She's That Knight Known as Zero 64 Perception

"Yes?"

"Ah no it's nothing, I just thought your hair turned white somehow, haha how silly of me," Azusa replied as she let go of Eureka's hair.

"I see," Eureka replied.

Raven, on the other hand, was just looking at her.

"Surrender now, you are no longer a match to us," Shigure then announced from the inside.

"DAMN IIIIIIIITTTTT!!!!!" Gato and Sana's father roared after they were cornered.

The commotion ended with minimum casualties from Shigure's side.

"We have to once again thank you and your knights for saving us time and time again," Shigure looked apologetic to Akihiro at the same time there's another feeling inside him sprouted.

"Is it possible for me to speak with his highness alone?" Akihiro replied instead.

"Eh? AH it's alright," Shigure replied as he lead Akihiro to the wall where Eureka usually stays.

"What would they be talking about, I wonder?" Haruka asked as she felt the uneasiness her brother was feeling.

"Maybe the same as what her highness is thinking," Eureka replied looking at both her swords.

"My brother's uneasiness?"

"Could be, your highness," Eureka replied as she swings her swords.

"What's wrong?" Raven asked this time.

"They are reaching their limits," Eureka replied as she swung them once again.

"Come to think of it, you never had it checked?" Yukimura asked as well.

"No sir, not since I started using them. It's been almost five years already."

"You got it after entering the academy?" this time Azusa joined the conversation.

"Yes, Kaoru insisted that I have to have one already upon joining the academy."

"You should have had it checked then, once in a while."

"I just found it troublesome."

Everyone was once again dumbfounded. She found it bothersome that she chose not to had it checked causing it to reach it's limit.

"Since were here already, I just thought I could choose from the swords sold in here. It would be different than what is sold in ours I guess," Eureka then said as she placed the swords back to their sheathes and started walking.

"She really is a weird lady, isn't she?" Sana then commented.

"I think I got what you mean," Haruka answered.

"Allow me to apologize for such display, your highness," Yukimura answered bowing down.

"No please don't, she had done so many things for us. And yet not once did she boast of it. Some other knights would have been boastful already, they would be telling stories of their conquest to each and every person they meet. But she acts like she's not doing anything at all. And we find that assuring," Sana replied.

"That's right, my brother is very fond of her. Saying that he wishes for some of his knights to be like her. *laughs* Don't get me wrong though, of course he is proud of all his knights, it's just that sometimes he couldn't help but have headaches with their attitudes," Haruka added.

"Our king would have a lot of headaches because of that girl as well, your highness," Yukimura replied, just as Raven and Azusa sighed.

Sana and Haruka smiled,

*****

"What do you want to talk about?"

"Are you having insecurities as a king?" Akihiro went straight to the point.

"What do you mean by that?"

"I've noticed it, how your eyes would always avert whenever you would talk about us helping you, or about my knights."

"I don't."

"You do, and you did it again just now."

"What am I supposed to do then? You and your knights are all capable people. And yet here I am facing a lot of my knights because they want to over throw me, even my head knight betrayed me. I actually feel jealous to you and sir Yukimura, of how close you two are. At the same time jealous of how you have such capable young ones like Eureka, Raven and Azusa. In the end I feel like I'm a very incompetent king," Shigure smiled bitterly.

"I couldn't help but think, are my knights like this because of my decisions? Does those traitors appeared because of decisions I made in the past? After I found out about Haruka's past, I couldn't even tell whether who I am with are my enemies or not. That's also why I couldn't even tell the person I love that I love her. I thought, should I trust him? Or should I trust her? I was so lost. Then you all came, I accepted your offer of you visiting us because I want to breath a different air, and then I was able to befriend you, I was able to have fun in a long while. Then I witnessed how Eureka taught you how to be a king. All kinds of feelings started sprouting out of me."

"Acceptance is the best way to move forward. Stop looking back, you might lose sight of what's in front of you that is far more important."

Shigure looked at him, "That was Eureka's word to Yukimura. In reality before we came here, when she had defeated 40 enemies in the shortest time possible, Yukimura brought her to me straight from the battle field."

"Straight?"

"Yes, he was so suspicious of her that he brought her to me without letting her wounds be bandaged first."

"Yukimura did?"

"He did, after our hero, Leo, died more than 10 years ago, Yukimura somehow lost all his reasoning, he is suspicious of everyone who suddenly came to our kingdom, and that is why he is most suspicious of Eureka."

"Eureka suddenly appeared to your kingdom?"

Akihiro smiled and look ahead of them, "She suddenly appeared almost five years ago in the middle of a forest in the middle of the kingdom, she was all wounded, after a year or so of staying with Kaoru she decided to enter the academy. I actually allowed it even though she's a zero because I and Haruka was once like her. I decided to hide my identity to become a true knight in the academy. Haruka on the other hand, just as I found out had her ability sealed. And that's how she started her journey to be a knight. She wasn't this strong back then, she had to train harder than anyone and study more than the others. She had to come up with new ideas to remain passing until her graduation. And at the same time she loves being alone."

"But she has Raven and Azusa and I think some others now."

"Their graduation competition give way to that, they became a team, but in the end Eureka still distanced herself from them, three years later a lot happened that she became a constant companion to their group, yet in the end she still decided to let go of her feelings and to stay alone as much as possible."

"I've noticed that, how much she makes sure she stays alone."

"But despite that, she was the one who have Yukimura to let go of all his regrets of us losing Leo, did you know that she actually pat him in the head," Akihiro chuckles.

"Are you serious?" Shigure asked astonished.

"Yes. At the same time, my talks with her have lead me to think about a lot of things, she allowed me to see more than what I thought I could see. You do remember she even head banged me," Akihiro laughed remembering all those times.

"She is also the one who allowed my knights to keep growing not just in strength but in their personalities as well."

"I suddenly had the urge to wish to have someone like that as well," Shigure laughs.

"You do have one though," Akihiro looked at him.

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"Oh, I didn't know that," Shigure asked in return.

"Isn't it that your son is the same as her in terms of seeing things?"

"My son? Theo? That's the first time I heard of it."

"I had a talk with him once."

(Flashback)

"You're watching them again," Akihiro said as he approach Theo who was sitting on a branch of a tree, that could see the place where Eureka and Azusa training.

"Good morning, your highness," Theo replied as he jumped down.

"Are you suspicious of us?"

"If I say no, I would be lying. You were able to befriend my father so easily. I wonder what method you used."

"What if I told you that we didn't use anything but we just came here as ourselves?"

"That would be nice if everyone could be as honest as all of you, then maybe the kingdom wouldn't be on the edge so much," he replied as he looked up in the sky.

"Your kingdoms at edge?"

"Not exactly the kingdom but some officials in it, and most of all, my father's completely on edge."

"How can you say that?"

"It seems that my father is battling something by himself, *smiles bitterly* to the point where he wouldn't even let us know about it. I'm no longer young though, I could have helped him if he allowed me to. If the king's on edge then obviously even the people within would be as well. The war is coming as well. Just what is going on with this world of ours?"

"Why don't you say this to your father?"

"He won't listen, I tried a lot of times but to no avail."

"That girl over there," Akihiro said pertaining to Eureka.

"She never thought of ranks when she knows that you are doing something you'd regret. She'd stop you even if that means that you'll get hurt."

"Are you telling me to speak with my father without thinking of ranks?"

"You are his son after all, you have all the right to straighten him out."

(End of Flashback)

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