Black crown

Ch-9 History

After dinner...

**Rax:** Can you tell me what happened to you? I've been noticing for a long time now... you barely even talk to REY. Why are you acting like this?

**Jessica:** Honey, I'm not feeling well... we'll talk tomorrow. (slightly irritated)

**Rax:** No, you have to tell me today. He is your son too... he came from your womb. Just like ZECK, ZARA, and RIO, REY also deserves your love and affection.

**Jessica:** (angry and hurt) I can't love him. Every time I look at him, I remember my family... He is completely like DAX. He doesn't show any emotion... it feels like there are no feelings inside him. Whenever I see him, I remember the Crown Family... I remember your brother. He looks exactly like the members of that Crown Family. And on top of that, DAX Crown cannot be trusted. He said he wouldn't take REY, but you know how cunning he is. I told you already, if we hand REY over to DAX, the lives of our other children could also fall into danger.

**RAX:** HONEY!!! What are you saying? First of all, your family was destroyed because of me. I didn't have the power to protect them. What fault does this innocent child have? He did nothing wrong. And what did you say? That he looks like the Crown Family? Not everyone in the Crown Family has red hair—some have golden hair too. But REY's hair is black, just like yours. I am also from the Crown Family, so does that mean you hate me too? (sadly) Our other children also resemble the Crown Family in some ways... do you hate them as well?!

**Jessica:** (sad and shocked) What are you saying? How could I ever hate you? I love you more than anyone... and I love our other children too.

**Rax:** Then why do you hate REY? Is it because he has no emotions? Or because he has the Crown Mark? You are afraid that the other children might get hurt because of him... Don't worry. As long as I'm alive, I won't let even a scratch reach REY or our other children.

I have one request... please love him the same way you love the others.

**Jessica:** (slightly irritated) I'll try... Now go to sleep. It's already very late.

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**[Writer Note:]**

Feelings are strange things... once they settle inside someone's heart, they rarely disappear—especially hatred. If you start hating someone once, then even if that person does thousands of good things in front of you, you will still continue to hate them. For 90% of people, that is how it works. I cannot speak for the rest... Jessica belongs among that 90%.

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REY heard all of those words from his room.

His hearing was extremely sharp.

**Rey:** I don't need love.

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From the next day onward, Jessica slowly started talking to REY little by little, and REY would answer her as well.

Seeing that alone made Rax happy. Even if they were not speaking freely with each other yet, something was still better than nothing.

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**Rax:** Rey, come on. Today we're going fishing.

REY and RAX were on their way to fish.

**Rey:** Father, what is the Crown Family?

**Rax:** The Crown Family... one of the greatest families on this continent.

It is my family as well. Even though I cut myself off from the Crown Family completely, blood ties cannot simply be severed... and indirectly, you are also a member of the Crown Family.

**Rey:** Not that... I mean the history of the Crown Family.

**Rax:** Oh... The Crown Family was founded 520 years ago. The founder of this continent had two sons. Both of them possessed a Crown Mark on their necks.

The elder son had a red Crown Mark, while the younger son possessed a golden one. Such marks had never been seen before—not even the founder understood the mystery behind them.

The founder made his younger son the Emperor of the continent, while the elder son was abandoned because he lacked emotions completely. An Emperor needed emotions.

After that, the founder's elder son, Jesson Crown, established the Crown Family. I heard that for some reason, Jesson Crown killed his younger brother and stole his Crown Mark. Because of that, Jesson's Crown Mark became half golden and half red.

That is why the civil war between the Crown Family and the Emperor's bloodline has continued ever since.

**Rey:** Father... do you know anything about the Crown Mark?