3RD'S POV

Siah woke up from the feeling of suffocation, it was hard to breath and feels like something heavy is placed on top of him

He opened his eyes just to see the cute and peaceful face of a child while hugging him tightly, he tried to remove his hands but the child wriggled and groaned that made him stop

He pat the prince head and shake his shoulder lightly, the prince groaned again and tightened his grasp

"Prince, prince, wake up i can't breath"

The prince suddenly opened his eyes and loosened the grasp "im sorry" he pouted and looks away

"It's fine prince" siah said while patting his head

"Axle. Call me axle" the prince proclaimed

Siah was taken aback for a second then smiled. Im glad he's comfortable with me, siah said in his mind

They stood up and opened the door, axle got bewildered by the animals in front of them

Siah saw his confused face "they also live here"

Axle slowly nods at him even if he's still confused

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The time has already passed, it's already in the afternoon

They were in the balcony resting after cleaning the whole house, of course axle helped them at wiping the dusts on tables and etc, at first he's so shocked that siah can communicate with the animals while they're cleaning but after a while his eyes sparkled and smiled reaching to his ears

Axle is sitting on the couch and the fox is on his lap, patting the fox's soft fur. Siah looks at axle then remembers something

"I already think about it, i should send you to your father. He must be finding you now with full of worries" siah said to axle with serious face

Axle lowered his face "Dad doesn't know i got lost, all he knows is someone is taking care of me because that's what he said on the servant but the servant attacked me when no one is looking but i avoided it and run and wondered outside till i saw you and when i looks at you i know that you're not bad and won't hurt me" he mumbled while fidgeting

Siah sighed and nods at him "fine ill take care of you instead" axle looks up at siah with happy eyes "in 3 conditions" siah continued makes axle hesitated a bit but nods anyways

"First, we should tell this matter to your father. Second, obey and respect me. And Last don't forget that you're a royalty" axle was confused but nodded continuously

Siah nodded and prepared their things before going to the palace. They dressed plainly as possible to avoid the gazes

Since the palace is on the center of the town which is quite far from their location he rented a small carriage

The carriage stops by the front gate and when they were about to enter, a few knights stops them

Siah looks at them then looks at axle he's carrying with. He lifted up the prince's hat a little so the knights would recognize him

The knights got bewildered but suddenly bowed and allows them to enter. They also notified the butler and maids to guide them to the king

At the study room's front door, they knocked on the door then entered when they heard someone with the cold voice "come in"

Siah flinched because of the king's dark aura surrounding him

"Dad!" Axle proclaimed making the king looks at them suddenly

Siah flinched again when the king made eyecontact with him. The king stops at writing and stares at them "what is it" he said with his usual tone but in siah's head the tone changed a bit like it softened making him calmed down

"Dad, i want siah to take care of me" axle said while smiling and staring at his father's eyes

The king's face darkened and glared at siah that made him trembled but axle noticed it so he glared at his father "dont look like that to papa you're making him scared" axle said with threatening voice

Both siah and the king widened their eyes "papa?" they both asked at the same time

"Yes! Siah is Axle's papa now" axle giggled but because of his sentence the king's face darkened again and siah paled when he noticed it

"Knights, entertain axle" the king commanded the knights and they nodded at him then tried to get the prince from siah's embrace but axle doesn't want to so he tightened his grip to siah's neck, siah groaned in pain making axle looks at him immediately and loosened his grasp "papa im sorry dont leave me okay??" his eyes is full of tears but still pleading siah to stay with him

Siah softened and embraced axle trying to calm him down. Axle leaned on his shoulder while sniffing and pleading

The king frowned "get out" he said to the knights, they hesitated to leave but they had to

After the knights left the king ordered siah to sit down in front of him. Siah obeyed the king's order and fixed Axle's position which is axle is now sitting properly on siah's lap while lookin at his father

The king stared at them "explain"

Siah's POV

My mind went blank and my legs trembled because of the king's presence then i suddenly felt axle tugging my clothes and looking at me with worries

I looked at him and calmed down then looks at the king again while holding his son's tiny hand

I sighed and explained everything happened since the day i saw axle and the story axle told me

At first the king doesn't believed me but when he looks at his son he accepts it then commanded the knights to find the traitor to be eliminated

The king coughed "ill agree at your plans but axle needs to go back at this palace at the age of 10" i nodded at his statement

"Your highness, about the curse. Would you like me to lift it up?" I asked hesitantly

He stared at me as if i was talking shit well im a commoner so of course as a royalty he wont believe me

"Yes" he responded then smiled slightly to the point that it's not noticeable but since im quite close to him i noticed it

I know he's handsome but i didn't expect a slight smile will make him look more better

I didn't realized i was already staring at him.