In the evening, Odette, who had come home from work, wanted to prepare the food she bought at the market for dinner because she was too lazy to cook.
As she was getting ready to eat, someone knocked on the door. Before opening the door, Odette first peeked from the window, and it turned out that the person knocking on her door was her new neighbor.
When Dario realized Odette was peeking in the window, he waved his hand at the girl with a wide smile on his face. Odette’s brows furrowed when she saw the vegetables the man was holding were swaying along with the movement of his hands.
“Could you come out for a bit?” Dario asked her.
Even though she was confused, Odette still opened the door.
“Hi, neighbour.” Dario greeted with a broad smile, while Odette looked at him strangely.
“Take this.” Dario gave the vegetables he
“Did your plan work?” David asked, and Dario nodded while eating the food from Odette.“Well, she’s like a Celestial, has a soft heart for people.” Dario recalled the figure of Odette in his mind. “She’s also a bit like me,” he added.“Of course. After all, she’s your daughter. Princess Odette is very kind and you take advantage of her,” David said casually.“You make me feel like a bad person. Okay, I am bad, but my intentions are good now. I just want to get closer to her so I can protect her more freely. Tomorrow, I plan to go to work at the market, so I have an excuse to take her home and go to work together because we’re heading in the same direction.”David looked at Dario then said, “How long are you going to pretend like this?”When he heard David’s question, Dario’
In the Panthera Palace, Rion was also standing and looking up at the falling snow. His eyes showed the feelings that were difficult to describe.Outside the room, Trish watched him with concern.“Trishy.” Anwen approached the man. “You can rest now. I will watch over him.”Trish nodded slowly. He also lacked sleep from watching over the king.“I’m going to take a nap. Wake me up if something happens,” he said.“Brother...” Anwen decided to approach her brother after the man just stood there in a long silence.Rion just glanced at her. His face was pale, and his eyes were surrounded by dark circles. There was no spirit. His gaze was very empty.“You’ve been standing here since last night. You haven’t slept. You haven’t eaten either. I’ll get some food and w
From behind the tree, Dario watched Odette approach them.When Odette stood a few steps away behind them, Lucifer immediately turned his head, followed by Trish and Anwen.Odette’s steps suddenly stopped when she came face to face with Lucifer. A gust of cold wind gently blew her hair.She squeezed the hem of her own shirt, trying hard to keep herself from running into the man’s arms, but the thing beyond her helpless wish happened. The man strode to her and hugged her very tightly.Her eyes opened wide. She was very surprised. She then looked at Anwen and Trish questioningly.“I missed you,” said Lucifer.Anwen signaled to Odette that it was Lucifer, but Odette didn’t understand what the young girl meant. Then, she was really surprised when Lucifer suddenly stumbled forward and was about to fall on the cold ground.
Odette understood Anwen’s concern. She then said sincerely. “I don’t mind doing it. I’d be happy if I could do something for him.”Anwen was sad, but she also felt happy to hear that Odette really cared about her brother. She hoped that the relationship between her brother and sister-in-law would return to normal soon.“I will accompany Trish outside,” she said, giving Odette time to be with Rion.Odette was still stroking the man’s head when Anwen walked out of the room. She then kissed his forehead after the door closed.She stared at him for a while then kissed him again, starting from his forehead, eyes, and cheeks.She hugged him and cried silently. Her heart hurt to see Rion’s condition deteriorate.“Rose….”Odette was stunned when she heard Rion mentioning Ros
Day after day passed quickly. Rion relapsed more and more often and sometimes, he almost hurt other people. The people in the palace began to fear him and felt restless every time they met him.To restrain him, Roul was called back from the task of searching for Aathreya in Randle Forest and focused on the king. Meanwhile, the mission was carried out by the wizard knights from the north tower. They divided the search area. Some searched in Randle, and the rest looked around Panthera Kingdom, joining the palace knights who had been given the same task.Announcements had been made in various provinces, and posters of Aathreya had been spread all over the place. Aathreya suddenly became very famous because of these announcements and posters.The news was talked about by everyone, causing it to spread very quickly like a hay-devouring fire. The people who knew Aathreya were shocked, and those who didn’t really know the
“HELP!” Odette shouted her lungs out. She then ran while throwing the man with a chair, but the man dodged it and slashed her with a sword that shone eerily under the dim light. Odette also dodged it and kicked the man in the stomach then hit him on the head with a chair. When the man staggered to the back, she ran to get out of the house, but the man turned and slashed her back.Odette fell down, but she tried to get up again, and that was when the man slashed at her again. Blood instantly splattered on her clothes, dying it red.She turned to look at the man standing in front of her. “Who are you? What do you want?” she asked, backing away in fear. Her chest heaved up and down and her heart was beating very fast. Even her wound continued to bleed profusely.“Your death, Your Highness the Queen,” said the man while raising his sword to slash the head of the queen that was curling up i
It was past midnight. In a room lit by candlelight, Odette was still sitting across from Dario.“Actually, I also lied about my father. He wasn’t dead. He dumped me and my mother, so I assumed he was dead. I had never seen him, nor did I know what his face looked like. When I asked my mother, she always said that my father was dead since I was in the womb, so I also thought that way. Just like my mother said.”Dario held his breath when he heard that.Odette smiled briefly and then continued her story. Her eyes revealed a faint sadness that she kept hiding deep within her heart.“My mother wouldn’t even tell me anything about him. If I kept asking, she got sad and often scolded me. I always wondered why my mother was like that. Did my father leave us not because of death, but because of something else?”Odette took a deep breath and slowly rele
"Wealth, power, and various forms of pleasure would bring many friends, conversely, poverty, failure, and various forms of misfortune would show their true nature."...***In Randle Forest, when the sun had just risen in the clear sky, the two groups of troops sent to search for Aathreya met.They were the Wizard Knights from Panthera while in the other group there were the knights from Archadia.“What are you doing here?” Adriel, who was leading the Panthera knights, asked the man who had funny hair. It was like the fish fins in the middle of his bald head. The man’s name was Yato. He was the leader of the Archadia troop that was also looking for Aathreya in Randle. He had fought Adriel several times in a battle.“Of course, looking for Aathreya the Wizard,” Yato replied calmly.&nb