Title: Tragic Tale of a Family - The Kind Devil's Contract
Genre: Tragedy
One-shot:
Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom lived a princess that was not blessed with the usual beauty that each royalties posses.
Since childhood, she was ignored by her parents, the king and queen, she was bullied by her siblings and even the servants disrespected her.
This princess was disregarded by everyone except for a single boy.
This boy that was a child of an average noble was the only person the princess trusted for it was him alone who had cared for her.
There was that one day, when the princess was 9 and the noble's son was 12, when the boy had promised:
"I promise that I'll be with you forever, even after death."
"But aren't promises meant to be broken?" The princess asked and hearing this, the boy thought for a moment the answered...
"Then I swore to the God's name that I'll never leave you and even death would not tear us apart!"
After that certain day, the house of the boy sent a marriage proposal to the palace and unsurprisingly, the unfavorable princess was engaged to an average unknown noble who wasn't even the heir of the family.
Everyday, the two engaged fellows would meet and talk about things in their future. Their future house, the number of their children and about the names of their grandchildren.
The two lived a pleasant life, waiting for the year when they are eligible to be wed but unfortunately, things didn't go the way they expected.
As years passed by, the disregarded princess' beauty arose. A lustrous platinum blond hair, an emerald like eyes, a skin as fair as pearl and a perfect body that no one can rival, yes, this was possessed by the princess who was ignored and bullied by her family. This was the princess that only a single person has cared for. This was the princess that was scorned due to her once plain appearance.
People may think that the princess and her fiancé would be joyful about this turn of events but they are wrong. Tremendously at that.
When the princess was about to turn 18, the king revoked the engagement between her and the noble's son reasoning that the lad was not good enough for her.
On the day that was supposed to be the wedding day of the princess and her beloved, the two eloped and hid at a faraway unknown island.
This two runaways have wedded and gave birth to a pair of daughter and son. This family of four lived happily until the kingdom's soldiers found them making the family live a life of no permanent address.
After years of running, the family found themselves in a well hidden village that was full of harmless devil and seraphim.
All villagers cared for them, yes, even the devils, and in there, the family lived a life free of worries until the kingdom's soldiers have found them again.
Trapped with nowhere to go, the noble's son decided to make a contract with a devil to acquire the ability to slaughter his family's pursuers in exchange for his sanity.
Driven by insanity, he disappeared into the battlefield, leaving only bloodshed in his wake.
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