Can we trust him?
After the shadow figure opened the door, we brought Mom’s body in it.
"Where do we put her?"
(Bring her closer to that big gemstone.)
"Okay."
I looked closely at the gem in question, and it was around a ter big with a red color resembling a ruby, but what truly caught my eye was the heart-like movent it constantly made as if it was an effectually beating heart.
"What is that?"
Rose asked, trying to figure out what she was looking at.
(It is the heart of this monster, also commonly know as the mana stone.)
"Are you happy now?"
I asked, irritated at the shadow figure after reluctantly bringing Mother close to it, but he completely ignored .
"And now what is supposed to happen?"
Rose asked as well, clearly trying her best to hide her worries, but the figure kept silent, continuing to stare at Mom.
"Hey you, did you not notice that the queen is talking to you? If you do, make sure to answer quickly."
My bodyguard, after losing his patience, started to argue with him; at first, he was ignoring him, but the mont he took a step closer to Mom, the shadow finally stared at him and said.
(If you take one more step closer, i will not guarantee for your life.)
"What do you an, you arrogant fucker?"
(Exactly what i said.)
"Ooh, sobody is impersonating the big mysterious guy. Anyway, for now just answer the question the queen made early."
(Why should I?)
"What did you say? She is the queen; show so manners."
(Here is where you are wrong.)
"What do you an?"
(She is your queen, not mine...).
(She is my queen, and i will do everything in my power to help her.)
He said, pointing at Mom. Hearing what he just said, I could not help but wonder what her relation with Mom was.
"You do know that she is your so-called queen’s daughter, right?"
(Yes, I do!)
"Then do your job and answer her!"
(I never received any order that included answering all of your questions.)
"You..."
In the exact mont he took a step closer, I felt a blow of wind passing by. Looking behind , I could see the once massive wall reduced to crumbs.
(I have already warned you not to co closer; the next ti i will not miss.)
After saying this, he turned to look back at Mom, and he left all of us speechless. We all could understand what that ant. A huge difference in strength, sothing I only felt from Mom. Now I was feeling it from a re shadow.
After around an hour after putting Mother closer to the gem, I noticed the solidified sli-like wall around her started to lt and slowly climb and wrap around the gem.
Once he completely wrapped around the gem, the last started losing parts like it was getting digested.
"What is happening?"
(...)
Around half an hour after the gem was completely digested, the sli returned to his original state, but this ti around his color changed to red, and the wall was thinner, focusing more around Mother’s skin.
After seeing this, the shadow figure started fading away.
"Where are you going?"
I shouted, trying to grab the shadow hand, but I just went through him.
(My job here is finished; now you just need to wait.)
These were his last words before completely disappearing. Once he was completely gone, I and Rose ran to Mom’s side. We checked if there were any irregularities.
(Rose pov)
As the shadow figure faded away, I noticed for a mont he was looking at .
In that mont I didn’t care too much about it because I was too worried about Lady Nyx’s stare. The mont he completely disappeared, I didn’t hesitate for a mont and ran to her side. At the sa ti, Lady Eris ran as well. We checked if there was anything off with her body, and apparently there was nothing wrong with it.
"Wait, Lady Eris, what is that?"
I said, noticing sothing was shining right below Lady Nyx’s chest.
"Where?"
"Right there below the chest. It is not shining too brightly, so it’s easy to confuse it with the light reflection of the jelly wall, but I can guarantee you that there is definitely sothing over there."
To verify what I was saying was true, Lady Eris tried to open the dress in that place, but due to the jelly wall, she could not even reach the dress at all.
"What is this thing made of? Why is it so hard to break?"
She shouted after hours of training to break it. Eventually she gave up, so we decided to camp while waiting for Lady Nyx’s evolution to end. We left the tent to the bodyguard to build, and I just focused on preparing sothing to eat. For so unknown reason, we were still able to take food out of Lady Nyx’s shadow, so we were not short of resources.
’For now we don’t have to worry about the food shortage; the only problem now is we don’t know how long it will take Lady Nyx to evolve. last ti she was unconscious for a week and a half; this ti it may take her longer.’
After checking all the food, I started preparing sothing to eat.
While we were eating, I noticed that Lady Eris didn’t touch her food at all.
"Is there sothing wrong with the food?"
"Hm? No, I simply don’t feel hungry."
"I can only imagine how you feel, but if you don’t eat anything, you will only make Lady Nyx worry once she gets out of that cocoon."
"..."
"Don’t you want to welco her back with a smile on your face?"
"..."
"I wonder what will happen if you pass out once you do. I can already imagine how worried she will be..."
"Hey, you stop talking to the queen like this..."
The guard could not finish taking after noticing Lady Eris eating after hearing what I said.
In no ti she finished her food and went to sleep, but before she did, she said sothing directly to .
"You play unfairly like Mom does, Rose?"
Hearing that, I couldn’t help but laugh it off. Before I went to sleep as well, I went to Lady Nyx to see if there were any changes, but sadly there were none.
’When are you planning to wake up this ti, Lady Nyx?’
(Guard Pov)
It’s been two days since my queen mother fell asleep, and it doesn’t look like she will wake up any ti soon. In these days the queen and the maid went regularly to check for any changes. Personally, I would prefer if she stayed like this forever. Well, you couldn’t bla for that. From my point of view, things went like this: A strange woman coming from nowhere out of the blue declared herself as our queen mother, and to make it even worse, she was planning to go sowhere, bringing our queen along. Who does she think she is? claiming all of this nonsense, and apparently our queen was also fine with this.
When I heard the queen was going out of the palace with her, I imdiately asked permission to go along. At first the queen was against it but eventually allowed to go. I thought that was my only chance to expose that fake woman, or so I thought. The first ti I t her, I deliberately provoked her, just to regret it right away. The mont she looked in the eyes, I understood it...the difference in our strength. In that mont I felt like the death hands were around my neck.
Luckily my life was saved from the queen, but I was banished from talking for the whole journey. In those days I could see how strong she was. I could not deny it; she was stronger than our queen. If she was not there with us, we definitely could not make it that far, especially since we wouldn’t be able to easily defeat that at golem.
But this does not an I would approve of her as our queen mother, and I would never consider her as a queen as well.
Apparently she also knew that, after so maids failed at poisoning her food, she started not trusting anyone except for the queen and her personal maid, so I tried to win her personal maid over to help us kill her, but even so, I failed. The last said everything to that woman. I expected to be killed, but until we started our trip, she didn’t act at all. Now I understand why: in her eyes, our actions were just child’s gas. She could have killed all of us if she truly wanted to. I could not help but hate her, that unknown woman. She earned our queen’s trust by doing almost nothing at all.
’And now she is sleeping in a sli-like cocoon, causing everyone to worry for her. Hmph, what an attention seeker.’
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