The Werewolf King's Bride

(From Blue's Perspective)

"His master… He doesn't know who it is. He only got letters as instructions," Dem said. "But I think I know who it is."

"Who?" I asked curiously.

A dead body was lying in front of us, but both of us did not seem to care much. It was odd how quickly I settled into this kind of attitude. Or, perhaps I cared, but I forced myself to not show it.

"He was instructed to take out both of your eyes or one of your eyes."

"… What?!!" I screamed in utter horror. "My goodness…! My eyes? Kill this bastard!"

"He is dead already. But I can cut his body into pieces by myself if that makes you happy."

"No… Not needed…"

"Heard about the master of the magic tower of Mazazine?"

"Ah, that guy… He… Wait! It's him! He is the one who likes to collect eyeballs. Are you sure?"

"This one bastard in front of us has a sign on the side of his neck," he said and I noticed it. It was a sign of an eye in the middle of a circle. I had never seen a symbol like that. The one I had seen before was an eye in the middle of a triangle.

'That's called the Eye Of Providence. It is surrounded by rays of light which means divine providence and the eye represents God watching over us. It is on the US one dollar bill.'

"I have never seen it before. An eye within a circle…?"

"The five kingdoms have five signs, remember?"

"Five signs…? Yeah, of course. That's one of the first things I have learned. A triangle for Trouvaille, a star for Querencia, a square for Ataraxia, an oval for Lacuna, and…"

I stared at him. "… a circle for Mazazine…" I finished.

"That's right. Sometimes, a circle and an oval are mistaken. If you look closely, you can see it's a circle," he said. "What do spies do?"

"Get information."n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Yes, their eyes go everywhere. And they are called the eyes of a kingdom. We do not give any symbols to our spies because of this very reason. What if they get caught? The spies working for the King and the Queen do not have any symbols on their bodies. But the ones working for the master of the magic tower of Mazazine do.

I don't know why, but they do. I have seen the same thing many times."

"What can we do about it now?"

"Nothing much, except for getting rid of that son of a bitch."

"You can kill the master of the magic tower?"

"Yeah. I can send someone."

"A mage? You know, no mages are more powerful than the master of the magic tower."

"He is not a mage."

"Who is that then who can kill even a master of the magic tower when he is not even a mage?"

"Someone," he muttered, not interested to give me details. "I will call the guards to take this filthy body out. He ruined our floor."

"Babe, wait… Don't leave me with the dead body here…," I said, hurriedly tugging his sleeve.

"Babe, I am just pulling the rope," he said, pointing at the rope with his eyes.

I was embarrassed. But I still did not let go of him. "Just hold my hand if you are scared," he said. "You are really cute, you know."

'Cute, my ass! I should be scared at the sight of a dead body! You are weird for not having any reaction…!'

The guards took the body out and gave me sympathetic looks when Dem scolded them for not being careful enough. It was actually not their fault. It was impossible to prevent the whole palace area from making a place where no one could teleport. It was a very important thing to use teleportation for different purposes inside the palace area. How could the knights stop someone when a spy teleported here?

Well, yes, they could still be a bit more careful.

"Are you alright, Your Highness?" Perita asked.

She had come to see if I was alright hearing the commotion.

"Yes, I am," I replied.

"Ugh, what is that thing?" she squinted disgustedly at the corpse that was being taken away by the guards.

"Someone who came to hurt me," I said.

"What? A man in the middle of the night in a woman's room…? Did he come for what I think he did?"

Dem was holding my hands tightly. His grip tightened even more hearing Perita. He glared at her as if he could burn her to death right away.

"I mean…," Perita mumbled.

"No, he came for my eyes," I replied.

"Eyes?"

"The master of the magic tower of Mazazine likes collecting eyeballs. It's his hobby," I said. Even when I said it, goosebumps spread on my skin. How could someone have that kind of hobby?

"Bastard! Crazy bastard!" Perita muttered under her breath.

"Well, yeah…"

They cleaned the place thoroughly and only then, Dem agreed to sleep in that room. It was a bit scary for me to sleep in that room alone after tonight. So, Dem told Perita to stay with me in the grand bedroom. She agreed quickly.

Since I was scared, Dem hugged me even tighter than usual as we went to sleep. It felt protective and good. I felt safe.

When I woke up, Dem was already gone. Perita was in the bedroom, sleeping on the couch. Dem must have told her to come to the bedroom in the morning.

I rubbed my eyes as they itched. I glanced at where that guy died last night. It was not as traumatizing as I thought it would be.

I got down from the bed slowly, making sure not to make much noise as Perita might wake up. She was sleeping soundly and it was eight in the morning. I could wake her up after taking a shower.

"Your Highness…?"

"You are up?"

"Yeah, I heard noise…"

'Ah, I forgot she was a knight for a moment.'

"Where is Your Highness going?"

"To take a bath," I replied. "Sleep some more if you want to."

"Does Your Highness require me to call the maids to assist Your Highness?"

"Nah, I am fine. Just sleep," I said with a smile and made my way to the bathroom yawning.

I had seen a letter on the bedside table before coming to the bathroom. I would read it after taking the bath. Perhaps it was left by Dem.

I thought I would have a dream where I would enter Cyan's body, but it did not happen. I did not want to go there again.

I relaxed in the bath while thinking about what happened recently. The fact that I had slept for four days straight still felt unbelievable. Dem was the type of person to come running if something serious happened to me, so it was not a lie. It truly happened.

"Cyan said something will happen soon. But what will happen? Will Azure do something? At least, try to do something? I am not responding to him and I can now block my mind too so he cannot enter."

I was confused. Would Cyan lie to me about it? I did not trust him, but I did not understand why he would say something like that. Did he want to scare me?

Well, if Azure did something, that would not be unexpected. He had been almost quiet for a long time. There was no word of Dem's mother either, so we could not find anything about him or his plan.

If she truly committed suicide by jumping into the ocean, it was possible to never find her body as the waves could take her body away. But I could not make myself believe that it was the case. She never seemed like a person who would decide to take her life for a petty reason.

But the fact that she had some kind of obsession with her son had to be real. She wanted him for herself. And the way she wanted him was questionable and confusing too. I was sure it was real. It was obvious seeing the letters she sent to Dem.

"Ugh, how can someone feel that way toward her own son?"

I just wished it was not real even though I knew it was. Dem was utterly disgusted. But he knew that was the case even before me.

The bad feeling inside me did not go away even after the peaceful and relaxing bath. I kept hearing Cyan's words.