After axle's speech he played around for a bit after seeing red and ethan near their mothers, they were playing when a bunch of noble kids went towards them

"Your highness why are you playing with the commoners, you shouldn't do that you're a royalty"

"He's right your highness, you should play with us instead of those dirty slaves"

"Yeah it'll dirty you and your reputations if you keep that up"

They continued their trashtalks making axle go mad at them, he was about to attack them when he felt someone touching his shoulder. He looked up saw siah smiling slightly at the kids

"You shouldn't talk like that" siah said leisurely trying to hide his annoyance

"Hmp, and who dares to interrupt us" one of the noble kid ask

"Im axle's caretaker"

"Hmp, you're also just a slave"

Siah knitted his brow and pinched his brow to calm down, he was about to scold them again when axle slaps the kid's cheek

Siah frozed on his spot while the kid started to cry catching the nobles attention especially zach not so far from them

"You dare to call papa a slave?!" Axle exclaimed while his face is already reddened as his eyes started to be teary

Siah came back to his senses only hearing the murmurs and gasps surrounding them, he suddenly bowed down and apologized subconsciously. He carried axle right after and went straight towards axle's room

He doesn't want to scold axle since it was the kids fault but for axle's future he needed to "you shouldn't slap them, you cant hurt someone just because of a small mistake they made okay?" He sighed and sat down then placed axle on his laps

Axle hugs siah while hiccuping "but they called you a slave" he burst out on tears making siah sighed heavily "it's okay dont mind them"

"It's not okay!" axle yelled at siah that made both of them startled, axle realized that he yelled so he apologized at siah

After a few minutes axle calmed down and already fell asleep, siah ruffled axle's hair lightly and laid him down on the bed. While laying down siah heard the door opened, he looked at the door in front of them and saw zach entering the room

"Why are you here? How about the event?" Siah asks him while hugging axle beside him

Zach only hummed as a response and laid down beside axle, like back then their position is like sandwiching axle

Siah didn't asked anymore and closed his eyes, he felt someone grabbing his waist so he looked at the hand on his waist then looked at zach

Zach leaned closer to them, hugging them both softly making siah left out a sigh of relief

He felt comfortable and comforted, it shouldn't be possible to feel that his tiredness vanished but it is

He leaned his head on zach arm while hugging axle softly and was about to sleep when he heard a groan

He looked at axle and loosened his grip but axle continued to groaned in pain and you can see the sweats on his forehead

Worriedly, siah tried to wake axle but axle keep groaning while his eyes closed tightly

Siah subconsciously looked towards the time and saw it was already midnight, he immediately hugged axle and looks at zach worriedly

Zach stood up and immediately called the maids "get a doctor-- no a magician, quickly!"

The maids saw the worried look at zach, they rushed to ask a magician and a doctor just in case

The whole palace panicked, zach commanded them that this situation shouldn't go outside the palace

All of them were worried, nervous and panicky except for melly whose smiling maliciously

"It's time" she mumbled and left the palace stealthily

Siah was getting so nervous until the magicians came with a doctor. There's no time, they were in a rush so the magician checked it first

"We cant do anything except to help him heal slowly and reducing the pain the curse is lifting" the magician said while looking at zach

Zach understood it and commanded them do it while holding siah's hand tightly to calm him down

Siah is still worried at axle not minding his hand on zach's hand, he cant help but to feel upset at the sight. He doesn't want to see axle in pain as axle is already like a son to him, he's already so attached to him that made him can't help but to teared up seeing axle whose keep groaning in pain while his eyes is still close as if he was having a nightmare

It's been an hour and axle still keep groaning. It was getting louder and louder, he started to cry but his eyes is still closed, siah cant help but to hug axle tightly until axle's groans lessened

While hugging axle, siah noticed the black smokes coming from axle's back. He lifted axle's clothe and saw a black circled mark on axle's back vanishing little by little, only leaving a red print on it

The black smoke vanished as the mark on axle's back is also gone, axle stops groaning and crying but he's panting so hard. A red print on axle's back can be seen like it was slapped by something

The magician helped axle to sleep peacefully and after that they left the room while the doctor prescribing something for the red print so it wont leave a mark after checking it, the magicians didn't cured it since there's a doctor near them

After axle calmed down, siah also started to calmed down but it still worries him so he stayed overnight beside axle instead of his temporary room

The doctor left with the maids and closed the door

Zach remained silent while staring at the two whose laying down beside each other, he cant help but to sigh in relief

Siah and axle is already sleeping while zach is still looking at them, he's sitting beside siah. He brushed siah's hair using his hand and saw siah's knitted expression calmed down

He kissed axle's cheeks and siah's shoulder then laid down but didn't sleep and continued to stare at them