The rain continued falling down the roof and we covered ourselves in rain. The sight or the sunny rain spread across the entire village but I forced it to rain for this barrier can do much more than to trap someone in.
Rain... On the battlefield, even rain was used against one advantage... This is because rain can make a harder attempt for an offense, and will be harder for defense, so once rain was used against such a tactic, it will be harder to move.
I breathed out and looked back at Charlotte. She was having fun playing in the rain, as I watched her like a child who was given a toy to play with. She's like that—so much alike to a child, but I understand why she seems so excited about this kind of stuff.
Charlotte, being the older one in the family, or with Gray. She has to act mature to raise her brother, and guide him to adulthood. I knew nothing about them in fact, the only thing I knew was about Charlotte and Gray being siblings but nothing at all.
I can't really understand how it felt. I live three lives but the cases are different. My first life—didn't have such a happy beginning, left in the military camp, was raised by the army and died as one. Second life was wasted but that is the life I was raised and loved, but in the end, I've lost those people—parents that love me, and I was the only child after all.
Now currently, I live with siblings with no relationship or bond of fondness nor affection. Everything is just a trial of differences, no feelings nor emotions towards each other.
"You look sad again," I almost choked when a voice echoed around my ears. When I shifted my look, Charlotte was already beside me, drenched in water and dashing...
Dashing? It's the first time I see her sparkling actually... How big her eyelids are, with plum cheeks and glossy lips, soft and white skin, it's almost as if she's like a fallen goddess with her beauty—one cannot describe.
Never noticing how lovely her hair was with her scarlet hair, and blue eyes.
I cannot find a word fitting for her smile. What I knew at that moment was as if I couldn't hear anything but the throb of my heart. That is when I remember that word more than how dashing can describe.
Elegant...
"Lucifer?"
My eyes widened and suddenly I looked away. It was almost close to my limit, and I almost did it out of surprise. I breathed out and let those temptations pass by and I looked at her once again.
"What are you saying again?" The throbbing sound of my heart faster than it beats stayed in panic, I didn't know why so I just had to straighten my back and nod.
Attractive? No no, what the fuck am I saying?
"Your face is red, are you perhaps sick?" Her voice sounds like a sword that keeps on stabbing me in the heart. Oh no, I can't do this, I don't seem to have the right mind to speak with her for a while.
So I stood up. I stood up embarrassed and hid my face from her. "I-I t-think, I should go," I utterly said and flicked my hand so the rain would stop.
Finally, I brought out the wings hidden against my back and flew away. That was embarrassing.
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"What again? You found a human village hidden amongst our borders and didn't bother to notify me!?" I was back home, and after a while I went straight to my small office and sat there drenched in rain. Of course you can't hide from him, Reyes then started asking my whereabouts or how can't he even sense my presence anywhere.
So I had to explain what happened and how an accident became an opportunity. That is the reason he has been very hostile as of late. "Yeah," I said, brushing my hand off him and looking away.
I still couldn't forget what happened though—with Charlotte I mean. Could also be one of Ogre's attributions to get attracted? Well, it's not that I'm denying it but I am afraid of breaking a taboo.
Taboo? The love between humans and monsters. A forbidden fruit that must not be produced. Monsters believed that within those loves, it will create no doubt a monster out of this world. However, I've never felt this before so I couldn't even agree with it.
"Are you listening?"
"Ah, what?" I dozed off in confusion.
He looked at me and then shook his head. "I was asking, what will you do with those humans?" I thought he was still preaching to me about not telling him things like that and what so I didn't know he was this concerned about them.
"I can't protect them outside the barrier, but if they will stay inside then I can guarantee their safety. Just inform those humans out there about Gray and the other's situation, and let them know that they should not worry for they will not be harmed."
He nodded. I watched as he looked away and then for those moments he didn't speak any of those but then suddenly he clapped his hand and pointed in dismay. "Then we shall give our best to offer our utmost accommodation our beloved kingdom can offer."
I snore. "Father cannot know of this matter," I mumbled.
"Eh, wait why?"
Well I have my reasons actually. Father is a man who even wants to cooperate with humans but what of his childrens. I am different from them, they don't have the same opinion and we are barbarians who eat flesh of the human organs. I can't let them know of their existence, it will be better if they won't even know a thing.
"I want to risk nothing," I coldly said.
"Is that so, then I can understand the feeling, milord," I shrugged my head and looked up at the sky that was seen from my windows.
It will be a peaceful day once again, but I hope nothing will happen. Usually silence leads to chaos, like what had happened previously in my former world. The meteor shower straight to earth, nor the fact that the sun and the stars disappeared in the night.
Of course, I expected more of a fantasy world much like this. I wonder what will happen in a day so peaceful, like this, nor any days I have experienced. "Milord, do you want some tea?"
"I am delighted to have one, it's been so long and I am getting bored," I responded with a complaint.
Then I heard Reyes chuckled. "Always been, milord, don't worry too much, why not try and entertain yourself with a little bit of fun," I looked at him with confusion.
Fun? To which I presume? But then I immediately shifted my gaze off. "I don't mingle with entertainers like prostitutes, nor hostess."
"I did not mean any indecency milord, what are you thinking about?" He started laughing and made me breath out. "Anyhow, I was thinking for you to visit some of the branched family and meet your relatives in your fathers side."
Relatives of the king? I've never met them even in Lucifer's memory. Are they somewhat important I should need to remember? Besides, I am a maid's son. How could such a high and mighty family—like them—accept a commoner as one of the successors? I bet they won't even dare to.
"Nah," I brushed him off with my hand. "I am a son of a maid, they won't like my presence, I will not try to fit myself with them."
"How about your grandmother then?"
I look at him with a dire face before looking away. My grandmother, perhaps in his memories, is the only person I could trust. She was the only person who tried, and the one who did not hate me, she accepted me fully and helped me learn swordsmanship.
The grandmother who always defended me in any way she can possibly see—now bedridden. She was sick, one day she acquired a disease we monster knows as deadly and incurable. A monstrous disease fit for a monster known as, Eleves Disease.
"Is she fine?" I ask in silence.
"Critically speaking, madam doesn't have that much time."
I heard she is also quite a swordsman, she was the best there is now. Her prowess even reached beyond the summit, her golden presence is known as the tigress but time seems to have stopped for her since then. Death is knocking on her doorstep, and when her time comes up, I will no longer see her.
I clicked my tongue and breathed out. "Is there really no cure for her disease then?" I ask, tapping my fingers against the table and silently looking dismayed.
"We tried what method we saw fit, not even with his majesty's support to our research can we find a cure, we are terribly sorry that this is all we could do."
It's not like I'm blaming Reyes, nor he did not do anything wrong but the fact that he did everything yet still nothing came out makes me a little bit disappointed not only to myself but to my action as a prince. I know that there's no cure for such—because that disease killed my mother as well.
I gave a stiff smile and laughed... I laughed hard as I enjoyed the memories with the past I barely experienced... I laughed with cold expressionless written on my face and double sided emotions like a twisted person and there with those laughs escaped all of the emotions I had felt.
"I will visit her then."