“Yes.” He answered with difficulty.He shut his eyes, feeling the tension that bit his whole body. Her cold gaze had eaten his inside. He felt awful.“Why?”“Our knights and your father’s knights were assassinated two weeks ago,” Malikul revealed the names that Shadow – unfortunately – knew too well.Malikul watched Shadow’s face grow passive. He hated it when she did that, putting on a mask to hide her real emotions. “It was a blatant war declaration from them.”“Let me guess… the wolves are involved?”“Unfortunately.”“They are all familiar faces too?”Malikul reluctantly nodded his head.“Fucking shit.” Shadow slammed her fist on the table.Bom!The table was inevitably destroyed even though she didn't use all of her strength. If all of them knew about them, there’s a chance that those wolves were Albert’s relatives. Probably his distant uncles or royal associates who hunted Albert for fun. To put it into another perspective, Albert was acquainted with them, directly or indirec
“You slay girl…” Albert waved his bloody hands as he pushed the enemy down to the ground.Shadow scoffed, a soft smile plastered on her face.“Grrr…” The enemy groaned, keeping his eyes steady on the girl above him.Her red eyes flickered, watching him like a freaking predator. “Hello, Crown Prince.” Shadow waved her hand at him.“You lied to me.” The raspy voice growled at him.“Technically, I’m not lying, man. You ask for dinner, I turn up.”“After you throw a tantrum to kidnap her like a spoiled child.” Albert rolled his eyes. “So pathetic.”Shadow looked above her head. The glowing night splashed her face. The stars and the moon greeted her as the darkness engulfed the entire sky. She was wearing nothing but a loose black shirt, leather gloves, cargo pants, and a ponytail. Albert dressed similarly to her, and also had a similar expression as her.Sinister.The guards surrounding the places had been immobilized by Shadow with only a snap of fingers. Of course, after she appraised
The moment Shadow emerged from the ground, another explosion rocked the entire area as Shadow scrambled away from the gaping hole in the ground.They attacked to kill, and Shadow was their desired target.Once they killed her, the conspiracy would start and it would put the lion tribe on a pedestal. Shadow didn’t find the idea appealing enough.Their attack halted the moment they recognized Shadow’s smug face. Frankly, up till now, her face was heavily protected by the lion tribe and for some unknown reason, the wingsman clan as well.However, her height was standing out the most.It wasn’t a stretch to call her a tiny lion. As an adult woman, her body was weirdly small. The majority of the beastmen were sturdier and taller than the average adult men or women for that matter.Even by the standard of the rat tribe and cat tribe, she was small compared to them.“Oh ho, The Holiness.”The man with his blueish wings, and black eyes filled with nothing but a void, and his crooked smile app
“The moon is too beautiful. Look, a full moon.” She pointed.All of them helplessly looked at the moon pointed out by Shadow. They were under the impression that Shadow was someone who spouted nonsense on the brink of death.She squished her chest. “My crazy heart is beating crazily under the full moon. Tonight is too pretty. It’s perfect to go on a killing spree, don’t you think?” Her smile curled deeper to the impossible level.“You are crazy!” The woman shouted, in panic.“You shouldn’t make me your enemy,” she shrugged.Arman blinked a few times, thinking hard. His brain tried to compute any logical words from that sentence but found nothing interesting. It seemed that Shadow just wanted to express her ugly expectation. “Three of you?” She wiggled her finger at them. “Come at me!” They scoffed at her ridiculous command. “I’ll kick your ugly asses.” The next sentence made them lose their rationality.Three of them stepped up. All of them were taller, bigger, and sturdier than her.
“You’ve returned, Your Holiness?” Priscilla greeted her with a growl under her breath and openly pinched her nose from inhaling that rancid odor. “You smell of blood. Both of you.” She gestured at both Shadow and Albert.Shadow grinned and just patted her elbow and walked away with hands delved inside her pocket. “Priscilla, send my papa to my office first thing in the morning.” She entered the premises with a fresh smile like a flower.“I will do as you say, My Lord.” Priscilla wrote the command inside her personal notebook.“Please tell him that I need all the list names of the people in this kingdom. You can tell the hyena queen to do the same.”“I’ll request their cooperation,” Priscilla interjected.Shadow shook her head. “A decree, not a request.”Priscilla halted midway even when Shadow didn’t. Quickly, she caught her and paced right behind her master with a worried expression.“Is that okay?” Her voice was small and full of tremors.She didn’t know if Shadow could do that.If
“Well, hello there, guys.” She said, smirking, putting aside her dagger and propping her palms on her back, and leaning backward. “Shall we have tea?”She couldn’t be serious? They just walked the news that some people were brutally killed by some anonymous people that they – for a certain – did it, anyway. Shadow. “Are you for real asking us to have tea with you?” Aidan spoke in a shaky voice.The aftereffect of his father’s power didn’t wane completely. It left a bitter taste in his mouth watching that Shadow didn’t even affect much. She looked relaxed and blissful.She killed someone. No, several people.They knew that she did it, yet had no single hesitation or spark of remorse in her eyes. As much as they were the monsters, themselves, it didn’t occur to them to do a killing spree. “Why did you do that?” Aulia took a step forward, placing her warm hand on Ibrahim’s forearm. He was agitated, angry and so fierce. But, confronting their daughter wasn’t an easy job either. Who kn
The fragment of memories shared by Shadow didn’t stop till there. She proceeded with whatever problem she’d dealt with in the Underworld during her ruling years. At first, they internally questioned the relevance of the memories, but they soon ground their teeth afterward.The Bulteo group kept on coming up at every chance it got.It was supposed to be an insignificant group, somehow they grew immensely like an unwanted weed.The memories ended with the Bulteo group nearly slaughtering one of the SQE members. Vampire.She was one of the experimental subjects. Her power was blood manipulation. She was a beauty but a wolf in a sheep's dress. Her father was a crazy scientist that experimented on his own child.Shadow rescued her and made her one of the prominent figures in the Underworld.She was the best at working alone, but it didn’t mean she couldn’t work in a group. She was an excellent assassin taught by Shadow.She was inevitably captured during one of her conquests. Thankfully,
“That’s why I need it,” Shadow said curtly.Ali simply let it fly over his head. “What shall I do with the unregistered one?”Unregistered people were usually coming from poor families that couldn’t even bother to put themselves in the system or the war refugees or fugitives or could be anyone.“Pictures are fine. I don’t exactly need their background story or anything.”“It will be tricky,” Liliana interjected. “I’d already supplied the drive inside the envelope, Shadow.” She called Shadow shyly. Her face was tinted pink.“Thank you, Ana.” She gave her a thankful smile. “And Ali, you can do whatever with the unregistered one. If I were you, I'd put them into the system but if they were to be your enemies or fugitives… you need to tread this carefully.” “I see. There’s more to it, right?”Shadow nodded. “I need to identify them myself to make it easier for me.”“For?”Shadow pinched the bridge of her nose. “So that I can protect you from behind. Anyway, except for Ali and Liliana, al