddled with the katana and tried to take it out of it's sheath, but even with her whole strength, she couldn't take it out.

"Give me that sword... I will try it!!" Tuzzag, as the tomboy she already is, snatched the sword from Mari's hand and and using her furry hands, started to remove unsheath the sword.

Seeing totally being ignored and the focus point being the boy's sword Maisei's anger increased, she snatched the sword from Tuzzag's hand.

"Stop playing with it...... It belongs to that beggar... don't know with what he stuck it.. throw it away."

She was disgusted by the boy and the way he looked. For some reason he irritated her with just his face, Even if hadn't done what he tried to do, Maisei knew she can never like him for some reason.

"Then Maaaai!! what about the little guy over there?"

Tuzzag enquired Maisei about the little fox playing with Kathrine. She noticed it's playful and cute appearance and instantly replied.

"It stays with us.... That boy probably kept it in captivity... we are going to take care of it."

"YAY!!" shouted the airhead.. She didn't commented anything till now and only celebrated after hearing Maisei's decision. One can see that she kept an ear on the talk they just had.

"But.. but Mai.. isn't it bad to steal someone's else stuff..........? the mage girl while seeing the sword on the ground said.

"My...my aunt said that we souldn't steal."

"Then Mona, do you suggest that we give it back to him?" Mari asked with a questionable look.

"There is no further talk on this matter........ The sword goes and the fox stays.. that's final."

Maisei stopped talking and went sat back inside the carriage, while closing her eyes. As for the sword, it was thrown in the forest, where it would be never found again.

Maisei didn't showed it on her face, but she wanted to cuddle the fax more than anyone. She kept taking peaks at it playing with the priest girl and controlled her urge.

'So cute!!'

She too was a maiden. And a maiden loving cute things is quite common occurance.

Their journey continued and only 4 days away from their destination.

As the caravan was moving forward, Roch decreased the speed of his horse and came close to the pigs carriage.

He looked toward the pitiful boy with pigs sleeping on his sides and asked.

"when and where will your friends attack us?"

Leo looked towards Roch."I don't have any friends!! Except for that traitorous fox."

Roch didn't believe even one word that Leo said, he threw an apple at Leo and said." Why did you act like you knew that girl..... don't you know she used to be the fiance of the crown prince.?"

"I am that crown prince....mmh!!!!" while biting on the apple, Leo got angry, He had already said multiple times that he was the prince, but no one in the group believed him.

If he didn't needed help from them, he wouldn't have stayed with them one bit.

But somehow coming from a mouth who was enjoying the apple like it was a precious delicacy, it was definitely odd.

"Stop talking nonsense... even a mad man wouldn't believe that. Just tell me about your friends and why were you following that girl?"

Seeing that his words were not reaching Roch, Leo gave up.... eating up the apple, He holded the bar of the cage and said.

"Uncle!! look.... just take me to the city... then give me to the guards or do whatever you want with me.. just take me to the city.....ok!!"

Roch looked towards the boy in the cage, and connecting his request and something else, he smiled.

"Hey Jerry... give this kid some porridge!!..." While laughing, Roch took off. He has come to an understanding, a very odd one at that.

As for Leo, the carriage driver named Jerry, being confused, but still gave some porridge to Leo.

And for Leowald, every food that wasn't mushroom was a delicacy.

He happily ate it, while dodging the snouts of the pigs in the cage.

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In the night, the caravan again stopped to make camp, people take out their tents, women and children started doing their chores, and the men started playing poker in the dead of the night.

It was a wierd day... A mad boy with a fox stealed from their children, and then the same boy said he was the prince, even though he looked worse than a beggar.

The noble girl, though punished the boy, still took pity on him and didn't excuted him on the spot for national offense.

And the boy also didn't do anything after that, he just silently sat up in his cage waiting for the food and slept.

The dirty smell on him increased due to living with the pigs in the following days, making anyone unbearable to go near him. The Adventurer group Silver Eagles never came to see him again and sometime only the fox came to him and not getting close, he kyu'ed sometimes and went back to the girl's group.

It was living it's life in luxury, whereas it's friend was living out in misery.

Leo sure was pathetic, but he can take on any slander of him. Even when he was young, when everyone was laughing at him because of an incident involving his mother and fiance. He walked the streets with pride. He was a shameless prince.

What mattered most to him was reaching the city... It didn't mattered how or in which way will he reach the city. Once he gets there, He will first go to bath house and then eat all the food he can see.

He wanted to stay away from his mother for sometime. He wanted to research something.

'And it's better that she learns of it in a indirect way!!'

At night when everyone was sleeping, and Leo was taken out to be bound to the tree and let him sleep. He stayed awake and kept staring at the night sky. Thinking of something, something he read somewhere.

"Oracle." This is what was running in his mind, He read the holy words in the back of the ring, He didn't know what it signified, but remembering his mother words.

"Stay away from everything that an oracle has touched.... Oracle are bad!! don't listen to them."

Like teaching a small child, Leo's mother trained him to stay away from oracle.

'Was that woman the oracle?'

Leo thought of the body he found in Daikran's garden. He had his assumption on Daikran's identity from the ring, and the body he found only furthers his connections.

Leo closed his eyes and start looking at the books that were inside the ring.

'130 books... all big and small' Leo was planning on read all of them, before the news of his survival reached his mother.

Oracle... The highest seat in the church just below the pope.

From earlier days, all the Oracles were women and had the job to predict the future. and help the church increase it's influence.

The Oracle were loved everywhere, and there were some people that worship them.

This was all he knew about them.

As he remembered about his family, his eyes felt heavy and he was lost in the lands of dreams.

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In a dark cave, as the screames of the girl died down. The river of blood started to flow backwards.

"It's happening!!"

"I'TS HAPPENING" THere was joy in the crowds shout, even the man performing the ritual had an estatic look on his face.

He stared att the girl as the knife that was plunged in her started to slid down, completely enthering her skull.

The blood flowing on the ground started to climb towards the sacrificial alter, towards the girl, entering her skin.

There was no movement in the body beside the swelling of the skin. Her face, her muscles, her whole body swole up so much that the flesh was starting to rip away.

It fell of the pedestal one by one completing replacing the body of the girl with a mans body.

The mad was still in his infancy and was growing at a rapid pace, the more blood entered the more bigger it get.

As the man reached adulthood, there were 2 horns wrowing on his head, with what looked like wing taking shape on his back.

The body mature in an instant, his genetalia was dangling to the side( Laugh if you want), He had normal black hair, complementing his white skin.

He was still covered in blood, when his eyes got opened.

"Has the king woken up?"

Asked the Man after getting up.

"No my lord, the king has to be asleep for 45 more years, we have woken you up early because we are facing some trouble.

The man didn't do anything, He floated up as the clothes came into existance covering his whole body.

"Take me to my chambers."

"Yes my lord." The man bowed and lead the way.

During this whole time, no one in the corwd spoke, they were glaring at the man with great fanatism in his eyes.