I awoke suddenly, the feeling of a strange warmth seeping into my body. As soon as I remembered that we were in enemy territory, I leapt out of bed and instinctively turned on my ‘Eyes of Providence’. But among the purple lines that showed where mana existed in everything, a white-hot glare, bright as the
Saki Himejima. The girl who thought she knew love. The thought of getting close to someone was ever present in her heart. That was because her home felt cold. Her parents were rarely around. And if they happened to be, their words were mostly disciplinary and distant at best. Like a teacher reprimanding a student
If only it were Eryn’s normal, crimson eyes, then I might have believed her. But the irises staring right at me glowed purple like she cautiously studied my every move, the same thing I did before I struck. I moved to push her away, but then, another pair of arms latched onto me. Saki had
It was a lot to take in. The fact that I was trapped in some domain created by Eryn, by the Demon that possessed her. Gazing upon the hundreds of demonic minions that stood at her beck and call, I couldn’t help but wonder how long this place had been in hiding. ‘Since we had
A dark, cloudy sky greeted me as I opened my eyes. I couldn’t move, even to tilt my head. All I could tell was the ground upon my back, my body paralyzed and my vision swimming. I felt pain. Enough so to understand something dreadful had happened to me, but a wave of warmth and
“My Queen, we can find no trace of the Chancellor anywhere. Neither have we found remnants of the Mad Empress or Lamps Magellan.” The solemn expression that Ludmila carried spread throughout the throne room. But for Queen Katalina, she had to hide her tears. It wouldn’t do for her to get emotional. Not in such
Purple eyes, exuding a devious appearance that I had never seen before. Even when Eryn killed others, there was always a hint of sadness behind the stony expression that she forced upon herself. In a world where sentencing people to death was just another duty of a knight, one either took joy in it or
After spending so much time lying and lying to those around him, he hadn’t noticed at all. The ideal dream world that he had always imagined was just another one of those lies. He kept using rationale and logic to convince himself that his old life was what he always wanted. That there was no
‘Liar.’ That was all Olivia could think as she stared at her long-time companion. He had promised that they would take revenge together. Even though she knew that he fibbed quite often, the results at the end seemed to justify everything. Lamps was a man built upon lies. A masquerade duet where Olivia played the
Chasing after the pair, I dashed through the streets of Bryansk. Unlike Lamps, who could sail through the air and leapt over the buildings, I had to crisscross through the streets. At least, the castle of the Empress loomed conspicuously in the distance. I could think of no place but there for them to go.