Belle didn’t ask where they would go, but she believed that it would be worth the walk. She was silent as many thoughts flooded her head. Leon was silent as well which was strange as she noticed him keeping a look at her once in a while. It’s as if he was careful with her emotion, studying her.When they had stopped, Belle’s eyes sparkle to see the wide open view of a crystal clear lake. The trees all around the lake held a beautiful view as it was reflected on the surface of the water.The white bright moon seemed to be much closer to her touch now as it stayed on the middle of the lake. All she could do was awed by the view, her eyes widening.“How do you know this place?” Belle asked, confused as it was her first time ever arriving to Lady Edith’s house and expected it to be Leon’s first time as well.Yet with how familiar he is and his immediate knowledge of the lake, she doubted so.“Mephisto told me he saw it here,” Leon responded. While Belle was never able to notice Leon’s li
Song recommendation: None but the lonely heart. Op.6*****Belle could hear the piano’s key changing. The tune smoothing out as it turn to a newer song. Her eyes were affixed at the red gaze that didn’t once let her leave. She felt Leon’s hand across her her waist while her fingers hang on his shoulder. The waltz started slow with the flow of the tune and all she could hear was the echoes of both her shoes and his in the silent lake. Belle gulped feeling his hand pulling her tighter, “You’re a good dance,” she spoke, an effort to drive away the silence.“Am I? That’s flattering, I would have thought you have danced with so many better men out there,” Leon said, perhaps still spiteful that she didn’t called him handsome the last time.She chuckled as his sarcasm that sound funnier to her as the time passes. “In comparison, don’t you think I have fall pale in comparison to your other dance partners?” Belle stepped forward only to feel her lungs stopped working with how close her lips
Belle had now made a seat inside Lady Edit’s house. The witch continued to stare at her while she sit down holding to the teacup with her fingers tightening. She felt as though she was about to be absorbed by waves from the awkwardness.To end her suffering, Belle spoke, “How long have you lived in the forest?”“As long as s I have remembered,” Lady Edith responded. “What about you? Most witches started studying their witchcraft from childhood but you come only now.”“I thought you have heard everything about me,” whispered Belle. She caught Lady Edith scoffing.“Guess you’re unlucky like me. Do you know what others call me in the coven?” Lady Edith asked her back.She thought for a second then shaking her head, “No.”She hummed for a while and while Belle waited for her answer she instead said, “It was only yesterday’s morning that I got a letter from the high witch that I will be taking a student. Of course they didn’t ask whether I’m willing or not so you cannot blame me for my att
Her blue eyes widely stared at the woman, “You knew?”No way… all this time.. does Lady Edith knew about everything?Even her contract with Leon?But how?As Belle went in panic, she heard the woman lightly chuckle again. “Come on, I am called the high witch for something,” Lady Edith turned her eyes to the same apple tree where Leon had disappeared“Did you tell anyone?” Belle quickly asked, worried and scared.“No darling,” she respond, “And I promise I wouldn’t. I see you need your own time,” she noted seeing Belle’s paling face. “You can go home with those books now. I don’t want your parents to worry.”Belle only gulped as she held the books. Lady Edith helped her by putting the books in an old trunk of hers with her magic. As she stepped out from the house, Belle still felt shell shocked by what had happened.As she moved toward the foothill, her eyes caught the leather black shoes. She didn’t had to ask to know whose shoes it was. She spoke, “How strong do you think the witch
Kore’s eyes were deep in red as she stared at Belle. Something in the air warned Belle that the woman had come not for any good reason. There was anger that she could smell from her and the way Kore’s lips smile was akin to a predator’s smile to its prey.“You look scared,” Kore noted. “Anyone would be scared if someone suddenly appeared inside their house, in my room especially,” Belle gulped as she saw a dagger hanging on Kore’s hip.The demoness noticed her eyes at the sword and she shrugged her shoulders, “Don’t be scared. I’m not here to harm you. In the first place, I do not have any grudges against you.”Belle couldn’t believe what Kore said and knowing how much she hated Leon, she doubted her words were true. Even if she doesn’t hate her, she would harm her just to get back at Leon.Kore’s eyes looked over her body, “You still haven’t used my gift. Did you forgot how?”“How can I use anything from someone I haven’t trust yet? For all I know you can bring harm to me,” Belle to
Nikolaj eyed her for a long time where Belle realized how the man’s eyes lingered over her face before he spoke, “I think beside us she’s the most confused.”She nodded and looked at Leon, the source of her answer, “What happened?”“You don’t remember but you fainted,” answered Leon. “When I found you, you were lying on the floor unconscious on your way to your room.”Leon frowned how Belle didn’t remember. Last afternoon was the time when Belle had just finished reading her books. She would take walks in the afternoon alone and he would always silently put his eyes on her until she walked back to her room. As she ascended to the staircase that was when her eyes had suddenly black out and she fell backward to his embrace. When he thought how badly she could be injured without his help, Leon’s jaw ticked and his anger raise.“I thought you should wake up but I smell something odd from you, like a scent, I couldn’t tell what it is but it was a sour scent that didn’t sit well with me,”
Belle wrinkled her nose as she looked at his expression. She noted he was being sincere but couldn’t help her words, “You’re joking.”“Why? Do I look like someone who doesn’t wish to settle down?” He responded back, bringing her toward the bathroom without her realizing it.“Demons wish for that too?” She asked, not wanting to be rude but couldn’t imagine it happening.“Of course, that elderly couple I talked about weren’t humans but demons. Even my father wanted to settle down, thus us his seven children.” Leon became more open as he talked.She looked at him, still curious, “Who did your father married to?”“My mother, she was a simple human,” he hummed, “They met when he travelled to the human world. It was just out of a habit that he does when he get bored with Hell. Back then, there weren’t that many who could travel outside Hell but my father had always been the King, he was the most powerful.”To Belle, the relationship sounded normal. So normal that it sounded like any love st
The clothes slipped from her shoulders easily, so easily that it fluidly slide away down to the ground, making Belle toes to curl deeper to the floor.“It’s off,” Leon slowly spoke as if announcing it slower to make this time move in a turtle phase for him.Belle gulped, she held to her last piece of clothes as he slowly led her to the bathtub.“You… will stay?” She whispered, startled when her own voice echoed.“I do have a spell to finish. I don’t want you coming out still smelling with her. If one day you faint like that in front of me again,” he drawled, his eyes darkening when he said, “I won’t be able to take it peacefully anymore.”Belle felt as though her heart had jumped on his statement. She can find his worries on his eyes but was still unsure, “You were that worried?”Leon looked up. He wasn’t dumb not to know Belle was testing him. He could lie. He knew he was a good liar. Yet despite himself he said, “I was. A hell lot.”As she felt giddiness that spread over from her ch
As she settled her hand on Gorgolta’s hands, the man instructed, “Imagine the face of the person. You’re doing great.” Belle’s closed eyes moved slowly as she avoided the bad memory and sight of her bloody sister, only focusing on the man’s face that stood behind Damian. She tried to make it clear but alas, his eyes were blackened in her memory. But even though she couldn’t see the man’s eyes, she was certain she had seen every part of the man’s face, starting from his hair down to his neck. Leon looked at the drawing that Gorgolta had sketched instantly. The charcoal shades left dusts over the parchment but the drawing that started from a line slowly formed a face of a person. Meanwhile, back at her home in that afternoon, Damian who woke up felt a sudden itch from his wound that was given by the strange old woman he had seen two days ago. He felt his throat parched and pushed himself from his coach only to feel dizziness hitting his head and his bod losing balance to the poi
Belle followed right behind Leon, finding the two elderly men had quickly jump on their feet and looked behind as if trying to find another way to escape. Leon sighed, bringing the boy in front of him that stopped the two men at once.“Wait! Wait! Don’t harm him!” Shouted the first man whose hair had turned all gray. While the man beside him who looked less older also stopped and raised his hand to show he won’t escape again.“We can talk about this. Release that child,” said the second man.“When did I say I would harm this little one?” Leon scoffed. “Which one of you is Gorgolta?”A faint sigh could be heard from the second man’s mouth as he stepped forward, raising his hand, “That would be me. If you’re business if with me—”“He won’t harm this boy,” Belle cut in. Gathering the two’s attention that looked surprised seeing her face, more startled when he saw her eyes were blue instead of red. She noticed this and offered them a smile to break the tension in the room. “We only wish
“We should go now,” said Leon, offering his hand for her to touch.“I do know his face but I can’t describe it for you well enough,” Belle started, looking at him who was smiling, “Do you have an idea?”“Of course I do,” Leon closed his eyes which she followed before feeling a pull that shake her body that happened in a second. As she opened her eyes again the next second, she found herself in a different space. They were standing in front of a pub where men and women gathered but with most of them ignoring their presence, as though Leon’s presence matter so less to their eyes.“Where are we?” She asked, looking around again at the place they had stood at.“The slum of Hell, where only those who are born from the lowest type of demons come,” he pulled her hand, holding her tight. “In here they would sell anything, even the people they just met in exchange for their livelihood. Don’t stray away from me.”Belle noticed the eyes that watched her after a while. It wasn’t that they hadn’t
Helios frowned, trying to remember Belle’s face but couldn’t as he didn’t put much thought in remembering the person whom he was set to kill. As there would be no use in remembering the person’s face and name when they would die in the next second. “I don’t remember,” brushed Helios aside, thinking that there was no use in remembering the woman's face again. “I thought Leon would become more obedient now, seeing how he had kept quiet for the few decades. But I could see now how he’s slowly rebelling like what he did in the past. He never learned from his mistakes.”Rachel crooked her eyebrows, folding her hand underneath her bust, “So you’re saying that he brought a witch, is that correct? Can it be the soul of the witch whom you asked for him to bring?”Helios scoffed, as if refusing her words, “He should be done with it by now. I asked him and he told me the soul is already in his possession. If that’s true, the witch must’ve been long dead by now. If everything went to the plan th
Belle stayed beside Leon until morning, carefully watching his wound and making sure he was at the most comfort. She found out that truly there was no medicine from the side effect he suffered due to breaking the contract.By morning, the blackness that appeared on his arm had disappeared which took around eight to ten hours.“It’s better now, you don’t have to look at it that way,” Leon chuckled seeing how her blue eyes carefully studying his arm.“Is this really the only side effect?” Belle asked him only to see him smile.“My brother could have killed me but I guess he thought it would be a shame since I haven’t finished what he told me to do,” Leon moved his finger, frowning a little that made her worried.Deep down she had the urge to question what Helios had ordered him to do but couldn’t knowing how it would only trigger the same wound to appear again on him. She didn’t want him to suffer from the pain or to have being at unease as he didn’t want to lie to her.“Don’t worry ho
Leon looked at her face, noticing the pain that hurt his heart. He quickly shook his head, holding both her hand gently as a way to reassure her.“No. I do not have a lover,” he responded firmly. “In the past there was indeed someone who I fall in love for. But it was only an attraction.”“But the masked man told me,” she whispered. “It’s a doll,” Leon answered to her. “They don’t know feelings or emotions but perhaps to their mind they associate friendship as lover.”Belle trusted him and nodded but she wondered how the doll didn’t have feelings or emotions as she saw it by her eyes how the doll would risk itself to protect her.“And who is that person?” She carefully questioned, “The one who you fell for.”Feeling Leon’s red eyes studying her, she quickly waved her hand, “It’s not what you’re thinking. I know that it’s been a long time and I’m not asking because I want to put you to the corner. I was just curious.”“I know,” Leon chuckled. He rested his head on the head rest which
Belle was shocked seeing how Helios pulled out his sword, ready to cut down the servant who had used his life as a shield to protect her. Not wanting him to get attacked, she closed her eyes, wrecking her mind to remember the magic spells she had seen from the books she read. She then remembered one magic and squeezed out a whisper that was difficult for her to say, “A Le’el.”Helios was unprepared for the bright light that suddenly appeared from the woman whom he thought was a human. He didn’t have enough time to close his eyes and grunt as he suffered from a bright light that stab his red eyes sharply. Although he couldn’t see, Helios turn angered. The woman whose face he didn’t see well had harmed him. “You’re a witch,” he said, and Belle could hear bell tolling in the back of her mind. She could feel more rage radiating off his words after finding out she’s a witch.Just before Helios would attack Belle, Leon appeared in front of him. His hand quickly placed itself on his elde
The stuffiness that she felt made her tongue tied. Belle fiddled with her hands while the masked man’s gestures turn flustered as he couldn’t comfort nor take back the words he had wrote. He knew the only reason why Leon had brought Belle here was because they had fallen in love for each other. To Leon his castle was similar to his heart. Only a few people could be let to enter his castle and not even his brothers were let invited.And that explain everything of Belle’s presence in the castle.Worried, the masked man wrote quickly, “But lady, that is what happened in the past. By past I mean, hundred of years ago. Lord Leon now looks back at it as simply a past memory.”Maybe, thought Belle silently. But it could be true that Leon’s love stays for centuries that he couldn’t forget his past lover. Belle quickly shook her head, reminding herself that this was only her thoughts and nothing has been confirmed. She needed to talk with Leon and made sure the fact before falling into the r
Looking inside the room it was indeed snow that had turned the room icy and white. Belle reached out her hand as she was hesitant to step in. Feelings the snowdrops on her fingers which disappeared on her touch, she made certain that it was a real snow.“How could there be snow?” Belle whispered her question aloud, finding the masked man quickly pulling the glass quill and the pile of parchment. This time instead of talking he had drawn an easier figure of a book and a human. On the human’s hand was a magic wand.“Magic?” She questioned. “So… Leon could do things like these as well…”The masked man shook his head and wrote, “Not the lord, but a close friend of his.”Belle stepped into the room that was small in size, as though it was built simply to showcase the snowflakes that drops from the ceiling of the room. There she found the crown that was hidden inside a glass case.“But why the snow?” Belle questioned, seeing the masked man’s parchment paper turn slightly wet as the snowdrop