(Third person's POV- omniscient)

Kairo was already irritated as Hans and Koji had caught his hands in their grips while Kondo and Takagashi were preparing him in his groom outfit.

He didn't want to wear it as he struggled to free himself. While he could handle Hans, Koji's strength was impossible for him.

"Let me go! I want to run away from here!" He growled as he didn't want to wear the weird looking tribal clothes in which he would look like a clown.

More importantly, he didn't like the color. It was red and it had a lot of ornaments attached to it.

And it even had a lot of extra ornaments for him to wear after wearing the clown like dress.

"I would rather die than wearing that!" He hissed as Koji said, "You don't have a choice then. You will be dead even if you don't wear the dress."

"Be a good little boy and wear this or I will beat you to death after this," Hans said in a cold voice.

After a lot of struggle and two hours work of rank A soldiers, Takagashi and Kondo, they finally able to make him wear the groom's dress. It was red but the carvings on it were in green and blue. It was a colourful dress and probably a lot of colours that Kairo had even seen in his entire life.

The trousers were plain but the quality was fine yet he didn't like how he looked. A clown.

Kairo just glared at them as he stood in front of them and all of them stood before him, looking at him. All of their lips twitched but somehow they held themselves and Kondo said with a stiff face, "You look great."

And in a second, they all started to laugh. They held their bellies and tears came out of their eyes.

He knew it! He did look like a clown!

Kairo got more angry as his glares intensified. He caught his dress and was about to tear it apart as an announcement was heard.

"Prince Rian and Princess Bianka have arrived and entering. Princess Rose has arrived and entering."

They all looked at each other and Kairo stood there, his feet frozen in cold.

He didn't want to disobey his Prince's orders but he didn't want to marry a woman he didn't even like. He hated her. And why wouldn't he?

She tried kill him and even tried to get information by giving him choices! How dare she!

The only people who could give him orders were brother Hiroshi, Koji and Prince Rian. Others weren't even his match!

As Prince Rian, Princess Bianka and Princess Rose came into the chamber, they looked at him with wide eyes as he looked away. He was embarrassed!

He wasn't wearing his soldier outfit but some clown outfits!

Right there, his tip to toe was drowing in embarrassment.

They would surely laugh at him. All of them would be...

Now his heart was sinking to his belly as he waited for the obvious outcome. However, Prince Rian said, "Kairo, you do look good in everything."

He looked at his Prince to see if he was also making fun of him but there was no traces of mockery or tease in his face. He was smiling at him gently like he had always had.

The first time when Prince Rian had captured him, he was angry at him. He even tried to kill him twice with failed attempt but never once this person before him was mad or held a grudge against him.

Kairo still recalled how he was so stubborn and wouldn't eat due to his anger. He was still a little boy and just lost his father before his eyes. He would cry at nights and he was the weakest boy in the whole group.

But Prince Rian never judged him. He even came to make sure he had his meals and would often took him to places where he had seen many people, some suffering and some were just rich.

But slowly he learnt prince Rian was not like a prince, he was just like some ordinary person who was caring and always wanted to help. He would get angry but he never harmed his people. He even given him a choice to go back to Kosaki but that one incident changed his life.

He recalled when Prince Rian was attacked and the arrow would hit Kairo in his eyes but the prince took it in him just so Kairo could live. It was a fatal wound on his shoulder yet Prince Rian nor his best men ever blamed him.

After that, Kairo never went back. He stayed and growed to support his Prince always and he did it still now. He met a lot of brothers who cared for him. Brother Hiroshi, Brother Koji, brother Kondo. He got a best friend like Hans who was always there to save him in any situation. He got princess Bianka as his older sister who could be worried for him when she didn't see him and would scold him if he did a mistake.

His lips quivered as he thought. He was being selfish. They all had been so caring yet he wasn't even doing what needed to be done.

It was his fault to take the antidote from that girl's mouth. Which gave her a misconception.

Princess Bianka came before him and smiled, "You look handsome, Kairo."

He asked, still not believing, "I do?"

She nodded. "You do." And then she stretched her hand to reach his head. Kairo was still taller than princess Bianka but her hand reached his head as she patted him and immediately tears started to come out as he recalled his older sister.

He recalled the old memories of his home in Kosaki. They were poor but they were happy. If it wasn't for the emperor taking him and his father, they would still be a happy family.

When Prince Rian gave him a choice, he went to find his older sister only to find that she died. Because they were very poor, they didn't have money to feed themselves and soon his mother and sister got ill due to poor diet. They didn't survive.

He came back and told everyone that he couldn't find his sister but in reality, he just didn't want to believe that he had no one in this world. He started to forget every bitter memories from his past as he kept growing with his new brothers.

And now, seeing Princess Bianka giving him the same affection and care that his older sister used to give made his heart squish painfully.

Princess Bianka got worried as she said with a gentle voice, "Don't worry, it will be fine."

He nodded and wiped his tears away as Koji came and said, "What are you crying for, you idiot! It's not like you are going away..."

He grumbled and looked away, partly in anger and partly in embarrassment that he cried in front of them like a baby, "I don't want talk to any of you!"

Hans said, " Fine! Don't talk... But go marry that girl and be with it!"

He hissed at him, "Shut up!"

And they started to laugh again as Koji ruffled his hair making it a mess.

Hans said, "Now its time to wear all these..."

And Kairo looked at the ornaments with a pair of wide eyes. "No! Never! I won't wear those! I'm not a girl!"

Princess Rose said, "How about I help with it?"

They all looked at her with wide eyes as Princess Bianka asked, "You can?"

Princess Rose nodded, "My father once took me to a tribal clan and the people there always wore ornaments even if they were boys or girls. And they looked really amazing." Then she looked at Kairo and said, "I will make sure you look manly enough to make every maiden fall with you."

She winked, "How about that?"

Kairo felt a little shy but he nodded. "O-okay..."

And thus, once again, the making of groom started but this time he wasn't struggling.

He had already accepted that he needed to marry that girl for his work.

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23rd December, 22
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