The place is dark, the atmosphere is heavy and for a weak noble lady like Celia, she knew she couldn’t run away toward the exit of their own household, not when someone, no--- not just someone but many assassins had already infiltrated the inside of their house.

She could even barely hear the breathing noises that she was making, all she can hear was the thunders of her heart while she keeps on running away like a mad woman who was out of control. She keeps twisting her feet and her ankles have been hurt from her high-heeled sandals.

The back of her feet is already bleeding and now, she’s slumped on the ground barely looking at anything other than her bloodied feet and crying while controlling her pitiful sounds of cries. Her body keep on shivering until she could only trust her instincts

“No way I’m going to die like this. Perhaps Jacob will save me, or even Eran, Nether, Luke, or Deim. I know they’ll help me if I just have to get out of this huge place,” Celia kept on saying those words gripping tightly her torn-up dress while gazing in front of her. Right now, she has two directions to go, either to return from her room or seek the exit of her household

But now, she knew she’ll never return not when she witnessed both of her parents die at the hands of those bloody intruders.

Panting, she keeps on running even if her feet are pained. She just wanted to live and be saved. Is that a problem? Of course not, but once she’s saved, she knows that she will do everything to kill Rena, the root cause of her hatred.

Looking from side to side, she finally smiled after seeing the garden. On her way, her feet had finally relaxed upon landing on the soft green grasses that the servants always maintained. That’s not all because she had finally spotted a familiar-looking handsome young man that she knew would save her since she had the leash for those beasts that she calls

“J-Jacob, is that you? P-Please save me. W-Where did you e-even go? I thought you were outside my r-room. N-No, don’t answer my questions instead, call on the others. M-My parents, t-they’re----” Instead of finishing her words, the young man who wore knight clothes with a sword on his waist guided the young lady. He puts both of her hands in the young lady’s arms and gestured for her to calm down

“Shhh, please calm down Milady,” the knight named Jacob guided the lady to sit on the spare bench chair outside of the household and beside the garden. He kneels in front of her and looked as if he was indeed worried about the way the lady’s acting.

“Alright, Milady, please let me listen to you,” Jacob said while caressing the back of the lady’s hands still kneeling to her

“T-There are intruders within the household, Jacob! Please call the other knights and----”

“Milady, please rest for a moment, alright? Breathe in and breathe out…” Jacob tried to make the lady calm from her trembling body with her shaking voice. Celia did what the young knight told her and explained everything in slow motion to the young knight.

Though, Jacob was already narrowing his eyes. For a second after pausing and breathing once more, Celia suddenly creased her eyebrows after seeing how Jacob smirked at her, she thought she was only imagining things so she blinks and saw that she was probably having images in her mind that aren’t even appropriate in her situation

‘Why must Jacob kill me? He’s my loyal personal knight, so he has no reason to, besides, I hold the key to that lady’s life and if they kill me, they’ll never find that key,’

“Alright, Milady, please stay here and I will look for the others and inform them right away,” the young knight stood from his position and bowed toward the lady with respect. As he walked away from the lady keeping his words, Celia looked at his shining silver hair

‘Even at night, his silver hair shines more elegantly than before. He even has these crimson eyes that any ladies were drawn to even Lady Rena couldn’t avert her eyes from him even though I found him first that night in the market. Yes, he will never betray me, Jacob Claus will never betray his savior no matter what.’

It’s indeed peaceful within the garden, there are no footsteps that can be heard from the outside. Even if it’s suspicious at the very least, Celia heaved a sigh knowing that she was finally safe after seeing Jacob.

However, just by a sound in the bushes, she felt as if she had been in the wrong place. She should be hiding but she’s in the open space.

She didn’t hear some footsteps but she forgot that they might be hiding in the shadows but why did Jacob suddenly leave her there alone? He could’ve just made her walk!

However, upon looking at her feet, she knew the reason

‘Perhaps me being by his side or even carrying me, he couldn’t attack anyone if he allowed me to follow him,’ Celia thought.

*Brusss* *Brusss*

Narrowing her eyes, she finally decided to stand from the bench and took one step forward, but the sounds within the bushes didn’t stop, Celia held her breath but because she was curious, she couldn’t stop walking to see what it was.

She realize that if it was an intruder then that person should have killed her earlier rather than making her see what was going on within the bushes, right?

“Look at what you did, Deim, you lead us to the garden”

“Just be proud that you’re here than not, Luke”

“Both of you, couldn’t you just be like Eran, whose quiet?”

“That’s just like you Nether, comparing people with different styles. Where’s Jacob anyway? Did he already finish his job so we could be free from that event?”

Celia heard voices that were familiar to her and her sight suddenly lightened.

‘At last, they come to save me! I guess Jacob couldn’t just leave me hanging, he’s indeed a loyal knight!’

That’s when Celia already opened the bushes and she was brought to tears when she saw the familiar-looking handsome men in front of her. Though the expressions of those men didn’t sum if to what she expected. They thought they’ve seen a ghost

It was until Celia explained everything to them

“Oh, so that was what happened,” Nether said while holding his chin and narrowing his eyes after entering a private room within the household

‘Perhaps, Jacob and the others had stopped the intruders since I’m not even hearing those footsteps anymore,’ Celia thought while nodding to Nether’s words.

Celia couldn’t help but blushed because she had a crush on these five men including Jacob ever since they were children. She was just envious of Lady Rena, a Count’s daughter because these five men wants to be with her rather than Celia

Just thinking of the lady, made Celia express a bitter expression before she blinks them away since none of the men who were in the same room as her doesn’t bother asking why she suddenly had those expressions. Instead, they were focused on something and that seems to be their thoughts

When Celia looked toward the four men with her, she saw how Nether’s hair shines brightly like hers, they share deep pink hair since the two of them have been siblings.

“Sister, couldn’t it be a possible thing that those intruders have already killed---” Nether wasn’t able to finish his words when Celia answered him

“Yes, Nether, they killed our parents and I saw it with my own eyes! Brother, please don’t get yourself killed! We don’t know if they were our enemies or even if they were those rebel groups!” Celia shouted and Nether went in front of her caressing her cheeks softly

“Sister, you know I’ll do everything to keep you safe and you know that, right?” His sweet voice became an illusion of cushion to the lady’s heart that made Celia nod as if an obedient sibling

“Now I guess all we have to do is----” once again, even before Nether could finish his words, the door suddenly opened revealing a bloodied handsome man whose silver hair shining through the moonlight gleams within the transparent window of the room

“Jacob, are you finally done now?” Eran asked. Celia averted her gaze from Nether and looked at Eran.

Immediately she couldn’t help but feel a certain heat since he was the crown prince and she had been dying hard to catch his attention since she was young and now, she had done her plans only that, it’s because it was all related to Rena

He has this fantastic chestnut brown hair and emerald eyes that makes him even more attractive when looking.

Jacob responded with a nod and sliced his sword through the air splashing some blood spilling to the floor. For a second there, Celia suddenly felt an unfamiliar shiver when every man within the room looked at her.

Then Eran began approaching her with narrowed eyes

‘Wait, what is this? Why am I suddenly filling a bit chill with these men? Aren’t, they finished now? Then they should report this incident to Celia couldn’t  the imperial household for the court to rule an injustice within our household!’ Celia couldn’t stop biting her lower lips when suddenly, Eran came close to her but the expression she was expecting wasn’t even present on the young man’s face, instead he was smirking

“W-What is happening? I-It’s not funny, Eran---AHHH” Celia shouted in the end since Eran, grabbed her chin and shoved her to the floor

“You think highly of yourself just because we pretended to save you and serve you, huh Lady Celia?” Eran spoke in a deep voice that has some irritation

“E-Eran---”

“Don’t call me that, Lady Celia if you want to still have your last words”

“Last words? Nether, please explain everything to me”

“There’s nothing to explain, sister, since you’re already seeing it in front of your eyes”

“What? Aren’t you my brother?”

“Well, aren’t you also the one who almost murdered our beloved lady, Lady Celia?”

“Now, you’re saying formal words to me. Wait, you should save me as I’m your sister! Did you just know what I said earlier? Father and mother are already----”

“Gone? Well that’s good now”

“What’s good with that? You psychopath!”

Then instead of being angry, the brother of the lady laughed evilly and instead brought out his sword and eventually was about to stab the lady if it weren’t for Eran

“Dang, I just managed to scratch her face, Eran. Look now!”

“It’s not time yet, Nether”

“W-What is happening? Weren’t you supposed to save me since I hold that Lady’s life?”

“Oh, you mean the key to Lady Rena’s life? Don’t worry, Nether had formulated the solution and we just saved her yesterday, now all she needs to do is have a good night’s rest since we can’t afford to let her know that the villainess in her life would be gone in an instant,” Luke, said bringing his raven hair and bluish eyes on the shine

“Why?! Nether, why?!”

“Alright, since it’s already your last life, then let us explain to you my dear sister,” Nether knelt in front of her while holding her chin tightly

He smirked at her and eventually said some words that widened the young lady’s eyes as if she could cry blood in front of her brother

“Because our parents plotted to kill her just for you. Since it became like this, instead of having you publicly executed that will be a humiliation to me, I’ll just have you all slaughtered so I will ascend the title of becoming the youngest duke, other than that, you’re indeed blind to see that these men you call that will save you will eventually end up your grim reapers because we’re in love with the lady that we can’t forgive whoever hurt her, even the tiniest strand of her hair.”

“How dare you---”

*SLAP* *SLAP*

“Now it’s finally my turn,” A young man with another silver hair spoke and this time, he was indeed acting mischievous like his personality would

“D-Deim?”

“Don’t speak my name casually lady since close people could just say mine and you’re never part of those”

“W-Why?”

“Isn’t it obvious what Nether says? Well, Eran please tell her”

Eran rolled his eyes for a moment before smirking at the lady

“We’re in love with Lady Rena, that’s simple. Now I guess I wouldn’t apologize for doing this instead,” Eran said and now, the lady was in pain since the sword that Eran was currently holding stabbed the lady in her heart

Then the rest followed by making each of their swords make it through the ailing lifeless body of the villainess that thought was a threat to their beloved

“Finally, the threat is now gone…”

***

“Well, I just want that to be the same too, Eran,” a young lady who was walking by the road says as she reads her favorite webnovel on her phone giggling like a fanatic of the R18 series where it’s a reverse harem and not just any story since the heroine will end up having the five male leads to herself

“WAHH!!!” She shouted with delight but that was indeed the cause of her tragedy not looking at the road lights and eventually, the young girl got hit by an unknown car

‘Wait, is this my end then? Well, I’m just glad to have read the ending even if I die, my parents would care for me as much as they cared about my siblings anyways,’ the last thoughts of the lady before darkness took over her sight.