"Welco to our house, Young Master Ryuk."
"Let's have tea, shall we?" Giving so ti for Mia to analyze the body and give him a list of items that she needs, Ryuk moved out of the room, leaving Dreck perplexed.
"But I can tell the servants to bring it here," he proposed, looking towards the young man with anticipation, his eyes showing reluctance to leave this place.
"Follow , Dreck, it's important." Not wanting to witness their familial drama again, Ryuk called out while already ten steps away from him.
With a downward face, Dreck followed behind him, both exiting through the long hallway and arriving at the guest room at the end of the way.
Instead of taking a seat on the sofa, unlike Dreck who sat instantly, Ryuk moved towards the balcony, which was not far away from the seating area, gazing towards the vast expanse filled with a crowd.
Looking at several people outside and narrowing his gaze, Ryuk inquired, "Why are there so many people outside this mansion?"
He could see a crowd of more than a hundred people filling up the whole place, and sowhat seeing the Crawfords at the front, he could understand that so of them belonged to their territory.
"Woo-Hoo, Young Master! You made shit out of the Anzac!" One of the people within the crowd, rembering the previous night's battle, couldn't contain his excitent and shouted out.
"Young Master, please co to our territory." Noah, standing among the crowd, called out to the young man, patiently waiting for Ryuk, who finally wake up.
"Young Master, yesterday your condition wasn't good. Just tell us, we will break in." One of the won among the crowd spoke out her intentions.
'So, this guy forcefully brought here.' Seeing all of them like this, Ryuk understood the reason for him being here, but one doubt remained.
Why were all these people acting so violently to bring him?
Of course, he understood the Crawfords being on his side, but there were a few branch families mixed in the crowd, aning everyone he t yesterday was here.
And seeing that energy within them, it definitely wasn't for so savior, and Ryuk was not naive enough to think that saving them for one ti would make them this loyal.
"Why did you bring here, Dreck?"
"It was Mia's Request."
"And why are these people acting so loyal?" Slowly turning his gaze towards Dreck, who was ordering maids to bring sothing to drink.
"This is due to Lady Drishti's announcent yesterday." Turning his gaze towards Ryuk, Dreck inford before turning back to give instructions to the maid. "Oh, also add that centipede's extract in it."
"Lady Drishti?" Not knowing about the person just ntioned and feeling frustrated due to Dreck not telling everything in one go, Ryuk stated, "Tell exactly what happened the previous night, Dreck."
"Just a minute, Young Master, you would like it." Gesturing for Ryuk to halt, Dreck continued with his instructions. "Also, add a piece of leaf from the World Tree we received from the Elves, and, Young Master, do you want anything else in the tea?"
'Should I kill him?' Already feeling frustrated, Ryuk's mind snapped, and in irritation, he uttered, "Nothing much, just add so Goblin shit in it."
"Oh, I forgot you were from a backward continent, Hahaha." Dreck burst into laughter seeing the young man's eating habits, adding, "Young Master, not even Swinetusks eat that shit, pffft."
"Maid, bring the sa tea with Goblin shit in it, do it within ten minutes." Leaving the balcony, Ryuk made his way inside the room, while the maid professionally bowed before leaving to bring the sa tea.
...
"Shhhglglgglblblblb....S-t--o-p i-t!" Dreck's broken scream erged from the depths of his lungs as his head was forcibly held under a cup of tea, overflowing with each rejection his mouth spat out.
Ryuk's firm grip held Dreck's head down, subrging it in the athyst-colored tea—The liquid bubbled like a miniature volcanic eruption, relentlessly pouring into Dreck's mouth.
.....
"Haa.....Haaa.....I-I drank Goblin's shit." Seating on the sofa with his gasping breath, Dreck's claws gripping his skin while stretching enough for his eyes to widen, rembering the nightmare that passed through him a mont ago.
"Now, tell everything." Ryuk folded his hands with a calm gaze, observing Dreck, who was seated with the maid cleaning the tea remains fallen on the table, scattered due to the struggle.
"..." Not wanting to speak anything he lifted his gaze, but in his sight, a kettle also fell, causing him to prioritize dodging the object from pouring down his mouth. "The present Head of the Family has two wives. The first one is Lady Deventhia, who is also the mother of Lady Alisia, Lady Angelica, and Lady Veronica."
Slowly clearing his mouth with a cloth, he added, "And the second wife is Lady Drishti, of course, in na only."
Ryuk narrowed his gaze, contemplating the aning behind those words in na only, before Dreck, noticing his expression, swiftly started to give a proper explanation.
"Exactly, Lady Drishti holds most of the influence and wealth on Ardoros, aning except Lady Veronica, no one can compete with her." Dreck inford, adding further as he continued, "But, there is a well-known fact about Lady Drishti, which is her excessive interest."
"Whenever she gets interested in anything, mostly in sothing which is incomprehensible from her perspective, she goes all out to know everything about that thing, even at the cost of breaking it." Dreck explained about the excessive tendencies of Lady Drishti while also ntioning the limits she could go to achieve it.
"Don't tell , she married him because of her curiosity in sothing?" Ryuk understood, at least from all the present information, that the reason for marrying the Head of the Devereaux family was nothing but re interest in sothing, maybe power?
"Exactly, she was curious to know about how it feels to rule over one of the world's strongest continents' family." Halting in his path, Dreck further revealed sothing unbelievable, "And to achieve that, she waged a war against the main family so three hundred years ago, while every Flagbearer was outside the continent."
"When all five remaining Flagbearers arrived back, by then, Lady Drishti had lost interest in battles. So she just let the strongest among them hold the Head seat and married him, only because if in the future she got her interest back to rule."
'Was that woman,' hearing about the personality description, linking with his sudden awakening yesterday and an army arriving instantly.
His ability to hide his presence completely, his strength to nullify soone's energy, and then, there was his survival without becoming crippled after going against the Bloodline.
If it was to arouse soone's curiosity, wasn't he the most eligible one inside the whole Ardoros right now?
'No, their intentions were not to kill .' His mind speculated several things, among which one seed the most feasible.
What if the whole army of 200 n and four battleships were there just to let him go all out?
What if even the poison that was allowed into his potion was just to check his immunity?
Everything started to make more sense; after all, how could soone bring a whole small division of powerhouses to kill him within an hour of his awakening?
"Dreck, tell , who was that woman at the end of the battle?" Ryuk's gaze turned cold, understanding that all this ss was just created to fulfill soone's interest.
"T-that was indeed Lady Drishti herself."
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