Adiya (Diya's) POV

"How dare he!" I was seething with anger. I was equally impressed and frustrated with the King Dhruv!

Grandfather King Aditya had  promised the imprisoned pirates that if they helped us to capture the ship of  Surya Kingdom, they would be granted the freedom from the prison.

The pirates fulfilled their promised. As soon as they captured the ship of Surya Kingdom in midst of the sea, it was found that it was empty. It only contained only two people. First the caption of the ship and second his worker. Since both of them were too old and refused to speak up anything, we decided to let them go.

However the caption, before leaving the ship handed us the letter written by King Dhruv.

It was written by King Dhruv himself, with the official stamp of Surya Kingdom.

It stated the following contents:

Dear Princess Adiya,

I must admit that I am impressed by you. I have heard about the measures you are implementing for the welfare of the women of your Kingdom.

Besides, I have never ever played a chess with anyone in real life. I wonder if we both could have been great allies if we both would have not been rivals.

Anyways, I trust you to leave my two men alone. They both are too old to be any of your use. Besides I have come to assume that you want to fight this battle in a non violent way and trust me, I am fully ready to honour your wish.

You wanted it to be a battle of brains. Let's see who wins.

Your arch enemy,
Your nemesis,
Your match,
Your equal,
King Dhruv.

And then I realised something. He just waited and watched. Just anticipated my moves!

But I couldn't sit quietly. I had to do something about it!

"Shymalji!" I almost roared in the court, with my parents feeling shocked!

"Yes your majesty" he stood up.

"I want you to drop these two old man near their Kingdom's border with full respect as if they are our guests and then, sell this ship that we have captured! It would fetch us enough money for our treasury!"

There was a pin drop silence in the court!

"What do you want us to do now daughter!" Asked Father.

I grinned. It's the time the King Dhruv gets robbed of his sleep. And for that I needed Anandji now!