Busaba cautiously peeked at the unmoving Shadow. She bent her waist and searched for any movement like moving chest to indicate breathing or muscle twitching. Her eyes couldn’t feel more lively when Shadow didn’t even respond.
She raised her finger and tugged Shadow’s hair behind her ear while watching her with a fascinating gaze.
“Am I the real winner?”
Gruuuuu~
Shadow’s stomach made a sound.
“The poison is reacting.” Busaba broadcast everything that she heard,
Well, it was supposed to start at her heart instead of the stomach where it hit her. Only she could pay attention to those small details, she could link all the dots.<
At that moment… The purple liquid rose from the crack of the ground and created a weapon akin to a scythe. No, it was too similar to the grim reaper scythe that she knew. ‘Don’t tell me…’ The purple scythe emerged from Anubis’s back. The shadow rose from Anubis’s back yet he was too focused on the targets in front of him. “No, NO!” Busaba screamed when she knew what would happen next. “ANUBIS!!!!” “Huh?” Anubis turned his head toward the voice. And then… Slice! The scythe sliced Anubis’s neck before it collapsed and
The next morning, Shadow woke up with the loudest grunt and the sudden rise from the comfortable lie. On top of that, she was woken up by her itching and aching body, that horrible sensation that demanded attention.Her throat also felt so dry like she swallowed sand. But then, she saw the doorknob slowly twisting open from outside before Samuel’s sleepy head appeared in between the crack of the door.“My Lord, have you woken up?”Shadow waved her hand lazily as she went, “as you can see.”“I can see that.” Samuel then disappeared before the sound of a door clicked shut.Shadow ignored his rude action as she was aware that Samuel had probably notified the maids to help her get ready.
“I am glad that you’re happy.” Shadow sat back, leaning her back against the chair. “That’s not a half-bad idea.” He diligently wiped off all the waste he snarfed and accurately threw it inside the dustbin. “I guess I can give it a shot.” Shadow smiled sweetly. “There ya go. Happy Samuel, Happy Shadow. We need it.” Sabrina only shook her head in disbelief, didn’t even waste her word to offer any kind of condolence. “How about you, My Lord?” Samuel asked the real question as his intonation drastically declined sharply. “Me? What about me?” “You and Elijah?” Shadow rotated her neck toward Sabrina, silently asking her to inte
20 minutes before. “Is that all?” Cole curled his lips in disgust. He tipped his chin at Conan. That’s all, he mouthed at the head butler. Conan huffed tiredly as he massaged his head. At the moment, they oppressed all the corrupted nobles in one place and were now doing a judgment according to the authority given by Shadow. Samuel had sent the issue to Shadow, which Shadow approved in the blink of an eye. Thus, taking advantage of the chaotic situation this country was in, he executed the plan according to Shadow’s will. During the raid, he found something amusing. Apparently, all nobles had a long history with the demon. Furthermore,
“Uwaaaaaa~ Uwaaaaa~ it hurts. It hurts. Everything is hurting. Uwaaaaaaa~” Shadow couldn’t stop the flow of her tears. “Oh my, oh my, oh my…” the 17-years-old young man quickly scooped her into a massive hug and carefully patted her head. “Brother… brother… help me. It’s painful.” “I know, I know, brother is sorry, sweetheart. He can’t do anything for you.” The young man buried his face inside Shadow’s tiny neck. “I am so sorry. For a mere five-yers-old to experience this…” His body was trembling vigorously, sobbing together with her. The five-year-old Shadow was wailing loudly with her body already smeared with a lot of ugly dark patches all over her body. Wearing a thin white loose gown, she clung onto her brother and fumbled
“But brother…” She didn’t want to promise him.Not because she didn’t want to lose her emotion, it was because she was afraid that her brother would die. Somehow, she got the impression that her brother would die in her stead due to her past mistake.“Promise me.” Elias sniffled and literally was begging.Shadow broke down for the second time. His weak voice tore her young heart. It was like she was in the middle of a high building witnessing her brother commit suicide and she was unable to help him.“Promise me, baby, my baby. Promise me. You will not die, you will play this game and you will follow this through until the end. Promise…” Elias went down to the floo
Shadow raised her hand and straightened up above. She spread her fingers and shut one of her eyes while looking at the ceiling lamp in between her spread fingers. “My Lord…” Cole repented almost instantly. “I may have obscured the truth a bit, My Lord.” Conan came clean. Shadow ignored them, playing with the light of the lamp in between her flexed fingers. The situation turned awkward, leaving not only Cole and Conan uncomfortable, apparently, Samuel was also suffocating with it. He stood on his feet and smoothed out his wrinkled coat. “Awwww, what should we do with both of you?” He walked past them, detoured around the room just to stand next to Shadow. His head
“Are you awake?”A foreign voice that weirdly resonated inside her more than she liked hit her eardrums.“You still have a big injury behind your back.”Unlike two days ago, Elijah wasn’t woken up by the throbbing and aching shoulder, that horrible sensation that demanded immediate attention, rather she was woken up by the sound of the rough voice asking her whether she was okay, or not.“Elijah?”“Ryuzaki?” She managed to call him in a rather croaky voice. “Ehem.” She coughed.Unlike before, she was well hydrated. Whoever was nursing her did a good job to serve her while she was unconscious.