Reincarnated into a Snow Griffin Chapter 143

It all ca to that night when we were kids, with the flowers blooming, of that fake city and the illusion festivity, of the enemy demon trying to gain fa by betraying Ethan and getting the Demon’s Lord son’s head as a prize and the fa that ca with it, the world full of enemies for such a young demon and yet, to , he would as much weight on his shoulders as and mother combined, years of suffering for acceptance, only for his first mission to be playing the part of a child and infiltrating the High Lands.

"I rember parts of it but it is...It is quite foggy, almost as if ... as if sothing is preventing from even thinking about it, much less rembering it." The mories do not take shape, elusive as they are, but I can tell there is sothing there now.

"Yeah it is sothing like that actually." Ethan surprisingly confirms it. "Let ... let explain first, you have to understand just how silly of it was to try and prove myself to the demons, how I did not fit anywhere my entire childhood and how I still craved for so sort of belonging, of acceptance, of how I thought the all the problems would cease once I got to et my father and was accepted, far from knowing it was their fault to begin with that all that happened to , and in the end they just mocked , like I was nothing, being his son brought nothing but trouble to ." His line of thought goes all around, as if he is rembering situations from his past all at once and yet trying to convey what they all ant in a single go.

"Like I said, it is not easy to be a demon child from this clan but much worse if you are the demon’s Lord Child, it is as if you have a target on your back and for the first years of my life that I did not know how to hide my crimson horns I suffered quite a lot and always thought of taking my place beside my father, of how I would be received as the lost prince or so fairytale like that, I was actually obsessed with it at first, a child’s craving for his parents, still thinking they would return for him...silly . "

"When I was finally off age to go back to my clan and be part of it I was exhilarated, but of course it wouldn’t be so easy as to simply take a seat on the throne beside the Demon Lord, in fact the real test began then. "

"I did not think twice about the mission at first, demons that can pass the barrier and are strong enough to launch an attack are far and few between so it was nothing new when they pushed into this task no matter how hard it was as my first mission, but demons aren’t known to be kind and thoughtful, so were actually even wishing that I would not return and did not even hide it. "

"So with that chance to prove my strength by myself I had to co up with a bulletproof plan and a ans to it." He snickers. "I’m not sure you rember our first disastrous encounter, although I did not have this appearance at the ti. "

"Disastrous? I don’t recall, unless..." Unless... I narrow my eyes, sensing a headache coming my way to join with the other pains.

"Well, yeah, I was, well, I was the snake you tried to eat."

"Oh, that." I rember it then, after the snake that tried to attack the fairies my small self was so defensive and confident that tried to hunt down more snakes, thinking too highly of myself as their natural predator and protecting the ladies at the ti inflated my ego.

"Yeah, I rember hunting you down only to end up caught in an ambush... but how were you a snake? Can you change forms as well? Well, beyond the horned one that is..."

He smiles at , rembering the ssy fight we had, two kids battling against each other. "Yeah, I rember too, and I had used all the money I had to buy a changing rune stone, although it broke later it still could temporally change my form to that of a snake for a ti, and I figure it would be the best way to move incognito, although the guy sold as a bat stone not a snake, after all how could I move around freely and scout as a snake? They don’t even have legs! But when I realized that it was too late, and with no money to buy another I had to go with what I got..."

I have to admit that as much as concealnt as being a snake gives it would be hard to move around like that, which defeated the purpose of a scout. "But how co I still don’t rember you clearly?" I can vaguely rember, but after our fight there was nothing.

"Oh we had contact alright, I was even scared at first that you would sell away, but after our draw we ended up only chatting and playing around, you visited a few tis after too, but..." I say nothing, still waiting for him to answer my question.

"I had a mission to complete and I was a fool to think that you would be spare, that the place would be... to be fair I do not know what I expected they wanted with the High Lands but I regretted completely once I saw what they did to the place, to its people, to you... I was so overco with sha and regret that I completely disregarded the demons plans and wishes and my previous will to be part of that group to go out and save you when you felt but... you don’t rember because demons can be quite vicious." He sighs, all this too much for him, strange already for as I do not rember part of my past and only co to realize it now, but shaful to him to say all this out loud.

"I was taking care of you for a while, but one of the demons must have found out and tried to weaken by attacking you, they used a flower typical from my clan and hard to grow called the Crimson Flower, once it is given part of the targets, a hair or nail, to grown from it will make however slls it completely forget of that person, all the rest won’t be affected but every ti you have seen my face will be completely erased from your past mories, leaving a hole in your mory." That’s quite the troubleso flower indeed, but that’s why, after so ti, I rember being helped by soone, a masked figure, but even then I could not rember things entirely, I just have the concept in that soone saved from drowning, but not exactly who, for how long, and how they did it.

Next thing I know I rember being beside my master and reaching the Enlightened Sun Bearers peak.

I am at lost for words at that point, not really sure if I should be satisfied to know the truth or should be mad at him for being part of it all, of taking side when all went to hell.

After all he is no simple demon either, related to the one that caused so much pain and, worst yet, being part of the mission that did such, shouldn’t he be part of my revenge against all those who caused and mother pain?

"Ethan." I say harshly when he does not stop blabbering around, clearly unstable and eager to explain himself, but so things have no excuse for. "I-... I need so ti alone."

It is as if I had stabbed him in the chest, he opens his mouth to speak up only to close it back down tight next, biting his lower lip and giving a nod as he hesitantly stands to leave my side.

But even that ti alone is robbed from when we are interrupted by a group of people.